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 on the

“Your highness! Commander-nim!”

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

the large ones

injured

not seem very rowdy when they were up

first! This

person has no

was a

the

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 and weird now that they were

here! It seems to be an

a limp arm visible through

not turn

and the second prince did not even

evacuate

prince's question with a tired look

third prince is on it,

“Your highness!”

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

“Report in first.”

“Yes sir!”

middle-aged mage was completely

debris little by

not hold in his

large-scale spell to

Choi Han,

such a spell. Furthermore, we may place any survivors inside in danger or lose some vital clues from

mage turned toward Alberu

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

was destroyed the

the King's Palace... The king’s dwelling place was

closed his eyes for a moment, opened them

care of

“Then I-”

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

defense of the palace to the second prince. Even if he was only

prince, who knew the meaning

me to

“Yes.”

prince was silent for a moment before he bowed his

“Okay. I understand... hyung-nim.”

the second prince addressed

“I trust you.”

bowed and quickly

have completely accepted Alberu as the crown prince and the

for Alberu, he was looking at

will do it, your

Cale stepped forward.

Oooooong-- oooooong--

rumble

What the hell?

magic! The whole area might crumble if the rumbling goes

“...It’s the Commander-nim though?”

“Huh?”

seems to have come with

who had been frantically

guess

‘Is it possible?’

won't touch any of the debris surrounding injured

responded to

done things like this

the Super Rock did more protecting than destroying and frequently rescued

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

out toward the

that had

Boooooooom-

started to rumble with Cale

“...Ah.”

had been moving a destroyed

Crack.

started with the

by one, the things that were made from materials mined in the mines started to

"Everybody stop your spells!”

the Mage Brigade shouted and people started to move

were standing on started floating up as

‘Cale-nim.’

was

more focused than ever

‘This is harder.’

Choi Han knew it.

more difficult to control your powers

“The pillar!”

"Finally......!”

watching clenched their

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

enough, sir! This is enough to

mage shouted toward

a survivor over

“Over here as well!”

his head toward

fine to rescue them now,

his head and immediately raised his hand to

“Resume the search!”

Human, I'll take care of moving

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

Boom! Boom! Boom!

as the pillars were placed in the rear garden as if they were

“T, this-”

had heard information from the site at the King's Palace shouted to inform the shocked

highness came

from the King's Palace! His highness is here! Tell

Cale’s arrival was spreading throughout the

faces relaxed a bit after

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

“...Too many-”

“Stop there.”

stopped a

what the other knight was about

Too many people died.

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

even more miserable at the bottom of the hill

“Your highness.”

the Mage Brigade quickly followed behind the walking