26 Auction and Vlads Conclusions Part I. (2/2)
John wasn't really interested in this potion plus he remembered Joseph's initial warning that he shouldn't offend the great nobles so he didn't try it as he was new in Pearl city and Marquis Ray's dominion.
Then a series of items were auctioned off.
The Manager announced the next item this time around ”The next item this time is one of the long thorn swords made by the craftsmen of Bluesea family from the Fire Abyss kingdom. This time Miss Diana decided to auction off one of the swords crafted by her family as she hopes to show off the majesty of Bluesea craftsmen. This sword will be started with a bid of 100 gold coins.”
”120 gold coins”
”150 gold coins”
”200 gold coins”
Then suddenly came a bid of 1000 gold coins from John's seat. John had decided to buy this Sword as he was always using the rugged sword bought from George earlier and wanted to equip an excellent sword and from his calculations, he deemed this sword worth of at least 2000 gold coins.
John bid earlier as he wanted to scare off the potential competitors for the sword. Many nobles in the second floor stared at John, they thought he was someone new as they didn't recognize him but understood that John was with Joseph after watching them sit in the same box.
Meanwhile, Diana's maid said to Diana,
”Miss, it seems that this guy isn't buying that sword to show you off and buying it for his own practical use. Isn't it quite amusing that we see such a guy after a long time”
The Old butler remarked as well ”Well that seems to be true, as after watching his attire he looks like a guy with multiple professions mainly sneaky techniques and it also happens that he also knows that boy from the Morgan family. Recently our men said that it was this boy Joseph who brought those new soaps from north to sell over here. His father hid it quite well but as we know his own brothers sold off the information.
Additionally don't you think this guy who has bid for the sword has some relation with the soaps? Plus from looking at the reactions of these Noble children, none of them know this guy. I don't think a nobody would have this kind of money to spend on a sword.”
From the explanation and conclusion of the butler, the maid was quite astonished. She knew that the old man was quite a crafty, sly and unpredictable guy. But just by looking at Joseph and the bid from John the Old man deduced so much from the information of his men.