Chapter 122: Get Rich Quick (3)

Chapter 122: Fortune 3

A few days had passed since Eutenia suggested the auction house raid.

During that time, I watched Eutenia and the apostles prepare for the raid on my smartphone.

Maybe it was because they were planning to raid an auction house where nobles gathered.

Eutenia used even a count’s house that she never mentioned before.

The Mayer Count’s House.

It was a noble family that ruled the territory that Roan and the church’s believers had taken over.

Eutenia used them to find out information about the auction house.

I realized that it had been quite a long time since I started the game, seeing Eutenia move the count’s house.

“Come to think of it, there was such a thing.”

Roan and the church’s believers had done many things while I watched.

And while I wasn’t watching, they did even more things.

It seemed like a simple thing to see the characters move, but when I thought about it, it was a moment when many things changed.

It was the charm of an idle game that many things changed in the blink of an eye.

Even if I didn’t pay much attention to my smartphone, the characters were diligently doing their roles.

Someday, they might grow enough to solve everything without me.

-“You’re saying you’ll go to the auction house with me?”

-“Yes. Pluto and I are going to infiltrate the auction house together.”

-“Didn’t you say it was a difficult place where many nobles gather?”

-“It is. That’s why we’re planning to break through with a small number of people. Besides, Pluto, you... It won’t be a big problem even if you show your face to others.”

As I watched my smartphone with such thoughts, speech bubbles appeared above Eutenia and Pluto’s heads in the church building.

They were having a conversation in a large conference room where no one was.

There was also Peter, who always played the role of Eutenia’s servant.

Peter, who was wearing clothes that suited his role, looked at them with an uneasy face.

“Wasn’t he originally a servant? What role is he playing this time?”

He seemed to be joining this operation, seeing him attend the meeting.

It was a rare sight to see the three of them together since they rescued Pluto from the seal.

I was curious about Peter, who was wearing different clothes than usual.

I saw him learn swordsmanship from Evan a few times, but I still had a lot of doubts about his skills.

He wasn’t at the same level as Eutenia and Pluto, at least.

-“But... what do you want me to do by bringing me here...”

Peter didn’t seem to have any idea what his role was either.

He asked Eutenia and Pluto, who were talking.

Eutenia lifted up a ring with the Mayer Count’s seal on it, in response to Peter’s question.

It was something she got from Roan earlier.

She told Peter with the ring in her hand.

-“I have something to ask you, Peter. Of course, it’s not related to combat.”

-“What is it?”

-“Please attend the auction with Bishop Rex Meyer.”

That’s what Eutenia said as she handed over the seal she was holding to Peter.

It seemed that she was looking for someone to gather information from the auction house.

Peter was perfect for that kind of job.

He always acted like Eutenia’s servant whenever he saw her.

But Peter seemed to be shocked by Eutenia’s proposal, as he blinked his eyes and looked at her in front of him.

-“Me, me and the earl are going together?”

-“Yes. It won’t be a hard task for you, Peter. But it’s not an easy one either.”

-“With the earl... Okay, I understand. Then what do I have to do?”

Eutenia answered his question.

-“Please collect information about the situation and the catalog inside the auction house. Of course, you have to be careful not to be caught by the other people there, or it will be dangerous.”

-(gulp)

I chuckled as I saw the emoticon floating above Peter’s head.

Things that couldn’t be expressed in words still appeared as emoticons in speech bubbles.

But seeing an emoticon inserted between serious conversations made me feel like the whole conversation was funny somehow.

In the early stages of the game, there were mostly those kinds of emoticons.

I felt a great sense of accomplishment when I saw different conversations than before.

Especially in Eutenia’s case, since she was a character I raised from the beginning, I had a lot of thoughts as I saw her old self overlapping.

“I feel like the kids I raised have grown up already.”

It was just the other day that I fed Eutenia bread one by one.

Everyone who was watching the auction turned their eyes to a corner of the auction house.

Everyone’s eyes were drawn to a place where a girl holding a thick book was walking towards the direction of the host.

Setius’s hand trembled roughly at the sight of the girl walking to the front of the auction house.

He had not received any prior information about the girl he saw in front of him.

“Wha, what...?”

“Setius, what is that...?”

“I don’t know either. Wasn’t it your preparation?”

Setius’s bewildered eyes turned to his secretary.

But the secretary also shook his head in confusion.

It was then that Setius realized the situation.

An unexpected situation was happening.

And it was a situation that Setius himself did not want at all.

“I’m also enjoying this auction.”

Tap. Tap.

The girl’s light footsteps echoed on the stage.

The host who was conducting the auction also looked flustered.

As the girl who came up on the stage took her place in front of the host, he moved forward with a magic device that had amplification magic on it.

The host, who held the magic device, had a puzzled expression on his face.

He looked at the girl who came up on the stage and delivered his voice through the magic device.

“Excuse me, but it’s troublesome if you come up here without permission.”

“You might die if you say one more word?”

But the girl didn’t care about the host’s attitude, and just smiled with her finger on her lips.

The host then realized his situation and was startled.

Before he knew it, a shadow that sprang from the floor had grabbed his head firmly.

A fearful voice soaked in fear came out of the host’s mouth.

“Uh... uh uh...”

“Shh.”

“...”

Setius, who was watching the silent host, got up from his seat.

It was a situation where a magician who handled bizarre magic had invaded the auction.

Anyone who saw the spectacle in front of them would know that it was an emergency situation.

Setius got up from his seat and pointed his finger at the girl on the stage.

He gave an urgent order to the security forces that were sitting in the auction house.

“Get, get that woman down–!”

“You too.”

As soon as the gentle voice from the stage ended,

Setius sensed that something had happened to him as well.

Swish.

He felt a cold sensation on his neck.

A shadow that sprang from the floor had grabbed Setius’s neck.

Setius’s heart, touched by the black shadow, began to warn him urgently.

“Ahh...”

“Please be quiet, everyone. You’re interrupting me from introducing the auction items.”

“...”

Silence fell over the conference hall as soon as the girl’s words ended.

In silence, the girl looked down at each of them in the auction house.

The girl who held two people’s lives was very relaxed.

Thud.

The girl picked up a magic brooch that came out as an auction item and pinned it to her chest.

And then she spoke to the nobles hiding among the standing knights.

“I’ve prepared a special item for a fun auction.”

There was no item that could be called a product in the girl’s hand.

She had even pinned the brooch that existed to her chest.

Yet she opened her mouth imitating the host who had been conducting the auction until then.

She spoke about the only auction item she could offer to those who attended this place.

“The item I’m going to show you this time is... your lives.”

A short and simple threat.

Right after that, a pitch-black world descended on the entire auction house.