751 The way of experts
[OP: ]
The prime auction house of the capital city of the empire, Hiraani. One of the biggest structures of the vast capital on par with the golden imperial palace, the hexagonal tower of adventurer's association, and the Temple.
Covering an area bigger than three to four high noble estates of the capital city combined, the white structure covered in gold and magical arts that one couldn't possibly miss while looking from the sky, Hiraani stood as a testament of dedication, passion, and a single individual's pride.
It was a great structure that was not only an auction house, an important event site, and a place containing countless riches, it was also a place where the simple people who worked and maintained this place lived with their families.
It was a home, a place to gamble their money for the rich, the places where one who wanted to hit it big could try their luck and intuition.
It was an auction house that most people, especially people with money, people of high society undoubtedly knew about.
And overmorrow was going to be the first day of the annual grand auction that lasts for three days, the day where those with money visit the capital of Roxanna to buy and sell precious items that could be useful to them or someone related to them...
{ "Reconnaissance complete. Gate strength: Tier-7. Outer guard strength: Tier-8. Inner Guard strength: Tier-8. Inner security system: Tier-9. Structural management: Tier-8. Structural manual management: Tier-9. Individual personal strength: Tier-6. Combined personal strength per section: Tier-8. First area breach success rate: 45%. Second area breach success rate: 60%. Third area breach success rate: 27%. Fourth area breach success rate: 18%. Fifth area breach success rate: 9%. Sixth area breach success rate: 0.3%.
Overall task difficulty: Tier-10." } Updated from novelb(i)n.c(o)m
The main gate of the auction house was a pretty normal looking metal door that was open all the time, so the door that 'they' were worrying about was not this simple looking front gate that most people use.
One wouldn't have to worry about this kind of attractive but normal gate, however it was a different matter altogether for the thieves that were aiming for the riches stored behind the inner gates of the action house that could not just be accessed by any person.
{ "It looks impossible just as I have heard... I like this." }
There were regulations and set rules in place for everything in this grand auction house. The management of the nobles who were going to sit in the general room and the ones who would be in the special rooms on the balcony was closely watched over and a guarded mechanism that one couldn't just ignore.
Especially as thieves, they could not possibly overlook the general public that would be present in the target area when they had to keep every single thing in that place in mind.
They weren't invited guests in that place, and since they knew the fact that the owners off this auction house already knew a good bit about them, their identity had already been exposed to the opposite party.
Which made the 'going in there in a disguise' technique utterly pointless.
{ "The target identification surveillance devices that are capable of distinguishing between even a skill's disguise and the original are out of this world.
We do not know the composition or structure of these devices however, even with just the outside observations of these hundreds of devices present in every corner of this facility confirms the impossibility of a disguise going unnoticed." }
Eon's security system was a higher version of what Hiraani had for many years, something far more advanced than anywhere else in this world.
However, even if he had made it with all his knowledge, even if he knew there were only a handful of people in this world who could even understand his magic system, he had no doubt there were geniuses out there that could even crack the magic system created by a divine being.
He had faith in his organisation, but if one of the people coming after them was the infamous 'Code cracker' or as some people called him, the 'Origin of magic' <Zack>, he knew his unbreakable system was going to fall, even if it was just for a brief period.
Eon was expecting it already, that was the reason he had made no changes into the existing magic security.
{ "After taking over the third area, <Jackal of stars>, along with <Uranus Vortex> and <Wind of Light> will handle everything and open up the path to the fourth and fifth area, where <Neon Blademaster> and I will will go ahead and infiltrate the last area." }
The employees of Hiraani were all high ranking adventurers and experts that Eon and her mom's close ones had trained themselves. They weren't someone that would fall to just any 'strong' opponent. They were strong individually, and when working together, they were several times stronger. Not even high ranking masters, [Rank-5] Rooks or (tier-7) high ranking mages could get past the layered security structure that was in place to guard the storage facility where all the items were stored during the auction.
They were strong, and there were hundreds of them so dealing with them would usually take a long time if one was not a king rank expert weapon user, or someone close to an elder mage who could ignore the power suppression of the defensive magic system completely.
{ "Hmmm... then, is sir <Black Angel> confident they will get past the Great emissary in the sixth area?" }
{ "We do not know that yet, Sir Jackal. However, we will certainly find it out when we are out there." }
{ "Kheyaeyaeyaeya~. I love the way you say it, Sir Black angel~." }
The ten of them had a rough idea of what they had to do, but this was in no way a 'plan'.
It was just a rough outline of what they were supposed to do and even though they had little knowledge of what would happen when they start their operation on the D-day, they were looking forward to everything.
They had no fear of what might happen to them or any doubt that they would be caught by the authorities.
They had done worse things in their lifetimes, and they still freely roamed the world.
The world wouldn't call them the worst thieves of the current age, if they weren't even capable of escaping the grasps of the authorities.
They were criminals, however, if the good authorities and the noble people were going to follow the laws and their lives weren't at stake here, they didn't mind going after a treasure that could change their lives or the better.
And, if push came to shove... they could always just make a deal with them.
The world was all about business anyway.
Their habit of compulsive theft certainly had earned them some good fortune to spend on themselves.