Trash of the Count's Family

Choi Han took notice of every gaze that the people around the auditorium were giving Cale.

‘There’s nobody here as strong as Lee Soo Hyuk.’

Choi Han then thought about Choi Jung Soo.

Choi Jung Soo should be in the training ground doing his best to reach his limits right now.

Choi Han had a slight smile before it disappeared.

He put on a poker face and looked around once more.

‘There’s nobody as strong as Lee Soo Hyuk, but there are a few ability users at Park Jin Tae's level.’

The atmosphere was tense as the strongest people in the country, as well as the people who had the greatest chance of joining that group in the future, were all here.

Of course, none of them were openly baring their fangs.

They were all smiling on the outside, but their gazes were extremely wary of each other.

Each of their greetings was filled with attempts to analyze the person that they were greeting.

Choi Han could see sharpness, curiosity, and wariness in the gazes of the people as they looked at Cale.

Choi Han recalled what Cale had told him.

‘It’s been a long time since I've been the center of attention like this.’

Choi Han started to speak.

“You must have had a lot of situations like this, hyung-nim.”

“I may not look like it, but I did all sorts of things while I was a team leader.”

Cale nonchalantly responded before adding on.

“This is new.”

“Which part?”

“Who knows?”

Cale did not say much and just smiled while looking at Choi Han.

“I see a lot of familiar people.”

Kim Rok Soo had become the team leader after Lee Soo Hyuk.

He did not have as many achievements as Lee Soo Hyuk at that time. Furthermore, he had started as a rear support team member.

Whether it was for that reason or not, there were many people who did everything they could to not help him out when he first became a team leader.

No, most of the people did not trust that he was capable of doing a good job as a team leader.

‘Even if Team leader Lee Soo Hyuk personally named Kim Rok Soo to be the team leader after him… He’s only in his mid to late twenties and did not develop his ability until much later.’

Whether it was within the company…

In the government…

Or even leaders of guilds and other organizations…

‘Mm… Things really are slower than when team leader Lee Soo Hyuk was in charge. Is it because you were originally from the rear support team? It is not as refreshing.’

‘You weren’t even an ability user at the beginning of the cataclysm. We know better than you do. We will just do things according to our guild's methods. You understand?’

Kim Rok Soo had to report to those people or request for their assistance and cooperation.

‘Of course, I didn't just let things go either.’

Later on, people would say that they understood why team leader Lee Soo Hyuk named Kim Rok Soo as the new team leader. Some even said that he was even scarier than Lee Soo Hyuk.

But Cale didn’t care about all those gossips or gazes back then.

He didn’t care about any of that right now either.

But there was something new that he was feeling right now.

‘Those people that I had to report to and ask for assistance are all here.’

They were not as strong as they would become in the future as Cale remembered.

‘That is why I need to help them grow stronger.’

It needed to happen faster than it did in the past.

Cale was smiling, but his gaze was extremely cold.

Even Choi Han stiffened up a bit after seeing his gaze.

‘I'm sure this feels burdensome.’

was thinking about how Cale

ask for assistance from the ability users

Cale would need to convince them to let him

safely handle the attack of the first unranked monster while keeping their casualties

of as many people here

it would not

least half of them will be willing to

Han was having

“It’s time.”

Cale, stopped leaning

hyung-nim! Wait

district) in Changwon, who had been standing next

look away from

Han was standing next to Cale as all of that happened.

not

Ja, one of the three pillars here at the Seomyeon shelter alongside

Ma Seung Jin, the man who would become the guild leader of Daejeon's greatest guild

will go

stood next to Cale and

cooperate

returned to normal. Heo Sook Ja seemed to be

at least a third

people they needed to

them looked toward Cale with concern while Ma Seung Jin looked at Cale with

to walk at that

reached them as he

in there for their

“Hmm?”

his mouth in order to ask what

Cale who was walking into the auditorium without any hesitation. Only Choi Han

“Noonim, shall we go?”

let’s go

meaning behind Cale’s words for a bit before walking into

going up some steps toward

naturally full

was at

here

caused silence

looked toward

closest to the platform was

Hoon was

the middle and not next to Kim Woo who

‘How will he respond?’

invitation card while waiting for this

heard the woman sitting next to

just shut the hell up if he

Kang Hoon

you know that Kim Rok

started to frown. She seemed to be asking why the

Hoon smiled in response and the woman just

him when he went past our shelter

happened when Cale's group had passed by

Rok Soo's group had claimed they came to personally hand her an invitation as her shelter was on their way to

chills thinking about

cautiously asked at

“How is he?”

many things

extremely curious as he watched her mouth slowly

the same for the ability users around

started

“He’s fucking strong.”

“Excuse me?”

Hoon sounded

her thoughts about what had happened. She messed up her hair as she started

goodness… After I saw those people fighting against the monsters…

different ability user next to

tell us

to blurt out as if she had been

starts screaming, ‘I have faith!’ Those people became even stronger and… Wow, I only believed what I saw because I was sober at the time. I would have thought that my mind had done a 360 if I was

right back to where

to say

person

was looking toward Kim Rok

“Pfft.”

woman scoffed as

were others in this auditorium looking

personally received the invitations from Cale

that person

started to speak

was firm without

“Totally.”

He was very strong.

But at that moment…

have come if I knew the invitation was from a fucking kid! Who the hell are you to tell a