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.’

was obvious why this

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

escaped

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

come to save the Caro Kingdom. The chances that they would not investigate thoroughly

Tap. Tap. Tap.

on the armrest instead of

“…Your highness.”

Knight Captain called out to Alberu and had to make eye

like a gentle crown prince when he smiled, but he was extremely hard to approach in

“Knight Captain.”

“Yes sir.”

the First Knights Brigade and a few knights to the Caro

is a very dangerous place! Of course, I know that the Roan Kingdom's citizens, that the Roan Kingdom’s heroes are in the desert,

diplomat's mind as he

sight of the crown prince dispatching the knights for the safety of the Roan Kingdom's citizens was something that

line. The investigation is dangerous! I believe we should pressure the Caro Kingdom to take responsibility to pay us back for our good

worried about the Roan Kingdom's heroes as well. However, he

the less dangerous road in this dangerous situation. I will pressure the Caro Kingdom and investigate with them! I don’t think sending the knights is the right thing to do when we might be heading into a

the diplomat start to

a smile appear on Alberu’s face at that

was his gentle smile that he was famous

you to say

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 after hearing Alberu’s

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

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

crown prince continued to

this situation. Contact me right away if there are any new urgent information.” Yes, your highness!

“Okay.”

as the gently smiling crown prince

once the video

Alberu

Alberu’s gentle smile that was slowly disappearing with anxious

‘There’s definitely something.’

Alberu had said toward the

used to the majestic crown prince, but the chief executives here, the crown prince's trusted subordinates were used to his cold

“Your highness.”

administrator who had

type of person who would dispatch the knights for the Roan Kingdom's citizens, however… I also know that you are not someone who would send the knights who are also Roan Kingdom's citizens to such a

the other administrators, knights, and generals agree in

Smirk.

to

not very important to the Caro Kingdom. In fact, it will probably

nodded their

Kingdom had always avoided the Land of Death. However, this incident would make people stay away from it even

that dead mana smoke started to rise at random intervals throughout the year? They would avoid it because they don't

had an image on his mind as he thought

a land they want to get rid of from a land that

to get

raised his

highness! Are you

a moment before cautiously continuing to

the meeting room was protected with soundproof barrier magic

trying to acquire the Land of

worked with Alberu for a long time

predict

at

Dark Elves and the necromancer will find the Land of

voice seeped into the chief executives’

and our strong allies. They

chief executives were aware of this after

Roan Kingdom provide land for them to live

instead of affirmation, filled the room with

is thinking about taking another

he always thought about a brighter future for the kingdom

Captain

the team to dispatch

“Captain-nim.”

administrator in charge of diplomacy

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

and the other administrators started to

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

should receive a reward as well, but we must peck at them that

capital’s administrator stealthily added

control it to make the

they all knew that was the plan

his trusted subordinates did the best was controlling

feel bad for taking this land away because the Caro Kingdom's citizens hated

wanted to take this useless land

lot of money. They would probably prefer to hand

Commander nodded his

us who need it to take it

asked

Then

Dark Elves soon while the

The most important thing is that the Roan Kingdom's

Commander showed an exaggerated response before smiling at the fact that Alberu was not putting any knights

the Caro Kingdom is not willing to give us the land, we must

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 way we can let the Dark Elf-nims

“That sounds good too.”

as they quickly came

watched all of this from a

under the table

He had a dream.

a world where the Dark

of finding land for them to live

there happened to be

Roan Kingdom’s citizens to openly step on the

Roan Kingdom’s citizens

Elves were still despised and scorned by most of the Western

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

Underground City will remain a secret

provoke them or be

disappointed that they could not openly

return, the land above the Underground City… The desert… I will give that to the Dark Elves and

rewards for working harder than anybody else for the

that were open once