Trash of the Count's Family

TCF2-32

"What is this?”

Cale quickly scanned the note Mary handed him.

“The First Imperial Prince handed it to me a few moments ago as he walked past.”

- Human! The First Imperial Prince hit Mary’s shoulder as he walked past when he gave this to her! He hit it very hard! Of course, our good little Mary didn't even twitch at such a hit!

Cale did not let Raon's comments in one ear and out the other ear for once. He made sure to remember what Raon said as he scanned the note.

< All of the necromancers who lose the candidate test die as humans. However, they are reborn as something that is not human. >

< Those things that are reborn are still able to use a portion of their necromancer abilities. >

< The Emperor controls those necromancers. >

< The Emperor is their host. >

The note did not end there.

“Mm.”

Eruhaben, who had been standing behind Cale as he read through the note written on the cloth with blood, groaned.

< My goal is to make sure that every single necromancer participating in this test dies. >

“Meeeeeow.”

On and Hong in their cat forms approached Cale from the darkness.

“Mm. Cale.”

Eruhaben started to speak.

"If the contents of this note are true, it sounds like someone is trying to kill all of the candidates except the First Imperial Prince in order to turn them into undeads that are his loyal subordinates.”

It was obvious who that someone was.

“Cale, this is probably why the House of Huayans has been the instructor for generations.”

Cale did not say anything to oppose Eruhaben’s words. In fact, he showed his agreement through silence.

‘The Emperor is dying.’

After learning about the Emperor’s condition, Cale had looked into the lifespan of the past Emperors before leaving the capital.

‘They lived decently long lives before they died.’

For the past 300 years, every Emperor had lived a decent amount of time in other people's eyes.

Basically, there were no instances of short or long lives.

It might seem like nothing much but it could be quite meaningful when considering the fact that the current Emperor was dying.

‘...The Emperor is the only candidate who survives and turns the other candidates into undeads that are in his control.’

And...

‘The Emperor changes at a set period of time.’

In addition, the current Emperor was dying.

What if all of this was being controlled by someone from the shadows?

‘The Emperor's instructor.’

The House of Huayans.

‘Basically, it is highly likely that the Black Bloods are the real rulers of the Empire.’

It was quite possible that they were controlling everything from the shadows.

“The Emperor should be strong. It sounds like he will be controlling quite a large army.”

Cale nodded his head at Eruhaben’s comment.

The Emperor controlled necromancer undeads. Those undeads then controlled skeletons.

Furthermore, the Emperor himself was a skilled necromancer.

“...It will be quite the large army as you mentioned, Eruhaben-nim.”

An army of the dead that is.

“Young master-nim.”

Mary started to speak at that moment.

“It sounds like the First Imperial Prince is planning on killing all of the candidates including himself.”

Cale nodded his head.

< My goal is to make sure that every single necromancer participating in this test dies. >

Every single one.

That meant that he was including himself.

“The First Imperial Prince wasn’t a puppet either.”

The corners of Cale’s lips twisted up. Mary spoke in a calm voice at the same time.

"The First Imperial Prince's goal will fail.”

Eruhaben responded with a satisfied look on his face.

"Why? Because you will stop him, Mary?”

“Yes Eruhaben-nim. That is correct.”

There was a strong gust of wind at that moment.

The whole group looked in that direction for a moment.

Shaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-

A white bone dragon with broken parts and many cracked bones flew up to the sky and flapped its wings.

The gust of wind was caused by the bone dragon flying up above Precinct 9.

“The tree roots have been defeated.”

head

see Choi Han and Sui Khan walking toward

he could see Marquis Helson heading toward the

It looked like he was going into the castle earlier but now, mm, well, his expression makes it look like

was by the

Marquis Helson grabbed his arm. On the other hand, Marquis Helson had a bright smile on his face as he patted the First Imperial Prince's

Imperial Prince's arm after moving to

“Marquis-nim!”

“No need for greetings.”

Marquis stopped people

for the troops in Precinct

right now and enter a state

Helson opened his

be spread

Imperial

shared the information about the large tree monster. People's faces stiffened as

are not multiple monsters but all parts of a single

Imperial Princess is talented! But her team has all perished while she came back alone in critical

people who were whispering stopped after hearing the last thing

that monster is aiming for our

erosion of land as long as possible

it was

was not trying to erode the land

was simply wandering

was even

them even

“We are the wall.”

Helson continued

the last line of

The soldiers’ faces stiffened.

soldiers living in the edge precinct knew that they would die

here despite

smiled after seeing that his numerous allies were looking right at

the people guarding the

was not those bastards of

continued to

“We exist to defend.”

ground... From the

Marquis Helson’s

me

that the person with the power

defense is a

of the alley and looking at Marquis Helson, all

- That’s right!

extremely enthusiastic support

elite group of people to go kill

around him looked

don't worry about the protection of

on, as if he knew what they were concerned

plan on creating this team of elites from people who are not part of

as scouts would be

Defense and reconnaissance...

the reconnaissance side, these scouts were all skilled. Of course, the defense side had more of

of the wall was the core

be difficult to even face a portion of the

Marquis Helson turned around.

with the First

First Imperial Prince’s eyes opened wide as if he realized

wish to ask

with his hand and Mary walked out of

Helson continued to

with strong abilities

the First Imperial Prince. He spoke formally toward whom he had

us. Your Royal

Prince's pupils

of Cale’s lips curled

then bowed toward the other candidates around

ask the other candidate-nims for your assistance as well. This is for the Empire. The entire western part of

For the Empire...

justify his request toward the candidates who dreamed of becoming the

“...Marquis Helson.”

the moment the First Imperial Prince started

“I will help.”

Tap.

jumped off the roof of

extremely strong abilities and the ever so rare sword

them

atmosphere around them

had been treating the tree roots as if

felt as if Marquis Helson was not

“Your Royal Highness.”

that this was the moment the purifier had mentioned and started the

the esteemed Dragon be

“Ah.”

heard

have

is nothing

around the people

Highness. We should be able to protect the western part

turned to look at the First Imperial

who didn't want to die all looked toward the First Imperial Prince as

The extinct Dragons...

guardians of the world and the

toward

“Please, your Royal Highness.”

Helson, the Margrave of the west, bowed extremely respectfully

First Imperial Prince would lose all face if he

many eyes

Human, you

corners of Cale’s lips curled

Cale, then are the two of us going to follow them

head at Eruhaben’s

were not included in the ‘black tree attack

Mary and Choi Han would be a part

in a

The First Imperial Prince will have to join this attack team if he wishes to be

course, he might not participate for his own

least the ‘Dragon’ will have to join the attack team. He couldn’t lose all face if he wanted to be

Cale

human both had big smiles

on capturing

calmly nodded

Kahahaha! Are we finally going to destroy

the monster