I asked through my mind for Layla to make one of the Fairies under her command go with this White Elf woman by the name of Nashara.
She had the weapons that Anton had created, I didn’t know this auction house or this woman to trust her, so I let the Fairy follow her to let me know if anything strange was done like stealing the weapons and running.
When we left the room where we had this small meeting, we followed an assistant who took us to a VIP cabin on the second floor of the place where the auction will be held.
The cabin where we were brought had a glass screen through which we could see the stage and the stands, similar to a theater, we could also see other cabins like ours facing us and on our sides, the glass of the other cabins was dark making you think that ours might look like this from the outside just like the glass of interrogation rooms you saw in detective movies.
The room was spacious enough for me and my whole group because it was a single room for up to 20 people, it even had a table with snacks and a shelf with drinks.
“This is a very nice place, I wish I had a palate to taste food again, it’s always so sad to see everyone eating.” (Ivan)
“That means there’s more food left.” (Ibuki)
“This cookie is really good…” (Lilith)
“Can you guys stop behaving like children?” (érica)
“That’s impossible for these four.” (Vanessa)
“Did you say four?” (I)
“Look at the liquor cabinet.” (Irius)
“…” (I)
When we were left in the VIP cabin alone, Lilith and Ibuki attacked the appetizer table like starving to death, when I turn to the liquor cabinet I see Diana drinking straight from a bottle and Hela filling a glass for her to drink. .𝙘𝒐𝒎
Sigh
“(These people don’t have high control.)” (I)
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After an hour of talking in the booth, the stage lights came on, showing that the auction was close.
We saw people arriving little by little until all the seats in the audience were full, everyone has number plates in their hands to be identified during the bidding.
For us, inside the VIP cabin, there is a reading crystal that can be used to place the values ??of our bids, if we make any bids.
As soon as the stage lights lit up, the conversations in the seats below stopped, so Nashara, whom I spoke with earlier, takes the stage wearing a beautiful white and gold dress that draws attention to her beauty.
“Welcome to the Star City Auction House’s annual weapons auction.” (Nashara)
“My name is Nashara and I will be the auctioneer today.” (Nashara)
Despite the expressionless face she showed when talking to me earlier, she had a seductive smile and a melodious voice as she began to speak.
After starting the auction she started going over the rules to everyone, the rules were the same as she said before to me, then finally the auction starts when a woman pushes a cart with a rectangular box covered by a white cloth.
I was interested to know what it was, but when it was revealed I lost interest, after listening to the description of the item I was even more disappointed, the item was a sword with a silver handle and a golden blade covered in symbols that gave a sensation mysterious.
“Who was the arrogant, idiotic person who wasted all these materials on something so useless!?” (Anton)
“It looks nice, I remember seeing things like that when I was little, rich merchants love to hang these things in their offices, my old father had something like that.” (Lilith)
“I agree with Anton, this type of item only has looks, in a real fight this wavy curvy cable would only get in the way.” (Diana)
“This is just an expensive decorative item, not meant to be used in battle, the auctioneer said so.” (Vanessa)
“To me, this is just a waste of materials that could have been put to better use with something practical.” (Anton)
As we talked the decorative sword bids continued to rise until they reached the price of 173 gold coins.
“Is that considered a normal price, master?” (Hela)
“I don’t know, I have no idea of ??prices.” (I)
“Answering your question, Hela.” (Ivan)
“Decorative swords of this type are priced around 100 gold coins, this one was even higher as it is an auction which arouses competition among rich people.” (Ivan)
“In other words, is this a competition to see who is willing to spend the most?” (I)
“The master simplified a lot, but that’s right.” (Ivan)
“This is to keep up appearances, to show others financial superiority.” (Ivan)
“All this is irrational to me.” (Irius)
“I don’t agree to spend money on something that isn’t useful.” (Irina)
“You two are minimalists because of the way you grew up, but Ivan and I as people who were born into wealthy families know that this spending of money is also a political game to keep up appearances.” (érica)
We were all talking about why something so useless was being sold, everyone had different arguments while others like Ibuki who kept attacking the food table that had been restocked, and Layla who kept eating sweets bigger than the owner’s body didn’t participate in the conversation about something that was not of interest to you.
Time passed and various types of weapons such as swords, magic bows, staves, axes, and various other types of weapons were passing through the stage we found that the decoration items were few, most of the weapons in the auction were more practical.
Diana, Kira, Irius, and Ivan managed to have fun betting the price each weapon could fetch, Anton was having more fun seeing real weapons and not those crap that only had looks.
Anton began to analyze the works of the Blacksmiths of this city and was happy, but his wife had to stop him from putting on the weapons he thought were interesting just to get a closer look.
We were all surprised when Anton’s weapons were left until the end, this showed that they were of great quality, they also fetched very high prices, but there were two weapons that fetched higher prices.
There was a cursed sword which was the second most expensive item selling for 133 crystal coins and had a magic staff which sold for 509 crystal coins, the highest price by far.
After the auction ended, an employee came to bring the money from the sale of the weapons, as we didn’t bid, there was nothing to take apart from the money I gave everything to Anton since he created these weapons and not me.