176 Why are you so strong!? (1/2)

He did not pay any attention to it and was about to walk towards the stairs to the floor below when he suddenly remembered something.

'I have yet to do something about these Harmony leaves,' Ozul thought as he touched the wooden box strapped to his side with the book.

”May I help you?”

Ozul looked up to see the woman behind the counter looking at him with a smile out of courtesy.

”Do you know any place where I can sell stuff?” Ozul did not hold back. He was new to the Neutral Lands, so he could only ask for help in this matter.

”Sell stuff?” The woman in the uniform looked at him confusedly.

'What type of stuff? Surely someone who met Boss and was leaving without any worries isn't planning to sell some clothes,' the woman thought before she replied,

”If it is something precious, I would recommend going to an auction house.”

”Auction house? Which and where?” Ozul asked.

”Uhum... It is your choice, but the generally considered best auction house is in the Neutral City. Once you are there, you can ask just about anyone of the directions for the Littlewood Auction House.”

Ozul nodded his head and walked away. He was going to the Neutral City anyways.

Watching him walk away without saying anything, the woman took out a filer and started to file her nails while muttering, ”Quite rude that guy... not even a thank you.”

. . .

Ozul walked out of the giant building. He had just taken a few steps away from it when the building disappeared from behind him.

He turned around and realized that he wasn't able to sense it again. Only when he put all of his focus in that place could he feel something different.

'Formations... they are a threat to me even at my current level. I would have to be careful of them.' Ozul thought before he turned around and walked away.

He walked normally on the streets but increased his speed after he was out of the town.

Only around twenty minutes had passed, and he had yet to arrive near the Neutral City when his instincts started to work up.

”!!!”

He did not see anything wrong and did not have enough time to put all his focus in front of him. So he immediately dodged to the side.

Under his squinted eyes, the ground from where he had dodged was suddenly covered in some runes before a giant pillar of fire rose from that circle. It torched everything in that area to ashes.

Such an intensity of the fire was enough to kill a group of Rank-8 Mages instantly if they were caught in it!

Ozul had yet to figure out the assailants when the ground below him started to glow with runes, and he was forced to dodge again.

Again, a giant pillar of fire rose from those runes, ravaging the area.

It did not take long for him to notice the three people hiding a few meters away from this place.

Ozul expanded his hat into several needles and sent them towards their direction. Simultaneously, he dodged to the side because of another fire pillar.

The three people hiding came out from behind the trees after blocking the needles with shields of their respective elements.

Out of the three, one of them was a woman. Ozul did not know the woman and the middle-aged man behind, but he was very much aware of the person in the middle.

He was the same person Rufus had introduced him to at the Church; Garth.

”So impatient?” Ozul raised his brows, amused that the Church could not wait for even a day to pass.

”Hoho~ From your not so surprised reaction, it seems that I was correct; you do seem to be aware of your situation,” Garth said with his usual smile.

”Well, your stinking smile just gave you away,” Ozul said while shrugging.

Garth's smile finally dropped as his face distorted in anger.

”If you know what is good for you, give up boy!” Garth threatened.

Ozul did not say anything. Looking at his poker face, Garth grounded his teeth.

”There are three of us here. Even if you somehow could take the three of us together, we have already covered this whole area with the formation. There is no getting out of it for you.”

Ozul tried to feel the formation, and he could indeed feel that he was already inside the formation.

'Three of them together? Does he not know?' Ozul thought.

But this was not the time to think about such things. His gaze hardened as he stared coldly at Garth, still not saying anything.

”... If that's what you want, you can only blame your stupidity later.” Garth realized that talking anymore would be only wasting his time as he sped towards Ozul with his two companions.