Trash of the Count’s Family - Chapter 454

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No one dared to speak.
As the black clouds that had conjured lightning dissipated, the sky greeting the dawn revealed itself. Thanks to this, everyone could now see each other’s true conditions.

“Cough!”

I coughed up blood once more, and Choi Han, supporting me, asked with concern.

“Are you alright?”

But instead of an answer, Choi Han heard different words.

“What a shame. If I had just a little more strength, I could have finished it properly.”

My eyes remained fixed on the White Star, whose pale complexion made him gasp for breath. Choi Han could sense my considerable regret at failing to properly eliminate the White Star. At the same time, Raon’s words came to mind.
At the same time, she recalled what Raon had said.

“Choi Han! They say humans are going to destroy the White Star! They said they want to smash him to pieces if possible, but if not, they’ll seriously injure him!”

If possible, I planned to kill him, and if not, to inflict serious injury, but in the end I couldn’t kill him and only severed his left arm.

The fingertips supporting me trembled slightly.
The fingertips supporting Kale Heniatus trembled slightly.

“With all that power, he charged forward, but in the end, he couldn’t kill White Star.”

How much stronger would we need to become to defeat the White Star?
How far do I have to go to finally defeat White Star?

That’s when it happened.

“Hmm.”

He saw Kale smiling. Kale continued to stare at White Star, muttering between shallow breaths.

“Just a little bit more and we’ll be done.”

Ah.
An exclamation escaped Choi Han’s lips.

When he first encountered the White Star in the past, he couldn’t even approach him. He couldn’t land a proper attack and had been driven into the rooftop of the Mogur Imperial Palace.
But now he had grown strong enough to hold the White Star in place and fight him. He had gained power that made the White Star regard him with surprise.

I had grown.
They said there was no limit to strength, yet I had grown enough to hold the White Star in place, even if only for a moment.
Raon had also grown to the point where he could hold the White Star in check, just like Choi Han.

‘Erhafen and Kale Heniatus expended considerable power beforehand.’

Before properly engaging the White Star, Kale Heniatus had used the Ancient Powers extensively due to the Lord’s Castle and the flames. So it was as if he had fought with almost one arm.
Erhafen too had exerted himself while destroying the mana disruption device.

‘And Merry still has her role to fulfill!’

At that thought, Choi Han’s eyes gleamed.
Merry and Erhafen hadn’t truly fought at full strength either. Both had held back to some degree.
Choi Han understood the reason well, and his gaze toward Kale Heniatus filled with anticipation.

In that moment, the White Star’s mouth opened.

“It’s been a while since I’ve lost a part of my body.”

He gazed indifferently at where his left arm had been torn away, as if it caused him no pain. His expression was one of bewilderment. He lifted his head.

“The day has already broken. Kale Heniatus, what will you do now? Shall we continue fighting?”
“I wonder.”

Kale Heniatus smiled wickedly.

“White Star. I think I should ask whether you want to wipe the blood flowing from your mouth before we fight?”
“Ah, is that so?”

Blood was flowing from the White Star’s mouth as he laughed carelessly. His body was far from normal.
He had continuously expended far more Ancient Powers than Kale Heniatus. His unstable body, having yet to obtain the power of the earth, relentlessly tormented the White Star from within.
And the shock from losing his arm only plunged his insides deeper into agony.

“…What should I do now?”

I muttered to myself while surveying my surroundings.
The invisible Dragon was nowhere to be seen, but everyone else looked terrible. Yet my mind had never been clearer than it was now.

‘The Dark Elves have gone to the Desert.’

It was suspected that the power of the Land of Death would be in the Desert. Of course, the Roan Kingdom was also a candidate, but as long as Choi Han—who had read all of Neran Berow’s memoirs written in that peculiar script—was here.
I had to find the power of the Land of Death in this Desert.

Whether it existed or not, whether it was a trap or not, with insufficient information, I had no choice but to find the power of the Land of Death unless I could break Kale’s vessel and capture Choi Han according to my original plan.

‘In such a situation, the fact that the Dark Elves went to the Desert means Kale Heniatus has set a trap there as well.’

