In the huge cathedral that was the ter of power of the Moon Goddess Church, the High Priest was in his office, in a meeting with the most powerful figures in the church. In total, besides High Priest Ryan, there were five other men.

  One of the elders took the initiative to start speaking

  "High Priest, what are we going to do with the Holy Lady? It's being increasingly difficult to trol her. While Queen Zara ot directly intervene in the affairs of the church, her presence alone makes it difficult for us to trol the holy dy. After all, if somethio happen to her, the Queen would not sit idly by."

  "Don't worry, I have a pn to solve Namira's problem. As you said, the Queen ot intervene in the affairs of our church. So I pn to have Namira perform the Divine Awakening Ritual. With her current soul power, she will not be able to successfully perform the ritual, which will cause great damage to her soul. Once her soul is damaged, it will be easy to induce a a uhe guise of treating her wounds."

  "Your Holiness, while the fact that she is in a a will prevent her from tinuing to cause trouble and disrupt our pns, will this not cause problems with Forxis?" said another of the elders present.

  "Not at all, on the trary, Forxis will probably wele such a situation with open arms. He cims to be in love with Namira, but what he really feels is nothing more than an obsession and a desire to possess her. Namira is a tral pie our pn to overthrow the Luminia gover. She will help us trol Forxis from the shadows, and wheime es she will help us get rid of him, but we only he power of her cursed body, her will is not necessary."

  "The curse of the holy dy is incredibly powerful. Just thinking about the fate of all the poor wretches who have tried to get their hands on her, a shiver runs through my body"The old man's expression as he recalled the deaths of the tless men who had coveted the beauty of the priestess, was filled with nervousness and terror. He himself had ono take the then young priestess as his woman. But before he could act, someoh more power within the church got ahead of him. At that moment he cursed that man, since he was robbing him of the possibility of tasting such a sweet delicacy, but then, when the man died in the most horrible way, he only felt relief and fear

  "It is indeed a curse that could eliminate any person in this city, no matter how high their cultivation level is. It is only thanks to this curse that the beautiful Namira has been able to maintain her dignity all these years. Otherwise, with her beauty, she would have bee someone's pything."

  The high priest recalled his predecessor and couldn't help but sigh at the way events had unfolded in the past. Fate was indeed uable. The previous high priest, who was much more powerful and seemed like he would be in power for much longer, ended up dead for coveting the body of a little girl who had just entered puberty.

  "Even the previous high priest perished at the hands of the curse, that's how powerful it is. However, if you ask me, his death was deserved. A decrepit old man who was he grave, wao take advantage of a little girl who was barely thirteen years old. He was not worthy of being the leader of lorious church!" High Priest Ryan said, ning his predecessor.

  The elders prese a bit of shame, because everyone present had had the same idea as the previous high priest, they had simply been uo act because the top leader had decred his snty over the priestess' body, whievitably led to a horrible death.However, no one would be stupid enough to point out the fact that His Holiness Ryan was simply spewing falcies. They immediately rushed to show their support for the high priest's sayings.

  "That's right Your Holiness, by the grace of the dragon goddess we were able to rid ourselves of that tig time bomb that was the previous high priest!"

  "His evil as were finally met with divine justice!"

  "Thank the heavens we were finally able to emerge from the nightmare of the past and wele the era of prosperity brought to us by His Holiness Ryan."

  The high priest observed the fttering attitude of his subordinates, who were some of the most powerful men in all of Lunaria, and his ego swelled. He was Ryan Bckwood, the high priest of the Moon Goddess Church!

  Although it ity that he would never in this life be able to y his cws on Namira and experiehe pleasure of possessing that sensual and lustful body. He was tent with his current situation, in his personal mansion he had several dozen sves of both sexes, who served him daily. Sometimes he would find a beautiful woman iy that piqued his i, and using his power and influence he would seize her no matter the price, addio his harem of sves.

  The high priest returned from his musings, and tinued with the main topic of the meeting.

  "Yesterday I met with Forxis, he was worried that Namira was trying to break into the prison, and he feared that Zara would get involved iter, further plig things for his group of corrupt nobles."

  "Your Holiness, why should we have to ourselves with the nobles' problems? Their affairs are none of our !"

  "Don't say that Goru, at least on the surface, we are allies of that group of nobles. We have to keep up appeara all times, otherwise our pns will bee very plicated. In that case, isn't it natural for us to help them? We are nothing more than their dogs after all."The high priest said this with a smile. But that smile was so macabre and filled with resehat everyone present in the room felt a cold sweat running down their body.

  For a moment sileook over the room, and then all the elders present exploded in pliments, affirming their leader's words and praising his brilliant mind.In terms of power, even if the five men joined forces they wouldn't be able to stand up to the high priest.

  "Very well, then we will put Namira under house arrest immediately."

  "But Your Holiness, if we try to restrict her freedom so suddenly, she will resist. We won't be able to stop her without hurting her if she's determio leave."

