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Lout of Count's Family (Novel) #4
Lout of Count's Family (Novel) Vol. 4
NEW FACES, NEW POSSIBILITIES
Cale Henituse is a man more eager to top off his wine than topple his foes, but adventure always seems to find him! This time, he befriends a kind yet sheltered necromancer, an ancient gold dragon, and twin saints on the run. But the stakes rise when the fierce Tiger Tribe arrives from the far east, seeking both refuge and revenge. Their shared enemy wields a powerful fleet, offering Cale a golden opportunity to turn the tide in his favor. With land, sea, and sky at play, Cale must craft a brilliant strategy to outmaneuver his foes—and maybe even come out ahead for once!
Cale Henituse is a man more eager to top off his wine than topple his foes, but adventure always seems to find him! This time, he befriends a kind yet sheltered necromancer, an ancient gold dragon, and twin saints on the run. But the stakes rise when the fierce Tiger Tribe arrives from the far east, seeking both refuge and revenge. Their shared enemy wields a powerful fleet, offering Cale a golden opportunity to turn the tide in his favor. With land, sea, and sky at play, Cale must craft a brilliant strategy to outmaneuver his foes—and maybe even come out ahead for once!
360 pages, Paperback
Published June 3, 2025
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August 25, 2025
“Hana, you have to be the one to defend yourself.”
“Being alive is what makes you great and mighty.”
GOSH I love Cale!! I love his ever-increasing family members, whom he grudgingly picks up one by one. I love the character dynamics, the misunderstandings, and the comedy. And this volume was so fun to read as the story progresses and Cale finally meets one of the antagonists.
Cale's dream of slacker life in question though...
🤣🤣🤣
“Being alive is what makes you great and mighty.”
GOSH I love Cale!! I love his ever-increasing family members, whom he grudgingly picks up one by one. I love the character dynamics, the misunderstandings, and the comedy. And this volume was so fun to read as the story progresses and Cale finally meets one of the antagonists.
Cale's dream of slacker life in question though...
Cale watched Bassen go with satisfaction, then stood. As he did, Raon materialized out of thin air.
“Human?”
“What?”
“Do you plan to become count?”
“What nonsense is this? Don’t ask me such a terrifying question.”
🤣🤣🤣
September 7, 2025
High Fantasy, Transmigration, Found Family, Adventure, Comedy, Dragons!
Chapters 123~160 of the web serialisation.
We officially welcome Eruhaben-nim to the crew, the most ancient dragon still alive, aka "Goldie Gramps" (I don't know what the translators were thinking when they came up with "Gragon", but we're sticking with the OG). The combination of the baby dragon and the ancient dragon is true gold.
This volume spans almost a whole year starting from spring until mid-December when Cale accompanies Prince Albert to the Empire to meet one of our biggest antagonists..
Arcs included:
1-The Ancient Dragon Part II
2-The Sun God Twins & Super Rock
3-War Preparations & The New Alliance
4-The Fire of Maple Castle
5-The Battle Against Arm’s First Battle Brigade
6-The Mogor Empire's invitation
7-The Sun Palace Incident Part I
Chapters 123~160 of the web serialisation.
We officially welcome Eruhaben-nim to the crew, the most ancient dragon still alive, aka "Goldie Gramps" (I don't know what the translators were thinking when they came up with "Gragon", but we're sticking with the OG). The combination of the baby dragon and the ancient dragon is true gold.
A round black blob covered Cale’s eyes. It was Raon. “Hey! Gragon!”Also, Cale keeps striking gold (I know I'm overusing the word), but this time he didn't scam anyone.
Cale wondered for a moment whether he’d heard Raon correctly. Gragon? Is that a combination of “gold” and “dragon”…?
“You can’t stare at my weak human like that! Do you understand what a coward he is?”
[..]
The gold dragon, who hadn’t heard any of that, stared at Raon in disbelief. “He is indeed weak. More importantly, did you say he’s your human? Are you an idiot after all?”
Raon’s wings paused mid-flap again. He looked back at the gold dragon, who’d already called him stupid twice. Would they start fighting now? Cale felt cold, even with the thermal magic surrounding him.
Then Raon smirked. “I’m not an idiot—just very sociable! I’m not a socially awkward gold dragon who doesn’t even know how to shake hands!”
“Stop doing stupid things now, human!” Raon cried, delighted. “Just travel the continent!”He also keeps picking up living-breathing baggage 😂, and looting (because duh)
Cale cut him off. “Raon.”
An odd feeling came over Raon. Cale was smiling. Brightly, in fact. “Why’re you grinning like that, human…?”
