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.’

state of panic as soon as they saw the black mana smoke whirlwind. It was obvious why this was the case. Dead mana smoke was something

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

already escaped saying they

about it cold heartedly, the people inside the desert are not the Caro Kingdom's

if 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

Tap. Tap. Tap.

tapped on the armrest instead

“…Your highness.”

Captain called out to Alberu and had to

crown prince when he smiled, but he was extremely hard to approach in front of the

“Knight Captain.”

“Yes sir.”

the First Knights Brigade and a

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

admiration toward the crown prince. The sight of the crown prince dispatching the knights for the safety of the Roan Kingdom's citizens was something that

out of the line. The investigation is dangerous! I believe we should pressure the Caro Kingdom to take responsibility to pay us back for

as well. However, he

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 the knights is the right thing to do when we might be heading

the diplomat

appear on Alberu’s face at

gentle smile

you to say something like

Thankfully, nobody seemed to have heard him. He sighed in relief

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

shut after hearing the crown prince's decision to move to

to gently

to discuss this situation. Contact me right away if there are any new urgent information.” Yes, your highness! I

“Okay.”

diplomat watched as the gently smiling crown prince disappeared from the video

the video communication device

room Alberu was in

executives looked toward Alberu’s gentle smile that

‘There’s definitely something.’

trust everything Alberu had said toward

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

“Your highness.”

lead administrator who had

the Roan Kingdom's citizens, however… I also know that you are not someone who

other administrators, knights,

Smirk.

crown prince started to smirk at

that is not very important to the Caro Kingdom. In

executives nodded their

always avoided the Land of Death. However, this incident would make people

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

had an image on his mind

to get rid of from a land that is useless to

to get rid

raised his head and

Are you

moment before cautiously

meeting room was protected with soundproof barrier magic and nobody could hear from

to acquire the Land

with Alberu for

could predict his

at

find the Land of Death

voice seeped into the

Dark Elves and necromancer are Roan Kingdom's citizens and

aware of this

land for them

filled the room with silence

thinking about taking another step

about a brighter future for the kingdom while

Captain

gather the team to

“Captain-nim.”

administrator in charge of diplomacy started to

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 to

of responding and the other administrators started

have become much larger than what we have originally

at them that the Roan

administrator stealthily

slowly control it to make the Land of Death

blinked as if they all knew that was the plan without needing to be

the things his trusted subordinates did the best was controlling public

away because the Caro Kingdom's citizens hated the desert and nobody lived

to take this useless land instead of asking for a

As such, they will need to spend a lot of money. They would probably prefer to hand the Land of Death over than to give us

Commander nodded his

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

cautiously asked

Then

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

at the fact that Alberu was not putting any knights

willing to 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

“That sounds good too.”

as they quickly

of this from a step away closed his eyes

under the

He had a dream.

a world where the

finding land

there happened to

citizens to

course, those Roan Kingdom’s citizens

was much better in the Roan Kingdom, but the Dark Elves

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

City will remain a

them or be greedy

disappointed that they could not openly show off the Underground

above the Underground City… The desert… I will

working harder than

were open