As the Auction was going on, there were so people sneaking around in the Auction building right under everyone's nose. When it's said right under everyone's nose it literally ans right under their nose, which is also right under their feet.
There were so people wearing black colored dresses or more precisely it was just a piece of black clothing that was wrapped around their bodies making them look like walking black mummies, instead of the normal mummies that are wrapped in white clothing.
Now the question – What were they doing? And how did they go unnoticed by so many high-ranking raiders?
To answer those questions, you will have to look closely at them. The dress they were wearing or the piece of clothing they had wrapped around them had so strange patterns drawn over them.
Those patterns were unreadable as they were very complex, but they glowed from ti to ti as if indicating that they were working fine.
These people mostly consisted of earth ability users, and they were slowly and steadily making their way towards the Auction Hall by drilling a hole in the ground.
One of them had a phone-like device in his hand that had a map on it and a point blinking red. They were moving towards the red point, and from this, it was clear that there was soone inside the auction house helping them.
They kept drilling until they reached just below the Auction Hall where they stopped any and all movent. Even if their clothes prevented anyone from sensing them, they still stopped any movents as they were aware of the people sitting in the Auction Hall.
Their movents were not like that of an amateur, neither were their action and coordination.
However, just then the phone-like device started making a beeping noise along with a red sign displaying {Difficulty – SS}.
As they saw this ssage, their bodies tensed and even if their expressions were hidden inside the black clothing, one could feel the seriousness oozing out of their movents.
However, the thing to notice was the ntion of "SS". This was sothing that no one in this world knew about, except a few people.
It could just be a coincidence as anyone could co up with a way of categorizing the danger level above S-rank, no one knows for sure, but ti knows everything, and it would surely reveal everything.
Ti continued to pass slowly and steadily, and they kept sitting there without moving as if afraid that they would be noticed by soone. What they didn't know was that they were already in soone's perception range, and they were currently being observed.
After a while, they got a notification showing a countdown that started from 10. Just as the notification appeared, they jumped in action and one of them took out a strange item wrapped in the sa type of clothing as them, the only difference being that it had more of those runes-like markings drawn over it.
In less than 2 seconds, they had already placed the item just below the stage where Luna was standing. Then they moved back and one of them took out a remote with a blue button on it and clicked the button.
By that ti 5 seconds had already crossed, and the item made a beeping noise 5 tis before…...
*BBOOOOOMMM*
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"You guys should cover your ears," Alex spoke in a relaxed voice.
"Eh?" X2
Both Alice and Ann who were still looking at the Mana core turned towards Alex with confused expressions as they didn't know why Alex suddenly said that.
Alex had been observing the movents of the guys below and he had already pinpointed the position of the other guy who was inside the Hall and was instructing them.
"There's going to be a blast in so seconds, so, just listen to ," Alex spoke again.
He knew that the blast was not going to cause any harm to the girls as they were strong enough to survive even if they were standing right above the blast. Well, Alice would be fine while Ann would survive if she did her best.
Still, as said above it was not going to cause them any harm just because of its sound. It was just Alex's way of letting them know that sothing was going to happen, and he knew about it.
"Un." X2
Alice and Ann nodded and closed their ears as the next second….
*BBOOOOOMMM*
The entire hall was filled with black smoke produced by the explosion, while the stage was destroyed as the explosion was just below the stage.
Alex could have stopped it before this happened, but he decided against it. After all, why should he stop them when whatever was happening would only add to the work the Association had to do after this?
Now, if whatever those guys had planned (which was most likely stealing the core) were to be achieved, then the people from other countries that had co so far just to buy that item would ask the Association for answers.
Alex could already estimate the power of the people who attacked, and he could tell that they ca prepared. But he also knew that was a variable that they underestimated, that was why he was a little interested in seeing this play out.
Just as he had thought, there was a sound of glass shattering next to them, and the next instant soone zood towards the stage, leaving a flash of light in the wake.
No one needed to be a genius to tell who it was as it was none other than Argon, who now had a calm expression with anger hidden deep within his eyes as nothing was going as he planned for today.
First, it was Alex and now there were so unknown thieves.
"What's happening?" Alice hurriedly asked as she saw the scene and Ann also turned towards Alex for answers.
Since Alex had warned them about this before it happened, they knew that Alex must know sothing, so they looked at Alex and he didn't disappoint them.
"Nothing for us to worry about, but it is sothing that would make things harder for the Association," Alex spoke with a devilish smile which caused Alice and Ann who understood where this was going to smile as well.
Alex then turned back towards the stage and focused his eyes on what was happening.
He could see everything clearly as the little smoke was not a problem for him at all.
He could already tell that the thieves had already acquired the mana core and were planning to run away, but how could they when there were so many raiders nearby?
The first one to arrive in front of them was Argon and Alex could tell that they were prepared for that as the next second, every one of them other than the one that was holding the mana core ran towards Argon.
But then Alex noticed sothing strange.
He saw Argon standing right where he was while he kept mumbling sothing with a look of disbelief on his face.
"I'll be back in a while," Alex spoke and moved towards the stage as he needed to move closer if he wanted to hear Argon's murmuring.
The girls heard Alex's words and before they could say or ask anything they saw Alex was already gone, they just shared a glance and sighed.
They were not going to step in, just like many other high-ranking guild masters as this was not their fight nor were they losing sothing.
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