Genius Wizard Hides His Sword Skills [EN]: Chapter 50

Kyaa!”

“What’s going on!”

The back wall of the stage burst open. A figure dashed out quickly from there.

‘Iteo……?’

The giant I had seen in the Apate Kingdom just yesterday appeared here.

[Why is that guy here?]

Iteo pushed through the crowd, running.

“Get out of the way!”

In his right hand, he clutched a small bundle.

‘Huh, don’t tell me he stole something from the auction house again?’

[A green mana stone and a unicorn horn?]

‘Yeah. What other reason would he have for being here?’

It seemed he had run into trouble while trying to rob this place.

‘Of all the times.’

With Illimita right in front of me, I didn’t welcome the commotion.

‘I need to buy that.’

Iteo wasn’t the only one who burst out from behind the stage.

“Thief!”

“Catch him!”

Those who appeared to be employees of the Hallat Auction House were chasing after him.

[He got caught stealing, huh.]

‘Good grief.’

The auction house turned into chaos. Iteo disappeared, mixed in with the crowd fleeing.

‘What’s going to happen to that bracelet?’

[Won’t they just put it up for auction again next time?]

I cast a regretful glance toward the stage.

“That, that guy! Catch him!”

Baul, too, was pointing at Iteo, agitated.

‘Huh?’

Someone was approaching Baul from behind.

‘Isn’t that the other guy’s attendant from before?’

It was the man who had been guarding the boy who had only been buying bracelets. Taking advantage of Baul’s distraction with Iteo, the man grabbed a bracelet.

[Well, well?]

‘That guy!’

He was stealing things amidst the chaos. After taking the item, he was heading in the direction of the boy.

“Guys! Let’s get out of here, too.”

I quickly chased after the man. There were two doors leading out of the auction house. He was heading in the opposite direction from where Iteo had gone.

“It’s a terrorist attack!”

“Quick, go report it to the security force!”

“Ugh! Don’t push!”

I didn’t lose sight of him as he disappeared into the crowd.

‘It’s good to be small at times like this.’

Thanks to squeezing through the crowd, I was able to close the distance quickly.

“Hold on.”

The moment he exited the auction house entrance, I grabbed his wrist. It was the hand holding the bracelet.

“Wh, what is it?”

“You stole this, didn’t you?”

“What are you talking about! Let go! I need to escape quickly.”

The man was clearly flustered. He was getting angry at me instead.

‘Words won’t work, huh.’

I was about to gather aura at my fingertips when…

“Sir, you’d better just go on your way.”

A voice came from behind the man. When I looked, the boy from before was standing there.

“Did you tell him to steal it?”

Then the attendant retorted.

“Hmph, tell him to steal it! How dare you speak to the young master like that! Do you think only Delema is great!”

“You be quiet.”

“Wh, what?”

I narrowed my eyes at the boy walking toward me.

“Which family do you belong to?”

The attendant’s spirit didn’t falter even after seeing Delema. That meant the boy he was serving also possessed power comparable to Delema.

“Killave. Irahan Killave.”

The boy opened his mouth slowly. His expression was consistently confident.

‘Of all people, it has to be Killave.’

I had thought he might be one of the Five Great Stars [influential families]. But, I didn’t expect it to be Killave.

[As if Lacatosc wasn’t enough, now Illimita is involved too.]

The guys who tried to get the egg of Lacatosc through Laca Bellier.

‘But what to do, I can’t give this up either.’

I had no intention of backing down this time either. I had a good use for Illimita.

“Ian Delema.”

Irahan Killave pinched the space between his eyebrows at my introduction.

“Haa. I guess you smelled it out even from Delema, but I’ve been looking for this for months, so I hope you’ll just go on your way.”

“I don’t care if it’s been months or years. Get it through a fair auction. If you return the item now, I’ll pretend I didn’t see you trying to steal it.”

Irahan didn’t back down despite my firm attitude.

“I really need this. If you want, I’ll give you 200 gold coins. I’m giving you all the money I have.”

200 gold coins. It was an amount that a commoner would be swayed by. No, they would have accepted it unconditionally. But, I didn’t need money either.

“No. Put the item back. Do you want it to be rumored that a Killave direct descendant stole from the auction house?”

The guy shook his head at my repeated stubbornness.

“I don’t want to fight with Delema either. Why don’t we just come to a good agreement?”

Neither of them yielded an inch.

What intervened in the meantime was an unexpected curse.

“What the F***! Where did he go!”

A familiar voice burst out from inside the auction house. It was Baul’s, who had been leading the auction until just now.

“Catch them all!”

His gaze, as he burst out with the employees, stopped at one place.

“……Ha! So you caught a petty thief!”

He was staring intently at Irahan’s attendant. The bracelet was still in the attendant’s hand.

“Catch that guy!”

At Baul’s command, five employees surrounded the attendant.

“H, hold on!”

Irahan hurriedly pushed through them.

“I’m sorry. It’s an item I really needed, so I took it first. But I was definitely going to pay for it.”

Of course, Baul scoffed at that.

“Ha! This young brat! Just because you bought a few bracelets, do you think you can fool me!”

