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Lita placed her hand on her chin as her thoughts wandered away. The miracles she has been able to witness being with Leylin is numerous. To her, Leylin is an enigmatic individual and also the love of her life, even if nothing substantial could be based on just the Wings of Sun meditation technique and a single drop of blood without any vitality, Lita had a feeling that Leylin could make something out of it.
Cole and Roderick were also solemn, they were people with great experience, with their understanding of their Master mindset as well as his identify as a warlock it’s very easy to conclude that this item was of utmost importance to Leylin.
After moments of silence, the Magi below finally responded. Although the bloodline is almost impossible to extracted because the Azure Mountain Auction House is bound to have tried their best and only after being certain of its inability did they put this up for auction. For an average Magi, this warlock technique isn’t a must have but if it is not too high of a price then it’s really be worth to pay a meditation technique even if it work as a reference only.
“Two hundred and ten million magic crystals!” An aged voice called out from the VIP lounge.
As if it was a signal, the crowd immediately quoted their prices, practically flooding the screen.
This was the alure of an advanced meditation technique coupled with an ancient bloodline, thus it was priceless. Even though there was not much use for it, the value of this precious object for collection purposes had way exceeded its base price.
In addition, the vastness and mystery of spells were not something that current Magi could explore completely.
Perhaps, in one of the hidden corners of the central continent, there lay a powerful technique that was capable of activating the Sun’s Child bloodline. If that was the case, by buying this precious object at a low price today, one could earn a fortune in the future!
This was clearly what the majority of the Magi here thought.
This definitely included those Morning Star Magi who were rich and imposing, willing to buy this just for their own research.
Even though the Azure Mountain auction house was unlikely to attract Magi of such levels, there were bound to be some exceptions. This exception is what Lita is worried about, since she has a premonition that such an individual is present here. Although Leylin has ascertain her of not being pressurized Lita was still a bit worried, not for herself but for Leylin because ultimately he would be clashing with that individual.
Lita premonition was correct as one such exception was within a VIP lounge that was distinctly larger than other VIP cubicle. The Magus inside had an emaciated face and silver eyes. He was wearing the Devil’s Cry robe and smiled, “I didn’t expect to come across such a precious object!”
He didn’t use the device to quote his price and instead said softly, “One billion magic stones!”
Strangely, even though his voice was soft, his comment was heard by the Magi in the entire auction venue, leading to a halt in the quoting of prices.
Alas, one that could quote such a high price was obviously a Morning Star Magus. Who else would dare to compete with him?
On the other hand, when Lita heard this voice, her entire body suddenly stiffened and she became a bit worried but thinking it over again, she steeled her resolve.
‘I can’t believe a morning star would be so shameless.’ After calming herself, Lita placed her hand on her chin and thought bitterly.
In order to get such cheap auction prices, he even went so far as to scare the Magi in this venue pressuring others with his might.
A Morning Star Magi was indeed a great deterrent. Once Cyril quoted his price, the entire auction house became silent.
“…. Okay! Since no one is increasing the price-“The host laughed dryly, as he started to mediate the scene. In reality, his heart ached. According to him, this precious object should not only be worth one billion magic crystals but instead, it should at least worth more than two billion magic crystals. It was definitely possible to sell it at such a high price judging from the attendance of high level Magi in this venue.
Now? Even the Oakheart Clan was willing to offer more than one billion magic crystals for this meditation technique. This was definitely a loss.
“Two billion magic crystals!” Suddenly Lita raised the bet and the whole auditorium was enveloped in my eerie silence, no one could believe that a mere Rank 3 actually decided to compete against a Morning Star and not only that they raised the bet, directly doubling it.
All the eyes were focused on Lita as many remembered her as the magus who imposingly bought numerous treasure but currently their eyes weren’t that of pity, bewilderment, reverence or surprise but rather it was of disdain and schadenfreude. How could a mere Rank 3 dare to confront a mighty Morning Star, this was just courting death.
Even if the Morning Star Magus wouldn’t do something in the auction house, once outside not even the Azure Mountain King would save this person.
Backing and identify means nothing, even if a person is a Radiant Moon disciple or descendants they can only bow their heads if they aren’t Morning star themselves. There is no lack of magus with great backing here as well, but no would dare oppose Rank 4 because probably even their Backers won’t help them. No one would want to take the risk of locking horns with someone like that without a solid reason. The prestige and honor of a Morning star is not to be underestimated, with their destructive Arcane Arts they are hailed as the emperor of Central continent.
Lita understood her plight but she remained firm as she stood up and bowed before Cyril cubicle, “Please forgive me for being so brazen. I can only ask for My Lord understanding in this matter on my Master’s behalf.”
Lita knew that even asking for forgiveness would yield no results but she had to make sure that she firmly and officially ask for forgiveness because a Morning star is a stature to be respected regardless of who you are.
“How dare a mere ant compete against me.” Cyril thought in mind as he clenched his teeth in rage, wisps of blood clouding his silver pupils.
Terrifying energy enveloped the auction house and this horrifying ripples had caused the other guests in other VIP lounges to feel uneasy.
