After seeing the lively streets of Mortuus City, Auriel couldn't help but feel a little bit livelier than his usual lazy self, who didn't want anything other than to lay on the bed, but after hearing the unpleasant story of Sebastian, his mood dropped to almost neutral.
But Auriel was more than okay with his neutral mood as he thought that it was better to have a stable mood instead of a bright mood sometimes and a bad mood other times.
Mood swings were making it harder for him to think clearly, so having a neutral mood was welcomed by him.
Anyway, Auriel arrived in front of a luxurious looking building that was as big as the Weaver mansion. This building was made of wood that was looking like gold, shining slightly under the sun, and it had many windows that were covered with pure white curtains, making it impossible to see the inside.
Guards in clad metal plate armor were stationed around this impressive building, giving an oppressive aura of power. Most of them were Awakened, while there were a few Masters. It was currently unknown if there were any Grandmasters, as it was impossible for Auriel to sense them if they wanted to hide, but Auriel was almost sure that there was at least 1 Grandmaster to protect an auction house of this caliber, maybe a Transcendent too.
This place was called 'Killian's Golden Goose', and it was the most popular auction house in Mortuus city. Killian's Golden Goose auctions almost everything from every city of the Macien kingdom. Treasures like gold and jewels, artifacts that range from the lowest to highest, resources and knowledge about all kinds of abilities that were seen before, and slaves of all kinds.
As a son of Duke Weaver, Auriel had money to do whatever he wanted, but he wasn't going to spend his money on idiotic things like bedding with random girls or buying aphrodisiacs, or expensive alcohol like the original Auriel.
Auriel came to this place to buy himself a slave to make a puppet and buy artifacts that he found useful to have around.
The guards, who were waiting in front of the gates, gave way for Auriel after seeing him, as he was a pretty known person in this city, so they recognized him instantly even though he lost some weight.
Auriel nodded toward the guards and entered the inside.
Inside Killian's Golden Goose was more luxurious than it was outside. Auriel could see really expensive looking wooden accessories such as miniature ships, chairs, or golden chalices with colorful and expensive jewels that were hanging on them with golden chains.
Then, suddenly a beautiful young woman with long blonde hair, shining blue eyes, enormous breasts, and wide hips came from the stairs with rushed steps and bowed deeply to Auriel, making her huge breasts jiggle in her revealing red dress.
"Welcome, young master Auriel. I hope you are doing well, we were worried that something happened to you after you didn't come here for a month." The woman said with a sweet, caring tone and hugged Auriel's arm without any hesitation and squeezed into her bountiful breasts
This was a really obvious act of seduction that would probably work on almost every virgin man, but Auriel wasn't someone who gets seduced easily. He hated to be touched by someone he didn't know without any permission and he didn't even like physical contact. If needed, he could tolerate the physical contact with a smile on his face but there was no need for him to do so with this beautiful but still mundane woman, who was trying to seduce him.
Hence, Auriel pulled his arm from the woman with more strength than needed, making her stumble a few steps, then he threw a look of disgust toward the woman.
"Begone, you succubus like woman. I can look around myself." Auriel said coldly without caring about the stupified expression of the woman and the shocked gazes of the other people.
Then Auriel turned to Gordon and tugged the string in Gordon's neck string.
Gordon woke up from his shock and nodded quickly, understood Auriel's intention, and led Auriel to the upper floors.
"Umm, young master Auriel. Can I ask something?" Gordon asked abruptly while they were climbing the stairs.
After receiving a nod from Auriel, Gordon asked with a curious tone:
"What is succubus?"
Auriel sighed as he forgot that there was no succubus in this world.
"Succubuses are bizarre creatures that look like beautiful human women. They are hungry for men, and usually eat the man they had sex with after they do the deed."
After hearing Auriel's blunt answer, Gordon coughed and turned his head with a slight blush on his face.
"What the fuck!? You are an old man, you know this, right?"
Auriel didn't understand how this old man was embarrassed about this little piece of knowledge, but he didn't ask this as he knew that, Gordon wouldn't going to answer his question.
'It would be great if I knew how to read mind.' Auriel thought and an idea came to his mind.
It was to find someone with mind reading ability or something similar, then making them a puppet and use their ability after learning how to.
His mood improved immediately after thinking about reading people's minds without any restraints, learning their worst fears, most ridiculous thoughts, and kinks.
Though this weird enthusiasm of Auriel didn't last long as he arrived at the lounge of the Weaver family, where he was going to bid for the items that were about to be auctioned.