The auction kept on going but nothing else caught Aster’s attention so he limited to enjoy seeing the auctioned items and their explanations with two beauties in his embrace, “this feels like watching a live tv show”, he thought.
At some point the auction reached half of the items that were going to be sold and a break of 30 minutes started, there were bathrooms in the VIP rooms so they didn’t need to go out but it wasn’t like that for the people on the public area.
While some people started discussing about the items that were sold, the guest of the room number 1 became a popular topic after all for the people of the azure sky continent the four big families were the accepted hegemons but a moment ago, they saw someone fighting with the heir of one of them.
Wieland had the duty to control the situation and so for the first time since he was designated by the Kraft patriarch to be in charge of the auction house, he decided to reunite with one of the guests in private although it could cause some misunderstandings.
He convinced himself thinking “our rules are a joke in front of a peak stellar axys cultivator anyway”, he entered the backstage and went to his office from which he took a secret passage that led to the main hall of the VIP area, he walked until he arrived at the room number 1.
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Aster was evaluating the results of his experiment on his mind, “looks like my spirit energy has a higher quality than what I have thought… I have to ask mom what are the realms above the star tribulation since she should be stronger than that”.
He came out of his daze when he heard someone knocking on the door.
“Mm, ladies did you order something?”, he asked, but both of them denied and Lilia added.
“It’s that old man that started the auction darling, maybe he wants to speak with you”.
Aster nodded, he stood up and opened the door to see the Wieland Kraft with a weir smiling expression.
“Esteemed guest, can you give a couple of minutes of your time”, Aster allowed him to enter the room before closing the door, he took his seat back in the middle of the girls while the Kraft elder brought a chair to sit in front of them.
While Wieland was taking a seat, he noticed that the only boy seemed to be the center of the three people in front of him, the other two girls looked comfortable with him in the middle but there was one thing that made him a bit curious, one of the girls fit perfectly in the category of a young lady but the other one seemed to be older, “maybe this woman is the master of the boy”, he thought.
Aster knew Lilia didn’t like when someone interrupted their moments together so he directly asked.
“What could the administrator of this place want to discuss with me?”.
Wieland was a bit confused because he thought the woman on the right side whose cultivation, he couldn’t see will be the one speaking with him instead of the young boy who was only on the earth origin realm.
“First of all, I wanted to personally apologize for the incident with that Rein’s family brat and… if you don’t mind can I ask who these ladies might be?”.
Aster was confused about why was this old man asking that but he still decided to answer.
“They are my wives; I don’t want to sound rude but is there anything you want from me?”.
This time the old man was genuinely surprised, although polygamy was not uncommon the age gap, he could guess due to their heights was a bit too… big, not only that but the woman on the right was probably stronger than him.
“A young boy with a wife on the stellar axys realm or higher… what has the world come to” he thought, before answering.
“No, don’t worry I’m the one interrupting your entertainment, just one last thing, are you planning to bid for the last item too?”.
Aster now he understood this old man’s intentions, he knew that Kray Rein will go all in to get the sword and if he decided to bid against him then things might get ugly… for the Rein family.
“I don’t think there is any need to hide it, I came to this auction to get that sword and since it will be a gift for one of my precious wives, it doesn’t matter if the patriarch of the Rein family himself comes, I can assure you my bid will still be the highest one”.
Wieland predicted a headache in his near future, the Rein’s were not known for their magnanimous personalities but on the other hand this kid had a “wife” that could pulverize them… “the only thing that I know will happen is that my auction house will be trapped in the storm”, he thought.
“In that case let me tell you more about the sword, it’s called “Winter Blossom” … even our better appraisers couldn’t tell its grade but there is a problem, the spirit gem that was engraved on it, is cracked and the spirit formation used to fuse the gem with the sword didn’t allow our forge masters nor any rune masters to fix it, that is why is being sold”.
Aster smiled behind his mask.
“And you are telling me all this because?”.
Wieland sighed before answering.
“I honestly don’t give a fuck about the Rein’s wellbeing but I… need to keep my neutrality, the reason I’m telling you all this although it’s against the rules it’s because I don’t want you to demolish my auction house in your quarrel with them”.
“Hahaha”, Aster couldn’t help but laugh out loud, this old man was quite straight forward and that was something hard to find on this world full of schemes and power struggles.
“I can’t promise anything but since you gave me some privileged information, I can tell you that if I want to get something no one in this planet can do anything about it”.
Wieland nodded and stood up; he took out a bottle out of his spatial ring before he left the room not without leaving some final words behind.
“I appreciate your comprehension please enjoy this 500 years old soft wine as a courtesy from our auction house… also I will give you a 10% discount if you hit that Rein spoiled brat in the face for me”.
Once the old man was gone, Lilia leaned herself against her son.
“Don’t worry darling, mommy can help you to replace the gem on the sword ♥, but you will have to promise me a date only for us two hehehe”.
Aster shook his head before kissing her neck, “you succubus of a mother, are you really planning on asking for a payment on a gift for one of your “daughters in law”, seems like you need some punishment”.
“Nnn ♥, fine, fine I give up”.
Alice snorted “Humph, you lewd mother always trying to get ahead of us just wait, Aria and me will ally against you”.
… The three of them laughed and Lilia served three cups of the wine the old man gifted them, of course she checked it just in case but everything was okay and the wine actually tasted quite good the name “soft wine”, was actually quite fitting it was quite mild and sweet.
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Wieland entered the scenario again feeling his heart bleeding.
“Sigh, I was keeping that wine for an especial occasion, well I guess leaving a good first impression on someone that can probably order a massacre on the azure sky planet is worth it”, Wieland has faced a lot of hardships on his long life but he has never felt so little in front of anyone before, until he met Lilia back on Aster’s room.
After evaluating the situation and to avoid the Rein to ask for reinforcements from the Wolfstein family which might complicate things even more he decided to end the auction early, the rest of the items were only there to entertain the public as they belonged to the auction house anyway.
“Ladies and gentlemen, please return to your seats as a surprise event we will be auctioning the final item right now!!!”.
The crowd got exited again, all the big forces were here to bud for the rumored treasure so this was going to be a fight between titans… or so they thought.
Back on Kray’s room he focused all his attention on the scenario, “that sword and that Ghale girl are mine” he thought.