Trash of the Count’s Family - Chapter 221

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—Will you sacrifice yourself?
—You’re going to eat that?

Kale Heniatus cleanly ignored the remarks from Jjangdol and Meokbo. He clenched his fists, then opened them.

‘Use it.’

I decided to unleash Inferno Lightning. Lightning over the sea was far more formidable than one could imagine. Therefore, I needed an Inferno Lightning powerful enough to shatter that lightning.

I could not simply step back and watch as the others were injured.

Crackle, crackle.
Inferno Lightning began to spin violently from both of Kale Heniatus’s hands.
Simultaneously, the sky above him cried out.

Rumble.
At that sound, Choi Han lifted his head slightly upward. A clear sky came into view. Yet Raon’s voice echoed within his mind.

—Choi Han, our human is going to strike with Inferno Lightning. Of course, I’ll handle most of it, so don’t worry! I’m rather magnificent, after all!

The child’s cheerful prattling resounded in his mind. Though it should have been annoying, Choi Han smiled and swung his sword.

Whoooosh—
Black aura sliced through a section of the deck.

“Hahaha! It’s been ages since I’ve encountered someone this entertaining!”

The platinum-haired Mage evaded the black aura, unable to suppress his laughter. He had every reason to.

An existence that charged forward with bloodshot eyes, bearing wounds across its body. How long had it been since I encountered such a being?

‘Such a wild aura!’

I could see the black aura sprawling chaotically.
The aura that had been so meticulously refined, like a delicate hothouse flower nurtured with care, was a lie—this rampant black aura seemed utterly untamed.

And yet, it was free.

“So you were wearing a mask!”

The one who cast aside that pristine facade—so refined it resembled a nobleman, a knight—was like a black beast. A beast that saw nothing but its prey, blind to all else.

Yet the Mage laughed at the beast.

“Do you truly believe you can defeat me? How absurd!”

That beast was undoubtedly the greatest swordsman in the human realm. Born with extraordinary talent. Which meant the beast had never encountered an overwhelmingly superior force.
That was what the Mage believed.

“Who said anything about winning?”

But Choi Han was no beast—he was the weak.
In the Dark Forest, the weakest of the weak. He had dug burrows to survive, hiding beneath them for days on end, starving in silence, going without sleep for extended periods as though it were nothing.
Even in pain, he could not cry out.

Because he had to live.
In survival, there is no victory or defeat.
Only this: if I live, my enemy dies.
That is all.

“I will kill you.”

Choi Han kicked off the head of the water and wind dragon he had summoned, launching himself upward. Black aura transformed into spinning arrows that shot toward the Mage alongside him.

It was a savage force.
Yet whether strong or weak, it was a force that never released its target.

“Ha!”

The Mage laughed at Choi Han and kicked off from his position.

Boom! Crash!

In the next instant, black aura arrows and the gaping maw of the water dragon descended upon the spot where he had stood. The pierced belly tilted to one side, beginning to sink slowly. Grooooan.

“Aaaagh! H-help—”
“Run!”

The members of the Indomitable Alliance aboard the ship scrambled desperately to escape, but small bolts of lightning still lingered upon the water’s surface, and countless spheres of light mana continued to rain down upon the sea—lightning-attribute luminescence.

“Ughhhh—”

Groans echoed from those who had fled the ship into the sea, yet their cries could not properly reach the surface above.

Roooaarrr—
The Dragon Hybrid Mage’s jaws, shrouded in wind and water, gaped wide as he descended upon the Mage.
Boom! With a tremendous crash, part of the deck shattered once more. The Mage had already repositioned himself into the air. The water dragon immediately gave chase.
Like two serpents intertwining, the water dragon pursued the Mage relentlessly.

And black aura converged toward the Mage’s throat.

Boom! Boom! Boom!
Mana spheres were fired, but to no avail.

“Persistent!”

The Mage furrowed his brow.
The crumbling, collapsing black wyvern skeleton shielded the mana spheres with its own body until the very end, clearing a path for the water dragon’s advance.

