Chapter 109 - Chapter 18: Auction (2/2)

The sword duke had promised to meet again during his stay at the Demon King’s Palace, but he unfortunately had to leave the next day.

He didn’t know any of the details, but it seemed like the sword duke needed to leave in a hurry.

The demon king had mentioned the sanctuary.

Perhaps there was something wrong with the sanctuary that the sura were guarding.

“Shutra.”

“Huh?”

He had thought he was alone when he heard a voice next to him. In-gong looked around to see Caitlin approaching him on a stunning black horse.

Caitlin looked down at In-gong’s hands and asked,

”That— What are you doing? Are you operating aura and magic power at the same time?”

“Yes.”

Caitlin’s golden eyes lit up at In-gong’s answer. She mumbled, “Amazing” a few times, then asked again with an excited face,

”Shutra, do you have any tips?”

Originally, aura and magic power would push against each other.

In-gong shrugged at Caitlin’s question.

”There is no such thing... I just do it.”

In-gong’s words were unfortunate, but it couldn’t be helped. He really just did it.

Caitlin frowned at In-gong’s answer, then closed her eyes and activated her aura. Caitlin’s blue aura and white magic power gathered on her right hand, but both of them disappeared instead of tangling together like In-gong’s.

Aura interfered with the operation of magic power while magic power destroyed the aura’s flow.

After several more attempts, Caitlin sighed and opened her eyes. She stared at In-gong and grumbled,

“Shutra is too much.”

“What?”

“Too much.”

Her grouchy expression was cute. In-gong tried to stop his laughter, but it was inevitable that a small smil formed.

On In-gong’s other side, a new voice was added,

“That’s right, Shutra is too much.”

It was Felicia who was riding on a draco. As In-gong looked back, the voices continued,

”Right, too much.”

”Way too much! Too much! It is too much!”

The last voice belonged to Amita who was riding on a horse with Daphne. Daphne became confused as the waving tail hit the horse.

He could understand why Amita was upset, but why was Felicia— no, Carack upset as well?

‘Shouldn’t I be the one saying that Carack is too much?’

In-gong looked at Delia, Seira and Karma who were beside Carack, then he looked back at Carack. It was because he suddenly had an ominous premonition.

‘Surely, Nayatra won’t like Carack as well?’

He felt anxious. Despite there being no basis for this,, he couldn’t help the ominous feeling.

In fact, he didn’t even know why Seira, Delia and Sepira had started liking Carack in the first place. It seemed like he was a aide killer.

‘N-no. Nayatra can’t be the same.’

It wasn’t an exaggeration to say that Locke had a harem around him, however, Zephyr was different due to his grim nature. Therefore, his only hope in the Demon World was Nayatra, who was like a flower blooming in a desert.

While thinking about Nayatra, In-gong was reminded of something... There was one more problem.

‘What excuse can I use to go to the auction?’

If he were alone, then he would just go with Carack. However, right now, In-gong wasn’t alone. In order to avoid Caitlin’s and Felicia’s cold eyes, he needed a good reason to visit Takar’s slave auction house.

‘Well, there are a lot of assets to process right now.’

There were the goods from the dungeon and the ruin.

Even the dwarf weapons that he found in the dwarf cave hadn’t been processed yet. This was a chance to obtain Nayatra, but he should also use it to organize his things.

‘Slaves aren’t the only things sold at the auction house.’

There were various types of artifacts as well as various magic tools that could be used in battle.

There were valuable ingredients like elixirs and dragon hearts that could luckily be obtained if they had enough money.

In-gong looked at Carack’s shield for a moment. Thanks to Amita joining them, the party could receive the best equipment, but it was still lacking. Right now, Carack was the only one who had received a shield from Amita. Weapons were still needed.

‘Moreover...’

The materials that Amita could use currently were the leather, bones and scales from the black dragon and the sea serpent. Both were top quality materials, but there wasn’t a variety of material.

If a variety of material were added, then Amita would be able to produce better and more unconventional equipment.

In-gong looked at Amita who started trembling. They felt something like a ominous feeling.

‘I should go to the auction house to liquidate the assets and see if there are any good items.’

Just thinking about it convinced In-gong, and he nodded with a cheerful expression. Meanwhile, Caitlin was grouchy as she tried to join aura and magic power together a few more times.

As In-gong was thinking about how to comfort her...

'Master, a group of people are approaching from the front.’

Green Wind’s voice entered his ears, and In-gong focused aura on his eyes. As Green Wind had said, a group of people were rushing towards them from far away.

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“I just need to stop them here.”