Arthur made the bid against his will but he knew he wanted to find out what made that sword special that it attracted his attention so much.
"$500,000 from Mr. Wells"
"Anybody else 500,000 going once"
Arthur stared at the Rochelle's room as he could sense someone's gaze from there.
"going twice"
"What are you going to do" Arthur whispered under his lips.
He waited for a show but all he got was silence and he no longer felt someone looking at him.
Seeing as no bid were coming for the sword,
"sold to Mr. Wells"
Immediately a sexy black lady came to collect the sword and left the stage.
At that point Arthur stopped paying attention to the rest of the auction and left as he felt that it was a waste of time
As he walked towards the entrance, q groups of people came towards him. Leading them was a chubby white man, following him was the sexy black lady and two bodyguards.
"Mr. Wells thank you for patronizing and attending our annual angels auction, here's what you bought".
Immediately the black lady stepped forward politely with the case, it was very long and narrow. It's color was a sleek black with silver lining looking extremely luxurious.
She then opened the case and Arthur was immediately attracted to the sword, he couldn't tear his gaze away from it and something in him wanted to hold it.
"Cough, Mr. Wells I can see that you like the sword very much do you perhaps happened to have heard anything about it
Arthur looked at the chubby man and immediately became indifferent, signalling to his guards who promptly made the payment, after that he collected the suitcase and left. From beginning till end Arthur thought nothing of the man or his questions.
Immediately walking towards the entrance but before he could leave he heard gunshots and immediately the ship was surrounded with men covered in clothes like rags, bloodshot eyes and clothe masks, holdings guns, supposedly only wielded by the military.
Immediately Arthur was surrounded by his guards who protected him and moved towards a safer location. Arthur didn't carry much guards Because he wasn't planning on staying long as a boat would pick him up after 20 mins and take him to the shore were his guards were waiting for him. Although he was armed, it wouldn't amount to much, and before rescue could come it would take time and he didn't know whether he would be alive by then, he had to find a way to leave.
Arthur immediately started looking for a way out, how s face grew grim as he saw that even the windows and corridors had people guarding it.
As Arthur was preoccupied with looking for a way out, he immediately noticed that the screams and chaos had stopped and everything has gone silent. Then noticed that while everyone's gaze looked terrified it was mostly directed towards the center of the lobby.
Standing in the center of a the chaos but was oddly calm was lanky goon whose face was not covered. His scarf resting on his neck, eyes bright and hair dyed white, though he wore rags it was relatively clean unlike others. He stood with such grace that one might regard him as a noble, if only he wasn't carrying a gun and just killed someone near him while smiling.
"Taa!"
He fired a shot in the air and moved around elegantly as if he wasn't part of the people terrorizing the ship
" You see am not allowed to introduce myself, they find it troublesome and my second find me annoying"
"But I can tell you that I came all the way from Asia , China, surprised"
Arthur saw his eyes turning crazed then reverting back to his smiling immediately staring at the dead body of the host.
"You see it's not nice to steal from people who especially you lack the required information or knowledge off..."
He turned around and looked at the frightened guest
'We are not just ordinary grave robbers, we are suicidal grave robbers, grave robbers of the future"
" So it's a cult, great" Arthur thought , then he saw some goons bringing dead bodies, mostly made up uniform securities and guards along with scared survivors. The dead bodies was the placed round the white haired man
Arthur lamented looking at the guest and the host who were few minutes ago enthusiastic and calmly bidding on stolen relics.
Arthur didn't pay attention to these people no more as instead he payed attention to the leader and his men movements so as to look for an opportunity to escape as he finally saw a window that was not guarded near him.
The window bordered the sea but Arthur didn't mind because it was either staying on the ship and dying or trying his luck in the sea as he was a great swimmer and had won various competition when he was a youth
Arthur would do anything as he could not die here, and at the moment all he could think about is his mother.
Arthur was prepared to retire by age 35, being 34 years now, he was already beginning to handle everything necessary for his retirement, then he would explore the world with his mom.
They had already planned to go to China first for a tour and even though his mom worried about his decision not to get married, she respected it and advices him to adopt a child instead, to which he hadn't yet agreed to.
"Well ladies and gentlemen, you see, today is really an unfortunate situation for all of us, as you may have guessed or probably wouldn't we were robbed by this very great auction house and now for revenge we had to come all the way from Asia, leading to our current situation, that's pretty unfortunate isn't it"
The white haired man immediately said while moving away from the center of the hall.
Then paused looked the guests
"Tsk" then he said something in Chinese while looking at the roof.
"Later we blow up this ship"
Those who knew Chinese started screaming and panicking
"Be quiet, can't you be elegant, sheesh I thought rich people at least knew that much"
While all this was going on Arthur's guards were already moving closer to the window almost reaching the it, getting ready to strike with Arthur permission.
When suddenly a muscular goon came and whispered into the leaders ear, causing his expression to change, which made all the goons raise their guns which was originally relaxed, causing Arthur to tense up.
" So one of you still have something that belongs to us"
If previously when he was talking his English was perfect then now it just changed and carried a Chinese accent as if he was struggling with English.
If before Arthur seemed to see a way to escape now he knows that if he did not get out here he would surely die.
" You see it's a very special sword, very very special, all black, beautiful, nobody who saw it would ever take his eyes off, off it".
Arthur immediately looked at the case he was clutching tightly in his embrace, even though he didn't know when he did. Immediately a dread came over him forcing him to take out his gu holding it close to his body. He looked and saw some people eyes directly or overtly staring at him.
"Ahh... What are some of you guys staring at"
The leader turned but couldn't find him as immediately some averted their eyes.
But only one person stared so intently that made arthur try to keep calm as much as possible and not act weirdly.
"Hey beautiful, what are you staring at so intently, if you're this beautiful, your family must be something in this city"
Arthur stared at the person the leader was talking and immediately his face tightened as his eyes met those of a freighted, selfish and mocking eyes