23 Systems (2/2)

The crowd from below went crazy once again from her cute but shy introduction. After a few more moments the crowd calmed down.

With her cheeks blushing from embarrassment, she continued with her opening remarks.

”There will be 10 items auctioned off today. Is everybody okay with that?” Riza said with a voice lacking any self-confidence. Both of her hands were in front of her body fidgeting in nervousness.

Noticing nobody had any complaints, she continued by handing her right arm out straight. Suddenly an odd sight appeared, her hand disappeared into a small, little spatial disturbance. After about a second she retracted her hand that was now holding a small box.

Doing her best to put on a confident smile, she slowly opened the small box and showed off a small necklace that had a small circle that had eight individual colors on it.

Riza announced in a voice that had a pinch more confidence in it. ”This necklace has the eight colors of the Supreme systems imbued onto it, allowing the user to take eight fatal hits and come out unharmed. The price for this necklace will start at 500 points.”

Ensen was not really interested in this necklace for a few reasons. Foremost, he was incredibly poor. Also, while it could be effective in some situations, it would not guarantee his survival even if he was attacked. After all, automatic rifles would easily chew right through the protection. And most importantly, he did not have much reason to be worried about his safety at this point in time. While Ensen thought he would have to be a little more worried about his safety in the future, he still did not put too much of an emphasis on it. After all, he was just the principal of a private Academy.

Not interested in the item, Ensen turned his attention to Riza herself. She seemed rather new and uncomfortable around here, similar to him.

”System, you said that everybody here has a system, right? What sort of system does Riza have then?” Ensen asked curiously.

A blue box slowly faded through the roof and made its way down towards his eye level slowly.

[Host, please use your brain before asking questions. She has the Heavenly Auction-House System.] The system wrote mocking him.

Mentally face-palming, Ensen cleared his voice to try to distract himself from his hasty and foolish question.

Taking another look at the scene below him, he noticed that the bidding had just come to an end.

”Sold for 1350 points.” Riza said as she snapped her fingers. Suddenly the box disappeared from view and showed up in the hands of the person who had just won the item.

Assuming the points had been taken from him as well, Ensen marveled at how fast the transaction had been completed.

Riza quickly pulled out the next item from the void and began introducing it. This time it was a rather thin sword that was completely rounded with a sharp pointed tip. It had a golden engraving with the name embedded on the handle as well as a golden handguard.

”This rapier was an early creation by the previous host of the Supreme Forging System. While it is lacking compared to his later works, its tip has remained remarkably sharp for the past decades. The price for this rapier will begin at 200 points.” Riza said while resting the rapier on a nearby podium at the center of the stage.

Uninterested by the sword, Ensen asked the system ”Does this auction have anything useful for me? It doesn't seem like it.”

[While items suited for you are much rarer, there are definitely items that are auctioned off that would delight you.]

Nodding his head in understanding, Ensen turned back towards the auction and began paying closer attention, mostly in curiosity. After all, even there was an item that would help him a lot. He simply was too poor at the moment. He had too many uses for his education points that would be best suited elsewhere for the moment.

Thinking logically, the other hosts of the systems here would not have much, if any effect on him. He could possibly do some trades in the future if their world had interesting items he could use, but there was no obvious benefit besides that.

After around an hour, the auction had concluded. There were a total of three weapons, two pieces of jewelry, four pills, and one strange mystery box auctioned off.

”What is the mystery box for?” Ensen asked, feeling it might just be a scam.

[The mystery box holds an item from the host's system's store. While your store is more abstract, nearly all of the other systems have a defined system with prices and objects they can buy.]

Nodding in understanding, Ensen decided to head back to his home for now and think about what his next move should be.