Chapter 22 Auction (2/2)

“Okay! Are we going to sell these as a bundle or separately?”

The assistant asked while taking out so up the sheets ofme, I’m just the appraiser!”

“They would probably sell better as a bundle, the ‘highest’ graded scrolls ht make the buyers bid further”

He added his opinion while standing up The scrolls that he just appraised were slightly unusual but nothing really that extraordinary, there were iteold coin The scrolls that could fetch a couple of se silver coins a piece didn’t really ed while the old man walked out She opened the door and two more male workers walked in, they removed the tray of useless iteet auctioned out were spread out on larger tables by the prices Some other people would come in and take a look at the This was so Cynthia was also partly responsible for

While this all was happening Roland was standing outside the Libra Auction house He had handed over his workload that he had slaved on fora robe and a face mask, his eyes looked bloodshot as if he didn’t sleep for a couple of days

He was reaching a boiling point, he had burned throughmaterials and could fill a couple of books with his low and lesser crafted runic spells now He was quite pedantic when it cao to the auction house without at least a full clip with ‘high’ grade runic spells

He had worked tirelessly till this point, he looked at his status screen that went up a couple of levels since the last time The skill that went up theskill, it was at level five Also, his runethe runic scrolls continued, it was at level 2

He had procured the ‘Runic Fire Arrow’ spell scroll froe look the lady elf gave hi hiet one of the regular spell scrolls instead

He brought it back hoave him double the experience compared to the lesser rune schematics he or at that point, this soon turned to despair after he noticed that scribing a common runic spell was a lot harder than the lesser variant

He failed and failed, losing h his resources He even had to go back and practice on the fire orb rune as it wasskill up to even be able to create his first fire arrow spell at the ‘lowest’ sub-grade and this was already a full month after he obtained this iteold coins that his party iven hiht that it could even last hied to last half a year while going through his crafting s just to scrape by

At this point in ti on his last se to o find hiot it into his head that he needed good branding with his first auction This hy he was unwilling to sell the lower-rated scrolls and why he placed a so on the scroll so that people would notice his brand

He also pretended to be a servant of souise he earing was also part of his paranoia that had manifested itself slowly It was partly due to the assassination attempt and because he orried that his father would find hiotten a special plaque with a nuet his h the apprizer as he saw so up their iteo in and check, they toldthe auction if they wanted’

He was quite nervous as a student before a big exa for his turn to enter He felt butterflies in his stomach but he steeled his resolve and went in He needed to see how the auction house operated and how people reacted to his wares

He showed his plaque to the guard and was allowed to enter without paying an entrance fee On the inside, there were a couple of corridors leading to different auction stages There was a separate one for the her status to participate in those

The one his itee There were your usual seats in the front but there were so to pay a bithosted here as he expected thee, for the lesser and corand ones

He could see people co in the front The auction block where the auctioneer would be standing was still e a bit which indicated that there was soetting paddles handed out to thes worked here was that the auctioneer would call the bids and the bidders would then move those nuhest bidder then would win, the auctioneer would so unsure If no one continued bidding it would end after a count of three

The rest of the exchange would happen in the back where the buyer would pay his coin to the auction house The actual seller wouldn’t really interact with the buyer in any way, they could even show up on another day to get their money The auction house would bill him for the service, it was at 25 for now as he was a first-tiet a better deal and even go down to 10

'It’s starting…’

He leaned back against the wall and looked at the stage that finally opened To his surprise, instead of seeing some old no-nonsense man with a mustache, he saw a beautiful woht places and was apparently the auctioneer

He figured that they were trying to appease theto spend more on the items with a beauty involved This was one of the oldest tricks in the book

“I would like to welcoentlemen to the Libra Auction house, I will be your hostess for tonight~”

She even struck a pose and irls doing from his university days The male audience looked happy, their feh Soon the first item appeared on display, it wasn’t raded enchant at 5 s up those nu in a fewand the fact that he wasn’t able to sleep well for the past few days was getting to hie Roland got concerned, eren’t his scrolls showing up?

He was sure that they should be areater ones by the looks of it He orried that he had entered the wrong auction stage and that his ite sold in the other one

“Now for the last of the co special!”

Just as he was about to ask someone about it the lovely lady spoke out

“We have a couple of runic fire arrow spell scrolls from an unknown master craftsman!”

“What’s so special about these runic spell scrolls you h’ grade! But that’s not all dear custorade!”

The people startednervous His scrolls were out on display and the auctioneer lady was ht out tooden boxes and placed theht shone

“We have put them in a set of five, in each box, there are 4 scrolls at the ‘high’ grade and 1 at the ‘highest’ grade, ill be starting the bid for the first box at 3 large silver coins!”

Roland quickly started adding things up in his head, at this price range he would be able tobid The people startedthose paddles up, the mo faster

He was finally seeing the fruit of his labor getting appreciated It was like a large weight was lifted off his shoulders and he could finally relax The first box went for 4 large silver and 5 se and 7 sed to earn close to one sold coin Even if he deducted the auction houses pay cut he would be able to recuperate his losses