Trash of the Count's Family

Your highness! There was a large explosion in the desert!

“What?”

Alberu subconsciously jumped up from his seat.

He was not the only one. Everyone in the meeting room could not hide their shock.

The Captain of the Kingdom's Knight Brigade walked up toward Alberu and asked for permission before raising his voice toward the video communication device.

"What do you mean, an explosion in the desert?! No, how did something like that suddenly happen?”

The person being questioned was the diplomat who had gone to deliver Alberu’s letter to crown prince Valentino and was currently at the Caro Kingdom's Dubori territory. That! One moment please!

The area around the diplomat holding the video communication device was completely chaotic. Move! Everybody quickly gather in the meeting room! Hurry up! Gather at the castle wall! Get the mages in formation as well!

They could hear people shouting and running around as the diplomat moved to a quieter location.

‘It’s an urgent situation!’

The chief executives of the Roan Kingdom who were watching could tell that things were extremely serious at the Dubori territory right now. The Knight Captain could not handle it anymore and started to speak.

"Just report in first!”

The people here had heard from crown prince Alberu that the White Star might strike the Roan Kingdom after hitting the Caro Kingdom.

That was why they were extremely anxious right now. Yes sir, I understand!

The diplomat stopped in place and started to report in. The ground suddenly started to shake a moment ago before there was a loud noise that came from the large explosion in the desert!

The Knight Captain peeked toward Alberu at that moment.

He finally recalled something he had forgotten about because of this unexpected news.

Cale Henituse.

He was thinking about the crown prince’s sworn brother. Alberu who didn't show much care for his own family and shown such love and pride for this sworn brother of his.

That person was also the Roan Kingdom's treasure that should shine even brighter in the future.

Wasn’t that person fighting in the desert just now? Furthermore, that desert was covered in dead mana smoke.

The Knight Captain and the other chief executives stiffened up as they observed Alberu. The diplomat continued to report as they did that. The dead mana smoke had turned into a large whirlwind, but that whirlwind is slowly disappearing! However, according to the mage who was with young master Cale-nim!

Alberu twitched and started to listen carefully.

The mage the diplomat was talking about right now should be Eruhaben.

The ancient Dragon’s words would be more accurate than anything else.

Alberu waited for what the diplomat would say next as calmly as possible. The diplomat continued at that moment. Apparently the foundation near the center of the desert has crumbled! The size was about the size of a mid-sized city, a, and-

The diplomat hesitated without being able to continue.

“Why are you stopping in the middle?! Hurry up and tell us!”

The person in charge of the Roan Kingdom’s diplomacy started to raise his voice. The diplomat finally continued in a shaking voice. …He said that h, he could not feel any living presence in the desert, including the enemy White Star's group.

Silence filled the room for a moment. H, however. He said he found some corpses that he couldn't tell whether they were crushed by the crumbling foundation or the dead mana smoke.

“N, no-”

The person who had just raised his voice could not say anything.

Some people were dead.

But they could not confirm who these people were.

That fact alone put a terrible thought on his mind.

‘What if someone from our side has died?’

‘What if young master Cale or one of his group members was injured?’

Nobody could dare to open their mouths. They could only look toward the diplomat who was biting down on his dry lips with concern and anxiety.

It was at that moment.

“Huuuuuu.”

They heard a light sigh.

“Everybody calm down and sit back down.”

Alberu Crossman calmly started to speak and sat back down in his seat. He looked very calm and collected that they wondered if he had even been shocked just now.

“…Your highness-”

"Sit.”

The Knight Captain who was about to speak sat down after hearing Alberu sternly give the order again. He then looked toward Alberu’s face.

The diplomat who watched all this carefully started to speak again. Ahem. That, your highness.

“Speak.”

The diplomat gulped after seeing Alberu smile majestically.

‘Yes, his highness has always been like this.

He's able to quickly overcome anything and act as he normally does.’

The diplomat who found that to be both scary but reliable continued in a slightly calmer voice.

He said that the dead mana smoke will continue for at least two to three more days. He believes we can only enter the desert after all of the smoke is gone and they are expected to investigate the destroyed area at that time.

“There are people willing to do that?”

The comments Alberu made extremely stoically shocked the diplomat and made him look around.

Thankfully, nobody was there. Of course, Alberu had checked to make sure nobody else was there before saying that.