“I found you a lair,”
This volume spans almost a whole year starting from spring until mid-December when Cale accompanies Prince Albert to the Empire to meet one of our biggest antagonists..
Arcs included:
1-The Ancient Dragon Part II
2-The Sun God Twins & Super Rock
3-War Preparations & The New Alliance
4-The Fire of Maple Castle
5-The Battle Against Arm’s First Battle Brigade
6-The Mogor Empire's invitation
7-The Sun Palace Incident Part I
December 17, 2025
Web novel chapters: 123-160
3.5 stars, and the half is for the Mogor Empire visit.
This volume covers meeting the gold dragon Erhaven, Cale gaining his final Ancient Power, the establishment of Cale & Co's base, allying with the Saint Jack and the Saintess Hana of the Empire, the formation of the alliance on the Western Continent to oppose Arm and the Northern Alliance's takeover, the battle against Arm's First Brigade (& Hana's partial revenge), the introduction of the Tiger Tribe, and Cale's visit to the Mogor Empire (with Prince Albert) to destroy the Alchemist's Bell Tower. Also, Cale finds the Divine artifacts for the Sun God and Death God religions. Very interesting backstory on the past saintess.
Thankfully, the repetitiveness of Cale acquiring more and more Ancient Powers is finished for good. He actually shouldn't be able to bare more than two, but he got lucky with the order he obtained them. Like, really lucky. But he needs just one last one to stabilize himself and not die. I can accept that.
I like Erhaven, and especially his relationship with Raon. He's constantly looking at Raon and thinking "why does he act like that? I've never met a dragon that acts like that. But also that's perfect. Now you're my successor." And Raon just pesters him and calls him Gragon Gramps.
I still think the series has a character problem. This is clearly a plot-driven story and not a character-driven one. Side characters like Albert, Ritana, Witira, etc, that are not part of Cale's party are great. My problem is with those within Cale's party, excluding Raon. Raon's relationship with Cale is well fleshed-out, and we get plenty of focus on him for being the main duo with Cale. I love Raon. But the others are just there to fight or do things. They're not that important. I thought Choi Han especially would get more attention, but he hasn't. The main group members all get some attention, but it's not enough, quite frankly. It's all just action or plot scenes, nothing to explore what makes them tick. Maybe that's because it's Cale's POV and he just doesn't care, but still. The cast is just so incredibly bloated as it is, a little depth would do wonders for the story. And I don't think their relationships with each other are developed at all. The side characters are far more interesting at this point.
I don't know. I like Cale and love his interactions with Raon and Albert. I love seeing everybody think of him as some amazing, purehearted guy when we know he's lazy and selfish (he believes that, anyway). The world building is interesting, and I always like getting more details. Plot wise, Cale has made significant preparations for the impending war in the 160 chapters covered so far out of the current web novel total of 1300~ chapters. A lot more is going to happen, and I know a lot of what's going on is still set up for that war that looks like may start next volume. There's just something holding this story back from being better the way I want it to.
3.5 stars, and the half is for the Mogor Empire visit.
This volume covers meeting the gold dragon Erhaven, Cale gaining his final Ancient Power, the establishment of Cale & Co's base, allying with the Saint Jack and the Saintess Hana of the Empire, the formation of the alliance on the Western Continent to oppose Arm and the Northern Alliance's takeover, the battle against Arm's First Brigade (& Hana's partial revenge), the introduction of the Tiger Tribe, and Cale's visit to the Mogor Empire (with Prince Albert) to destroy the Alchemist's Bell Tower. Also, Cale finds the Divine artifacts for the Sun God and Death God religions. Very interesting backstory on the past saintess.
Thankfully, the repetitiveness of Cale acquiring more and more Ancient Powers is finished for good. He actually shouldn't be able to bare more than two, but he got lucky with the order he obtained them. Like, really lucky. But he needs just one last one to stabilize himself and not die. I can accept that.
I like Erhaven, and especially his relationship with Raon. He's constantly looking at Raon and thinking "why does he act like that? I've never met a dragon that acts like that. But also that's perfect. Now you're my successor." And Raon just pesters him and calls him Gragon Gramps.
I still think the series has a character problem. This is clearly a plot-driven story and not a character-driven one. Side characters like Albert, Ritana, Witira, etc, that are not part of Cale's party are great. My problem is with those within Cale's party, excluding Raon. Raon's relationship with Cale is well fleshed-out, and we get plenty of focus on him for being the main duo with Cale. I love Raon. But the others are just there to fight or do things. They're not that important. I thought Choi Han especially would get more attention, but he hasn't. The main group members all get some attention, but it's not enough, quite frankly. It's all just action or plot scenes, nothing to explore what makes them tick. Maybe that's because it's Cale's POV and he just doesn't care, but still. The cast is just so incredibly bloated as it is, a little depth would do wonders for the story. And I don't think their relationships with each other are developed at all. The side characters are far more interesting at this point.
