Trash of the Count’s Family

face.
Human! You look really evil right now!

Raon shouted with joy while the middle-aged man wearing glasses shouted as well.

“Y, you evil bastard-!”
”Who is calling whom an evil bastard? He’s better than you! You ’re a bastard who deserves to get his f*cking head ripped off!”

Cale was not the one to respond.
He turned his gaze in shock.
Jopis was warmly and elegantly looking at the injured boy as if she had not said anything.

Cale was at a loss for words for a moment but quickly snapped out of it.
Then one corner of his lips went up.

“It’s probably best to burn it up without any remains to get rid of this fake, right?”
“What?”

The middle-aged man wearing glasses looked ready to attack Cale at any moment.
However, Cale pointed at the knights.

“Make them withdraw.”
“You bastard-!”
“Enough.
Do as Cale Henituse says.”

The Minister of Finance responded and looked toward Elisneh.
Elisneh who was standing there holding her shoulder with a frown on her face nodded her head and started to speak.

“All knights move back and come this way.”

The Knight Captain had no idea why they wanted him to retreat, but he slowly started to move as he needed to follow the order.

He looked around.
Once he moved back, he saw that the rear was full of assassins and the Elves while the front had the Dark Elves and Mary.

“Cale-nim.”

Choi Han was the only one to walk up to Cale who was holding the tree.
Of course, Raon had been by Cale’s side since earlier.
Cale was not looking at him.

Cale saw it.

”Raon, go protect Jopis.”

Elisneh was stealthily peeking at Jopis.
She was looking at Jopis as if she was looking at prey.

Elisneh and Cale made eye contact at that moment.
Both people realized it at the same time.
They realized they had been looking at the same thing.

Elisneh the First started to speak.

“Capture Jopis!”

The three shamans on wind horses instantly released a lot of energy.
They seemed to have been waiting for this moment as well.

“Go!”
“Go!”

Ooooooong-

A large fire tiger and numerous feather arrows moved toward Mary’s skeleton monsters.
The wind horse caused a strong gust of wind to make the fire burn stronger and the feathers fly faster.

“Mary! Tasha!”

Cale called out to his people and the Dark Elves and Mary started to move.

“Choi Han!”

He then called for Choi Han.
Choi Han was already in the air heading toward Elisneh.
I’ll help too! I’ll pull that wind horse down!

Raon headed toward Choi Han to help him as well.
It could not be helped.

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Ooooooong-

Elisneh ’s eyes turned red.
Her left hand that was holding her right shoulder let go and started to form hand signs as well.

“Ugh!”
“Ugh!”

Some of the knights stumbled.
However, most of the knights’ eyes turned blank and they pulled out their swords.

“Kill the rebels.”
“Kill the rebels.”
“Kill the rebels.”

Half of the knights headed toward the skeleton monsters while speaking without any emotion.

The other half got in Choi Han ’s way.

Choi Han pointed his sword at the knights as Elisneh started to speak.

“They are all innocent.
Is it okay for them to get hurt?”

Elisneh smiled as she said that.
Choi Han ’s eyes opened wide at that moment.
It was because he noticed something.

“…What-”

‘A medium?’

A small staff was in her dangling right hand.
It was black and looked somewhat disgusting.

Something like that in an Illusionist ’s hand could only be a medium.
But Choi Han had destroyed her medium which had been a bracelet.

What could be going on?
However, Choi Han realized the identity of that black staff before he could question what was going on.

‘That’s the fake World Tree!’

He was certain that was one of the fake World Tree ’s branches.
It was his intuition.
That staff was pointed at Cale.

“Cale-nim!”

Choi Han subconsciously turned his body and looked toward Cale.
He just realized that neither he nor Raon were by Cale’s side right now.
Everybody was currently away trying to protect Jopis or attack Elisneh.

That meant that currently, the only things next to Cale were the imugi, the fire…
And lastly…

Choi Han realized something at that moment.

The last thing by Cale ’s side…
That was the fake World Tree.

