CHAPTER 497:They Are Actually Looking For Me!

"How many gold coins?" As everyone in the room stared at Han Shuo in shock, Han Shuo turned his gaze to the auctioneer and repeated his question.

The Ice Celestial Shrine and the Snow Celestial Shrine were right in front of the auction house, while even more experts continued to gather in the area, gradually surrounding the entire building. It seemed like they planned to keep Han Shuo in the auction house forever.

"One... One hundred and fifteen thousand gold coins!" The auctioneer finally replied in front of Han Shuo, who was displaying a very imposing demeanour.

After nodding his head, Han Shuo took out three magical crystal cards from his space ring, each with a denomination of 50,000 gold coins. He tossed them to the auctioneer and said, "This is 150,000 gold coins. I'm taking them home!"

These magical crystal cards were the kind that did not require a password for transactions to proceed. As long as the benefactor had authorised it in advance, the beneficiary could take the magical crystal cards to any magical crystal trading company and withdraw gold coins instantly. Before leaving Brettel City, Han Shuo had Jack prepare these for him. For races like the dwarves, they did not have magical crystal facilities for converting gold coins. If Han Shuo just used his own crystal card, he wouldn't be able to give the dwarves a large amount of gold coins. Using these magical crystal cards would obviously be much more convenient.

But, but..." the auctioneer was clearly aware that the Braingorge Rakshas could fetch a higher price. Therefore, after successfully catching the three Magical Crystal Cards containing 150,000 gold coins, he looked at Han Shuo anxiously and stuttered.

"It's about time, isn't it?" Han Shuo groaned before glancing at Sophie far away in the hall and instructing her to leave as soon as possible to avoid attracting trouble.

Han Shuo's actions were simply robbery in public. As a gifted sky rider who was quite respected in the Kasi Empire, although Sophie was rather pleased to see how rude Han Shuo was to Braque, she dared not say anything to Han Shuo at this moment, especially when her father, the sacred knight Sulo, was still present with Braque in his room.

"Father-in-law!" Suddenly, from a VIP room on the third floor, a nervous Braque called out to Sacred Knight Sulo after staring at Thuram, who had collapsed at his feet.

Sulo's name was known to everyone in the Kasi Empire. When Braque saw that Thuram, in an extremely frightened state of mind, had been sent flying backwards by a single blow from Han Shuo, he finally understood just how formidable this seemingly naive fat man was. Luckily, Sulo was right next to him. As a result, Braque remained rather calm, even though Thuram was wounded. At that moment, he looked at Sulo with anxious eyes, obviously hoping and begging for Sulo to intervene.

After all, In any case, Sulo was a sacred knight! In Braque's mind, a sacred knight was the most powerful being on the continent!

In his heart, Sulo understood that Han Shuo and Sophie must have known each other well, and the two might even have had some friendly relations. However, as things had come to this, with Braque's pleas, Sulo seemed to have no other choice. With a serious expression on his face, Sulo nodded his head at Braque's earnest request.

"This gentleman over here, you have broken the established rules of the auction house. Please hand over the item and participate in the regular manner," Sulo said with a solemn face as he stood by the window and looked at Han Shuo.

Inside the auction hall, the nobles who had been stunned by Han Shuo's actions suddenly came to their senses. Some of them had met Sacred Knight Sulo before. Now, when Sacred Knight Sulo's voice sounded, every single member of the audience became even more astonished and began to make a racket in their discussions.

Had this been a large-scale battle, these cowards would have fled the battlefield immediately. However, seeing that only Han Shuo and Sacred Knight Sulo were here, they couldn't help but watch from the sidelines out of curiosity.

"Sir, what do you mean?" Zarya, the person in charge, led a group of servers and appeared out of nowhere. Zarya had a rather unpleasant look on her face as he asked Han Shuo while suppressing the anger in her heart.

Originally, Zarya still had regrets towards Han Shuo. However, when he saw Han Shuo's reckless and outrageous actions from behind the scenes, he was furious. This auction in the Kasi Empire, which was held every three years, had never witnessed such an incident. No matter how badly someone wanted an item, the most they would do after the auction was over was to use their powers to secretly obtain it.

But as for Han Shuo's actions of snatching the item in the auction hall right in front of the crowd, that had never happened before!

The situation was clear, Han Shuo had earned everyone's enmity.

"My apologies. To be honest, I also wanted to participate and compete according to the rules. However, due to some special circumstances, I really had no choice but to do this!" Han Shuo said as he shrugged his shoulders at Zarya. Sensing that certain experts from the Ice Shrine were approaching, Han Shuo once again signalled to Sophie with his eyes, intending to burst through a door and leave immediately.

Swoosh!

