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.

in the back, haven’t you? In fact, you’ve had that

that Cale asked seemed to impact him quite

in the Emperor's Palace where they store the generations of necromancer candidates who

‘Yes.’

was silent for a moment before

specific, they are not

‘Then?’

helper still

helper Sanders was

still captured. That guy

‘I see.’

Cale realize that the generations of Emperor candidates who have turned into undeads had

don’t know the

attention to what Sanders was

Blood Cult. And existences that were similar to undeads

keywords were making him

First Imperial Prince continued

the things that I saw were like undeads but definitely

And...

that helper would be handling all of the candidate

using the dead candidates from this test as well. Sanders was saying that the person

tell you about the true identity of

else regarding the identity of the undeads, but... This was enough information for Cale to have

“...It’s obvious.”

"Excuse me?”

nothing, your Royal

However, his eyes

The Blood Cult.

World that was similar

‘...Jiangshi.’

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

might be wrong,

in the wuxia novels

are many types of jiangshis but they were all made

Emperor was most likely the person connected to the

control over the Emperor's life would be the

an eat and get eaten type of

a plan in his mind and he spoke

moving around for this Hide

Click.

and Olivia quietly observed Cale as he walked toward the hallway that was being lit up by the morning sunlight. His white hair sparkled with the light but all she could

made her think of

* * *

robe fully down to cover his face as he walked toward

eyes were

“...What a mess.”

sword approaching a middle-aged person who looked like a

“State your background.”

"Excuse me?”

middle-aged man who looked as if he had lived quite the arduous mercenary life flinched at the sudden question and

Clang-!

out a sword and was pointing it at

identity, your background, and the reason

“Ugh.”

for a bit before

returning home.

your

“Yes sir!”

the man

“You can go.”

“...Yes sir.”

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

the capital was a mess right now

mumbling reached

“Hmm?”

that Cale was covered by a long robe and his face

to be suspicious

“Who are y-”

could not

Shh.

swordsman’s neck. The

‘When?’

to the robed individual who also had his face 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 mercenary just

noticed the second hooded figure at all, got

you dare to point

not

Shhh.

took off

white hair, green eyes, and the white

am the priest in charge of her Royal Highness’s

then placed a hand

Retract your sword as you have

“…….”

sword away from the swordsman’s

his neck with his hand before

did not recognize

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

“Goodbye then.”

then urgently left without saying

sneering at the swordsman but an odd mood was being

“Let’s go.”

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

suspicious of

lively business district but there was an oddly

was not

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

is the third

in the

candidates are acting worse and

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

opening were acting crazier and crazier in the

some candidates are even grabbing anybody on

now was one of the candidates’

to immediately recognize

swordsman were slowly starting

who have a decent

the capital. According to the information the church has gathered, some of them were not only using their helpers but stealthily using their families

craziness would become worse

‘...This isn’t good.’

they learned about it. However, the slowly overbearing actions of the candidates made

Everybody kept quiet.

to the mercenary just now would happen

the same time, their anger toward the people waiting to be publicly executed,

be

Cale