Sophia planned to find her Mother and ask for her intervention. However, she was facing difficulties. The place was filled with her enemies and she was alone. What's more, she was stuck deep into enemy territory. She couldn't fly to escape either as she was underground. For some reasons, all her communication devices were also unresponsive. Those bastards might have installed disrupting arrays here and there...

And so, she was hiding in a room. She kept hearing people rushing around. It seemed like the battle she created did attract a lot of attention. Just as she expected. It was an obvious outcome after all since the battle of those two could and might collapse the entire place if left alone.

Anyways, she needed to go upstairs unnoticed. And her disguise wouldn't be enough. After all, they had already recognized and associated her with it! She needed something else and at least as good as this. She thought it would be hard to find. There was nothing in the room she was in except for some iron bars with arrays and bloodstains on the floor here and there.

She would not find what she was looking for here. She opened the door slightly and looked around, seeing no one at the moment. She began to check the surroundings with a spiritual technique and discovered quite a lot of people in one place with a lot more rushing to join them. That's where the battle was taking place. Now then... She decided to go the other way.

After a few steps, she arrived at an intersection. Still using her spiritual detection technique, she found a group with three people and went towards them while oozing out her unique technique.

Moments later, she was leaving the floor to go upstairs while wearing her enemy's robe and hiding her face with its big hood. Oh, and before she left, she made the trio start fighting too. Her technique was powerful indeed but the drawback was impressive as well. If she faced someone who knew of that power, that power would be useless. It would be useless because it has a restriction. Someone aware of it would never be impacted. This limited greatly the use of said technique during one-on-one and frontal battles.

However, in this situation, where she was escaping, it was perfect. She could create a lot of trouble for the opponent and wouldn't be caught easily. Well, she didn't plan to be caught.

Anyways, she kept moving up, dealing with whoever she came upon by forcing them to go fight another somewhere else or on the spot. And soon enough, she reached the hall where everyone had been previously. There wasn't a single soul now. Where did they go?

She could always find that answer later on when she came back with her reinforcements.

Unfortunately, just as she was getting ready to leave, someone saw her. It was another grunt of the organization. He saw her and told her: "What are you waiting for, lazy ass? We've brought the guest in already, come help. We need more waiters"

She didn't think twice before using her technique on him. Going into spy-mode would have been fun and useful but there was something else she had to do first. She needed to avenge her deceased bodyguards. She didn't have the time to entertain any other thought.

And as she managed to charm the grunt, she ordered him to go mess with the closest comrade he had. Too bad for her, that comrade wasn't that far... The grunt hurried with all his might to destroy a door and barged in a very spacious hall. Then, he proceeded to fervently attack another guy, nearly killing him on the spot.

At that moment, she heard Campbell roar: "What do you think you're doing in the presence of our guests?!" and then, the two who were fighting turned into clouds of blood. Then she felt the gazes of hundreds of people on her back. She turned around and noticed how everyone was in that hall and now looking at her.

Campbell roared at her in surprise and realization: "It's you again?!"

Going slightly back in time...

Campbell began to lead the group towards the grand hall where the exhibition was to take place. It was also where Jin and Min-Su were. As he began to lead his potential customers, Campbell introduced the goods one after another along with their prices.

This was an exhibition and not an auction. If someone wanted to buy the goods, he needed to be the first to say it and pay. Prices were fixed anyways and Campbell couldn't care less who was the buyer as long as he got the money. And so, he led the group as every treasure was being bought one after another, filling his pockets with more and more cash.

Everything was going very well. He took care of that pain in the ass and was making dough now. Good times indeed. He was inwardly rejoicing until one of his subordinates came over and told him about what was happening down there. Two of his guys were fighting savagely without a care for the structure. Anger veins nearly popped out on his forehead.

He was in front of guests right now and couldn't attend to it but he wasn't in the mood for this shit. He ordered the subordinate to take as many as needed and stop them both as quickly as possible. Killing allowed. Then, he returned to entertaining the living wallets customers.

From time to time, he was getting reports about fights breaking out. As he put one and one together, he noticed that it wasn't a coincidence and someone was behind it. He asked his subordinate about who the first two who had been fighting were. Then he managed to piece everything together and came to the most likely conclusion: The whore escaped.

He ordered his man to send a team of twenty high-level cultivators in ambush at the exit and wait for her, making sure to have them warned about her ability to charm people.