I don't know. I like Cale and love his interactions with Raon and Albert. I love seeing everybody think of him as some amazing, purehearted guy when we know he's lazy and selfish (he believes that, anyway). The world building is interesting, and I always like getting more details. Plot wise, Cale has made significant preparations for the impending war in the 160 chapters covered so far out of the current web novel total of 1300~ chapters. A lot more is going to happen, and I know a lot of what's going on is still set up for that war that looks like may start next volume. There's just something holding this story back from being better the way I want it to.
June 9, 2025
Cale's busy laying down the groundwork for the future trouble he knows is coming. With the introduction of a second dragon, various facts come to light---including one that forces Cale to reconsider whether he wants to hunt down another Ancient Power or not. With some unexpected new allies and an increasingly volatile political situation, Cale isn't getting any time to slack off . . .
This is another fun volume. Cale was content with the powers he had, until Erhaven gives him a very good reason to hunt down the earth-based power he's already heard about (and has been avoiding). What's fun is that the plot is starting to move well beyond what Cale could have guessed from the books he read before transmigration. Cale just saw powers that other people weren't using well and decided to pick them up himself. He had no idea there was a history to their original wielders, one that he's uncovering bit by bit. And it's also really funny watching Cale's mere existence baffle an ancient dragon.
I like seeing how life is going on in areas outside Cale's main focus. The war in the Whipper Kingdom (I refuse to call it Kingdom of the Whipper.... c'mon, translators) is progressing, which impacts international concerns. Prince Albert is quickly becoming Cale's go-to for everything troublesome, although Albert can't quite hate Cale for giving him everything he wants. He has a funny comment about Cale somehow outperforming Albert's entire intelligence division, and by now they're comfortable enough with each other to start honestly letting slip their real feelings of annoyance. And in the background, the real war is starting to become visible like a storm on the edge of the horizon.
Overall I'm still having a blast watching Cale try to convince the world that he's actually just trying to stay in bed all day (and his friends are less and less inclined to believe him). Highly Recommended.
This is another fun volume. Cale was content with the powers he had, until Erhaven gives him a very good reason to hunt down the earth-based power he's already heard about (and has been avoiding). What's fun is that the plot is starting to move well beyond what Cale could have guessed from the books he read before transmigration. Cale just saw powers that other people weren't using well and decided to pick them up himself. He had no idea there was a history to their original wielders, one that he's uncovering bit by bit. And it's also really funny watching Cale's mere existence baffle an ancient dragon.
I like seeing how life is going on in areas outside Cale's main focus. The war in the Whipper Kingdom (I refuse to call it Kingdom of the Whipper.... c'mon, translators) is progressing, which impacts international concerns. Prince Albert is quickly becoming Cale's go-to for everything troublesome, although Albert can't quite hate Cale for giving him everything he wants. He has a funny comment about Cale somehow outperforming Albert's entire intelligence division, and by now they're comfortable enough with each other to start honestly letting slip their real feelings of annoyance. And in the background, the real war is starting to become visible like a storm on the edge of the horizon.
Overall I'm still having a blast watching Cale try to convince the world that he's actually just trying to stay in bed all day (and his friends are less and less inclined to believe him). Highly Recommended.
June 21, 2025
The story picks up with Cale Henituse, minor nobleman and self-proclaimed lout, and his company meeting another dragon, Lord Erhaven. Although Cale initially feared a confrontation between the older dragon and Cale's young charge, Raon Mir, the former ends up intrigued and decides to accompany the group so he teach pass on his wealth of knowledge to Raon.
That's the most sane occurrence in this fourth volume.
With the Empire and the secrete organization known as Arm stepping up their game and beginning to cause trouble for Rowoon, Cale and co. run around the country meeting allies old and new and scheming to foil their enemies' plans. At this point, Cale's knowledge of the "Birth of a Hero" book series has run dry, so he's on his own -- except for the dragons, sword master, dark elf prince, exiled princess mage, beastfolk, and father-and-son assassins...
