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.

the debris from a destroyed pillar and

“Your highness! Commander-nim!”

and Cale. However, there were a lot of people who were so busy that they didn’t even notice the two

large ones

an injured

not seem very rowdy when they were up in the sky, but

this way first! This person's lung seems

person has no feeling in their

a

is the

Choi Han looked forward.

that had completely crumbled resembled a large hill. It was completely destroyed so that it held no shape

a body over here! It seems to be

arm visible through the debris and turned his

Cale and Alberu did not turn away from the horrible

prince did

evacuate the

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

third prince is on

“Your highness!”

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

“Report in first.”

“Yes sir!”

middle-aged mage was completely covered

currently using magic to move the structural debris little by little but the speed

not hold

to move all of

recognized Choi Han, shook his

we may place any survivors inside in danger or lose some vital clues from the scene if we did not carefully move

turned toward Alberu and

any living beings starting

was destroyed the

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

his eyes for a moment, opened them back, and addressed

take care

“Then I-”

I need you to take care

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

prince, who knew the meaning of such action, asked

me to do

“Yes.”

prince was silent for a moment before he bowed his

“Okay. I understand... hyung-nim.”

the second prince addressed him and

“I trust you.”

second prince bowed and

accepted Alberu as the crown

he

will do

Cale stepped forward.

Oooooong-- oooooong--

to rumble with Cale at the

hell? Is

them to stop if it is magic! The whole area might crumble if

“...It’s the Commander-nim though?”

“Huh?”

to have

people, who had been frantically

guess it’s my

‘Is it possible?’

of the debris

responded to

done things like this

than destroying and frequently

The King's Palace is something made from the ground and made from rocks in the

hand out toward the

rocks that had lost

Boooooooom-

started to rumble with Cale

“...Ah.”

had been

Crack.

with the small pieces of

were made from materials mined in the mines started

"Everybody stop your spells!”

head of the Mage Brigade shouted and people started

on started floating up

‘Cale-nim.’

was looking at

focused than ever

‘This is harder.’

Choi Han knew it.

difficult to control your powers to do something like this than to destroy

“The pillar!”

"Finally......!”

people watching clenched

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

This is enough to speed up the

toward Cale

a survivor over

“Over here as well!”

turned his head

fine to rescue them now, your

head and immediately raised his hand to

“Resume the search!”

I'll take care of moving

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

Boom! Boom! Boom!

were placed in the rear garden as if they were stabbed into the

“T, this-”

through the sky or had heard information from the site at the King's Palace shouted to

highness came

highness is here! Tell people

and Cale’s arrival was spreading throughout

concern on their faces relaxed a

looks on the faces of the people at the

“...Too many-”

“Stop there.”

knight stopped a

could anticipate what the other knight was about to

Too many people died.

blanking out while looking at the signs of people who had tried their best to escape, flailing around to survive. They blanked out looking

more miserable at the bottom of the hill of the crumbled

“Your highness.”

of the Mage Brigade quickly followed behind