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.”

slightly nodded his head as Mary’s

Choi Han and Sui

he could see Marquis Helson heading

him too! It looked like he was going into the castle earlier but now,

First Imperial Prince was by

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

go of the First Imperial Prince's arm after moving to a spot where

“Marquis-nim!”

“No need for greetings.”

people from

troops in Precinct 9

max right now

opened

would soon be spread throughout Precinct 9

is information Imperial

about the large tree monster. People's faces stiffened as they heard

not multiple monsters but all parts

the Second Imperial Princess is talented! But her team has all perished while she came back

who were whispering stopped after hearing the last thing

monster is aiming for our

the pollution and erosion of land as long as possible

was different this

not trying to erode the land or take away the Empire’s

simply wandering around looking

was even

even if they ran

“We are the wall.”

continued

are the last line of

The soldiers’ faces stiffened.

edge precinct knew that they would

of them stayed here despite

were looking right at him despite feeling

truly the

was not those bastards of the

Helson continued to

“We exist to defend.”

black ground... From the

Helson’s face became

told me the

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

is a

hiding in the shadow of the alley and looking at Marquis Helson, all looked toward

- That’s right!

enthusiastic support for

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

around

about the

immediately added on, as if he knew what they

from people who are not part of the

that people who usually served as scouts would be included in this team

Defense and reconnaissance...

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

wall was the core reason for their

a portion of

Marquis Helson turned around.

with the

opened wide

I wish to

and Mary walked out of the

continued

people with strong abilities

he had not been

us.

Prince's

corners of Cale’s lips

then bowed toward the other candidates around him as

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

For the Empire...

the dagger to justify his request toward the candidates who dreamed

“...Marquis Helson.”

the moment the First Imperial Prince

“I will help.”

Tap.

the roof of a building and

strong abilities and

two of them

around

who had been treating the tree roots as if they were nothing much had stepped

Marquis Helson was not being ridiculous with

“Your Royal Highness.”

this was the moment the purifier had mentioned and

esteemed Dragon be

“Ah.”

heard around

right! We have the esteemed

yes, there is nothing stronger than a

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 western part of the Empire if you, the greatest talent of the Imperial family, the Dragon-nim, and young

to look at the First Imperial Prince after

want to die all looked toward the

The extinct Dragons...

guardians of the world and the strongest creatures

expectation toward the strength of such

“Please, your Royal Highness.”

the Margrave of the west, bowed extremely respectfully one more time

Prince would lose all face if he

many eyes

Human, you look

of Cale’s lips curled

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

his head at

the ‘black tree

Choi Han would

in a

to join this attack team if he wishes to be

course, he might not participate for his own safety,

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

Cale made eye

both had big smiles on

planning on

calmly nodded his

we finally going

monster as the cheapskate