After people from outside saw that a black robed guy entered into the bidding house to sell off a magic beasts there was a small commotion in there.
Many small, medium and big powerhouses of this city stations their people's inside or outside of the bidding house. If they realize that a ranked beasts is about to be auctioned, they quickly informed their superiors to quickly come to the bidding place.
So now there are 10 times more people waiting for a ticket then the last time Aetius entered . It also attracted many outsiders who came to this city to resupply and rest before setting off.
'I first thought of learning how to process the magic beasts corpse from a butcher. But it is a bit of a hassle so I give up on this. Anyway, except snakes , other animals gallbladder's are not very much desired. That's why I will put them on auction.'
"Hmm they will auction a rank 1 magic beasts? I think I will go and take a look now."
"I am just walking around this small city for something interesting and it looks as if i found one! If lucky, i can found a fire or similar type beasts! "
"Quickly give me a ticket."
" I don't expect to find anything useful in this poor city, but Let's take a look, anyway i have time before set off."
"So this poor city also auction magic beasts? Although i don't think i will found a rare rank 2 speed type beasts, but i can at least have some fun. "
"Hmm, magic beasts auction? husband quick i wanna see a magic beasts. I never saw one with my own eyes. "
" is this small roadside city has any capability to kill a magic beasts! "
"Father i wanna go and see please please please."
Many outsiders in who's eyes this is small city is just a roadside supply point. They don't think that this city has any powerful ranked magi.
Seeing that many people still waiting in line or shouting and scolding the receptionist for his slow work, officials send another personal to help that poor fellow.
It is a very common scene in this bidding house. Magic beasts or ranked beasts rarely appear here. On average 1 at a week or more.
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Aetius is now waiting in a VIP room. There are many kind of fruit and light desserts in front of him in a glass table. I didn't know the names of most of them.
'If i didn't have the concern of opening my robe, i would be eating these exotic looking fruits by now.
Today I planed to buy some items like clothes, alchemy fluids,ink, paper etc. But i think i will also buy some fruits. It will help me in this growth period.'
While Aetius is making plans of buying some fruit in his mind in the VIP waiting room, there was a knock in the door.
"Come in! " Aetius used a gang member type voice he can think of. He will pretend to be a gangster in this auction house.
A fat men in his 30's or 40's came in with a bright smile. He is very small. A little over 5. 0 ft.
He sat in the opposite side of where aetius is now sitting.
"Sir, i am a manager of this Bidding house, 'Meno asfhi ghoysgi mahi olafao nirvanar'.
Sir we will auction off you magic beasts. Before, i want to remind you some rule of this bidding house.
1. We will cut 10% from the buyers bid.
2.You can personally do the presentation or let us do.
3.If you want, you can reveal your identity to the bidders or to the final buyer.
4.If you like to be incognito Throughout the process, you do not need to tell us about yourself.
Sir, I hope you will like our terms. If you like it, please give us that magic beasts and some details about It's abilities." Manager Meno said while keeping the smile on his face.
Nirvanar family is an aristocrat family which has a lot of auction houses throughout this kingdom. There are 3 big families in this kingdom who are renowned in this bidding business. This Nirvanar family is considered among these top 3 in this business. This guy infront of me is from the Nirvanar family .
There are many type of auction houses such as , this beasts auction house , artefact auction house, slave auction house , painting auction house etc .
As for black market or illegal buying and selling places , I don't know for now .
I nodded and gave him the space bag where i stored the magic beasts after bringing out of the system storage space .
" There are 2 magic beasts , both are rank 1 . First one is a Banshee . It has sound attack ability and also can use her big white hair as a whip to attack .
Last one is a kobold women .It is a speed type magic beasts . It can transform it's body completely like a big dog ." Aetius pretended to be proud and his voice was full of arrogance.
" Two magic beasts !" Manager Meno startled and exclaimed .
In this auction house , ordinary hunter and mercenaries bring their hunt to sell . They spend a lot of time and money to plan and kill a magic beasts. Catching a magic beast is very dangerous and people may die at their hands . Sometime because of wrong information they might encounter different kind of magic beasts against which they can only run . Magic beasts Hunters need to prepare props and plan for each type of magic beasts ability and encounter it .
It is hard to catch a single magic beasts ,now someone came out of nowhere with 2 !
Meno didn't think that he came from somewhere else and selling it here because that way his hunt will start to rot .
Space storages are not independent of time . They will damage the goods over the time . You need to use alchemy inscription or props to slow down it deterioration .
As for magi , they sell their goods at magi gathering places to exchange it with something they want but didn't have .
So Manager meno was a little shocked .No one normally sells this much at one go .
"Huh , is there something? Or should I go somewhere else ?" I acted as if i didn't like his shocked behavior and said harshly .
I am also feeling cautious as why he looked shocked.
'What's wrong? Did i do something i shouldn't have done?
no no no , i am not feeling any dangerous premonition ,so it may not be something bad .'
He quickly smiled and shook his hands to me and said ,
" No no no , I become shocked not because something bad ,It just that it is very rare for someone to sell 2 magic beasts in one go ." He explained me with his usual smiley face.
I have finally calmed down . So that was the crux of the reason of his shocked face . He is used to meet sellers who only sold 1 magic beasts at a time .I finally breath in relief and relaxed.
He then got up and gone away with the storage bag .Before leaving he said me to wait here .
'This will be a waste if i don't take these rare fruits Infront of me .'
I opened my 2nd storage bag and pour in all the fruits from table . I will not use the system space to store or open my robes to eat here .They may have spying prop or inscription around here .So i will not take risk to reveal my identity.
Within 5 minutes, manager Meno came running and he is huffing loudly as if he just ran a marathon.
Is a danger coming ,but didn't received any premonition ! Don't tell me a danger above rank 3 is coming so i don't receive any signal for the ' Danger Acuity'!
Thinking so i started to sweat and started to make a plan to run .
" Huh ....sir .... congratulations ,you have killed 2 out of 10 wanted women magic beasts group which is very infamous around colos city .This group of women's would abduct a lot teen boy's and loot or rob traveling people's . They also once tried to loot a small caravan but was unsuccessful. They have 12,000 gold coins bounty from the colos city government and 18,000 gold coins bounty issued by the colos merchant union for each of the 10 group members !"He said while huffing for air .
