179 Desperate Hana. (2/2)
”Frozen Mana Crystal?” Hana muttered curiously.
This Frozen Mana Crystal did not actually have frozen Mana. There was only a compressed form of Mana trapped inside the bluish crystals.
They were mostly used as the source of Mana for the instantaneous activation of powerful formations. Although they were rare, it wasn't to the point where they could even come close to comparing with the Harmony Leaves, which could cure some of the most deadly poisons on the Mainland.
”That's easy! It would be a piece of cake for me! What else?” Hana declared happily.
”Easy? Yeah, but I need as many as you can get. I meant as many as it would equal the value for the Leaves.” Ozul calmly stated as Hana's face drew a blank.
”Equal to the value of Harmony Leaves? That would be hundreds of them...” Hana muttered in distress.
'Why does he even need so many of those crystals!?' Hana thought inside her head.
However, she quickly shook those thoughts away since she was running out of time. Without even saying anything to Ozul, she stormed out of the room.
The two girls who had gone outside were puzzled about what happened to their boss, but they respectfully closed the door as they came inside again.
Ozul had assumed that the woman would at least try to convince him to choose something else, but he was a little surprised with her sincerity.
He knew that this would take a lot more time than simply finding the catalog, so he proceeded to close his eyes as nothing was interesting down in the hall anyway.
People were still finding their seats, not to mention he would rather sleep than watching the auction happening now that he was already aware of the items.
. . .
He did not know how much time passed, but when he opened his eyes again, the auction had started down in the hall. On the stage, there was another woman who showed each item instead of Hana only because she was standing beside Ozul at this moment.
”Did you get them?” Ozul asked as he looked at people placing bids over other bids, competing for every item.
”I did,” Hana answered. She sounded a little exhausted.
Placing her hand before her, a pile of bluish crystals appeared on the table with a wave of her hand.
Ozul could easily tell that they nearly reached three digits! Hana had indeed brought almost a hundred of those crystals under a few hours!
'Just how many connections did she have...' Ozul thought in his mind as he looked towards her.
”... I know that they are still not enough... But I can only apologize since this was the best I could do. To even out the value, you can ask anything else!” Hana said with a pitiful face.
Her current appearance could have made just about anyone want to embrace her and comfort her, but Ozul was indifferent.
There was another thing he remembered. It was about the Spatial Ring. Even taking this big pile of the Frozen Mana Crystals required him to use a Spatial tool.
However, he neither had blood nor Mana, so he could only choose the Spatial tool that did not require both of these.
”What about a Spatial Pouch?” Ozul suddenly asked.
”Spatial Pouch?” Hana was again surprised by his demand.
These pouches were used hundreds of years ago. Nowadays, no one used these pouches as storage. People only had them as a piece of decoration or antiques.
The most notable difference between the Spatial rings nowadays and the Spatial pouches in the past was that the latter was slowly outdated.
Not only was the Spatial ring smaller in size, making it more discrete. It also had functions like setting up an owner using the blood or the Mana of that person as their signature.
Even when the function of setting an owner of the Spatial Ring was better for the people, Ozul could only choose to use the Spatial pouches in the absence of both the necessary keys.
He wasn't able to find any of those when he worked as an assassin with Count Oliver, but he was sure that this Hana would be able to easily get her hands on one such pouch.
”Yes. The bigger the space inside, the better,” Ozul said before Hana nodded her head and again ran out of the room.