THE RADIANCE OF AGNI
"Why do you guys need to carry so much for?" I asked the girls.
"If you are giving a ring to another girl, you must give one to me", Cassandra told me.
"Yes, yes. I'll craft them for you", I replied to them.
In the deserts of Arrakis kingdom, I've once tutored under a Master Crafter who could create magical artifacts with their magic. Crafting magic items wasn't difficult for me.
"Meanwhile, you can put your Hell Tank into my Faberge ring", I told Sara.
"Be careful with my ship. I'll kill you if you wreck my ship", she told me and warned.
Suddenly, a quick breeze went past us. There was something familiar with the wind that swept over me.
"Wait for me here", I told them as I dashed to chase the breeze.
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The breeze wasn't really wind but Solomon temple assassins were moving like the wind. I followed the assassins until I found someone familiar before me.
"Mother Asereth, why are you here?" I asked the leader of the Solomon Temple.
"Isn't this Oriese?", Mother Asereth said to me and asked.
"What are you people doing in the Auction House of Tarah city?" I asked her.
"We need to obtain an item from the Realm of Delirium, and we are trying to buy as many tickets as possible. And if you are interested, I have a mission for you too", she said to me.
"A mission going to Delirium? I'm up for it since I'm going there anyway. What's the reward?" I asked her.
"The mission may be for your own good. You can recover the Black Heart of the Dark Angel from Delirium and that is as good as any reward from me", she said to me.
"The Dark Angel's heart is in Delirium?" I asked her.
"Yes, the followers of the Dark Angel hid the Dark Heart of the Dark Angel in Delirium after the last battle of Armageddon hoping that one day when the Dark Angel is revived, he will recover his heart from there", she explained to me.
Recovering the magical body parts of the Dark Angel was my mission as the new Dark Angel Incarnate. The Dark angel's Heart would help in the Dark Angel's resurrection.
The sooner he revives, the sooner he will leave my soul realm, and I won't miss this opportunity to get it.
"Well, in that case I might even do the mission for free and by the way, you can save some Aurs on the tickets. I can get your men into Delirium for free", I told her.
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After the special auction for Tickets to Delirium was over, it was the start of the normal auction.
"What are we going to buy? We have everything they will offer here", Ratatouille asked me.
During the Church's war with the demons, we secretly obtained the secret stash of the church, and it became a part of our city's treasury. When we went to the monastery of Elis to rescue the deviants, Ratatouille found their vault and emptied it.
There weren't many artifacts or equipment on sale in the auction that we didn't already have.
"We came to sell", I replied to him.
"Sell? What are you selling? Don't try touching my stash", Ratatouille warned me.
"Don't worry, you won't want any of these goodies", I replied to him.
"We are pleased to announce a very special item on tonight's auction", the auctioneer announced to the crowd anticipating crowd.
"What is on offer that the people are so excited about?" Ratatouille asked the guy next to us.
"Didn't you know, we are bidding for life savers. Do you know that an Ice calamity is about to overrun the Ten-Kingdoms at some point in time. This artifact will save us", the guy replied to him.
"What Ice calamity are we facing?" Melroy asked me with interest.
"Didn't the apostles seal the Ice corridor already?" Rinna asked me.
"Nope, they are not planning to seal it for whatever reason", I replied to her.
"The apostles want the ice to kill everyone in the Ten-Kingdoms?" Cassandra asked us.
"The coming of the Flood of Ice is a precursor to the War in the Ten-Kingdoms", Meera told us suddenly.
"Meera, you always tell us about the Revelation prophecies after they have happened", I told my Succubi Supreme.
"There are so many prophecies, I don't know how to compile them into timelines. There is no timeline in the prophecies of the Revelations", Meera explained to us.
"So, what are we going to do about another Ice incursion?" Melroy asked me.
"Well, these people here have an idea", I replied to him while pointing at the crowd gathered at the auction.
"We have obtained through powerful and elaborate summoning, artifacts from the depths of the Infernal realm, objects that could repel the incursion of ice from Rizea", the auctioneer announced to the crowd.
A large container was brought out into the auction Hall.
"How do we know if this artifact works?" someone from the crowd asked.
"A demonstration is in order", the auctioneer replied to the guy when she ordered the container to be opened.
Inside the container there was a rock of strange design covered with cryptic runes. An aura of heat permeated from the strange rock artifact though.
Suddenly, several conjurers were called to the stage, and they cast powerful ice magic over the artifact.
At first, the artifact was completely frozen by the magic of the conjurers but before long, all the ice conjured melted like running water.
Even the audience seated in the auction Hall felt immense heat coming out from the artifact.
"Shall I return the artifact into its container for the comfort of our esteemed guests?" the auctioneer asked the crowd as she wiped the sweat from her head.
"Please…please", the crowd replied to her, and she did just that.
Once the artifact was covered by its magical container, the auctioneer continued the auction.
"This artifact called the Radiance of Agni once belonged to an ArchDemon called Lord Vogron. Its flame is indestructible, and it would melt any ice incursion for a mile at least", the auctioneer told the crowd before she added, "The artifact starts at ten million Aurs", before the crowd gasped in shock at the price.