At the original place, under the gaze of many people, the auction was still going on.
However, compared to the first item, the value of the second item is much lower. It is just some artworks collected by ancient elven nobles. It may be precious to mortal nobles, but it is not worth mentioning to wizards, let alone formal wizards like Athir.
Except for a few wizards who have a special liking for this kind of thing, few wizards will offer a price.
Finally, the second auction item was bought by a middle-aged wizard in a red robe for five magic stones.
Next, more and more items were auctioned here, most of which were precious antiques used by some elven nobles, or some low-level magic items.
These things basically have one characteristic, that is, they are related to ancient elves, and it is said that most of them were excavated from ancient elf ruins.
During this auction, Athir also made several bids and bought some small gadgets that were interesting to him, most of which were magical items discovered from ancient elven ruins.
Most of these enchanted items have been repaired. After all, even things made by ancient wizards will be damaged after tens of thousands of years, and it is impossible to maintain their original appearance.
Most of those that can be auctioned are still in good condition. After some simple repairs by wizards, they are put up for auction. Most of them are relatively weak.
The reason why Athir bought these things was not because he wanted to use them, but just wanted to study the magic items made by these ancient elves to see if he could find some alchemical techniques of the ancient elves from them.
Ahead, the auction continues.
Under the gazes of everyone, the old man in a red robe who was in charge of hosting the event stood in the center of the stage. Beside him, several burly men who looked strong and powerful worked together to lift up a huge blue ice coffin.
After lifting it up, they opened the lid of the ice coffin, revealing what was inside.
A light chilly wind blew out, carrying with it the dust and ashes that had been there for so long.
At this moment, the expressions of several wizards present changed, as if they sensed something, and they all looked into the ice coffin.
On the ice coffin, there was a beautiful girl in a light blue dress lying quietly with her eyes closed. She was as beautiful as the Sleeping Beauty in the fairy tale.
Unlike ordinary girls, this girl had long light silver hair and her ears were much smaller than those of normal people. There was also a faint wave of mana emanating from the girl's body, carrying a deep chill.
"This is!!"
At this moment, many wizards present changed their expressions and stared blankly at the elf girl in the ice coffin in front of them.
"This was recently excavated from an ancient ruin. According to the age, it was during the Bloody Disaster period."
At the front, the old man in charge nodded with satisfaction, sensing the gazes of the people around him, and began to explain to the people below: "According to the information obtained at the time, this deceased elf girl should have belonged to the elf royal family of ancient times, and was very likely a princess, so she was protected so well after her death."
He pointed at the ice coffin in front of him and said, "Look everyone, this ice coffin is also a unique magical item. It was made by ancient elf wizards specifically for protecting corpses. Once a corpse is placed in it, it will be crystallized within a day, so that the corpse will always remain in the same state as when it died and will never rot."
Looking at the people below, he enthusiastically explained loudly, and then announced the price of the auction item: "Including the corpse and the ice coffin, the starting price is one hundred magic stones!"
As soon as the voice fell, the place fell into silence. After a while, a voice sounded: "Two hundred magic stones!"
"Five hundred magic stones!"
"Eight hundred!"
Voices kept ringing out at the spot, and within a short period of time, the price of this ice coffin was raised to one thousand magic stones, and the price was still slowly rising.
In a room nearby, when Adi saw the ice coffin in the distance, he immediately stood up and looked at the ice coffin with fiery eyes.
To be precise, he was not looking at the ice coffin, but at the lifelike corpse inside the coffin.
"It seems that there are still many good things in this auction." Fred's voice sounded again from the side.
He looked at Athir who stood up beside him with some surprise, then smiled and said, "We are lucky. This ice coffin made by the ancient elves can not only preserve the body intact, but the material of the ice coffin itself is also a precious material that is about to become extinct. In recent years, we have seen fewer and fewer of them."
Unlike Athir, his interest was obviously not in the corpse in the ice coffin, but in the ice coffin itself.
The same was true for the other wizards present. Except for a few with quirks, the rest of the wizards didn't even look at the corpse.
Once a corpse is sealed in an ice coffin and taken out, it will lose its crystallized state after a period of time and turn into a rotten corpse.
No matter how beautiful a girl was, if her body rotted, it would just be a pool of rotten meat and would not attract the slightest attention of these wizards.
Unless the corpse is a pure-blooded ancient elven king, then perhaps we can find a way to obtain the powerful bloodline of the ancient moon elves from the corpse.
But if this corpse is really that of a pure-blooded elf king, then it would definitely not be brought here for auction.
Although the corpse of an ordinary elven royal family has great research value, it is far less precious than this ice coffin to the wizards present.
"That's too much!"
As the atmosphere around was getting heated, a voice sounded in a corner.
Suo Lana looked at the elf girl lying quietly in the ice coffin in the distance, with some anger in her eyes: "It's fine to disturb the dead's sleep, but now they are even auctioning off the dead's body. This is simply blasphemy!"
She looked at the people around her who were making offers, and felt extremely angry.
Because she has the blood of the ancient moon elves in her body, although she does not have the qualifications of a wizard, she has always longed for the beauty of the ancient elves. Therefore, she has always felt disgusted with the act of desecrating the elves' corpses.
What's more, the corpse being auctioned in front is not only a beautiful elf girl, but also has the blood of moon elves in her body, and it is more likely that she is also a princess.
The similar identity and blood made her feel close to the corpse in front of her, and she couldn't help but feel very disgusted by the act of auctioning the corpse.
Unfortunately, even though she was a princess of the Gao Luo royal family, she was not born with the qualifications of a wizard, so she was not taken seriously. The magic stones she could mobilize were also limited, not enough to compete with the wizards around her. She could only watch the wizards around her continue to quote prices.
