Chapter 49: An Old Man (1/2)
At the end of the hall was a large door from which people gushed inside and found a decent spot to rub their asses on the plush chairs. The hall was filled with noise and din of the people. Everyone was eager to find a seat of their own.
Elora walked on the stage from behind with a nervous expression. She looked back. Kadyn nodded towards her and gave a confident and encouraging smile. She smiled back and again turned towards the audience, clenching her nervously trembling fist, and said. ”Good morning, everyone.”
Her voice boomed throughout the hall—this was the function of the hall that let the auctioneer exemplify his/her voice—the muffling sound reverberated and the entire hall became quiet.
”Ah,” she became nervous as the eyes of hundreds of people focused on her. However it didn't take her long to calm her thudding heart down.
”Cough, as you all know,” she said, ”today we are going to auction the potions. What kind of potions, some might ask?” she peered at people, her nervousness fading slowly. ”Let me show you then.”
As she said the floor in front of her split open and a large table climbed out of it automatically and over ten wooden boxes had been placed on it—everyone looked at the scene with dumbfounded expression. They had never seen such a display prior to this day. That lifting trolley seemed a marvelous thing.
Elora eyed the comical expressions of the people and curled her lips and said. ”We have over ten different potions. The first one we will be auctioning is,” she paused, creating a tension in the atmosphere, then went on, ”the Potion of Purification.”
Everyone had a blank face as they had never heard about such a potion, so she explained. ”This potion is used for purifying magus' bodies. It could extract the impurities from the body and strengthen it. You should know what the magus lacks the most? Its defence, of course. Though this potion might not completely solve that problem, it could increase the rate of your survival.
”Furthermore you can't disregard another benefit that is impurity extraction—everyone knows that our bodies have impurities. When we use different potions, they would leave a small amount of impurity in our bodies that would increase over time and at one point that impurity could turn into a deadly poison, turning you into a cripple from a majestic magus.”
As she explained, the entire hall broke into an uproar, everyone's eyes turned fiery. All of them wanted the potion. Kadyn saw their reaction and shook his head. Elora was really clever with her words. Although the potion was effective, it couldn't remove all the impurity. Nonetheless it was still worth purchasing.
The crowd gradually calmed and turned their heated gazes towards the potion in Elora's hand. She smiled and said. ”Furthermore…” she stated and went on, ”the grade of this potion had reached the peak and you should know that only the top grade is above it.”
The murmuring again sounded, but Elora went on. Her face was already brimming with a confident smile and all the nervousness had washed away. ”The starting price of this potion is just three thousand.”
It was the real standard price of the potion. Kadyn had decided to make all the standard prices a start price for auctioning them. With this he won't seem like a money-grubbing merchant. However he knew that this starting amount would not affect the result in any way, as people were eager to purchase the potions. Moreover his potions were rarer than anyone had ever seen before so everyone wanted to take possession of them.
”Oh, you don't need to worry about the starting price.” A languid voice reverberated from the first row, attracting everyone's attention. An old man with a fragile body and white hair sat on a chair with his legs crossing each other—beside him sat two other men. One was an old, and another was a middle-aged man. Both of them seemed extremely respectful to this old guy. The man continued, ”because we are taking those potions.”