Chapter 76 Returning with a reward
The first bidder for the item ‘Kenneth’ appeared, and then a brief silence appeared at the auction venue until the second voice broke the silence.
"Nine hundred thousand gold coins!"
As the second bidder appeared, some other intentional people also quoted prices one after another, but they would remain silent for a while after each quotation was completed. It is obvious that major forces still have doubts about this item that can only play a great role in individuals. During this period of war, most forces still want to put limited funds into purchasing things that can be used in the war.
"Ninety-five thousand..."
"One million!"
When the price rose to 1.05 million, no one in the venue gave a new bid. After looking at the crowd at the auction venue, the auctioneer nodded in his heart and prepared to decide the ownership of the auction. He had already had a clear positioning in his mind about the auction results of this item. If it were a different period, this item might even be sold for between 1.5 million and 2 million, but after the bidding of some major forces during the war, it would be good to have a price of 1.5 million.
"One million and one hundred thousand!"
Just as the auctioneer was about to announce the auction results, a voice sounded in a corner of the auction. Many people looked at the new bidder.
It turned out that the buyer who had bid 1.05 million yuan shook his head after hearing this price and gave up his plan to quote again. 1.05 million yuan is the bottom line of his psychological price. If he pays more money to buy this item that is of little use to growth in strength, it will affect the funds for buying war materials in the future.
"This gentleman bids one million and one million! Is there anyone who bids higher?" the auctioneer asked after looking around the auction venue.
After waiting for a while, he found that no one gave a new offer, he announced that the item was bought by the newly-published buyer.
The person who took the item was Xu Yue after the makeover. As the last winner of the auction item, he followed the auction staff to the handover room of the auction item.
After the auctioneer in the center of the venue walked to the room of the unfolded wooden house, he inputted a trace of fighting spirit into the magic circle of a crystal ball inside the wooden house. Suddenly, the entire wooden house seemed to have turned into countless pieces and began to combine and shrink wildly. This process did not wrap the auctioneer in the house.
In just four or five seconds, the wooden house that looked a little inconspicuous turned into an egg-sized item again and appeared in his hands.
In the items handover room of the auction, Xu Yue took out a large amount of gold coin storage card and handed it to the auction staff. He saw that the person who seemed to be the supervisor would put it on a magic circle and then the numbers on the card began to change rapidly, and in the blink of an eye, the amount of the items purchased was deducted.
"Mr. Mage! This is your gold storage card and the items you have taken. I'm glad to complete this transaction with you. Should you leave now or continue to return to the venue to participate in the next auction?" The supervisor respectfully handed over the gold storage card and the 'Kenneth's Carriage' and asked.
After looking at the balance displayed on the card with the same egg-like item, Xu Yue nodded with satisfaction and said, "I want to continue participating in the next auction. But I hope your bank can let me change the entrance and return to the venue."
The main manager nodded and asked a staff member to lead Xu Yue to another room. The people in this room could directly lead to a very remote secret door at the auction. After letting the staff leave, Xu Yue changed outfit and appearance again, and then pushed open the secret door and returned to the auction venue.
Because the secret door was in a very hidden corner, it did not attract anyone's attention. He returned to the bathroom with the dim lights in the auditorium at the auction venue, then returned to Juliers' side.
To be honest, his actions were just instinctively to add insurance to himself. If someone really wanted to follow him, even if there were many people entering and leaving the bathroom in the venue, it would be impossible to find his trace.
But even though more than one million is a huge sum of money for ordinary people, it can only be considered a reasonable amount of money for the major forces present. Moreover, the person who auctioned this item was a magician.
Few low-level magicians have the financial resources to afford such valuable items. Offending an unknown high-level mage for an unknown amount of power is absolutely a foolish decision for these strengths.
As for those small forces and characters, they will not make any moves. Those who have the financial resources to buy such things are either big forces or powerful people. If they dare to conduct secret investigations on these people, they may evaporate as soon as they walk out of the auction venue. Therefore, no small forces or characters dare to make any exploration moves.
After returning to his seat, Xu Yue was still a little worried at first, but after carefully observing for a long time, everyone in the venue did not focus on the "Kenneth's Portable House" just now, he thought about it and understood what was going on.
