Trash of the Count’s Family - Chapter 324

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Weeee— Weeee—
Windows throughout the Capital opened wide.

“What in the world is happening?”

A Knight’s confused cry echoed through the air, but no one paid it any attention.
Soldiers patrolling atop the City Wall, near its perimeter, or throughout the Capital itself stared blankly up at the night sky.

-Uuuaaahhh-
-Uuuahhh!

The black Golem suspended in the sky collapsed.
Wailing voices rose from it along with black smoke.

“…Our Empire created something like that?”

One Imperial citizen’s hand trembled as they gazed out the window. They recalled the figure visible in the image before the Golem appeared.
Crown Prince Adin, laughing atop a pile of bones, standing above a vat filled with black liquid.

Why did that pile of bones seem to overlap with the Golem’s wailing cry now?

“Honey, that, that thing over there—”

At his wife’s trembling voice, the man’s hand shook even more violently as he grasped hers.

A disciple of the Alchemy Tower’s Tower Master.
Honth, a symbol of self-made success.

He explodes.
Bursts like a bomb.
And toward the soldiers, toward the Imperial citizens.

Meanwhile, the Crown Prince flees with only the higher-ups.
Enemies rescue the abandoned soldiers.
The face of the one rescuing them is familiar.

Kale Heniatus.
A hero of Rowan, known to at least the people of the Empire’s capital, even decorated with imperial honors.
A foreigner bleeds to save imperial soldiers, yet the pillar of the nation, the Crown Prince, laughs and flees.

“…What is this? Is it real?”

Is that footage real?

The footage, which had been unfolding in breathless succession, once again showed Adin laughing atop a pile of bones.
The camera’s focus gradually pulled away from Adin.

As the footage slowly retreated further, it finally stopped.
The image emerged from the secret passage and captured the Alchemy Tower one last time.

‘…Could it be?’

The Golems summoned by the Alchemists, and Honth transformed into a bomb, spraying black liquid.
The black liquid that had filled the area near the pile of bones.

“Mom, Dad?”

A son approached, rubbing his eyes with a drowsy face not yet fully awake. A daughter followed, holding her brother’s hand while nodding off with each step.
In the eyes of the confused parents, a fierce focus ignited like flame.

That was the moment.

Bang! Bang, bang!

The sound of knocking on the door echoed.
The man cautiously approached the door, and a familiar voice came from outside.

“Boss, it’s Sam.”

He opened the door immediately upon remembering Sam, a Slums native who worked at his restaurant. He was always a diligent employee.

Creak—
The door opened.

“…Sam.”

He could see Sam, the shield-bearing Knight with a stern expression. Simultaneously, the scene beyond Sam’s shoulder came into view.

Bang, bang, bang!
People were knocking on the doors of houses still shrouded in sleep and those with lights burning. Where had these people come from? There was no need to wonder.

From the direction of the Slums, they spread across the Capital, cutting through the darkness.

“Boss, we need to escape.”

With those words, Sam thrust a video recording device into the man’s hands.

“…Sam, what is this?”
“Boss, my sister is among the pile of bones that Crown Prince Adin was laughing down at.”

The man saw Sam’s eyes, the whites bloodshot and crimson from burst capillaries.
Shouting figures appeared throughout the alleys of the Residential District. They scattered into every passageway, crying out.

“We must escape!”
“We must leave the Capital!”
“Otherwise, we’ll die like the soldiers!”
“The Alchemy Tower’s true nature is dark magic!”

The patrolling Knights, upon witnessing this spectacle, immediately pointed at them and shouted to the soldiers.

“Seize those spouting nonsense!”

These were the soldiers who had just witnessed their comrades being overwhelmed by the bomb called Honth.
They had received orders from above to patrol and surveil, or to assist in concealing the leadership within the Imperial Palace.
Yet they did not know that the Crown Prince and the leadership had abandoned the soldiers and fled.

“You’re not moving?!”

The soldiers hesitated, and not a single one stepped forward. Meanwhile, the images continued to repeat on the airship above.

“You stupid fools!”

Unable to bear it any longer, a Knight drew his sword. He swung it at the nearest person shouting to flee.

“How dare you spread such lies!”

At that moment, a Knight with red hair and white armor appeared and raised his shield.

Clang!
The Knight’s sword clashed against the white-armored Knight’s shield, producing a sharp metallic screech.

“Who—!”

The Imperial Knight cried out in shock upon seeing his opponent’s face.

“…Lex!”

The red-haired Knight was Lex.
The Empire’s citizens’ attention converged upon his name.

Lex. That name was renowned throughout the Capital, across the entire Empire.
He was the Knight who had destroyed the Imperial Palace and attempted to kill the Sub-Tower Master of the Alchemy Tower.

