"Hah~, this is boring~" I complain as I follow the man that dressed as a stereotypical ninja from earth.
"Hmm~, I wonder" I cast some illusion magic to make it look like I'm getting tired and slowing down.
When the guy notices this he speeds up and 'loses' me. In actuality I'm right behind him but what he is seeing was an allusion that was so we made it could actually interact with things to an extent. It was like there was two of me except the other one wasn't actually living or had a free will and couldn't exist without me. Kind of like a golem except purely made out of mana.
...
A few minutes later we reach a brick wall that seems completely normal unless your extremely sensitive to mana like me. If you push certain bricks it will open to a portal which if I'm right will lead deep below the ground to some base or hideout.
Following my expectations the man pushed a few bricks and the wall seemed to fold in on itself leaving a large blue oval that looked to be made of a blue liquid. The man stepped in with me right behind. Seconds pass before we stop. We are now standing in a large extravagant room that looks to be a sort of reception area, kinda like when you walk into a big fancy hotel but without all the modern tech.
The man walks up to a receptionist and asks to put her up for auction. I quickly conjure up a little golem that looks like a spider and program a few things into it before flicking it onto my sweet little princess. It lands in her hair and crawls to her ear where it plays a little prerecorded message. I can see her eyes widen for a little bit before relaxing.
"Hmm~hmm~, this will be so very exciting!"
Apparently this place is an auction and obviously not the good kind. I use some more illusion magic, changing a little here and a little there and I'm a totally different person.
I noticed a few Demi-humans walking around freely and so I decide to leave my ears and tail which has grown rather popular between lily and Jess. Honestly I like to stroke it too as it is one of the fluffiest things I know of.
I walk up to the desk and say, "Hiii, I'm new here and don't quite know how this works!"
"Ah, well it's rather simple you can deposit some money here and you'll be given a card. The amount you deposit is how much you have to bid with. When you bid just raise that and say the amount you want to bid. Whoever bids the most wins. If you go over the amount you have deposited then you have to pay the rest within five days or you'll be charged extra. If you fail to pay even a little within a month you yourself will be sold along with anything you've purchased previously" she explained with a smile.
"Rather scary place eh?"
"Oh yes, yes it is."
"Does it matter what I use to bid?"
"Oh no, plenty of people have even used family" she said with the same smile.
"Then how about blood. I'm sure mine will sell for quite the pretty penny" I say with a cheeky smile.
"That is an option but we will need someone to inspect the quality."
"I don't mind waiting a while."
She give a quick nod before walking off. Taking this chance I conjure up a small glass jar and make a small cut on my hand letting it drip in almost to the top before putting a cork on.
Just as I finish the girl walks back with an older looking man that is obviously annoyed.
"Tch, cocky brats thinking they're something special. Hand it here" he grumbles as he approaches.
He inspects it for a while and slowly his eyes widen and his legs start to shake.
"M-may I ask why such an esteemed being such a-as y-yourself has decided to v-visit our h-humble auction" he stutters.
"Grand master?"
"Silence child you are standing before someone you can not mess with" he spat at the girl.
Her facial expression changes quickly and she nervously bows and says, "I'm sorry I didn't think such an esteemed guest such as yourself would come here!"
"Oh such a cute reaction. Well its quite alright seeing as you didn't do anything to offend me though I can't imagine why such a cutie such as yourself would be working here" I say with a wink.
It takes a few seconds and you can see the cogs in their heads move before the geezer speaks up, "If you'd like you can have her. This blood is worth quite a lot, you can have as many as you like in fact! You can even have your own vip booth if you so wish! Though I do have a question for your esteemed self."
"Well I don't see why not to you first two and for the last one, as long as it isn't to personal then I don't mind."
"If you don't mind me asking" he hesitated for a second before continuing, "why do you hide yourself, we would have treated you with the best from the beginning."
"Oh if that's all, then I would have to say it would be troublesome but if you want to see then I don't mind" I say while undoing my illusion magic.
Both pair of eyes widen and plenty more shoot in my direction.
"Such beauty, if you don't mind following me we can guid you to your booth" as we leave I can feel many gazes on me, some lustful others fearful, while others full of jealousy.
We soon find ourselves in a large room with a couch overlooking a stage. On the floor below several hundred chairs are lined up neatly in rows with about a forth of them filled already. Behind me I hear the door shut and the floor squeak slightly as the girl behind me awkwardly fidget.
"There's no need to stand there. Come sit tell me more about yourself before the auction starts."