He laughed in his heart with a little self-deprecating self-written laughing that he had read too many novels. There are countless valuable items sold at auction at each auction. If every buyer is followed by someone after buying something, it will probably not take long before no one dares to participate in such an auction.
Moreover, although the "Kenneth's Portable House" he took was expensive, it can only be regarded as a piggyback item for the major forces in Black Rock City today. What they most like is something that can enhance their respective forces in this war.
Juliers, who was sitting next to him, looked at Xu Yue who was sitting in his seat again, and a clear smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. However, he did not pay attention to Xu Yue anymore, but began to pay attention to the auction items at the auction.
Xu Yue knew Juliers' actions very well. He knew that his actions could not be hidden from the mage who seemed to be slutty and smart, middle-aged uncle around him. However, he didn't care about it. First, the two of them were comrades after two battles, and second, the mage himself was a wealthy class, and it was not uncommon for an occasional low-level mage who had amazing financial resources.
As for whether Julius would have the intention to make money, he was not very worried about this. As a noble spell casting profession, the profession of magicians attaches much more importance to knowledge than money.
Moreover, they are not unable to make money. If a first-level mage creates a large amount of primary magic potion, it is not difficult to get tens of thousands or even 100,000 gold coins a year, but almost no mage is willing to waste time on making money. For them, it is better to do a few more magic experiments than to have this time. Many magicians will have to take time to configure some potions or make some magic items for sale only when they spend all their money.
Moreover, as a noble magician, as long as he is not despicable and greedy, he will not be able to rob other magicians because of some money or valuables. After being discovered, he will not only be removed from the Magic Guild, but also be despised and rejected by other magicians. Unless he wants to be a wild mage who hides in his life, no mage will make such a price reduction. Most of the time when the magician sect encounters the items he wants, he will use exchange methods to achieve his goal.
The auction process went very quickly, and more than 40 items were auctioned in just about an hour. Among them, there were even a large number of magic potions for auction. Xu Yue was not interested in these things. Magic items with too high levels sometimes also had requirements for the level of the magician used. If the mental power is not enough, many magic can't even trigger it. Some low-level magic items are not seen by Xu Yue.
During this period, in order to be able to use magic on the earth, he has bought enough low-level energy storage magic items. In order to rescue Aivo, some of the things he bought has not been used yet, so he does not intend to waste money on low-level magic items. This time he is aiming at energy storage protective magic equipment above level 4, and energy storage high-level magic equipment has the least demand for the mental power to stimulate.
"Everyone here, this auction has been held here. The items that will appear next will be expensive magic equipment and various advanced combat supplies. Because the quantity is limited, please seize the opportunity."
The auctioneer said as he showed the next auction item.
This is a palm-sized finger-tight glove, which looks like it is made of black soft leather. Generally, this glove is not used for melee professions, but is specially designed for some spell casting combat professions. The entire glove looks very simple, without the brilliance of some magic equipment, nor those gorgeous magic array patterns.
This time, the auctioneer did not personally demonstrate the function of this magic equipment, but instead let a third-level mage attached to the auction come to the stage. The mage said that the soft leather glove was worn on his right hand. Then he raised his hand to a target in the center of the venue and waved it. Suddenly, the magic wave in the air flashed by, and then a huge ice arrow with a foot thicker waist shot out.
The ice arrow that was obviously made of thick metal was shaking violently by this fast ice arrow that could only see afterimages, and then a set of numbers was displayed on a flat transparent crystal next to the target.
"One Hundred and Eighty Seven"
Looking at the numbers displayed on this crystal bottle, many people in the venue whispered excitedly. The target was obviously used to test the spell strength, and the spell strength of 187 proved that the ice archery just now had reached a level close to the peak of level 4 magic.
Generally speaking, the intensity of ten to twenty is level one magic, the intensity of twenty to fifty is level two magic, the intensity of fifty to one hundred is level three magic, the intensity of one hundred to two hundred is level four magic, the intensity of five magic is two hundred to four hundred, the intensity of six is four hundred to eight hundred, the intensity of seven is eight hundred to one thousand six. The intensity of eight is one thousand six to four thousand, and the intensity of nine is directly soaring to the intensity of four thousand to ten thousand.
