You Have Been Invited to the Auction House of the Gods - Chapter 82

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82

 

 

 

I stopped walking at the girl’s words.

 

‘She saw through Divine Disguise?’

 

On the surface, she was just an ordinary middle school student.

The student ID hanging around her neck indicated that she belonged to the Magic Tower.

 

At the same time, my curiosity was piqued.

 

A middle school girl had noticed sorcery that no one else had detected?

 

Like discovering an uncut raw stone, my ‘blue-chip sensor’ reacted.

 

I focused Karmic Fire into my eyes.

 

Red flames bloomed in my pupils as Fire Eyes opened.

 

The girl flinched in surprise and ran away.

 

“…”

 

For a moment the scene looked like a crime scene, but my gaze was captivated by what Fire Eyes had shown me.

 

“Hah… Really. More mana than the Magic Tower Master…”

 

It seemed I had discovered another blue-chip, no, another uncut raw stone.

 

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The next day, I arrived at the library before the librarian.

 

I never dreamed I’d be doing an opening run at a library.

 

I wanted to quickly try the applications I couldn’t finish due to closing time.

 

It was like a gamer who had finished grinding for full equipment setup, only to have server maintenance pop up before swinging a sword even once.

 

While I was waiting like that, it was not the librarian but yesterday’s girl who opened the library door.

 

Our eyes met briefly.

An awkward atmosphere flowed, but I lightly ignored it and passed by the girl to enter the library.

 

I had discovered a raw stone, that was true. But recklessly casting ‘You, join my guild’ would make me a crazy person, wouldn’t it?

 

I sat in the same spot as yesterday and opened a book.

 

While quickly turning pages, I was already drawing mana circuits under the table.

 

“…”

 

After about 2 hours had passed, my patience finally reached its limit and I raised my head to look to the side.

 

Next to me sat yesterday’s middle school girl.

 

Most seats were empty, yet she deliberately sat right next to me?

I could accept that, I suppose.

This was a prime spot with just the right amount of sunlight and close to the bookshelves.

 

But if you’re going to sit in such a prime location, you should read a book, so why are you glancing at me from behind your book?

 

And for two whole hours without rest, no less.

 

I was impressive for enduring two hours, but she was no less formidable for glancing at me the entire two hours.

 

In the end, I was the first to speak.

 

“What do you want to say?”

 

The girl flinched, then muttered in a small voice.

 

“You’re not even a magic-type Hunter… how do you use magic?”

 

“Let me correct a few things first.”

 

I sighed and continued speaking.

 

“As you said, I’m not a magic-type Hunter, and I’ve never used magic.”

 

“That’s a lie.”

 

Thinking I was teasing her, the girl’s eyes sharpened.

 

“You’re using Distortion Magic right now.”

 

“This isn’t magic, it’s…”

 

But the girl had no intention of listening to me.

 

“And until just now, you were copying magic from the book under the desk, weren’t you?”

 

As the girl’s emotions intensified, her voice gradually grew louder.

 

“If you don’t want to tell me, just say you don’t want to tell me. Why are you lying?”

 

“Hey, keep it down.”

 

I quietly told her to keep it down, but it was no use.

 

“And what was with those eyes yesterday? Wasn’t that magic too? And yet you said…”

 

“…Sigh.”

 

I sighed and closed the book.

 

Thud— The heavy sound of the book closing echoed through the library.

 

And that caught the attention of the librarian who had been monitoring this area.

 

‘Why do they make books so thick…’

 

“Please be quiet. If you cause any more disturbance, I’ll have you removed.”

 

A moment of silence passed. But the girl flared up and shouted.

 

“I’m not the one being loud, it’s this old man—!”

 

Before she could finish speaking, the librarian pointed toward the entrance with one finger.

 

“Both of you, please leave immediately.”

 

And so we were both unceremoniously kicked out of the library.

 

“Sigh…”

 

I had just finished Standard Text I and was about to move on to II…

 

Glancing to the side, I saw the girl hanging her head low.

 

‘Teenagers these days…’

 

What’s the point of fighting with kids anyway.

 

“Follow me.”

 

“Huh?”

 

“Since we got kicked out, there’s nothing else to do anyway. I noticed you practically live in the library.”

 

Without waiting for the girl’s answer, I started walking.

 

***

 

“Stop glancing around and just eat your bread.”

 

We were now inside the bakery cafe located on the first floor of the Ashin Guild building.

 

“Mister, is it okay to just come in here?”

 

I came here because there wasn’t anywhere else suitable to go nearby, but I didn’t expect her to be this concerned about it.