" Ha ha ha great !" I laughed domineeringly in a gangster voice . Actually, I am really happy now .It is as if pie falling from the sky out of nowhere! I didn't expected that , I will earn bounty money for their head .
'no wonder those 2 monster women's had a lot of gold coins in their spatial bag! They are robbing travellers in the vincity of colos city in a group !'
"Sir , if you want to claim the money by yourself,then you have to submit thier heads at least.But if you let us do this cumbersome task for you then you will not need to cut the head and go through the procedure! We will only take 10 % gold coins from the bounty !"He said with a grin.
After thinking the pros and cons , i nodded in approval.
The reason why i didn't go to collect the bounty personally has a lot of reasons,
1. I have to personally go and collect the money from 2 different places. it is a waste of time .
2. When receiving the bounty money i may have to meet some peoples who might i want to see my identity. I don't want to disclose my identity.
3. If i cut the head ,then the buyers may not want to buy that beasts corpse without a head .So the final money i will get will be far less then it should have been with a head attached.
4.In this world,people in high positions are almost all from noble or aristocratic background . Majority of them don't like ordinary peoples especially an orphan who has only one name .So they will not be in a hurry to meet with me to sign the money transfer papers . I will have to wait a lot of time to receive the money .
Manager meno's all ten finger is full of many gorgeous rings . After seeing my nod , he pointed his thumb fingers to the floor of this room .
Instantly , there was a lot of gold coins there . The whole room started to glitter in yellow colours.
"There are 54,000 gold coins after 10 % cut .Please wait a little bit we will start to display the magic beasts soon ,then we will call you to observe the whole procedure from the observatory room ." Saying that he left hurriedly .
I didn't focus on manager Meno's leaving, I was just staring at these sparkling coins .
'So beautiful,so shiney!'
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Aetius pretended to collect 54,000 gold coins in his spatial bag , but he actually collected all in the system storage space.
'Now I have 54,000+16320=70,320 gold coins! Let's see how much I will earn after the bidding.'
I am really excited now . Just 2 day's ago I only had 1 gold coins . Now I have more than 70 thousands gold coins !
With these money I will buy a lot of attack, defense and support type props .
Soon a beautiful slender women entered the room. She came swaying her beautifully waist . She is wearing a kirtle and had a belt in around her waist . She is a sarvent in this auction house. She gave me my spatial bag which had magic beasts in them .
"Sir , would you like to drink alcohol? If you want, i can give you any service you want " She said with a blushing face .
'Hmph , gold digger. '
That was the first expression that i had about her. Before coming in , she definitely heard that i have received a lot of bounty money . So taking the opportunity of delivering the space bag , she wanted to seduce a rich guy like me .
"No need ." I replied in a gangster men's voice that i have been using since entering in this place .
Even though she still has a charming smile in her face , but you can see a sad disappointed expression mildly.
I didn't bother to look twice at this gold digger and started to take a nap in the sofa . I used the sofa as if it is a bed .
Soon another female sarvent in kirtle dress came and took me to observatory room to watch the bidding.
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4:00 pm , Colos city beasts auction house
It has been more than an hour since Aetius came here to auction off 2 monsters beasts corpse.Unlike an hour ago ,when the bidding arenas sits were mostly empty,now it is completely full and some people even are forced to keep standing in the side of sits .
This bidding arena is like a big football or soccer games ground .The auctioned beasts dead or alive are displayed in the middle of the stone paved platform. The bidders sits around the big stadiums. This bidding house can accommodate 10 thousands of people at a time .
So it can be seen that how excited the crowd really are ! Most of the elites who are free , traveling people's who wants to see the bidding, people who are searching for a certain type of magic beasts have come ."
While aetius was taking a small nap , the auction house was busy .They not only washed the 2 dead beasts properly, they also invited many aristocrats to come and join . After all the appearance of a ranked beasts is very rare in this city , it can also give some enjoyment to these peoples.
"Damn it ,it has been more than hour ago I came in but they still didn't showed that magic beast!"
" Oi auction house bastards ,show us the magic beast .We didn't came here to see wild animals auction."
" Sir hurry up ,my butt is now in pain after siting here for an hour !"
The auction house , as usual showing the ordinary beasts bidding that they always do .So some people grew tired of seeing normal animals and started to shout .
The auction house authority decided that the time has come .
Soon the middle of stone platform ,like a door divided into two part and go down . It went down leaving a hollow above .
This immediately attracted the attention of the peoples. Unlike ordinary mortal beasts , in which the owner of the beasts goes to the platform and pour the animal out of the spatial bag and introduce it to the customer. This is completely different than usual . It means that the main reason for their waiting has finally appeared .The crowd become quit and attentive. They are waiting for the platform to rise up .
Soon the platform which gone down came up slowly but this time a big veil is covering something came up along with the movable platform .
"From the veil size ,It seems that it is more that 2 meters long beast .It may be a huminoid female magic monster. I hope it will be something i am looking for !"
Maerino said with expectations. She is a rank 1 fire path mage who just graduated from the mage continent and was going back to her home in Irronide kingdom .
Irronide kingdom is in the north of the Hartage kingdom . Her kingdom is also like the Hartage kingdom, they respects Novgord empire as their big brother . Novgord has five small brothers . they are Hartage kingdom,Irronide kingdom, Principality of the Antioch, Milfagard monarchy, Rize
Kingdom.
She is going north of the Hartage kingdom to reach her home kingdom . On her way ,she decided to take a rest for a day and then she will be on her way to the journey.
While she walking around ,she heard that a magic beast will be auctioned in the nearest building. So she got curious and came to take a look .
She doesn't hope to find anything of value in this small roadside city ,but she still came .Well she is now free and it is a great way to pass the time .
'Melena von kursk habss lorn arum de steins' came to the auction. She is studying in the colos school 3rd and final year . She is a child of the Steins family .
Steins family was demoted from a marquis family to a barron family .Their barron territory is located close to a small city in the northern roadside of this kingdom known as colos city where hardly any travellers stop .
Even though their family was sent here ,they don't live in this poor area. They still live in their old territory of the south of this kingdom . Even if their title is demoted,but their business is all there .They still live there even after losing marquis family title.
