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 this was the case. Dead mana smoke was something that would make you die

the people who saw this as well as the explosion will not easily volunteer for

had already escaped saying they were

people inside the desert are not the Caro

they had come 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 the

Tap. Tap. Tap.

tapped on the armrest instead of

“…Your highness.”

called out to Alberu and had to make eye contact with

he was extremely hard to

“Knight Captain.”

“Yes sir.”

the First Knights Brigade and a few

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 the Roan Kingdom’s heroes are

emotions clashed in the diplomat's mind

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

if that was stepping out of the line. The investigation is dangerous! I believe we should pressure the Caro Kingdom to take responsibility to

as well. However,

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 to do when

the diplomat start

noticed a smile appear on Alberu’s face

gentle smile that he was

to say something like that

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

Roan Kingdom’s citizens. Just sit back

the crown prince's decision to move to

prince continued to gently

if there are

“Okay.”

as the gently smiling crown prince disappeared from the video communication

then, once the video communication

meeting room Alberu was

looked toward Alberu’s gentle smile that was slowly disappearing with

‘There’s definitely something.’

not 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.”

capital's lead administrator who had been quiet

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 Roan Kingdom's citizens to such a

administrators, knights, and

Smirk.

started to

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

chief executives nodded

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

started to rise at random intervals throughout the

prince had an image on his mind as he thought

want to get rid of from a land that is

want to get rid

side raised

Are you thinking

moment before

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

to acquire

with Alberu for

predict

was at

necromancer will find the Land of Death to be

voice seeped into the

citizens and our strong allies. They

of this after the last war

Roan Kingdom provide land for them

affirmation, filled

crown prince-nim truly is thinking about taking

because he always thought about a brighter future for the kingdom while protecting the

Captain started to

will immediately gather the team to dispatch to the

“Captain-nim.”

charge of diplomacy started to

wary of doing. We will make them feel indebted to us. Ah! We will send some people from our

of responding and the other administrators started to chime in

what we have originally discussed with the Caro Kingdom. In the end,

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

capital’s administrator stealthily added

it to make the

all knew that was the plan without

his trusted subordinates did the best was controlling public

feel bad for taking this land away because the

Caro Kingdom might welcome that they wanted to take this useless land instead of asking for a

was the first to declare war. As such, they will need to spend a lot of money. They would probably

nodded

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

then cautiously asked Alberu a

highness. Then

Dark Elves soon while the

be 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 that land that has

the fact that Alberu was not putting any knights

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

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

“That sounds good too.”

as they

from a step away

fists under the

He had a dream.

world where the Dark

land for them to

happened to be an

to

those Roan Kingdom’s citizens were the Dark

Kingdom, but the Dark Elves were

life hiding the fact that the Dark Elf blood flowed through him, he dreamt of a world where people like him did not

City will remain a

provoke them or be

that they could not openly show off the

I will give that to

for working harder than anybody else for the Roan

open once again were