  "Don't worry about it. There's a reason why Namira has been obedient for so long, she 't leave the church even if she wants to, and Zara won't dare interfere with the church's internal affairs, she already has too many problems to deal with without adding one more to the list."

  "Your Holiness, the holy dy went to the royal pace yesterday, and she hasn't returned yet…"

  The high priest drummed his fingers oable.

  "Send the padins to escort her back, if she refuses to return, inform Forxis and the nobles of the situation. They too have to work if they want to gain bes. Onamira returns, we'll begin preparations for the ritual. In the meantime, she'll be urict house arrest. I don't wao e into tact with absolutely anyone. Uood?"

  "Yes, your holiness!" The group of elders excimed in unison. And they began to put their pn into a................…..............

  Meanwhile, in the building of the Luminia mert union, located in front of the tral square of the city-state. The leader of the merts Sergi Vi, was in his rge office, looking with satisfa at the pair of magical beast cubs he had obtained.

  "These nobles sure know how to fill their bags with gold! But this time at least I have mao get great bes! These cubs, if transported to the human realm, bring me great profits."He was in a very good mood, talking to himself in his offid ughing happily.

  If Luke were present in this room, he would be able that the man who was ughing happily was a Lunari who was oand that day, during his trial, the first time he had seen Namira and Zara.But above all, he would immediately notice that the magical beast cubs that Sergi had obtained were her than his two pets! The divihuiger cubs that he took from the belly of their deceased mother.

  How had his pets gotten here?Well, that day when Luke faced the spider queen in the epiter of the beast's territory, he entrusted the two little tigers to little Flynn. His idea was that when the child arrived in Lunaria after being transported by his spell, he would find the novice Elian , who in turn would ask for the help of the priestess Namira. Luke khat Namira would protect the little tigers when she khat they were his pets.

  However, pns ot keep pace with reality.When little Flynn arrived iy, he was arrested by the urban guard in service of the nobles. Obviously the nobles noticed the presence of the tigers and took possession of them. One of the nobles paid a rge sum to obtain the right to owigers, and the other nobles out of respect agreed to his request.

  A magical beast cub rized odity among nobles, since by f a tract, the beast's loyalty was guararaining soldiers was much more plex, and people who had a seal of e normally could not develop their full potential, making them not a good choice when it came to developing a reliable and powerful guard.

  A high-level beast, oher hand, could reach a bat level equivalent to that of ae royal guard, or even higher. If a tract was established when the beast was a cub and it was trained carefully, within a few years a loyal and powerful servant could be obtained.

  The nobleman bought both tigers, but when he went to make the tract he realized that these tigers already had an owner! He could not simply pce a new seal over the old one, and it was impossible for him to erase the old tract, after all, there were no high-level sorcerers in Lunaria. The Lunarians were not a race that focused on mana and sorcery, and it was rare to find even one sorcerer iy. The vast majority of magical products were imported from Ferulia, which was the only trade route they had.

  Realizing that the tigers he had purchased at a high price were pletely useless to him, he entered a state e that sted for aire day. Several servants in his mansion had to suffer the greatest humiliation from their master, who wao release some of his frustration.

  Finally, Sergi Vi, the leader of the merts in Lunaria, offered to buy both tigers from him at an exorbitant price, higher than what the noble himself had paid for them. There was no other way, even though Sergi had great influen the city and was even allied with a group of nobles, he o maintain a certain de in his transas. The nobles were the ruling css, and no matter how inpetent they were, a mert like Sergi had to treat them with respect. For that reason Sergi, who was known to be one of the most greedy merts had offered such a high price. He was not only paying for the tigers, but also for his own safety, by upholding the dignity of the stupid noble.

  As for why Sergi was so happy to have gotten the magical beast cubs even though he couldn't use them? It was simple, he was a mert!The business es he had, and his influeside of Lunaria, were far greater than that of the vast majority of nobles iy-state!

  His pn was simple, send the little tigers to Ferulia, and from there he would send them to the human kingdoms. A magical beast with that potential could be sold as a future protector beast of a kingdom! The amount of money he would get from selling these two cubs in the human kingdoms would be at least ten times higher than if he sold it in Lunaria or even Ferulia.

  Thinking of his future profits, the great beois sat behind his rge desk and activated a uniagiation. With a tone as austere as possible, and trying not to show his overflowing joy, he gave his orders to his subordinates who were listening to him oher side of the formation.

  "Prepare the carriages to leave. We will leave in two hours. I will personally lead the caravan. I want you to call the merary group "The Silver Wolves", tell them to prepare to leave Ferulia in a week. Also prepare two divisions of our elite guards."

  There was an affirmative response from his subordinates, and the magiation was deactivated.

  Sergi watched the two little tigers who were sleeping without knowing that they were about to be taken far away from their master. He rose from his chair with light steps and began to prepare for the long journey ahead............................

  Meanwhile, in the rgest sve sales house in Ferulia, in a rge cage that was in a dark er of the basement. Three human children watched with suspi the group of people who were walking around the basement iing the cages.It was a rge group, made up of people of several different races. There were humans, Lunaris, Ferali and Kraggis.

