(Author Note:- 75 power stones in a week for 1 bonus chapter.
125 power stones in a week for 2nd bonus chapters.
160 power stones in a week for 3rd bonus chapters.)
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"Now ladies and gentlemen, it is time for the final item of the Second Phase to be put on the Auction table."
And with this two people bought a huge orb on a trolley.
The orb which was of purple color had a radius of one metre. It was emitting some kind of aura, a menacing aura, unfamiliar to all those present in the Auction House.
No one knew anything about it. Many on the ground floor were already suffering from the pressure. And this aura was not just suppressing their aura. Even their souls were suppressed.
This was unfamiliar since no one ever heard of an aura which could suppress someone's soul. Only a soul attack could be used to attack someone else's soul.
There are many things that can suppress a soul. Be it a soul treasure, bloodline, soul techniques everyone has heard about it. But suppressed by Aura? This was the first time.... and probably the only time they would see something like this.
So everyone, even those in the third and fourth floor were baffled. But they were baffled for a different reason.
Such an item should be in the third phase were those 'higher class' were only qualified for such items.
But soon it was explained by the good looking host, Gareth why it was there in second and not third phase.
"This item was found a bought by a private excavation team of the Auction House. This mysterious orb was found in one of highest level ruins.
And since this was in deepest parts of the highest level ruins this was naturally thought to be a treasure. But to bring back this item we had to sacrifice a lot of our elites from our Private Team.
But nevertheless bringing back such treasure, filled us employees with joy and pride." He paused for a moment to let all he said be digested by the people present here before continuing
"But who knew that this was a cursed item. No, we do not know if this is literally a cursed item but the affects are not any less than cursed ones.
This treasure here can directly attack a soul of any person. True. In fact this orb can attack a soul of your enemy even if that enemy is two level higher than yours.
We do not know the level of this treasure but we were not able to detect any spirit from this treasure." At this point many gasped in horror.
Not even those in the fourth floor were exceptions. There were only 3 rooms on the fourth floor which were active today, one of them being for Bai Yishan and Nicholas Dumas.
The other two rooms had people whose status could shake the very continent. But even they gasped in shock.
Why?
Soul is the weakest part of any living being. Most of the treasures needed to guard a soul are rare.
Heck anything related to soul is rare. Be it treasure or techniques everything is rare. In fact even in cultivation one can choose to directly skip from Nascent soul to Supremo stage.
In ancient times there was nothing like Combat soul stage. But later a lucky person found a natural treasure which can hunt someone's soul.
Initially that treasure was only used for hunting ghosts and the likes. But later he started using it for evil means.
This scared the entire universe. At the beginning they tried to hunt him. But that lucky person was truly lucky since he always fled before he was caught.
And that is why they frantically started searching for methods to stop that treasure.
But no one knew how to create Soul Treasure at that time. So everyone came to a single conclusion. Cultivation stages!
Yes as long as you reach above Supremo you can be safe, if you are not sneak attacked. But what about below them?
And just when the universe was in chaos, the genius along with his friends made a special cultivation stage. And that was how Combat Soul stage came into being!
And this was not some secret. Most of the fighters in the universe knew about this.
Now coming back to the present, any attack on soul by even someone a little stronger than you can lead you to death, unless you have any treasure or technique to protect your soul.
And attacking someone two levels higher? This literally meant anyone in the top could become the strongest in the continent since those at the top had almost same strength.
But they all broke from the illusions after hearing Gareth's next words.
"But such an item with such strong effects will always have side affects." This caused many people to nod.
"In this case the orb consumes the soul of the user, that means the users dies the moment he uses the mysterious orb."
Many people frowned. It was not because it was the effects were too drastic.
In fact the side effects were nothing. Especially for the powerhouses. Why?
Because they can just order someone just below them to kill their their competitors.
And if the subordinates of the powerhouses deny it, the powerhouses can simple take their close ones as hostage and force them to do.
In this way the powerhouses can get rid of their rivals.
But Gareth's next explanation shattered every illusion they had.
"But it does not end with just the user's soul. Every one the user of the mysterious orb cared about will have their soul sucked by this orb.
That means the death of you and yours loved ones. No matter how far you are from your loved ones they will suffer the same fate as you.
And we can say this for sure because one of our very own researcher suffered a tragic fate."
Silence.
Everyone was silenced in horror. Why?
Because the most mysterious thing about this orb was not sucking your soul dry but because how the orb, just a treasure with no spirit locate your close ones.
Everyone had fear in their eyes.
No, almost everyone.
It was Kylo who had excitement in his eyes.
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(Author Note:- Kylo sure has some weird feti-- ahem nvm...)