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.’

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

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

nobles had already escaped saying

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

that they would not

Tap. Tap. Tap.

tapped on the armrest

“…Your highness.”

Captain called out to Alberu and had to

a gentle crown prince when he smiled, but he was extremely hard to approach in front of the chief executives around whom he

“Knight Captain.”

“Yes sir.”

the First Knights Brigade and a few knights to the Caro

dangerous place!

in the diplomat's mind as he said

dispatching the knights for the safety

out of the line. The investigation is dangerous! I believe we should pressure the Caro Kingdom to

about the Roan Kingdom's heroes as well.

specific, he wanted the Roan Kingdom to take the less dangerous road in this dangerous situation. I will pressure the Caro Kingdom and

emotions made the diplomat start to

appear on Alberu’s face at

smile that

the way, is it okay for you to say something like that out loud over

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

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

after hearing the crown prince's decision to

crown prince continued to

discuss this situation. Contact me right away if there are

“Okay.”

gently smiling crown prince

then, once the video communication

meeting room Alberu was

Alberu’s gentle smile that was slowly disappearing

‘There’s definitely something.’

Alberu had said toward

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

“Your highness.”

who had been

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

the other administrators, knights,

Smirk.

crown prince started to

Caro Kingdom. In fact, it will probably become something they want

executives nodded their heads

of Death. However, this incident would make people

not after hearing that dead mana smoke started to rise at random intervals throughout the year? They would

his mind as

want to get rid of from

to get rid

raised his head

highness! Are you thinking

for a moment before

was protected with soundproof barrier magic and nobody could hear from

highness, are you trying to

Alberu for a

could predict his

was at that

necromancer will find the Land of Death to be a great

seeped into the

and our strong

were aware of this

our Roan Kingdom provide land

affirmation, filled the room with silence

crown prince-nim truly is thinking about taking

thought about a brighter future for the kingdom while protecting the

Knight Captain started

immediately gather the team to dispatch to

“Captain-nim.”

charge of diplomacy started to

away; 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

responding and the other administrators

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

as well, but we must peck at them that the Roan Kingdom should receive a reward as well. We need to rake in everything

capital’s administrator stealthily added

will slowly control it

they all knew

trusted subordinates did the best was

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 of

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

nodded his

us who need it to take it and

cautiously asked Alberu a

highness. Then the

dispatch some Dark Elves soon

on having them use the investigation as justification to keep staying there! That’s right. The most important thing is that the Roan

the

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

the Dark Elf-nims protecting them from the dead mana smoke! That way we can let the Dark Elf-nims

“That sounds good too.”

exchanged ideas as they quickly

all of this from a step away closed his eyes for

fists under the table were

He had a dream.

where the Dark

dreamt of finding land for them

to

the Roan Kingdom’s citizens to openly step on the Caro

Kingdom’s citizens were the Dark

the Roan Kingdom, but the Dark Elves were still despised and scorned by most of the Western

Dark Elf blood flowed through him,

will remain a

Kingdom might provoke them or be greedy for it

they could not openly show

desert… I will give

harder than anybody else

that were open once again were