Annabella received an invitation personally sent by Lord Fred—an invitation to an auction.
Ordinarily, Annabella would not have bothered with such an invitation. However, an auction catalog had accompanied it, and within was a formal female knight's robe. It was an antique with a history of three thousand years and had been quite famous in its day.
Annabella had few hobbies, but collecting female knight's formal robes was undoubtedly the most important of them.
Although Lord Fred was not particularly close to Annabella—he had not even been invited to her celebration banquet upon advancing—the invitation from Lord Fred still moved her.
Annabella did not believe that Lord Fred intended to harm her. The noble circle and the War God Temple were on extremely poor terms, so Lord Fred had no reason to target her.
Of course, the most important reason was that the female knight's formal robe had caught Annabella's attention.
The auction was being held on Bama Star, a commercial planet where many nobles gathered. Its security was also exceptionally high.
Annabella left David a message. She had done so because she had been unable to contact him. At the time, David was no longer in God's Great World, having gone to the Zerg World Safe Point to collect the first batch of harvested space stones.
It was precisely this coincidence that prevented David from receiving Annabella's message immediately.
Annabella used the planetary Portal on Gami Star and stepped inside. As white light flickered, her figure vanished. When she reappeared, she was already in Bama Main City.
The moment she appeared in Bama Main City, Annabella sensed that something was wrong.
As the main city of a commercial planet, Bama Main City should have been bustling. Yet today, not a single person could be seen, and a strange energy