The plans involved 3 steps, the introduction, psychological manipulation, and finally the backup plan in case his plans failed and the 2 soul candles didn't sell for high prices.
After Esmeralda had transferred the points to Blake, he handed over the soul candle and began the second round of auction.
"The second stick of soul candle will begin at the same price." Blake announced.
"100k exchange points." Haldor didn't waste time to bid.
He wanted to eliminate all hopes from those that couldn't avoid it, and although he knew he couldn't compete if the nobles at the top 10 rank decided to bid. He didn't want them to get it so easily.
"110k!" Owen bided.
"120k!" Vlad bided.
'The top guns are finally biding. This will be fun.' The thought of so many exchange points pumping in made him smile.
"125k!" Owen counter bided as he shot Vlad a death glare, but he was ignored.
"130k!" Vlad counter-bided.
At this point, even most nobles could do nothing but watch. This was the battle of the top 10 and they couldn't compare to the points they gain daily.
'That jerk can't get it so easily.' Layla immediately bided 140k exchange points with a smirk on her face.
When it came to obtaining rare resources, the noble families couldn't compare to the influence of the royal family and the adventurer association. The royal family controlled the resources that entered the empire, while the adventurers association had a large network that stretch into all the empires.
As the daughter of a famous A rank adventurer, it wouldn't be too difficult for her Dad to get one as long as she requested.
It was just that she didn't need it, but she wanted to punish Vlad a little bit for being a jerk on multiple occasions.
'That bitch is trying to mess with me!' Vlad felt like walking up to her and giving her a piece of his mind, but he decided to hold himself back and make a final bid.
"150k!" This was the highest he could go, if not he would be able to purchase basic things from the exchange store.
Since he didn't hear anyone else's bid, Blake decided to close the deal. "150k exchange points going once, going twice…"
'C'mon!' Vlad's heart was racing as his eyes were focused on Layla who didn't bother to look at him. At the second count he let out a sigh of relief, but that was when she turned to him with a smirk on her face.
"160k!" Layla bided.
"Fuck you!" Vlad smashed his hand on the desk in anger. If she had bided 5k extra he would have had no problem in using all his points, but she bided 10k extra.
"160k exchange points going once, going twice, gone." Blake waved his hand in the direction of Layla.
Once that was done, Layla transferred the points to Blake before walking past Vlad and moved to Owen.
"I am willing to sell it to you for 125k points." Layla said. Although she was going to lose 35k points, annoying Vlad was worth it.
Owen was shocked by her offer. The reason he backed out of the bidding war wasn't that he had fewer points than Vlad, but because he didn't think it was worth it.
Vlad had recently entered the top 10, but Owen had been in the 6th position from the start. Besides, as the top-ranking descendant Owen would surely get a soul candle if he requested.
"Deal." Owen shook her hand and quickly transferred the points.
"Bitch!" Vlad slammed his fist on his desk before storming out of the classroom.
'I wonder what happened between them.' Blake thought with a smile on his face. Seeing Vlad angry gave Blake a rare feeling of joy.
Apart from random noble girls that crushed on Vlad and some nobles who were jerks like him, every other student hated him. With his rank, he was the highest-ranking bully in 1st year.
[Seems like he keeps getting foolish as the day goes by. I mean, isn't it clear that she was trying to annoy him?] The system shook its head. For someone his age he was just too impulsive.
'It works in my favor so I can't complain.' Blake chuckled as he signaled to his friends that he was leaving for the canteen.
"Do I need to ask why I am being stared at?" Blake didn't even bother to raise his head as he slurped up noodles.
"Are you just going to act as if you didn't get almost 300k points now?" Brian asked with a raised brow.
"How do you expect me to react? There is nothing special about what I did. I was just lucky enough to identify a need among the students, so I just took hold of the opportunity." Blake said.
"No, it's just you acting humble and trying to make it sound easy." Disbelief was written all over Castiel's face.
"Seriously I am not trying to sound humble. If you had the soul candles you would have done the same thing." Blake explained.
"So how do you plan on spending it?" Brian asked.
"I don't have anything in mind so I just plan on keeping it."
…
After lunch, they headed to the forge, but surprisingly Professor Tacitus wasn't there. So Blake, alongside Castiel and Brian went to one of the training grounds to train and check out the abilities of their newly purchased weapons.
Castiel tested out the spell channeling ability of the dual daggers. He was able to shoot out twice the normal size of a fireball. He also tried using the ability of an ignitor to control the flames and it turned out he had better control over the flames.
After testing out everything, Castiel signaled them to step back, before he crossed the daggers and an explosion thrice the width of a human burst out.
"Worth every point." Castiel said with a wide smile on his face as he stared at the daggers.
"It's my turn.." Brian slammed his fists together as took center stage.