At the high-end gathering organized by Botis, the Aurora Order's Saint of Secrets, Raphael bought nothing.
He already had a Grade 1 Sealed Artifact and several Grade 2 Sealed Artifacts. As an exceptionally well-equipped Sequence 6 Beyonder, he had no need to purchase any new Mystical Items.
As for the Beyonder characteristic needed for his advancement, he already had a lead-though, of course, the main reason was that no one at the gathering was selling a Wraith characteristic.
Xio and Fors also watched from start to finish, mainly because they needed little and had no money.
Xio still owed Raphael three thousand pounds.
Audrey, however, seemed to have switched into shopping mode. First, she bought two supplementary ingredients. Raphael noticed that both were at the Sequence 5 level, which puzzled him. Hadn't Audrey already advanced to Dreamwalker? Why was she still buying supplementary ingredients for that Sequence?
Next, Audrey bought several bottles of high-grade Beyonder potions: some concealed one's aura, some granted invisibility, and one, called "Sun Water," could dissipate evil spirits.
Finally, she bought an oil painting whose corresponding Sequence he couldn't determine. The figures in the painting could move, and hanging it in a room helped people sleep.
No one else even asked the price, since the painting clearly couldn't be used directly in combat.
With a Mystical Item like that, it would be better to simply shatter it and extract the Beyonder characteristic inside.
The problem was that, even at a gathering of this caliber, few people had access to a means of shattering Beyonder characteristics.
In the end, Audrey bought the painting for eighteen hundred pounds. Raphael really wanted to ask the young lady:
Do you have money to burn?
Eighteen hundred pounds for a painting that helps you sleep?
But Raphael didn't ask, since he