Trash of the Count's Family

The top floor of the Golden Tree. This location that was the highest spot in Vegas City was as quiet as a theatre waiting for a play to start, although there were some whispers down below.

Click.

The Singten Guild Leader Plavin opened the door to R-3.

The auction house for the VIP auction had seats from 1 - 5. However, there were VIP sections as well.

R.

This was the symbol for the terrace where you could see the auction platform, as well as the seats below.

The auction house had a total of 8 terraces like this, and they were all labeled by the letter R.

It was possible to see the entire platform, but most importantly, the terrace had a sound barrier and made it easier to hide your identity in comparison to the other seats.

Plavin Singten entered terrace number 3 while wearing a mask that was embedded with beautiful jewels.

Screeech.

He opened the curtains covering the terrace.

Plavin had to find a seat in R-3 at short notice, however, it was not difficult as the seat originally assigned to the Singten Merchant Guild, which was one of the top five merchant guilds in the Empire, was within the 8 terraces.

The number itself was not important.

“Guild leader-nim, shall I bring some tea?”

Plavin turned toward the voice.

The participants inside the auction house could bring one servant with them. Knights and mages could not come with them.

That was why Plavin had brought the assassin guild's vice guild leader as his servant.

“No need.”

Plavin did not even sit at the luxurious couch as he looked around the terrace.

‘Is he on terrace 4?’

‘That bastard. Where could the crazy bastard with the Determination of Fire be located?’

That was the only thing Plavin was focused on right now.

The eight terraces were all paired up, however, there was a thick wall between the paired terraces in order to make it difficult to know who was on the other terraces.

Plavin licked his lips with his tongue.

‘Just how are we going to meet?’

He had no idea about how the person would approach him. He asked the assassin a question.

“The Flynn Merchant Guild is on terrace 4?”

“Yes sir. It is said to be Billos, who is second in line to succeed the leader.”

From terrace 1 to terrace 8, the Singten Guild Leader had used all of his information networks in order to figure out who was on each terrace.

‘…Is the Flynn Merchant Guild's successor the crazy bastard?’

Billos, the bastard son of the Flynn Merchant Guild's guild leader, was still young. But most importantly, he had never gone near the Empire’s Vatican nor had he had any contact with the Pope.

‘It is possible that I just didn't know.’

It could be that he was looking down on the Flynn Merchant Guild, however, his instincts that had been honed through years of experience were telling him something.

It was not the Flynn Merchant Guild.

They were not at that level.

He was close to certain that his intuition was correct.

It was a more difficult existence to determine. That seemed to be the crazy bastard's identity.

“It will start soon. How about we sit down for now?”

“Sure.”

Plavin realized that he had been overly anxious after hearing the assassin’s comment. His face underneath the beautiful mask was extremely nervous.

‘The Flynn Merchant Guild's successor apparently already entered terrace 4.’

Plavin was the last to enter terrace R. The staff of the Golden Tree Auction House had closed the entrance to the terrace as soon as he entered. Talented swordsmen were said to be guarding outside the door.

‘But they’re probably still weaker than that crazy bastard.’

Plavin hated the person blackmailing him, but still wanted to see who it was.

‘Is this what it feels like to be dragged around?’

The merchant guild leader had changed his goal after last night. The original goal was to reveal the person and take the necklace away, however, it had now changed into making a deal.

A mutually beneficial deal.

This meeting would not be too bad if it was a mutually beneficial deal. Plavin made up his mind to put his, ‘know-how,’ that he had gained after so many years to use.

Of course, he had no idea that the phrase, ‘mutually beneficial deal,’ was not in the other person's mind.

Boom-

He started to hear the sound of a drum beating.

“It is starting.”

“Yes.”

Plavin sat up straight at the assassin's words and casually looked down at the platform.

The auctioneer for the auction walked up to the beat of the drum. The auctioneer was also wearing a fancy mask as he spoke into the amplification magic device.

meet you. Thank you very much for joining us in this new year celebration

tone, the auctioneer’s demeanor

anticipation for the items that were about to come out with

auction is famous for bringing out one best item every day

theme of this VIP

of this auction is, ‘Beast people.’ Ah! Of course, we do not put living Beasts up for auction. We

assassin peeked toward

was someone who had risen to his current position through that barbaric slave trade. However, the assassin ignored the auctioneer's words after seeing the guild leader's

start with the first

up to the platform and the audience applauded the start

Clap, clap, clap-

as he simply continued to look down

Clap, clap, clap-

Tap.

a different noise

Singten's body quickly stiffened

quickly moved behind Plavin and clenched the

small noise that they had

noise had come from the

someone had stepped onto the railing

is

moment he heard the

Screeech.

The curtains closed.

not take his eyes away

Click.

was locked by itself as

a reason for you to

a voice even though he did not see

‘Young.’

voice of a young

started to shake. The man did

servant. Isn’t that too vicious? Put

“Haaaa.”

nervous sigh of the assassin behind him. The merchant guild leader and the assassin. Both of them had the same thought in their heads right

‘An expert.’

that this invisible man

Clunk.

move. Plavin’s eyes opened wide as he stared at

are you so

was sitting at the edge of the table with his

man’s clear blue eyes underneath the white mask that was as white as

He’s at least

leader started to get anxious after realizing the man had

mage and a

to take his dagger out. That alone signaled that the man

at least a high-grade mage and a fighter. The assassin got a headache after thinking about

was just saying whatever Raon was telling him in his

Human, aren’t I great?

device, invisibility, and the dagger. Raon had explained

‘What a useful Dragon.’

Raon learned to work

covered the upper half of his

how did

shook his head at the fact that Plavin's first words

That was not important.

necklace out of his chest

Clang.

on his index finger

Determination of Fire. He heard the white-haired man’s voice

“30.”

his senses as he clenched onto the

are you? How dare you do this

“Haaaaa.”

out

“How boring.”

“What?”

boring response. That

“30 billion counds.”

was about to

30 billion counds.

understood what Cale was saying. He immediately responded back in

“W, what crazy nonsense!”

go

voice. He was giving off an

to get angry, but the gaze of the man made it difficult

the Dominating Aura

“Plavin Singten.”

the Determination of Fire as if it was a toy. This was because he

the Church of the

was an

was something

the Sun God. The church had been around longer than the

was because the Sun God had existed for much longer than

as well. The man in the white mask

is a reason something lasts

Sun God had

the roots of the Church of the Sun God had been

the many religions and kingdoms that had disappeared

side of the Empire

odd thought after seeing the person in

The man sounded certain.

Church of the Sun God is not

anger and anxiety filled his face. It was the gaze of a merchant who was curious

say that you are known

was indeed

agreed

really good with

you should know about it. You should know what the bad news from the Empire

emotion moved past