Trash of the Count’s Family - Chapter 99

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Thump. Crash. Crash. The group was repeatedly buried in piles of cotton, then jolted upright. Each time they rose, they all shared the same reaction.

“and.”

Nyaaaaaaa!

“Hey.”

Admiration flowed out of my mouth. underground city. Just hearing the name gave me a dark and gloomy feeling. But the city I actually encountered was sparkling.

Twinkling lights were moving around on the communal ceiling, which was so high that it seemed impossible to reach. There was a stream flowing on one side, and there were fields and rice paddies on both sides of the stream.
Glittering lights danced across the vaulted ceiling far overhead, impossibly high. A stream flowed on one side, with fields and paddies flanking both banks. Trees grew tall in places, forming forests.

“How can this place be like this?”

Wizard Rosalind had an expression of disbelief. I didn’t have any preconceptions about dark elves, but when I first heard that there was a hidden city in the Land of the Dead, I easily agreed. I heard that dark elves gain strength from the presence of dead things. Rosalind, who uses natural mana, was naturally reluctant to use dead mana.

At that time, Keiji’s voice reached her ear.

“After all, death is also natural.”

She looked at Cage. Cage seemed to take this scene for granted. And it was natural for Cale as well.

“Is it a spirit?”

Cale looked at Tasha.

“It’s a force of nature.”

It was said to be the power of the spirit.

Although they gain strength from dead mana, dark elves were creatures of the natural world. A race of darkness and elves. They could manipulate spirits and use dead mana.

Tasha opened her arms to the dark elves approaching Kale and her group from afar.

“It’s been a while!”

At the words she spoke lightly with a cool smile, three dark elves who were approaching came running.

“You bastard!”
“You brat!”

Two people beat Tasha severely. The other person greeted Cale politely.

“Nice to meet you. I’ll take you to your accommodation first.”
“Welcome. Allow me to guide you to your lodging first.”
“Sheon, it’s been so long!”

The man named Sean didn’t seem to hear Tasha approach him and say hello.

“Hey, Sean. Are you upset?”
“Come on, Sheon. Are you upset?”

No, I wasn’t pretending not to hear it, I was just ignoring it. Cale chuckled and answered Sean’s words.

“I don’t have any luggage. Please guide me.”

Sean looked at Cale. I saw Cale smiling softly.

“…I heard you’re a nobleman, so you can talk to me comfortably.”
“…I heard you were nobility, so you needn’t be so formal.”

It was a kale that there was no way to refuse.
Kale was incapable of refusal.

As we entered the city, it looked a little better. What was surprising was that nature was located in a huge underground cavity.

“It’s more developed than most cities, right?”

Tasha asked Cale as if she were proud.
Tasha asked Kale with evident pride.

But Cale didn’t answer that question. He first saw other sights in the city.

“There are people too.”

A gentle smile appeared on Tasha’s lips.

‘I see.’

As I entered the city, I saw dark elves. But I also saw some people. One out of ten people was human.

One of the five wonders. land of death.
One of the Five Great Mysteries. The Land of Death.

Cale opened his mouth.

“There was a reason why those who ran away to the desert could not return.”

The dark elves who were guarding and guiding him smiled at his words. Tasha answered with a shrug.

“We can’t let them die. We are dark elves with a history of running away.”

Having run away before, I understand the feelings of those who run away to this place called the Land of the Dead to survive. The desperation to run away even though I knew I would die. The dark elf knew this.

Cale was truly impressed.

“That’s amazing.”

It was a great thing.

Although they did not cause any particular harm to humans, the dark elves were a race that ran away after being criticized by humans because the place they lived was associated with death.
Though they had caused no harm to humans, the Dark Elves were a race condemned and forced to flee because their dwelling place was associated with death.

Dark elves were definitely different from elves who did not like to mix with humans.
Indeed, the Dark Elves differed from the Elves who disdained mingling with humans.

“I understand why nature loves dark elves.”

