Trash of the Count's Family

Ancient Dragon Eruhaben stopped moving for a moment because he was feeling both joy and disbelief.

The Lion Dragon pointed its shield and sharp eagle-like talons toward Eruhaben with no visible expression on its face. The claw behind the shield looked ready to twist Eruhaben’s neck off at any moment.

"Ho, hoho-"

Eruhaben didn’t care as he laughed in disbelief.

‘He wants me, while fighting in my true form, to act dead?’

It was more unbelievable the more he thought about it.

Eruhaben was not the only one feeling that way.

"…I’m going to go crazy. Hehe."

A quiet mumbling and laughter flew out of the helmet.

Rosalyn and Choi Han made eye contact with each other while turning to look at Alberu, who was laughing with his head down. Rosalyn brushed back her messy hair as she spoke.

"What should we do?"

Choi Han responded without any hesitation.

"I’m sure Cale-nim has his reasons for all of this."

Rosalyn was thinking the same thing. The two of them looked back at Alberu after confirming that they were both feeling the same way. At that moment…

"Kekeke-"

The place where the three people were currently standing on…

The armored black Bone Dragon’s large body was moving up and down. An oddly joyful Dragon half-blood’s voice could be heard.

"Yes, it should be like this. This is the Cale Henituse I know."

Nobody could say anything against that.

Alberu finally raised his head and looked toward the City Hall.

"As expected of my dongsaeng."

He continued to look at where Cale should be right now as he spoke to the others.

"Based on how Raon-nim’s voice is extremely bright, Cale Henituse should have woken up completely."

Not only was Cale completely woken up, but his mind was also moving faster than it had ever moved before.

‘…He truly is a fearless teacher.’

Mila was observing the cracks on Cale’s body fuse together but couldn’t help but look at the clearheaded Cale in disbelief.

"Teacher, we are going to reach the final stage of Connect Together in a little bit. It’s going to hurt a bit at that point."

"Okay, thank you for letting me know."

‘I can deal with a little bit of pain.’

Cale brushed Mila’s words aside. Unfortunately, Cale and Raon did not know Mila very well. If Dodori was here, he would be saying, no, he would be shouting, ‘The ‘little bit’ my mom is talking about is enough pain to pierce a hole through a mountain!’

Cale was thinking through things one by one without knowing what kind of pain he would experience in the final stage of Connect Together that would soon arrive.

‘…The White Star used his head quite a bit.’

Cale was thinking that the White Star was quite smart about his course of action this time.

If the information Ron heard from the Cat tribe leader was correct…

The doors to the temple of the sealed god would open once they kill this guardian.

Ancient Dragon Eruhaben and their allies who did not know that had no choice but to kill this unranked monster that appeared in Puzzle City.

This Lion Dragon was a different opponent, even with everybody on their side charging against it together. Cale’s side would suffer quite a lot of damage trying to kill this

The White Star just had to take care of the weakened enemy after Cale’s side killed the Lion Dragon and opened the temple doors for him.

"It’s killing two birds with one stone for the White Star."

There was a reason the White Star had not appeared.

Cale’s forces would put all of their efforts toward taking care of the Lion Dragon only if he wasn’t there.

‘That’s why I’m certain he is watching from somewhere.’

The White Star… Was definitely around Puzzle City.

He would be doing something similar to Cale, who was watching the scene through the office terrace window. That bastard should be watching what was happening, waiting for the most opportune moment.

He would have no problem waiting as long as he needed to do so since he has already waited a long time through numerous lives.

‘So I need to make it impossible for him to wait.’

Cale needed to make the White Star anxious. He needed to make it so that the results the White Star was looking for would not appear.

Only then would the White Star show himself.

Cale looked toward Raon and motioned with his eyes.

Raon nodded his head, and Cale started to speak.

"I heard that the Lion Dragon just maintained a defensive position without attacking anybody until Eruhaben-nim appeared."

Those words were delivered to their allies on the battlefield in Raon’s voice through his magic.

Cale’s points were delivered to Eruhaben’s mind in Raon’s voice as well.

– Ron Molan contacted me about the ‘temple door.’

The temple door.

Guardian.

The Lion Dragon.

The sealed god.

All of those pieces of information were quickly delivered to Eruhaben, Choi Han, Mary, Rosalyn, Alberu… It started with them and then some others as well.

"Ha!"

Alberu scoffed while Rosalyn’s eyes clouded over.

"So we are going to make him tag in instead?"

Some of them heard Cale’s message once again.

– That is why we are going to pretend as if we have lost to the Lion Dragon.

– It is highly likely that the Lion Dragon will stop attacking as soon as Eruhaben-nim pretends to be dead. It is possible that it could attack again, but we can proceed with a different plan at that point.

– But if the Lion Dragon stops attacking after Eruhaben-nim is defeated as we expect…

Alberu opened his mouth at that moment.

He heard Raon’s voice at the same time.

"It’ll be an endless stalemate."

– It should turn into a stalemate.

The Lion Dragon would focus on defense, as it had done earlier.

The Roan Kingdom’s forces would not be able to easily attack because the ancient Dragon had fallen.

It would be an extremely tense situation that could go on for days without ending.

– The bastard who would be the most anxious about that stalemate is…

Eruhaben looked toward the Lion Dragon that was observing him and started to speak.

"The White Star."

– That damn White Star bastard.

The Dragon half-blood started to speak.

"The antsiest bastard will step up."

That was exactly what Cale was thinking.

– We need to make it so that that damn White Star bastard fights against the Lion Dragon.

Everybody’s eyes clouded over as they heard Raon’s voice.

They were able to imagine the rest at this point.

Alberu raised his gun again.

"While we look to be in despair after ‘losing’ to the Lion Dragon, we will make the White Star, who needs to quickly open the temple, fight the difficult battle against the Lion Dragon."

He then started to smile.

Once both the Lion Dragon… and the White Star…

Once they are both tired and weary…

– In that final moment… We just need to take everything away from them.

The Lion Dragon’s life… The White Star’s life…

And even the sealed god’s existence.

They were hearing Raon’s voice, but it oddly felt as if they were hearing Cale’s relaxed and nonchalant voice.

"How entertaining."

The moment Alberu said those words…

Swiiiiiish— Swiiiiiiiish—-!

A strong gust of wind started to roar around them.

"Ugh."

Even Archie, who was watching from the ground, had to cover his eyes with his arm and step back as he was suppressed by the strength of the wind.

"…T, that is?!"

The golden dust that had covered the sky over Puzzle City as if it was the Milky Way started to gather in one spot.

There was a large golden whirlwind with Eruhaben at the center.

Archie walked over to Witira. (TL: Author likes to use descriptors like ancient Dragon Eruhaben, and this sentence was ‘Whale Archie walked over to Future Whale Queen Witira,’ but I’m just going to drop those filler words. Good? Good. K thx