His hand rose in anger. He was about to slap Irahan’s cheek.

“Uh, uh?”

But his hand could no longer move. Another of Irahan’s attendants was pointing a magic arrow at his neck.

“What are you doing now? You’re trying to attack after stealing?”

Baul wasn’t lacking in courage either. He narrowed his eyes and glared at Irahan and his attendants.

‘That guy also learned magic.’

Already, blue mana was surging in his hand.

[So that’s why he was so confident.]

A flustered Irahan hurriedly stopped his attendant.

“You, you! What are you doing? How dare you use magic!”

“But, that guy did that to young master…….”

“It’s right to apologize since we were wrong.”

“……I’m sorry.”

The attendant finally bowed his head.

“Hmph!”

Baul snorted and scattered his mana.

“We are the Killave family. Sell me that bracelet. I’ll pay as much as you want.”

“……Killave?”

Baul seemed momentarily flustered at the name.

“Even so, I can’t sell our auction item like that.”

With those words, Baul snatched the bracelet.

“It’s my principle to only sell through auctions, and that’s why the Hallat Auction House has grown so much.”

He wasn’t intimidated by the name Killave. Instead, Baul looked at me and opened his mouth.

“Besides, I haven’t finished the auction with that Delema boy yet, so I especially can’t just sell it.”

Irahan couldn’t insist any further against him, who was so adamant. After all, the ownership of the bracelet was with Baul.

“Haa…….”

There were many onlookers, including me, so he couldn’t tarnish the name of Killave any further.

I approached the two of them.

“Then, how about we continue the auction here?”

Baul and Irahan’s gazes reached me.

“Auction, you say?”

“Here?”

I nodded and pointed to Illimita.

“After all, we were the only two who were going to buy that item.”

Irahan and I, who had participated in the bidding until the end.

‘There’s no reason to refuse, right.’

Both of them were here, so it wasn’t a ridiculous suggestion.

However, Baul shook his head in the end.

“That won’t do. I’m going to register this as an auction item again.”

“What do you mean?”

“Actually, I didn’t know this was so expensive. Even Killave and Delema are after it. I’ll get it appraised and proceed properly again in a week.”

My brow furrowed.

‘He pretended to be fair, but he was just a merchant after all.’

That was the reason he was insisting on an auction instead of just selling it to Irahan. After grasping its potential value, he could earn more money by putting it up for auction.

[What a gangster.]

Irahan’s brow also furrowed, as if he knew Baul’s intentions.

“Humph! That’s why I asked how much you wanted.”

Irahan frowned for a moment. When he opened his mouth again, even Baul couldn’t hide his surprised expression.

“I’ll give you two hundred gold coins. Just hand it over!”

The amount the boy said exceeded the expected range.

“It’ll be difficult to sell even the most expensive artifact for more than this price. There’s no need to waste money on appraisal costs, just hand it over to me.”

Baul, who had been standing with his mouth open for a while, finally came to his senses.

“Do you really have the ability to pay?”

“Are you ignoring Killave?”

Baul, who had said he would never sell unless it was through an auction, was wavering at the huge sum of 200 gold coins.

‘At that amount, he’s thinking of selling without an auction, huh.’

[It’s a considerable sum that he doesn’t need to feel bad about. It’s more than enough for the price of one artifact. Of course, it would be different for Illimita.]

‘That Killave kid. He said he had 200 gold coins, right?’

[He did.]

The boy was offering to pay all the money he could use. Baul was looking back and forth between the boy and the bracelet. He looked like he was about to hand over the bracelet any minute.

‘I can’t let that happen.’

I hurriedly opened my mouth towards Baul.

“I’ll offer five hundred gold coins.”

At my statement, not only Baul and Irahan.

“Yo, young master!”

“Ian! Really?”

Even Admun and Drew couldn’t hide their surprised expressions.

“F, five hundred…… you say?”

Baul was even using honorifics, all of a sudden.

[He must be quite shocked.]

‘I have to go this far.’

The amount far exceeded what Irahan had offered. He would no longer have a way to offer a higher amount.

“Th, that! Unbelievable! Even if it’s Delema, would they give a young friend like you five hundred gold coins!”

Of course, there was no way Delema would give me such a huge sum.

‘If I sell some of my things, it’ll be enough, right?’

As a result of looking around the auction house today, I was sure that I could get that amount.

[Of course. Even things much worse than what’s in your hideout were sold for 100 gold coins each.]

The more the function of an item goes up to the highest level, the more its value increases exponentially. If I sell a few of the spoils from the hideout, I can easily get around 500 gold coins.

“I’ll pay with a Delema check for now, and I’ll bring the gold coins within a month.”

Moreover, since I had the credibility of Delema, it was a fully possible deal.

“R, really??”

Baul’s face was wide open. On the other hand, Irahan’s expression was severely distorted.

‘I keep getting tangled up with Killave.’

It couldn’t be helped. An artifact that creates a subspace. I don’t know if Irahan knows its function, but I had to get it no matter what.

“Okay. But hand it over right now.”

I reached out my hand towards Illimita.