You Have Been Invited to the Auction House of the Gods - Chapter 83

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83

 

 

 

Ashin Guild underground training ground.

 

As the elevator doors opened, Yi-seo clutched the paper bag tightly to her chest.

The sweet scent of cream puffs spread through the narrow space.

 

Thanks to asking in the elevator, I actually didn’t even need to ask.

The girl who couldn’t stand the silence had told me her name was ‘Yoon Yi-seo’ without me even asking.

 

“I heard… ordinary people can’t enter this place.”

 

The cafe was one thing, but she probably hadn’t expected to enter the guild training ground, as Yi-seo’s voice was completely frozen.

 

“I told you the guild master here knows me as a younger sister.”

 

Explaining was starting to become bothersome now.

 

“Well, that’s true, but—”

 

With a beeping sound, the security gate opened.

 

Two security guards bowed their heads simultaneously.

 

“Welcome.”

 

Yi-seo’s eyes widened.

 

“Mister… what exactly do you do?”

 

“…”

 

Those goblin bastards, they’re doing this on purpose.

 

Usually they call me Mister Kim, but now they’re playing pranks because I brought some strange kid.

 

The training ground didn’t even have security guards to begin with.

 

‘Those guys better not be off duty.’

 

I’d have to say something about them coming to play pranks during work hours.

 

Well, if it’s the goblins, they’re the type to come play pranks even on their days off.

 

I let out a short sigh and entered an empty training room.

 

As I opened the door, dry air and the smell of metal greeted me.

 

The walls were layered with soundproofing and shock absorption magic circles, and the floor had mana leakage prevention magic cast on it.

 

It was a training room exclusively for mage hunters, prepared just in case.

 

One might wonder why the Porter Guild had such facilities, but there was no reason not to have them.

 

Even I, an S-rank hunter, often do porter work, so mages could also work as porters.

 

That would be a very discriminatory way of thinking.

 

“Sit down.”

 

In the center of the training room was a circular ring with a 6-meter diameter.

Once inside, external interference was almost completely blocked.

Equipment capable of suppressing and amplifying mana was also installed.

 

Yi-seo carefully stepped into the ring.

I snatched the paper bag from her arms.

Her gaze followed the paper bag.

It must have been quite delicious.

 

“I’ll get you more later. Let’s focus for now.”

 

“Yes…”

 

She answered, but her voice was full of regret.

 

‘Is this why they say childcare is difficult?’

 

I took out a post-it-like paper from my pocket.

 

It was the aptitude test paper I had received at the cafe.

 

“You can emit mana, right?”

 

No matter how unable to use magic, anyone with mana should be able to emit it at least.

 

Even when I first had mana, I could at least spray it out like a fountain.

 

Yi-seo quietly nodded at my question.

 

“Try emitting mana onto this paper.”

 

Yi-seo emitted mana onto the test paper I handed her.

 

Colorless and odorless mana from her fingertips brushed across the test paper.

 

‘That is unusual.’

 

Normally, mana would typically have some color.

 

But her mana was transparent.

 

Without Fire Eyes, I wouldn’t have even noticed her mana.

 

She continued to emit mana, but the detection paper showed no change whatsoever.

 

Normally, the detection paper should have changed according to the mana’s characteristics.

 

If it were fire attribute, the detection paper should have burned up,

if it were wind attribute, the detection paper would have torn.

If it were nature-type, flowers or trees would have grown.

 

‘…Even the detection paper can’t pick it up?’

 

When there was no change even after time passed, I eventually had no choice but to stop.

 

“That’s enough now.”

 

“But…”

 

“At this rate, this place is going to blow away.”

 

The ring was filled with her vast mana that she was emitting.

 

‘I wonder if I just hurt the kid’s feelings by trying this for nothing.’

 

Nothing was more devastating than hope that appeared just when you were about to give up.

 

Iseo lowered her hand as if trying hard to suppress something.

 

That was the moment.

 

Even though it had fallen from her hand, the detection paper remained suspended in midair as if caught by time.

 

No, to be precise, it was falling downward very slowly, imperceptibly to the eye.

 

‘Mana with space-time as its unique characteristic…’

 

I clicked my tongue briefly.

 

No wonder Iseo couldn’t keep up with the Magic Tower’s curriculum.

 

There are only two things commonly called ‘space-time magic.’

 

Warp and Teleport.

 

Since they’re high-level magic, even the Magic Tower couldn’t find the cause.

 

“Ah, mister. What is this?”

