Trash of the Count’s Family - Chapter 421

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A teleportation magic circle. Standing upon it, bathed in light, they could see Kale Heniatus’s retreating figure as he charged toward the golem.

“The one with the most pathetic physique…!”

Sword Master Hana’s voice rose involuntarily as she watched his back.
Her face contorted with emotion.

It was laughable—a man who looked as though a single tap would send him flying far away to crash into a tree, yet he charged at the golem alone with such audacity.
It seemed reckless.

Yet despite finding it truly amusing, Hana could not bring herself to laugh.

‘Insane fool! Stupid bastard!’

She understood perfectly well why Kale was charging at the golem now.

To ensure the rest of the group could escape safely.
That was why he would face the golem.

Of course, she also knew.

Kale Heniatus was strong.
There were few here capable of destroying that golem, and among them, Kale was the one who could eliminate it most swiftly.

And that he would cough up blood and collapse.
She knew it all.

‘Damn it.’

Yet despite knowing all of this, she could not rush to Kale’s aid.
Though she was a wretched person, she still possessed some shame—she knew she should help Kale, but there was something more urgent she had to do first.

“Hana.”

At her brother Jack’s call, Hana released the tension from her clenched fists.

Whoooosh—
I surrendered myself to the teleportation light growing ever brighter.

I had to reach the Capital.
So I would protect the Capital.

‘But…!’

Hana couldn’t smooth out her contorted expression. She looked down at her own hands.
Her hands were gradually becoming transparent. The teleportation was taking effect.

“A legend.”

At that moment, Clophe Seka’s voice reached her ears.
Hana shifted her gaze. Clophe, now seated in a wheelchair, had moved into view. He gazed at Kale Heniatus and spoke with an excited tone.

“A legend cannot be invoked without sacrifice.”

Clophe painted a radiant smile across his lips.

Kale Heniatus appeared cold-blooded. Yet beneath that exterior lay emotions as profound as anyone else’s.

‘Either extraordinarily brilliant or utterly foolish. One or the other.’

The more Clophe observed Kale Heniatus, the more he believed the man was either brilliantly clever or hopelessly foolish.

That silhouette.
Those comrades who witnessed him charging alone into the most perilous position would fight with renewed fervor.
Look at them now.
The faces of his companions gazing at Kale Heniatus were resolute. It wasn’t merely a matter of morale—he had unified them into a single force.

If he acted that way deliberately for that purpose, then Kale Heniatus was extraordinarily brilliant and composed.

‘But if instead he moved that way simply following his own heart.’

Then he was foolish.
Throwing himself forward without a thought for his own life.
Yet regardless of which it was.

“…I’m witnessing a legend.”

Clophe’s vision grew increasingly hazy from the teleportation.
Soon, when he closed and reopened his eyes, he would be in the Mogur Capital. With a sense of regret, he imprinted the image of Kale Heniatus colliding with the golem into his burning gaze.

“It’s unfortunate that I cannot witness that magnificent battle in its entirety.”
“Shut.”

A cold voice reached his ears—Hana’s voice.

“Your mouth. Close it.”

Hana’s hand looked ready to seize Clophe by the collar and shake him at any moment.
Sacrifice? Legend?

“Before you witness any legend, if you don’t want your life to end here—”
“Hana.”

At Jack’s call, Hana clamped her mouth shut and turned away from Clophe.
Her vision too was now consumed by brilliant light, rendering everything nearly invisible.

Only Kale Heniatus’s silhouette remained visible.
Hana gazed at that figure intently before closing her eyes.

Whoooosh!
Platinum and crimson light exploded outward in all directions, and where that radiance faded, not a soul remained.

Boom!
Instead, a deafening roar filled the space where the people had vanished.
The golem’s axe and Kale Heniatus’s fist collided.
Or rather, they didn’t actually touch at all.

“Damn it! The lightning—!”

The Dark Mage in the control seat erupted with fury.

A small bolt of lightning struck where the axe met, unleashing a thunderous boom.

Screeeech.
The golem’s body lurched. The Dark Mage in the control chamber quickly regained balance. He could see the golem’s axe.

