Chapter 727: Auction (1/2)

Sam felt like this oath thing is a bit over the top.

But after hearing this guy's story, he understood what exactly is happening. This guy is so in love that he is so afraid that he would be losing the opportunity to reach her sooner all the while fearing that the opportunity that came to him is a hoax.

Sam didn't have enough patience to convince him normally and since the tree spirit oath is active he doesn't have to bother too much about the future situation.

After the whole narration is completed, they both pledged that the contents they spoke here wouldn't be revealed to another person and that is exactly what happened.

While walking back to the town, Sam is currently thinking about what kind of luck he had. He is attracting lovebirds once again. Previously in Naga Loka, he encountered the two Yaksha who are so in love that they tried to kill him to keep the secret.

Now he is entangled with another pair. It is almost as if he is their messiah or something solving the problems of the lovers and granting new life to them.

After thinking so, he just chuckled the thought away and went back to his residence.

Currently, his actions bought him some time. They don't want to take action against Sam directly without any evidence as for secretly taking action, they don't want to lose more transcendent stage cultivators and the consummate realm cultivators are not exactly a resource they can move at their will.

So, Sam just continued with the research. For the next three days, the business was closed and Raunak put out the word that Sam is selling recipes in an auction.

The word spread rapidly and the traveling merchants who are also supposed to leave this place are staying to join in the fun.

Sam didn't care much. He knew that the true customers are the two factions.

They would fight it over and they will give him enough income so that he can free Raunak of his target all at the same time.

Anyway, he is already giving him enough money through the bagasse and molasses. So this would be easily clearing his target.

Sam also got some extra sugar canes freshly from the farmers even before they sold the harvest to the factory.

After all, Sam did help them by stopping the mob that almost destroyed their fields. They can't do much for him, so all they can do is show some respect through their harvest.

The elves worship the gods of forest and trees, which Sam doesn't know if they even exist.

They offer their first batch of the harvest to those gods and the second batch was actually brought to Sam which actually made him feel the honor.

Even though he stopped the mob for purely personal reason and he tried to explain this to them, they still insisted that he should take the harvest.

For the first time in a while, Sam felt emotionally touched. He knew better than anyone else what the harvest means to a farmer. It is just like the final product of a research a researcher worked for months or a finished piece of art on which an artist worked for months.

Sam looked at the sugar cane that was given to him and shook his head to not get affected by this too much.

He used a few of them in the divine dimension so that he can create a sugar cane farm for himself and he kept the rest of them for his own consumption. It has been a while since he happily chewed on a sugar cane.

But that still has to wait, he has to find a way to finish the auction.

On the day of the auction, Sam went to the only auction hall that is present in the city. He didn't even inform his friends about the auction.

They had to find out about the news from the talk around the market.

They silently followed Sam without speaking anything. Whenever they tried to talk to Sam, all he did is give one stare and stop them from speaking more.

They went to the auction house in extreme silence.

By the time he went in, there are many guests already waiting for the auction to begin. All the major restaurant owners in the town and some other merchants are all there.

There are some people in the private rooms and it wouldn't take a genius to guess they are some nobility and the people from the factions.

Sam didn't bother announcing everything. He is not that interested in the current situation of selling this.

These recipes are not that important to him. The recipes that he gave away to Mackey are far more valuable and far more useful, the specialty of these recipes is only based on the fact that rice is a major crop that is being produced in this place.

The auction started with Kheer's recipe. It is not exactly a big secret. Most of the restaurants tried to replicate and some of them managed to get a close copy made with their efforts, but there is still some decent competition and a couple of million spirit stones are bid for this.