"How many gold coins?" asked Han Shuo again as he looked at the auctioneer under everyone's astonished gazes.
Outside the auction house, the Ice Goddess and Snow Goddess of the Shrine of Ice had gathered. More and more experts were gathering here, gradually surrounding Han Shuo. It seemed that they had no intention of letting Han Shuo leave this place alive.
"Ten, one hundred and fifty thousand gold coins!" answered the auctioneer involuntarily under Han Shuo's imposing manner.
Nodding, Han Shuo took out three magic crystal cards from his space ring, each with a face value of fifty thousand gold coins. He tossed them to the auctioneer from afar, saying, "Here's one hundred and fifty thousand gold coins. I'm taking it!"
These three magic crystal cards required no password or procedures. As long as the owner confirmed inside, the card could be used to withdraw gold coins from any magic crystal trading firm. When Han Shuo left Brettel City, Jack had specially prepared them for convenience. For example, the race of dwarves did not have a magic crystal device that could convert gold coins. If Han Shuo relied solely on his own magic crystal card, he would not be able to deliver large amounts of gold coins to the dwarves. It was obviously much more convenient to use these magic crystal cards.
"But, but …" The auctioneer obviously knew that the true value of the Brain-Devouring Demon could be even higher. After hastily catching the three magic crystal cards containing one hundred and fifty thousand gold coins, he stared at Han Shuo anxiously, wanting to say something.
"It's about time." Han Shuo snorted lightly. Soon after, he cast a glance at Sophie in the hall, hinting her to leave as soon as possible to avoid trouble.
What Han Shuo was doing now was simply daylight robbery. As a somewhat famous genius knight in Kasi Empire, although Sophie was delighted by Han Shuo's impoliteness towards Braque, she dared not say much to him at this moment, especially when her father, sacred knight Sulo, was in Braque's room.
"M-Father-In-Law!" Suddenly, in the VIP room on the third floor, Braque looked at sacred knight Sulo anxiously as he looked at Thuram who had fallen to the ground at his feet.
There was no one in Kasi Empire who did not know of Sulo's name. When Braque saw Thuram being sent flying by Han Shuo's punch, he finally understood how terrifying this simple and honest fatty was in his state of extreme terror. Thankfully, Sulo was by Braque's side. Thus, even though Thuram was injured, Braque was still relatively calm. At this moment, he was looking at Sulo anxiously, obviously hoping that Sulo would help.
Sullo was a Holy Knight! In Braque's mind, a Holy Knight was the strongest existence on the continent!
Sulo understood in his heart that Han Shuo and Sophie were certainly familiar with each other. Perhaps the two even had some friendship. But at this moment, Sulo seemed to have no choice in the face of Braque's earnest request. Hence, under Braque's earnest request, Sulo nodded with a heavy expression.
"Mister, you have broken the rules of the auction house. I hope you can hand over the item and participate in the auction in the normal way!" Sulo said as he stood by the window and looked at Han Shuo with a solemn expression.
Inside the auction house, the various celebrities who had been shocked by Han Shuo's move suddenly came to their senses. Among these people, some had seen sacred knight Sulo before. Now that they heard sacred knight Sulo's voice, they were even more astonished and started a clamor of discussion.
If it were a large-scale battle, given how cowardly these people were, they would immediately leave this place of trouble. But when they saw that only Han Shuo was here, and sacred knight Sulo was here, they couldn't help but stay and observe with curiosity.
"Mister, what is the meaning of this?" The person in charge, Zarya, appeared out of nowhere, leading a group of guards. Zarya's expression was rather unsightly as he forcefully suppressed the rage in his heart and questioned Han Shuo.
At first, Zarya felt apologetic towards Han Shuo. But after witnessing Han Shuo's audacious behavior backstage, Zarya was truly enraged. Kasi Empire held an auction every three years, and such a strange thing had never happened before. No matter how much an ordinary person desired a treasure, they would at most wait until after the auction to make use of the influence in their hands to steal it.
But Han Shuo's act of openly robbing a treasure under the watchful eyes of the auction house was something that had never happened before!
The situation was clear. Han Shuo had earned everyone's enmity.
"My apologies. I had intended to bid according to the rules, but due to some special circumstances, I had no choice but to resort to this!" Han Shuo shrugged helplessly at Zarya. Sensing that some experts from the Shrine of Ice were approaching, Han Shuo signaled Sophie with his eyes again and prepared to break through the door and leave.
Whoosh!
