Chapter 178 – The Market (2)
We entered the market.
Other members also came. Shao-Mei and Tao-Li wear black cheongsams with platinum dragons engraved on the accessories that gave them strength.
“Everyone, please put on your mask first.”
“A mask?”
Sanae asked.
“Yeah. The market is also a place where demons come, so it can lead to a fight.”
“Aha.”
Saying that, Sanae put on a fox mask in subspace.
“A rewarded hero is equipped with a mask.”
Tao Li said admiringly. Aki’s face turned red. It’s not like that with Sanae, it just seems like she’s carrying it around because it’s cool.
I also created a mask with a cloth mask. It materializes a mask that has no effect. The mask of ignorance was revealed.
“What, is that an ability?”
“Uh. It’s just a mask with no effect, can you make one for me?”
“That’s fine.”
I also made a mask for Tao Li. Xiaomei also got a mask from me, and Yoon Seungha also got it from me. Aki took it, and Sana too.
“Me, I want to get a bar too. Ki, like a souvenir.”
“…”
Made a mask
“Can I too?”
“Sure.”
Yuna Lee asked me with a smile. I put on a mask while hiding my embarrassment.
“It’s fun.”
Lee Yeon-a smiled as if she was having fun and accepted my mask. It’s an awkward conversation. Rather than my ability to create a mask, it felt like I knew its true identity.
“Then shall we go?”
We entered the market. As we entered, two well-dressed men and women approached us.
Each wore a black cheetah mask.
“I will check the invitation.”
“Here you go.”
Xiao-Mei handed out five black invitations.
“Here too.”
Lee Yeon-a smiled and handed over two invitations. The man and woman received the invitation and checked it with something like a black scan.
“Has confirmed. Please go inside.”
Click.
The black door opened spontaneously, revealing a blue portal inside.
“You can go here.”
I was guided and thought.
There are quite a few bullets prepared, but the competition is going to be pretty heated today. According to the information I got from asking Kim Ho-dong later, the item will be auctioned off.
-Items to the market? Wait for a while. This time the goods… Uh, is this real? A five-colored fragrance comes out?
Five-colored scent.
It is the seven-color subordinate compatibility of Eun Soo-ah. It is the same up to the power of the five colors, but if the seven colors deal with concepts, the five colors deal with the attributes of fire, water, wind, earth, and wood.
‘But it’s a trait.’
Although it is not comparable to the unique ability of seven colors, the scent of five colors is no different from a special elixir. An elixir that raises attributes and increases stats.
In terms of grade, it’s an A-grade elixir that won’t be strange even in a war.
Security would be thorough if it was available in the market, but the story is different if it is an A-class elixir.
In order to overheat the competition, rumors will be spread around the neighborhood that an A-grade elixir will be on display this time.
There is no need for a five-color fragrance. But because of that, if I don’t get what I want, I feel a little bit sick to my stomach.
***
“From now on, I will guide you.”
After crossing the portal, a female guide wearing a white rabbit mask led the group.
Yoon Seung-ha looked at her own mother. Although she is hidden by a mask, Seungha Yoon recalls Yeonah Lee smiling and grinning.
It was the first time I’d seen him smile like that.
Lee Yeon-ah was mostly expressionless. When she or Yoon Chae-rin did something, she gave her a whip and gave her something as a reward, but she didn’t show a smile.
In her dim memory, she can count on one hand the number of times she has laughed. When asked about her father’s story.
-Father? My father said, he was very handsome.
– My father isn’t there. I mean ‘now’.
Lee Yeon-a always talked about her father in a vague manner. She still thinks of her father and she smiles all the time.
Her mother was always questionable.
Yoon Seung-ha compared his own and his mother’s powerlessness. She can probably laugh and subdue him and Yoon Chae-rin even if there are hundreds of them.
However, there is no information about her mother anywhere. As if it had been deleted by something, or as if the existence of a mother had suddenly fallen from this world.
“Everything has arrived.”
