As the last two items were auctioned, a woman wearing a cloak and hood ran out of the Beast Garden towards the Yin Yang Tower. Once there, she quickly ran to Omar's room and entered...
Omar was finishing his daily spell training when he saw the door to his room unlock, and the figure of a woman wearing a cloak entered. Aside from Rafael, the current master of the tower, only the sisters Katya and Karyne were allowed to enter it at any time. As soon as their eyes met, the woman's body collapsed to the ground, as if she had held everything until now. Anguished words amidst tears and sobs were heard.
"Omar... Karyne... Karyne!"
"AHH!"
"Katya, what happened? Omar asked as he quickly stood up and went to her. When he removed his hood, his eyes widened, not recognizing who was in front of him." "My little sister is dead… Why? Why? It should have been me! It was my fault… Sniff…"
Omar was still in shock, but he quickly recovered. He grabbed the shoulders of that person who didn't even seem to be Katya anymore and asked, shouting while shaking her:
"WHERE? WHERE IS KARYNE? WHO DID THIS TO YOU?"
"She… She's in Old Daran's place… He said there was no danger of death, I believed him… How did this happen?"
"Sniff"
Hearing everything he needed to, Omar got up, leaving Katya in her room, and ran towards the Garden of Beasts. Being a member still active in the Tower, he managed to enter quickly with his apprentice pass and ran to Old Daran's room, breaking down the door only to find it empty. Knowing that he wasn't there, he then went to the lower floors. At that time of night, the only student lab that was working had two double metal doors blocking the entrance. Knowing he had arrived at the right place, he took out his Sea Cutter and cut through the metal doors as if they were nothing, storming in.
"Damn it, who dares to enter my laboratory?"
When Omar looked at "Old Man" Daran, he almost didn't recognize the man anymore. He now had a young appearance, black hair, without any trace of its former gray white, and his eyes were similar to those of the Beast Master. Yellow serpentine eyes, with thin diagonal pupils, just like a serpent.
Omar ignored him and looked around the laboratory. All he saw were a few snakes of various species in several glass tubes, but in a giant tube the size of a human being, there was a pile of flesh, blood, and scales that vaguely resembled a human being. The only thing Omar recognized from that inhuman pile of flesh was the traces of beautiful silver hair.
At that moment, his eyes turned red with hatred. He held his sword firmly in his hands, and from his mouth, a smoke in the form of mist began to come out, spreading rapidly throughout the laboratory, while a halo of light covered his entire body. He advanced, shouting towards the culprit of this incident.
"OLD DARAN, DIE!"
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Oblivious to what was happening outside the auction, Rafael now held the second relic he managed to buy; it was the wooden wand that didn't even appear to be a magical item. While he was satisfied with the attributes and the two advanced shield-type spells, one being individual and the other on a large scale.[1]
Despite spending all of the Order's resources and still using nearly half of his soul stones, he still felt it was worth it. Before he could look at the item any further, the auctioneer began announcing the items available for trade:
"Very well, thank you all for participating in today's Grand Auction! I will now announce the valuable items that are being offered in the exchange system for items of equal value. After that, you may gather in the hall on the ground floor of the tower, where a banquet is taking place, with several private rooms for you to settle disputes or make deals…
"Master Invincible is negotiating a treasure map located on an island in the western lands…"
"Master of Beasts has a pure mutant cub of the Orin Tiger, he wishes to trade it for another pure mutant creature of equal value…"
"Master Zima has a Primordial Darkness item and wishes to trade it for a Primordial Shadow item…"
"Master Red Sage has a Primordial Body item and wishes to trade it for a Primordial Earth or Fire item…"
"Master Silvia has a Primordial Earth item and wishes to trade it for a Primordial Earth or Fire item…" Soul…"
"Master Cold has a Shadow Primordial item and wishes to exchange it for a Water Primordial item…"
"Master Baron Bones wishes to purchase purified soul stones…"
"Master Invincible wishes to purchase a body-type Primordial item or any clues leading to such an item."
"Master Baron Bones requests help from a Master to clear a certain Large Dungeon; the reward for such help will be a Relic."
Rafael was shocked; one of the items he wanted was in Silvia's hands, but he didn't have what she wanted. Furthermore, there were several Primordial items this time. This was amazing, since such items were quite rare in the entire world, but when he thought that this type of auction only happened once every 100 years, he still understood how rare such items were.
Having no choice, he decided to negotiate with her later, now it was time to talk to Master Valder, Master Ezio, and Master Cold…
AN: Don't forget to check out my new original book Jyera World Apocalypse. Just adding the book to your libraries would help me a lot...
There is also the release of The Stygai's Necromancer!
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[1] Shu's Defending Wand
+30% duration of wind-type spells
1x per day allows use of 1 basic wind spell without reagents
1x per day allows use of the advanced spell Void Barrier
1x per day allows use of the advanced spell Cloak of Wind