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.’

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

disappears, the people who saw this as well as the

had already escaped saying they were

the people inside the desert are not the Caro Kingdom's

chances that they would not investigate thoroughly even though they were thankful were high because the potentially dead people were the Roan Kingdom’s

Tap. Tap. Tap.

tapped on the armrest instead

“…Your highness.”

out to Alberu and

when he smiled, but he was extremely hard to approach in front of the chief executives around whom he never

“Knight Captain.”

“Yes sir.”

First Knights Brigade and a few knights

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 the Roan Kingdom’s

clashed in the diplomat's

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

that was stepping out of the line. The investigation is dangerous! I believe we should pressure the Caro

Kingdom's heroes as well.

be more 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

made the diplomat start

appear on Alberu’s face at that

gentle smile that he was

to say something like that out

have heard him. He sighed in relief before looking back at

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

after hearing the crown prince's

crown prince continued to

to hang up now as we need to discuss this situation. Contact me right away if there are any new urgent information.” Yes, your highness! I will stay alert and keep myself informed

“Okay.”

watched as the gently smiling crown prince disappeared from

once the video communication

Alberu was

toward Alberu’s gentle smile that was slowly

‘There’s definitely something.’

trust everything Alberu had said toward

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

“Your highness.”

had been

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

other administrators, knights, and generals

Smirk.

started to smirk at that

that is not very important to the Caro Kingdom. In fact, it will probably become something they want to

nodded their

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

rise at random intervals throughout the

an image on his mind as he thought about

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

they want to get rid

administrator from the finance side raised his

Are

for a moment before cautiously continuing

room was protected with soundproof barrier magic

are you trying to acquire

had worked with Alberu for a

could predict his

at

the necromancer will find the Land of Death to

voice seeped into the

necromancer are Roan Kingdom's citizens and

chief executives were aware of this after the last

Roan Kingdom provide land

affirmation, filled the room

thinking about

about

Captain started

will immediately gather the team to dispatch to

“Captain-nim.”

administrator in charge of diplomacy started

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

and the other administrators started to chime

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

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

capital’s administrator stealthily added

control it to

blinked as if they all knew that was

his trusted subordinates did the best

didn't feel bad for taking this land away because the Caro Kingdom's citizens hated the desert

wanted to take this useless land instead

first to declare war. As such, they will need to spend a lot

Commander nodded

to take it and offer it to the Dark Elves and the

then cautiously asked Alberu

Then

Dark Elves soon

to keep staying there! That’s right. The most important thing is that the Roan Kingdom's citizens can freely cross

response before smiling at the fact

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

give 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 live peacefully

“That sounds good too.”

they quickly came up with

this from a step away closed his eyes for a

fists under the table were

He had a dream.

a world where the Dark Elves could live

of finding land for

there happened to

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

course, those Roan Kingdom’s

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

through him, he dreamt of a world where people like him did not

City will remain

Caro Kingdom might provoke them or be greedy

disappointed that they could not openly

I will give that

harder than anybody else for

eyes that were open once again were