“F*ck!”

Cale realized that fact as well.
His hand let go of the fake World Tree ’s branch.
He faintly heard the black tree’s voice at that instant.
…Control…this is not…my will…I ’m sorry…I don ’t want to die…I don’t want to burn……

The timid voice that was full of fear and despair became faint.
Elisneh who was looking toward Cale moved her staff as her eyes turned red.

“Move.”

She was not looking at Cale nor Jopis.
All of that had been an act.

Booboboboooooooooom-

The large black tree charged toward the human covered in fire without any hesitation.
The fake World Tree that was being controlled and moving according to Elisneh ’s will showed no hesitation.

“Shit!”

Cale had let go of the branch the moment Elisneh had taken out her new medium, but he could not avoid the branch that had already been close to him.

Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiizzle-

The branch started to burn.
The black tree branch turned into rose gold ashes.
It definitely looked like a tree that had absorbed dead mana.
Hey, hey.
What do you want me to do? Should I burn it up? Isn’t it being controlled?

He heard the anxious voice of the Fire of Destruction.

“Ugh! Damn it!”

Cale couldn’t help but groan at the branch that was persistently trying to tie him down without being afraid of burning.
It was at that moment.

“Cale-nim! I will cut it!” Human!

Choi Han and Raon had instantly returned toward Cale.

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Raon had already created a large mana hand to rip apart the branch that was imprisoning Cale.
However, Cale started to speak.

“Move! Step back!”

He did not let Choi Han or Raon approach him.
He shouted toward the confused Choi Han and Raon.

“It’s not the tree!”

Elisneh had not been looking at Jopis, Cale, nor the tree.
All of those were tricks.

“It ’s the sky!”

Cale raised his head as he shouted.
Choi Han raised his head and realized something at that moment.

The maze’s ceiling.
That distant ceiling was the trap that Elisneh the First used to place people under illusions.
That ceiling was her territory.
No matter how much they moved inside the maze, they were all under her territory.
He realized this fact too late.

“Ah.”

Choi Han gasped.
Elisneh had not told the tree to move.
She had told the sky.

Choi Han saw a flashing light.

That was the end.
That light shot down as soon as he saw it.

“Get them away!”

Choi Han heard Cale shout at the same time and saw the stone imugi push him and the invisible Raon away.

He saw the light, the thunderbolt strike down while being pushed away by the imugi.
It was so white that he could not see anything for an instant.

However, that light accurately landed on Cale.

Boooooooom-

A large explosion occurred.

He heard Elisneh ’s voice at that moment.

“No matter how much you run around on the ground, you are still underneath my sky.”

She saw her smiling leisurely as if this was her true expression.
However, Choi Han ’s expression did not change at all at her sneering.
Choi Han, did you hear it?

It was a quiet voice that only Choi Han and Raon had heard the moment the white light struck down.

“Elisneh cannot use magic.
I ’m sure it is an illusion.
I ’ll snap out of it soon.”

It had been Cale.
Choi Han was waiting for Cale to show up as the explosion and the white light disappeared.
He just needed to wait a few seconds.

“…Cale-nim.”

He then saw an unconscious Cale.

The world had turned white before it turned dark.

“Ugh.”

However, Cale had to open his eyes as someone was shaking him.
He then saw a white light.

‘It’s a lamp….Hmm? …A lamp?’

It was a fluorescent lamp.
He then felt someone shaking him.

“Team leader-nim, team leader-nim! Are you not going to get up?”
“…Who the hell?”

‘Why are you here?’

Cale touched his neck.

“Why else?! I came here because someone whose vacation was over didn ’t show up for work!”
“What?”

Cale turned his head.
There was a book next to him.

< ‘The Birth of a Hero Volume 5 >

Cale looked at his subordinate who stopped shaking him and started to clean up the room as well as the calendar on top of the table.
It was the next day after he had read, ‘The Birth of a Hero.’

What Cale faced was his life he should have continued as Kim Rok Soo.