Chapter 41

A considerable amount of time had passed.

The guards searched the inside of the shop thoroughly, and the shop employees gathered beneath the platform and continued their meeting, but no clear solution seemed to be in sight.

It was not a picture of anyone actively solving anything.

Unable to bear it any longer, the magic stone's winning bidder, who had been sitting quietly, shouted at the employees.

"How much longer do we have to keep doing this! If you can't find it, hurry up and give me my money back and compensate me. How much more of other people's time are you going to waste!"

Starting with the winning bidder's shout, voices mixed with complaints burst out from among the people again.

"That's right. You can't just keep holding us here like this."

Rodrigo stepped forward and once again calmed the people.

"I'm sorry. Our employees are working on a…