What initially triggered the abnormality was the strange and sweet smell.
Sweet smells poured into the room from the vents, and the air gradually became more agitated. The orcs scratched their bodies anxiously, and soon, the first person to fall down happened in the east.
The fox beast lady sitting in the east seat fell down. After a moment of unconsciousness, animal hair began to grow on her body. The man sitting in the west seat, who was modeled after a brown bear, roared and tore off his clothes, turning back into a bear.
Soon, everyone in the auction hall began to transform into their original form—or into a more animalistic one. They bared their teeth and claws, their eyes were bloodshot, and they watched the people around them bite, riot, or vent other things.
The orc auction turned into a fight between wild beasts. Lucian was immediately covered by a cloak. He said, "I smell a sweet, fishy smell..."
"It's a pheromone inducer, a poison targeting the orcs." Wade said.
The attendants of the two were restricted outside the auction hall, but fortunately, they were not real orcs. The host who was managing the auction on the stage also showed abnormality. He changed back to the form of a bull man and rushed over with the other orcs!
Wade picked up Lucian and threw him to a slightly safer corner. Lucian looked through Wade's back and saw two men in black approaching the crown on the auction table behind him. They used magic to cut open the crystal box protecting the crown and wanted to take it out!
At that moment, Lucian realized the source of the commotion!
"Weid!" Lucian said, "Someone wants to steal the holy relic! This is their purpose!"
The scene was dangerous and chaotic. But the crown was about to be stolen by the two men in black. Lucian pushed Wade, who didn't know why he didn't move, and said through gritted teeth: "Your crown..."
The next moment, his ankles suddenly felt slightly cold!
The two anklets that were used to restrain his magic were completely untied at that moment, and fell to the ground with a clang. At the same time, Wade flew towards the auction table!
The sealed magic and mana flowed into Lucian's body again like a spring. Lucian bent down to pick up the two anklets - it was not until this moment that he suddenly understood something.
Wade needed to retrieve the holy object, but in order to allow Lucian to protect himself, he took the initiative to unlock the anklet that sealed his magic power.
Even though he had warned Lucian countless times not to leave his side.
"Doesn't he know that now is a good time to escape?"
Lucian thought.
The auction hall was in chaos. A werewolf attacked Lucian, trying to tear his body apart with his claws. Lucian moved to the right and easily dodged his attack.
He grabbed the man's arm, bent it back, and pushed him to the ground. Lucian hit the man on the back of his neck until he was completely unconscious.
He raised his head, his chin was white between his silver hair, and his wine-red eyes were a bit bored. If it weren't for the furry cat ears and the cat tail dangling behind him, he would look beautiful and majestic.
"Who else wants to come up?" he thought.
At this moment, a near-spiritual perception made him aware of unusual movements on the auction table. Lucian turned his head.
He saw the man who was going to take the crown take off the yellow gem on the crown - the thing that held blood. The man looked at Wade, grinned at him, and then...
He threw the gem out, and a bolt of lightning shot out from his fingertips, shattering the gem!
Lucian: !!!
No one would have thought that the gangster would actually do such a thing—he picked up the gem, not to take it away, but to smash it in front of Wade!
It didn't look like a coincidence at all, but it was well prepared!
A well-prepared... conspiracy.
A fiery orange drop of blood came out of the shattered gem. Even from a distance, Lucian could feel how powerful this drop of blood, which represented fire, heat, and life, belonging to the beast race, was. He could almost hear the heartbeat of the blood drop, as if the drop of blood was a living thing, an eye that spied on the world, rather than a non-living liquid!
thump.
thump.
thump.
It is the sound of heartbeats, the sound of countless hearts beating.
The beastmen who had long lost control due to the pheromone inducer were even more excited at this moment. Even two wolf beastmen and lion beastmen who were originally beating each other started to mate as if they were bewitched by the blood drop. Other beastmen also fought more fiercely or made moves to mate. The drop of blood continued to fall slowly in the air, and its volume seemed to be changing like it was expanding and contracting.
But the falling of that drop of blood was not as gentle and harmless as the falling of water... Without a container, the powerful divine power in the blood was enough to burn through the entire floor, or infect the entire auction hall, or melt into the soil, causing the entire land, or even the entire city-state to mutate and begin to burn...
Even the entire auction hall might be reduced to ashes.
At that moment, Lucian saw Wade's eyes looking through the crowd, as if he wanted to take another look at someone. Lucian suddenly had an idea and stood up from the werewolf he had subdued.