Only a side branch family of the Steins family lives in this barron territory. Yes melena is not part of the main line of the family but a side one .All the members of her noble family lives in southern part of this kingdom both main and side brunches.
Her father was sent here to govern this useless roadside town .She is joked by the childrens of both main branch and side brunches of the steins family as a daughter of a lowly barron .
Steins family still thinks themselves as a marquis family and acts as one even after 40 years of demotion. They are licking their old wounds and preparing for the king to die .Then they will support a prince and found their title back .
Her father never liked that his family kicked them out of the both main and side Steins family and completely sever the ties with him .Now he will be a barron for the rest of his life in this poor territory which didn't generate much wealth .He tried many times to go back ,but they didn't accepted his offer saying that if he leave ,who will take his position there ? Of course if a member of steins family wants ,then her father can go back to the south of the kingdom where it is rich and wealthy. But no one is interested to run a small town which didn't generate much wealth and money.
Her father 1 hour ago told her to go to the colos city beasts auction house to see if she can find a speed type rank 1 magic beasts. She lives in colos school which is close to the auction house. Her father is currently busy monitoring his territory, so he can't come within an hour .
Auction house send massage to the many powerful family nearby telling them that a rank 1 magic beasts would be auctioned soon. Certainly, they will not say the specifics .
In her family there are only 3 rank 1 magi . 2 are forced awaked magic knight and the last one is a speed type rank 1 magi . So her father wants her to see if she can find any rank 1 speed related magic beasts to help her family's only speed magi .
Melena's family is Steins in name only . They are totally forgotten by the main and side branch of the Steins family in the south region. Sometime some of the steins family's childs would visit melena and mock her as a Barron's daughter.
That's why when Aetius laughed while she was giving her speech in that class , she became furious thinking about those bully who would laugh calling her a barron's daughter.
This is the first time she will see a magic beast with her own eyes . She is also looking forward to seeing the magic beasts appearance.
In a special room in the auction house, a dark robed rank 3 mage is casually talking with a rank 1 mage .
"So yesterday the first battle about to happen at 'Waterkoo'? What are your thoughts about this,will we win or loss. That's the very first battle so we must not lose this one ."
" Yes lord salvo , winning the first battle will be very important as it will help us keep the moral of the soldiers high.I heard that Marshall duke Remus of the Blair family will be sending at least one hundred thousands of ordinary people, at least 10 thousand magic knights in this battle. As for the number of mages and holy knights that will participate, I don't know ."
" It is more than 100 years since i fought against those bastard Hussars. I was a rank 2 magi back then, i personally killed 3 rank 1 magi , 5 rank 1 holy knight of the eternal moon mistress back then .Looks like i will have to go back fighting against these moon bitches followers again! "
Hussar kingdom is like a theocracy back in world than a kingdom. The king has power in name only . Real power is in the hands of the church . Most of the people of Hussar kingdom are the followers of the Eternal moon mistress.
Eternal moon mistress religion of the Hussar kingdom is an archenemy of the moon mother goddess . They hate each other to the bone .
So even though moon mother goddess church don't like Hartage kingdom , they will still send people to beat their archenemies ass .
Both claims that their goddess has the true authority over the moon . They are destined to fight to the death .
Among the 3 moons of this world , humans believe in white moon .
"From the looks of the war ,i think the Hartage mage tower in the capital will soon command us to help the Hartage kingdom by joining it .I can't wait in this poor colos city anymore. Using the excuse of mage towers order , i can go away and enjoy some fresh blood of those eternal moon mistress followers and pay back for some old wounds! Don't let me found that old prist , because i will cook him alive if he is still alive." The mage started to rob his right shoulder to remember some old memory.
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Headmaster of the colos school is a sound path rank 1 magi . benito the echoing tune of lujubien. He also received a message from the city beasts auction house that a magic beasts is about to be auctioned . Although it is highly unlikely that a sound path magic beasts would be auctioned, but he still came for some entertainment.
It has been more than 150 years since he became a magi in sound path . He never succeeded in breaking to rank 2 . It is not that he didn't have resources, but he didn't have the aptitude. Or he never found his true way his inner self wanted to.
Magi rank up is a very difficult and strenuous task . You not only need resources and practice but are also required to learn the essence of your path in your own way . Others legacy and inheritance gives you notions and ideas only not the real rank up .
Benito is already more than 170 years old . He had a lot of resources and inheritance given by the colos family , but he never succeeded to break to the rank 2.
A rank 1 magi can live 200 years . So he has only 20 odd years left . He now tries to focus in his research .
He is now in a vip room with a businessman he knows .
"Lord benito, it has been a long time since i saw you ! Nowadays it is very hard to see you .When I was a teen back in 20 years ago , I would often see you socializing with a lot of people .But it is very hard to even see you in those social events anymore." Hearing the colos merchant union chairman sasaryou's words , mage Benito's who is wearing a white light robe face darkened instantly.
The thing is he always was a little careless about his path . Believing that he has a lot of time ,he never was serious to research and practice in his magi path . It is not until 20 or so years ago that he become serious and lowered mixing with the mortals .
"sasaryou , I remember that you were a teen who would like to bully anyone of his age back those days . I clearly remembered that a noble girl threw a bottle of wine at you back then and you lost one of your front tooth back then . I have to admit, you looked really funny then. " saying so mage benito started to laugh .
sasaryou's mouth twitches after being remembered that history by the mage . He back that time teased a maid in a party and the owner of the maid was a noble girl of colos family . That girl regardless her etiquette, throw a wine bottle at him, he was so shocked back then that he failed to dodge in time . He lost a front tooth because of that and become a laughing stock back then . Since then he is wearing a fake tooth there. He was very angry at that time .How dare a 10 year old girl attack him who was a 18 years old back then . Because she was a noble born , she received no punishment but instead my father send a lot of gift to her to ease the relation between him and the colos family .
In the stadium in a gorgeous sit a beautiful women in her early 30s is sited . She has silver hair in her head , a beautiful face with sharp contours. She has a lot of rare jewelry in her body ,attracting lust from men's nearby and jealousy of the nearby females.she is wearing a black gown . Her name is 'Asiatica mosin osin nis myrs von colos' .
Even though she seems happy and elegant,but there are a deep sadness in her eyes which can only be seen if someone focus closely.