It was laughable.
Realizing that I had to move within Kale’s palm, I could only laugh.

‘Should I just die?’

Having already lost one arm, dying and starting anew would be better. The pain of death was frightening even after experiencing it dozens of times, but I had the certainty that my life would not end.

However, there was a problem.
The other Ancient Powers could be bound to my soul and continued through reincarnation.

“Are you debating whether to die or not?”

Kale spoke while looking at my cracked white mask.

“Yes, I’m considering it.”
“Just die.”

At Kale’s indifferent words, I laughed even more deeply. Toward me, Kale spoke as if he understood everything.

“In the meantime, I’ll find the power of the Land of Death and hide it somewhere you don’t know. Then maybe you’ll have to live another thousand years? Since you’ve done it once, will living another thousand years be easier?”

Kale saw eyes burning with genuine fury. Yet the owner of those eyes answered with a smile.

“Are you mocking my thousand years?”

Heh.
Kale Heniatus answered with a scoff, his mockery only fueling the White Star’s rage.

Yet hovering in the sky, he could see everything unfolding around him.
In the distance, colossal armies surged like waves from all directions—soldiers rushing from every corner of the Caro Kingdom through the night in response to the Crown Prince’s urgent command.

An endless tide of them, soldiers already flushed with victory from the war earlier this year, would soon flood into the Dubori Territory.

‘Our condition is a mess.’

Sayehr and the others—all of them were in terrible shape.
Most of all.

“Shouldn’t you be resting?”

The White Star needed to rest, just as Kale said. With only the final Land’s power left to claim before achieving absolute dominion—he couldn’t afford to die now, not when he was so close.

“It seems you’re the one who needs rest.”

The White Star shot back at Kale’s words. Kale simply nodded in agreement. Drip, drip. Then he opened his mouth, his gaze fixed on the White Star’s bleeding left shoulder.

“Right. Rest you should. I’ll rest for a moment, and you’ll rest forever.”
“You damned bastard!”

The White Star’s face twisted in fury.
In the same instant, he swung his right arm and dodged. Black arrows streaked past where he had been standing.
The invisible Raon trembled on his front legs, conjuring dozens of arrows that targeted the White Star.

Merry flicked her hand.
Snap!
With that sound, the monster bones the Dark Elves had hidden in the desert near the Lord’s Castle rose to their feet. Many of them were flying monster corpses.

“Go.”

At Merry’s signal, the flying monster corpses shot skyward, mingling with the arrows to blanket the heavens. The arrows and bones formed an increasingly dense circle, enclosing the White Star.

“Fire!”

Raon’s voice echoed through the empty air as the arrows surged toward the White Star in unison.

“Mere arrows!”

The White Star unfurled a curtain of water, his complexion deathly pale. And those who surged skyward came to his aid.

“My lord!”
“Hey, I’m here too!”

The Dark Mages and Elisne, who had cast flight magic, ascended together. Sayehr, riding upon a Dark Mage’s back, unleashed arrows of light toward Merry.
At that moment, one who had been observing all of this whispered softly.

“Let’s go.”

Choi Han immediately hoisted Kale Heniatus onto his back at those words. The White Star’s eyes widened the instant he witnessed that sight amidst the torrential barrage of black arrows.

“Seize them!”

His cry proved futile as Kale Heniatus and Choi Han headed toward the Desert. The White Star attempted to pursue them, but flying skeletal monsters swarmed the sky like moths to flame, blocking his path.
Of course, he could destroy them. One by one or all at once—destruction was possible.
But it required time.

Yet the White Star pursued Kale Heniatus and Choi Han relentlessly to the end.

“Hey! Set me down in the Desert!”

Bear King Sayehr grasped the situation before the White Star and, ceasing his barrage of light arrows, descended to the Desert alongside the Dark Mage.
That was when it happened.

“Damn it!”