The Mage’s gaze, fixed upon the wyvern skeleton, met Choi Han’s eyes. Choi Han’s expression betrayed his question.

“Why aren’t you fleeing?”

The Mage laughed.

“You knew?”

That was the moment.

Boom— Boom— Booooom—
The sound of drums reverberated across the waters.
Simultaneously, Choi Han realized that one sound had vanished.

The roar that had been pouring from the sky—the lightning cries of Kale Heniatus and Raon—had ceased. Instead, another drum’s resonance began to consume the sea.

Boom—
Boom— Boom—
Booom—

It was not just one.
Drums thundered across the massive vessels of the Indomitable Alliance, particularly from their colossal flagships.
These enormous ships had raced across the turbulent sea from the Coastline to the vicinity of the silver shield, their hulls cutting through the churning waters.

Booom— Boom—
At the bow of each vessel stood figures clad in black garments, their chests embroidered with stars, beating the drums in unison.

It was Dark.

Choi Han’s body lifted skyward. The water dragon surged upward, endlessly ascending.
Only then did he see it.

The place where Choi Han and the Dragon Hybrid Mage had fought. The ship where they battled, now sinking beneath the waves.
Circling that vessel were colossal ships arranged in a perfect formation.

Twenty vessels in total.

The original helmsmen of the Indomitable Alliance were nowhere to be seen. Dark operatives in black garments occupied every helm.

Simultaneously, across the broad decks of those massive ships.

Uuuuooom—

Light erupted across the decks one by one. Magic circles embedded with high-grade mana stones. Twenty circles in total began projecting beams of light toward the heavens.

“Surely not—!”

Gazing upon the twenty magic circles, a thought flashed unbidden through Choi Han’s mind.
Could all of these belong to Hana?

“Hahahaha! Do you understand now?”

Choi Han caught sight of the laughing mage. His arms spread wide open.

“This is the power of the human mages I have trained.”

I recalled Kale’s words.

‘Dark has a mage division, or so I heard.’

I could discern who had created that mage division. Without thinking, I stomped my foot. Splash. Splash. Water spray erupted lightly from the water dragon’s head.

I was questioning Raon.
I don’t understand magic, but you do understand this situation, don’t you? Right?

I continued tapping the dragon’s head. But soon I drew my sword.

“Let’s go.”

The moment I spoke, hoping Raon would hear, the water dragon began moving again.

“Why? Do you not know how to give up?”

The Mage’s mockery was visible. But I fixed my gaze precisely on him and entrusted myself to the rapidly moving water dragon.

Whoooosh, whoooosh—
The colossal water dragon violently carved through the sea surface. It charged forward fiercely as if to engulf the Mage. A wyvern pursued in its wake.

The Mage laughed and welcomed them with open arms.

Boom— Boom—

Gradually, twenty magic circles intertwined and formed a single pattern. The Mage standing at its center laughed.

“I’ll kill you all! It’s been so long since I’ve had such entertaining sport!”

Simultaneously, dozens of luminous mana spheres materialized around the Mage. He greeted the approaching, still clumsy beast with a radiant smile.

“Come!”

I kicked off from the water dragon’s head while gazing at the Mage and leaped into the air. It was the moment the Mage’s smile grew even brighter.

Tap.
The wyvern caught my feet.
And it passed directly over the Mage.

A black aura slashed across the air in a violent horizontal arc.

Kwaaang!
A deafening roar erupted from the massive vessel inscribed with magical formations. The black aura devoured the ship’s bow like gaping jaws, tearing through it relentlessly.

“These creatures!”

At the same moment, a water dragon descended upon the Mage.

Kraaaah—
The roar of the conjured water dragon echoed across the battlefield.
Tap. Tap. The Mage, who had been moving only his fingers, now unleashed dual-handed magical casting.

The gaping maw of the water dragon was pierced through by spears of light. And the black aura could no longer devour the ship, held back by the luminous shield.

“…How amusing.”

