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 was the case. Dead mana smoke was something that would make you die a painful death if you even breathed

this dead mana smoke disappears, the people who saw this as well as the explosion

already escaped saying

cold heartedly, the people inside

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

Tap. Tap. Tap.

the

“…Your highness.”

Captain called out to Alberu and had to make eye contact with

but he was extremely hard

“Knight Captain.”

“Yes sir.”

the Captain of the First Knights Brigade and a few knights to the Caro Kingdom's

diplomat who had been listening flinched and quickly started to speak. Your highness! This is a very dangerous place! Of course, I know that the Roan Kingdom's citizens, that

emotions clashed in the diplomat's mind as

for the safety of the Roan Kingdom's

the crown prince even if that was stepping out of the line. The investigation is dangerous! I believe we should pressure the Caro Kingdom

as well. However, he

specific, he wanted the Roan Kingdom to take 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

the diplomat

on Alberu’s face

gentle smile that he was

way, is it okay for you to

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

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

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

prince continued to gently speak to

there are any new urgent information.” Yes, your highness! I will stay alert and keep myself informed of the

“Okay.”

the gently smiling crown prince disappeared

the video communication device

room Alberu was in became

Alberu’s gentle smile that was slowly

‘There’s definitely something.’

did not trust everything Alberu had

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

“Your highness.”

who had been quiet started to

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

knights, and generals agree

Smirk.

started to smirk at

the Caro Kingdom. In fact, it will probably become something they want to completely avoid

nodded

Kingdom had always avoided the Land of Death. However, this

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

image on his mind as he thought about this

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

to get rid

side raised his head and looked toward

highness! Are you thinking

for a moment before cautiously continuing

meeting room was protected with

trying to acquire the Land of

had worked with Alberu for a long

predict

was at that

the necromancer will find the Land of Death to be

seeped into the chief executives’

citizens and our strong allies.

aware of this after

Roan Kingdom provide land for

affirmation, filled the room with silence

truly is thinking about

trusted Alberu a lot because he always thought about a brighter

Knight Captain started

the team to dispatch to

“Captain-nim.”

of

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

of responding and the other

Cale have become much larger than what we have originally discussed with the Caro Kingdom.

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

administrator stealthily added

we will slowly control it to make the

knew that was the plan without needing to

One of the things his trusted subordinates did the

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

welcome that they wanted to take this useless land instead of asking for

such, they will need to spend a lot of

nodded

take it and offer it to the Dark

cautiously asked

Then the

Dark Elves soon while the knights

planning on having them use the investigation as justification to keep staying there! That’s right. The most important thing is that the Roan Kingdom's citizens can freely cross

exaggerated response before smiling at the fact that Alberu was not putting any knights in

Kingdom is not willing to give us the land, we must at least ask to use that land for a long

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 live peacefully

“That sounds good too.”

exchanged ideas as they

who watched all of this from a step away closed

the table were

He had a dream.

of a world where the Dark Elves could

of finding land for them to

happened to be

an opportunity for the Roan Kingdom’s citizens to openly step on the Caro Kingdom's Land of

Kingdom’s citizens were the Dark

Elves were still despised and scorned by most of the Western

through him, he dreamt of a world where people like him did

will remain a secret

might provoke them or

could not openly

I will give that to

rewards for working harder than anybody else for the

were open once