Trash of the Count's Family

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“The concept of white magic here is different from what I know.”

Eruhaben crossed his legs as he spoke in a low voice.

After the issue with the Wall of Purification, they had followed the Pope into a study or office.

Cale’s group members were either sitting on couches and chairs around the room or standing and looking at the map on the table at the center of the room. Their gazes turned toward Eruhaben.

“Usually, white magic is a term given to magic using regular mana and not dead mana in order to differentiate it from black magic. The term is not used very often.”

The ancient Dragon then looked at the Pope who gulped.

‘Why did I not notice it?’

The Pope had not felt the ancient Dragon's presence earlier. However, the ancient Dragon gave off such a large presence once they came into the room and he took off his hood.

‘It is highly likely that he is a Dragon.’

There might be another Dragon in addition to that small and cute black Dragon. This one seemed like a proper adult Dragon as well. The moment the Pope had this hypothesis that was more of a certainty...

She couldn’t help but speak formally to the individual who was speaking informally to her.

“Yes sir, that is true. The basic magic that is used is also called white magic.”

Cale, who was seated next to Eruhaben, was thinking about how the youngest young lady Orsena had shouted, ‘white magic.’

‘Which white magic was she talking about?’

Was the seven year old talking about white magic using regular mana or was she talking about black magic that gave off a holy light?

The Pope continued to speak.

“Even now, that white magic, mm, I will just call white magic using regular mana just ‘magic’ in order to differentiate.”

Cale looked at the map.

The three continents of the Xiaolen World... Most of it was dyed black. The ocean was dyed black as well.

To be more specific, 81.29 percent of it was black as the world informed Cale earlier.

There was less than 20 percent that was maintaining its original color.

“Magic is still surviving through the named mage families. It is a symbol of a family's history and long-standing legitimacy.”

The Pope smiled awkwardly and continued to speak.

“Of course, magic is still used quite often as 20 percent of the lands maintain their functions.”

“How did the world end up like this?”

The Pope stopped talking for a moment at Eruhaben's question. She then let out a short sigh.

“...The land started to become dyed black about 300 years ago.”

“Mm.”

Choi Han groaned.

300 years.

That meant that the world was slowly taken over by dead mana since quite a long time ago.

“The cause?”

The ancient Dragon calmly asked while observing Cale who seemed to be deep in thought. He also looked at the Beast named Sui Khan, who seemed to be just as deep in thought.

However, the ancient Dragon couldn't help but look at the Pope after hearing her response.

"The start was the extinction of the Dragons.”

Boom!

The Pope turned her head after hearing a loud noise. The black Dragon, who was with the two Kittens, had slammed the ground with both front paws. Crack. The temple floor crumbled.

“Extinction?!”

Raon looked at Cale in shock and Cale shook his head.

“Please explain in detail, Pope-nim.”

“Of course, esteemed purifier.”

The Pope continued to speak in a more devoted voice.

“All of the Dragons on the three continents and the oceans died. The humans did not know about this at first. It was rare for humans to ever see Dragons.”

She was right.

Cale was a peculiar case but most humans would usually have no Dragon sightings throughout their lives.

"But one day, there was a sudden incident where a mountain in the center of the continent suddenly sank down.”

“A mountain crumbled?”

It didn't crumble, it sank down.

“Mm.”

and uncrossed

a shaky voice as Cale’s eyes clouded over while

find the humans at that time and informed the humans about the extinction of the

written in the

It described the incident.

some of them were even crying when they came to find the

Tree

out

the purifier’s firm

the world

"Excuse me.”

raised his hand to stop

World Tree an

it come back to life as itself even if it

it

esteemed purifier. Based on the records that were left behind, the Elves said a mysterious existence killed the World Tree and that the representatives of the different races

“Cale-nim.”

Han, who had been

is the same. It is the same

silently nodded his

right.

that the White Star had

of the World

Ah!’

at a badge on his

was in that

black World Tree

‘Mm.’

looked at him wondering what was going on, but... Cale waved them off and

nothing special

quite dark for saying there was nothing

land became taken over by dead mana and the number of creatures dying rose exponentially. A new power started to rise and the power relations were reorganized. I will organize details about that in a document and

Cale nodded his head.

figure out the

20 percent of land that wasn’t dyed in dead

would be the center of

“But excuse me...”

for the first time since coming into this

die once a decent amount of the land was

averaging nine-years-old and

‘They already know.’

about what Shawn was about to say or had quickly realized it at

what Shawn was about

Cale, that Dark Elf

thoughts in

enough dead mana to dye the land, they would have had to kill a lot of living creatures. It would have been similar to how the White Star was using the Mogoru Empire and creating a large amount of dead mana underneath the

Mogoru Empire's Alchemists’ Bell

“First.”

once he started to speak. Cale was still organizing

Hunters messed with the

almost certain about

youngest young lady

top priority

need to visit the

Hong's ears twitched as he tilted

Why visit instead of

nya! That’s weird, nya! It’s weird that you

Pope flinched but Cale

been someone who only

the children averaging nine-years-old nodded their heads

Cale while Mary slowly nodded her

guess we need to go

naturally headed toward the

his gaze as she pointed to

Bloods are called the House of Huayans here and

human's family is a Duke's family

It’s a great family,

Pope stopped for a moment as

is a Duke of another

aside that

of the Imperial Crown Prince's instructor since about

400 years? Others just let that

bitterly at Eruhaben's

House of Huayans has been the Emperor’s instructor but has never sought out any other positions of power. Furthermore, they have the image of trying

made it seem as if there was some story behind it. However, the Pope seemed to have no desire

the Iska Empire's capital. They are right next to the

quietly mumbled as if he was uncertain

difficult

quiet this whole time looked at Cale

It was Sui Khan.

I can search it on

him as if he found this to be odd, but he held back his questions after seeing Choi Han

looked at Sui Khan’s tired smile as if he wasn’t okay with