The White Star’s face contorted as he crushed the skeletal remains scattered across the ground and descended to the earth. Beep. Beep.
The communication device in his possession emitted urgent warnings. His gaze, and that of the Dark Mage who descended alongside him, turned toward the device.
When Sayehr himself dismounted from the Dark Mage’s back and looked toward it, the Dark Mage trembled visibly before both of them and opened his mouth.
As soon as Sayehr dismounted from the Dark Mage’s back and looked at him, the Dark Mage trembled at the gaze of the two and opened his mouth.

“It’s an urgent message from the Eastern Continent.”

No, the Dark Mage’s body trembled more from the content of the video communication than from the two people’s gazes.

“It appears that an intruder has entered inside the primary Boundary Line near Arm First Secret Base.”

The Dark’s secret bases each had a total of three defensive perimeters to detect enemy invasions in advance. The first perimeter of the first secret base had been breached.

“Who! Who invaded us!”

Sayehr’s face contorted. He glared toward the Desert—the direction Kale Heniatus had disappeared.

“Kale Heniatus, did those bastards do this? It must have been them-”
“No, sir! Assassins!”
“…What?”

The Dark Mage continued. Messages were still being transmitted through the communication channel. Urgency was evident in his tone.

“Assassins and mercenaries, sir! But the assassins appear to belong to families from the Eastern Continent’s underworld in the past! They’re using their methods, according to reports!”

Those who had stormed the first secret base were using the secret assassination techniques of families that the Dark had once annihilated.

“And there’s a top-tier Mage as well! Ah! That person is-!”

The Dark Mage immediately spat out the next report.

“That person is Gren, the top-tier Mage of the Mercenary Guild!”

A considerably renowned Mage. Famous for his skill and his close friendship with the Mercenary King. Sayehr’s mouth fell open.

“If Gren is there-”

The Dark Mage cried out as if continuing his thought.

“The one commanding the invaders is the Mercenary King Bud!”

The moment he heard those words, the White Star’s head turned backward. He could see Erhafen and Merry descending onto the City Wall of Dubori Territory. The invisible Dragon should be there as well.
I couldn’t see the expressions of Raon and Merry in her black robes. But I could see the Ancient Dragon smiling. It was a look that said, what can you do about it?

The White Star’s face twisted like a demon. Erhafen deployed a Gold Shield near the City Wall and descended below the Desert as he asked the White Star.

“How does it feel to be completely surrounded and cornered?”

Click. Click.
With the sound of bones colliding, skeletons surrounded the White Star and his subordinates. And from atop the City Wall, archers aimed their bows, Mages began casting attack spells, and Soldiers prepared catapults.

The White Star closed his eyes.

* * *

At that moment, Choi Han was sprinting across the sand.

Whoosh, whoosh.
Kale Heniatus, riding on Choi Han’s back as he dashed across the dunes, closed his eyes with a composed expression and sank into thought.

‘What should I do?’

I planned to sever three of the White Star’s right arms.

Sayehr’s right arm.
One of the White Star’s arms.
And now, Dark is under attack.

What would the White Star think in this situation?
Would he go to protect Dark in his current condition? Or would he attempt to seek out the power of the earth?

-Human! Are we heading to the Eastern Continent now?

Raon was firing black arrows ceaselessly as if he were still attacking from atop the City Wall, but rather than remaining where the White Star was, he had followed Kale Heniatus.

“Our next move depends on what the White Star does-”

Beep beep- beep beep-
The alarm of the communication device rang out loudly. Raon pulled out the communication device.

-Young master.

Ron’s gentle voice came through.

-Shall I go hunting?

The Mercenary King had moved to attack Dark, but the true powerhouses had yet to make their move.
Raon shouted.

“Human! Grandpa says the White Star headed into the desert! Grandpa and kind Merry are pursuing him! According to grandpa, kind Merry sent a signal to the Dark Elves!”

Kale’s mouth opened.

“Ron, are you next to the Dragon Hybrid?”
-Yes, Young Master.
“See you in five minutes.”

Kale spoke to Choi Han and Raon.

“We’re heading to the vicinity of the Arm First Secret Base.”

The first of the two secret bases belonging to ‘Arm’.
It was originally the location where the Molan Family’s Mansion had stood.

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