Mairis could have offered better environments, as well as the opportunity to engage in more meetings.
However, the longer Liam and Grace spent among people, the more likely their lie could be exposed. Besides, social environments could easily become traps, shackles that grew harder to escape the longer they spent inside them.
Instead, Liam and Grace had to look ethereal, impossible to catch. That would make their every appearance priceless while enshrouding them in an aura of secrecy.
The week before the auction went by in a blink. Liam and Grace mostly cultivated. He only had to deal with his Qi mastery and Grace's occasional assaults on top of that.
Once the deadline arrived, the two left the underground hall and returned to Mairis, Grace claiming Liam's hand when they were close, only to realize that their plan might have worked better than they had expected.