When the Imperial Family issued a bounty, rumors about Lex spread like wildfire.
A Knight from the Slums who could have lived a successful life like Honth, the Tower Master’s disciple. Yet now he was nothing more than a vicious terrorist.
That was the prevailing judgment of Lex.

Suddenly, the Empire’s citizens recalled Lex’s crimes once more.

‘…He had attempted to kill the Sub-Tower Master of the Alchemy Tower—’

Yet now, cries echoed from all directions that the Alchemy Tower was a stronghold of dark magic.
They had also witnessed the Sub-Tower Master directing the Golems.

As the Empire’s citizens pieced together fragments of the past, they saw Lex shouting with veins bulging in his neck.

“Flee! Leave the Castle! The Capital will be reduced to ashes soon!”

The Imperial Knight responded convulsively to those words.

“Speak sense! The Capital cannot possibly be reduced to ashes!”

Sword and shield remained locked together. The Knight sneered at Lex beyond his shield and spoke in a low voice.

“I know not what scheme you’re plotting, but do you truly believe you can escape simply because you wish to?”

At that moment, the Knight caught sight of Lex’s mouth.
The corners of Lex’s lips were curling upward.

“…Smiling? How dare you?”

Then.

Boom! Boom! Boom!
Boom! Boom! Boom!

The Knight nearly dropped the sword in his hand.
The ground trembled.

He turned his head. Where was that sound coming from? Where should he look?
But there was no need to ponder such questions.

From the sky, golden and crimson light surged forth in all four directions.

A leopard? A tiger? A wolf?
Beams of light in the shape of a ferocious beast, defying simple definition, opened their jaws toward the Capital’s City Wall.

And devoured it.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Three golden and one crimson.

Rosalind stood at the center of the magic circle, watching the crimson tiger obliterate the Imperial Capital’s southern City Wall, and turned her head. Erhafen was reducing the eastern, western, and northern walls to dust and powder.

Her eyes met Erhafen’s, who was grinning wickedly.

The eyes of a Dragon.
A chill ran down Rosalind’s spine.
She could feel it anew.

Perhaps this Dragon’s wrath burns even hotter than mine.

He had lost Dragons of his own kind and allies, had his homeland destroyed, and his very life had been threatened.
The more I thought about it, the more remarkable his restraint had been.

Beasts forged from the Dragon’s platinum mana shattered the city wall.

Boom! Boom!
Unlike the explosions, the wall’s debris didn’t scatter outward.
It all simply turned to dust.

The Dragon spoke to Rosalind.

“We should finish off the remaining one as well, shouldn’t we?”

In that moment, Rosalind raised both hands high into the air.
Crimson mana surged skyward from the magic circle, and golden mana intertwined with that pillar.

The golden pillar soon transformed into a colossal serpent.
Erhafen’s finger pointed in one direction.

The tallest building located at the heart of the Imperial Capital.
The Alchemy Tower, the highest structure on the Western Continent, overlooking everything below.

“Go.”

The golden serpent, commanded by the ancient Dragon, shot toward the Alchemy Tower—a force mingling fire and dust. The serpent’s head multiplied into dozens of heads.
Then it scattered, transforming into arrows.

Rosalind cried out.

“Destroy all emergency exits!”

The golden arrows, imbued with her will, began detonating the emergency escape routes of the Alchemy Tower that Kale’s group had spent two days locating.

Leaving only the main gate and the four secret passages outside the tower, the ancient Dragon and the next Tower Master’s assault collided violently against the Alchemy Tower.

Boom! Crash! Bang!

The interior of the Alchemy Tower trembled.

“Ahhh! The tower’s shaking! What in the world is happening?”
“I don’t know! Where did this attack suddenly come from!”

The Alchemy Tower was engulfed in chaos and confusion. What had truly seized their minds was the airship that had appeared above the Imperial Capital.

The airship created by the Alchemy Tower—the one rumored to have exploded in the Jungle—materialized before them completely intact.
The Alchemists had no choice but to descend into panic.

“I have to report this!”

One Alchemist bolted through the chaotic interior of the Alchemy Tower, heedless of colliding with the bewildered masses, his feet pounding down the descending stairs with singular purpose.

The moment he reached the underground chamber—a place unknown to the public—he seized the door handle and thrust himself inside.

“Your Highness!”

The Alchemist burst into Crown Prince Adin’s chamber.
The Sub-Tower Master was imprisoned. The Tower Master had yet to return from the Eastern Continent. In this situation, the next highest authority fell to the Crown Prince.

Upon entering the chamber, I saw the Crown Prince’s expressionless face seated in his wheelchair.