She is unfortunately Nulliparous . She has no child even after more than 10 years of marriage.
Her husband is a firstborn of viscount pitren of the corseiken family . Corseiken family is a viscount family in the east of the kingdom . Because of her inability to give birth to a child ,her husband married another noble lady . Now that women has given birth to a girl child . That's why in corseiken family , she has to hear a lot of harsh and mocking words from the noble women circles and in corseiken family. Her husband no longer talks with her as if she didn't even exist in that viscount family .
Because of the war in the west of this kingdom, except mens all of the women, childrens and old people of the noble and aristocrat family's of that region are permitted to leave by the decree of Duke Remus .
Asiatica's husband didn't see her when she was leaving to her parents home unlike that women for whom he travelled to the border of the wast of this kingdom to see her off.
In Corseiken family ,she is regarded as an unwanted guest rather than a family member.
Women's who are unable to bear a child are considered cursed and unlucky by the peoples in this world . Moon mother goddess religions clergy's think these women's as unfavored by the goddess as their goddesses has 'mother' is her title indicating her authority in it .So ,the women's who are not mother, can't enter in the moon mother goddess church . The preist of colos city harshly shouted at her to leave when she attended a sermon at the colos city church .
Today she came here in this magic beasts auction house to stay active and forget about these traumatic experience.
" Old butler guess what magic beasts is under the veil ."
She said playfully. He is her family's old butler who was always with her from her childhood. Her mother was always busy in kitty party's and her father was also busy governing his territory. So she grew up almost with no care from them . This butler is like a father like figure to her who always stayed with her . After marriage she took this old butler with her in her new house. Old butler was the only person who supported her in that place where she is an eyesore.
"Lady Asiatica , I am not sure what it will be but I think it may be a orc?" The old butler who is standing beside Asiatica's side replied touching his chin in a thoughtful manner.
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Soon a beautiful women in red kirtle came near the veiled monsters corpse and unveiled it .
A 2.1 meter long rank 1 magic beasts kobold body was revealed in front of the crowd .The monster is half human and half dog like one . It has a dog tail in its back .
The auction house cleaned it in water and also wore a bra to hide her boobs and a panties to cover her lower parts . All the dark marks and blood holes in her face is now less visible. obviously they did some beautification in it . So from the distance it looks like an kobold in sleeping in the platform.
Because the kobold was in a big fight against the Banshee , it was a lot weak . Soon it lost it's gallbladder to Aetius . So she died after a few rock attacks . That's why her corpse has no big wound like sword piercings, which would make her look like an ugly dead kobold .
The crowd was in uproar as soon as they saw the dead kobolds . They previous saw a lot of dead magic beasts ,which normally had a lot of ugly wouds and missing organs .
But it looks like a healthy kobold who is in sleeping . Few even got scared thinking that it will wake up and attack .
Rank 3 mage of colos city become a little puzzled and said ,
" Mosour , Is their any hunter capable of killing a magic beasts without cutting a single body part in this city!?"
" Lord salvo, I believe an outsider may be the one killed this .The hunters in our city are not skilled enough to kill a rank 1 magic beasts so perfectly. This is a speed type beasts . I wish it was a wind type beasts."
Rank 1 mage mosour replied and sighed in helplessness.
" Didn't I helped you to kill a rank 1 wind path snake 1 year ago ? What are your progress? Did you feel any changes in your mana reserve?" Rank 3 mage salvo asked mosour without looking at him .
"Lord mage ,i do felt some fluctuation but it is not very strong . If i can have another wind path beast or some inheritance from a senior in my path ,maybe i will break to rank 2 soon ." Mosour replied to salvo respectfully.
Salvo looked at mosour and said ,
" Why don't you stop quarreling with Ginougt ! She is a rank 2 mage in wind path in this city . She can give you some important suggestions of your path . I suggest you to stop fighting with her all the time like the old folk tale of 'A cat and a dog' ." ,Mage Salvo said and laughed loudly.
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"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to our colos city's beasts bidding house.
Today we present to you this beautiful kobold womens corpse. She is a rank 1 magic beasts in speed path with a transformation type skill ,which could help her transform into a 6.10 tall dog monster. She has no external parts missing from her body ."
The beautiful women who unveiled this kobold womens corpse started to introduce the dead monster .
As soon as she said , the whole stadium of crowd started to boil in various kind of talks .
" Speed type , it is a rare speed with transformation type skills ."
" noooooooo , I thought it is a sleeping beauty beasts, i was really started to feel love to her ! Who dared to kill her ?"
" Thank goodness , this thing is just a corpse , I thought it is alive!"
"Papa i need this as my pet ,please please please."
" I wanna eat hot dog now !"
"Shit , i didn't bring my money ,shit I need this ,i have a brother who is a speed type magi ! damn it !!!"
"Hey husband, stop looking at this monster like you fell head to toe for it , I will kick you out of my house."
" Can i rent her for one night ?"
" I am starting to question my sexual preference now !"
" Transformation skill having beasts ? I found what I was looking for !!!!"
" I think i saw her in a bounty notice against a gang of rank 1 magic beasts."
sasaryou , who is sited with the mage in the VIP room saw the kobold and find facial similarities with a face in bounty he issued against a group of magic monster beasts.
All kind of people's are talking about the dead rank 1 magic beasts .Seeing the enthusiasm,the auction authority decided to double the starting price than the normal .
Normally, the bidding for a rank 1 magic beasts dead corpse starts from 5-10 thousands gold coins depending its size,ability,current conditions etc . They will start from 15,000 thousands gold coins.
Melena was also fascinated by the beauty of the magic monster corpse. She was overjoyed when she heard that it is a speed type beasts .She swore that she will own it no matter what .
Maerino was also overjoyed . She is going back with 7 new mage friends who lives in Ironnide kingdom. Among them there are a rank 1 boy mage who is a mage of transformation path and another one is a shadow walker which is close to the speed path . This is something she can't miss !
Her friends are all currently resting in a hotel room after a long journey , she was just walking around this city casually but saw a auction so she wanted to pass her time . But could have though that she will found a rare rank 1 speed type magic beasts here .