 

“What do you mean what? It’s the characteristic your mana possesses.”

 

“Characteristic?”

 

“Yeah. Space-time. Your mana’s characteristic is space-time.”

 

“That’s… good, right?”

 

“It’s very rare. You can freely manipulate time and space.”

 

“Right?”

 

“Well, except for the fact that it’s so rare that nothing is known about it besides Warp and Teleport.”

 

“Huh?”

 

“What ‘huh.’ It means you’d need a miracle to use space-time magic.”

 

“Then what do I do?”

 

Iseo’s eyes became teary.

 

“Wait. I’m currently miracle shopping.”

 

I was diligently searching through Golden Fragrance M.

 

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When I entered “Space-Time Magic Tome” in the search bar, exactly three books appeared.

 

Three magic tomes consisting of Volume 1, Volume 2, and Volume 3.

 

The price also didn’t exceed 1 gold for immediate purchase.

 

Volume 1 and Volume 2 were C-grade, and Volume 3 was even A-grade.

 

Yet the fact that they were 1 gold was quite puzzling.

 

But after reading the creator’s heartfelt story in the product description, I understood that price.

 

[Please report if you discover any being with space-time mana. I’ll reward you regardless of species just for reporting.]

 

The description didn’t specify what kind of magic tome it was.

 

It only contained a plea wanting to find any being with space-time as their unique magic.

 

Well, no matter how good an item is, it’s hard to have commercial value if it can’t be used.

 

Moreover, since even gods were reluctant to carelessly touch space-time, its utility was bound to be limited.

 

‘Well, it’s beneficial for me though.’

 

Without any hesitation, I spent 3 gold to buy all three volumes.

 

The three grimoires that came into my hands had worn covers full of age, filled with the sincerity of someone who had carefully written them by hand.

 

‘Handmade grimoires written by hand by a god.’

 

Even training manuals had permanent preservation magic cast on them, but these grimoires didn’t even have traces of such magic.

 

But they were extraordinary.

 

When I checked with Fire Eyes, I found complex formulas that I couldn’t even comprehend densely recorded inside.

 

‘I don’t see any traps, so there shouldn’t be any major problems.’

 

I opened Volume 1 and handed it to Lee Seo.

 

“This is a book that records magic you can use.”

 

Lee Seo’s eyes widened at the mention of magic she could use.

 

She took the book and carefully turned the pages.

 

I crossed my arms behind her and looked through the book together.

 

‘Slow…?’

 

The magic on the very first page was Slow, one of the basic magic spells.

 

The most fundamental magic taught at the Magic Tower.

 

‘It’s different.’

 

The principle itself was different from what was taught at the Magic Tower.

 

Ridiculously so.

 

The typical Slow taught at the Magic Tower slows down the physical activities of living beings.

 

That’s why it appears to slow down when viewed from the outside.

 

But what was recorded in that insane grimoire had a completely different operating principle.

 

First, the target of the magic.

 

It targets beings bound to time, not living creatures.

 

And it makes time flow slowly for that target.

 

‘This is supposed to be just basic magic?’

 

Lee Seo had already cast the magic as written in the book.

 

She cast the magic toward a test paper thrown into the air.

 

“Slow.”

 

The mana flowing from her hand viscously distorted the air around the test paper.

 

The falling test paper began to descend slowly, very slowly, as if caught on a thread.

 

I opened my Fire Eyes.

 

‘Hah, really. This is ridiculous.’

 

Dense mana was condensed around the test paper.

 

Like being trapped in honey, that high density was holding onto the test paper’s time.

 

‘So that’s why she had so much mana.’

 

If even the most basic magic consumed this much mana, it made sense that Lee Seo’s mana capacity exceeded that of the Magic Tower Master.

 

Lee Seo’s face quickly turned pale, and her fingertips trembled like aspen leaves.

 

It was because she was feeling mana drain for the first time.

 

“Stop.”

 

As soon as I spoke, Lee Seo gasped and withdrew her mana.

 

The test paper fell to the floor with a crisp sound.

 

A moment of silence.

 

Lee Seo’s shoulders trembled slightly.

 

“Did… did I just succeed?”

 

“Yeah.”

 

A bright smile spread across Lee Seo’s face.

 

The joy of success ends here.

 

I closed the grimoire.

 

A question mark appeared on her face.

 

“I’ll tell you the rest if you join my guild.”

 

I can’t let a guaranteed first-place lottery ticket rot away at the Magic Tower.

 

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