“…Our airship appeared above the Capital?”

The Alchemist could see the Knight, who had apparently just come down from above, nodding vigorously.

“Yes, Your Highness!”

Boom, boom, boom.
Even as they spoke, the Alchemy Tower shuddered from an attack above.

“and-”

The driver could not speak properly. An attack that came suddenly. And video.
The Knight couldn’t finish his words properly. The sudden attack. And the footage.

“Hurry up and say it.”

The knight faced Crown Prince Ardyn, whose expression was more expressionless than ever.

“I told you to look into the situation above and come back.”
“Yes, Your Highness! Tell us at once! What is happening?”

Ardyn and his men were underground and received late news. The knight couldn’t bear to see them and closed his eyes tightly and shouted.

“The video is going viral!”
“The footage is spreading!”

The moment Ardyn’s hand tightened, the knight’s desperate cry was heard.

“Underground, Your Majesty, this underground space has been discovered!”
“Your Majesty, this underground space has been exposed!”

Cheonggrang.
Crash.
The wine glass in Adin’s hand shattered and fell to the floor.

Airships, and exposure to underground space.
The Airship. The exposed underground space.

Everything was caught.
Everything was exposed.

So what will he do?
So what would he do?

Ardyn’s mouth opened.

“Block the entrances to the north, south, east and west secret passages immediately!”

That was the moment the order was given.

Quaaaaaaaaaaa! Quaaaang!
Boom! Boom!

A dark secret passageway to the north, south, east and west. There were people sticking out through the darkness of the passage.
The four secret passages, shrouded in darkness. Yet figures burst through that darkness.

“Hahahaha!”

Dark elf Tasha. Her boisterous laughter echoed throughout the underground cavity. But her eyes were full of anger toward the underground space.
Dark Elf Tasha. Her boisterous laughter echoed through the Underground Cavern. Yet her eyes blazed with fury toward the underground space.

“Wipe it all away!”

With Tasha’s orders, dark elf attacks unfolded everywhere.
At Tasha’s command, Dark Elf attacks erupted from all directions.

Quang! Quaaaang! Quang!

The cylinders exploded.
The cylinders shattered.

The people in the room watching across the terrace let out their own voices.

“Oh my!”
“This, this can’t be!”

Dead mana soared into the sky. When his gaze was lost in the dark water, the attending physician let out a cry of astonishment.

“Hey, over there!”

It’s coming.
He was coming.
From below, piercing through the dead mana like an arrow shot toward the Terrace—a figure appeared.

Cale’s eyes were only looking at the terrace.
Kale’s eyes were fixed solely on the Terrace.

-Humans, let’s do this together!

Raon’s black mana, which was invisible and was by his side, attacked the terrace.

Quaaaang!

The glass that separated Ardyn from the outside world broke.
The glass separating Crown Prince Adin from the outside shattered.

“Ugh!”
“Ahhh!”

There were people who ducked to avoid Yuri or moved to protect the crown prince. However, his panicked body movements were slow.

“Oh, no!”

Someone who had a faster wind than them, Kale was launched into the terrace without hesitation.
Someone faster than them, riding a wind that moved with greater speed, shot through the Terrace without hesitation—and that someone was me.

And smiled.

“Wow!”

Got it.
I caught him.

“You’re not a normal warlock, are you?”

If you are a normal warlock, the moment you accept dead mana, you immediately become a mid-level warlock.
A normal Dark Mage would immediately become an intermediate-level Dark Mage the moment they accepted dead mana.

“Whoa, whoa, whoa!”

Ardyn tried to say something, but it was too late.
Crown Prince Adin tried to say something, but it was too late.

“majesty!”

Ardyn was thrown out the window.

“Uh, Your Highness!”
“Your, Your Highness!”

Ardyn has fallen.

“Whoa, whoa!”

Ardyn, who was exhaling, felt his body falling.
As Crown Prince Adin gasped for breath, he felt his body plummeting downward.
Down, and further down.

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As he fell, looking up, he could see the Terrace.

The man grabbed Ardyn’s neck again.
He seized Crown Prince Adin’s nape once more.

“How long did you think you could just look down from above?”

Kayle let go of Ardyn’s neck.
Kale released Adin’s nape.

You said it was fun to look down, right?
He’d said looking down was fun, hadn’t he?

The silver shield struck Ardyn as he fell.

“Wow!”

The moment Ardyn fell and screamed, Kayle muttered.

“Ah, I feel refreshed.”

Adin and Kayle.
Adin and Kale.

Choi Han unleashed his black aura towards the two, and Tasha rushed towards them with her dead mana wrapped around them.

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