Crackle.
The golem’s black axe was burning away.

“…I missed!”

He couldn’t contain his irritation as he stared at the empty space where Kale Heniatus and his group had vanished via teleportation, rather than at the axe itself.
Cyan eyes brimming with fury and annoyance turned toward Kale Heniatus.

“Ugh.”

I could see Kale Heniatus staggering backward from the recoil of the attack, his hand covering his mouth.

Drip. Drip.
Black blood was trickling from my lips.
The Dark Mage let out a snort at the sight and manipulated the control panel.
Click!
With a faint grinding sound, the golem returned to an attacking stance. Apart from the slightly charred axe, it looked pristine.
The Dark Mage looked down at the bleeding Kale Heniatus.

“Don’t think this is the same situation as before.”

The Dark Mage sneered and raised the axe high.

“That vaunted Destructive Fire won’t work properly either, will it?”

The Black Mages knew of Kale Heniatus’s power to destroy golems.
The Destructive Fire that pierces the sky and strikes down.
But that Destructive Fire could not penetrate the Black Curtain now.

Boom. Boom. Boom.
The sound of the earth trembling drew closer. The Dark Mage’s lips twisted upward into an increasingly cruel smile.

“How will you eliminate all of these at once? Hmm? How do you plan to fight them one by one?”

By now, other golems had also aimed their weapons at Kale Heniatus.

“Attack.”

The Dark Mage’s command spread to the other golem control stations, and the golems’ roars filled the space beneath the Black Curtain in unison.

Roooaaarrr!
Roooaaar!

Swords, spears, axes.
Every weapon surged toward Kale Heniatus at once.

“…Haa… haa….”

I could see the weapons bearing down on me.
Wielded by golems, they all appeared massive and ferocious.

-Human!

Raon’s cry reached my ears.

Boom!
But then an explosion echoed from afar, followed by Dorf’s voice.

“I cannot let you pass, young dragon.”
-You infuriating Lion King!

Dorf had seized Raon’s ankle. Raon had already dropped his invisibility and was now clashing directly with Dorf.
Meanwhile, Dorf concealed his form within the darkness, making it difficult for Raon to locate him.

“You’ll have trouble finding me.”
-Human! Just wait a moment! Once I find the Lion King, I’ll strike him from behind and knock him out!

As Dorf’s formless voice and Raon’s cries filled my ears and mind.

Bang! Boom! Bang!
The sounds of combat between Choi Han and the Bear King also reached me. I turned my gaze in that direction.

“…Indeed.”

It was truly Choi Jung-soo’s dragon.
Choi Jung-soo was originally a Grade 10.
A power that suddenly manifested when the world turned upside down. Choi Jung-soo’s ability—what people commonly called a power—was at the lowest grade, Grade 10.

But Choi Jung-soo had grown.
He had combined his martial arts, swordsmanship, and ability, and the destructive force reached Grade 1, making him a case classified as an exceptional Grade 1.

‘Hey, isn’t it cool? Fighting while wrapping a white dragon around yourself. Right?’

Choi Jung-soo fought with a white dragon coiled around him.
That dragon became a sword, a whip, or even a hand.

‘That very thing!’

Choi Han was now depicting that with a Black Dragon.
Of course, compared to Choi Jung-soo, the dragon’s form was still faint and didn’t look powerful, and it was so blurred that it was unclear when it might disappear.

“…Kale Heniatus!”

The gazes of Choi Han and Kale Heniatus, who were fighting the Bear King, collided.
Choi Han saw weapons heading toward Kale Heniatus and Kale Heniatus bleeding.

“Where are you looking?”

But the Bear King’s arrows of light flew toward him.
Choi Han’s face twisted as he swung his sword toward the arrows. And in that moment he glanced at Kale Heniatus.

A grin spread across his face.
Kale Heniatus was smiling.
Though his smile looked eerie with blood covering his face, Kale Heniatus clearly seemed to be in good spirits.

‘…Why?’

As Choi Han questioned that expression, Kale Heniatus turned his head.

