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.’

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

disappears, the people who saw this as well

nobles had already escaped

think about it cold heartedly, the people inside

to save the Caro Kingdom. The chances that they would not investigate thoroughly even though they were thankful were high because the potentially dead people were

Tap. Tap. Tap.

the armrest instead of

“…Your highness.”

and

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.”

Brigade and a few

highness! This is a very dangerous place! Of

the diplomat's

knights for the safety of the Roan Kingdom's citizens was something that made him teary as a fellow

had to share his thoughts with the 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

Roan Kingdom's heroes as

Kingdom and investigate with

made the diplomat start

on Alberu’s face

gentle smile that he

the way, is it okay for you to say

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

the Roan Kingdom’s citizens. Just sit back and wait for the palace to contact you.” …Your

mouth shut after hearing the

prince continued to

to hang up now as we need to discuss this situation. Contact me right away if there are any new urgent

“Okay.”

gently smiling crown prince disappeared from the video communication

the video communication device

room Alberu was in

toward Alberu’s gentle smile that was slowly

‘There’s definitely something.’

everything Alberu had said toward

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

“Your highness.”

administrator who had been quiet started to

are the type of person who would dispatch the knights for the Roan Kingdom's citizens, however… I also know that you are

knights,

Smirk.

started to smirk at

very important to the Caro Kingdom. In fact, it will probably become something they

executives nodded

Land of Death. However, this incident would

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

crown prince had an image on his mind as he

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

to

the finance side raised his head

highness! Are you thinking

for a moment before cautiously continuing to

meeting room was

trying to acquire

worked with Alberu for a long time

could predict

at that

Elves and the necromancer will find the Land of Death to be

voice seeped into the

and our strong allies. They are part of the

this after the last

land for them to

of affirmation, filled

is thinking about

lot because he always thought about a

Knight Captain started

the team to dispatch to

“Captain-nim.”

administrator in charge of

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 should be better,

the other

have become much larger than what we have originally discussed with the Caro Kingdom. In the end,

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

capital’s administrator stealthily added

we will slowly control it to make the Land of Death

knew that was the plan without needing to

Crossman. One of the things his trusted subordinates

land away because the Caro

Kingdom might welcome that they wanted to take this useless land instead

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

nodded his

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

cautiously asked Alberu

Then

some Dark Elves soon while the knights buy

there! That’s right. The most important

response before smiling at the fact

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

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

“That sounds good too.”

they quickly

of this from a step away closed his eyes for a

under the table were

He had a dream.

of a world where

dreamt of finding land

to be

the Roan Kingdom’s citizens to

Kingdom’s citizens were

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

his whole life hiding the fact that the Dark Elf blood flowed through him,

will remain a

provoke them or be greedy for

not openly show off

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

for working harder than

were open once