Chapter 272: Chapter 170: A New Subplot
Translator: 549690339 I
“The next auction item is still a weapon used by our ancient human race expert from ancient times.”
The elderly auctioneer took out the rusty shortsword.
Su Nan carefully examined the shortsword.
The shortsword is about a foot long, and due to the rust covering it, it appears black, hiding the true appearance of the blade underneath.
Su Nan has seen many of these before. There were quite a few in the treasure vault of the Wolf King Palace in Sky Wolf Valley, as well as in the Governor’s Mansion treasure vault, preserved and collected due to their special materials.
Su Nan took a look for a moment, but still couldn’t figure out what was so special about it.
“It seems I’ll have to get my hands on this thing to find out its secrets,” Su Nan decided.
Once the item was in his possession, the game would provide some information.
Even if the game’s information held no value, he still had foreknowledge and could research it there through variousmethods.
“Our research has shown that the material of this shortsword is likely Heavenly Kill Stone, an extremely hard material. If used during weapon forging, it can significantly enhance the weapon’s hardness.”
“The auction starts now, please make your bids.”
As soon as the old man finished the introduction, he announced the start of the auction. As expected, the young man in Room 304 placed a bid, quoting a price of 20 drops of Spirit-level demonic blood.
This price was already quite high, as the ancient blade auctioned just before had eventually been sold at the same price.
Indeed, hearing the young man’s high starting bid, others who had planned to place bids stopped, with no intention of quoting any prices.
Seeing this, the young man in Room 304 showed joy in his eyes.
Just as Su Nan thought, his spending so much on Mortal-level demon essence blood was to create the illusion that he had a large amount of essence and blood.
Of course, he wasn’t blindly buying items. What he bought would be used by their guild, helping to increase their strength considerably.
Unfortunately for him, Su Nan spoke up before he could relax: “30 drops of Spirit-level demon essence blood.”
“Damn it! Why did that guy bid again!”
Hearing Su Nan’s voice, the joy on the young man’s face in Room 304 disappeared in an instant, replaced by an iron-blue color.
He knew that it would now be impossible for him to easily obtain the shortsword today.
While quickly informing his boss of the situation, the young man exclaimed, “60 drops!”
This time, he added another 20 drops to the price, hoping to suppress Su Nan with it.
Unfortunately, he was disappointed once again.
Su Nan still calmly said, “70 drops.”
“70 drops of Spirit-level demon essence blood? Who exactly is in Room 309? They can actually come up with so much essence blood. Could they be an Xuan-level expert?”
“Strange, isn’t this just a broken sword? Is it worth them spending so much essence blood?”
As Su Nan and the young man continuously raised their bids, many people began to notice the extraordinary nature of the shortsword.
Even the elderly auctioneer, looking at the shortsword in front of him, couldn’t help but wonder if he had made a mistake.
However, the highest realm present was only the Spirit Level Peak. It would be basically impossible for them to come up with so much Spirit-level demon essence blood.
“70 drops?”
Upon hearing Su Nan’s bid, the young man in Room 304 slumped to the ground.
“How should we proceed, boss? That guy raised the price to 70 drops of Spirit-level demon essence blood, and we don’t have any more essence blood!”
The young man was very anxious. Just as Su Nan had thought, he didn’t have much Spirit Grade Essence Blood. This time, gathering the entire guild’s strength, they had only collected a little over sixty drops of Spirit-level demon essence blood.
According to the plan, he would spend half of the essence blood to purchase two divine power fragments and then use the remaining essence blood to obtain the shortsword.
However, Su Nan’s appearance had completely disrupted their plan.
“There’s no need to keep bidding. It’s useless. It seems the other party probably knows the secret of the sword as well.”
“It’s most likely Wang Nan or Zhang Yang. These two have killed a lot of monsters this time, and their essence blood far exceeds ours. Continuing to bid won’t do any good and might even anger the other party.”
Unwilling to give up, the young man said, “So we’ll just give up like this? That item is related to our task. Without it, won’t our task be terminated?”
“Who said we’re just giving up? First, let the other party win the auction and then find out exactly who they are. After that, find a way to get the item out of their hands.”
“Even if he knew the purpose of the shortsword, it would be useless in his hands without the other item.”
Hearing this, the young man’s eyes lit up: “Right! How could I forget? Without the other item, even if he gets the shortsword, it’s useless.”
The young man breathed a sigh of relief and didn’t continue bidding.
Seeing that no one else was placing bids, the elderly auctioneer asked, “70 drops of Spirit-level demon essence blood! Are there any higher bids?”
The old man looked at Room 304 and, seeing that they were not bidding again, he continued, “Congratulations to Room 309 for winning the ancient shortsword.””
As the words fell, a maid carried the shortsword and walked towards Su Nan’s Room 309.
A few moments later, the shortsword was in Su Nan’s hands.
“Let me see what’s so peculiar about you.”
[Rusty Ancient Sword: A weapon used by an ancient human clan powerhouse during his youth, bearing a wisp of his obsession.]
“Obsession?” Su Nan was surprised. This was the first time he encountered something like this.
Powerful demon beasts would form resentful demons after death, but this shortsword was different. It only bore a wisp of the expert’s obsession from his youth, which was fundamentally different from resentful demons..