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.’

state of panic as soon as they saw the black mana smoke whirlwind. It was obvious why this was

smoke disappears, the people who saw this as well as the explosion will not easily

nobles had already escaped saying they

it cold heartedly, the people inside the desert are not the Caro

if they had come to save the Caro Kingdom. The chances that they would not investigate thoroughly even though they were

Tap. Tap. Tap.

on the

“…Your highness.”

and had to make eye

prince when he smiled, but he was extremely hard to

“Knight Captain.”

“Yes sir.”

of the First Knights Brigade and

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 heroes are

clashed in the diplomat's mind as he

the crown prince. The sight of the crown prince dispatching the knights for

to share his thoughts with the crown prince even if that was stepping out of the line. The investigation is dangerous!

heroes as well. However, he feared more

Kingdom and investigate with them! I don’t think sending the knights is

made the diplomat start

a smile appear on Alberu’s face

was his gentle smile

okay for you to say

and tried to hide his head like a turtle. Thankfully, nobody seemed to have heard him. He

worry. We need to go since they are the Roan Kingdom’s citizens. Just sit back and wait

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

continued to gently speak

discuss this situation. Contact me right away if there

“Okay.”

watched as the gently smiling crown

the video communication device

Alberu was in

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

‘There’s definitely something.’

Alberu had

prince, but the chief executives here, the crown prince's trusted subordinates were

“Your highness.”

capital's lead administrator who had been quiet started

for the Roan Kingdom's citizens, however… I also know that you are not someone who would send the knights who are also Roan

knights, and

Smirk.

prince started to smirk at

that is not very important to the Caro Kingdom.

nodded their heads in

of Death. However,

after hearing that dead mana smoke started to rise at random intervals

on his mind

will turn into a land they want to get rid

to

raised

Are

moment before cautiously

though the meeting room was protected with soundproof barrier magic and nobody could hear

you trying to acquire the Land

with Alberu for a

predict

was at that

and the necromancer will find the

voice seeped into the chief

Kingdom's citizens and our strong allies. They are

this after the last war

land for them to

affirmation, filled the room

prince-nim truly is thinking about taking another step forward at all

trusted Alberu a lot because he always thought about

Knight Captain started

team to dispatch to the Dubori

“Captain-nim.”

charge of diplomacy started

first stay at the 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

smiled instead of responding and the other administrators started

things related to former commander Cale have become much larger than what we have originally discussed with the Caro Kingdom.

them that

capital’s administrator

it to make the Land of

administrators blinked as if they all knew that was the plan

his trusted subordinates did the best was controlling public

didn't feel bad for taking this land away because the Caro Kingdom's citizens hated the desert and nobody lived

that they wanted to take this useless land instead

will need to spend a lot of money. They would probably prefer to hand the Land of Death over than to give

nodded

need it to take it and offer it to the Dark Elves and

asked Alberu

highness. Then the

some Dark Elves soon while the knights

justification to keep staying there! That’s right. The most important thing is that the Roan Kingdom's citizens can freely cross that land that has no

response before smiling at the fact that Alberu was

willing to give us the land, we must at least

to pay the price for the Dark Elf-nims protecting them from the dead mana smoke! That way we can let the Dark Elf-nims live peacefully

“That sounds good too.”

they quickly came

of this from a

under the table were

He had a dream.

a world where

of finding land for them to live

there happened to be an

the Roan Kingdom’s citizens to

those Roan Kingdom’s citizens

Elves were still despised and scorned

the fact that the Dark Elf blood flowed through him, he dreamt of a world where people like him did not need

Underground City will remain a

Kingdom might provoke them or be greedy for

they could not openly show

desert… I will give

working harder than anybody else for the

open once again were