The receptionist opened the door and bowed to greet her. Then, Siwoo Lee looked at the guide wearing a rabbit mask with a strange look.
“I hope you have a good time.”
As the party passed through the door, a huge cavity was revealed. There were already overflowing people wearing colorful costumes and masks. The number is close to 1,000.
“Do you like women wearing rabbit masks?”
“Yeah?”
“Looking at you with strange eyes.”
Lee Yeon-ah smiled and said. Coquettish gesture.
Lee Si-woo looked at Lee Yeon-ah with her strange eyes for a moment and then shook her head.
“Nope. There are people who are familiar with it.”
“Anyone familiar?”
Yeona Lee turned her head to look at her rabbit mask. She looked normal on the outside. Her powers were unusual. It spans narrowly across her septum. But she’s not a demon, and it probably wouldn’t be enough for Lee Si-woo to care.
“Then, unfortunately, we have to part. Our seats are on the other side.”
Xiaomei said in a regretful tone. But the eyes behind the mask did not. She was looking at herself with wary eyes.
Lee Yeon-ah smiled lightly, took Yoon Seung-ha’s hand and headed for her assigned magnet.
“Is our seat number 51?”
“Yeah. Unfortunately, number 50 is difficult to obtain.”
Siwoo Lee looked at Xiaomei with new eyes. It would be very difficult for her to even get into the top 50.
As she turned towards her, she could see the space shimmering. Below the seats in the 100th are all special seats. A place where only those who are acknowledged by anyone, both socially and forcefully, can sit.
The seats are special as well.
If it’s special, it’s just that we have one room, and we can enjoy a little food or drink there.
A space of about 20 sqm.
There was a glass plate there.
“Xiao Mei, do you have anything to buy here?”
“Ugh. Am I also a five-color scent? A-class elixir is expensive to call, so some bleeding is expected, but that’s why it’s so good.”
Xiao Mei then looked at her Tao. Is she going to feed Tao? It’s not bad.
Lee Si-woo looked at him for a moment. Beside him, Sanae was fidgeting.
“Does Sanae-noona want to buy anything?”
“Who, sister?”
“Yeah. I think it’s too far away to say you. Do you not like it?”
“Oh, no. Good, good Then, can I call you Siwoo too?”
“Yes, do whatever you want.”
Saying so, Lee Siu put one of his grapes into his mouth.
Then, a man wearing a black tailcoat and a mask covering half of his face appeared in his window.
“Thank you for visiting our Black Market!”
The man bowed his head and said.
“Soon, our black market will start an auction. This time it’s full of quality items. And today! There are also elixirs that we specially obtained. We sincerely hope that all of you will bring what you want! Then let’s start the auction right away!”
Auction has started.
After that came rare items. Expensive herbs or magic items. And even martial arts books of certain schools known to have been fought.
Beep.
“Will you buy it?”
“Yeah, it looks pretty good.”
Lee Si-woo smiled and participated in the auction. Some schools of martial arts known to have been fought have great value.
It’s a mediocre spearmanship, but the real value of that spearmanship is that it has an absolute compatibility with demons and certain races.
The price is 150 million won.
This isn’t bad enough.
“This thing… This is an item whose whereabouts cannot be identified. It is an item that appraisers can’t tell what it is even if they appraise it.”
The words were long.
Siwoo Lee looked at the man in the tailcoat with his chin resting on his chin, then hesitated.
Why is that here?
“However, this coin is really unique. It won’t break or get crushed by any attack. Even the three famous attributes of space and time could not blemish this coin.”
Of course. What kind of stuff is that
Siwoo Lee opened his mouth involuntarily. Hyeokwol seemed to know why he had come.
If he had obtained the information, Siwoo Lee would have borrowed money from all sides by any means.
Or did he ask Grande Hill and the Queen to bring in a lot of money?
“This price will start at 100 million.”
Beep.
A red light rang before Siwoo Lee could participate in the auction. It means someone bid.
