This was not something that Rias was expecting to see in the auction house of a backward city like Arcane city.
"How did this even get here." She looked at the gem as if it was a strange creature.
"Anyway, now that it is here, I have to get it at any cost." She made her mind to buy this gem at any cost.
"These people don't even know it's real effects, they only know that it can increase cultivation speed but that is not the main point. If i get ny hands on this gem, I can give it to Aiden. He will surely benifit a lot from it." Even at this moment, she was thinking good for Aiden as she literally wanted to help him grow up into the most powerful person.
She was not some greedy person and was unlike the one's who would first pretend to be good and then reveal their true motives.
She was genuinely caring for Aiden. Her mind told her that the boy could grow into a powerful presence if nurtured well.
She didn't want his talent to go to waste just because of the lack of resources and a teacher.
"I must bid the most, I can't simply afford to lose this gem." She thought to herself.
Just as she snapped out of her thoughts, she noticed that the bidding had already started.
People were bidding like crazy. The big shots in the city who were present there, also started to bid. Their amounts exceeded hundreds of thousands of gold coins.
When they started to bid, all the other small participants decided to back off as they couldn't afford to clash with these big shots of the city.
No one would want to offend these bid people as they could easily trample over their sects or businesses.
When the big shots were bidding, everyone's mouth was hung open as the bidding had already reached more than a million gold coins.
Rias felt that she had to quickly bid or she would lose this bidding battle and the sage gem.
She grinned and then bid her amount.
"1.1 million." She calmly but loudly stated her bid.
This amount of money shocked the small bidders as they wouldn't ever dare to spend this much on just a single item.
Although this item was precious, but they were still waiting for the last item as it was something grand this time.
The other big shots were annoyed and looked at this unknown person who wass bidding so much.
Rias had already prepared a cloak as she couldn't reveal her identity here. Not that she was scared but she was afraid that her enemies will be informed if she revealed her identity.
The big shots started to bid more and more until Rias raised the bid to 1.5 million gold coins.
No one dared to bid any higher after this as they had to save money for the last item.
The sage gem seemed precious to them but the last item was going to be grand so they didn't have the luxury to bid any higher than this.
In the end, Rias was the one to obtain the sage gem as no one bid any higher than her.
After the sage gem was over. A large box with runic patterns and formations was presented on the stage.
This box looked majestic and was emitting a powerful cold-aura.
Rias could already feel the tremendous energy that was being emitted by the object inside the box.
This object was obviously not something simple, it was a very strange and dangerous object that had a rarity higher than the rare grade.
"What could it be. It has such amazing power, it is definitely not a common item." Rias evaluated the object inside the box without even seeing the object.
"Ladies and gentlemen, this is the last, grand item for today. This item is of unknown origin and was found in the roots of a 1000 years old tree. It has a powerful aura inside it and it is not something simple. The item is being suppressed by the runes and formations on this box otherwise it would have already killed many people here just by the sheer pressure. As this item is very powerful, we will start the bidding with amounts higgeer than 200000 gold coins!" The lady on the stage announced loudly, causing the aucience to go wild with the details and the starting price.
"Why is the starting price so much.." everyone had the same thoughts in their mind and they could only think that it is a very rare items so the price was this high.
"250000!" One of the big shots started the bidding by stating his price.
"350000!" The other person raised the bid by a total of 100 thousand coins.
The amount was rising tremendously as the people were very curious to get their hands on this powerful item.
"500000!" the bids had already reached a total of 500000 but there was no stop to the rising bids.
"700000!" A lady stated her bid.
"You're not getting anything today. 8000000!" A person taunted the lady by raising the price by a hundred thousand coins.
"9500000!" The lady loudly stated her bid again.
"one million!" Another big shot raised the price.
"1 million and five hundred thousand!" Rias interrupted between the clash of the big shots again.
This drove the big shots crazy as she had raised the bid by a whole 500000 coins.
"1.6 million!" One of the Vip's shouted.
"2 million." Rias again raised the price by 400 thousand coins. She didn't want to waste her time by raising the bid by a little and decided to bid more.
The Vip's stared Rias with killer looks as she was interfering in the biddings of big people.
They just simply couldn't tolerate this any longer and started raising the bids like crazy.
"2.5 million!"
2.7 million!"
2.9 million!"
...
After minutes of riasing the bids. The bid shots finally decided to give up as Rias was a complete monster.
She had come here this day with millions of gold coins in her storage ring.
Ofcourse, this was not her money and was Sarena's money as she was willing to give it to her.
Her final bid had already reached 3.5 million and this was the dead end for everyone, including her as she only had 5.3 million when she entered the auction.
She had spent 300000 on the herbs that she had bought earlier, 1.4 million on the sage gem and now 3.5 million on this item so it was 5.3 million in total.
Luckily, it was also the dead end for the others so no one could bid any higher than this.
After a few seconds, the item was finally given to Rias along with the other items that she had purchased. Although she had offended many Vip's on this day, she didn't care about it even a bit. Why would she even have to fear them, she was several times powerful than them and if they all had a brain, they wouldn't dare to look trouble with someone who has even deeper pockets than them. They would be in the dark about her identity and hence they won't dare to make a wrong step which could lead to their destruction.
As she was about to leave the auction house, she was interrupted by someone.
"Miss Rias!