Chapter 117: Second Half Auction

After everyone had returned to their seats for the second half of the auction, Zen was busy thinking about something.

He was feeling anxious and felt like there is something more going on in this second half.

While Zen wrinkled his eyebrow as he kept getting more suspicious, Evie took notice of it and asked, "What are you thinking?"

"I'm thinking that we should leave as soon as I get the items I want," Zen replied solemnly.

A look of disbelief appeared on Evie's face as she didn't know why he would suddenly want to leave early.

She ponders a while before realizing he was worried about that. "You're talking about the carefree attitude of Daemon Kaiso and the disappearance of Juliet right?"

Zen nodded his head since he had tried to look for Juliet after warning her a bit.

However, she has not shown up anywhere and with Daemon Kaiso's fiery temper, there was something wrong with him being relaxed.

Staring at the room in Daemon Kaiso slightly, it was pitch black since he concealed himself but it doesn't make sense.

Why would he ignore to look at his enemy who crippled his only son?

They should have been so enraged that they would focus all of their attention on you. 

'This Daemon Kaiso is probably colluding with some people in the shadow to do something in this annual auction. But just how are they going to succeed with many nobles in here and many intermediate and advanced mages.'

While Zen continued to rack his brain cell, Lady Seraphine entered the center stage as she announced, "Welcome back everyone, the second half of the auction shall begin right away."

Cheers erupted as everyone was eager to start bidding since the second half is where all the unique and legendary items are available.

"The auction is beginning. Are you going to continue to be distracted?" Evie asked softly.

"Sigh, you're right. There's no point in playing a guessing game if I have no clue what they're planning to do other than it's definitely not something good." Zen replied lightly as he focused on the auction.

At the same time, he decided to use a tiny bit of his true qi to attach to Angela and Evie just in case.

Evie noticed the true qi attaching to her body but she kept silent as she knew it was Zen trying to keep her protected.

She smiled with a teasing look on her face at Zen. 'Seeing how you're trying to be the hero to rescue a damsel in distress, I shall let you enjoy that moment.'

Time slowly passed by with many bidders fighting for many items and each one is being sold for at least 5 million spirit stones or more.

Zen was bored out of his mind since none of the items were useful or even interested him in a bit.

Most of them were like some spiritual treasures, herbs that aren't required, spatial rings, and even alchemy pills to increase their cultivation.

Heck, there were even grimoires being auctioned for others to learn the forbidden spells.

"What the hell is grimoires even for?" Zen blurted out.

"Grimoires are ancient sacred text that is a one-time use, meaning once a person reads a sentence of the spell, the text would vanish afterward," Evie explained before continuing.

"Although it's a one time use, most of the spells in there are extremely powerful and considering the rarity, everyone would be willing to use their entire family year income for one"

'Hmm, is the spell-like my Chaos Void then? If it is then buying one grimoire may not be a bad thing.' Zen ponders inwardly when he hears Evie's explanation.

Since he was planning to become a mage and a true qi cultivator, it would be a bad thing if the only spell he knew is a mere fireball.

Fireball is powerful and Zen loved the spell but having no other varieties is not going to get him far.

Some time later, Lady Seraphine shouted another grimoire for auction.

"This grimoire contains the legendary ancient spell that is known for its deadly and grim effect, Hymn of Death. Hymn of Death when cast, would create an army of undead and it's not your normal skeleton." Lady Seraphine said as she waited a while before continuing to keep the suspense.

"It was… rumored that this spell was created by the Demon Lord from the past as it can corrupt a human soul and resurrect their body with their cultivation staying the same."

A look of shock and horror appeared on the crowd's face as they realized what this grimoire spell means if they have it in their hand.

"Such a dreadful and powerful technique… the Scarlet family is actually trying to auction this kind of treasure?"

"Is this grimoire really as powerful as Lady Seraphine said since we don't know its legitimacy unless one of us read it?"

"I totally agree with you. This is just too good to be true since anyone that can resurrect the dead then wouldn't they be able to have an army of undead and rule the world."

The crowd was suspicious and they exclaimed their doubts to Lady Seraphine who had a smile on her face.

"We are willing to use the Scarlet family reputation to prove that this grimoire is authentic and not some scam. The reason why we're willing to auction this is because the technique is extremely dreadful and requires some condition to learn." Lady Seraphine explained to calm the crowd down.

"What are the conditions to learn?"

"I bet the condition is ridiculous as hell that the Scarlet family is helpless about thus they're willing to auction this off to scam our money."

"The Scarlet family is truly shameless and blood-sucking demons. If they had someone that could learn it then who in their right mind would auction it off for others."

The crowd roared in anger as they weren't willing to be treated as a fool and pay for a grimoire spell that could not be learned.

Even if the spell is extremely powerful, there's no point in getting it if you can't even activate the spell.

Lady Seraphine smiled bitterly as she cursed inwardly. 'I knew this grimoire would receive such a backlash. If I told them the condition required, then they would definitely try to kill me.'

The condition required for this spell was labeled in the title and the Scarlet family was speechless at it. 

That was because, in order for them to learn the Hymn of Death, they must first experience death themselves.

Lady Seraphine clenched her fist when she remembered how she was forced to auction the grimoire off despite the crazy condition. 'Damn it, I should have resigned a long time ago when they treated me like a discarded pet.'