Chapter 70-71: Creature Showdown (1/2)

Chapter 70-71: Creature Showdown

The auction ended when my remaining points reached 2 million. I had close to 7 million points in reserve so I had used 5 million in this auction.

Thanks to that, I had shoveled up a substantial amount of goods.

Astral Code, Statue of Abundance, Tear of the Moon, Smile of the Sun, Sage’s Leap, Earth Dragon’s Body, Sloth and five other items.

The demons showed different responses after I successfully bid for 12 items. Shock. Intense curiosity. Hostility. Irritation. Of course, none of the demons felt good.

The auction was a competition. But they couldn’t compete successfully due to my presence.

I appeared out of nowhere and caused havoc. I had an overwhelming number of points that no one could resist. Their hope to obtain a number of coveted items and creatures ended the moment I showed an intention to bid. It wasn’t a situation where they could beat me in points.

Randalph Brigsiel became a prominent figure in their minds. The demons that missed out on the items felt resentment and cursed my name.

‘Fortunately I gained a large amount of points.’

I smiled.

I couldn’t be dismissed.

In reality, most of the demons would think like that.

I had a high class creature like Gigantes and provoked Ariel. I had successfully engraved my image, unlike the 1st year.

I showed my power and influence to the other demons in my 2nd year. In the 3rd year, 4th year…as the auctions gradually progressed, my influence would spread.

The demons couldn’t easily feel a sense of crisis and would wait to act.

But little by little, their mistakes would start to stack up. Things would go wrong. Mistakes would be made. Before long, the action that I started in the 1st auction would snowball out of control.

In short, I was at the point where the snowball had started rolling. It depended on how far my capabilities could grow. The difference between eating them all at once or spreading it out. So far I was quite successful.

Anyway…the auction featuring 100 different items was over.

But still, the Demon World Auction wasn’t over.

There were many goods that didn’t receive bids in the auction. There were also previous items insufficient for the auction.

Those things were gathered like rubbish at the market. The quantity amounted to hundreds of items.

The display on the outskirts of the castle caught the eyes of the demons. This was a public place where they could purchase ‘free’ things.

“Buinorong’s Fork! A famous fork that was stabbed into a dragon’s eye!”

“Selling a bouquet of Sellener flowers that emit a strong poison.”

“Selling 50 orcs from the hard stone environment!”

The salespeople were obviously the dark spirits. But they weren’t on the same level as Dubolong.

It was all workers gathered here.

It was unlikely that I would be able to find items that matched the auction. At best, they were the rare grade. There were also some very good intermediate creatures.

At first, the demons were interested but that waned. Unlike the auction hall, there were no checks to hold back the invisible tension between factions.

The rules prohibited direct battle.

So they had to rely on the creatures that accompanied them.

Except for some demons, most of the were accompanied by unusual advanced creatures.

Some were creatures that could be obtained in stores and were bred like Adol Luph while others were received as rewards for particular achievements.

They carefully selected the creatures in their dungeon. Therefore they had extreme confidence.

“Suguph. Why are you only accompanied by an ogre?”

But Upa was an exception.

Pakan Griolli couldn’t participate in the auction and there were problems with some of Upa’s participants.

Suguph Vahalla’s expression changed at Upa’s question.

He had used the shades and shadow sinners in the United Kingdom to try to gain points.

If it proceeded as he planned then he would have racked up a lot of points and impressed Upa.

But now a demon with the rank of duke was only followed by an ogre. It wasn’t even a twin head ogre but a general one! There was such a gap between them that they couldn’t be compared.

So Suguph felt it was really unfair.

“I’m really sorry.”

Of course, he didn’t express that unfairness.

How could he say that the human Awakened killed them?

They had thrown his calculations into confusion. Thanks to that, he wasted 500,000 points. It was the reason why he needed to take a passive attitude in the auction.

Was he too dismissive of the Awakened?

Just thinking about it made his head throb.

“There is no one decent.”

Grand Duke Upa clicked his tongue.

Suguph and Groggy were in his faction but he didn’t favour them.

He didn’t know why but the quality of their creatures was poorer compared to the other factions. There was even someone stupid enough to bring an intermediate level creature. The 4 factions were making assessments to determine the weakest one.

The weak would die. Never show weakness. The nature of the demons was ‘strength.’ This could be judged through the creatures that accompanied them. But he was pushed from the start. It was inevitable that Grand Duke Upa’s expression didn’t look good.

The monster waves of the demons in Grand Duke Upa’s faction failed but they didn’t know that this was engineered by Randalph Brigsiel and the Devil Hunters. Even if Upa knew the situation, he wouldn’t feel any sympathy towards the demons.

“Upa-nim. Don’t worry. Aren’t I here?”

A demon said confidently.

The worried look in Upa’s eyes was dissolved.

“Visach. Yes, you are here.”

Visach Mentam. Out of Grand Duke Upa’s 3 dukes, he was the one with the fastest mental calculations. He was accompanied by the advanced 5Lv creature, the ‘King Wyvern.’

