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?”

sir. It didn't crumble, it

“Mm.”

groaned and

voice as Cale’s eyes

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

was written in the records of

It described the incident.

some of them were even crying when they

Tree has

out a deep

the purifier’s firm gaze

is what the Elves said and the world

"Excuse me.”

to stop her

World Tree an

to life as itself

that why it continues its

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

“Cale-nim.”

had been quietly listening, started

the same. It is the same as the

silently nodded his

right. The pattern

was that the White

the Elves to get the branch of the World Tree. This might have been just one step in eventually killing the World Tree. ‘Those bastards even made a fake World Tree

Ah!’

looked down at a badge

fake tree was in

black

‘Mm.’

on his face and his long-time friends, who recognized it, looked at him wondering what was

nothing special

was quite dark for saying there was nothing

dead mana and the number of creatures dying rose exponentially. A new power started to rise and the power relations

Cale nodded his head.

basically figure out the

land that wasn’t dyed in dead mana

places would be the

“But excuse me...”

spoke for the first time since coming

naturally appear as a lot of creatures would die once a decent amount of the land was taken over by dead mana, but,

children averaging nine-years-old and stopped talking.

‘They already know.’

were already thinking about what Shawn was about to say or had quickly realized it at what he

what Shawn was

that Dark

shared his thoughts in Cale’s

creatures. It would have

of the Mogoru Empire's Alchemists’ Bell Tower had

“First.”

he started to speak. Cale was still organizing

with the

was almost certain about

lady Orsena

the top priority

to visit the Black

his head in confusion. Hong's ears twitched as he tilted his head to the side

Why visit instead of

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

but Cale

ever been someone who

the children averaging nine-years-old nodded their heads as

Choi Han smiled innocently like Cale while Mary

I guess we need to go where the

headed toward the Iska Empire

noticed his gaze as she pointed to

Black Bloods are called the House of Huayans here and they

is a Duke's family

It’s a great

a moment as Raon commented and Hong

purifier is a

that question

House of Huayans has held the position of the Imperial Crown Prince's instructor since about 400 years

400 years? Others just let

smiled bitterly at

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

there was some story behind it. However, the Pope seemed to have no desire to explain

The House of Huayans is located in the Iska Empire's capital. They are right next to

mumbled as if he was uncertain about this

difficult to

had been quiet this whole

It was Sui Khan.

okay with it, I can search

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

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