From here, we can see that from level 7, the strength of magic has made a huge leap, which is why strong people above level 7 can truly have a discourse power class in the Tarenmiya continent. It is really that strong people above level 7 are much stronger than middle and low-level professionals, and they have even reached a level that can not be offset by human sea tactics alone.
A magical equipment that can release level four spells is already a very advanced magic item in Black Rock City. Many people in the field are eager to try this magic item.
The auctioneer looked at the excited crowd in the venue and nodded with satisfaction. Then he shouted: "Although this item has brought a lot of surprises to everyone, what I still want to say is that the function of this item is actually more than that. Please continue to watch patiently next."
The auctioneer's words surprised many people in the venue. Generally speaking, ordinary magic items only have one spell, and those who can keep multiple spells are rare boutiques. Most of the boutique magic equipment that can be common on the market that is relatively low in levels, such as the staff left by Oward for Xu Yue.
However, the glove in front of you can release equipment for level 4 attack magic, and the glove is small in nature, so it is even more difficult to keep multiple magic on it. If there are two level 4 magic on this glove, then this glove can already be included in the top-quality magic equipment.
At the auctioneer's instructions, the magician who tested the magic gloves nodded. Then he held the hand with the gloves and an ice blue light shield enveloped him. Then he was seen wearing the ice blue light shield to the next to the metal target. When the ice blue light shield touched the metal target, the numbers on the crystal screen next to him began to jump wildly.
"Three hundred and seventy-nine!"
An amazing number appeared on the screen. Many spell casters around these auction stood up in surprise. This number shows that this protective magic is a top-level spell at level five. This magical equipment actually has a level five protective magic and a level four attack magic. This is already the best that rarely appears in Black Rock City.
"Okay sir! I'll introduce it in detail below. The name of this equipment is "Breath of Ice Dragon". It is made by the dragon skin on the belly of an ice mist dragon by the joint efforts of a master tailor and a master alchemist. This equipment can use the fourth-level magic "Ice Dragon Gun" four times a day and the fifth-level magic "Ice Barrier" three times a day. It is a rare fine product in terms of magic level and number of times used."
Then the auctioneer looked at the president and continued, "There is a bid for this 'Breath of Ice Dragon', and the auction price is 150,000 gold coins at a low price, and the price increase shall not be less than 10,000 gold coins at a time."
"160,000 gold coins!"
"Eighteen thousand gold coins! Don't snatch anyone from our Black Flame Mercenary Group!"
"Our Griffith Chamber of Commerce offers 190,000 gold coins!"
"Two hundred thousand!"
......
The quotation rose rapidly, and in just a short while it exceeded the price of 200,000 gold coins. The magic equipment in the Tarenmiya continent can generally release several levels of magic, which is several levels of magic equipment. This level division is universal throughout the continent. After this glove can release five-level protective magic, it is considered to be level five-level magic equipment. In addition, it can also release four-level attack magic, which can already be included in the fifth-level top-quality equipment.
In the Tarenmia continent, every time the level of equipment is increased by one level, the price will also increase by a lot. For example, Xu Yue's robe can release the third-level protective magic "Glory Shield" and the third-level magic "Deflection Force Field", plus the constant "transformation" and portable space, so the price is as high as 80,000 gold coins, while ordinary third-level magic equipment only requires about 20,000 gold coins.
The starting price of a level 5 top-quality equipment is basically no different from the price of bargain. Of course, this price is just the auction strategy. If the actual transaction price is not more than 300,000 yuan, you don’t want to get it.
Xu Yue frowned and looked at the people bidding in the venue. He calculated the gold coins he had left. After the last time the transaction with the Elf was completed, he had two million gold coins left after paying off the loan. In order to rescue Aivo, he spent 600,000 gold coins and bought the "Kenneth's Carriage" for 1.1 million gold coins.
Before, Aiwo was not idle when he established the chamber of commerce. While establishing the chamber of commerce, he established sales channels, and successively sold 400,000 gold coins to some cities and distributed him 200,000 gold coins. Although this time, the elf mainly purchased a nine-scale pure container this time, he actually purchased a low-scale pure container of about 800,000 gold coins again.
