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 him quite

where they store the generations

‘Yes.’

silent for a moment

be more specific,

‘Then?’

Mineh’s helper still

immediately understood that the helper Sanders was talking

He is still captured. That guy

‘I see.’

Emperor candidates who have turned

don’t know

to what

that were similar to undeads but

two keywords were making

First Imperial Prince continued to

things that I saw were

And...

that helper would be handling all

this test as well. Sanders was saying that the person they were working

is all I can tell you about the true identity

the undeads, but... This was enough information for

“...It’s obvious.”

"Excuse me?”

nothing, your

gently. However, his eyes sank

The Blood Cult.

World that was similar to undeads

‘...Jiangshi.’

hypothesizing that the things in the basement of the Emperor’s Palace were

might be

the wuxia novels that

are many types of jiangshis but they were all made

Emperor was most likely the person connected to the jiangshis and

person who held control over the Emperor's life would be the

get eaten type

his mind and he spoke

everybody is frantically moving around for this Hide and Seek... That is when we will

Click.

lit up by the morning sunlight. His white hair

color made

* * *

down to cover his face as he

were

“...What a mess.”

sword approaching a middle-aged person who looked like

“State your background.”

"Excuse me?”

looked as if he had lived quite the arduous mercenary life flinched at the

Clang-!

out a sword and was pointing it

identity, your background, and the

“Ugh.”

for a bit before

a mercenary. I was out for a job and am returning home.

your mercenary’s

“Yes sir!”

out the plaque and the man thoroughly inspected it before

“You can go.”

“...Yes sir.”

the middle-aged man received it carefully before

was a

mumbling reached Cale’s

“Hmm?”

that Cale was covered by a long robe and

this to be suspicious

“Who are y-”

he could not finish his

Shh.

the swordsman’s neck. The

‘When?’

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

at all, got chills on his

you dare to

not

Shhh.

took off his

eyes, and the white cloth covering the area underneath

the priest in charge of her Royal

then placed a hand on

your sword as you have

“…….”

the sword away

his neck with his hand before avoiding Cale's

did not recognize you,

gaze headed to Cale's hand and he finally lowered his head after seeing the plaque that Olivia gave to her

“Goodbye then.”

urgently left without

at the swordsman but an odd mood was

“Let’s go.”

silently stood next to Cale and walked by his side after Cale gave the order. Choi Han was

is suspicious

be a lively business district but there was

was not

small issues here and there but it was pretty calm overall, similar to

the

feeling the atmosphere in the capital that was changing day by

worse and worse as it

died among the nineteen candidates and three other highly-ranked candidates

other candidates who wanted to push ahead using this opening were acting crazier and crazier in the Hide

grabbing anybody on the street and questioning their

was one of the candidates’

able to immediately recognize the

like this swordsman were slowly starting to

have a decent

church has gathered, some of them were not only using their helpers but stealthily using their families

this craziness would become worse

‘...This isn’t good.’

Seek quite a bit when they learned about

Everybody kept quiet.

the mercenary just

people waiting to be publicly executed, the people who forced them to

be

Cale in a