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Mr. Jacks, who manages and operates Hylasia, led me and Mr. Marta down to the basement where the Magic Vault is located.

Looking at the map in view, I notice the characteristic arrangement of the basement floor. Is it a crime conscious design, the stairs and passages to the basement floor are narrow, with no hidden places or rooms?

And on the other side of the basement wall, I'm not saying dirt. I can see that on the other side of the thick wall there is some other space. I don't know how it floats underground, but it's probably magical architecture.

Mr. Jacks walking forward stopped when he realized I was staring at the walls of the basement.

"Master Shaft, can you tell?

"Oh, is it hollow beyond this wall?

"Precisely filled with water. It is designed to hire earthly magic architecture experts to keep you away from magic vaults through the ground. The only way to the Magic Vault is through this one."

"I see..."

If we think about crime prevention, do we also have to deal with access from the ground….

What about the old mall of the Marida Chamber of Commerce where I plan to buy it? It would be impossible to make it into a similar structure, and looking for a building with the same structure would not be easy to find.

Or are you thinking too much? Just in case, do you have some security measures in place?

"Please wait in this small room. Soon we will have a greater magic stone (dungeon core) than a magic vault"

Only a simple desk and chair were placed in the small room guided by Mr. Jacks. The interior walls are simple and unnecessarily furnished.

I can say the only one, Mr. Marta sat in a spare chair placed in the corner of the room, and I sat in a chair in the center of the small room and waited for Mr. Jacks to return.

Watching the movement of the light point on the map, I can see Mr. Jacks going further back with the guard-like light point in the magic vault behind the small room.

"Sometimes - Master Shaft does the trick of looking somewhere else, do you have far-sighted skills or something?

Rare - Mr. Marta has hardly heard anything about the power of my VMB. That's what he was accepting. And maybe it was a little too sweet...

"Not a far-sighted skill, but you can see all the terrain around where I'm standing. It moves there, other than people."

"Oh my..., is that who the cartographer is..."

"That's what I'm saying."

"Master Shaft's solo labyrinth attack is unusually stable, and we finally know why the attack speed is unusually fast."

"Well, there's a lot more to it than that - but apparently Mr. Jacks is back"

"Thank you for waiting"

Mr. Jacks walked into the small room pushing a wagon that he believed was intended for the transfer of goods. There's a black painted crate on the wagon, I guess there's a big magic stone in there.

"Please, check it out"

A black painted crate is placed on the desk where only one is placed in the small room, and the upper lid is gently removed. Inside was a demonic stone about the size of a marquee-cut rugby ball that emitted an extremely colorful glow. It is a great magic stone brought back from the labyrinth of the tooth wolf.

"Malta, please"

"I'm in awe"

I will first ask Mr Malta to see if this great magic stone is definitely real.

Remove the lupe for the Demon Stone Appraisal, carefully peek behind the brilliance of the Great Magic Stone, and make sure it is true. I was holding onto the GPS tracking darts that I had hidden in my lower back gun holder, watching how that was going with Mr. Jacks.

"Definitely, it's real"

Mr. Marta turned to me and made sure I was sure. Then I take the Great Magic Stone and act as if I burn its glow in my eyes.

When I saw it, Mr. Marta spoke to Mr. Jax, and his gaze was removed from me -, pulling the GPS tracking darts out of his hips with insignificant motion, and shooting an ultra-compact GPS transmitter into the back of the Great Magic Stone.

Immediately the GPS tracking darts were returned to the lower back gun holder to ensure that the red flashing GPS transmitter was firmly attached to the Great Magic Stone and that the location of the transmitter was also displayed on the map.

The GPS tracking darts have no attack power set, so you don't have to worry about scratching the Great Magic Stone.

He returned the Great Magic Stone to the black painted crate to hide the attached transmitter and looked back to Marta and Jax, who were talking to him about the magic vault.

"I was indulged enough. I just hope we get a good value in the auction after that."

"That's for sure, there was also His Majesty the King this year. Of course I show my face to the people of Wang Du, but it is obvious that he came to drop the Great Magic Stone directly. It is also a great opportunity for the aristocrats with territories everywhere to acquire the Great Magic Stone."

"It will be exciting, there are numerous uses for the Great Magic Stone. It is used for large-scale magic architecture and also for large magic props like large ships and demonic lifts. This is definitely the dish that every nobleman in this year wants."

While anticipating the excitement of the final day of the King's Competition Festival, which is about to begin, Mr. Jax will once again serve the Great Magic Stone to the Magic Vault.

This is everything I can prepare. Later, thinking about how the thief “Cat Willow” would move, he went back to the private room reserved for us.

Waiting in a private room for a cup of tea prepared by Mr. Malta, the staff came to let us know that the final day of the King's Competition Festival would soon begin.

Travel with Marta from the private room to the audience for the seller. Hylasia has two floors similar to theatre, with stage and stage on the ground floor part, where goods are transported and auctioned in front of the real thing.

The space for the buyers making the bids was available for a number of eight-person circular tables so that they could enjoy at least a little of the King's Competition Festival, which would take place for a long time.

Looking down at them is the audience for the seller upstairs. Small private rooms with overlooking counters. Multiple seats of the same design are available in arrangements overlooking the ground floor from left to right.

On the front of the stage, on the same second floor, the Royal Room, also known as the Royal Room, is viewed by the royal family.

According to what I've heard, Minnea, Marta's only daughter, will be watching in the VIP room with two colleges from the same First School of Magic.

The seats are already filling up. Mr. Malta told me about prestigious aristocrats, the president of the Chamber of Commerce of the Grand Chamber of Commerce, and the prominent merchants who are active individually.

Listening to that, I will look down at some groups of interest - the top clan of the Kurt Melga kingdom, "Hegemon Flower (Rafflesia)." Like the Marida Chamber of Commerce, the Yamigasa Chamber of Commerce, which is the kingdom and the sponsor of Hegemon Flower.

And what you see over there is - Viscount Cipria Aznavur, master of the clan "Camellia (Southern Ka)", made up exclusively of women, with the Duke of Barga and the Third Lapitilica of the fortified city of Barga in the same seat - and, it seems, the Earl of Themis of the Magician's Guild.

I was going to send a subtle gaze, but some of the seats seemed to notice my gaze, and my gaze rises.

A gaze that includes anger like shooting me, a gaze that I just gave back because I'm being seen, such an indifferent gaze, a gaze that I'm just saying I found something interesting.

Hey, does the thief "Cat Willow” really show up at the venue where these guys tunnel (or rather)?

The map is flashing securely without the light point of the transmitter moving. You don't seem to be going to tell me you're going to steal it out before the auction starts, will you still set something up during the event?

I'm getting excited about what you're going to set me up with, on the contrary.