As we waited for the auction to start I used my eyes to see the magic tool that was in front of me behind the panel aa some rune sets , but what I noticed differently was the path made by runes that came out of it and into the ground.
When I tried to follow him I was shocked by the amount of mana that travels on the walls, ceilings and floors of this building and how to be inside a magical creature obviously all these runic cone arrangements paid off by magic metal alloys was incredible even the arrangements I saw in institute do not compare with the amount and complexity that I see today.
I suspect there must be arias like that inside the institute, but I should not have the authority to visit these places. The auction house stage is on top of countless defensive matrices. I wonder if there is someone suicidal enough to attack the auction face.
"Security here is very tight, have you ever had attempts to steal an auction here Ingredi?"
"Not during an auction, but I heard that you already heard several attempts to steal the items from the auction before it started anymore, as far as I know, you don't even hear a success between them, because the question?"
"I was just curious about the security here, it must be formed by countless defensive and alarm matrices , I wonder how many there are here?"
I get a complicated look from Ingredi.
"There must be hundreds of them, but I hope you're not even having a stupid idea of stealing the auction?"
Now I am the one who is shocked because she would think I want to steal the auction. I am neither a criminal nor a suicide.
"I'm not suicidal and I'm not an Ingredi thief where did you get this idea?"
Now I'm getting a dark look from Ingredi .
"You and a thief did not forget what happened in the woods, we are considered criminals."
"It doesn't count we were attacked."
"I do not mean the idiots who attacked us, but the reason for being in the woods that day Ulric what we did and considered a crime."
"Exaggeration, we only took a few stones that were in the woods, it's not a real crime and only exploitation ."
"So you think stealing several thousand gold coins is not a crime?"
"All of it!"
"And you complaining that you have no money and that I have five hundred gold coins and a lot."
"You don't understand how lucky we were, we got very valuable material in the woods. It is not common to find so much money buried in the ground, especially so close to the city. You know that during the whole year if you find three smaller deposits than we dug up in the dungeons and considered a year. luckily most of the ore that is used comes from mines that are controlled by large noble families or by the royal family itself . "
"It is not easy to get high quality ore of level one and two, ores of level three or higher are only found in special places and above level five and found in nests of very powerful magical beasts, it is not easy to obtain magical resources .
"If it were easy, there would not be so many adventurers from the red and yellow nucleus who use level three equipment. Generally, the higher level matures are made of materials taken from animals or magical beasts and not of materials created in nature."
I didn't really think that way, I thought it would be easy to find materials in nature up to level five, since that level is still below the kingdom's elites, but taking into account that most of the materials come from the dungeons, so it makes sense for them to come of the magical animals, magical beasts and the monsters that live in the dungeons.
"Anyway, is there an item you're interested in finding Ingredi for?"
"No, but if some good material from my elements appears, maybe I'll buy it with all the metal I have now, I'm thinking of making a staff with it, but more materials are needed to create one that balances the Earth element with the Water element and you?"
"In reality, I intend to use the mana-rich metal to make a pair of high-quality weapons. I intend to invest my money to increase my offensive capacity.
"This is risky, but I understand and difficult to achieve a complete maturity of high quality, but still and less than I will have to spend as a magician and a little unusual to use maturity plus the magic accessories are expensive some high quality pieces can to have the price of a complete maturity. "
"So much so?"
"Of course, the amount of materials used in a magic accessory and much greater than it looks, they have a density much greater than their appearance passes, I've seen a ring that weighed a few pounds."
"How do you wear such a heavy ring, do wizards not have so much physical strength ?"
"When a magician reaches a certain level they have their mana strengthening their body in reality they have tools that help magicians have more strength."
"Because I haven't heard any of this before, it would be nice to get some accessories to increase my physical strength ."
" Ulric doesn't work like that, these accessories work with mana and not aura."
Ingredi and I spent the rest of the time before the auction talking about what we can spend our money on, which she insists on saying was stolen, but I still argue that it is not a real crime since the ore did not have a specific owner.
Before realizing the hall darkened and the auction face was on the podium to start the auction.
"Good evening to all those who are here on this wonderful night, I hope you are all prepared to buy rare items that we will have available today."
"The first item that we have today is a set of level three elixirs, all of which are of high quality."
The auction has already started with level three items. I'm not excited to see what I can buy with my few gold coins.
The elixirs were purchased for 2,850 gold coins and I feel extremely poor now.
The next items came and were sold for thousands of gold medals and with each item that passed I felt increasingly poor I looked at Ingredi who seemed to have noticed my suffering and she could barely contain her laughter she should already know that this was going to happen when she said she only had 500 gold coins and she still had the courage to say that I had a lot of money.
"Don't feel bad Ulric this auction and at level three most of the items are intended for people who've reached the orange core not for us just grown ups."
"It would have been nice of you to have told me that before, Ingredi."
"I know."
I will take revenge on her one of these days I have to create a prank to get back at Ingredi maybe I should ask Hilda for help she seems to love doing it.
To tell you the truth, there are no very interesting items for me. I do not intend to get even one of the elixirs for me since most of them will have side effects that can impair my ability to evolve my core.
Materials are very good to spend on level two equipment, but this time still had its use because despite the items being in transparent boxes I can easily study the mana and elemental energy that the items have was really informative to see the flow of energy that they they have the higher the level of material their flow and the more complex I thought that only the amount of energy would change, but it seems that energy flow demonstrates the characteristics of magical materials .
Maybe I can get something out of trying to imitate them, but to do that I need to find a material that has interesting properties to imitate .
It took some time but finally an interesting material from the fire element appeared, it was a reddish clay that can generate some heat, but its best property was its ability to retain heat. Ingredi told me that they are used to isolate unstable materials from the fire element. used to create magic tools that serve to retain their heat as well as to redirect the fire element that comes out of the magic materials into them again this is possible due to the characteristics of the clay to retain and generate heat is a very expensive material used by several artisans.
I studied the pattern of the energy flow of the clay. I concentrated as much as possible to record it in my mind, but I didn't have much time to do that since the clay didn't have many moves when it was taken off the stage. I closed my eyes and stood up. I concentrated on the flow of the fire element .
Without realizing it, I entered a meditative state when trying to recreate the flow of energy. I spent the rest of the auction with my eyes closed.
I imitated the flow of the clay to try to recreate its characteristics of retaining heat from external sources of the fire element. If I can recreate this, I will be able to absorb the Fire element that is in the environment to strengthen my attacks. dangerous to do that.
I was woken up when Ingredi held my hand.
"Hey sleeper, the last three items of the auction will be auctioned the fragment of the heart of the mountain and one of them."
"Ingredi was not sleeping."
"Of course sleeper you only was rested eyes."
I didn't like her tone.