Suddenly, the Sacred knight Sulo leapt down and fell directly on top of Han Shuo. Sulo did not draw a weapon, yet an extremely ferocious demeanour was automatically unleashed from his body. In mid-air, Sulo stretched out his two hands, golden combat aura as bright as the sun blossoming from his palms.

"No!" Sophie suddenly shouted from the audience.

Han Shuo noticed Sophie's scream and that Sulo's attack was not meant to be fatal. Han Shuo furrowed his brow and glanced at Sophie before retreating abruptly. He did not bother with Sulo's attack but headed straight for the door.

The last time they had met outside Braque's mansion, Sulo had not attacked Han Shuo because of Sophie. This time, although Sulo took up arms against Han Shuo because he had to show Braque face, his attack was obviously not intended to kill. For this reason, Han Shuo found it inappropriate to hurt Sulo. All he could do was dodge Sulo's attack and leave as quickly as possible.

"Friend! Really, the person they are looking for is me!" As Han Shuo was about to kick down a stone wall of the auction house and leave, an old man not far behind Han Shuo suddenly spoke.

This old man had a head full of messy green hair that looked like rice straws growing on his head. Judging by his appearance, he must have lived for a long, long time, as evidenced by the deep marks that time had left on his face.

When Han Shuo first entered the auction house, he looked at every single person there, including this old man, of course. At that time, when Han Shuo had examined this old man, he had not paid any special attention to him because he had not felt any overwhelming presence emanating from this old man. However, just as Han Shuo was about to make his escape before the Ice Shrine's forces were fully deployed around him, Han Shuo felt an exotic sensation, as if the cheerful breeze of spring was blowing over him as this old man spoke.

Han Shuo was startled in his heart, and immediately unfolded his consciousness before focusing it completely on this old man. He found out that although he looked like he was about to bite the dust, his body was actually rich and overflowing with exuberant life force.

Inside this old man's body, Han Shuo felt the energy that gave him the feeling of vast green forests. This kind of energy, brimming with powerful vitality, was more than ten times greater than that of the rapidly approaching Sacred Knight Sulo.

Han Shuo understood that the more powerful an entity was, the greater its life force would be. This old man could possess such an enormous amount of life force, and even hide it from Han Shuo's consciousness. This indicated that he was at least as powerful as Han Shuo, otherwise Han Shuo would have discovered it earlier.

After making such a discovery, Han Shuo was shocked. Soon after, he understood the true meaning of the old man's words. Looking at the old man with a startled face, Han Shuo asked, "You mean those men from the Ice Shrine outside are after you?"

The old man nodded. Forcing a smile, he said, "That's right! they are actually looking for me."

Bang!

At that moment, a loud explosion rang out from the roof of the auction house. The crowd raised their heads in shock and looked up. A large crack appeared in the roof of the auction house, through which a woman, shrouded in a faint mist, slowly descended.

At the same time, the entrance to the auction house suddenly opened wide. Led by Ice Celestial Corey, a crowd of experts from the Ice Shrine entered with stern expressions on their faces. As soon as Ice Celestial Corey entered, he began to laugh. "Great Master Kelly, why didn't you look for your old friends when you arrived in the Kasi Empire? That's not very polite of you!"

Han Shuo carefully glanced around. He saw that although Ice Celestial Corey's laughter was very joyful, his expression was thin and pale. It seemed that Corey had been very unhappy lately. When Han Shuo thought about it, it actually made perfect sense to him. The Ice Shrine had spent a great deal of resources on the God Making Project, only to be sabotaged by Han Shuo at the most critical moment. Not only had all of their specialists been killed by the metal elite zombies, but they had also lost their Sacred Rank experts.

Even in the Ice Shrine, every single sacred expert counted. With every death of their sacred experts, the Ice Shrine would suffer incalculable losses. As the supreme leader of the Ice Shrine, Ice Celestial Corey had not only failed to see the Shrine grow in strength during his reign, but he had also seen it gradually weaken under his leadership. It would be strange to feel happy.

Indeed! They're not after me at all! Han Shuo was astonished. Then he discovered that when Ice Celestial Corey made an appearance, Corey's gaze never landed on Han Shuo. It seemed that after he changed his appearance and before he attacked, Ice Celestial Corey actually couldn't recognise Han Shuo.

"Sage, what should we do?" the druid Lilian, who had been babbling on and on beside Han Shuo, actually went over to the old man and asked him respectfully.

When Lilian said those words, Han Shuo suddenly understood what was really going on. When he took another look at this old man and felt the energy full of vitality in his aged body, Han Shuo immediately realised that he must be a prominent figure in the Druidic Order. As for why such a big shot would appear at the auction house, Han Shuo also had a faint idea.

It seemed that he was there for what the Druidic Order called the 'Hand of the Goddess'!