Trash of the Count's Family

On, Hong, and Raon’s eyes opened wide. The children averaging nine-years-old subconsciously looked toward Cale’s back. They were receiving some good news in the middle of the battle.

“Hooooo. That was faster than I expected.”

The fake Hilsman also seemed a bit shocked as he looked at Cale’s back.

They had located Duke Deruth earlier than he had expected.

They then heard Cale’s voice as he calmly started speaking without turning around.

“…You believe you located it?”

Beacrox and Lock couldn’t help but flinch, even though Cale’s tone was not a scolding one.

“It is not the actual location but a hypothesis?”

“That is right, young master-nim.”

Beacrox, whose expression had quickly turned back to normal, gave a short explanation about what had happened.

“The Molan Household was investigating different parts of Puzzle City when my father suddenly felt an abnormal breeze and moved in that direction.”

“Breeze?”

The fake Hilsman tilted his head, but the children averaging nine-years-old nodded their heads with sparkles in their eyes.

“We followed the direction of the breeze and found a house. The breeze did not leave that area.”

The breeze that brushed around Ron… That was created by a Wind Elemental.

Cale was capable of communicating with the Wind Elementals with his golden top’s whip.

However, other people could not communicate with the Wind Elementals even if they held this golden top’s whip. But the Wind Elementals had a way of leading people without using speech.

That medium was the wind.

The Wind Elementals had thoroughly searched every nook and corner of Puzzle City. They led Ron, the human holding the top’s whip, to the suspicious location as soon as they found it.

“So, did you find it, Mr. Beacrox?”

Lock anxiously asked Beacrox.

“No. We located the house, but we are currently observing it from a distance.”

“…Ah.”

Lock nodded his head as if he understood.

‘It is the right decision to proceed extremely cautiously if Duke Deruth-nim is really imprisoned in that house.’

Beacrox’s gaze that had been stuck on Lock for a moment headed toward Cale’s back. He could see Cale’s hand slowly moving.

Baaaaaang— baaaaang!

Loud explosions rang out every time he moved his hand and rocks turned into dust. Beacrox quietly observed Cale’s back as Cale stood there without saying anything else before he started walking.

He walked brusquely until he stopped right next to Cale.

‘…I knew it would be like this.’

Drip.

He could see drops of sweat on Cale’s forehead dripping down his face. More beads of sweat were forming one by one as well.

“My job is done in about fifteen more minutes.”

Beacrox frowned after hearing what Cale was saying while looking like this. He then noticed Cale’s hand that had a handkerchief wrapped around it like a bandage.

The handkerchief was full of dark red dried blood. Beacrox did not like it, although the injury on Cale’s palm seemed to have closed.

‘In some ways, he really is trash.’

The way he did not listen to the people around him telling him to stop getting hurt and to take better care of himself was the same stubborn kid who acted like trash in the past.

“I think you can turn the mana disturbance off now, nya!”

Raon added to Hong’s comment.

“That’s right! Human, let’s turn the mana disturbance tool off, and then I will stop that monster with my magic!”

“I’m not so sure.”

It was rare to see Cale stall like this without giving a direct response.

“…It will be quite troublesome if the bastards who messed with my father run off.”

It would be very troublesome.

He wanted to save his father and capture all of these abductors.

“But there’s still no reason to push yourself too hard, nya.”

Cale looked down after hearing a voice.

On, who had walked up to his feet at some point, smiled at him. The silver kitten’s gold eyes were calm.

Tap, tap.

On tapped Cale’s leg with her front paw before pointing to the side.

“It is over here, young master-nim.”

Beacrox handed the golden top’s whip in his hand to Cale.

“…You brought this with you?”

“My father told me to do so.”

Beacrox repeated Ron’s message word for word.

“I cannot hear the voices of the Elementals, so I can only hypothesize that the location the Elementals told us about is the right place. I am sending this with my son as you may hear something else from the Elementals since you can speak to them, young master-nim.”

The hand wrapped in a handkerchief grabbed the golden top’s whip without any hesitation.

Cale felt a breeze brush past him at that moment. He then heard multiple voices.

‘Cale Henituse, we found some houses! The wind flows underground through all those houses!’

‘Cale, long time no see! Anyway, each house has a door leading underground.’

“…Many houses?”

took Ron to just one

then heard

The house with a

clouded over at

A teleportation magic circle.

that where you

at him weird even though he seemed to be talking to himself. It was only the fake Hilsman who looked at him

That’s right. We could sense movement underground in every house with an underground passage. We tried to infiltrate it but felt as

“Why?”

the Elementals

are hostages by the

There are other

others, who had remained quiet as Cale chatted with the Elementals, started

do you

do you mean by other

“Hold on.”

see that one corner of Cale’s lips twisted up as he did that. But they could also

Wind Elemental shouted in an extremely

Dark Elves! They seemed to be Dark Elves from the Endable Kingdom! They left them to guard the entrances so

Oh, I saw some Bears too! They peeked out of the underground entrances to look outside for a moment and

subordinate, Bear King Sayeru, had yet to be

as he remembered something from

summoning ritual for the unranked monsters at the Endable

have belonged to the Dark Elves the Bear King had

“…They’re literally the worst.”

not kill some of those Dark Elves and was using them

guarding the doors will be the first to die if we locate them and attack. The Bears would retreat while

It was obvious.

in the eyes of those Dark Elves… they… they seemed

I keep keep keep being angry! Destruction!

out at all of Puzzle City. His left

Boooooooom-

a rock shield blocked the dark red light

CRUMBLE-!

quite a lot of dust on their hair and

rocks broke than I expected.

Cale started to frown.

the Lion Dragon

Stage three.

physical

of them was the Dragon Breath-like power it used

other power started from the

Tang!

Alberu’s bullet shot out.

was headed toward the Lion Dragon’s now black

Baaaaang!

just tilted its head to

him. Choi

about what Choi Han wanted to

what was in the information we got from

meant that things had

“Beacrox.”

“Yes, young master-nim?”

made eye

Ron about a couple of different places. You go back and inform Ron about what is going

“Yes, sir, I understand.”

to recognize the breeze caused by the Wind Elementals even without the top’s whip. He

Wind Elementals would tell him about would be the houses with the underground passages

“Lock.”

“Yes, sir?”

spare

“Yes, sir. I do.”

started to walk. He patted the now

waiting right now. Attack the place Gashan

“Yes, sir.”

Gashan should be seeing and hearing

soon as you are ready even if the Wolves haven’t arrived.

“I understand.”

back toward the

Swoooooooosh-

at his

“On and Hong.”

the whirlwinds gathering at their feet for a moment before

you come

“That sounds great, nya!”

think I know what

the black Dragon

“And Raon.”

you need

we originally planned on

eyes clouded over

originally planned

“Yes.”

Deruth was abducted.

you going to release

“Soon.”

toward Beacrox as he

see Duchess

“Okay.”

immediately stepped onto the window ledge after hearing Beacrox’s response. On and Hong followed behind him as Cale addressed the people

Wind Elementals will follow all

golden top’s whip was sparkling in his

will come and let me know when you are all

moment he sends that

suppress the Bears waiting in

would be for about

And during that minute…

“Raon.”

Smirk.

corners of both Cale and Raon’s lips curled

the only place where mana was still stable… This place where

that was covered in all sorts of magic

to do here

strong

last thing as he

“See you all later.”

the window. The wind guided him to where he wanted

the

Tap. Tap.

jumped from roof to roof to move

“On. Hong.”