Chapter 268 - The Eyeless Man
The young mermaid panicked badly when all the wizards stared at her with their merciless gazes. People grew more and more excited when they saw the poor yet beautiful creature’s timidness turning into fear.
Angor watched the auction with a plain mood. Mermaids tended to invite bane due to their beauty. But at the same time, such beauty was their deadliest weapon. On the sea, these creatures always bewitched innocent sailors and destroyed entire fleets.
The mermaid went to someone at the cost of 320 crystals.
The second cage was revealed, revealing another slave inside—a dwarf covered in crystal-like scales.
“A Crystal Folk from Grand Plane, a born craftsman. They do wonderful jobs when constructing buildings, either above or under the surface,” Twilight explained.
A Humanoid from another plane? Angor did find traces of damage left by the world’s consciousness on the creature.
He was considering whether he should buy this slave and then used this chance to ask the auction house about how to prevent the slave from being expelled by the world’s consciousness.
It did not mean he was blind. Rather, there was only bare, empty skin where his eyes should have been. Someone drew a pair of cartoon-style eyes on his face with ink, which looked horribly cute.
“What the heck is that? I don’t sense the mark of the world’s consciousness on him. He’s not a foreign creature?”
“Is there a race called the ‘eyeless’ in this world? I never heard of one.”
“What can he do? Why did you place him at the last but one?”
Angor did not have those questions. He rubbed his eyes and looked at the slave carefully.
“What’s the matter, Angor?” Dave saw his movement.
“I think… I saw him somewhere before. He looks so familiar.”
“Familiar?” Dave also poked his head higher and inspected the figure, but he did not notice anything.
Angor tried to remember if he saw someone like that in the Nightmare Realm, but nothing came to his mind.
Toby suddenly moved in his pocket. During the music box incident, Angor successfully soothed the bird down and put it to sleep. It seemed Toby just woke up.
Angor changed his attention to the bird and no longer cared about the slave on the stage. “Only two items left. Good timing, we’re leaving soon.”
Toby tweeted lazily. Angor smiled when he understood that the bird had completely gotten over the previous trouble.
As Angor and his bird joked at each other, Twilight began her introduction.
“As you all know, there are two absolutely divine dining places in the south: Felicia’s Butterfly Tavern, and Greya’s Barbie’s Restaurant.”
Angor froze up when he heard the name of Greya.
“Those who’ve read the newest edition of Expedition into Endless Planes should know that Greya got herself into a fight with Granny Shikazaru in Haunt World, and the two of them, together with another station wizard of the expedition team, ‘Sawai’, were sucked into the Nightmare Realm. It’s commonly believed that Greya has fallen, which meant her restaurant is no more.”
Cold sweat appeared on Angor’s forehead as he finally remembered who the slave was.
“All the other workers in the restaurant are gourmet wizards. Apart from those who escaped back to Candy House, the rest scattered away into different parts of the world. This one is one of the workers, captured by a wizard during an incident. I think I do not need to remind you of the value of gourmet wizards. He’s not yet a formal wizard, but he already knows how to cook amazing dishes which share the same level of properties as alchemy potions. Now, let’s get some bidding done. We start at 10,000 magic crystals, and I expect raises of no less than 5,000!”
A scene flashed through Angor’s memory, in which he entered Barbie’s Restaurant with Mara and a group of other wizards. They saw a number of strange workers and waiters along their way. The dancing Tom Weasel, a ghost janitor who always spoke nonsense, head waiter Greasy Neo, and another man with a stiff body who could only advance by hopping forward, the ‘Eyeless Man’.
The very same figure locked up inside that iron cage!