The two thieves were ordinary people. Since Miss Pawo had started fighting the Ring Arcanists, the people they had come here to meet were obviously Ring Arcanists. Thinking about it that way, the thieves' intrusion into the auction today had most likely been at the behest of some Ring Arcanist who wanted to use them to obtain something.
As he thought, the Shade Cat climbed up the wall and reached the top of the abandoned farm's perimeter wall. Standing there, he saw that Miss Pawo was fighting two unfamiliar Ring Arcanists.
One of the strangers was at the ninth ring and the other at the eighth. They worked together remarkably well, yet Miss Pawo, wielding the Angel Level Relic Smallville Codex, still had them completely suppressed. As for the two thieves, they were lying on their backs outside the farm's cowshed. Shade could no longer sense their Life Fire Seeds.
The battle appeared likely to end soon, but the Shade Cat merely stood on the wall without helping either side, watching Miss Pawo gradually force the two unfamiliar Ring Arcanists into a desperate situation.
A dense Ritual Matrix formed from numerical symbols suppressed their power. Miss Pawo was no ordinary Ring Arcanist to begin with, and the thaumaturgies used by the two strangers had initially carried no identifying traits. Only when the shield they sustained together was nearly torn apart by the light bursting from Miss Pawo's fingertips did they finally use their true abilities:
"Thaumaturgy—Demon Eye Technique!"
Different patterns appeared in both of their right eyes at the same time. The Shade Cat's eyesight was excellent, and he could see them clearly even from a great distance.
"Oh, so they're from the [Demon Eye Club]~"
Only then did he understand.
"Demon Eye Technique" was the signature ability of the