Chapter 24: Opening

Chapter 24: Opening

The sky was black tranquility married to the poetry of the stars.

It was the softness that called the body and brain to rest and let the heart go to its steady rhythm. Night came as a reward of sorts, a restfulness above to calm the soul.

Shi was a high-ranking enforcer of the Enforcer department, in just 400 years he was able to become a full enforcer.

Alizejh was a totally different case, she was an outright prodigy but Shi was just a normal genius.

He was sitting inside a bar inside the Auction hall and was quietly sipping his brandy with sorrow.

He was still not able to find his targets, the Joker Group, which were supposed to have planned an attack.

Idiocuty, he was a stupid guy, instead of drinking and wasting his time he should have tried to find the group.

Though no one could blame him, he was an elf, and elves were known for their greed for alcohol.

Shi had surprisingly liked how the drinks of the humans tasted. Back in his university, he had to study a lot. So he didn't get to enjoy normal life things.

His tranquil gaze went upon the numerous bottles of alcohol in front of him. Insatiable greed was striking him. Such is the power of alcohol! It can instantly addict its drinker, hooking him up to the endless pleasures of drinking until the person falls into depravity never to be able to climb again.

However, Shi was able to control his avarice and swore to himself that he won't go near alcohol again.

Elves are known to be heavy drinkers, it would be very hard for them to not drink a drink that is in front of them.

With their beautiful looks and indifferent gaze, they had one fatal weakness, Alchohol.

While he was drinking a very handsome man and a beautiful woman on his side came and sat next to him.

They simply took out a package from their coat and slid it to Shi.

He frowned a bit and turned his head to look at them but to his dismay, they had already left.

He stared at the package in front of him and had was frowning a lot.

"Did they give this to me by mistake?"

He shook his thoughts away and went forward to open the package up. The package was heavy, he couldn't help but wonder what was inside. He started to tear the brown paper on the package, then he saw a black color device inside.

He pulled it from the bag and stared at it confusedly. Slowly his confusion changed into shock and then ultimately in fear!

He threw the black device on the ground as soon as he could and turned around to run not giving a shit about the humans.

After all, they were just humans!

*Crash!*

People started to look at him with fear and started to run around at their best speed. He didn't know how people noticed it so quickly.

Until a second ago nobody was even giving a shit's attention to him.

'Is this what they call human instincts?'

The black device had wires attached to it, blue, yellow, green, and red! It had something like a stick of dynamite attached to it and a countdown timer.

The countdown timer which was at first at 30 was now on its last five seconds.

Everybody's heart froze, they realized their regrets, for some they thought about their kids or wives and some prayed to God.

The one thing common was that all of them could feel the essence of death. They could only wish for a miracle at that moment. The timer went 'tick-tock tick-tock'.

.....3

....2

...1

..0

*BOOOOM!!!!*

~

Five hours ago.

I entered the auction hall with Derek and instantly fell in love with the location.

The first thought that had come to mind upon arrival was that the host had really put in a lot of work into this.

Alizejh was not able to come with me due to a reason.

The reason being, that I made the mistake of over-pleasuring her.

I should have known her limits and that she wouldn't be able to handle my moon-fingering techniques but I used them anyway.

I even used her as a living piano.

Honestly, I feel extremely guilty since she was looking forward to this event.

Anyway, I guess I will eat all the food I can for her, as to compensate for her share.

The Regent Auction House was pretty good architecture, especially for lower beings. It was rather misleading to even call it a house as it towered high above any of the other buildings nearby.

The host was no ordinary person for sure looking at how large it was. Even if it was the most famous auction throughout the country it was just too much!

The Auction House was a magnificent theatre with intricate designs all over. The main doors were over 4 meters in height and were made from petrified wood with carved designs on them.

Compared to the naturalistic and elegant designs that I saw in the Fairy Realm, this was more complicated and grand.

It was in the shape of a half-cylinder with detailed stone sculptures of different weapons as supports.

It was charismatic and showed off the royal design on it.

But if a knowledgeable Architect would try to look at it carefully then they would realize that it was fearfully sinister.

We arrived early, so only the workers and guards were present, preparing for the event. The inside was equally, if not more stunning.

The front door opened to a path that stretched out to a stage on the other end.

