Chapter 8 Dragons Breath Auction House (2/2)

The slave girl's eyes opened wide, shi+ning brighter than ever She had been captured just a ain her freedo abused and raped by the fat merchant had been a taste of the life that awaited her, if she would have ended up being sold At least the ood of sohly She didn't want to think ould happen to her if she ended in the hands of someone that considered her no more than a disposable piece of meat

Daniel's proirl, which, with tears welling up in her eyes, nodded her head rapidly, and allowed hie She then covered hi the journey

The Merchant caht soods, then on the slave girl ”AH! You are finallyyourself useful!” He exclaio toward the market district's wall

After an hour, they had reached the ates that separated the commoner's section from the prosperous section, in the southeastern side of the city

Once crossed the gate, Daniel waited for 5 fullinto an alley

Daniel couldn't walk in the open with his tattered clothes, so he was forced to traverse the city by sneaking into its various dark alleys He kept going until he found acapes fro hirab a cape, and run ahen suddenly ”I hope you are not thinking of stealing one of those capes Stealing gives you bad karma” He heard the voice of Sewah say in his mind

”What?! I'm a pickpocketer, how do I even have positive kar ood point, how did he maintain a positive karma if all he did every day was find people to steal from?

”That's because the people you stole fro from a person with bad karma won't make you lose any of your points” Answered Sewah patiently, before adding ”Look at that reen”

”Fine do you have any suggestion then?” Said Daniel dispiritedly

Sewah huhtly and then responded ”He doesn't look like a bad person, you ht ask him to buy his cheapest coat, and hope that he won't report you”

Daniel looked at the nureen 632 After thinking for a bit, he realized that he had no alternatives Instead of wandering the entireperson to steal froive it a shot

”Very well” Said Daniel He rapidly approached the man and said to him ”Excuse me Sir, I would like to purchase your cheapest cape, how much is it?” he said all in one breath

”W-What in the world happened to you?? How did you end up like this?!” Asked the htly shocked by Daniel's appearance

Daniel had a very embarassed expression on his face He wouldn't dare to tell him that he just came from the slums, and that his attire had never been a worry to him compared to food

The htly He then started to rue and picked soe coat Then he threw them at him

”Sir I can't afford all of the” Before he could finish, the”Don't worry about it kiddo, i' so badly here, just take the clothes”

Daniel's heart tightened as he tried to record every detail of the face of the man He then thanked the , he noticed that the nu above the man's head, had increased fro his clothes, Daniel understood that what his Karh the nature of people If one could see through the intention of the people around the helped

The man had a stall at the marketplace, he sold clothes for servants and slaves, which house owners would buy in blocks So for hi deal Plus, he had always felt bad about earning his livelyhood by selling clothes for slaves

Daniel had been given a set of servant's clothes Which included a shi+rt and a pair of pants made of jute linen, a pair of leather boots, and a dark cape which was large enough to cover their entire body

The clothes fitted Daniel perfectly, which showed how good of an eye thehis clothes, Daniel started walking towards the section fo the h end shops and auction houses

As ten more minutes passed, Daniel started to feel worried He knew that the tiirl, had been 2 hours and 36 minutes Unfortunately, it took 2 hours and 15 minutes for him to reach this place since the moment the countdown started Only 21 minutes were left now, and the auction had probably already started

After asking around for a few on's Breath Auction House

The building that appeared in front of Daniel's eyes was huge It was round shaped, and at least two hundredwas fairly short, standing at not ht It could be seen from the ts of balconies which were carved inside the walls, that it had no more than three stories Nevertheless, each floor was separated from the previous fairly distantly

All around the building, huge white coluantly carved with scenes of dragons and round, all the way up to the large ceiling they were holding Inbetween the coluolden rope, and draped down to halfway the entire building's height Clearly depicted in black on each banner, the outline of a dragon's head with solden door with dragon's heads carved on it, stood impressively at the top of a short set of stairs, and on each side of it, two guards in plate ar silently Both of the from their leather belts, and spears on their hands Above the door, a large wooden sign had ”Dragon's Breath Auction House” carved in gold

Daniel approached the door, and as he was about to push it open ”Halt! The auction has started already Entry is denied” he heard one of the guards say vigorously

”I have been sent here by my master, to add a last h” Daniel had prepared this lie on his way to the auction house nobody would believe that a fourteen so years old at the second rank would be able to slay a peak rank 3 beast, so he decided to pretend to have been sent by a h to not bother with auctioning a peak rank 3 core hiuard looked at Daniel and asked ”What is the iteid

Daniel removed bundle, which contained the beast core, frouards

Both guards looked intently at the orb that Daniel was holding, and each of them internally cursed the fact that they didn't meet this kid in a more secluded place

One had to know that both of these guards were at the third rank, and absorbing a peak rank 3 core would help their cultivation greatly, so it wasn't unexpected for the it

If Daniel could hear either of these guard's thoughts, he wouldn't be surprised, as both of theht above their heads

Daniel didn't want any probleht fro ”My master will come to withdraw his uards sighed lightly inside their hel up on the object One of them looked at Daniel and said ”Enter”

As Daniel entered the building through the door, he ie set of stairs on his left, a second set of doors in front of him from which loud noises could be heard, and a counter behind which a young wo patiently

Daniel approached the counter and said ”I would like to add this beast core to the auction as a lastwo man, and before she could respond, Daniel added ”I'll also need credit for a purchase not old and 60 silver”