At this moment, under the bidding of many wizards, the price of this ice coffin was raised to eight thousand magic stones, and the bidding sound gradually died down and no longer sounded.
The wizards present basically knew the value of the ice coffin in front of them. Even if the corpse of the elven royal family inside was included, the price was just about this. Any higher would be not worth it.
"It looks like this is the price." In a corner, a wizard whispered as he looked at the ice coffin in front of him.
"Ten thousand magic stones."
At this time, a voice sounded again. Although the voice was calm, it was firm and people could feel his determination.
Everyone around looked in the direction where the sound came from, only to find that it came from a small room.
"It's the wizard."
Looking at the direction where the voice came from, Suolana's eyes lit up: "I remember he came with Lord Fred."
"Ten thousand magic stones! Is there anyone who can offer a higher price?"
In front, the host's excited voice sounded again.
The red-robed old man in charge of support had an excited look on his face. He looked at the direction where the voice came from. Although he was a little surprised, he still tried to shout, expecting someone to continue bidding.
But this time, there was no sound coming from below.
An old apprentice in a white robe who had previously offered eight thousand magic stones looked at the host on the stage and shrugged helplessly.
"Well! Congratulations to this gentleman for obtaining this ice coffin!"
Looking at the reactions below, the old man in red robe announced loudly.
"The price of ten thousand magic stones is a bit expensive."
In the room next to him, Fred was looking at the ice coffin being carried down in front of him. He ate a white fruit and smiled at Athir, "For this ice coffin and this corpse, eight thousand magic stones are almost the limit. Ten thousand magic stones are a bit of a waste."
"It doesn't matter."
Athir smiled and shook his head, looking in a good mood: "I have some experiments recently, and I need some corpses of elven royals with pure blood."
"You want to try to extract the blood of the ancient moon elves from the corpse of the elven royal family?"
Looking at Athir, Fred guessed.
After listening to his words, Atier did not deny it and nodded directly.
"That's good, but it's too difficult."
Fred nodded. "The purification of ancient blood has always been a great difficulty for wizards today. I still remember that when I was young, I also did many such experiments."
"What was the final result?" Athir looked at him and asked.
"I failed, without a doubt."
Fred spread his hands and said, "If the blood of ancient creatures could be purified so easily, then today's wizards wouldn't be so weak."
Hearing this, Athir nodded slightly.
To purify high-level ancestral blood from already faded blood is an extremely difficult task even in ancient times.
If Atier did not have a chip that could help him directly observe the blood chain in his blood, he would not have been able to do this.
"But even though I failed, I also gained a lot from that crazy experiment."
Looking at the expression on Athir's face, Fred smiled and said, "There are many wizards who do this kind of experiment. If you want to do this kind of experiment, there is actually no need to collect materials at the auction."
"In some places, there are places that specialize in digging up the corpses of ancient elves from ruins and selling them. If you want to collect experimental materials, you can go there."
"kindness?"
After listening to Fred's words, Athir was stunned: "Is there such a place?"
"certainly."
Fred smiled and said, "In fact, there is such a place in our market, but it's on a smaller scale."
"But you have to be prepared. Generally, the corpses of elves with good bloodlines are not only rare, but also very expensive."
He looked at Athir and explained, "After all, from ancient times to the present, it is not easy to preserve the corpses."
"I can understand." Athir nodded to show his understanding.
In front, as time passed, auction items appeared one by one and were auctioned one by one.
However, after the ice coffin, Athir had no interest in other auction items. Apart from occasionally auctioning off a few items, he didn't care about the rest.
After a while, as time passed, the auction gradually came to an end.
Athir and Fred walked out of the room together, followed a path, and soon came to a hall.
There, there were already a few people waiting.
"Hello, my Lords!"
Seeing Athir and Fred, an old man in a white robe came forward with a smile and looked directly at Athir: "Sir, you have auctioned off seven items in total. According to our calculations, the total is 17,300 magic stones."
"Seventeen thousand three hundred magic stones."
Hearing this number, Athir nodded slightly, not surprised.
At the previous auction, in addition to the ice coffin, he also bought several other items, and the total price was not low.
He took out a small bag from his arms, counted out the high-level magic stones inside, and asked casually, "Can you exchange high-level magic stones for magic crystals?"
"this···"
As if he had not expected Athir to ask this question, the old man in white robe was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Of course there is no problem with that."
"However, if you use ordinary magic stones to exchange for magic crystals in our Chamber of Commerce, our Chamber of Commerce will still charge a 1% handling fee."
"Cough..." A cough suddenly sounded.
Listening to the words of the old man in white robe in front of him, Fred's face turned unfriendly. He looked at him with a pair of somewhat turbid eyes. A unique mental fluctuation escaped and was suppressed in an instant.
Suddenly, the white-robed old man in front of him turned pale. Before he could react, Fred's voice rang out again: "This is Lord Athir, also the guardian wizard of our Gaoluo Kingdom."
"The guardian wizard of the Gaoluo Kingdom..."
Hearing Fred's reminder, the old man's hands shook subconsciously, and then he reacted immediately. Looking at Athir in front of him, his expression suddenly became respectful and passionate: "Of course, for a distinguished person like you, this 1% handling fee can be completely waived!"
PS: I would like to recommend a book by a friend, "Rebirth of the Chinese Food Saint". Here is the synopsis:
Li Yu, the youngest chef king in China, was accidentally reborn in a parallel world where meat has just been banned.
What? The recipes of the world have been lost? The most famous oriental cuisine is kimchi?
Of the 108 dishes in the Manchu-Han Banquet, only 20 or so are still in existence?
Only one out of ten of the eight major cuisines survives, and Chinese cuisine is struggling to survive with only the "pull-to-pull" series?
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I haven't read the book, so I recommend it to you as a friend (the lazy author begs all readers not to hit me)
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