To our left and right, there were rows of escalating seats made from a rather luxurious burgundy leather that could fit over ten thousand people comfortably.

Well, devils are supposed to be lustful.

"It's a pleasure to meet you. At least we'll have some company besides these guards," The lady giggled and said breaking the awkward atmosphere.

"Haha you are right....that was a really nice joke Mr.Messenger Lord said, haha." One of the clan leaders laughed aloud.

The red-haired devil felt wronged being treated as a joke.

However, he still did not show any change in expression.

I raised an eyebrow in surprise at the sharp contrast in the woman's personality to her appearance.

She seemed much more welcoming, despite her intimidating looks than the male guy. She had an aura of miasma around her and my senses shivered a bit.

So sinister! Just how many people has she killed?!

Not just that I can clearly say that the person in front of me was just a clone of her real body!

If just her clone has such miasma then how much miasma would be upon her real body?

At the same time, I noticed that the woman kept on glancing at me from time to time. Instantly feeling creeped out I crept into a corner and hid myself.

Then I noticed that the clan leaders and the two devils sat in the furthest corner of the VIP room and began chatting in small whispers.

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"Esteemed Lord, why didn't Lord Viole come?"

The Purple Family leader who was laughing a moment ago asked with a grim expression and a questioning gaze.

The red-haired man flinched when he heard his master's name being called by a mere human and anger quelled in his heart. Instantly he felt a hand gripping his hand and calmed down.

[Calm down! You Idiot!]

He heard the beautiful lady's voice in his head telepathically and immediately calmed down.

[ They called his highness by name!]

[ So what?! Even I call him by name! ] She snorted loudly as if calling him by name was nothing.

Because they were talking telepathically the family leaders noticed her snort and had discomfort on their faces and looked at her with a doubtful gaze.

The lady who had a veil on her face simply bowed in a noble ladylike manner, clutching the hems of her dress.

'Surely they won't cheat us. Devils are known for their trustful contracts.'

While such thoughts were going in their mind, the lady was threatening the red-haired man telepathically.

[You! Because of you, I got embarrassed in front of these ugly mongrels!]

The woman had a cross expression on her face as she looked at the red-haired man.

[ Please forgive me Lady Ishtar...I didn't mean to do that.] The red-haired man pleaded.

When the Shadow family leaders were not looking, immediately Ishtar crept toward Griles and whispered in his ears.

"If I was allowed to kill humans and if this slave contract wasn't on me then you would have been dead by now along with everyone present here!" She threatened.

His face eventually went pale and tears almost came out of them as he looked at Ishtar with a pleading gaze.

Ishtar giggled when she saw his almost fainting expression while releasing a bit of her miasma.

Griles felt a shiver on his spine, he could clearly feel the essence of death.

'If this aura was directed fully towards me I would choke and die for sure!'

He looked at Ishtar with a complicated gaze and saw that she was looking at someone.

He instantly thought of what his highness Viole had said before about Ishtar and had now fully confirmed that he was gonna die pretty soon because of this woman which made his mission practically a suicide mission.

'Griles, Never! Never! Never offend her! Even if she is a clone who is under my command as a slave.'

This is what his master had told him before.

'I wonder what would happen if her real body knew what her clone was going through in the lower world!'

He once again got a shiver as he looked away and gazed nervously at the humans.

While the man was having threatening thoughts, the woman was surveying the entire room.

'Ugly human...

Smelly human...

Slutty human...

Pretty boy.....huma...huh?!

Is that a human?!'

She immediately looked at Rael with a delicate expression. It was like as if she was looking at a very precious toy of hers.

She slowly started to inspect him and noticed that he had long silver hair that was not tied up and was unruly.

He had long eyelashes and icy jade violet eyes. She looked into his eyes and felt a bit lost.

They were as mesmerizing and deep as an ocean!

She gave a slight smile that could capture the heart of every celestial and noticed that he had pointed elf-like ears which he was not trying to hide.

He was not human so what was he doing in a room full of humans? Such thoughts were wandering in her head.

She looked at him with her fingers on her lips as an amused smile crept onto her face.

Rael was already feeling her gaze on him but now he felt even more uncomfortable so he slid into the corner and sat glancing at the crowd below.

'The Lower world is sure very interesting.'

Ishtar smiled from inside her veil.