Trash of the Count's Family

“It looks like the White Star will soon come down the passage to the underground trap.”

Cale looked around after hearing Mary’s calm report. Most of the group were scattered and only Raon, the Dragon half-blood, Cale, and Mary were together. It was at that moment.

“Young master-nim.”

Mary hesitated for a moment before starting to speak again.

“…The White Star is smiling.”

As Mary mentioned, the White Star was smiling. The faint smile slowly became thicker until he started to laugh out loud as well.

“Ha, haha! How did I not know about this?!”

His eyes were sparkling.

Shhhh, shhhh.

He continued to grab the sand with his hand. The black sand fell through the cracks between his fingers as soon as he grabbed them, but the White Star did not care.

He lowered his body and took a breath.

“…As I expected.”

The White Star started to smile after feeling the dead mana entering his nose.

He then lifted his head. The ground and the sky were both dark because it was nighttime, but he started to feel the presence of death throughout the desert.

“Damn it!”

Bear King Sayeru who saw the White Star's actions quickly covered his nose with his sleeve. The White Star and Sayeru made eye contact.

‘What are you going to do?’

The White Star pointed toward the passage that was as dark as the sky after seeing the question in Sayeru's gaze.

“Everybody other than the black mages will go in.”

The black mages were excited rather than upset that everybody else except them were going in. They weren't as certain about it as the White Star, but they too had started to notice the dead mana smoke rising in the desert.

Dead mana was the source of power for the black mages. It was more beneficial for them to stay here and gather dead mana as the earth attribute power wouldn't be theirs even if they went down with the White Star.

The White Star approached a black mage.

“Thoroughly figure out what is going on in this desert.”

“Yes, my liege.”

The White Star turned away from the black mage and looked around the desert.

‘How interesting yet weird.’

The White Star had lived for 1,000 years. Naturally, he had lived in the Land of Death, one of the Western continent's five Forbidden Regions during one of his past lives.

‘I've passed through here too.’

He didn't remember which life it was, but he had crossed through this desert with flight magic to head to the shore when he was a mage.

He had not noticed anything odd during that time. He just found it interesting that the color of the sand changed during the day and night.

However, dead mana smoke was rising from this place.

It felt as if he had found an unexpected treasure.

“Hmm?”

The White Star then turned after feeling a foot touching his calf.

Tap, tap.

It was Sayeru’s foot. He was standing there with his nose and mouth covered and a frown on his face. He was gesturing to quickly enter the passage.

Unlike the White Star, dead mana was poisonous for Sayeru. It was the same for the Lion tribe and the other subordinates as well.

all looked as if they wanted to go into

and they wanted to get away

to give orders as

will head into the passage in

a moment before

anything. If you touch or move anything, I will kill you on the

all nodded their

getting the ‘Water

planning on listening to whatever the White Star told them to

who

a useful

full of fear listened to the White

I really

earth attribute ancient power was harder to find than

forgotten past name started to think about the human who gave him the last name of Barrow. He was the person who handed the Dragon Slayer's powers, position, and duty to

Star? You're

person's intentions were to inform the White

Star is said to have all five major attributes in addition to

his successor had been repeated and passed down to future generations of Dragon Slayers as

of powers. Ah,

‘Fear?’

Slayer emphasized over and over that they needed to be

many Dragon Slayers who wrote memoirs following

Nelan Barrow's

them had helped him become even greater

over in their graves, but

thanks to those pieces of information, the White Star had tried to get the Water of Judgment in place of the ancient White Star’s

final earth attribute ancient

‘Fear.’

remaining power was

White Star needed more than anything

the moment I gain

final button to commence his real plan. That was

I will enter last; black mages, close this entrance

ordered the Lions who were nearby to enter

the dead mana smoke or to be wary of enemies

to figure out

expected Cale’s

his subordinates at all, but the Lions who were ordered

to enter into the passage after the first Lion slid down as

headed down and only

dead mana smoke was now

Huuuuu.

in some of the dead mana

black mages walked over with a kissing up type of smile on his face. The White Star smirked at the black mage who approached

black mages did not have a leader after the Alchemists’ Bell Tower's Tower Master had died. That was why all of them were doing everything they could to try to

down there, we will definitely figure out the secrets of this dead mana smoke. I pray that

Star chuckled at the obvious flattery

for the dead mana we will continue to need. It’s better to use a place

liege! We will thoroughly investigate it.

He then stopped and looked toward the black mages. He stealthily said something to the black mage

Dorph to thoroughly

Dorph was currently at the second secret base

seeing the vicious look in the White Star's eyes. The White Star looked at him

Gate to the Demon World and looked inside. Tell him to investigate that

recalled what Dorph

friends into the Gate to the Demon World to

‘Still, look into it.’

Anyway, you know I'm extremely observant,

the Demon World on

as that was an important issue, and the White Star's gaze slowly became colder as he thought about it. The black mage quickly bowed

course, my liege. I will immediately deliver that order to

“……Good.”

Star finally seemed satisfied and entered the passage. His body disappeared into the underground passage as if

black mages quickly covered the entrance back up tightly with the iron gate once they did not see the White Star anymore. It would be bad if the dead mana smoke followed the passage down to the Bear King

King Dorph so the rest of

“Yes, sir!”

receiving the first black mage’s orders. The black mage who gave the order also quickly took out a video communication device to do as the