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. >

< It is famous for being a kingdom of knights, and the current king Bakehe is famous for being a sword master. >

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.

terrain issue, the residents wouldn’t be able to go there. The document

back

mountain based on a tale about the Sez Kingdom’s first

Sez Royal Academy is located right underneath the

“Ha!”

Cale scoffed in disbelief.

Tribe resides in a mystical mountain that has a tale about the first king? They’re letting the Cats keep the imprisoned sacrifices for the

a stiff expression to

place that the citizens of the Sez Kingdom consider to be the holiest is being used

the kingdom are naturally hiding that fact from the

Bud nodded his head.

used like that. We subtly asked the nobles and merchants our guild has connections within the kingdom but none

Cale started to speak.

alliance between the White Star and the Sez Kingdom is not something that started

kingdom on the Eastern continent had aligned themselves with the

from Dark Tiger Alberu while he

situation doesn’t make sense if I think

has their base on the Sez Kingdom’s

cooperation

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 long

be quite a strong relationship. There’s no way the Sez Kingdom’s side would allow them to imprison sacrificial hostages in a holy mountain if it

had a longer alliance with the White Star than the Molden Kingdom,

needed a long time to

the Molden

number compared to the

extremely few

Bud cautiously added on.

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

who had been quietly listening,

It will be extremely annoying for us if the other kingdoms have had

alliance between members who have just joined together and one whose

Bud nodded his head.

might end up as a war between the Eastern continent and the Western continent if things

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as even if they managed to kick the White Star out of the Western continent,

about it was

Tap. Tap. Tap.

on the table with his

the document

Academy is the future of

Sez Royal Academy that was located at the bottom

considered one of the top three

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

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

Tap. Tap. Tap.

was tapping his finger as

“Bud Illis.”

“Hmm?”

will have to do as

I said? What

things he had

specific

a kingdom on the Eastern continent to set an

Bud’s pupils were shaking.

could see a

down? Am I the White Star? I don’t have any plans to do

Bud started to think.

Cale was saying that he was not planning

seem like he is planning

could not share that

on Cale’s mouth

are changing our

Tap.

palm tapped

is destroying the Cat tribe’s base and rescuing the

After that…

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 things

target with nowhere to run.

Bud started to speak.

you might as well

Sounds like something we can

pointed to a portion

will visit the holy Mount Nex on that

Chhh.

before pointing at a different

part that explained

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the current king will visit the Sez Royal Academy and give a speech on the day

gulped and looked

could hear Cale’s calm

just happens to be in four

Smile.

Cale started to smile.

see the king’s face on our way, so we might as well destroy

just nodded

* * *

Two days later.

King Bud Illis made a statement with

Tomorrow is the day the Sez king

king of Sez will visit

climb Mount Nex the following day to celebrate the anniversary

a school uniform he had not worn

infiltrate the academy tomorrow and grab

at the team, who were all wearing the different outfits they were going to be using

a

that we are going to abduct

to ask, but held

said something

who visit as well. Two Knights Brigades from the palace will be guarding them. They will

That wasn’t all.