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.

from a

“Your highness! Commander-nim!”

were a lot of people who were so busy that they didn’t even notice

the large

injured

did not seem very rowdy when they were up in the sky, but the ground was covered

come this way first! This person's lung

person has no

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

over here! It seems

Han saw a limp arm visible through the debris

Cale and Alberu did not turn away from the

did not even greet

you evacuate

the crown prince's question with a tired look

third prince is on

“Your highness!”

had been at

“Report in first.”

“Yes sir!”

mage was completely

magic to move the structural debris little by little but the speed is

could not hold in his

use a large-scale spell to move all of the debris

recognized Choi Han,

difficult 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

toward Alberu

using a spell to detect any living beings starting from his Majesty’s

was destroyed

King's Palace...

for a moment, opened them back, and addressed

take care of

“Then I-”

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

if he was only giving some royal guards, it meant that he was giving

who knew the meaning of

want me to

“Yes.”

a

“Okay. I understand... hyung-nim.”

prince addressed him and then turned

“I trust you.”

second prince bowed and quickly

accepted Alberu as the crown prince and

he was looking

will do it, your

Cale stepped forward.

Oooooong-- oooooong--

ground started to rumble with Cale at

hell? Is

is magic! The whole area might crumble if

“...It’s the Commander-nim though?”

“Huh?”

seems to have

been frantically

guess it’s my

‘Is it possible?’

won't touch any of

rocks responded to Cale's

done things like this quite often in the

Super Rock did more protecting than destroying and

King's Palace is something made from the ground and made from

his hand out toward the King's

that had lost its

Boooooooom-

ground started to rumble with Cale at the

“...Ah.”

had been moving a destroyed piece

Crack.

with the small

materials mined in the

"Everybody stop your spells!”

Mage Brigade shouted and people started to move

on started

‘Cale-nim.’

Han was looking

more focused

‘This is harder.’

Choi Han knew it.

control your powers to

“The pillar!”

"Finally......!”

people watching clenched their

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

is enough, sir! This is enough to speed up the

shouted toward Cale

a survivor over

“Over here as well!”

turned his

rescue them now,

and immediately raised his hand

“Resume the search!”

Human, I'll take care of moving things!

into Cale's mind before the debris, pillars, and piece of the roof that were floating in the air moved

Boom! Boom! Boom!

the rear garden as if they were stabbed into

“T, this-”

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

came with the

are pillars from the King's Palace! His highness is here! Tell people that the

Alberu and Cale’s arrival was spreading throughout

faces relaxed a bit after hearing that

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

“...Too many-”

“Stop there.”

a

could anticipate what the other knight was

Too many people died.

their best to escape, flailing around to survive. They blanked out looking at the pale faces

bottom of the hill of the

“Your highness.”

of the Mage Brigade quickly followed behind