Chapter 470: The difference between a coward and a fool (1/2)
After an hour, the venue was finally fully occupied by hundreds of people from different statuses in life. The lights of the venue finally dimmed dark, leaving only the light that is currently shinning upon the stage in the center.
Soon after, the venue quite down as a beautiful Elf woman slowly walked onto the stage.
”Good evening to you ladies and gentlemen. I am Madam Flores, the President of the Elves Secret organization in the Emerald Tree Kingdom,” The beautiful Elf woman introduced herself.
”All of you present here should already be long aware that we are having an auction today. So, without further ado, let's begin,” Madam Flores said as she pulled down the Magic Cloth covering the first auction item.
As soon as the Magic Cloth was removed, it revealed inside 12 pieces of a seed from some kind of Magical Plant, each put inside different Magic Glass containers.
”Let me introduce this to you. What you are all looking at right now is an item called Evergreen Seed. This is produced by an Evergreen Plant that the Evergreen royal family is giving away as prizes for every Emerald Event. One could even say that it wouldn't be called an Emerald Event without the Evergreen Plant,” Miss Flores said before letting out a chuckle. She then continued, ”Jokes aside. As the majority of you already know, this Evergreen Seed helps improve the Summoner's Blessing of any level of Magical Beast Tamer to a certain degree. We can't give any precise example as the effect varies from person to person, but I guarantee to all of you in the name of the Elves Secret organization that this is a helpful item. The starting bid for each piece is 100 gold coins with every bid no less than 10 gold coins, you may all begin,”
As soon as Madam Flores finished introducing the item, the bidding quickly began.
”100!”
”150!”
”200!”
”300!”
”500!”
”...”
The bidding war for the Evergreen Seed quickly becomes intense, its price reaching higher and higher in every passing time.
Inside one of the high-class rooms located on the 3rd floor of the venue, Leo was closely observing everyone who was bidding for the Evergreen Seed, intending to gather more information first before joining. He was doing this in order to know the accurate value of the auction item.
He might have read the list of items for the auction a while ago, and he even discussed with the others on what item to buy and not to buy. But most of those items were something that they still don't know a lot about, thus what they were discussing was only if the items were useful for them or not.
As for the Evergreen Seed, it was deemed useful for them, because although they don't have any Magical Beast Tamer in the Mischievous Lion Guild yet, they could instead use it to attract a few of them to join.
”1,100 gold coins, going once, going twice, sold!” Madam Flores said before banging the wooden hammer she's holding on a piece of wood on the top of the table in front of her.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
A female Elf receptionist quickly walked onto the stage and brought down the container that contained one of the Evergreen Seed inside to the buyer who won the item.
While that was going on, Madam Flores signals the start of the second Evergreen Seed.
”100!”
”300!”
”500!”
”1,000!”
”1,500!”
”...”
This time, the bidding war didn't bother with any warm-up anymore as it immediately became intense.
”We should have bid for the first Evergreen Plant if only we knew that the price of the second one would rise up by this much,” Cassandra said in regret.
”Indeed,” Elizabeth and the others nodded their heads in agreement.
”Don't worry, we are still unfamiliar with the items for auction, so this is within my expectations,” Leo said as he waited for the final bid.
”2,500 gold coins, going once, going twice, so-”
”3,000!” Chief Lago suddenly interrupted as he received a signal from Leo to bid 500 gold coins.
”3,000 gold coins, going once, going twice, sold!” Madam Flores banged the hammer again. Afterwards, she motioned her head for the third Evergreen Seed.
”100!”
”200-”
”3,000!”
Out of everyone's expectations, the same room that bought the second Evergreen Seed quickly yelled out its bid.
”This...”
”That person over there is really not planning on giving the others any chance to bid,”
”We should give up for the third Evergreen Seed and go with the fourth Evergreen Seed instead,”
With everyone giving up, the third Evergreen Seed was soon sold to Leo for the price of 3,000 gold coins.
”100!”
”3,000!”
The venue immediately erupted in loud noises as the fourth Evergreen Seed was again bid for 3,000 gold coins by the same exact room once again.
”Is that person actually planning to buy every Evergreen Seed in the auction for 3,000 gold coins?”