This is such a fun series. Yes, Cale could be considered an "overpowered" protagonist (he has several Ancient Powers alone that are pretty handy, never mind his robust entourage), but for me, I enjoy these books for the characters and seeing how Cale flabbergasts everyone around him. Sometimes, the awe and altruism characters feel because of Cale feels corny and contrived, but those instances aren't all that frequent, and Cale's banter with Prince Albert provides the metaphorical bucket of water to the face to offset the facade Cale is unintentionally building.
Reading about Cale and his found family growing closer (and stronger) puts a smile on my face, and given that this is a light novel, I think it's fair to say that's exactly what it's meant to do.
That's the most sane occurrence in this fourth volume.
With the Empire and the secrete organization known as Arm stepping up their game and beginning to cause trouble for Rowoon, Cale and co. run around the country meeting allies old and new and scheming to foil their enemies' plans. At this point, Cale's knowledge of the "Birth of a Hero" book series has run dry, so he's on his own -- except for the dragons, sword master, dark elf prince, exiled princess mage, beastfolk, and father-and-son assassins...
This is such a fun series. Yes, Cale could be considered an "overpowered" protagonist (he has several Ancient Powers alone that are pretty handy, never mind his robust entourage), but for me, I enjoy these books for the characters and seeing how Cale flabbergasts everyone around him. Sometimes, the awe and altruism characters feel because of Cale feels corny and contrived, but those instances aren't all that frequent, and Cale's banter with Prince Albert provides the metaphorical bucket of water to the face to offset the facade Cale is unintentionally building.
Reading about Cale and his found family growing closer (and stronger) puts a smile on my face, and given that this is a light novel, I think it's fair to say that's exactly what it's meant to do.
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July 18, 2025Pada volume keempat ini, Cale Henituse bertemu dengan sekutu baru, yaitu seorang necromancer baik hati, seekor naga emas kuno, dan sepasang orang kudus yang sedang dalam pelarian. Namun, keadaan semakin tegang ketika suku Harimau dari Timur datang, mencari perlindungan dan membalas dendam. Dengan musuh yang menguasai armada kuat, Cale melihat kesempatan emas untuk membalikkan keadaan. Kini, dia harus merencanakan strategi cerdas untuk mengalahkan mereka. Di tengah pertarungan yang melibatkan pasukan darat, laut, dan udara, Cale berusaha untuk keluar sebagai pemenang dalam situasi penuh intrik ini.
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June 18, 2025
3.5 stars
I basically read this is one day, it was that good. To be frank, this is more of a build-up arc where not too much happens, but we're introduced to Hana and Jack and Kage comes back into the story. I love Mary and her development where she helped save someone despite needing to be in pain herself to do so. The Tiger shaman makes me laugh with how he acts. The cliffhanger was pretty killer though (even if I already know how everything goes down).
I basically read this is one day, it was that good. To be frank, this is more of a build-up arc where not too much happens, but we're introduced to Hana and Jack and Kage comes back into the story. I love Mary and her development where she helped save someone despite needing to be in pain herself to do so. The Tiger shaman makes me laugh with how he acts. The cliffhanger was pretty killer though (even if I already know how everything goes down).
October 2, 2025
This entire book felt like a wild rollercoaster from start until finish. Without getting to into any spoilers, there were some big reveals, some absurd meetings, and a lot of "did that really just happen" moments that left me wanting more. I genuinely cant wait for book 5 since I have it at the time of writing this review after waiting a month to finally get it. This series is probably one of my favorites of all time.
June 4, 2025
This series is SO much fun! It has a little bit of everything. I personally don't enjoy politics/military/royalty, but this story is fun even with all of them. Maybe because the major focus is not on them, but on how the MC gets inadvertently involved with them. Looking forward to the next book! On to my next adventure, Happy Readings!!!
June 7, 2025
Still not always sure what Cale is thinking, but the story continues to entertain, and several interesting developments happened here.
June 12, 2025
Rating: 4.75/5.00 Stars
June 14, 2025
Still a wild ride and always so entertaining
June 18, 2025
I loved it so much… I’m now in dilemma whether to wait or continue with the fantranslation…. The cliffhanger this time is very intriguing!!!
June 18, 2025
what a fun volume T_T i was trying to push reading this off because 5th vol hasnt been released yet but ugh i couldnt help it, I guess this is where I start waiting or reading online
November 23, 2025
A little more gritty as Cale fights with his found family to stop the coming war, or at least put his people in a position to win
January 16, 2026
This series makes me smile
January 4, 2026
Love it when scammer Cale and his loyal baby dragon are in action LMAO. Raon and Eruhaben's (Erhaven) dynamic is both sweet and funny.
December 10, 2025
it's just getting better and I can't wait for the next one! 🥰
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