Sacred knight Sulo suddenly leaped down and landed fiercely on Han Shuo. Sulo did not draw his weapon, but his body naturally exuded a swift and fierce aura. While in midair, Sulo extended both his hands. Golden fighting aura blossomed in his palms like a sun.
"No!" Sophie suddenly screamed from below the stage.
Seeing that Sulo was not going to kill her, Sophie screamed. Han Shuo creased his brows and shot a glance at Sophie. He suddenly retreated, ignoring Sulo's attack and headed straight for the exit.
As Sophie's father, Sulo did not attack Han Shuo the last time they were outside Braque's manor because of Sophie. This time, although he attacked out of consideration for Braque's reputation, he obviously did not go for the kill. Therefore, Han Shuo could not kill Sulo. He could only avoid him and leave as soon as possible.
"Friend! Actually, the person they're looking for is me! " Just as Han Shuo was about to kick open the stone wall of the auction house and seize the opportunity to leave, an old man in his twilight years suddenly spoke not far behind Han Shuo.
This old man had a head of messy green hair that looked like straw covering his head. He looked like he had lived for a very long time. The years had left deep scars on his face.
Ever since Han Shuo arrived at the auction house, he had been observing every single person in the auction house. Han Shuo had naturally taken note of this old man as well. It was just that when he first observed this old man, Han Shuo did not pay much attention to him because he did not sense any extraordinary aura from this old man.
However, just as Han Shuo was about to leave before the Shrine of Ice was completely set up, the old man's words gave Han Shuo a strange feeling as though he was bathing in a spring breeze.
When Han Shuo was startled, he unfolded his consciousness and focused all of it on this old man. He suddenly discovered that under the old man's outer appearance that seemed as though it could sink into the earth at any moment, there was actually a vigorous life force.
Within the old man's body, Han Shuo felt the power of a vast green forest. This power was full of exuberant life force, more than ten times greater than that of sacred knight Sulo who was walking over at high speed.
Han Shuo understood that the more powerful an existence was, the stronger their life force would be. For this old man to possess such a tremendous life force, and to be able to conceal himself from Han Shuo's consciousness at the very beginning, it meant that he was at least as strong as Han Shuo. Otherwise, Han Shuo would have sensed him.
This discovery gave Han Shuo a shock. Soon after, he understood the meaning behind the old man's words. He looked at the old man in astonishment and said, "You're saying that those from the Shrine of Ice outside are after you?"
The old man nodded and smiled bitterly, "That's right, it's me!"
* Crack! *
It was at this moment that a crisp sound was heard from the top of the auction house. The crowd raised their heads in alarm, only to see an enormous hole split open at the top of the auction house. A woman shrouded in a thin layer of mist slowly descended from above.
At the same time, the doors of the auction house suddenly opened. Those from the Shrine of Ice, led by Ice Celestial Corey, walked in with grave and stern expressions.
"Master Kelly, why didn't you gather with your old friends after coming to Kasi Empire? That's too disrespectful! "Ice Celestial Corey laughed heartily as soon as he walked in from outside.
Han Shuo took a look at him. Although Ice Celestial Corey was laughing cheerfully, he looked haggard and had a gloomy complexion. It seemed that Corey hadn't been having a good time recently. It made sense. In Han Shuo's hands, the Shrine of Ice's God Making Project, which they had spent a huge amount of resources to start, came to a premature end at the critical moment. Not only were all their experts slaughtered by metal elite zombie, they even lost their sacred grade experts.
Even in the Shrine of Ice, the number of sacred grade experts could be counted on one's fingers. The death of every sacred grade expert would cause immeasurable losses to the Shrine of Ice. As the supreme leader of the Shrine of Ice, Ice Celestial Corey could only watch helplessly as the strength of the Shrine of Ice not only failed to increase, but was instead weakened bit by bit. It would be strange if he could be happy.
As expected, he really wasn't looking for me! Han Shuo was astonished. Then, he discovered that Ice Celestial Corey's gaze had never once landed on him. It seemed that Ice Celestial Corey actually couldn't recognize him without changing his appearance.
"Sage, what should we do?" Druid Lilian, who had been chattering incessantly beside Han Shuo, actually came before that old man at this moment and asked respectfully.
After hearing Lilian's explanation, Han Shuo suddenly came to a realization. When he looked at this old man again and sensed the vigorous energy within his aged body, he immediately understood that this old man should be a big shot of the Druidic Order. As for why such a big shot would appear in this auction house, Han Shuo also vaguely understood.
It seemed that he was here for the so-called 'Hand of Goddess' of the Druidic Order!
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