'The heck? Did I get scammed by Voldred? Did I get some defective equipment in the name of identity protection?'

Leo's mind had been chaotic already. But in this moment, there was a strange sense of calmness in his eyes.

Instead of trying to worry about how his identity was exposed, he was thinking about the possible solution.

If his identity was truly exposed, could he escape from right under Selene's nose? There was only one glass window in front of him, but that led straight to the stage.

Even if he somehow managed to break through the reinforced glass wall, he was only going to get deeper into the auction house. It was the worst possible situation since he would only attract the attention of another Ancient House as well.

The only other way out of this room was through the door behind him. Unfortunately, the girl was already standing behind him, blocking his path to the door.

If he wanted to use a teleportation back to Ship, he had to be in the open with a clear view of the sky. Unfortunately, there seemed to be no path that would lead him to the open field.

He subconsciously looked towards the ceiling.

He could send a command to the Necropolis Ship to attack his coordinates, precisely to his left to create an open hole in the roof that would help him teleport.

If the Necropolis Ship could enter a black hole in time and maintain distance until he returned to Necropolis, he would avoid capture. But that would also mean that he would have to give up everything.

His hands were still in his pocket and he looked perfectly calm on the surface, but deep down, he was trying to calculate the profit and loss of every approach.

There was also one more approach, which was summoning Voldred's Sword and trying to fight his way out, but he wasn't naive enough to believe that it would've worked.

Realistically, Voldred and Selene were considered to be on a similar level. Even if Selene was somehow weaker than Voldred, but that was for Voldred. Just possessing Voldred's weapon didn't turn him into Voldred.

"Fuck it! If worse comes to worst, I would have no choice but to attempt an escape, even if I have to attack this place. But until then..."

Leo slowly turned around to face the girl, tilting his head sideways as he showed a confused look on his face.

It was as if he truly didn't understand what she was talking about.

His expression was the personification of him asking, "Who me?"

He placed his hand on his chest, like he was truly heartbroken. He turned back to Selene, and walked to her, almost teary eyed.

On the way, he intentionally hit his toe on the table, falling before Selene.

Selene reacted fast, and wrapped her arms around his chest to prevent his fall.

"That's enough. This frail human that might die with a single fall... Does he look like he's someone from Necropolis? Does he look like an undead? Or does he look like he's strong enough to give you a sense of danger, along with that Nephilim boy?"

For the first time, Selene's voice grew louder. Meanwhile, Leo made a face that looked like his eyes were really about to get wet at the false accusation when he had never even seen that girl in his life.

"Mother, my instincts are truly warning me. He might actually be the person that I saw..." The girl tried to speak, but she was forced to stop as she saw Selene raise her hand.

"This time, your instincts must be wrong. A living human... can't be from Necropolis, the land of the dead."

She helped Leo up, who truly appeared like a pitiful cat, even though he hadn't spoken a single word from start to end.

It was all about his expressions, and his subtle manipulating tactics. He had already seen that Selene truly considered him as frail as a clay doll. It was that protective side that he tried to aim for.

If he was truly as frail as a clay doll, then how could he be associated with Necropolis? Necropolis wasn't the land of idiots to make a human their envoy, after all.

Well... At least Selene didn't know that even if it somehow was just that....

At this point, Leo had very conveniently sat next to Selene, the seat that was previously taken by her daughter.

Meanwhile the girl that had accused Leo of being the envoy, was left standing, almost scolded.

She also felt that her mother's words held some value. How can a mere human be an Envoy of Necropolis? But still, for some strange reason, she couldn't erase that uncomfortable feeling.

Was she really overthinking? Was she really wrong this time? She wasn't certain anymore. The only thing that she could be sure about, was that she didn't look at Leo favorably.

"Are you hurt?" Selene asked Leo, and before even waiting for his anger, she waved her hand.

A wave of divine essence washed over Leo, trying to heal any injury that she could have.

Even the minor throbbing pain that he had on his feet after hitting his toe, something he had to do to make the act realistic, had disappeared in that instant.

The feeling was like he had just entered a warm bathtub in winter, feeling the comfort all over his body.

Leo almost blurted out that he was alright, but at the last moment, he controlled himself and simply nodded.

His body was already very healthy after all. Even if he hadn't been healed by her, that pain in his toe would have gone away in a few minutes.

Neither Leo, nor Selene realized that as the healing essence tried to heal his body, some of it had disappeared within his body.

For a brief moment, a wing-like mark flashed on his back, before disappearing like it never existed.

At the same time, a commotion had swept over the auction house as a beautiful Lotus was being escorted on the stage.

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