The diplomat continued in a less confident voice. …Won’t the Caro Kingdom pick the search team?

However, he had no confidence in his words.

‘Fear.’

mana smoke whirlwind. It was obvious why this was the case. Dead mana smoke was

the people who saw this as well as the explosion will not easily volunteer for the

already escaped saying they were

heartedly, the people inside the desert are not the

would not investigate thoroughly even though they were

Tap. Tap. Tap.

tapped on the

“…Your highness.”

called out to Alberu and had

smiled, but he was extremely hard to approach in front of the chief

“Knight Captain.”

“Yes sir.”

the Captain of the First Knights Brigade and

quickly started to speak. Your highness! This is a very dangerous place! Of course, I know that the Roan Kingdom's citizens, that the Roan Kingdom’s

in the diplomat's

toward the crown prince. The sight of the crown prince dispatching the knights for the safety of the Roan Kingdom's citizens was something that made him

crown prince even if that was stepping out of the line. The investigation is dangerous! I believe we should pressure the Caro Kingdom to take responsibility to pay us back for our

about the Roan Kingdom's heroes as

take the less dangerous road in this dangerous situation. I will pressure the Caro Kingdom and investigate

made the

on Alberu’s

his gentle smile that he

for you to

to hide his head like a turtle. Thankfully, nobody seemed to have heard him. He sighed in relief before looking back at the video communication device

worry. We need to go since they are the Roan Kingdom’s citizens.

could only keep his mouth shut after hearing the crown prince's decision to

continued to

up now as we need to discuss this situation. Contact me right away if there are any new urgent information.” Yes, your highness! I

“Okay.”

smiling crown prince

then, once the video communication device

meeting room Alberu was

chief executives looked toward Alberu’s gentle smile that was slowly disappearing with anxious

‘There’s definitely something.’

trust everything Alberu

chief executives

“Your highness.”

administrator who had been quiet started

I also know that you are not

other administrators, knights,

Smirk.

crown prince started to smirk at that

Caro Kingdom.

chief executives nodded their heads in

Land of Death. However, this incident would make people stay

at random intervals throughout the year? They would

his mind as he thought

get rid of from a land that

to get rid

finance side raised his head and

Are

stopped for a moment before cautiously

help but whisper even though the meeting room was

are you trying to acquire the Land of

Alberu for a long time

could predict his

was at that

Elves and the necromancer will find the

seeped into the chief

are Roan Kingdom's citizens and our strong allies. They are part of the Roan Kingdom's

aware of this after the last war

our Roan Kingdom provide land for

of affirmation, filled

truly is thinking about taking another step forward

he always thought about a brighter future for the kingdom while protecting

Knight Captain started

the team to dispatch to the Dubori

“Captain-nim.”

administrator in charge of diplomacy started to

Dubori territory and tell them that the Roan Kingdom will do what the Caro Kingdom is wary of doing. We will make them feel indebted to us. Ah! We will send some people from our side to do that. That

of responding and the other administrators started to

much larger than what we have originally discussed with the Caro Kingdom. In the end, young master Cale had to work hard

at them that the Roan Kingdom

administrator stealthily added

slowly control it to make the Land of Death

they all knew that was the plan

of the things his trusted subordinates

land away because the Caro Kingdom's citizens hated the

to take this useless land instead of asking

lot of money. They would probably prefer to hand the

Commander nodded

it and offer it to the Dark Elves

cautiously asked

Then

Elves soon while the

The most important thing is that the Roan Kingdom's citizens can freely

Commander showed an exaggerated response before smiling at the fact

not willing to give us the land, we must at least ask to use that land for a long

want to give that land to us, we can ask the Caro Kingdom to pay the price for the Dark Elf-nims protecting them from the dead mana smoke!

“That sounds good too.”

as they quickly came

this from a

under the

He had a dream.

where the Dark Elves could

of finding land

happened to be an

was an opportunity for the Roan Kingdom’s citizens to openly step on the Caro

Kingdom’s citizens

much better in the Roan Kingdom, but the Dark Elves were still despised and scorned by

Elf blood flowed through him, he dreamt of a world where people like him did not need to hide a part of

Underground City will

provoke them or be greedy for it if

not openly

above the Underground City… The desert… I will give that to the Dark Elves

rewards for working harder than anybody else for the Roan

were open once again were