Trash of the Count's Family

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“I will be using that power.”

Cale could not get himself to call the Fire of Destruction the power of a god.

- ...Cheer up, Cale.

He did his best to ignore the Super Rock consoling him. Cale just thought about it in a relaxed manner.

‘I'll be leaving this world anyway, so it doesn't matter whether they see me as the purifier or whatever.

I just need to take care of things properly.’

Cale decided to think about it as lightheartedly as possible.

- Human, that expression just now seemed more like the crown prince's expression than your usual smile!

He did his best to let Raon's comment in one ear and out the other.

He spoke to Olivia instead.

“I will let you know the overall plan, so I hope that you can move accordingly, your Royal Highness.”

“...Okay.”

Olivia had noticed how the Purifier was reluctant to show himself. She knew how big it was that he had chosen to reveal himself.

That was why she was willing to move according to his will.

She was willing to do so even though she was not fully recovered.

“And there is something we must do during this next week.”

Olivia’s shoulders tensed after hearing the Purifier’s solemn voice.

"What is it?”

She then thought about what would happen at the public execution ground in a week.

It was different from her original imagination.

The Agents of Destruction and the Church of the Fire of Purification... The Purifier revealing himself in between them...

Olivia and the people loyal to her would be with them.

How would that crazed sight she had initially imagined change?

She got chills for a completely different reason now.

‘I'll do it.’

She made up her mind.

‘I'll do whatever it takes.’

She would do anything for the image in her mind to become reality.

The Purifier started to speak.

“We need to loot the Emperor's Palace.”

Silence filled the area for a moment.

“…….”

Olivia could not say anything.

- Human, I knew that you wouldn't waste your time! Yes, a week is plenty of time to loot the Emperor’s Palace! Alright! How exciting! Will we all be going?

Cale focused not on the excited Raon but the silent Olivia's shaking pupils before wondering why she was reacting like this and continuing to speak.

“Do you remember the information that the First Imperial Prince shared with us?”

“Ah.”

Olivia’s expression finally brightened after hearing that.

“You are talking about the issue of the undeads!”

“...Y, yes?”

Cale had an unsettled look on his face as he agreed with the now exaggeratedly bright expression on Olivia's face.

“As I expected!”

Olivia nodded her head multiple times as if she finally understood him and continued to speak.

“I knew that you would have some deep meaning behind it!”

Why would the Purifier, someone who uses the power of a god, really want to loot something as trivial as the Emperor's Palace?

Olivia gently smiled thinking that the Purifier was purposely using such lighthearted terms to address such a heavy topic.

‘Yes, this is not the time to just worry. It is the time to do something, anything.’

Olivia became a bit more energetic. However, her face quickly stiffened.

She knew what the Purifier would ask for her to do.

"Do I just need to be keeping his Majesty occupied?”

“Yes ma’am. I need someone to distract him as we need to get into his bedroom in the Emperor’s Palace.”

Olivia contemplated it for a bit before nodding her head.

“I want to be consoled and wish to console him. That should be a justified reason to go seek his Majesty.”

She then added on.

“I also think that it would be good if I use this time to make it look as if I have given up on the second test.”

“That is a good idea, your Royal Highness.”

Cale was satisfied watching Olivia figure out her role on her own.

- Human, going to loot is just going to loot. Is there some deeper meaning to it? Oh, do you mean that you are going to loot everything that is hidden deeply as well?

He tried his best to ignore Raon's comments. But he could not do that.

- Human, but to be more accurate, it is not actually undeads, is it?

Cale recalled the interrogation of First Imperial Prince Sanders that was disguised as a quite intimate face-to-face chat.

The First Imperial Prince had not been that sincere in his response to Cale's questions, but he did his best to answer.

Huayans patriarch in the back, haven’t you? In fact, you’ve had that thought quite

that Cale asked seemed to impact

where they store the generations of necromancer candidates who have become

‘Yes.’

for a moment

more specific, they are not

‘Then?’

Mineh’s helper still

immediately understood that the helper Sanders was talking

still captured. That guy

‘I see.’

who have turned into undeads had some connection with

know the

attention to what Sanders

And existences that were similar to

keywords were making him

Prince

I saw were like undeads

And...

would be handling all of the candidate corpses gained during this

House of Huayans was planning on using the dead candidates from this test as well. Sanders was saying that the person

all I can tell you about the true

was saying that he didn’t know anything else regarding the identity of the undeads, but... This

“...It’s obvious.”

"Excuse me?”

nothing, your Royal

smiled gently. However, his eyes sank

The Blood Cult.

something in the Wuxia World that was

‘...Jiangshi.’

things in the basement of the Emperor’s Palace were closer to

be wrong,

in the wuxia

of jiangshis but they were all made

person connected to the jiangshis and

person who held control over the

and get eaten type

spoke while walking over to the door and

for this Hide

Click.

Cale as he walked toward the hallway that was being lit up by the morning sunlight. His white hair sparkled with the

color made her think of

* * *

fully down to cover his face as he

eyes were looking

“...What a mess.”

man holding a sword approaching a middle-aged person who looked

“State your background.”

"Excuse me?”

the arduous mercenary

Clang-!

pulled out a sword and was pointing it at

background, and the reason for your visit to

“Ugh.”

anxious for a bit before he

as a mercenary. I was out for a job and am returning home. I have my mercenary’s plaque on me. You can check its authenticity in the Mercenaries Guild as

out your

“Yes sir!”

pulled out the plaque and the man thoroughly inspected it before slightly

“You can go.”

“...Yes sir.”

the mercenary’s plaque and the middle-aged man received it carefully before urgently leaving the

capital was a mess right now and it was

reached

“Hmm?”

leave turned to look at Cale. He saw that Cale was covered by a long robe and his face was covered

swordsman found this to be

“Who are y-”

he could not finish

Shh.

pointed at the swordsman’s neck.

‘When?’

covered by a hood and that person was pointing the sword at the swordsman’s neck. It was exactly as he had done to the

had not noticed the second hooded figure at

you think you

could not finish that

Shhh.

took off

white cloth covering the area underneath his nose

priest in charge of her Royal Highness’s

hand

guard. Retract your sword as you

“…….”

Han silently moved the sword away from the swordsman’s

his neck with his hand before avoiding

did not recognize you,

finally lowered his head after seeing the plaque that Olivia gave to her

“Goodbye then.”

urgently left without saying anything

of the Empire sneering at the swordsman but an

“Let’s go.”

next to Cale and walked by his side after Cale gave the order. Choi

suspicious of

business district but there was an oddly sunken

it was not

here and there but it was pretty calm overall, similar to a bomb just

is the third

in the capital

candidates are acting worse and

of the favorites had died among the nineteen candidates and three

push ahead using this opening were acting crazier and

are even grabbing anybody on the street and questioning their

swordsman just now was

able to immediately recognize the disguised identity

swordsman

all people who have a

to the information the church has gathered, some of them were not only using their helpers but stealthily using their families or organizations to help

would become worse

‘...This isn’t good.’

had embraced this Hide and Seek quite a bit when they learned about it. However, the slowly overbearing actions of the candidates made everybody extremely

Everybody kept quiet.

happened to the mercenary just

waiting to be publicly executed, the people who

be

Han asked Cale