  One of the humans in the group approached the cage and threw a basket with fruit and some breads at them, then refilled the bucket with water and watched the little children who were o for fear that someone wao hurt them.

  "You don't o be so alert all the time, if you tinue like this your health will be affected" said the man in a monotonous and expressioone of voice. His eyes seemed to be dead, without a hint of feelings of any kind, this frightehe little ones even more.

  The man saw that his words had been ignored and spoke again, eborating further.

  "I don't know if you uand your current situatiht now you are waiting for the big au to happen at the end of the month. There you will be aued off to the highest bidder. It is a very famous au and buyers will e from various different kingdoms and tribes. Human sves generally don't have a very big market within the forest, but there are always buyers who e from the human kingdoms who end up buying them. So you don't have to worry, until the day of the au no one is going to y a finger on you or promise your physical dition, after all this is a business. The merdise has to be in good dition or the reputation of the au will worsen and the business will suffer from that bad reputation. What's more, even if you want to do something stupid like take your own life, you won't be able to do it. The only thing you do now is wait, and pray that the person who buys you doesn't have a strange hobby. There's no point in being so tense. Just rex and enjoy your meal."

  The man tinued with his expnation without a hint of emotion in his voice. It seemed as if he was enting on something routine like what he had for breakfast that m, and not talking about ensving and selling children to perverts.

  The two little children hugged their older sister with tears in their eyes. They were noble and had never had to gh so much suffering during their short lives. The older sister gred at the man fiercely, trying to maintain her posure in front of her younger siblings. But if one looked closely, one could notice that her entire body was trembling slightly.

  Lanti Nyx, who sat silently in a er of the cage, looked at the man indifferently and said"Just go away. You are a nuisance."

  She still had a Noral's shackle around her neck, which made her uo use her power. However, when she spoke, she still maintaihe majesty that was imbued in her bones. It was the pride and bearing of one of Lunaria's brightest prodigies!

  The man looked at her with his dead eyes and without ging his expression said

  "As for you, you will not be going to the au. It seems that you have already been reserved ahead of time. You may have to wait loo find out your fate, or perhaps they will e looking for you tomorrow. In any case, the person who bought you went through many difficulties to get you. I wonder why he is so obsessed with you."

  Lanti lowered her gaze and paid no further attention to the man. She took the piece of cloth that she had pced on the forehead of the unscious and feverish Ferali woman, dipped it in a bucket of water that she had at her side, and pced it ba the girl's forehead.

  The man did not leave. Seeing the movements of Lanti who was attending to the young Ferali girl, he again offered his words that no one wao hear.

  "Oher hand, that girl has a much more brutal fate awaiting her. She offended someone she should not have offended. All the men in her family were sughtered and hung at the gates of Ferulia a month ago. The women were ensved and offered as pythings for the lowly warriors in service to the noble existence she offended. She mao survive the massacre unscathed and remained hidden iy for two weeks, while the bodies of her retives rotted and were eaten by worms in full view of all visitors to Ferulia. And while her mother, her sisters, her aunts and all the women in her family lived a hell worse thah. She was the only one who was saved, she remained hidden waiting for the moment to strike. She finally made her move, but failed. After that she tried to flee into the forest, but was eventually caught by the svers. Her enemies demahat she be handed over to them, but the owners of this pce are not pushovers. They saw that there was a ake more money and told them that if they wao get her they would have to buy her at the au. During the au they will ihe prices to make the most profit possible, but his enemies will not let her escape from their hands. Ohe au is over, she will wish to die every day she lives. A cruel fate, indeed."

  Lanti ignored him pletely and tio tend to the young ferali, while the three children remained hugged and alert.

  Finally the man smiled. Most of his teeth were rotten, and his eyes were still expressionless. Seeing his expression the children began to tremble violently, and even Lanti who was tending to the injured young woman lost her posure for a moment.

  "We will meet again iure, probably. If you survive this time, the ime we meet, I will tell you more about your future."

  The ma some cryptic words and disappeared without a trace.

  A group of svers nearby looked over to where the man had been standing just a moment ago. Their minds were fused, they had been in the basement tending to the prisoners and monit their physical dition, but suddenly their thoughts were shrouded in a fog. They couldn't quite remember what they had been doing just a moment ago.

  One of the svers looked at his panion and said, pointing in the dire of the cage where Lanti and the children were kept.

  "Hey, was there ahere just now?"

  His panion frowned and looked fused. He finally shook his head.

  "Impossible! No one could ehis pce without breaking through the security on the surface. With the monsters on guard above, who would dare try to break into this basement?"

  "You're right, but I don't know why I feel like I'm fetting something."His panion didn't ent on it. He had the same feeling as well. But he preferred to pretend that nothing had happened.

  Only Lanti and the three human children remembered the creepy man with the dead eyes clearly, and his words kept eg in their minds. At that moment, all they hoped for was o cross paths with him again.