Trash of the Count's Family

TCF2 - 2

Ash-colored light was shooting up to the clear sky.

“Let’s go.”

Alberu stepped off the roof without any hesitation. Mana was roaring around him.

“Mm.”

Alberu turned his head.

- Hey crown prince! I’ll take care of all the magic! You just do whatever you feel like doing!

Alberu was about to use flight magic but Raon was one step ahead of him and got everybody into the air. He thanked toward an empty spot in the air and started moving toward the King's Palace.

“Identify yourselves!”

Someone shot up into the air at that moment.

It was a royal mage.

“Y, your highness!”

He recognized Alberu, Cale, and Choi Han and urgently rushed over. The mage seemed happy to see them although there was an indescribable sense of misery and guilt on his face.

The Roan Kingdom's capital.

The King's Palace, which was located at the center of the Roan kingdom's royal palace, was completely destroyed.

This made no sense at all.

“I'm sorry, your highness.”

“Report in first.”

Alberu slightly flinched at Alberu's calm demeanor before starting his report as they all moved toward the King's Palace.

“There was a continuous chain of large explosions before all the pillars crumbled instantly and the King's Palace fell.”

“Ah.”

Choi Han gasped. All of the pillars in the King's Palace broke at the same time. He knew what that meant.

Alberu opened and closed his mouth a few times before finally commenting.

“...I guess not many people would have managed to evacuate.”

“...We are currently looking for and rescuing missing people and gathering the corpses.”

In addition to the guards, there were a lot of people, such as attendants and individuals in charge of many things, working in the King's Palace. This palace had a lot more people than the other palaces as this was where the king resided.

Cale looked down and inspected the area.

“There were no signs at all?”

Alberu asked in a dry voice and the mage quickly stated the things he knew.

“The Magic Department detected a strong mana fluctuation as soon as we heard the explosions, your highness. However, we did not detect any signs of magic anywhere, including the palace’s defensive walls, before or after that.”

There were no screams coming from the palace right now.

People were gathered in groups urgently moving around.

“Anything aside from the magical signs?”

“Young lady Orsena requested an audience with his Majesty in the King's Palace one hour prior to the explosion.”

"And?”

“The King's Palace crumbled immediately after young lady Orsena left.”

"And?”

“Young lady Orsena is now missing.”

Alberu turned his head to observe the mage.

“...Nobody was keeping an eye on her?”

The heir of a Duchy had visited the royal palace.”

“We had people watching her, your highness.”

“But?”

“They said that she suddenly disappeared.”

Alberu’s eyebrows slightly rose up and Cale turned to look at the mage.

The mage gulped before continuing on.

“It was not magic, your highness.”

“It was not magic but she teleported?”

“Yes, your highness.”

Cale had seen someone teleport without using magic before.

During the Sloth test when he was facing the illusions in the sealed god’s temple... Cale and Choi Jung Gun had met the Hunters, Jung Yi-Rang and Park So Jin.

‘Take this offering of karma.’

Hunter Jung Yi-Rang had disappeared instantly even though no magic was used.

“How did she teleport?”

"That is something I do not know-”

This mage did not have much authority.

Alberu looked down.

“I guess I can hear about it down there.”

Alberu made eye contact with the second prince.

- We're heading down.

Their bodies descended down after Raon made that comment.

The destroyed King's Palace...

Pss.

stepped on the debris from a destroyed pillar

“Your highness! Commander-nim!”

Alberu and Cale. However, there were a lot of people who were so busy that they

the large ones

injured

they were up in

first! This person's lung

no feeling

was a horrible

is the Roan

Choi Han looked forward.

had completely crumbled resembled a large hill. It was completely destroyed so that it

a body over here! It seems to be

Han saw a limp arm visible through the

Alberu did not turn away from

prince did not

you evacuate

the crown prince's question with a tired look

third prince is on

“Your highness!”

the Mage Brigade, who had been at the palace, immediately

“Report in first.”

“Yes sir!”

mage was completely covered in

move the structural debris little by little but the speed

could not hold in his

large-scale spell to

who recognized Choi

debris and people if we use such a spell. Furthermore, we may place any survivors inside in danger or lose some vital clues from the scene if we did not carefully

toward

spell to detect any living beings starting from

was destroyed

hill of crumbled debris of the King's

opened them back, and addressed the second

care of things

“Then I-”

guards and check the barrier side. I need you to take

the palace to the second prince. Even if he was only giving some royal guards, it meant that he was

the meaning of such

me to

“Yes.”

prince was silent for a moment before

“Okay. I understand... hyung-nim.”

the second prince addressed him and then

“I trust you.”

prince bowed and quickly

to have completely accepted Alberu as the crown prince and

he was

will do it, your

Cale stepped forward.

Oooooong-- oooooong--

started to rumble

the hell? Is it

is magic! The whole area might crumble if

“...It’s the Commander-nim though?”

“Huh?”

seems to have come with his

frantically

guess

‘Is it possible?’

any of the debris surrounding

rocks responded to

done things like this quite often in

more protecting than

the ground and made from rocks

his hand out toward

pile of rocks that had lost

Boooooooom-

ground started to rumble with Cale

“...Ah.”

of the attendants, who had been moving

Crack.

with the small

mined in the mines started to rise up

"Everybody stop your spells!”

the Mage Brigade shouted and people started to

they were standing on

‘Cale-nim.’

was looking at

focused than ever

‘This is harder.’

Choi Han knew it.

your powers to do something

“The pillar!”

"Finally......!”

people watching clenched

10 largest pillars of all pillars that had supported the King's Palace... Nine of those

This is enough to speed

shouted toward Cale in

a survivor over

“Over here as well!”

his head

fine to rescue

nodded his head and immediately raised his hand to

“Resume the search!”

of moving things! Don’t overdo

before the debris, pillars, and piece of the roof that were floating in

Boom! Boom! Boom!

were loud noises as the pillars were placed in the rear garden as if

“T, this-”

had seen Cale and the others moving through the sky or had heard information from the site at the King's Palace shouted to inform the shocked

highness came with

are pillars from the King's Palace! His highness

about Alberu and Cale’s arrival was spreading throughout

on their faces relaxed a

on the faces of the people at the site of the King's Palace was stiffer

“...Too many-”

“Stop there.”

a junior knight

what the other knight was about

Too many people died.

were blanking out while looking at the signs of people who had tried their best to escape, flailing around to survive. They blanked out looking at the pale faces of people they had greeted just a

more miserable at the bottom of the hill of

“Your highness.”

Mage Brigade quickly followed behind the walking