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 Mary’s

Han and Sui Khan walking

he could see Marquis Helson heading toward the

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

was

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

arm after moving to a

“Marquis-nim!”

“No need for greetings.”

Marquis stopped people from

in Precinct

right now

Helson opened his

spread throughout Precinct 9

Imperial

tree monster. People's faces stiffened as they

are not multiple monsters but all parts of a

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

stopped after hearing

is aiming for our lives.

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

it was

monster was not trying to erode the land or take

simply wandering around

was even

would follow them even if they

“We are the wall.”

Helson continued to

the last line

The soldiers’ faces stiffened.

the edge precinct knew that they

despite knowing that was the

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

are truly the people guarding the

those bastards

continued to

“We exist to defend.”

the black ground... From

smile on Marquis Helson’s face became

told me the

with the power

is

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

- That’s right!

an extremely enthusiastic support for

people to go kill what we will

people around him

don't worry about the protection of the

if he knew what they

this team of elites from people who are

usually served as scouts would be

Defense and reconnaissance...

a lot less people on the reconnaissance side, these scouts were all

of the wall was

be difficult to even face a portion of the monster

Marquis Helson turned around.

with the First

the First Imperial Prince’s eyes opened wide

I wish to ask

with his hand and Mary

Helson continued

are many people with strong abilities here

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

us.

First Imperial Prince's pupils started

corners of Cale’s lips curled

bowed toward the other candidates around him as

the Empire. The entire western part of

For the Empire...

Helson had quite the dagger to justify his request toward the candidates who dreamed of becoming

“...Marquis Helson.”

moment the First Imperial

“I will help.”

Tap.

roof of

with extremely strong abilities and the ever so rare

of them had joined

around

two people who had been treating the tree roots as if

felt as if Marquis Helson was not being ridiculous

“Your Royal Highness.”

was the moment the purifier had mentioned

be able to help

“Ah.”

be heard around

right! We have the

nothing stronger than a

around the people started

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

the

who didn't want to die all looked toward the

The extinct Dragons...

the guardians of the world and

all full of expectation toward the strength of such an

“Please, your Royal Highness.”

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

Prince would lose all face if he rejected this request

many eyes

you look

corners of Cale’s lips curled

the two of us

head

were not included in the ‘black tree attack team’ Marquis Helson was

hand, Mary and Choi Han would be

in

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

course, he might not participate for his own

will have to join the attack team. He couldn’t

and Cale made

the human both had big

are you planning on capturing the First Imperial

nodded his

finally going to

the monster as the