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.’

black mana smoke whirlwind. It was obvious why

if this dead mana smoke disappears, the people who saw this as well as the explosion will not easily volunteer

already escaped saying they

cold heartedly, the people inside

they would not investigate thoroughly even though they were thankful were high because the potentially dead people were the Roan

Tap. Tap. Tap.

on the armrest instead of

“…Your highness.”

Captain called out to Alberu and

smiled, but he was extremely hard to

“Knight Captain.”

“Yes sir.”

Knights Brigade and a few knights to the Caro Kingdom's Dubori

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

emotions clashed in the diplomat's mind

dispatching the knights for

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 good

as well. However, he feared more people being

pressure the Caro Kingdom and investigate with them!

emotions made the

on Alberu’s face

gentle smile that he

for you to say something like

his head like a turtle. Thankfully, nobody seemed to have heard him. He sighed in

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

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

to gently

there are any

“Okay.”

gently smiling crown prince

video communication device

Alberu was in

gentle smile that

‘There’s definitely something.’

not trust everything Alberu had said

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

“Your highness.”

who had been quiet started to

the 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

the other administrators, knights, and generals

Smirk.

crown prince started to

to the Caro Kingdom. In fact, it will

chief executives nodded their heads

of Death. However,

could they not after hearing that dead mana smoke started to rise at random intervals throughout the year? They would avoid it because

had an image on his mind as he thought about this

will turn into a land they want to get rid of from a land that is useless to

want to get rid

from the finance side raised his

highness! Are you

moment

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

highness, are you trying to acquire the Land

worked with Alberu for a

could predict his

at

the Land of

seeped into the chief

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

this after the

land for them

of affirmation, filled the

is thinking about taking another step forward at all

trusted Alberu a lot because he always thought about a brighter future for the

Knight Captain started to

team to dispatch to the

“Captain-nim.”

charge of

don't start the investigation right 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 feel indebted to us. Ah! We will send some people from

responding and the other administrators started

originally discussed with the Caro Kingdom. In

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

administrator stealthily added

then we will slowly control it to make the Land of

knew that

of the things his trusted subordinates did the best was controlling public

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

Kingdom might welcome that they wanted to take this useless land

such, they will need to spend a lot of money.

nodded

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

then cautiously asked Alberu a

Then the

Dark Elves soon while the

to keep staying there! That’s right. The most important thing is that the Roan

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

us the land, we must at least ask to use that land for a

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

“That sounds good too.”

ideas as they quickly

of this from a step away

under the

He had a dream.

dreamt of a world where

dreamt of finding land for them

to be an

to

Kingdom’s citizens were the

the Dark Elves were still despised and scorned

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

will

Kingdom might provoke them or be greedy for it if

disappointed that they could not

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

they receive rewards for working harder than anybody else

eyes that were open once again were