Trash of the Count's Family

“By the way, who are the two people that the Cat children were following?”

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The Mercenary King sat down at a table at the center of the room.

“Ahem.”

“Aigoo, there’s some urgent business to take care of in the kitchen!”

The bandit-turned-employees moved far away from the table.

“All of you can head out.”

Ron motioned for them to leave, and the employees quickly ran out.

Cale then started to speak.

“Dragons.”

“…Hmm?”

Bud, who had been looking around at the empty hall, looked completely confused. He put his finger in his ear to clear it when Cale said it once more.

“Dragons.”

“…Ah. They’re Dragons.”

Nod nod.

Bud just decided not to think about Cale’s group anymore.

But he still couldn’t accept it!

‘Dragons?! Two of them?! No wait, he already had multiple Dragons with him!’

Bud started to frown.

The door to the rear garden opened, and an employee came in and started to speak to Ron.

“Manager-nim, shall we bring some tea-”

Bud thought about the word, ‘Dragons,’ and commented.

“Are you trying to take down a kingdom on the Eastern continent to set an example or something?”

Clunk.

The bandit-turned-employee’s hand that was holding the doorknob was shaking.

‘What did I just hear? Destroy a kingdom?’

The employee immediately moved after seeing Ron’s benign smile.

Screeeech-

The door was quietly closed.

Cale frowned after hearing Bud’s comment.

“Why would I destroy a kingdom?”

“Well, the team you brought is strong enough to do that. They could probably destroy this Leeb-An City in like five minutes.”

“Cut the crap. Just hand over the information you brought.”

“Ah, okay!”

Bud took a document out of his pocket and handed it to Cale.

“The stone mountain where the Cats live is in the Sez Kingdom.”

The Cat tribe was going to be where Cale started his plan to take down the White Star’s allies.

This starting point to the final battle would be at the stone mountain in the Sez Kingdom.

“…Mount Nex in the Sez Kingdom.”

Bud responded to Cale’s mumbling.

“It’s a kingdom right next to the Castle of Light.”

It was by the Castle of Light, one of the Three Restricted Areas of the Eastern continent, the white desert where Lord Sheritt’s White Castle had once been located.

That castle was now Raon’s and moved to the Forest of Darkness as a black castle.

Cale read through the information in the document.

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< The Sez Kingdom is currently allied with the Endable Kingdom and is one of the strongest kingdoms on the Eastern continent. >

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Bud continued his explanation.

“Mount Nex is located in the northern part of the Sez Kingdom. It is an area with a stone mountain at the center and the residents rarely go toward it because the terrain is difficult to traverse.”

Cale recalled a conversation he had with Duke Fredo.

‘It is the place where a few different Cat tribes live together with the Fog Cat Tribe in charge. There is a large stone mountain at the center of their territory. It is kind of like a citadel. The Cats that are talented in fog and assassination are protecting the place.’

‘That stone mountain is where the captives are?’

‘Yes.’

Bud added on.

residents wouldn’t be able to go there. The document

back toward

many generations as a holy mountain based on a tale about the Sez Kingdom’s first king, and people are not allowed to enter without permission.

located right underneath the mountain as

“Ha!”

Cale scoffed in disbelief.

king? They’re letting the Cats keep the imprisoned sacrifices for

a stiff expression to Cale’s

consider to be the holiest is

the leaders of the kingdom are naturally hiding that fact from the

Bud nodded his head.

being used like that. We subtly asked the nobles and merchants our guild has connections within the kingdom but none of them seemed to have any idea. They didn’t seem to be hiding

Cale started to speak.

sounds like the alliance between the White Star and the Sez

kingdom on the Eastern continent had aligned

had first heard about it from Dark Tiger Alberu while he was

make sense if I think

their base

was impossible without cooperation from

other kingdoms, but at least the Sez Kingdom, or at least its king and his loyal subordinates, seem to have made a secret alliance with the White Star a

There’s no way the Sez Kingdom’s side would allow them to imprison sacrificial hostages in a holy

have had a longer alliance with the White Star than

would have needed a long time to settle there and call

and the Molden Kingdom, The Mercenaries Guild, the

in number compared to the size

extremely few in

Bud cautiously added on.

is not just the Sez Kingdom, but that the other kingdoms have had an alliance with the White Star since a

been quietly

the other

alliance between members who have just joined together and one whose members have been together for a

Bud nodded his head.

as a war between the Eastern continent and the Western continent if things go terribly

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managed to kick the White Star out of the Western continent, he would still

about it

Tap. Tap. Tap.

on the table with

the document on

the future of

located at the bottom of the

one of

It accepts all students age 13 to 18 regardless of their background and students have to go through an extremely difficult admissions exam before completing a

from this academy. Numerous individuals from other kingdoms have also graduated from this

Tap. Tap. Tap.

tapping his finger

“Bud Illis.”

“Hmm?”

have to

I said?

he had told Cale

then recalled a specific statement and

a kingdom on the Eastern continent to

Bud’s pupils were shaking.

could see a smiling

I

Bud started to think.

he was not planning on taking down a

makes it seem like he is planning

could not share that thought

mouth that was starting to

are changing our target

Tap.

palm tapped on

Cat tribe’s

After that…

Sez Kingdom’s alliance with the White Star to start a chain of kingdoms on the Eastern continent breaking their alliances with the White Star. We might as well do it since we are headed to

the greatest result if

would end up a target with nowhere

Bud started to speak.

might as well do because you’re headed

like something we can

pointed to a portion

day the first king came down from the stone mountain. The current king will visit the holy Mount Nex

Chhh.

some pages before pointing at

the part that

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king will visit the Sez Royal Academy and give a speech on the day before they visit Mount Nex.

and looked at

could hear Cale’s calm

just happens to be in

Smile.

Cale started to smile.

face on our way, so

nodded his

* * *

Two days later.

Illis made a statement with a grim

Tomorrow is the day the Sez king

of Sez will visit the academy tomorrow to give a

day to celebrate the anniversary of

touched the tie of a school uniform he had not worn in a long

the academy tomorrow and grab

different outfits they were going to be using to

in a

king mean that we are

to ask, but

said something else

well. Two Knights Brigades from the palace will be guarding them. They will also have mages and other

That wasn’t all.