The Lost Lady [ON HOLD]

Chapter Twenty: Grandmaster Chato de Pouvoir

In the middle of the night at Mersail Market.

The busy marketplace of Parisse City was now enveloped in silence. However, just on the other side of it, there was a place called the Black Market.

The Black Market was famous for its reputation and prestige. Black Market could be found in most of the popular and prosperous cities in the entire kingdom of Alyxzandryte.

The Black Market existed for things that couldn't be easily found in an ordinary and usual marketplace. This is where 'good stuff' could be seen. Aside from its numbered merchants who needed to have a license to sell, what it was most famous for was its auction houses.

Special herbs, materials, weapons and potions, and other novelties could easily be found in the Black Market's main marketplace. However, if one was looking for rare and extraordinary herbs, weapons, and potions, one could only see it inside the Balck Market's auction houses.

Lena, with a dark-blue cloak covering her entire frame and a white mask covering her entire face, was now standing in front of the most famous auction house in the Black Market - the Wind Auction House.

Too ordinary of a name, huh?

Lena thought as she looked up at the rustic name of the auction house.

She was expecting a grand name for the famous auction house, but to her dismay, its normal and too common name was a letdown.

Stepping inside the hall, Lena nonchalantly took a seat at the farthest row at the back of the main hall.

Lena didn't need to act inconspicuously because the Black Market itself was a mysterious entity and most of its customers and clients were either noble of higher status or people under an alias or a disguise. Thus, Lena could dress up all she wanted and act nonchalantly inside the Wind Auction House.

However, this was not her real agenda.

Ever since the three of them had arrived, Lena has been going on solo walks every night as she roamed around the Black Market while trying her best to eavesdrop on the latest news or gossips around the city.

And her trips were not for naught.

Lena found out that the famous Grandmaster Chato de Pouvoir was truly currently residing in Parisse City. Hence, the commencement of her plans could not be hindered.

A dangerous light flickered across her eyes as a chilling yet dazzling smile appeared on her rosy lips.

There should not be any mistake.

Soon, the entire hall of the auction house was filled with different people and some of them were also dressed mysteriously while some other faces were also covered under different kinds of masks.

It seems like the buzz that I've made is truly effective...

Lena looked around the hall and darted her glinting eyes towards the second floor which were only intended for VIP customers. Those people were also known as having some ties to the Inner Hall of the Black Market.

In the Alyxzandryte Kingdom, having a connection to the Inner Hall of the Black Market only meant that those people were important and not to be simply overlooked. The expectations of the general public were that most of those people with a connection to the Inner Hall were significant people of the kingdom or of higher status and masters of their field. And these expectations were actually not far from reality. After all, the Black Market, with its mysterious background, had already amassed great power and prestige on its own over the years.

It was a force not to be reckoned with...

Lena pondered as the auction finally began.

Several Advanced-grade weapons had been auctioned together with a few rare herbs that were as old as a century and even more. A couple of Intermediate and Advanced-grade potions of different purposes were also auctioned off.