 

“It’s fine.”

 

“But this place is only for Ashin Guild personnel, isn’t it?”

 

That personnel is sitting right in front of you.

And it’s not just any staff member either, but a deputy master no less.

And if he hadn’t been an insider from the beginning, he would have been blocked at the entrance.

And all those traditional ornaments displayed throughout this cafe are goblins equivalent to A-rank Hunters.

 

Under such thorough surveillance, it would be impossible to enter unless you were personnel.

Under such thorough surveillance, it’s impossible for anyone who isn’t authorized personnel to get in.

I wanted to say that, but I just mumbled something vague instead.

“The guild master here is my younger sibling.”

“Really?”

It’s not a lie.

“And besides, the guards even greeted me—why would you think to be suspicious?”

The girl’s expression changed instantly at my words.

“Oh… I didn’t expect that from you, but you’ve got some good connections.”

Then he picked up the giant cream puff that was placed in front of him.

It was the bakery version of the cream-filled choux that Eunhwasal loved to eat at Hwanggeumhyang.

‘If Tsukuyomi manifests, she would probably be happy to be brought along.’

“So. Why do you keep asking someone who isn’t even a mage about magic?”

The girl’s expression darkened at my words.

“I’m a student from the Magic Tower.”

I also knew she wasn’t just an ordinary undergraduate, but one with more mana than the Magic Tower Master.

 

“But… I can’t use magic.”

 

The girl’s voice grew quieter and quieter.

The girl’s voice grew quieter and quieter.

It seems he himself knows that what he said is contradictory.

 

But the one who was truly surprised was me.

 

‘She can’t use magic?’

 

Having such an immeasurable amount of mana yet being unable to use magic was hard to understand.

 

“I know too. That it doesn’t make sense. But I was only able to enter the Magic Tower because I got lucky…”

 

The Magic Tower isn’t such an easy place to enter just because you’re lucky.

 

“A professor at the Magic Tower wrote me a recommendation letter, so I managed to get in…”

 

The girl continued speaking as she set down her cup.

 

“At first, I tried to make it work somehow, but eventually both the professors and my classmates gave up on me.”

 

The girl’s voice became dejected.

 

“It’s no different from being ostracized. I mean, would they include someone who can’t even use basic magic in group projects or experiments?”

 

As if trying to hide her sadness, the girl forced strength into her voice.

 

“I would have done the same thing.”

 

Now I could understand why the girl had approached me.

 

I didn’t look like a magic-type Hunter at all, yet I was implementing basic magic while reading a standard text.

 

To be precise, I wasn’t implementing magic but merely attempting to understand the principles.

 

So she must have come to me thinking ‘maybe I can too?’

 

Just then, the waiter approached and handed me a piece of paper.

 

It was the information I had requested from Sadangpae while listening to the girl’s story.

 

‘Nice that they work so fast.’

 

My teaspoon had already disappeared.

 

I slowly read through the paper.

 

A case of lucky admission through recommendation after catching a Magic Tower professor’s eye.

Everything else went along similarly to what the girl had told me.

However, the analysis of the sadangpae was quite interesting.

‘A unique magic aptitude user…’

The analysis was as follows.

Given the blessing of magical power she has received, the girl appears to be a natural magic aptitude holder.

Unless it’s a unique magic that matches her magical power, her magic won’t activate.

That is why she cannot even use basic magic.

‘There’s a high possibility that the professor knew about Yoon Lee-seo’s magical characteristics?’

He must have written the recommendation letter because he knew about those characteristics.

 

A simple comment written alongside the comprehensive analysis.

 

Please note that obtaining a unique magic tome is nearly impossible.

 

The report concluded with the phrase ‘Just in case, we’ve included an aptitude detector.’

 

According to the information, unique magic is generally maintained through single-person transmission.

 

However, with no way to know when an aptitude holder will awaken, continuing unique magic lineages is nearly impossible.

 

In other words, for the girl to use magic, she would need something like a miracle.

 

I tapped the table a few times with my finger.

 

Seeing me staring at the paper with a serious expression, the girl opened her mouth with a worried look.

 

“Did it cost too much money? Should I chip in a little?”

 

That made me chuckle.

 

What nonsense.

 

This cafe is free.

 

I ignited karmic fire at my fingertips and burned the report.

 

She needs a miracle to use magic?

My shopping cart is full of those miracles.

 

I packed up several items including the cream puff the girl had been enjoying and stood up from my seat.

 

“Quit whining. Just follow me.”

 

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