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.”

his head as

Han and Sui

Marquis Helson heading toward the

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

First Imperial Prince was

confused look on his face as 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 shoulder in a friendly

after moving to a

“Marquis-nim!”

“No need for greetings.”

stopped people from

key personnel for the troops in Precinct

the warning level to max right now and enter

opened

be spread throughout Precinct 9 by

is information Imperial Princess

the information about the large tree monster.

roots are not multiple monsters but all parts

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

were whispering stopped after hearing the last thing

our lives. It wants

9 was to prevent the pollution and erosion of land as

it was

was not trying to erode the land or take away

simply wandering

was even

follow them even if they

“We are the wall.”

continued

the last

The soldiers’ faces stiffened.

in the edge precinct

them stayed here despite knowing

Margrave smiled after seeing that his numerous allies were looking

truly the

was not those bastards

continued to

“We exist to defend.”

black ground... From

Marquis Helson’s

me the

recalled the plan that the person with the

is a

and Hong, who were hiding in the shadow of the alley and looking at

- That’s right!

showed an extremely enthusiastic support for

an elite group of people to go kill what we will call the black tree

around him

don't worry about the protection of the

added on, as if he knew what

this team of elites from people who are not part of the

who usually served as scouts

Defense and reconnaissance...

were a lot less people on the reconnaissance side, these scouts were all skilled. Of course,

defense of the wall was the core reason for their

even face a

Marquis Helson turned around.

eye contact with the First

Prince’s eyes opened wide as if he

why I wish to ask for

hand and Mary walked

Helson continued

many people with strong abilities here

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

us.

Prince's pupils

corners of Cale’s lips

toward the other candidates around him

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

For the Empire...

Helson had quite the dagger to justify his request toward

“...Marquis Helson.”

moment the

“I will help.”

Tap.

off the roof of a building and

and the ever

them had joined the

around them

people who had been treating the tree roots as if

Helson

“Your Royal Highness.”

Helson knew that this was the moment the purifier had mentioned and started the first

the esteemed Dragon be able to help

“Ah.”

heard around the

We have

yes, there is nothing stronger

air around the people started to heat

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

look at the First

die all

The extinct Dragons...

to be the guardians of the world

full of expectation toward the strength of such

“Please, your Royal Highness.”

Helson, the Margrave of the west, bowed extremely respectfully one more time in front of

Prince would lose all face if

too many eyes looking at

Human, you

Cale’s lips

then are the two of us going

his head at Eruhaben’s

the ‘black tree attack

the other hand, Mary and Choi Han would be a

spoke in

have to join this attack team if he

participate for his

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

and Cale made eye

human both had

planning on capturing the First Imperial

nodded his

we finally going to destroy that

monster as