Trash of the Count's Family

Raon was clapping while Mila was calmly focusing on her task at hand. Cale was lying on the bed, looking toward the window and snickering.

Lock just blankly looked out the terrace window.

“H, he’s acting, right? It’s fake?”

His voice was shaking.

The fallen Eruhaben…. The sight was too shocking to call it an act.

‘My heart is beating wildly even though I know it’s fake.’

Lock tightly clenched his fists.

“Lock, don’t worry! Gramps wasn’t hurt by the Lion Dragon’s attack!”

Cale looked at Ron with an odd gaze for a moment.

‘…He shouldn’t be able to see anything because it’s so far away. How is he so sure Eruhaben-nim wasn’t hit?’

Cale questioned Raon’s response, but Raon just smiled brightly, as if he didn’t question anything at all.

Lock couldn’t help but smile after seeing Raon’s bright smile.

“Lock, you start moving according to the plan as well.”

“Yes, young master-nim!”

Lock watched Cale, who was reaching the final stages of Connect Together, as he responded vigorously.

“I’m okay.”

“…Yes, sir, I understand.”

Lock barely managed to lift his feet and left the office after hearing Cale say that he was okay.

Cale watched Lock leave for a bit before looking back out the window.

The fallen Dragon’s large body…

A portion of a building was unfortunately destroyed because of the Dragon’s fall. Dust and smoke rose up like clouds because of the aftershock.

This sight brought shock to everybody except the few who knew the truth.

“…Ah.”

Some of the mages plopped down on the ground.

The shield they had cast to block the aftershock of the Dragon and monster’s fight was long gone, and all that the mages could see was the fallen Dragon…an existence that was said to be the king of magic.

“I, I can’t believe that he…so futilely-”

Although the battle had been fierce and intense, it oddly felt as if it had all been futile.

The reason behind it was simple.

“…It really is a monster.”

The Dragon had fallen, but the monster was fine.

The monster was quietly observing the fallen Dragon without a single scratch on its shield.

The Dragon had not managed to harm the enemy even a little.

That fact was making the others feel as if it had been futile.

“…Something that even a Dragon couldn’t do-”

‘We have to do it now?’

The mages could not get themselves to say that part.

But there were others who were feeling even more scared than they were feeling.

“W, what just happened? Did the Dragon really fall to the ground?”

“I don’t know! I can’t see anything!”

They were the soldiers waiting outside the city walls.

The soldiers definitely saw the Dragon falling down. But they could not accept what had just happened.

They heard the noise of the Dragon crashing to the ground, but they could not accept it since the tall city walls prevented them from seeing what had happened.

The number of people quietly whispering slowly increased, getting louder and amplifying their anxiety as well.

“Quiet-!”

The soldiers flinched and shut up after one of the knights shouted.

The knight would usually scold the soldiers more for their actions, but he too was swept up with fear and astonishment that he couldn’t scold the anxious soldiers.

The Knight Captain stepped forward at that moment.

“All of you stay in position! Do not lose focus!”

There was a video communication device in his hand.

Although he was shouting sternly, his back that was covered by his armor was full of sweat.

‘…Your highness.’

He recalled the short conversation he just had with Alberu and continued to shout.

“As long as we do not attack first! That monster will not attack us!”

The soldiers looked up at the monster in the sky.

This monster really was just quietly observing the ancient Dragon.

“So, do not be afraid!”

The Knight Captain started to walk as soon as he shouted toward the soldiers. The lower-grade knights followed right behind him.

They whispered to him.

“Captain-nim, then what should we-?”

“Are we just waiting?”

The Knight Captain nodded his head with a stiff expression.

“First of all, we have no plans on attacking first. The decision has been made that we need to first figure out the monster’s weakness and get a better grasp of the current situation. His highness as ordered us to wait.”

He then gave the knights an order.

“So make sure that the soldiers are not overwhelmed by fear.”

“…We are just going to stay in place for now, sir?”

“That’s right. His highness’s order is to wait and buy us some time in a stalemate. Inform the soldiers about the situation as well.”

The knights responded with a salute and called their subordinate knights and the ones leading the soldiers.

The message that they were stalling for time started to be distributed.

