Trash of the Count's Family

“Ugh!”

However, being annoyed wasn’t the issue right now.

‘Holy crap!’

The small scale turned red. It resembled a red ruby. The pressure became stronger.

Honestly speaking, Cale couldn’t really figure out how to express this pressure.

It was different from Dragon Fear.

However, it was similar to it.

It felt as if an existence that was not human was trying to push Cale down.

‘Fuck!’

Yes, based on that story, the presence could be intense because it was the only thing left behind by that amazing imugi.

It seemed like a stubborn imugi so it might not want to be consumed by Cale.

However-

‘Why is it not coming off?!’

The scale showed no signs of getting away from Cale’s hand.

The scale was stuck to him even when he flailed his hand to get it off.

‘That’s odd.’

This scale was really weird.

“Cale-nim, should I call the Fist King over?”

Cale nodded his head at Choi Han’s urgent question.

“Yeah, call him here!”

‘Motherfucking Emperor and the motherfucking Fist King!

They should have told me if they knew this would act like this!

That way, I would have been cautious when absorbing it!’

Ooooooooong-

“Ah, seriously?!”

Cale turned his head.

The white crown in his other hand… That bastard was shaking and going crazy.

It still had that disgusting black vortex in the white jewel and was desperately shaking.

“Come on!”

Clang!

Cale slammed the crown on the floor.

– C, Cale.

The middle-aged voice of the Dominating Aura was anxious but Cale didn’t care.

Cale had already thrown this crown to the ground and stomped on it in the past in the Gorge of Death when this crown consumed the Dragon half-blood’s blood and tried to direct its mouth toward Raon next.

Its durability was reliable since it was fine at that time.

Clang, clang! Clang!

He slammed it into the stone floor three more times.

Oo… oooooong……

But rather than the shaking stopping…

Oong, oong oong!

The shaking grew stronger as if it was resisting.

“…This little punk?”

Cale’s face turned odd.

This crown had not wanted something this badly in the past.

It was said to consume Dragon’s blood, but it had never released its presence and desired it like this.

In fact, it was a bit interesting that it wanted a small scale that didn’t even belong to a Dragon this much.

“Mm. Ah, seriously?!”

Cale was about to contemplate something but he could not do so.

The pressure had gotten stronger despite the fact that he was using the Dominating Aura. His gaze headed toward the hand holding the scale.

“Huh?”

‘…This looks serious?’

The red light coming out of the scale became even stronger.

It felt as if he was holding a large torch in his hand.

Tatatap, tap!

He heard some urgent footsteps at that moment.

“How is that possible?!”

Cale looked toward the Fist King after hearing his anxious voice.

“Gasp.”

The Fist King could not breathe properly.

“Mm.”

Even Choi Han flinched and looked at Raon. Raon nodded his head and cast a shield around the Fist King, Choi Han, and himself.

“Haaaaa.”

The Fist King could finally breathe properly. But he quickly became shocked and started speaking with a look of urgency on his face.

“This makes no sense!”

‘What is that old man saying?’

The moment that Cale, who was watching this and slowly raising the strength of his Dominating Aura, was slowly getting more annoyed…

“I’ve never seen that scale being red! The scale is black!”

He seemed completely flabbergasted.

“What we know about this scale through the books says that it may disappear once it leaves the area around the volcano so make sure to create a formation before it is used! That is why the formation around it had the power of fire in it as well! The reason I didn’t explain this in detail was because young master Kim has the aura of fire! But for it to release a power like this-”

Cale realized something after seeing the Fist King unable to speak.

‘This scale…

It disappears once it leaves fire……?’

Cale stared at the scale that was releasing such a strong pressure but refusing to get away from him.

He then used one of his powers against it.

Crackle.

The moment the rose gold aura rose from Cale’s body…

– Huh?

of

Smile.

Cale smiled.

‘It decreased.’

had decreased a

its aura in front of a prey before

Crackle, craaackle.

channeled his Fire of

Clang!

the shaking crown on the

is a bit

He ignored Raon’s comment.

rose gold current flowed out of Cale’s hand

Crackle. Crack!

As Cale watched…

“!”

His eyes opened wide.

torch-like red light spread out in all

instantly

‘Ugh!’

heard a

that they are born, that they

was a young

was the voice of a girl

his

‘Ha.’

a

a small snake weakly being carried in a girl’s arms… Cale realized that this was an illusion, an afterimage left within the

then naturally learns that becoming a Dragon is the only

imugi was the owner of this

not be helped. It is because imugis do not have

time without family, friends, or anything. It lives

other Dragons it will meet as it looks out into

then saw the imugi dangling on the young

if she picked up a snake but patted her head as if

then consumed

first emotion I felt was

thought it was

why I ate the fire

but seemed to have figured out the imugi’s true identity while the young

then spit out fire, as if to entertain the

what I needed

I thought that fire alone

continued to grow larger as it

the young girl and the blacksmith as well, sleeping next to the girl every night and waking up

played with the young girl’s friends from

children had been scared of the imugi at first and the adults seemed leery of it, but they all approached it after seeing it spit out fire in the shape

thought that I needed to consume

came time for them

to look

realized that this illusion was slightly different from the story that the Fist King had

as tall

when it left. It seemed to have stayed

after fires. To be more accurate, I ate the lava from the volcano

down to that village every so often

“Everybody was living well.”

up the imugi had followed her father’s footsteps to become a

the imugi first entered the village was now a festival day to

at the center of the village during the

the last night of the festival

the most delicious to

I filled

fill my cintamani faster than I

imugi had a realization while

bigger fire if I was to become a Dragon. I had to leave the village for a bit

stealthily left a message for the Chief

rear mountain of the village, the volcano, was not in a state to erupt for a

However, the situation changed.

completely no matter how big of a

sense of loss at that

wanted to quickly become a Dragon

in search of larger fires, making me return to the village later than

voice was

I returned without being able to fill my

realized that I would need to spend a longer period

to the village, the volcano was

was unable to prevent the

already following the laws of nature. The wheels were

immediately went to see

because it was not

covered in Dragon scales and it

The volcano exploded.

this to me at

considered the Chief to be

Chief was now in her sixties and the

leave while

could not

that was similar to what the Fist King had told

to its original form and blocked the lava

also used its fire to burn the volcanic ashes to disappear without a

‘Wow.’

looking at the fire

its scales were dark and dull compared

wrapped its whole body with

than any Dragon Cale had seen

imugi started dying as it blocked the

the

was by the

the Chief’s voice for

Eternal. Let’s

the imugi Eternal with hopes of it living

feelings but pushed the Chief away

happened

voice was

was filling with power more than ever

a lot

that was

closer despite the imugi pushing her away, placed her hand on the imugi’s fire-covered

moment the Chief patted the imugi’s back despite

of the warmth that I first

of the fire, no,

imugi pushed the Chief

gathered the warmth of humans

was an illusion, but

was why my fire had no choice

dying. But the cintamani filled more than ever in my

close friend and the villagers showed

young girl’s calm voice

realized why I wanted to become

“Humans die too quickly.”

and quickly moved to the evacuation location at

using

alone once my close friend

there but they were neither my close friends nor

become a Dragon, to leave this

could not leave this

“My roots were here.”

released fire for

released its fire toward everything trying

cintamani. My roots were full of things I had gained in this

Flash flash.

illusion slowly became faint

announcing the death

“My body was dying.”

existences that came