Arthur face grew colder and impatient showcasing his mood. His aura grew dark making his guards restless, afraid to worsen his mood further. The reason being for the past 10 minutes or so, what has been auctioned ranged from ancient Egyptian relics to chinese Paintings, whether being fake or not, still made arthur bored & disgusted at the same time.
"At this rate might as well leave this very minute"
Author refused to admit that despite his disgust, he was Particularly interested in lost but found Chinese relics and that for the past 10 minutes, anything said to be from China he would unconsciously sit up and pay attention.
As he stood up to leave, something sharp pierced his left eye forcing him to close his left eye.
But the feeling was gone immediately as he opened his eye, he felt as if it all was an illusion.
But something immediately caught his attention. It was a black sword being auctioned, everything from the tip to the hilt was black, forcing him to observe carefully, he noticed that any light reflecting on the blade seem to be absorbed. He could not quite figure it out but at the same time he felt quite an attraction and couldn't take his eyes off it. The sword seem dull and ugly but to him it had a mystery to it.
"Well this is another one of the master piece found in an ancient tomb, it wasn't anything special when We found it, as the only thing special was that it was enclosed in a giant stone completely"
"We could have missed it but one of our apresials found the stone strange, so after breaking it open we found the sword".
"We searched and couldn't find any records of this sword being in any ancient history in china but the fact that it was completely enclosed as if to seal itself is a mystery"
"So without further ado, ladies and gentlemen the selling price of this ancient Chinese sword is hundred thousand followed up by five thousand dollars "
The hall went silent and nobody called for a bid
Arthur understood, nobody in this crowd wanted something of unknown origin as he or she would not be able to show it off or sell it off for a higher price.
"Hmmm, how about I bid" "one fifty thousand"
Everybody including Arthur looked at the room calling the bid
"The room for the Rochelle's and a woman's voice at that, the probability of it being the youngest daughter is quite high"
Arthur and everybody who knew about the Rochelle's knew that the youngest daughter carried her grandfather's obsession with ancient relics. Being one the owners of the largest gallery in Los Angeles, they particularly had an obsession with ancient relics.
" Well too bad I also want in on the fun"
For the first time that evening Arthur showed an expression but it was one of amusement and it completely disappeared immediately.
"One fifty thousand going to miss Rochelle's once, going twice "
"Five hundred thousand dollars"