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.’

soldiers had fallen into a 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 that would make you die

people who saw this as well as the explosion will not

escaped

people inside the desert are

The chances that they would not investigate thoroughly even though they

Tap. Tap. Tap.

the

“…Your highness.”

Captain called out to Alberu and had

was extremely hard to approach in front of the chief executives around whom he never

“Knight Captain.”

“Yes sir.”

and a few knights to the Caro Kingdom's

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

clashed in the diplomat's mind as he said

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

concern. He 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 for

heroes as well.

the Roan Kingdom to take the less dangerous road in this dangerous situation. I will pressure the Caro Kingdom and investigate with them!

emotions made the diplomat start to

smile appear on

gentle smile that

is it okay for you to say something

hide his head like a turtle. Thankfully, nobody seemed to have heard

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

after hearing the crown prince's decision to move

prince continued to gently speak to

we need to discuss this situation. Contact me right away if there are any

“Okay.”

the gently smiling crown

the video communication device

Alberu was

Alberu’s gentle smile

‘There’s definitely something.’

everything Alberu

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

“Your highness.”

had been

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

administrators, knights, and generals

Smirk.

crown prince started to

Kingdom. In

nodded their heads

had always avoided the Land of Death. However,

dead mana smoke started to rise at random intervals throughout

image on his mind as he thought about

want to get rid of from a land that

they want to get rid

the finance side raised his head and looked toward

Are you

a moment

was

highness, are you trying to acquire the

had worked with Alberu for a

predict his

was at that

Elves and the necromancer will find the Land of Death

voice seeped into the chief

Roan Kingdom's citizens and our strong allies. They are part

were aware of this after the last

land

affirmation, filled the room

prince-nim truly is thinking about taking another step

thought about a brighter future for

Knight Captain

immediately gather the team to dispatch to the Dubori

“Captain-nim.”

charge of diplomacy

the 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 some people from our side to do that.

smiled instead of responding and the other administrators

have originally discussed

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

capital’s administrator

control it to make the Land of

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

One of the things his trusted subordinates did the best was controlling

didn't feel bad for taking this land away because the Caro Kingdom's citizens hated the desert and nobody

Kingdom might welcome that they wanted to take

to spend a lot of money. They would probably prefer to hand the

Commander nodded

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

asked Alberu a

highness. Then

will dispatch some Dark Elves soon while the knights

be planning on having them use the investigation as justification to keep staying there! That’s right. The most important thing is

exaggerated response before smiling at the fact that

not willing to give us the land, we must

want to give that land to us, we can ask the Caro Kingdom to pay the price for the Dark Elf-nims protecting them from the

“That sounds good too.”

exchanged ideas as they

who watched all of this from a step

the

He had a dream.

where the

finding land for them

happened to be

the Roan Kingdom’s citizens to openly step

course, those Roan Kingdom’s citizens

Dark Elves were still despised

had to live his whole life hiding the fact that the Dark Elf blood flowed through him, he dreamt of a world where people like him did not need

will remain a

or be

disappointed that they could not openly show off

City… The desert… I will give that

harder than anybody else

that were open once