Ji-Han activated his [Minute Repeater] skill, and six cogwheels instantly appeared around the mask. The cogwheels moved toward the mask, surrounding it, their teeth starting to crush the mask little by little like a grinder.

“You're boring, go away.”

[This… This is unbelievable! How can a mere mortal acquire the power of a God…!! ARGH!!]

Crunch. Crunch.

The mask was crushed, and its fragments were absorbed by the cogwheels. Eventually, only the spinning cogwheels remained, and they also disappeared a few moments later.

“So… What’s next.”

Ji-Han turned his gaze to the distance, where nothing could be seen.

* * *

Life was life.

Shin Ju-Ran was attending the auction wearing a mask. She had also heard the rumor that something great was going to appear this time in the auction. Rather than watching it on a monitor in a VIP room far away, she had come to the auction house personally and was now sitting at a table right at the very front.

‘Please let everyone here but me screw up their bidding.’

Thus piously praying, she sat down.

Not long after, the long-awaited Heirloom Seal of the Realm actually appeared. She exchanged the information with the team that she had on standby for this auction.

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