She has a lot of money as she did many magi school mission back in the Adriana subcontinent. But the problem is she doesn't have them right now with her . The money is in her storage bag which is with one of her friend in hotel . You never know if a thief stoles them when you walk around alone ,so she didn't brought her storage bag. Although she has wealth in her second storage bag bags ,but compared to her main storage bag ,it is an empty bag .
She is now regretting to leave her main storage bag in the hotel .But she didn't lose her hope ,she might not have her all accumulated wealth ,but she has a lot of gold still . Although not even 1/ 10th of her total coins ,but she hope to have this magic beasts.
After introducing the monster corpse to the crowd the women vowed and left .After her , a middle aged bald men ,wearing a round glasses in his eyes walked in the field infront of the magic monster corpse . He is wearing blue shirt and a blue pants . Because of oil, his bald head was shining in the afternoon sun .
A few servants quickly moved a podium in the field and set a sound enhancement stone above it .
The bald guy Dialleas , came infront of the podium and started to speak,
" Good afternoon to all present at this moment. I am 'Dialleas setgi cords hasdie' . I am a sales officer in these auction house. I will be responsible for this auctions procedure. Before starting i will inform you about some of the rules of it .
Rule number one is please do not enter the bid if you don't have the amount of money that is mentioned.
Rule number 2 is the lowest bid is 1 thousands gold coins . Do not increase the bid less then this amount.
Rule number 3 is, do not try to intimidate or threaten anyone using your power, family , group or factions . If you try to do those henious act , it will be equivalent of challenging Nirvanar aristocrat family. Nirvanar aristocrat family is the owner of this auction house and it has right to protect it's customer at it's boundaries. Nirvanar family is renowned throughout this kingdom for it's business ethics and principals for thousands of years . They will not sit idly if someone challenge or tarnish it.
Rule number 4 is , you can use both coins and treasures for auction if the seller is public . But if the seller is in incognito ,then you can only bid with coins only.
These are the basic rules you need to abide by . The current seller is incognito ,so use gold coins only . Please prepare we will start with an minute only ."
" Damn it , i dont have coins !"
" Nirvanar family ! They have auction house in this city too !"
" I wonder who are the hunters who skillfully killed this healthy looking kobold women . I wish i can learn a thing or two from them ."
" Can anyone give me some gold coins , i promise to pay back quickly."
" I want it ,i wanna sleep with it ."
" I wonder why the sellers wanna stay disguised."
Then the bald guy started to speak in the podium,
" Okay let's start , i will warn you again please do not raise your hand if you don't have the mentioned money. I will keep raising the price as long as i don't see more then 10 raised hands .Then we will give you mic-stone to say loudly your price."
Many people showed determination to buy it .
" The starting price is 15,000 gold coins , please raise hands , if you want ."
As soon as they heard the bald sale officers, Dialleas's who is the auctioneer of this place words , more than 50 people raised their hands.
"16,000 gold coins. "
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"25,000 gold coins." Dialleas said and looked at the crowd .
Now there are only 9 hands are raised .
Many who wanted but didn't have the money are now looking depressed and sad .
The servants give the mic-stone to these 9 remaining participating peoples .
Among them were Melena , Meirino , a black robed mage, the old chef of a famous restaurant in colos city known as ' meat&spice', a clothes maker who is expert making hand bags for womens , an alchemist of this city , a mage who works for colos city monitoring , a moon mother goddess clergy clothes wearing old men and a young men wearing clothes of nomad horse-mens .
"Please don't forget my previous warning and continue to increase the bid .Every bid must not be lower than 1000 gold coins, thank you ." Dialleas said to them solemnly.
As soon as Melena took the mic-stone she said boastfully,
"I am 'Melena von kursk habss lorn arum de steins', I am from the famous marquis family , steins family ...."
as soon as she said the Steins family as a marquis family ,the mic-stone stopped working .A few guards dashed towards her and started to drag her out of her sit to the gates of the stadium.
"How dare you to touch this miss ? Do you know who i am ? I am from steins family ,i will not let this auction house stay in this world .Stop my shoulders hart's,i will cut your hands and feed them to dog infront of you !"
"Young miss might have not taught well that ,it is a taboo to call a noble family high ranked one then the actual ranking ! Please go to home and learn some noble rules ,thank you ." Dialleas said with a grin on his face .
" I will not forget today's humiliation . I will go to my father and tell him about this . Let me see how this auction house stays in this city . Being thrown out of the auction house gate she was cursing. Suddenly a few soldiers came to her and said ,
"Miss melena , we are here to arrest you for spreading false information about noble ranking. We have a lot witness who heard you say that Steins family is a marquis family." After saying that he motioned to a female soldiers to handcuffs Melena .
"How dare you to arrest me ,do you know who i am ? Steins , I am from the Steins family .My father will not let this go . What false information? After that old bastard die ,we will be definitely be a marquis family! "Melena said in rage .
Hearing her words that she dared to badmouth the king and also wishing his death,the soldiers become angry . The leading soldiers couldn't hold his anger and kicked her . She flew 2 meters away and dropped to the grounds in blood . Before she lost consciousness she heard ,
"If not for barron Mordaer steins , I could have executed her as soon as she blasphemed his royal highness , the king Ronald ."
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Aetius who saw Melena being dragged out of the auction house, become ecstatic and started to laugh in a gangster voice very loudly.
After waking him up , the servant bring him in a room in 2nd floor from where he can see the auction being held down . That servant told him that others can't see through it from outside , but you can see them from the inside. After telling me to call me anytime, she left .
I am now in a small room . Here are a few sits and a glass table Infront on which some fruits are placed.
When i saw that Melena from my school is bidding for that kobold womens corpse, I was a little bit angry . That women used a magic artefact on me , even though she didn't harm me but how dare she use her magic artefact as she wishes! Do i look i an weakling?
But when I saw that she is being dragged out of this auction like a criminal, I become so happy beyond words .
She boasts in school as a member of the great marquis family , Stein's family . Even though no one likes her boasting ,but no student nor any teacher including a mage headmaster do not dare to correct her .
But today , despite being warned not to flaunt own backer party by the sales officer, she not only abide by it but she also even said her family as a marquis family .
In noble circle , It is considered a taboo to call a noble family high rank if they are truly not one.
Steins family was demoted 40 years ago by the decree of the king himself . So not obeying it, is considered a taboo.
