70. How Can It Be Real?
The trading location for the Blood King’s Bone was ultimately chosen to be Lekadis.
On Tuesday, the auction house in Lekadis was booked by Elena. She had chosen a supervisor recognized by both the blood race and them to maintain order. She was a former employee of the God Slaying Society and was now a high-ranking official of Lekadis, which belonged to Delgon.
The entire Lekadis auction house was surrounded by Delgon soldiers, but they didn’t know what was happening inside.
On Delgon’s side, the person in charge of this transaction was a human woman from the Delgon Empire. In a secret room behind the auction house, the two sides began to negotiate.
“This is the Blood King’s Bone that you humans requested. Then, what is the reward that we blood race want?”
Sophia sat on a stool in the east, her hands protecting the black box in her hands, her posture as if she would never hand it over.
“According to the agreement, we will use these to exchange for the blood race’s Blood King’s Bone.”
The woman took out a piece of paper.
Waiting for the supervisor to order the start and end of the transaction, the two exchanged the things in their hands. During this period, the woman had been observing Sophia’s condition, not daring to act rashly.
Sophia glanced at the woman, and the latter’s eyes widened, her hair standing on end.
The woman was surprised.
Although she was not a legendary figure in Delgon, after Pope Pesa had sentenced Robert, who controlled half of the human economy, to death, she had inherited eighty percent of his legacy and power. Now she was also a high-ranking official in the human world. Even a little arrogance would be forgiven, and even praised.
But she was afraid of the person before her, the Blood Queen…
She shouldn’t be that strong, only level 100. But what was with this pressure?
After exchanging the items, the woman opened the box. She took out a small mirror made of mithril, the edge of the mirror was engraved with various complex magic patterns. She pointed it at the thing inside the box and observed it carefully.
Her brow furrowed slightly, and she immediately became at a loss.
—How could this Blood King’s Bone be real?
Or rather, this mirror couldn’t test it at all!
Elena had said that this bone must be a fake, and that the Blood Queen would never take out the real thing…
She looked up and saw Sophia looking at her with a disdainful expression again. Just by looking into those crimson vertical eyes, she could feel her body being drained of something.
It was said that both the blood race and succubi could absorb others’ souls. Could it be that I’m about to die?
No…
She still had to carry out the plan, she absolutely couldn’t care so much.
“Your Majesty, this bone is a fake.”
The woman almost held her breath as she said this.
A hint of killing intent flashed in Sophia’s eyes.
“You’re lying.”
“No…”
The woman gently pressed a switch on the mirror, and then, the patterns on the mirror frame shimmered with a red light.
“You’re not unfamiliar with this mirror, are you, Miss Blood Queen? The Blood King’s Bone is a fake.”
Sophia sighed:
“Indeed, this divine artifact of the goddess can see the so-called [causality]. To casually hand over the divine artifact that our blood race relies on for survival, you know how absurd this is?”
The woman remained serious, but her legs had already begun to tremble. The Blood Queen before her was exuding an unapproachable aura, as if she would kill her very soon.
She suddenly felt that this battle was not something she could interfere with.
“Bring them over.”
“What?” The woman was a little flustered for a moment, and her voice trembled embarrassingly. At this point, she could only look at the supervisor with a cold sweat on her face.
The supervisor nodded: “Do you need more witnesses?”
“I need the trader to inspect the goods in person. Where’s Elena? Isn’t this disrespectful to our blood race?”
“You blood race, don’t be too arrogant.”
“What did you say?”
Hearing this, Sandra, who was in charge of protecting the queen, instantly bristled.
Before the scene could descend into chaos, the supervisor raised his golden scepter and slammed it on the ground, making a loud, ear-piercing sound.
“Silence! The Delgon Empire now has doubts about the exchanged goods. Then please both parties return the traded items and wait for a new verifier.”
“Damn it…”
Sandra bared her teeth, her sharp teeth lightly embedding into her lower lip, and blood flowed out.
…
At the same time, in a secret room, the Crimson Priest saw this scene through a misty illusion on the desktop. A grinding sound came from its mouth, as if it were celebrating the current situation.
“The Blood Queen is indeed a tough opponent, but the toughest are the Dragon Queen and the Dragon King.”
“Will they come here?”
Elena was currently wearing casual clothes. Although one could tell from her bracelet that she was a noble, standing in this narrow space with this group of “nobodies” seemed out of place.
The so-called nobodies were all of the Crimson Priest’s subordinates.
They came from all races, including humans, orcs, and elves, but most were humans.
Among them, Kyle and the knights of the Exchange Squad were its new subordinates.
Aurora’s apostle.
Through a portion of the ability of [Soul Grudge], it could control those who were not very strong but had talent and wisdom. These people’s minds might be very strong, but if their level was not high enough, [Soul Grudge] could control and even brainwash them.
And it, the Crimson Priest, as Aurora’s first apostle, had long had its eyes on Elena, this rigorous emperor. She had used various networks to find her weaknesses.
Last time, it had intended to use the brainwashed Beast King to attack Elena and control her… Although it had succeeded, because of the presence of Pesa, a powerhouse who was completely uncontrollable, she couldn’t carry out the next step of her plan.
And now, this young empress, who was only a weak level 35 and controlled half of the world, had finally given it a chance to get close.
Just by talking to it, the minds of low-level beings would be polluted and become Aurora’s apostles.
And for Elena, who was only level 35, it would only take a few short minutes to be completely controlled.
“The Dragon Queen and the others will surely be here.”
“Your Majesty, I deeply understand your hatred, but now is not the time to attack,” the Crimson Priest said with a smile.
Elena must not have known that she had already been brainwashed and had become a puppet.
“So, are we going to abandon her here?”
Elena looked at her with indifference: “Let’s kill the Dragon King here. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”
“Your Majesty… although I have said that I have the ability to fight against that existence, acting rashly will surely lead to a great disaster.”
“Crimson Priest, don’t you want to confirm the authenticity of the Blood King’s Bone?”
The crowd was silent. They were all more or less intelligent beings in the world, but they had no room to refute.
“Indeed, that is the power that can resurrect that great one.”