An axe blade that had come right up to his head came into view.
Swords, spears, clubs. All manner of weapons were aimed at me.
Targeting me, whose physique was incomparably small compared to a golem.
Kale Heniatus smiled even more deeply.

“…What?”

The Dark Mage felt a sudden wave of unease wash over him at that laughter.
But the axe, the attack—it could no longer be stopped.
And before all the attacks could reach Kale Heniatus,

“Good.”

Kale Heniatus spoke calmly as I spread both arms wide.

“Coming at me all at once.”

Destructive Fire and Wind swirled violently across my outstretched arms.

“…Huh?”

The moment the Dark Mage’s mind went blank at the sight of that concentrated power, I released the force dwelling in my arms.
Immediately after, all the weapons came crashing down toward me.

KABOOOOM!
A tremendous explosion engulfed the surroundings.
Everyone’s eyes widened at the sight of a crimson vortex spiraling upward into the sky.

Crackle. Crack.
That crimson vortex contained lightning within it.

Boom!
The golems that had attacked me collapsed.
All the arms holding weapons were caught by the crimson vortex and torn away.

“No, this can’t be!”

The Dark Mage watched as crimson flames spread rapidly from the severed golem arms.

Screeeech—Boom.
The golem toppled backward completely.
The Dark Mage in the control chamber rushed to open the chamber door to escape.
In his eyes, the approaching flames drew closer.

Screeeech—
The golem touched by those flames let out a piercing cry.

“I… I have to go. I have to leave.”

The Dark Mage fumbled with the lock in his desperation, his fingers slipping uselessly several times before he finally managed to wrench open the cockpit door.

“Gasp!”

He stumbled out of the cockpit and drew in a deep breath of the outside air.
In that same instant, an explosion thundered behind him.

Boom!

The golem, consumed by the Destructive Fire, finally detonated and crumbled to ash.
Yet the Dark Mage could not bring himself to look upon that sight.

“…Good heavens.”

The world had turned crimson.
The golems that had just been stripped of their arms and weapons were now ablaze.
And there—a raging red wind danced wildly across the landscape.

Thud! Thud!

The wind scattered the stolen weapons and arms of the golems across the ground in all directions.
Each one fell among different groups of golems.

“No! Flee!”
“Don’t touch the flames!”

The fallen weapons and limbs carried the Destructive Fire within them, and that inferno hungrily sought out new prey to devour.

It was like a festival.
Brilliant, luminous flames consumed the golems whole.
The golems and Dark Mages began to flee in panic from those ravaging fires.

All were swallowed by the boundless greed of the inferno.

“Fire spreads well.”

The Dark Mage turned his head at the calm voice.
I could see Kale Heniatus, bleeding yet composed, staring down at him.

“…Ugh, ugh…”

The Dark Mage retreated backward while crouched down. I looked down at him, then surveyed my surroundings.

Fire spreads well.
When it meets wind.
Wind could guide fire.
Wind targeted only the golems in the Alchemy Tower Plaza, not the Forest.

Ssshhh—
As the shield released its power, the grown branches retreated away from the flames.

Roaaarrr!
Roaarrr!
The frenzied golem’s roar grew louder alongside the inferno.

-You’re different from me.

Cale’s Power whispered to me.

-You have wind too. You’re different from me.
-And you’re different from me. I never had fire.

Listening to the whispers of The Thief and Cale’s Power, I surveyed my surroundings.
And I smiled broadly.

Fire is an extraordinarily useful light for humans.
No matter how dark the sky becomes.
The earth could be illuminated.

Our eyes met.

“There you are.”

The one lurking hidden in the darkness.
As the golems consumed by fire thrashed about, illuminating the surroundings, his hiding places gradually vanished.

“Raon, can you see him?”

The Lion King Dorf, concealed by the shadows until now.
Our eyes met.

-Human, I see him!

Raon’s black mana began to blaze like wildfire.
After the golems, it was his turn.

-You’ve reached your limit.

I heard Jjangdol’s voice, but I summoned the Ancient Powers once more.
Drip. Drip.
Black blood flowing from my mouth and nose soaked my upper garment.

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