Seeing her being dragged and joked by the bald sale officers, only some people laughed who are mostly outside of the country . Many who know Steins family or her father barron , stayed silent .
'This Nirvanar aristocratic family background is not so simple . Even though the Steins family is no longer a marquis family, it still has almost all of its wealth, manpower and resources. So not everyone would dare to anger them so easily .
Looks like I can trust this family's auction houses in future for buying and selling . They are very tough in thier business ethics. '
While Aetius was pondering, he noticed a commotion in the auction house gate from where Malena is being thrown out just now .
"Hey , are you out there? " I called to the servant who is currently outside of the door .
She quickly came , give me a bow and asked in a sweet voice ,
" Is there anything sir wants ?"
"Take it , go there and see what is going on there ." I gave her a gold coin and asked her to go where a little commotion was ongoing.
As soon as she took the gold coin, her eyes sparkled in excitement. It can't be helped ,she works in this auction house for 14 or more hours everyday . She is paid 25 gold coins per month as salary. Even though this is considered a good earning in this city ,but who doesn't want to earn more?
She happily nodded and left quickly.
I got infected by her happiness and unconsciously smiled a little .
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" How dare she wished his majesty to be dead !"
"The soldiers did the right thing to kick her ,that bitch should be hanged ."
" If it were a ordinary people,they might be long dead ."
" You didn't see how she flew like a sack clothes baggage after that 'push kick' ,ha ha ha."
" She is just a child who doesn't know how this world works , how can they hurt her so badly that she started to bleed from her orifices !"
" Look son ! if you badmouth his royal majesty , your ending will be like this noble girl. so do not be a shamefully proud like her ,okay ? good good good , that's my child."
A lot of people who were in auction house and people who were passing by the gate of the auction house become curious and gathering to see a noble girls being laying down unconsciously and blood being coming out of her mouth and nose constantly .
They first felt sympathy for her miserable state but when they learned about her being cursing the king to die ,they no longer felt any sympathy but started to shout out loudly and tried to kill her.
"Who do she think she is to wish his majesty to be dead? kill her , i will kill this bitch with my own hands ."
"I had doubt previously but now I am confirmed. This Steins family is the one who has shaken their hands with the Hussar kingdom and tried to assassinate his majesty king Ronald !"
" You say that the Steins family is with the Hussar kingdom who are killing our brothers at the border right now? I will destroy these evil linages with my own hands . Let's start killing this evil girl first."
People who heard that Steins family shook it's hands with the Hussar kingdom to assassinate his royal majesty and this girl wished the king to die, became enraged and bloodthirsty.
In this world , monarchs are considered as chosen one by the deities of that kingdoms main religion and his position is right after the god or goddess. So people have immense respect and appreciation for their monarchs.
Seeing that the situation is deteroiting , the soldiers quickly took Melena away while she is still being unconscious.
Unconscious Melena didn't know how much it will cost for her today's misbehavior which will not only bring a bad impect in her and her father's life but also to her whole family in the south of this kingdom .
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When Aetius heard the story from the servants mouth ,he become little lost .
'What's wrong with this brat ? She wished the king to die Infront of the crowd .The soldiers kick is the lightest punishment for this .If it were me ,who is a ordinary people if said these sacrilegious things ,would be killed in the spot !
I think this bitch will be in a serious trouble which will drag a lot of people with her .' Aetius though and nodded to sarvent who brought the information
"Good , you can go .I will call you if i need anything."
Aetius said and started to watch the auction as it resumed after that Melena's drama.
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Meirino , a black robed mage, the old chef of a famous restaurant in colos city known as ' meat&spice', a clothes maker who is expert making hand bags for womens , an alchemist of this city , a mage who works for colos city monitoring , a moon mother goddess clergy clothes wearing old men and a young men wearing clothes of a nomad horse-men , these 8 are the one who can afford to get this magic beasts corpse at 25 thousands gold coins .
After the events of Melena , everyone who previously bought a ticket of today gone back to the auction house to see who will buy the kobold magic beasts corpse.
Most of the 8 are also very hesitant to buy this rank 1 magic monster for more than 25 thousands of gold coins .
Normally a magic beasts dead body is sold for 10 - 20 thousands of gold coins. But because this beasts body has no visible bad blemishes and wounds , it turned out to be a most sought after corpse.
Most of the hunters risk their lives to catch this kind of dangerous magic user beasts. In the process of hunting , they leave behind a lot of wounds and causes amputations to the beasts, so there were lot of ugly bandage and stitches in them .
"26 thousands." said the famous ladies bag maker in this colos city, borgonous .
He is a well known Lady's handbag maker . Most of his customers are the noble and rich women's of this city and in it's sorrounding's .
Women's loves things made from animal hides especially hand bags made from the leathers of a magic beasts.
Borgonous usually buys magic monsters leathers from the big cities which are costly and time consuming. But he still buys from outside because those hides or leathers are guaranteed to be in good shape .
Today he founded a rare kobolds in his city which has almost no piercing or amputated parts in it's body . So he will not give up so easily. Also all rich and noble women present are also in love and jealousy of this kobold womens beauty . So he will definitely receive a lot of orders from them . How can he miss this opportunity?
"Huh , 27,000 gold coins. " Meirino said after a huge sigh in pain .
She only has 27,230 gold coins with her now.This is the highest she can go in this bet . This kobold not only is a speed type but it can also use a transformation spell which make her turn into a full body dog . This thing would be very useful to her 2 friends , but it seems that it is hopeless now.
'How unlucky, if i had my main storage bag with me , this kobold would be mine by ! '
" 30 " The nomad boy raised 3 fingers and said with difficultly.
The nomad horse-men is Chegedai .He grew up in a small nomadic tribe north of this kingdom. They mainly raises cattle and hoarses .They dependents of grazing of harviborus animal's in large grasslands . The nomads are not liked by the ordinary people's of this kingdom. In winter they would rob villages in group like hungry wolfs .In this kingdom they are a minority group which has almost no participations in kingdoms ruling.
Chagadai came here to sell some goats and horses that they usually grows to make a living . When he had finished selling his goods,he was walking around this cities .
Nomads can only raise harviborus animal's for living .They have little to no talent other than animal foraging. So they are considered brutes and barbarians to the common people.