After adding and subtracting it, Xu Yue still had about 900,000 gold coins left in his hand. This money can be used for a magician below level 4 for a period of time. However, for Xu Yue, who relies on equipment to crush people in a short period of time, it can only be considered as a general.
The bidding for "Breath of Ice Dragon" in the auction venue soon reached 300,000 gold coins. At this time, there were many fewer people participating in the bidding, and some major forces were bidding. After all, although this magic equipment released a high magic level, it was just a piece of equipment suitable for combat alone. If too much money was spent on it, it was not cost-effective for those major forces who wanted to improve their overall strength.
"Thirty-five thousand!"
Xu Yue's voice suddenly rang in the venue, which shocked the forces that increased the price by 10,000 or 20,000 yuan. They looked back at the mage who was shouting for the price and hesitated. No matter how high the price was, it would be a bit unprofitable.
"Thirty-six thousand!" a force shouted unwillingly.
"Four hundred thousand!"
Xu Yue's identification sounded again, and the price was increased by 40,000 yuan at one time. This showed his confidence in this magical equipment.
The other forces that bid for the bid gave up, not only because the 400,000 is already a bit high, but also because Xu Yue's determined aura made them know that even if they can add a little more, Xu Yue will definitely only pay a higher price. In that case, his bid will not only become meaningless, but also offend a strong man who doesn't know the depth. Even if the other party is not a strong man, he can still be classified as a strong man if he owns this magic item.
In the end, Xu Yue won the magic equipment for 400,000 yuan. This time he did not change his appearance and went to collect the auction items, but used his original appearance.
The powerful magic item "Breath of Ice Dragon" originally represents powerful strength. No matter what level Xu Yue is, after owning this magic item, he needs to be valued by some powerful forces and powerful people. Therefore, he is not afraid that he will cause some people's little thoughts after owning this item, which is also a shock.
After delivering the gold coins, Xu Yue directly put the magic item on his hand. With this thing, he could pose a great threat to the other party even if he was above level 4 magicians. It is not impossible to kill the fourth-level mage after using it. After all, the fifth-level protective magic that comes with the "Breath of Ice Dragon" is almost invincible against the fourth-level mage. The fourth-level mage in Black Rock City is already considered a very powerful figure.
Many casual mercenaries and adventurers even had some small thoughts when they saw Xu Yue buy this magic item. However, after seeing the other party walking back directly with the "Ice Dragon Breath", the thoughts in their hearts immediately disappeared. The shock of level 4 magic was already an absolute shock to the guys who ran to the single gang like them.
This time, Xu Yue walked back to her seat in a wizard robe and sat down. Then Juliers looked at him and smiled and said, "It's rare that you are so high-profile suddenly."
Xu Yue shrugged and said, "Actually, I am also trying to make life easier in the coming days."
Juliers said thoughtfully after hearing his words: "Are you talking about this war?"
Xu Yue smiled helplessly and said, "I don't know how long this war will last. If you have the ability to make people fear, you will not be thrown out as cannon fodder. To be honest, the last battle on the city wall made me feel scared."
Juliers thought about it and nodded in agreement. Then he said, "You are right. First-level mages are too dangerous on the battlefield. We should strengthen our own strength. It is too late to improve our level, but it is indeed a good direction for magic equipment. It seems that I need to take pictures of something useful too!"
Julius did what he said, and what surprised Xu Yue was that this sloppy mage who looked like a bad middle-aged uncle was actually a rich man. Then he took a few very popular magic equipment in the auction. Although it was not as expensive as the "Breath of Ice Dragon" in Xu Yue's hand, it was because it was large in number.
About six or seven magic items of Level 3 and Level 4 cost Juliers about 400,000 gold coins. This made some small and medium-sized forces in the venue look at each other and secretly guessed that these two mages might belong to some very powerful figures.
The finale of the auction was a large number of magic potions, which were not interested in Xu Yue and Juliers. Just when the two were planning to leave after the auction of the potions, the magic marks on their bodies suddenly flashed together.
"The trolls are sieging the city again!" The two said in one voice. Then they looked at each other and stood up at the same time and walked towards the auction venue. Many people from the forces in the venue also received the news through various sects. Suddenly, many people who left the venue stood up for a while, and the atmosphere became tense.
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Chapter completed!