In a different sense from the nature-friendly elf, nature has given the dark elf a place in the product.
In a different sense from the nature-affinity of Elves, nature had granted the Dark Elves a place within her embrace.

“Well, this is all thanks to the characteristics of this land.”

Kale looked at the dark elf named Shawn. He raised his glasses slightly and continued. His eyes briefly fell on the wizard Rosalyn and then fell.

“This is the land of death. We don’t know why, but the energy of death resides in this desert. And once or twice a year, a small amount of dead mana blooms between the desert sands.”

Cale winked at the crazy priest Keiji. She nodded to Cale.

“This desert is full of the energy of death. But it is not evil. It is just the energy of death that should leave according to the natural order of nature.”
“This desert is saturated with death’s aura. But it is not malevolent. It is simply the aura of death lingering where it should have departed according to nature’s course.”
“You must be a Priest of the God of Death.”

Sean started talking but stopped at Cage’s bright answer.
Sheon had begun to speak but faltered at Kaige’s serene response.

“Maybe it’s a land given by the God of Death. Just because it’s a dark race that needs dead mana, it doesn’t necessarily mean there are only evil people.”

Kale continued speaking to the dark elves looking at me.

“There are many crazy or evil people among humans. Wouldn’t it be similar?”
“Humans have their share of madmen and villains too. It’s no different, is it?”

Ron agreed. Shawn glanced at this and then smiled awkwardly at Ron’s pretended benevolent smile. Tasha looked at them all and came to a beautiful conclusion.

“Anyway, it’s a nice city to live in.”

It was correct.

Cale arrived at the dorm. It was a pretty nice inn.

“This is the first time a guest has stayed here.”
“This is the first time we have had guests stay here.”

Sean nodded.

“This is an inn for guests only, thinking we might be able to find another dark elf village, but we haven’t been able to find it. And the people who come here are not in a condition to stay at the inn.”
“We built this guest inn hoping we might discover other Dark Elf villages, but we have not yet found any. And those who do arrive here are rarely in a state to lodge at an inn.”

Sean calmly answered the question Choi Han asked without thinking.

“Most of them are malnourished, dehydrated, or in a state of fear after facing the dark elves and the land of the dead. So, we move them to the ward right away.”

Sean approached the innkeeper.

“The first customer has arrived.”
“Our first guest has arrived.”

The innkeeper was human. An old man with white hair who looked to be in his 70s even clapped and welcomed Cale and his group.

“Oh, nice to meet you, sir. Even though I look like this, I am the longest-living human in this village. I know the geography as well as my dark elf brothers!”

Tasha whispered to the group.

“For your information, Sean is the same age as me.”

Cale shook hands with the inn owner.

“Please take care of me during your stay, host.”
“I appreciate your hospitality during our stay, proprietor.”
“Of course. Welcome to the City of Life.”

The old man smiled brightly and answered the puzzled Kale.

“Yes. That’s what we call it.”
“Yes. That is what we call it.”

Cale answered briefly and asked Sean.

“Now that I know where to stay, I want to see the market right away.”
“Now that we’ve secured lodging, I’d like to visit the Market Master’s Office immediately.”

The mayor was staying in a three-story building.
The Market Master’s Office occupied a three-story building.

“This is the building where the officials in charge of the city’s administration work.”

It was definitely different from the elves who lived like gurus in nature without any bureaucrats or official positions. They were dark elves who lived quite similarly to humans.
It was distinctly different from the Elves, who lived like hermits in nature without bureaucracy or official ranks. The Dark Elves lived in a manner quite similar to humans.

Tasha noticed where Cale’s gaze landed.

“Most of the humans who came here were illiterate. Many wanted farming or technology rather than writing. However, all children born in this land go through the same education process as young dark elves.”

Cale once wondered which place in the West Continent was most similar to Earth.

‘Here it is.’

At least this underground city was most similar to Earth.
This Underground City was the closest thing to Earth he’d found.

“This is the mayor’s office.”

