The Auction in Reyes City

The guards stationed at the entrance watched in silence as Hill walked through the city gate.

Hill quickly understood why they were so lenient toward an unfamiliar mage.

He stopped and looked toward the top of the thick gate passage, where there was a Divine Art Array. Although its only function was to determine whether those passing through belonged to the Evil Alignment, that was enough for the city guards.

In any world, being a murderer did not mean one belonged to the Evil Alignment, but anyone of the Evil Alignment was certainly a murderous criminal who stopped at nothing.

All such people needed was a warning to summon someone stronger to deal with them, rather than letting the city soldiers throw their lives away for nothing.

Perhaps because the Travel God had a relatively mild temperament, this country called Tewalan treated ordinary people fairly well.

As long as they were not Evil Gods, the Gods were actually quite good to their believers. After all, faith had to come from genuine sincerity in one's heart.

Hill looked up for a minute. Once he confirmed that the array could only detect an Aura of Evil, he walked through without a care.

As long as it doesn't discover that I'm of the Good Alignment.

Although Hill had startled the few guards, by the time he stopped, their hands had already reached beneath their cloaks.

Something like a signal flare?

If Hill suddenly turned around, the two city gates on either side of the passage might drop at the same time.

When Hill walked in, the people waiting in line behind him had all been stopped. Of course, they might not have been willing to follow behind a mysterious mage either.

After passing through the gate passage, Hill discovered that a robed mage