He knew his eyes were looking for him, but he didn't know if Vader saw him at that moment. Because the next second, Vader flew over and caught the drop of blood with his body.
Even though he knew that this drop of blood was a trap, he could only face all the conspiracies and fate.
The blood drops entered Wade's body, and at the same time, the man in black and his men also left the scene. As he flew away, Lucian could see that the man in black had extremely rare, light pink long hair. Lucian wanted to run towards Wade, but there were too many beasts blocking his view.
A strong burning sensation came from the auction table. Lucian was holding the two untied anklets in his arms, and he was extremely anxious for a moment. Until...
Suddenly he heard a terrifying beast-like howl!
A white tiger stood up from the auction table. It was huge, with a fiery golden color at the ends of its hair that seemed to be burning. It looked like it would explode at any moment, but its expression was extremely terrifying, like the majesty of a mythical beast from hell.
“!!!!”
After a terrifying howl, the white tiger suddenly flew down like a ferocious beast. Some out-of-control beastmen were bewitched by the smell of its divine blood and rushed forward, with red eyes, roaring, and greedily wanting to share its flesh and blood to obtain the gift of God—
They were all torn and smashed by the white tiger's claws and palms. In the bloody smell, a few beastmen who had temporarily woken up from the pheromone poison began to scream. Most of them were small-sized prototype beastmen from the rabbit, sparrow, or dog tribes. It seemed that small-sized prototype herbivorous beastmen were affected by this pheromone poison for a shorter time.
"What is that..."
"What is that?!"
“It’s terrible, so terrible!”
The auction floor was instantly stained with more blood than before. The orcs who had regained consciousness screamed and tried to flee. The white tiger, which looked like it had walked out of hell, was stained with blood. Any orc who tried to attack it was ripped to pieces by it. For a moment, blood flowed everywhere.
The devil-like white tiger was charging forward, passing through the group of orcs, roaring and pouncing on Lucian!
An orc beside Lucian, who was still bloodshot and trying to attack Lucian, was also torn apart by the white tiger's claws. The white tiger's pounce was powerful. A white rabbit orc who was originally beside Lucian screamed and cried and fled from Lucian, crawling on the ground.
The white tiger’s sharp claws stretched out to Lucian. Just when all the orcs thought that Lucian would also suffer the fate of being slaughtered by the white tiger that appeared in the auction hall at an unknown time...
The white tiger stretched out its sharp teeth and bit Lucian's back...
clothing!
It held Lucian in its mouth, broke through the crowd in the auction hall, and left with Lucian!
The white tiger was extremely fast. The other beastmen who had discovered something unusual in the venue and came with their guards only saw a white, burning shadow leading an orc away from the auction. It quickly got rid of all the pursuers and ran straight into the forest.
Lucian was held in the mouth of the white tiger. He had confirmed the identity of the white tiger from the beginning. He shouted the name of the white tiger loudly along the way, but received no response.
The white tiger's body was terribly hot, as if it was still being tortured by the horrible divine blood, and even its consciousness seemed extremely violent and unclear. Along the way, Lucian could only continue to remember their current location.
Finally, before Lucian was about to faint, Baihu led him into a cave.
It was a cave on a rocky mountain in the forest. When the white tiger arrived here, it seemed that it had finally found a safe place to land, or that it had finally run out of energy. It entered the cave with Lucian in its mouth, and pressed him against a rock with its claws.
It seemed extremely anxious and uncomfortable. The white tiger lowered its head and used its nose to push and sniff Lucian's body. It sniffed here and there, from Lucian's soft cat ears, to his neck, to his waist, to his ankles and even to his tail behind him. When Lucian tried to push it away with his hands, the white tiger seemed to be enraged and wrapped its long tail around Lucian's hands.
Lucian: …
Lucian could actually see the expression on the white tiger's face. It looked extremely troubled, confused, and uncomfortable. It growled at Lucian from time to time, and sometimes lowered its head to sniff him, as if to confirm Lucian's identity.
It looked like it hadn't regained its rational consciousness yet, and it had transformed the divine blood into an animal, and was instinctively looking for a safe place to digest it. But somehow, when it left the auction hall, it took Lucian away without even thinking like a human.
Although its current state seems to be as if it has no idea of Lucian's identity, it also cannot think of the reason why it took Lucian away.
"You didn't even recognize me, you didn't even know who I was, so why are you still carrying me around?"
Lucian thought so as he pushed hard at the big cat head that was now pushing against him without any restraint and was causing him a lot of pain.