"Please wait a moment, Master Pusu. Since the value of this item exceeds what everyone here can afford, leaving barter as the only possible method of trade, then since the manuscript belongs to me, shouldn't I be the one deciding what to accept in exchange?"
Suddenly, the consignor of the manuscript, seated in a room on the fifth floor, spoke up and personally emerged from the isolated room sealed by a barrier.
The man who stepped out had short black hair, wore a trench coat, and possessed a handsome appearance. Most people had assumed that someone able to produce such a book must be some ancient monster who had lived for tens of millions of years, yet this man's apparent age was no more than three hundred.
A stranger... To everyone present, even the Great Roc and Xing Can, who had lived since prehistoric times, this man was completely unfamiliar.
Faced with the consignor's words, the old monk could not deny them. Since barter was being used, this consignor truly should personally conduct the transaction rather than simply awarding the item to the highest bidder.
"Indeed. Since you have made such a request, you shall conduct the following transaction yourself. This old monk will merely be an observer."
The trench-coated man descended onto the central platform and examined the four people before him who wished to obtain the manuscript.
"Allow me to introduce myself. I am a newcomer from the Divinity Realm. My full name is Aegsolvini Rukedo Diedokaya A. Constantine. You may simply call me Constantine. As I have not been in the Divinity Realm for long and rarely venture outside, perhaps few of you here have seen me before."
"So it is Lord Constantine! The great Lord Constantine is a genius born in our Divinity Realm three hundred