Chagadai has a deep admiration for civilized people's life style since he first came for seeling some animals in a town with his father .
His clans people's don't like civilized people , they mocks them as weak earth diggers who grow crops . But he didn't think so. He would often visit to colos city to sell animals despite being warned not to mix with civilized people by many of his clansman.
They don't like to sell their animals to the civilized people because of hatred against each other. But Chagadai however is completely the polar opposite.
He loves their life style and wishes to live among them . His tribesman don't have any concept of currency at all . They don't use coins like like civilized people . They use 1 horse = 10 cattle like things which is not good at all . They will starve and forced to attack human village in winter to survive if thier grazing animals die unexpectedly.
If not for his mother , father and his younger siblings, he would have long left this nomad life .
He can understand Hartage kingdoms language but has trouble while speaking. He is learning since last year and he is confident to speak fluently by the end of the next year .
He is interested in this beasts because he wanted to use it to offer to the shaman of his clan . Their clan worship a big dog god named 'Doogickey'. So he is confident to earn the trust of his clans shaman and receive the blessings of their god .
Hearing the nomad boys bid Meirino's face darkened and she became sad .
Other participants are also feeling troubled now . Normally a dead magic user rank 1 beasts corpse are sold for 10-20 thousands coins . If a rare one appears ,it will be 20-40 thousands coins. But if a very special one appears, the price will go to 50 thousands or more . Like rank 1 Titanoboa with good shape will reach 100,000 gold coins .
" this is as far as this old man can go ,31 thousands." ,Said the old chef of the famous food restaurant in this city in a heavy voice .
He has a huge demand for magic monsters meat as a lot of traveling people's loves to eat to recharge and replenish their strength after a long journey on the roads . Having meat of different magic beasts is also important as many traveling people has their own favorite magic beasts which they love to eat .
Dog type beasts demand in also not bad ,so he wanted this beasts meat to add a new menu is his restaurant.
" 32 thousands ." said the unknown mage in black robe in a mechanical voice .He is definitely using a prop to alter his original voice .
" thir..tu fi...vee thou.sands ." said the nomad boy Chagadai with difficulty.
" Sir ,Thirty five thousand ?" asked the bald guy who is monitoring the process of this auction .He is helping the nomad boy who is facing troubles saying the exact words .
The nomad boy nodded quickly.
Damn it , the unknown black robed men become angry and left the stadium.
" 40 ."
the mage who's job is to monitor this city said in a carefree voice .
He is Fasimeiu , a rank 1 transformation path magi .He is looking for some transformation path magic inheritances and material. The colos city offered to provide the inheritance of regarding paths they have .He has been in this city for 4 years now . He has to work another 16 years to receive the promised inheritance.
In this small city ,it is very hard to come in contact with magic monsters let alone magic monster of his path .He feels that he will soon breakthrough to rank 2 if he can have some more knowledge and material in his path .
Today is a golden opportunity he is waiting for . He just monitors the city for 12 hours a day and research for the next several hours . He receives 350,000 thousands gold coins every month which he never use much .
Today he will not give up no matter what ! This beast can use a skill to transform into a full dog .If the information is right ,then he will hit a jackpot .
For him skills is very important .He has just 2 transformation type skills ,which he brought from the magi school at a high price . one is to enlarge his hands and make them as strong as rocks . The last one is to transform his hairs into sharp long spikes .
Fasimeiu also has a few magic items of attack and defense. But they are just props not his own skill that will always stay with him and can't easily be taken away !
If he can learn to transform into a dog ,it will be very helpful for him .So he will not care even if he ends up spending 100,000 gold coins if necessary. Well these coins are just extra weight for him with no real value for him .
"Looks like this young guy Fasimeiu will go any length for this beast .Well he sure is lucky to encounter his paths skilled beasts corpse unlike me ,who has no chance of finding anything of value in this dilapidated area . Sigh ."
Rank 3 mage ,salvo sighed after thinking about rank 3 magic monster corpse .In this region there are very few rank 3 beasts which are very shrewd and cunning . It is very hard to kill high ranking magic beasts as they starts to gain human like intelligence.
"Lord salvo , don't be disheartened . New year is approaching, So , many auction house in capital will release their best products like props, skill book, weapon ,pills and many other goods in their hands in a grand auction!
Top 3 auction houses aristocrat in this kingdom's, Rufus family , Nirvanar family , Silisean family will reveal a lot of accumulated wealths of this year in their hands in one go !"Mosour tried to cheer up rank 3 mage .
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In the auction venue, only 2 people remaining in the bid for the the rank 1 kobold womens corpse. One is nomad young men Chagadai and other one is a rank 1 mage mage who works in this city monitoring.
The nomad young men raised 6 fingers in his hands to the auctioneer.
"Sir , are you saying 60,000 gold coins ? " Auctioneer, bald head guy asked with a smile. Dialleas has a reason to be happy . This rank 1 magic beasts is the highest grossing rank 1 magic monster since 6 months of this auction house. Their auction house will also earn 6 thousands gold coins if it is sold for 60,000 gold coins .As they charge 10% for the final bid without mentioning the vanue tickets . Currently this auction house vanue has more than 12 thousands peoples ,so they will earn close to 12 thousands gold coins for today's auction auction too. There are still many wanted to come but they are stopped as more than 2 thousands of people are already standing to see the fun . This auction house has only around 10 thousands sits , other are standing ,but from their expression,it is clear that they don't mind .
There are many who never saw a magic beasts in one piece but on their food plate or in thier clothes name tags info . So they are still in awe of this kobold women .Some young mens are also started have some wild and perverted thoughts. It can't be helped, the auctioneers are very cunning , they wore the dog women with only a bra and a panties barely .
While Dialleas was in happiness , he become more happy by another shout from the stone-mic .
"70 thousands , i will not bother to increase bid by 1 thousands, it is a waste of time . " With a loud yawning , the rank 1 transformation path mage fasimeiu said as if he has no regret for money .
The nomad young men Chagadai shook his head saying that he can't go any further .
Although he had 78 thousands gold coins with him ,he didn't go any further as he has to buy a lot of things like food , winter warm clothes and some iron to make sword.