A large creature 5 metres in size that covered the sky. A hidden card that would change the atmosphere. There were less than 5 demons that were accompanied by a King Wyvern.

“Those people who looked down on our faction, I, Visach Mentam, will directly execute them.”

“I will believe in you.”

Upa said with a determined expression.

At the same time, Visach glanced at the other demons in the faction.

He was elated about proving his authority. Out of the 3 dukes, he had succeeded in gaining Upa’s trust. Of course, the face of Duke Suguph Valhalla looked like he were swallowing shit.

“Upa-nim. Are you really going to leave him alone?”

Groggy interrupted.

His face was still flushed from being fooled into buying Darhan’s Sword and the cursed yeti. His body was shaking because he couldn’t suppress his anger.

He didn’t know what was causing this.

The one that Grand Duke Upa and the other demons were gazing at.

The only neutral demon. The name…Randalph Brigsiel? That guy was buying goods at the market. He really had a lot of points in reserve.

The vein in Groggy’s neck throbbed.

“He is defying us. It is like a dog suddenly trying to climb up. Anyway, we will teach him not to look down on our faction.”

Upa was also angry.

He had been pushed by that guy’s overwhelming number of points. They had suffered losses.

The other factions could never know. The quick witted demons would notice that Upa’s plan had failed.

Grand Duke Upa touched his chin.

“The Dark Spirit King couldn’t be trifled with. He doesn’t want demons fighting in this place so I will honour it to some extent.”

The Dark Sprit King ruled the Spirit World. Just like the grand dukes in the Demon World.

They couldn’t ignore the request of such a powerful existence.

Groggy shook his head.

“Do not worry. I clearly heard the dark spirit say it. Starting this year, they will allow a confrontation between creatures.”

After that ‘guy’ was summoned to the Demon World Auction. The dark spirit guiding that ‘guy’ at the time clearly said that confrontation between creatures was allowed.

“So why wasn’t there a notice?”

“They probably thought it wasn’t necessary to cause trouble. The real trouble would happen once people are told.”

Upa briefly worried about it.

But Upa knew the creature behind that guy.

“Groggy. You can’t beat the Gigantes with the dark warrior. I am quite familiar with the Gigantes due to the past.”

The gigantes was an endangered high class species. Not many demons knew about the gigantes. However, Upa had an encounter with a gigantes in the past.

They were completely different from the dark warriors.

Groggy’s body trembled.

“However…”

“I know what you are worried about. You deserve praise for giving me good information. And I can’t just leave those guys alone.”

Upa came to a conclusion.

“Visach. Gigantes is vulnerable to aerial attacks. The king wyvern should be able to win against it.”

A high class creature definitely had a weakness. Victory was possible if they took advantage of that weakness.

Visach bowed deeply.

“Let’s fix that dog’s head.”

***

Outdoor market.

I was busy trying to find anything good among the various bits and pieces.

I was originally planning to go home straight away but then Dubolong came to talk to me.

I recalled the conversation with Dubolong.

‘Right now the market is open. Find a good place.’

‘Is this also a test from the Dark Spirit King?’

‘You noticed. However, this isn’t a test. The spirits are pleased and have left you a gift there.’

‘Ridiculous.’

‘The spirits desire a good relationship with Randalph Brigsiel-nim. Randalph-nim is a unique balance destroyer. A test is necessary in order to determine if you are qualified. Please push away your anger.’

He admitted that the change in the list was a test. His words meant that I would be the balance destroyer between the 4 factions.

The Dark Spirit King seemed to want the balance between factions to be broken. If not, there was no need to use the words ‘balance destroyer.’

That’s why they wanted to pull me into their influence. There had to be a reason for why the Dark Spirit King was acting.

Furthermore, the Dark Spirit King didn’t interfere with the 4 grand dukes. They already accomplished everything and didn’t need the help of the Dark Spirit King. His help would be less effective.

But it seemed to be different when it came to me.

‘Controlling me as food?’

Laughter emerged from my mouth.

Perhaps they really had such thoughts.

It was foolish not to be conscious of the demons.

Unlike the 4 factions, I was alone. Did the Dark Spirit King judge that I couldn’t win without his help? Was he confident that I would crave his help?

How funny. I was comfortable with the help of the Dark Spirit King as long as it wasn’t a big hindrance.

The Dark Spirit King was overlooking me.

‘I don’t need to accept it.’

I shrugged and focused on finding the ‘gift.’

I would receive it. I just didn’t know what it was.

Therefore I searched every inch of the market for Mind’s Eye.

The items had low prices. If I saw something that looked moderately good then I didn’t hesitate to buy it. Anyway, I still had a lot of points remaining. I had expected to spend more in the auction and could afford to buy some more things.

I had almost searched through the entire market when someone stood in front of me.

“Randalph Brigsiel. I want to apply for a duel.”

Visach Mentam!

One of the dukes in Upa’s faction was looking at me with an arrogant face while accompanied by a King Wyvern.

‘Duel?’