After a moment he calm down, as he felt Azure Mountain King presence. Even a Morning Star Magi was required to follow the rules. His rash behaviour would only lead to the Morning Star Magi of the Oakheart Clan warning him.
In actual fact, Cyril only had one chance to pressure everyone and win. The plan failed because of Lita interruption. If he dared to do it again, the Azure Mountain King would definitely become hostile.
“The prestige of a Morning Star isn’t something that the likes of you could challenge, Not even your Master could save you from me.” after tossing these last words at her, Cyril stood up and left in a hurry, not wanting to linger for another second.
Cyril could easily distinguish from her undulation that she is a Giant Kemoyin Serpent Warlock. He knows about the three elders and also the notorious emotional instability of their kind, the attraction that a Top-grade Warlock mediation technique had to the kind is something he understood and if there was one of the elders here he may not want to compete because they would definitely raise the stake as high as it would be needed to be, even still he would not let Lita go unpunished.
As for reputation? What was reputation worth to him? Tangible benefits were the most important. Cyril could easily obtain such top-notch meditation technique for free. So why not do it? and might also ask for remuneration on the grounds of honor of a Morning star.
Demon Hunter Cyril was originally more crafty and despicable than demons. This was also the exact reason why other Magi feared him.
Currently taking any action would bring the anger and ire of Azure Mountain King and killing wantonly Lita would attract the anger of Morning Star Warlock, it would be better to take care of her outside. That way Azure mountain king won’t interfere and the indirect way of killing her would show some face to the Ouroboros Clan hence, prompting the elder to concede since the fault lies in Lita actions.
No one would want to fight someone of the same rank if there was no benefit in it, especially for an already dead person. A dead person! This is what Lita has become in Cyril opinion.
After the harvest from the Quicksand pocket dimension failed for Robin group some time back. Their failure in achieving anything resulted in one good thing which was that they didn’t brought the fury of Cyril upon themselves. There wasn’t any clash hence, Cyril had a not so sour relationship with the Clan.
With the presence of Cyril, Robin and the group were sure they would never have the chance to step foot in the Forgotten Land again. Robin decided to not clarify their expedition, not bringing the attention of the elder association to the possibility that Quicksand Castle was the core of the pocket dimension.
The elder association could figure out the presence of an pocket dimension and just one single pocket dimension would fail to stir the greed of the Ouroboros Clan. And since the possibility of it being an ancient warlock organization wasn’t revealed they threw the idea of tussling for benefit in the back of their heads.
The reason why Robin did this is probably because of his unending desire for the imprint of gluttony.
Due to the interruption of Leylin team scooping all of the profits, Their was no retaliation and showing of Ouroboros Clan’s power, they had no clash with Cyril.
Hence, the relationship between Cyril and the three Giant Kemoyin Serpent Warlocks would naturally be neutral.
“My dear lord, your items are ready, please follow me to make the transaction.” After Cyril left, a staff came near Lita, Cole and Roderick, and asked them to take their item and pay up. Lita has bought quite a few items and her total sum was enormous. It was something which required the attention of the Chief Leo Oakheart himself but unexpectedly after the group picked up Leo was ordered by the Azure mountain king to not ask for payment as the Lord behind them has already completed the transaction. Leo was surprised but he followed his commands and also provided a channel for them to escape through, but in his heart he knew this was of no use. Most probably even the Lord behind the group would just take the items away from them and threw them in the lion’s den to face the fury of a Morning star.
As a result of Lita’s actions, the day’s auction ended on an interesting note. Adding on that the attendance of Demon Hunter Cyril spread like wildfire, if the Azure Mountain auction house did not guarantee that such a thing would not happen again, they would even incur more losses.
Lita was a lost cause to them, but they wanted to make sure nothing like such thing happens again.
After all, who dared to compete with a Morning Star Magus? Except for the crazy women who was soon to be dead in their vision. If such a thing happened in each auction then the Azure Mountain auction house should just sell the items off to them instead.
That fateful night, some people felt enormous energy undulations transmitted from far beyond Azure Mountain City.
Although they were very far away, the energy undulations were frightening and caused some to feel somewhat suffocated. Many Magi were distracted by it.
The lower ranked Magi felt nothing. Only those who were close to the Morning Star realm could notice and be mindful of that terror.
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The moment the group of Lita, Cole and Roderick was about to escape through some channels, there was an unexpected situation.
*Ka-cha!* A huge hole opened up in the sky, and countless black streaks of lightning appeared with a thunderous sound..
An incredibly mighty pressure suddenly descended, causing Lita and the others to stand in a daze.
Suddenly, Lita felt this whole region being isolated from the surroundings, and the air suddenly becoming heavier, to the point that she could not even move a finger.
“This is… Is this the prestigious domain of a Morning Star Magus?”
Cole and Roderick turned back, face so pale it was like a corpse’s.
“Found you!” A hoarse voice was transmitted from the black hole in the sky, cold, unfeeling and condescending. It was as if Lita and her group were a bunch of insignificant little ants.
Numerous black streaks of lightning twined around each other to form a black, giant palm, grabbing at Lita and the rest.
