Trash of the Count's Family - TCF Part 2 - Chapter 69

Cale felt uneasy at Eruhaben’s short reply, but decided to focus on the important tasks first. The red fog slowly dispersed, and Cale entered the largest room at the end of the hallway. It was the room with the dragon corpses. They all saw how the red smoke purified the Jiangshi. The red smoke with gold light was being sucked into the Jiangshi, purifying them.
The dragon corpses sucked a lot of smoke compared to the other corpses, and returned to its original form. Raon was surprised, and Eruhaben muttered in joy and relief that the dragons could finally rest in peace. The dragon corpses gradually turned to dust starting from the head and disappeared. The green, scarlet, and yellow dragons became dust of various colors and spread into the air.
It replaced the disappearing red smoke, filling the space. Eruhaben muttered “Finally,” and Raon released his invisibility to sit next to Eruhaben. CH commented that it was amazing, and Sui said that it was a lot of mana. Mana emanated from the purified dragons, and from the dust the dragon corpses created as it disappeared.
Eruhaben explained that when a dragon dies, the nature around it revives. He asked Olivia to open the entrance to the catacombs. She ordered a knight to go to the catacomb entrance. It was originally the king’s bedroom, but that had been cleaned out and the entrance had been resized to accommodate several people at once.
After a while, wind came in from the entrance and the multicolored dust flowed along with the wind. Olivia blankly watched the sight of multicolored dust moving like waves as if the Milky Way was traversing the sky. She took a deep breath and felt comfortable breathing in the red smoke. And now, she felt a different kind of vitality coming from the purified dragons.
It was mana of such high purity, and these mana would soon leave this place and spread throughout the Imperial Palace, the capital, and even the far reaches of the empire. Olivia really felt that Xiaolen was starting anew. She looked around and saw that most of the red and gold smoke had disappeared. Someone gasped and Olivia did too as she saw that all the Jiangshi within her sight had been purified.
All the Jiangshi had returned to being normal corpses. Even the blackened corpses of the previous emperors had returned to normal. But the black spider web lines on the necromancer corpses stayed, and Olivia thought that was because it did not need purification since it was part of nature too. Her subordinate reported in a trembling voice that all the Jiangshi in the other rooms had been purified too.
And Cale had done that in just one try. Olivia glanced at Cale and said that it was possible when he had the power to create such a spectacle. She noted that Cale looked much better. But contrary to his indifferent expression, he looked pale and his shirt was unbuttoned at the neck part as if he had a fever or felt cramped.
Olivia remembered Mary’s words about Cale always using his power and sacrificing himself. As for the others, Zero and the pope were amazed at what Cale had done. The people who met Cale for the first time were shocked. Some of these people had doubted and belittled Cale’s achievements as they were currently planning to raise their influence in Xiaolen.
Olivia thought that these people believed in Cale now, but still glared at them for their greedy ambitions. Cale approached Olivia and asked if he could go and rest now. She permitted it upon seeing up close that Cale’s complexion was worse than expected. Her subordinate spoke that he was a strange person for simply leaving without saying much after everything that he had done.
She pondered for a moment on what to say before speaking that the Purifier was someone who used a god-like power. Olivia continued that in legends, heroes sometimes surpassed gods. Afterwards, Olivia left to do her other tasks. Cale headed to the pope who whispered that he could keep the divine item. Cale asked out of formality if the church really did not need it.
The pope smiled and replied in a tiny voice that the church was creating an imitation. Cale sincerely praised her for her wisdom. After all, Xiaolen had no need for this divine item now. It would not be a problem if they displayed an imitation divine item. But Cale caught something strange in his sight. There was a small device hidden in the sleeves of the pope.
It was clearly a video storage device. Cale glanced at the pope who smiled back at him. She said that she would go and asked him to rest. Cale thought that she was purposely running away from him. He wondered if he should grab her and ask what the video storage device was doing here, but changed his mind. He would be leaving soon and not coming back here, so he concluded that it would be fine to ignore that device. 1
He soon heard Sui say that the grand farewell party was left, and Cale glared at him. Sui just gave him a grin, and Cale sighed, muttering that he had told Olivia to reduce the scale of the party. Olivia had promised to do just that, and Cale had trusted her words.
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But that trust was broken. The huge crowd cheered as fireworks made from magic set off everywhere. Choirs sang and a grand orchestra ensemble played music. Dust explained that the open carriage was specially decorated to be beautiful and simple looking at the same time. He continued that the parade would start from the imperial palace and stop at the central plaza. 1
There, they would teleport to the temple where Cale’s group had originally arrived. Cale raised his head, viewing the clear blue sky and hearing the bright and lively music that sounded sacred. Dust said that they could leave now, and Cale tightly shut his eyes. He still had white hair and green eyes. Cale resolved to himself that he would never come back to Xiaolen.