The Queen of Scrolls never admits defeat

Chapter 524 Small Auction

Moran shook her head: "I don't know either, but we can do a little divination."

Her magic power is increasing rapidly, and it's almost 20,000.

This magic power level is generally fine as long as the divination doesn't involve matters concerning top-tier experts.

She tried using her precognitive ability and a picture appeared in her mind: "A witch with reddish-brown hair, wearing a red dress, was sitting at a bar drinking. Her pet seemed to be a kingfisher nightingale."

“There really is a witch in Horn City!” Sylph exclaimed in surprise.

"She's probably hiding her identity, or consigning the {Dawn Society Trial Invitation} under someone else's name, right?" Vasita said. "I wonder if we'll run into her at the auction tonight."

“Even if we encounter them, we cannot acknowledge them as witches,” Lilith cautioned.

“But you can add a communication card friend!” Moran said, “if she has already ‘openly and legitimately’ obtained the Dawn Society invitation.”

Although she could use the Book of Cards to collect all the contractors' communication information, she only made this function into the {Alien Information Filtering and Processing Card} and used it on aliens, and even then, she used it secretly.

She chose to respect the privacy of her witch contractors' communications, except in emergencies.

So even though she could immediately create a group chat for all the witches, she didn't take any action.

However, the clan association has already created a clan association group and started sending group numbers to the witches.

Aside from adding each other as friends within a group, the only other ways to add friends are face-to-face, knowing each other's SIM card number, or having shared contact information.

Moran's communication card now only includes his classmates from the academy, the witches, Ms. Amisha, the witches from the clan council, as well as Shana's mother and Della's grandmother.

The more witches in your friends list, the better!
They are already official members of the Dawn Society. By giving the {Witch Communication Card} a basic Dawn Society skin, they can use it openly and legitimately.

If others ask, we can also promote the Dawn Society.

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Around 9 p.m., Moran, Lilith, Vasida, and Sylph changed into mage robes and went to the tavern in the basement of the inn.

As soon as Moran entered the tavern, he felt a sense of familiarity.

When she saw the bar counter, she immediately recognized it as the same bar counter she had seen in her precognitive abilities earlier that day.

Is the witch here?

“Mentor! Look at that lady, there’s a little bird on her shoulder, is that a magical beast?” Vasita pointed to the corner of the tavern and said with some surprise.

Lilith and Sylph followed Vasita's gaze.

With her reddish-brown hair and emerald-feathered nightingale-like appearance, isn't she the witch from Moran's prophecy?
When witches are so close together, they can feel a sense of intimacy stemming from blood ties.

Before Moran could answer, the tavern waiter volunteered to clear things up for Vasita: "That's a kingfisher nightingale, our boss's magical beast. When it sings, it's more enchanting than the best bards. That's why the Nightingale Tavern is famous. Our boss is a powerful high-level mage, you know!"

"High-level mage?"

Seemingly sensing that someone was watching her, the lady who was teasing the birds in the corner looked up, her fingertips paused slightly, and in the blink of an eye, she put on a business-like smile and walked over, giving Moran a greeting as a peer mage: "I heard that a high-ranking mage has arrived at our Nightingale Inn today. You must be sir!"

“Hello! I am Moran.” Moran said, “These are my three apprentices, Lilith, Vasita, and Sylph.”

"Greetings, senior!" Lilith, Sylph, and Vashida also cleverly bowed to the witch with the respect due to juniors greeting seniors, acting as if mentors were meeting a high-ranking mage.

"Hello! I'm Zelina Hernáns, the owner of this hotel and tavern, and also a bartender. Would you like to try one of my signature drinks?" Zelina appeared calm on the surface, but was excited inside.

Good heavens! That's right, it's four new witches!
Although the names were introduced in the language of the Magic Empire, when translated, all four names are clearly the names of witches. One could be a coincidence, but four could not be.

I heard that these witches had only graduated a little over a year ago, but I never expected them to have such ingenious ideas.

Dawn learned... and it instantly calmed her worries about the wilderness after losing her fireworks magic.

However, she couldn't delay the witches' affairs, nor could she risk exposing their identities, so she could only greet them as if she were meeting a rare high-ranking mage in Horn City.

“Okay!” Moran and the other three followed her to the bar.

"Starry Sky and Blazing Flames, may your magical path be as vast as the starry sky and as fiery as the flames."

Four glasses of wine, a mix of deep blue and fiery red, were pushed in front of them.

Before I could say a few more words, the auction began.

Their attention was then diverted to the auction.

Zelina leaned against the bar, pretending to be uninterested in the auction, but actually frantically thinking about how to reasonably get to know the witches during the auction. She only straightened up slightly when she heard the auctioneer on the table produce a card.
"This magic card should be familiar to our old friends. Lady Nightingale, who was the first to bid on it, obtained a Green Ghost Fruit with it and successfully advanced to the rank of High Mage after eating it. She also provided the invitation cards for this event. There are ten in total. As usual, the starting price is low, starting with the first card..."

Upon hearing this, Moran turned to look at Zelina: "You've also joined the Dawn Society?"

"also?"

As expected of a witch who also hides her identity in a human city, Zelina's performance was flawless.

“I am also a member of the Dawn Society,” Moran said.

Noticing that people around her were eavesdropping, Zelina continued her act: "Lord Moran, you just arrived in Horn City today, right? May I ask where you obtained the Dawn Society invitation? This one was given to me by a mysterious person who refused to show his face."

“Lance City. I joined the Dawn Society in Lance City,” Moran said.

“Lance City?” Zelina asked thoughtfully.

Moran seized the opportunity to say, "Since we're both members of the academy, let's add each other as communication friends! By the way, have you redeemed your communication card yet?"

Zelina, who had already redeemed her communication card, was taken aback: "Communication card? I just became a full member, I don't think I've ever heard of it?"

“It’s normal that you haven’t heard of it. Not all resource cards will appear in the resource list of the trial mission. New cards will be added occasionally. The communication card is one of them. You should take a look. It’s worth exchanging for this card!” Moran said.