Mike, after receiving the thirty-five gold coins, finally let out a breath.
Although he lost a little, at least he had sold the house.
He had cash on hand now and could turn things around.
Investing, after all, had wins and losses; it was normal. As long as it wasn’t a massive hemorrhage, he could accept it.
If this one didn’t work, invest in the next; he’d make money eventually!
“Miss Stella, this is the contract and the duplicate; please keep them safe. This mansion is now transferred to your name. According to the laws of the Saint Luo Empire, you are now the owner of Number 7 on Rose Street in the west of Doff City.”
Mike felt relaxed.
He handed the signed contract and keys to Stella.
“I won’t disturb you any further. If you have any future intentions to buy property, you can come find me; I’ll provide you with premium service!”
“Alright, Mr. Mike, pleasure doing business.”
“Pleasure doing business.”
After tipping his hat in salute, Mike left first.
“Via, how is it? If you move your Magic Workshop here, won’t the problem in the dorm be solved?”
Stella looked at Via.
“If you want to make mana bombs, you can completely do it here. As long as it’s not too exaggerated a commotion, the people around basically won’t notice.”
“Indeed, this place counts as quiet, but…”
Via was still a bit doubtful.
“Are you really going to hand this over to me to use?”
“Yes, otherwise, why would I buy Number 7 on Rose Street?”
Stella took one of the keys off and handed it to Via.
“You’re really rich.”
Via accepted the key.
Although she didn’t like owing others, in the current situation, she indeed needed this mansion.
After all, with her normal identity, she couldn’t buy property; she had to rely on others’ help.
Stella was indeed the best candidate.
At least this Ninth Princess of the Saint Luo Empire, after knowing Mr. W’s identity, still had no intention of falling out with her.
“I’m not that rich. The imperial family doesn’t want me to look too bad; dying outside would be too unseemly and lose face for Father. They occasionally send some money over,” Stella explained. “Taking out my daily savings to pay the house price in one go isn’t too big a problem.”
“Thirty-five gold coins; I’ll remember. When I’m more flush, I’ll give you this money.”
“No need; I originally planned to give it to you—”
“No, I won’t take it for free.”
“Alright~ Since Via is so insistent, I won’t force it.”
“I’ll move the Magic Workshop over as soon as possible, but for that, I need to make some preparations in advance and renovate this place first.”
“Do as you like; from now on, this place belongs to you.”
“Mm.”
Via stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, looking at the courtyard under the night sky.
“I need to start thinking about how to lay out the Magic Workshop.”
“Sir, please spare me; whatever money you want, I can give— Ahhh!”
Accompanied by a scream, an adventurer who was carrying out a commission fell to the ground.
Dark purple aura wrapped around his body, like a liquid carrying deadly poison, injected into him.
This was abyssal aura.
The abyssal aura quickly eroded the adventurer’s body. With merely a mortal frame, how could he possibly resist this terrifying aura?
Soon, his mind collapsed completely. He lay on the ground, motionless, unable to make any sound, his turbid eyes wide open, dying without closure.
“Failed.”
A man dressed in a black robe with a hood watched the adventurer on the ground. Half his face was covered, and facing the corpse of his kin, he showed not the slightest sympathy, only a nearly cruel indifference.
“Zach, I’ve already said there’s no need to find such people for experiments. Not everyone can adapt to the abyssal aura and become a demonized.”
A woman similarly dressed in a black robe with a hood walked to the man called Zach’s side.
Their attire was extremely similar; besides the black robe and hood, the most distinctive was the nearly emblematic pattern on the black robe—
A crimson single eye.
“We of the Abyssal Eye do need to increase our companions, but we shouldn’t use this method!”
“…Cora, don’t lecture me here; I have no need to listen to you,” Zach retorted. “I’m only teaming up with you because of the bishop’s orders!”
“Tch.”
Cora clicked her tongue.
She and Zach both belonged to an extremely mysterious organization in the human world—the Abyssal Eye.
The members of this organization were almost all demonized, and the two of them were elite members of the Abyssal Eye, on the same level.
“Can’t you be a bit more low-key? The Holy Land has already started noticing us. If you casually create demonized like this, it’ll be easy for them to track us.”
“Since we are already demonized, why fear those false god’s lackeys? On the contrary, it’s the false god’s lackeys who should fear us.”
“That’s easy to say—”
Cora was about to continue rebutting Zach when suddenly, she felt a fluctuation come through.
Zach’s expression changed slightly; he and Cora almost simultaneously pulled out a cube.
“It seems the bishop is summoning us?” Cora vaguely seemed to receive an order from the bishop of the Abyssal Eye.
“An important meeting is about to convene; let’s head there now.” Zach’s expression was serious.
“Okay!”
Cora nodded.
Immediately after, she and Zach moved quickly, found a place with no people, sat on the ground, placed the black box on the ground, touched it with their fingertips, and released abyssal aura, connecting the black box with their minds.
The two elites of the Abyssal Eye soon lost their vision, their field of view becoming pitch black.
Immediately after, they lost their hearing; all surrounding sounds disappeared.
It was as if they had dived into a bottomless abyss, continuously descending…
Until a black light lit up in the darkness, a massive eerie eye pupil reflecting Zach and Cora’s figures.
They stopped falling, seeming to have reached the destination.
Here, it wasn’t just the two of them; there were other elite members of the Abyssal Eye, all the same, completely linking their minds with the black box to arrive here.
In this darkness floated a massive crimson single eye, casting a faint red light, illuminating the elite members of the Abyssal Eye, like the absolute ruler of this space.
Without any command, Zach and Cora and the others all half-knelt on the ground, bowing toward the crimson single eye, lowering their heads, and using a tone filled with reverence, shouting in unison:
“We greet the bishop!”
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