Trash of the Count's Family - TCF Part 2 - Chapter 50

Cale complained that the blood cultist was slow. Raon said that if he was slow, the emperor would come here. Raon smiled, and the blood cultist was startled as the dragon’s smiling face resembled the Purifier. Cale said that if the emperor did come, he would destroy everything here as well as the imperial palace before running away.
The blood cultist did not answer, but inwardly, he wanted that to happen too. He did not care about the Black Blood family or the imperial palace. What mattered to him was his only god, the Blood Demon. But he stopped walking and looked back after hearing Cale’s next words.
Cale: After all this mess, I’ll definitely keep you alive and bring you. To the Central Plains. And I will meet the Blood Demon and tell him. That thanks to you, I was able to make a mess like this, that I got to meet him, and that I will make a mess of the Blood Cult too.
Blood cultist: …!
Cale: It’s all thanks to you.
Blood cultist: …
Cale: And I have to tell him. That you decided to become a priest of the Church of the Fire of Purification. That you said that the Blood Cult was trash.
Blood cultist: …!
Cale: Ah, that sounds like fun, right?
Blood cultist: You good faction-like bastard.
Cale: Oh, thanks for the compliment. But if we make it through this tomb well, I’ll at least bring you to the Central Plains and tell them that you did not betray them until the end. And how devoted you were to the Blood Cult.
Blood cultist: …Follow me.
Raon said that he did not understand why Cale was doing all that and talking about the man’s devotion to his cult. Raon thought that it was just a waste of time. But for Cale, he saw a lot of use for this man. He thought that the blood cultist was easy to handle. Cale planned to bring this man to the Roan Kingdom once and then to the Central Plains.
If the blood cultist had heard of Cale’s thoughts, he would truly want to faint at that moment. Cale wanted to use the man as a guide to the Blood Cult. He then asked the man for his name, but there was no reply. He asked the man if he was even given a name, but the man continued to disable the trap. The blood cultist then explained that there were 5 traps along the road, and that he just disabled one.
Cale clapped his hands and applauded the man for a job well done. The blood cultist was silent, and Cale asked again what his name was. Cale recalled that in the martial novels he read, those who secretly worked in sects or cults did not have any names sometimes. So he asked the man how old he was, but there was still no reply. Cale sighed and said that the man must be a skilled person and belonged to the top 10.
Cale asked if the man was rank 5, but the man did not reply. Cale guessed again and asked if he was rank 7. Raon exclaimed that the man’s pupils shook at that number, and the man frowned. Cale concluded that he had guessed right that the man was ranked seventh. Cale used his Wind AP to pick up the pace.
Cale: Well, your world’s Blood Cult is quite bad. Not even giving you a name.
Raon: Human, that’s right! Names are important! My name is a very great name!
The blood cultist, now nicknamed as Number Seven, wanted to curse. He was a bit scared because of the Purifier using a power akin to a god. Furthermore, he had never seen such a man speak with a glib tongue in front of the Blood Cult. Usually, those who faced the Blood Cult were scared, hostile, or prostrated themselves.
Cale: Tsk, tsk. Your Blood Cult is not progressive at all. What’s with no. 7? Number Seven? If you’re that loyal to them, they should have given you a name. What’s so hard about that?
Number Seven was angry, but was helpless against the three whom he deemed as powerful. So he decided to just do his job quickly. After all, they would knock him out afterwards. But he suddenly felt strangely anxious, and wondered if they would really let him faint once he was done with his job. Number Seven continued to disable the traps.
Every time he released a trap, Cale would clap and praise him for doing his job well. Even Raon clapped together with Cale and praised the man. Number Seven could only frown and ignore them. The group reached a hallway with ten doors. Cale recalled Sanders telling him that there were 11 rooms here. In the 1st room was gold treasures. The 2nd room had gems, the 3rd room had weapons crafted from magic gems, and so on.
And in the last 11th room was where the corpses were. Cale also recalled Eruhaben’s words. Sanders had asked Eruhaben what the 2nd test was about, and Eruhaben replied that it had a hide-and-seek theme. Sanders had laughed at that because he had first discovered the underground when he played hide-and-seek with Noi back then.
It meant that the emperor knew that Sanders was alive. And that the emperor was sending a message to Sanders to show up and come to the public execution ground. Back to the present, the group reached the end of the hallway. Number Seven explained that there were no traps in Area 5. But there was a transparent wall here.
Number Seven said that Area 5 was full of dead chi. Cale asked if the people in the Central Plains called dead mana as ‘dead chi’ there. Number Seven said yes, and continued that the dead chi behind the transparent wall was very deadly, so they needed protective gear to enter. But Cale passed through the wall calmly.
The place was dark, so Cale used his Fire AP to burn some of the dead mana surrounding him. Raon created a shield around Cale, and CH and Number Seven entered the shield. Number Seven wanted to curse and get away from this Purifier. As the group continued walking, Cale noticed that the purified areas were quickly filled with dead mana again.
He was only using 0.1% of his Fire AP here. But if the purified areas were quickly filled, it meant that there was a constant source of dead mana here. Just like the dead mana that the Black Tree constantly spewed out. The group arrived in front of the door of the 11th room. The door was quite large and was the width of three adults.
Cale ordered Number Seven to open it, but the latter hesitated. Cale asked if there were traps that triggered when the door was opened, and Number Seven replied that he did not know since he had never opened this door. Cale said that the solution was simple. He used his Fire AP as he grabbed the doorknob.
Raon used a soundproofing magic as Cale melted the doorknob, thus opening the door. Cale said that if they did not know, they would find out once they break it. If there was a trap, they could just destroy it. Number Seven closed his eyes tightly and wished to faint at this very moment. The group then saw what was inside the room.
CH muttered ‘crazy bastards’ and Number Seven got the chills upon hearing that. The room was a huge circular space spanning several tens of meters. Countless coffins were erected vertically. The coffins were made of clear glass, so one could completely see the corpses inside. And it wasn’t just human corpses there.