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.

a destroyed pillar and landed

“Your highness! Commander-nim!”

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

the large ones

an injured

seem very rowdy when they were up in the sky,

way first! This person's lung seems

has no feeling in

a horrible

the Roan

Choi Han looked forward.

completely crumbled resembled a large hill. It was completely destroyed so that it held no shape anymore and the beautiful decorations looked ugly

is a body over here! It

visible through the debris and

Cale and Alberu did not turn

did

you evacuate

second prince responded to the crown prince's question with a

is on it, your

“Your highness!”

Mage Brigade, who had been at the

“Report in first.”

“Yes sir!”

middle-aged mage was completely covered

structural debris little by little but the speed

could not hold in his

large-scale spell to move all of the

recognized Choi

to differentiate between 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 move the structural

turned toward

are currently using a spell to detect any living beings starting from his Majesty’s dwelling.

destroyed the

this hill of crumbled debris of the King's Palace... The king’s

for a moment, opened them back, and addressed

care

“Then I-”

check the barrier side. I need you to take care of figuring out

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

second prince, who knew the meaning of such action,

want me to do

“Yes.”

second prince was silent for a

“Okay. I understand... hyung-nim.”

prince addressed him

“I trust you.”

second prince bowed and quickly started

have completely accepted Alberu as the crown prince and

for Alberu, he was looking at

will do it,

Cale stepped forward.

Oooooong-- oooooong--

rumble with Cale

hell? Is it

it is magic! The whole area might crumble if the rumbling

“...It’s the Commander-nim though?”

“Huh?”

to have come

frantically removing the debris, raised

guess

‘Is it possible?’

of the debris surrounding

rocks responded to

done things like this quite often in

times, the Super Rock did more protecting than destroying and frequently rescued something or

made from the ground and made from rocks

out toward

of rocks that had

Boooooooom-

started to rumble with Cale at the

“...Ah.”

had been moving a destroyed piece of

Crack.

started with the

materials mined in the mines started to rise up

"Everybody stop your spells!”

Mage Brigade shouted

were standing on started floating up as

‘Cale-nim.’

was looking

seemed more focused than

‘This is harder.’

Choi Han knew it.

was more difficult to control your powers

“The pillar!”

"Finally......!”

watching clenched their

pillars of all pillars that had supported the

sir! This is enough to speed

shouted toward Cale

is a survivor over

“Over here as well!”

his head toward

to rescue them now, your

and immediately raised his

“Resume the search!”

care of moving things!

pillars, and piece of the roof that were floating in the air moved to

Boom! Boom! Boom!

loud noises as the pillars were placed in the

“T, this-”

had heard information from the site at

highness came with

the King's Palace! His highness is here! Tell people that the Commander-nim

arrival was spreading throughout the

fear, and concern on their faces relaxed a bit after

people at the site of the King's Palace

“...Too many-”

“Stop there.”

knight stopped a junior knight

the other knight was about to

Too many people died.

best to escape, flailing around to survive. They blanked out

was even more miserable at the bottom of the hill of

“Your highness.”

the Mage Brigade quickly followed behind