As I say this I can feel my slave contract break. Slowly flooding into my mind are images and information that is constantly being fed to me through my little golem. Apparently they have someone proficient enough to break my contract, though it technically isn't gone just dormant as when I feed mana into it, it will reactivate.
I quickly turn my attention to the girl as she carefully sits herself down on the opposite end of the couch.
"Hmm~, there's no need to avoid me like the plague. I don't bite... much" I say while placing her down on my lap.
"So who do I have the pleasure of having for the rest of eternity."
"J-jasmine" she stutters with her face ablaze.
"Jasmine" I repeat, "such a beautiful name. How about you tell me about yourself."
"W-what w-would you l-like to know."
"Hmm~, first how you ended up in such an awful place then I guess nothing to personal, your interests, favorite food, ya know mundane stuff."
"W-well, I was an orphan and the orphanage sold me and a couple others so they could keep it open. Nobody bought me do I ended up as a receptionist."
"Hmm~, well I guess we're the same in the aspect that we're orphans. So do you like to do anything."
"U-um, I like to draw."
"Then I guess I'll have to have you draw me sometime."
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Our conversation went on for a while before a man came out onto the stage and said, "welcome ladies and gentlemen tonight is a very special night as we have something very special for the end. I hope you stick around until then!"
I took that as an indicator that my princess was probably going to be up tonight.
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Many things were sold from people to even monsters. Though they were mostly very weak and useless. I spotted some swords I could give to my girls back at the hotel that were decent, even if I could just make some but I didn't want them to rely on me to much.
Much later in the auction I noticed I had a competitor in a nearby booth which honestly annoyed me quite a bit.
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A while later something caught my attention, it was a sort of crystal ball that was all black. It gave off an ominous aura kinda like the stuff the dwarf gave me. I immediately bid a couple thousand gold. Just as the auctioneer was about to end the bid my little competitor decided to jump in.
"6000 gold" he yelled.
"10,000 gold!"
"20,000 gold!"
30,000 gold!"
That last push seemed to put him over the edge.
"50,000 gold!"
"100,000 gold!"
The guy hesitated before shouting, "150,000 gold!"
"Ugh so persistent" be now the floor below had went quite and I grew tired of this game, "200,000 gold!"
This time thankfully no one spoke and I had won the bet.
A short while a man in a suit arrived at our door with the crystal and I promptly took it and gently stored it in one of my empty pocket dimensions.
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A long time later it was finally at the second to last item and unsurprisingly it was a bit of my blood. Earlier before the geezer left he had asked me if they could put some of my blood up for bid. Me being me and not caring as long as I get my princess back, graciously agreed without even batting an eye.
"Now ladies and gentlemen this is our second to last item which actually came from someone very special that we had the chance to accommodate today it is the blood of a dragon, werewolf, vampire, demon. The bidding will start at 10,000 gold!"
Many bid but it ultimately ended up on the hands of my rival. Next up came my princess and I immediately bid 500,000 gold. To my surprise my rival bid 600,000. Finally taking my time to get a good look at him I noticed that he looked Like a boy version of my princess and he had an extremely perverted look.
"Don't tell me he's some kind of perverted sis-con!"
I instantly bid 1,000,000 gold but he didn't give up until I had bid several million gold. Thank he gave up, I can imagine all the things he probably would have done with that face. I could feel a shiver run down my back as I did.[1]
Note: literally almost forgot to post this.
So I know you're all wondering why it cost so much mire here than at the blacksmiths. Well that's because he doesn't particularly care about money so she got it extremely cheap. That and she doesn't have any sense of monetary value.Hey man it can happen when your in the woods for several years.
Also it would be really really helpful if someone could come up with a name for her species as I am not good at coming up with names, especially for animals or you know species. Please please please, and yes I know, "but chimera isn't that lazy on your part(?)". Well if we want to get all technical then yes I guess it could be interpreted as me being lazy as I am just that. But did you know the MC of my other novel, "trials of Shessefe" well it took me three days to come up with her name 3 DAYS, it was originally going to be ingretaria (which I opted to use for the calendar). And she was going to be older too! Not by much but ya know, older! So I would really appreciate it a lot as it would probably be another four chapters before I come up with a name.
Phew, that was quite a bit but ya know stress. Anskyway tanks fow wreadin and hab a goob day~.
(That ^ was kinda embarrassing to write but I'm leaving it anyway! Mwuhahahahahaha)