Beep.
At the same time, someone else bid. 200 million won was written on the display board.
Beep.
1 billion won. The price has risen. Then, a beep sounded and the number 3 billion was written.
Beep, beep, beep.
The sound rings continuously. 10 billion was already over a long time ago. Siwoo Lee instinctively knew who was participating in the competition.
One is Hyukwol, a colleague of Yujin Shin who is famous for being a regressor. And the other is the hero of destruction, Lee Yeon-ah. Both of them are people who have nothing to regret if it is money.
“What is that coin, why is it so expensive? By any chance, Siwoo Lee, do you know?”
Tao asked. Ishiu slowly nodded his head.
It’s not something to be underestimated just because it’s that thing. That is a very important thing.
Collector.
It is an ability Shin Yu-jin possesses. The ability to create a single world and collect multiple things in that world.
And that coin is an object that serves as a kind of key to enter Shin Yu-jin’s world.
It takes a collector’s ability to properly use that coin.
What Hyukwol is wary of is the appearance of the Collector. Because Shin Yu-jin was wary of the demon king and left a legacy for him.
If someone with the ability of a collector appears and obtains that coin, Hyukwol will be forcibly incorporated into the world.
Beep.
The numbers kept going up. Beyond the 10 billion unit, the unit was already on its way to 100 billion.
“… What the hell is that?”
Everyone opened their mouths and looked at the display board. Lee Si-woo laughed dejectedly.
The Collector’s Mask can be completed within a year, but of course… Why did that coin appear now?
“Oh, something great has happened! The auction price of the coin is over 100 billion, 100 billion won!”
The moderator trembled and said.
And 775 billion.
Coins were sold for truly absurd numbers.
Siwoo Lee thought calmly. Hyukwol or Lee Yeonah. One of the two must have bought it. So, who bought the coin?
I know Hyukwol’s personality. Perhaps if she was Hyukwol, she might think simply. I’m going to kill the guy who stole the coin.
Hyukwol has such power. There are several heroes and demons in the market, but they are all gossipers. Hyukwol cannot be stopped even if thousands of people gather, not hundreds.
It was a coin that Lee Yeon-ah legitimately obtained through an auction, but to Hyuk-wol, that doesn’t matter.
What if Lee Yeon-ah buys it?
This is not good either. It’s not the worst, but I think it’s the lesser evil.
We don’t know Lee Yeon-ah’s personality, but she is the woman who destroyed the world because of her beliefs. She doesn’t know where to go
‘And if those two fight.’
The whole place collapses. No, will she just fall apart? The market is located on the Greek side.
If it were Korea, Ennis and Titania would come and help right away, but if a battle breaks out here, the chances of survival drop infinitely to zero.
Siwoo Lee calmly started preparing to run away.
***
“Sorry.”
I was short of money. Hyukwol leaned back in his chair and thought calmly.
If you think about it calmly, there is no way that a person with the power of a collector will appear. No, it doesn’t matter if it appears. Now, he can get out of the rut.
But even knowing that, I was anxious.
So, when the news of the coin coming up at the auction house, I prepared as much money as possible. And he thought that if he didn’t bid he would either break the coin or attack him and take it by force.
“Hmm.”
Compare her own powerlessness to that of the woman at her entrance. As for her ability itself, she’ll be above herself. However, her ability as a woman is too unknown.
And the compatibility is not good either.
There is also a bowl of the god of thunder.
Took. Took.
He tapped the table with his fingers. Shall I break it or not? Shall I break it or not?
Mine, who was by Hyukwol’s side, felt ominous every time Hyukwol knocked on the table.
Although she herself is a demon and has a violent temper, she is incomparable to the author. Maybe she’s thinking about breaking up the auction house by now. What’s even more frightening is that he has such power.
Took.
His fingers stopped. Hyukwol decided.
“Egg plant.”
If the coin has passed to someone else, there is no reason to stay here any longer. Hyukwol turned his back.
