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.

relieved that

around at them and thought about

I have delivered the message to the soldiers

Buy some time.

possible. The Knight Captain looked

Bone Dragon

where

do we

go over and

The people immediately headed over toward

seemed to be their ally, so they should check on its condition. The mages who had both respect and wariness for the Dragon started to move to

At that moment…

“Stop!”

their heads after hearing

prince Alberu Crossman kicked off the black Bone Dragon’s armor and descended to the

Boom-!

was a small rumbling once

to be urgently running to the

back as his

Rosalyn followed behind him.

be to the mana around a Dragon that is in danger! Do not approach unless we

mages flinched and stopped trying

said seemed

could not go against Alberu, the magically talented crown prince who had the highest position here, nor against Rosalyn, who had pretty

reason they did

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

“…What a mess.”

Dragon, a creature whose level of magic they would never

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

drought. The crack started from the Dragon’s claw and spread throughout its upper

seemed darker

“…Eruhaben-nim.”

stopped walking after

Eruhaben-nim’s current condition that she had not been able to see because of the Lion

at a

fall had

know that if Eruhaben had fought some more, that fall could have ended up becoming

She got a headache.

had thought that someone

herself, thinking that she might die

someone who was pretty

“Eruhaben-nim.”

Alberu’s voice at

taken his helmet off and revealed his blonde hair

very stiff expression on

keep up the act and play

that he had debated about how

really was prepared to

looked like

this heavy breathing

Shhhhh.

touched Eruhaben’s

“Are you okay, Eruhaben-nim?”

sounded so bad

“Huff. Huff.”

ancient Dragon could not

couldn’t help but look at the heavily breathing Dragon with cracks on its

– Crown prince.

Eruhaben’s calm voice in

Do I just

of

is nothing I

was praising his

“Haaaaaaaa.”

Alberu’s gaze changed.

looking at me the

his eyes enough to see Alberu who was right

didn’t care and put his hand on Eruhaben’s forehead. He then mumbled

completely out of it. He does seem to be

– What?

you cannot

– …Ho.

chills after

‘What chilling acting skills.’

most theatre actors look

the help of his mother’s family while hiding the fact that he

internally when he

just stay here and pretend you

– Got it.

raised his

Eruhaben-nim’s breathing

laid there without doing anything. Alberu

highness! May I

snapped out of her thoughts

and turned around. He then gave an order to the

a nearby temple

the Dragon. Multiple mages immediately took out video communication devices and started casting

his head and started talking to himself as if it

enough. The Saint,

around him nodded their

a Dragon… Maybe the Saint would be able to do

should personally

noticed Lock approaching

“Your highness.”

Alberu. Alberu quickly put his hand

that the Tiger tribe and the

will protect him so that nobody

toward a Wolf elder who nodded his head

leave it

whispered as he walked past Lock, and

will make it so that nobody can get close

hesitated for a moment

“…The Young master-nim…”

Alberu turned toward Lock.

your highness. Please,

anything else. Alberu didn’t ask anything else and just looked over Lock’s shoulder to the ancient

about me. I

any relief after hearing

worry, your highness. We can save

mouth went up after hearing Lock’s voice that

knew where

at Eruhaben and looked up at the

half-blood and Choi Han were up in the

wanted to come down as well, but someone needed to look as if they were staying guarded against the Lion Dragon. For the White Star and

and go. Mary was on one of her flying skeleton monsters as she moved toward

half-blood, Mary,

able to prepare for

“I should hurry.”

Hall as if

planning on chatting with

“Your highness-”

him

“…Duke.”

It was Duke Deruth.

had an unknown sense of nervousness. Alberu looked at him with

hope you

have

connected to Earth was with Cale. Furthermore, Cale’s body was in a

Duke Deruth who had come all