Death... and me

Chapter 2960: Invitation

The twins got up from their seats and went out. There wasn't anything else for them to do there anymore. Instead, they decided to go to some isolated corner and have their breakthrough into the Late Stage of the Core and Soul Fusion Realm.

However, as soon as they exited the room, a worker from the Auction House came to talk to them. "Excuse me, sirs. My I have your attention for a moment?"

Rean and Roan looked at each other and back at the guy before nodding. "Sure, is there a problem?"

Th worker quickly shook his head. "No, not at all. I was told to come and ask if you wish to meet the person who bought the Ore earlier in the Auction. It's just that due to the auction house's rules, those who rented a private room can't have their identities disclosed. Naturally, we haven't told the other side who you were, either. If you refuse, I can give our auction house's word that the other individual will know nothing about your identities."

The twins didn't expect that. Nonetheless, Roan could easily see the worker was not lying. 'Perhaps the Fragment isn't completely lost yet.'

Rean agreed with him. 'We didn't buy it anyway, so we don't have much to lose. It is no secret to anyone we have a lot of Rank Five Spiritual Stones either. Let's give it a try.'

With that decided, Rean accepted the offer. "Very well. Bring us to the other guy." The worker smiled brightly and quickly walked ahead. "Great! Please follow me."

A few minutes later, Rean and Roan were brought to another private room. No doubt, it was the one that outbid the twins during the auction. The worker opened the door and brought the twins inside. Finally, he bowed to one of the people in the room and left after closing the door.

Rean and Roan looked around. There were quite a few people there, all women. At the main seat in front of the window to the auction stage, a middle-aged woman drank some tea while the others tended to her needs.

She turned around, smiling at the twins. "Well, well, well... you are definitely not what I was expecting. Two kids tried to outbid me in the auction and even had the guts to accept my invitation. You know, I might have held a grudge for what happened. After all, I was supposed to acquire this ore for only 50 Rank Five Spiritual Stones instead of 1000."

Roan snorted in response. He could tell with his Spiritual Sense that the woman was in the Middle Stage of the Elemental Transformation Realm. However, this was the auction house, and no one would dare break the rules with the inquisitor there. "Hmph! Then why didn't you give up? We would have acquired the ore for much less as well."

"How dare a puny brat talk to Lady Ariana like this?" One of the middle-aged woman's girls quickly battered Roan.

Roan couldn't care less, though. "A good dog should stay quiet when its owner is busy."

"You!" The girl almost exploded right there and then.

"Enough!" Ariana stopped her girl before anything happened. "You all, don't cause trouble. Do you want to receive a visit from the inquisitor?"

The girl immediately shut up, although she was obviously angry.

Rean was also confused. Roan seemed to be actively buying a fight with Ariana's group. Usually it was Rean who did all the talk, after all. 'Is something wrong?' He asked through their connection.

Roan glanced at him for a moment. 'Look at the emblem on her clothes. She is part of the Royal Family. Chances are she will use that to her advantage, so we might as well show that we don't care about it.'

Rean checked the emblem, and sure enough, it proved the middle-aged woman was a Rusbav Royal Family member. 'I see...'

The woman was indeed a little surprised that Roan didn't seem to care about her status. Nonetheless, she didn't let it bother her. "I called you two here for one reason, the Ore I just bought. Tell me, what did you want it for?"

Rean shrugged. "We can ask you exactly the same question. You can see it has pretty much no more Elements inside. There are definitely better and MUCH cheaper choices out there. Is there any specific reason you took it away from us?"

Ariana narrowed her eyes. From the looks of it, the twins wouldn't speak if she didn't give them something first. "Fine. It is beneath my Rusbav Bloodline to bully unknown brats anyway. I bought this Ore exactly because of the Light and Dark Elements it emanates. There are better choices... but not in a single item. I would need two different elemental metals, one with light element and another one with dark element, to achieve the same result."

Rean had to admit it made sense. The number of metals he knew that carried two elements at the same time was very low. "I see... But the concentration of Light and Dark Elements is pretty low. It might have been better to use two different ones anyway."

Ariana shook her head. "Not for what I need it. That also includes the reason for me to call you two here. Did you perhaps intend to use these two elemental properties as well?"

Rean pondered a bit and decided to give a little bit of information. "No, not exactly. We had no interest in the Light and Dark Elements. The Yin and Yang Energy aren't of much use either. As I mentioned, the concentration is just too low. That's all I can tell you."

Ariana looked at the Ore with curiosity. What else could this Ore have other than that? At the very least, her Spiritual Sense couldn't see it. "Then let me ask something more directly. Do you perhaps know a way of molding this Ore?"

Let's not forget that it is a Universe Foundation Fragment, even if it has lost most of its power. It is still extremely resistant. Even Rean barely managed to work with it back in the Realm of Gods. However, with his experience from that time and the fact the Fragment was much, much weaker now, he believed it was possible. "What is in there for us?"