The Mage sneered at Choi Han’s shallow tactics.

“But it’s already too late.”

Tap. Tap. Tap.
The Mage’s fingers struck relentlessly, and twenty vessels were enveloped in shields of light. Choi Han and the wyvern faced a force they could not pierce.
In that instant.

Boom!
The drum sound ceased.

Silence descended.
Choi Han felt a deep sense of foreboding.
That massive purple magical formation. The power emanating from it was sinister.

The Mage’s lips curved upward in an endless smile. Simultaneously, cold eyes became visible.
The silence shattered.

“Humans truly are creatures with so many things to worry about.”

The man with cold eyes spoke calmly to Choi Han.

“That’s why it’s tedious and trivial. Well, it’s rather cute too.”

Boom!
Drums sounded simultaneously from twenty ships.
That was the moment.

Uuuuuung—
The interconnected lines of the magical formations began to ripple. Violet light consumed the sky above the sea.

“Ugh.”

Choi Han gripped the wyvern’s neck bone.

Whoooosh—whiiiiish—
Wind swept fiercely through the magical formation. The wyvern staggered helplessly, as if caught in a tempest.

Then came the Mage’s laughter.

“Hahahaha! How pitiful. Everyone inside the castle will perish.”

A smile of pure delight played across the Mage’s lips. Choi Han whispered against the wyvern’s bone.

“Merry, let’s go.”

Choi Han had not yet reached his target.
Yet he continued urging the wyvern—urging Merry—forward.

“We have to hurry. Merry.”

But the wyvern swayed and staggered, struggling against the violent winds. Though its black bones remained solid, it seemed exhausted from shielding everything with its body until now.

A chill crept up Choi Han’s spine. He lifted his gaze.
Above him stretched a violet sky, with violet winds spiraling upward into it.

Whoooooosh—

The winds coiled around each other like vines, constricting. And finally, they formed an enormous sphere. Like a harbinger of calamity, the violet sphere raged without end.

Boom. Boom. Boom.
The drum’s resonance echoed across the sky once more.

“Kuhahahaha, ah, this is exhilarating! I was right to come and witness this!”

The Mage glanced at Choi Han. He saw a face gazing up at the wind with hollow despair.

“How is it? My magnificent magic.”

The Mage asked gently of the human who had stirred with curiosity for the first time in ages.

“Hmm?”

Yet his expression grew subtle.

“Yes. It is magnificent.”

Choi Han was smiling.
Beyond the purple sphere and purple sky, he could see a small glimmer of light.

A light piercing slowly through the heavens, descending.
That light was crimson.

That color I know so well.
The corners of Choi Han’s mouth began to rise gradually.
He could see the water dragon pierced by the spear of light, rushing toward me.

-Choi Han! You won’t be hurt! Merry’s bones either!

Raon’s voice reached him.
In that instant, Choi Han beheld the brilliant crimson light.

A red lightning bolt.
Red power crashing down upon the purple sphere.

From that power, he felt Kale and Raon. Especially Raon’s immense strength.

Whoooosh—
In that instant, the water dragon swept over Choi Han and the wyvern. No—it cradled them.
The water dragon moved swiftly and finally came to a halt in one place.
The Indomitable Alliance fleet. The colossal silver shield that had held back the enemy.
Behind that shield.

There, Choi Han could see one person.

“You alright?”

A voice asking with perfect composure.
Kale Heniatus appeared with his usual impassive gaze, offering a potion. Simultaneously, the remnants of crimson lightning blooming from his other hand and his body crouched low to avoid further injury entered Choi Han’s sight.

“Hey, you stick to the shield too.”

Kale Heniatus ignored Choi Han’s continued laughter and pressed himself firmly against the shield—Raon’s barrier.
And soon he covered his ears.

Boom—

Crimson lightning pierced through the purple sphere.

-Of course I am the great Raon Mir, six years old! I am magnificent!

Kale Heniatus thought to himself.
Indeed, dragons are truly magnificent.

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