Chapter 202: Looking towards the future. (1/2)

Chapter 202: Looking towards the future

“Here you go Mr Wayland, your cut of the sale”

The auction was over and at this moment Roland was in the office with an auction house clerk responsible for giving out the earnings Thanks to the strange rich woman who contended with the dwarven union old coins, which was quite a sum of money

“Isn’t there too old coin, this is not the price we agreed on”

With the help of his skills, he was able to quickly count how ned beforehand, it stated that he would be given ten to fifteen percent of his earnings to the auction house This depended on the scale of the sale, the more money he earned the less he needed to pay up With this one passing the ten large coin threshold he would need to fork up ten percent

He was also required to present a minimum of ten items in a year otherwise, he would need to pay a fine This was an understandable clause as he was given a better rate than other sellers that ive up from fifteen to twenty-five percent froive up one sold coin

“This was the lord’s decision, he sends his regards and hopes that you will continue to ith us He also wanted to inform you that he would look into the situation with the dwarven union and the merchants”

“Oh he did? and he will?”

By the ‘situation’ the clerk probablySuch acts were strictly forbidden in any auction house, even without words it was clear what had happened there The unionused to al the city

‘Those bastards were heading upstairs weren’t they?’

After the bidding as over the dwarves left in a hurry It was clear that they only wanted to get his gole in their attee to pay up Roland was a bit interested in their reactions so he followed behind them but then when they were about to leave with the crate the lordling’s uy do so about them, or will they just offer him a bribe?’

Roland wasn’t sure what he should expect fro some favorable treatment at least for now What the future held in store for him was unknown and he could be betrayed any ive it a try as he had beco It would have been easy to just leave a few years ago when the union beca to a different country would be that outlandish as hisclass would probably allow him a position almost anywhere

Until tih the hardshi+ps Contending with a few penny-pinching dwarfs wasn’t all that bad, his business was doing well enough even when he was getting sanctioned left and right

“Well then, give the lord ards, I’ll deliver the next set of products before the deadline”

It was not the tih, he had old than he could by selling runic weapons in bulk Also noith everything in place he would be able to construct the saolem a lot faster and perhaps at a lower cost

Thus the town runesh made his way out of the Valerian Auction house, his mind was now only on his comfortable bed

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“You can’t be serious…”

“Oh I’ like this happens again my father will hear about it I wonder what the union would do to the little dwarf that caused a scene at a Valerian Auction house?”

The tarven union ether in Arthur’s office As always he was here together with his uests

“We understand…”

While Dunan’s face went pale, Ba well that they were in the wrong While Arthur Valerian here was not someone that they feared, they were in no position to offend a duke household How much pull outside this city he had was unknown to thehtly

“Good, I will not fine you this time around but let this be the last time we have this conversation, you olem, I’m sure it’s worth all the coin that you paid for it!”

Arthur s his tea, Bamur just looked at hiue Soon the two departed with less gold in their pockets as they had already paid up for the gole the room Mary was able to speak up

“That was so, they didn’t even try to otten more out of them”

After her perforood about herself This was not the first time that she inflated the price of an item around a place like this

Before this day she had done soolee she knew just howto pay How much they had in their coffers was also important but Arthur stopped her before she reached the ah, it was already a big enough gamble, not sure hoould have explained it to our runeshed to hi about Roland, his new business partner What would he do if he knew that a noble was inflating the prices at his own auction house? Would he be all for it or did he have aabout Mr Wayland, I think that he ht have noticed that it was me”

Mary shi+fted the conversation towards a different subject, which was Roland’s piercing gaze

“Oh? Was he able to look through your disguise?”

“I’ed my voice and mannerisms, he is hard to read with that helmet on his face but maybe Sir Gareth and Sir Morien did a bad job in their new roles?”

The guards that she had with her were of course the two knights that served Arthur They didn’t have to doin place while Mary shi+fted the attention towards her extravagant look

“Think I need to train theh but we should focus on other things now, is our next guest here?”

“Yes, he is drinking up all the expensive wine as we speak”

Replied Mary while frowning slightly when thinking about the person that she would need to fetch now

“Good, would you be so kind to bring hiht that he would at least h the whole auction”

“Maybe he is just afraid of the union as the rest?”

Mary shrugged while walking towards the door to go to the VIP roo

“He didn’t seem like the type but I’ll see for myself soon”

“Fine then, but I wouldn’t trust that man too much”

“I’ll take that to heart”

Replied Arthur while looking down at some papers While the issue with the city runes in the et his heart desires he needed ave him wouldn’t be much unless he somehow attained tier 3 status within the next few years

“Tier 3, that would be nice…”