It made people scared but also relieved that they were not fighting right now.

The fallen Dragon… The struggling heroes…

And finally, the absence of their Commander, who was like a symbol of victory.

feeling relieved that they were

looked around at them and

I have delivered the message to the soldiers as you

Buy some time.

as many people know that as possible. The Knight Captain looked

Bone Dragon

toward where the

we

we go over and

people immediately headed over toward

to be their ally, so they should check on its condition. The mages who had both

At that moment…

“Stop!”

after hearing a

Crossman kicked off the black Bone

Boom-!

once he landed on the

be urgently running to the

back as his highness

Rosalyn followed behind him.

mana around a Dragon that is in danger! Do

stopped trying to follow

Rosalyn said seemed reasonable

not go against Alberu, the magically talented crown prince who had the highest position here, nor against Rosalyn, who had pretty much been solidified as the

reason they

Dragon’s extremely faint breathing once they had gotten a bit

“…What a mess.”

the Dragon, a creature whose

scales that were said to be one of the strongest things in the world had so many cracks

out by drought. The crack started from the

seemed

“…Eruhaben-nim.”

subconsciously stopped walking after seeing Eruhaben’s

not been able to see because of the

at a

knew that Eruhaben’s fall

condition let her know that if Eruhaben had

She got a headache.

thought that someone might die

that

thinking that someone who was pretty much, no, was her

“Eruhaben-nim.”

heard Alberu’s voice

off and revealed his blonde

a very stiff expression on his

act and play along since the White Star would

had debated about how to react to Eruhaben’s dead

really was prepared to

looked like hell

this heavy breathing was not completely

Shhhhh.

touched

“Are you okay, Eruhaben-nim?”

a bit. It sounded so bad that the others who were watching couldn’t help but

“Huff. Huff.”

ancient Dragon could

Dragons were majestic creatures, they couldn’t help but look

– Crown prince.

moment Alberu heard Eruhaben’s calm voice in

just stay here

Dragon peeked open one of its eyes and stealthily

there is nothing I

was praising his acting

“Haaaaaaaa.”

Alberu’s gaze changed.

are you looking at me

to see Alberu who was

put his hand on Eruhaben’s forehead. He then mumbled in a sad

of it. He does seem to be conscious,

– What?

you cannot

– …Ho.

the chills after

‘What chilling acting skills.’

would make most theatre actors

protected his position without the help of his mother’s family while hiding the fact that he was quarter Dark Elf. He would not

internally when he

stay here and pretend

– Got it.

then raised

Eruhaben-nim’s breathing is getting

laid there without doing anything. Alberu took

I take a

her thoughts and moved

around. He then gave an order to the first mage

a nearby

urgently looking for a temple in order to heal the Dragon. Multiple mages immediately took out video communication devices and started casting

head and started talking to himself as if it

is not enough. The Saint, I need to contact

people around him nodded their heads after

Maybe the Saint would

personally go

noticed Lock approaching him

“Your highness.”

Alberu quickly put his hand on Lock’s

and the Wolf tribe can stand guard around the

We will protect him so that nobody can

looked toward a Wolf elder who nodded his head and the

it

he walked

don’t worry. We will make it so that nobody can get close

a moment before

“…The Young master-nim…”

Alberu turned toward Lock.

master-nim, no, never mind, your highness. Please, just go take a

say anything else. Alberu didn’t ask anything else and just looked over Lock’s shoulder to the ancient Dragon who had his eyes

I have some time to

did not feel any relief after hearing

highness. We

his mouth went up after hearing Lock’s voice that

knew where Lock’s confidence was coming

and looked up at the

Dragon… The Dragon half-blood and Choi Han were up

as if they were staying guarded against the Lion Dragon.

that it was okay to hurry up and go. Mary was on one of her flying skeleton monsters as she moved toward the black

half-blood, Mary,

able to prepare for any urgent situations that

“I should hurry.”

the City Hall as if he was rushing to contact

was planning on chatting with Cale

“Your highness-”

him

“…Duke.”

It was Duke Deruth.

sense of nervousness. Alberu looked at

hope you can

have Deruth

was with Cale. Furthermore, Cale’s

who had come all the way here for