Because of the war , the price is high in this city . Normal foods and clothes price doubled in the village areas , whereas it is as high as 3 times than normal times in the cities . As for harviborus animal's meat , it is 4 times high than normal times . The horses price is 10 times high then before war . In war , horses are very important as they are fast and can move war supplies to the frontier and they can be easily tamed by ordinary peoples with less difficult than other type of speed beasts .
Government took away almost all horses from all over the kingdom .So the demand for horses are highest since the last great war against Hussar kingdom more then 100 years ago .
The nomads are considered barbarians in the eyes of the kingdom so they have no participations in this kingdom's matter's .Every small nomad clans only need to pay 100 horses as a tax every year .
The nomads are good at raising horses and domistic animal's .So they have lot of meat but no veggies .
A week ago , Chagadai came in this city with 300 nomad horses to sell . As soon as he entered ,many horse merchants invited him to their farm to talk about selling .
He was shocked when he realized that the war with Hussar kingdom has broken out with his kingdom . But no one in his clan nor others around his clan knew anything about it.
Nomads are treated as not a part of this kingdom . They are more thought like a horse riding madman's who only rob and loot human villagers in winter .They are not included in any citizenship of this kingdom . The only way , a nomad can become this kingdoms citizen is , If he or she lawfully marry a civilized opposite sex .
Chagadai was also sad when he thought that the kingdom he grew up never recognize him as a part of their kingdom at all . Even if the kingdom face a imminent destruction ,it will not call the nomad tribe for help as they are recognized as a brutes and uncivilized .
Chagadai loves this kingdom ,he can't control his emotions when he heard that the Hussar kingdom tried to assassinate the king and also attack, taking the chance of the chaos .
In normal times , a nomad horse could be sold for 70-80 gold coins compared to that a war horses , which could be sold for 1000 gold coins . But because of the war ,now nomadic horses price is around 500 gold coins and for war horses, it could be sold at the price of 12,000 gold coins per horse .
It is not that they discriminate against the nomads ,but it has a reason for this .
Nomads lives in the grasslands and their foraging animals like horses also eats grasses to fill their stomachs . There are almost nothing else in their menu to eat .
The war horse is a special species horses which are taken extra care since they are born . They are fed with nemerous kinds of grass , vegetables and beans to make them sturdy , mascular and stronger .
The war horses can bear load of a heavy knight as if the weight doesn't even exists and can run at the extremely high speed then the normal horses and nomadic horses .
Compared to a war horses ,a nomadic hoarse is just a child . Nomadic horses , because of the lack of proper nutrition grew half then a war horse .
Chagadai earned 140,000 gold coins as a few horses died in road journey or else it would be 150,000 gold coins .
He brought a lot of foods , clothes and materials a few days ago and send them to his clan with his slaves and his clan brothers who follows him like a leader . He had 80,000 gold coins after that .
He is now staying in this city and learning to talk and write from a person of this colos city . Today he was walking around to witness the busy streets filled with many people with many types of clothes hanging around them .
All kind of people's come to this city for resupply and rest. So it is very interesting and enjoyable to look around .
Most of the people who saw him , give him looks full of scorn , disdain and contempt , as soon as they saw him . But Chagadai didn't mind them and keep up doing what he is up to .
After living in this city and seeing this city full of different kinds of people's ,he first wondered why there are no fight at all . If any outsider came to their nomadic territory they would bully him to a certain extent even kill if he failed to give a proper reason .
Then he understood that this city is constantly being checked by the mysterious people's who can manipulate fire ,earth , water ,air and many more ! He became a lot scared and curious after learning that .
In his clan, people believe that ,this kind of things can only be performed by the gods themselves ! So he become both scared and curious about them .
Soon he realized about the magi and some basic things about them which is a common knowledge in this kingdom .
In his clan ,if any children show mana tip-off they are considered cursed and are killed mercilessly on the spot .But looking in the civilized world , it is completely the opposite ! They wish to have a mana tip-off to happen to them or to their friends and family !
Chagadai also heard from a men that a magi can live longer than any common humans normal lifespan and still look like a young man ! Some magi can even live for thousands of years !
He also felt sad that ,their clan and the sorrounding nomadic clans killing these kids who has a bright future ahead of them .
He recently saved a kid from execution after he passed his mana tip-off which caused fire to be brook out in that kids house .
That kids parents were scared and afraid of him , thinking that a evil spirit has entered in his body ! The shaman of his clan made a prophecy that the kid will bring destruction to their clan in next winter !
When Chagadai learnt about this ,he quickly saved the kid from the execution which caused a rift in them . He told them about what is a mana tip-off and some basic things . But the shaman and a few old guys didn't paid any heed to his words , they wanted the child dead for good . Even the childs parents also wanted the kid to die and started to shout as
' Kill this evil thing ,it is no longer my son .'
After some argument ,he convinced the shaman that he will take the kid away so that he will not burn the village during that last year winter .
Shaman nodded to not kill and let the child go away from this clans territory .
The kid was 8 years old back then ,now he is 9 and living in a hotel of this colos city for about 2 years now . The kid is also very greatful to his life saver and promised to help him after he become like those cool guys who can use fire , as he is a fire mana awakener !
Chagadai wanted to cool down his relationship with the shaman by offering a kobold which looks like their clans deity . But it looks like it will not gonna possible.
Instantly, there were cheers and congratulations for the magi Fasimeiu, who the kobold corpse instant of that nomad young men .
They are happy and excited as one of them (civilized) won ,not someone from a nomadic origin.
Fasimeiu was also not polit, as a narcissist ,he really become arrogant by this cheers . He stood up in his sit opened his arms wide on both as if hugging all the cheers thrown at him but still had a hard time to hold them and said loudly in the stone-mic ,
"Thank you everyone , I am very happy right now . Seeing your support and admiration for me , I am in tears of happiness . I didn't felt this kind of joy since I had my mana tip-off . I will always greatful for your heartfelt support ."
Hearing this , the crowd has become more excited and clapped harder and louder then the last time .
But the people who wanted to own this rank 1 magic monster
corpse ,become angry and irritated . Their faces started to twitch in a unsightly manner seeing this mage becoming arrogant .
"Ha ha ha looks like this Fasimeiu kid will have a hard time in his mage journey. I know a lot of mage who faced tragic situations for becoming presumptuous ."
Rank 3 mage salvo started to laughed and said casually.