Trash of the Count’s Family

.’

That had been the case.
The Wind Elementals had said that the Lion King was an Elementalist, however, they had not found an Elemental.

‘We were wrong.’

‘The Wind Elementals made a mistake?’

Cale subconsciously started to speak.

“You mean Dorph isn’t an Elementalist?”

His voice was loud enough that Mary, Choi Han, and Raon all jerked their heads toward him.
Cale didn’t have time to pay attention to their gazes.
Why?

‘That bastard ate an Elemental.’

‘Huh? What did he just say?’

‘He ate a Darkness Elemental.
He then received the Elemental’s powers.’

‘Is something like that even possible?’

‘That is why the World Tree wishes to speak to you.’

‘Damn.’

Cale was at a loss for words.

‘Eat an Elemental? How?’

‘We were unable to see an Elemental because the Darkness Elemental has been absorbed into that bastard ’s body.’
“Ho.”

The Wind Elemental continued to speak to Cale who could only sigh.

Sponsored Content

‘There is a baby Elemental I protected for a year in the past.’

‘What is he talking about now?’

Cale started to frown after being unable to understand the flow of this Wind Elemental ’s statements.
The Wind Elemental still continued to say what he wanted to say.

‘It is a baby Fire Elemental specialized in destruction.
It can destroy darkness as well.
It says it wants to help you.’

‘…Oh?’

Cale’s eyes sparkled at this new information.

‘There’s a Fire Elemental that has similar powers as the cheapskate?’

Elementals determine their paths once they are born as they choose their disposition, with their appearance changing based on their disposition and creating their own unique character.

Normal Fire Elementals would find it difficult to fight against darkness like the cheapskate.
This was the case for the few Fire Elementals that some of the Dark Elf warriors possessed.

But there was a Fire Elemental capable of destroying darkness?

That meant that Cale would have more strategies he could use in battle.

‘However, that baby Elemental needs an Elementalist to help it.’

‘Ah, right.’

Cale subconsciously nodded his head.
An Elemental needed an Elementalist, Elf, or Dark Elf to use its strength properly.
A contract needed to be completed in order to speak to an Elemental.
Someone like Cale who could speak to all Wind Elementals was a special case.

“…Do you want me to introduce an Elf or Dark Elf that Fire Elemental might be interested in contracting?”
‘No need.’

The Wind Elemental instantly rejected the offer.

‘That baby Fire Elemental has a human he wants to contract.
It is a human who has the potential to become an Elementalist.’

‘Oh! There’s such a person?’

Elementalists were the rarest of professions.

‘I brought the baby Fire Elemental with me.
Can I tell you what it is saying since you can’t hear the voices of Fire Elementals?’
“Of course.”

Cale happily nodded his head.
It was a chance where he might be able to gain another useful ally.

‘It is talking.’

The Wind Elemental started to repeat the baby Fire Elemental ’s words.

‘Fiery thunderbolt, sea of fire, admiration.’

‘Hmm?’

‘Proficiency in sea of fire completed.
Create a sea of fire for darkness and chaos.
I am a great and mighty Fire capable of destruction.
Respect Raon Miru, extremely respect the Fire of Destruction, my role model.’

Cale subconsciously started to speak.

“…What the hell? You brought a weird-”

‘It brought a weird one with it?’

He heard a satisfied voice as he started to frown.

‘A great Elemental like me, agree with chaos, despair, destruction.’

It was the Wind Elemental.

‘It brought something similar to it!’

Cale was starting to get a headache because of this Wind Elemental that brought a baby Fire Elemental that was shouting for destruction, chaos, and despair just like it.
The Wind Elemental didn ’t care and continued to repeat the baby Fire Elemental ’s words.

‘We met before.
I walked you out.
The red furball.
That is me.’
“Hmm?”

Cale recalled when he went to visit the World Tree in the past.
He had visited an inn at that time.
It was a small inn run by a grandma and her grandson.
Cale recalled the grandson ’s words when he stopped there for meal and drinks on their way out.

“Excuse me, guest-nim.”

Sponsored Content

Sully, the innkeeper ’s grandson, had been looking not at Cale but the empty air around him.

‘I ’m sorry, I’m not sure if something is wrong with my eyes.
Ah, this is really weird.’

That innocent young man had mumbled for a bit before pointing to a spot in the air.

‘There seems to be a small and round red ball that looks like a ball of red fur? Am, am I hallucinating? Ah, what is wrong with me?’

That red furball was the baby Fire Elemental that had said that it respected Cale and wanted to walk him out when Cale was leaving the Elf Village where the World Tree resided.
Adite, the Elf priestess who served the World Tree, had said the following.

‘If it is okay with you, one of our, mm, this baby fire Elemental-nim that was born less than a year ago would like to escort you to the entrance of the village outside the lake.
Would that be okay?’

She had also explained why the Fire Elemental wanted to do that.

‘The Elemental-nim said that it respects Cale-nim and really wants to escort you to the point that it whine-, no, sincerely asked.’
‘…It respects me?’
‘Yes sir.
It said that it had never seen such a destructive and crazy fire before! It wants to be like it!’

The thing that the one-year-old Elemental had said was that it wanted to be like the crazy Fire of Destruction.
The Fire Elemental that had chosen its path had grown in that direction.

“…Crazy.”

Cale could not help but be shocked.
The Wind Elemental didn’t care and continued to repeat the Fire Elemental ’s words.

‘The human I want to contract with keeps ignoring me.
Treats me like a furball.
I am a great and mighty fire! Help me contract with him.
I want to create seas of fire everywhere! Chaos, despair, destruction of darkness! We must destroy it at all costs!’

Cale oddly started to feel iffy.
He chose to step back for now.

“Let’s save the rest of this for later when I go see the World Tree.”

The Wind Elemental immediately shared the Fire Elemental’s response.

‘The World Tree-nim said I have a high chance of burning the lake and to return when I became an adult.
I cannot go.
I have a house I stay in.
It is the contractor’s house.
The contractor keeps having nightmares.’
“Haaaa.”

Cale let out a sigh.

“What ’s wrong?”

The Wind Elemental started to speak as Cage approached Cale with concern.

‘By the way, I saw how you used your wind together with the fire.
Our baby Fire Elemental and I decided to combine our powers.
We will create a fiery whirlwind! A great and mighty fiery whirlwind!’

Cale hesitated for a moment before looking toward Cage and the others and starting to speak.

“It looks like something good has happened.”

It seemed like a good thing, so why did he feel so iffy?
Cale sighed while looking at the solemn seas of the North.
The others looked toward him with odd expressions, but Cale weakly continued to speak.

“Let’s go take care of things.”

There was a lot they needed to do.

Hair as red as blood was shaking in the wind.

“It looks like summer is slowly leaving us.”

The northern winds were brushing past the person ’s cheeks.
The person who was staring at the cold ocean with a glacier visible in the far distance started to speak.

“What is it?”

A gentle voice reached him at that moment.

“Cale Barrow, what are you thinking about?”

The red-haired man started to frown as he turned around.
A fatigued but handsome face and cold eyes looked toward the person who came to see him.

Barrow.

All Dragon Slayers dropped their own last names and took the last name of Barrow when they became Dragon Slayers.
Their first name was the only thing tying the Dragon Slayers to their lives prior to taking on the role.

The red-haired man covered his face with a white mask in his hand.
He started to speak again once his handsome face was covered.

“…Sayeru, you will die the moment you say that damn old name one more time.”

The White Star had a cold smile on his face.
He didn’t need a name he had for a short duration during his 1,000 years of life.