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Book 5, The Godsword, Bloodviolet – Chapter 14, The Auction

Within the private reading room of Bernard, leader of the Debs clan

“What? You failed?” Bernard stared at the woman in the red robes “Even if you failed, why can’t you continue anization give up so easily?”

Bernard was extremely dissatisfied

When he went to ask for the help of the Saber organization, he was refused He successfully enlisted the services of Bloodrose, but Bloodrose was only willing to agree to destroy the sculpture, ‘Awakening Fro Linley, the price they deh as the price for an assassination of a Cardinal! Such an astronomical price, the Debs clan was unable to pay

Per the words of Bloodrose, assassinating Linley would cause them to simultaneously offend both the Radiant Church as well as the Dawson Conglomerate

What’s more…

Nowadays, Linley was a master sculptor A master sculptor held an exalted societal status, and many people with rank and power estee a ree of hatred towards Bloodrose ast those sculpture aficionados

This hy the cost they demanded to assassinate Linley was actually on par with the cost to assassinate a Cardinal

“We are no longer willing to accept this assignave us” The red robed woman said, her face cold

“Can you tellon

The destruction of a sculpture shouldn’t be too difficult How could they give up after failing just a single tier return the fees you provided to us Do you agree?” The red robed woanization was also a type of infor to sell information as well

“Done” As the leader of the Debs clan, Bernard could be nanimous

That red robed wost the ad Froanization definitely does not wish to offend And this person is not soht My report is complete” With a smile, the red robed wory

This red robed wo to disclose the identity of this person Bloodrose didn’t wish to offend But Bernard understood one thing: So trepidation for Bloodrose was definitely an incredible person A report on such a person would definitely also be incredibly expensive

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Year 9999 of the Yulan calendar, April 21st Within the dedicated auction hall at the Proulx Gallery

This auction hall was split into three levels The first level had ordinary seats, while the second level had stand-alone booths which only major nobles and extremely wealthy people were qualified to enter The price to enter those booths was terrifyingly high As for the third level, it was just a single, extree hall, also decorated very lavishly

At this inning to get filled up, despite the fact that the price of each seat here was a hundred gold coins As for the ten or so private booths on the second level, based on the locations of the seats, the prices varied froold coins

But the third level? That wasn’t opened to the public at all

The fa Fro now Many of the people currently in the auction hall were some of the wealthiest, most powerful noble families in the Yulan continent But precisely because there were only so few seats while there were so many nobles present, these standard seats, which supposedly cost a hundred gold coins each, were being sold by scalpers outside for a ridiculous sum of money

The Debs clan, as a local clan, had a special relationship with the Proulx Gallery, and were able to acquire seats in the private booth with the poorest positioning

In truth, aside from the Debs clan, all of the others ere present in the second level booths belonged to extrehout the Yulan continent They were far more powerful than the Debs clan, for exalomerate Even they were only on the second level But of course, the representatives of the Dawson clan here were not members in the direct line of descent and succession

“Alice, walk on the inside”

This ti between Kalan and Kalan’sa hat that was pressed down on her head Very quickly, the six of them reached the second level

Within this second level were the greatest clans of the Yulan continent

Upon seeing as in the second level hallway, Bernard, leader of the Debs clan, ireet everyone present Here, the Debs clanIt was like the evaluation Yale had once given theht In the eyes of these clans whose influence spanned the entire Yulan continent, if a clan’s area of influence was li more than a minor clan

The six people from the Debs clan entered their booth

“There will come a day when my Debs clan will be like those clans No; ill be even stronger” Kalan said to hi this trip, failure was not an option

No matter what, it was better to have this sculpture located within their own manor, rather than the manor of an outsider After all, in June, Kalan would be having his engagement ceremony with Alice, and by then,a h ‘failure was not an option’, in reality, their financial ability to succeed was aBrother Kalan” Alice took a seat next to Kalan

In a place like this, surrounded by hugely powerful clans, Alice, too, felt rather constrained and pressured After all, in this place, even the Debs clan counted for little, much less a minor noble like Alice and her clan

“Don’t worry Inside this booth, the people beloon’t be able to see you at all That Linley really has gone too far He actually…” Whenever Kalan thought of that sculpture, ‘Awakening Froe Anyone with souess that Linley and Alice had a roether

After all, if they hadn’t shared a period of true love, how could Linley have produced such a godly work of art?

If Kalan were to really marry Alice, there would most likely be many people ould secretly speculate about what the relationship between Alice and Linley was like For someone of Kalan’s social status, how could he bear such embarrassment?