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.”

nodded his head as

and Sui

he could see Marquis Helson heading toward the

him too! It looked like he was going into the castle earlier but now, mm, well, his expression makes it look like he’s being forced to go

First Imperial Prince was by the

the other hand, Marquis Helson had a bright smile on his face as he patted the

Helson let go of the First Imperial Prince's arm after moving to a spot where quite a lot

“Marquis-nim!”

“No need for greetings.”

Marquis stopped people

troops in Precinct 9 were gathered

the warning level to max right now and enter a state of

opened his

spread

information Imperial Princess

the large tree monster. People's faces stiffened

large roots are not multiple monsters but all parts

goodness, everybody knows that the Second Imperial Princess is talented! But her team has all perished while she came back

people who were whispering stopped after hearing the last

our lives. It

to prevent the pollution and erosion of land as long as possible and stop mutant monsters

it was different

not trying to erode the land or take away the

simply wandering around looking

that was

even

“We are the wall.”

continued to

the last

The soldiers’ faces stiffened.

living in the edge precinct knew that they would

here despite knowing that

smiled after seeing that his numerous allies were looking right at him despite feeling fear

truly the people

bastards

Helson continued

“We exist to defend.”

the black ground... From the mutant

Helson’s face

told me the

recalled the plan that the person with the power of a god had created

is a preemptive

Mary, On, and Hong, who were hiding in the shadow of

- That’s right!

an extremely enthusiastic

now select an elite group of people to go kill what we will call the

people around

don't worry about the protection

if he knew what

this team of elites from people who

people who usually served as scouts would

Defense and reconnaissance...

were all skilled.

was the core reason for

to even face a portion of the

Marquis Helson turned around.

contact with

Imperial Prince’s eyes opened wide as

I wish to ask

and Mary walked out

Helson continued to

are many people with strong abilities

toward the First Imperial Prince. He spoke formally toward whom he had not been speaking formally to because he was treated as

help us. Your Royal

Prince's pupils started

corners of Cale’s lips curled

Helson then bowed toward the other

is for the Empire. The entire

For the Empire...

the dagger to justify his request toward the candidates who dreamed of

“...Marquis Helson.”

forward the moment the First

“I will help.”

Tap.

of a building and stood behind

abilities and the ever so rare

of them had joined the

around them

treating the tree roots as if

Marquis Helson was not being

“Your Royal Highness.”

the purifier had mentioned and

esteemed Dragon be able to

“Ah.”

heard around

right! We have the esteemed

there is nothing stronger than a

the people started to heat

heard that young lady Huayans is quite skilled as well, your Royal Highness. We should be able to protect the

look at the First

to die all

The extinct Dragons...

guardians of

were all full of expectation toward the strength of such

“Please, your Royal Highness.”

the Margrave of the west, bowed extremely respectfully

Imperial Prince would lose all face if

too many eyes

you

of Cale’s

then are the two of us going to follow them

his head at Eruhaben’s

included in the ‘black tree attack team’ Marquis Helson was

and Choi Han would be

spoke in a

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

not participate for his

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

Cale

and the human both

planning on capturing the First Imperial

nodded

finally going to destroy

would destroy the monster as