Moonlight After Sunset's
[S2E9] Luka Ego Pt 2

"Make the past a reference to change in the present and future."

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The atmosphere of the night seemed so calm, with a gust of wind that added a cold impression to the Black Castle, plus the sound of crickets that combined all the atmosphere, the, now it was enough to make anyone who was there feel afraid.

But of course it does not apply to the owner of the castle. He casually observed the night atmosphere on the balcony of his study room. The place looked beautiful and peaceful in its viewpoint.

But of course, that atmosphere could only be felt by him alone. Even sometimes his subordinates feel afraid to continue to be there. They would rather spend time in secret tasks or missions than be in a place where even sounds are rarely heard.

"Huh, it's exhausting."

Looking clearly at Lucas' tired face, he looked pale with faint eye bags covering the area under his eyes. Lucas was tired of the affairs of the palace as well as the issue of the Lake of Chastity which is currently still under scrutiny of its importance.

Lucas still remembers what happened 10 years ago. The incident where Haley had to die because of Consort Jina. Unfortunately, due to lack of evidence, Haley's death status became suicidal.

It was enough to make his sister and mother mentally down, so Lucas had to fix everything at that time. But now everything has returned to normal, even so he must remain vigilant on the possibility that will happen in the future.

That's what makes Lucas upset when he sees his girlfriend dying. He was sure that the state of Dusk was fine at the feast of manhood, but what he saw now was really annoying.

"What did you eat until it became like that?" asked Lucas while remembering the black smoke coming out of the body

"Didn't the Academics give you decent food, huh? Did you deliberately eat dirty food to make me worry? Or did you intentionally do that to get my attention?"

Lucas continued to ask the reason why Dusk to do this. Obviously Lucas knew that Dusk had a magic animal capable of neutralizing poison. Therefore, Lucas never worried about what his lover would eat.

"I have to find out the mastermind behind all this."

Lucas gripped tightly on his handbook. He looked so angry with the hand veins billowing to the surface of the skin. An annoyed Lucas then recalled about the incident two hours ago. At that time, he was at the battle house along with Nike, his subordinate.

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The Dark Market Two Hours Earlier

The black market is a market that sells all sorts of illegal things that are not authorized by the Kingdom. Usually, this market sells high-quality weapons that are difficult to obtain in ordinary stores.

The weapon is usually obtained from stealing, robbing, or killing the owner. In addition, the weapons sold also have great magic power so that it is targeted by many people.

If such weapons were sold freely, there would be a lot of bloodshed later, and most weapons were sold through auction. Not only weapons, even daily necessities are sold on this black market, only their quality is far superior to those sold in ordinary markets.

Usually, traders sell goods on the black market to ease taxes. This happens because of the high-quality goods tax, the price is twice as expensive as the goods themselves.

Not infrequently they also sell it at auction. This can happen because the demand for the item is very much while the unit is limited. Thus, auction became the main solution.

At the moment Lucas is on the black market or rather the house of battle. There in addition to fighting, there is also an auction show. Auction shows are usually performed by those who want to earn high profits.

It could be that what they sell is an easy thing to get but because the ego of the nobles is high, then this auction can be a show of wealth. Those who have abundant wealth usually come to this place just to show off.

"Master, the goods are coming out soon" whispered Nike right in Lucas' ear as the item they were waiting for finally appeared as well.

"Gentlemen, this time we're going to auction off a flower that you know exactly what it is, you know," the moderator shouted as his subordinates had already come back along with the freight train containing the Chrysanthemum crown array.

"This crown came directly from the Fatih Kingdom of the North continent" he continued, which made the entire podium very interested. They are attracted not because of the flowers, but because the origin of the flower is actually the attraction.

Chrysanthemum flowers are flowers that live a lot almost throughout this continent. But there is only one Chrysanthemum flower that can live in the North continent, namely the Dae Chrysanthemum flower.

The Dae Chrysanthemum Flower is the only Chrysanthemum flower whose seeds shine like diamonds. No, even the seeds are better and superior than the diamonds sold in the market.

In addition, Chrysanthemum flowers can also be used to cure internal diseases just by wearing it. So that residents of the North continent are rarely affected by serious diseases.

This was known around the middle of the last century. At that time, the virus outbreak spread across almost all continents, and strangely only the North continent was fine at that time.

After investigation, it turns out that the cause of them not infected with the virus is due to the effects of Dae Chrysanthemum flowers that increase immunity. But unfortunately because of that Dae Chrysanthemum flower continues to be exploited, so now its presence is very rare.

"For this time, the seller does not want to exchange money or diamonds. He wanted a barter exchange with just a gun."

Hearing the words of the moderator, the visitors became restless. They knew that the Dae Chrysanthemum flowers were expensive and unique, but exchanging them for weapons was a bad idea.

Honestly, it often happened between nobles and other traders. Therefore, anyone who wanted to conduct an auction or buy items, they would have to use a mask to cover up his identity.

Unless you really want to look rich and show off wealth in front of other nobles, then please just show your face in public.

It was the motto of this battle house, and it had been guarded for a long time. So, whatever happens to customers or sellers, it's none of their business.

"Sir, what are we going to do now?"

Nike whispered to Lucas. It was clear their main purpose of coming to this battle house was for the auction of Dae Chrysanthemum flowers.

"Look at it, and enjoy it" Lucas replied indifferently.

Lucas had no idea who the florist was, or where they came from. But one thing is for sure, they came here only to catch the perpetrator who sold the flower and took as much profit from it as possible.

Many buyers feel burdened, but there are also some who do not even hesitate to offer valuable weapons. The average level of weapons they offered ranged between Grade A and Grade B.

Even so, from the many weapons offered, none of them managed to reach an agreement with the seller. Lucas realized that the seller was looking for a weapon that increases the buff.

I don't know what the goal is, but weapons with a high buff level are able to defeat enemies faster than other weapons. Normally, to defeat a B rank enemy would at least require a Grade A level weapon. But with buff-type weapons that rank only Grade B, it is able to defeat enemies of rank B or A.

Cring....

Cring....

When busy watching the funny behavior of the buyers in buying Chrysanthemum Dae flowers. Lucas gets a slow shake from his liaison bracelet. The bracelet will shake when his lover is within a certain distance with him.

"Hahaha, what is this?" asked Lucas with a naughty smile.

Nike who saw Lucas smile could only curl up in fear. The reason, just this time Nike saw his master smiling mischievously like that.

Usually, his master would smile when he was devising a scheming to defeat his enemy. But this is very sudden for Nike.

"Sir, what's wrong?" ask Nike in a slow tone. He is afraid to provoke Lucas' emotions that can change at any time.

" ... "

But instead of answering Lucas even more smiling along with the sound of a bell on his wrist. The bell rang with a clattering sound that grew louder and louder. This also makes Nike confused with Lucas' increasingly strange attitude.

"Sir."

Nike tried to call Lucas who still ignored him.

"Session deal is being done,"

he was trying to remind Lucas of their main goal in coming here.

"Huh."

Lucas laughed at Nike. He then sent his shadow away to carry out their duties.

"Nike," call Lucas all of a sudden.

"Yes, sir."

"Follow me, we got a new job right now."

" ... "

Nike only daydreamed as Lucas stood up from his seat. He was confused as to what to do, whether he would remain there to find out who the buyer and the seller were, or whether he should go with his master.

Nike experienced an inner upheaval between the auction with the new orders of the master. He was confused to look back and forth between Lucas and the auction stage.

"Nike!"

One call from Lucas made Nike aware. He eventually follows Lucas out of the fight house. I do not know what his master will do at this time, but certainly Nike will experience unique events that he did not expect in his life.