I saw an ordinary wooden door. Sean pointed to the door and opened his mouth.

“In our city, the oldest person usually serves as mayor. The current mayor is 521 years old-”

It was then.
That was when it happened.
Click, click, click.

And soon.

Jump up!

The door to the mayor’s office opened urgently.

“City, Mayor?”

An old dark elf appeared, with a white beard and stylishly trimmed white hair that contrasted with his black skin.
An elderly Dark Elf emerged, his dark skin contrasting sharply with his pristine white beard and meticulously groomed white hair.

“This energy!”

Confusion appeared on Sean’s face. He glanced at Cale and his group and then approached the mayor.

“Mayor, why are you doing this?”

Tasha also approached the mayor. His attitude was a little different from Sean’s.

“Grandpa, what’s wrong?”

grandfather? Cale paused for a moment at those words. Is it because he is close to the mayor that he calls him grandfather? Or is it kinship?
Grandfather? At that word, Kale paused for a moment. Was the Market Master calling him that because they were close? Or was there a blood relation between them?

“It’s been a while since my granddaughter came! Why does she look so surprised?”

As expected, Tasha was the granddaughter.

‘… After all, if you become a crown prince, there is no way your background is weak.’

It turned out that Crown Prince Albert’s background was not easy. No, it was huge. Cale looked at Tasha and the mayor with a bewildered expression. At that time, the mayor and Cale’s gaze collided.

It seemed like the market was only looking at kale from earlier.
The Market Master seemed to have been watching only Kale this entire time.

“Ho, perhaps.”

My voice was trembling.
His voice trembled.

The old dark elf took out a handkerchief with trembling hands and wiped his forehead, swallowing repeatedly.

“Well, I heard you had the mana of a dead dragon.”

weird.
This was strange.

“Perhaps Confucius is a dragon-”

Shawn and Tasha’s movements suddenly stopped. Choi Han’s pupils shook.

“no.”

Cale spoke firmly.

“That’s not a dragon.”

Shawn and Tasha made expressions that said, “That’s right,” in response to that calmness and determination that even seemed absurd. But the market was different.

“I can definitely feel the energy of the dragon! I can feel the power of the dragon near Confucius. The power that controls nature!”

As expected, the Jjambap didn’t seem to be going anywhere.

-That old dark elf has a pretty good sense.

Raon, who had become invisible and was floating behind Cale, was interested. Either way, Cale clearly stated the facts.

“I’m not a dragon.”
“I am not a Dragon.”

The dark elf seemed to have calmed down a little now. He continued wiping the sweat from his forehead and muttering.

“I have seen the dragon once before. The energy is the same as then. My spirit, the first time I saw the dragon, says it is similar to that time too.”

This time Cale stopped. What did you see? A spirit saw that too? The most difficult being to scam was a spirit.

-what? dragon?

Raon suddenly showed interest.
Raon’s interest surged suddenly.

It was then.

“Mayor, I came because you called me.”

For a moment, Cale thought it was the navigation voice. A calm but strangely machine-like female voice came from behind me.

“Are you waiting here?”

Cale turned around. Standing there was an invisible person wrapped in black robes from head to toe.
Kale turned around. A figure stood before him, wrapped entirely from feet to head in a black robe, obscuring everything.

-hmm? Even though I’m human, why do I have dark attributes? That person is a perfect human?

also.
As I suspected.
There were few ways for a human to possess one hundred percent darkness attribute.
My intuition was correct.

“Are you really, really not Dragon?”
“Are you truly not a Dragon, sir?”

Cale sighed as he looked at the mayor, who was looking at him with a face filled with genuine disbelief and, above all, fear. Cale entered the mayor’s office. The group followed awkwardly behind them.
I exhaled deeply as I observed the Market Master staring at me with an expression of genuine disbelief, his face saturated with fear above all else. I stepped into the Market Master’s Office, and my companions awkwardly followed in my wake.

Inside the quiet mayor’s office, Cale opened his mouth.

“Raon.”

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