13 Thousand Arms Auction House (1/2)

Don was sat on his bed and cultivated the battle energy with eyes closed, there was a layer of light coated his body and glowing but the light flickered just when he suddenly opened his eyes and turned to look at the direction of the forest of the outer lands he came from, there was a small smile on his face

”Knight made a breakthrough to the moon level”

Every breakthrough provides the cultivator with a huge leap in power to manipulate the battle energy. Even between the sublevels like low and mid, the power gap was tremendous, often a low-level cultivator wasn't a match for a mid-level cultivator in the same realm(level).

This wasn't a fact only true for battle energy but for magic level too.

Every ally he can trust is important for him to achieve his goal so Knight's breakthrough made him happy since he was like his brother, now Knight can easily defeat two or three low or mid-level, great masters.

Don couldn't linger at the moment for longer. He had plans today, very important plans so he quickly put the hood on and went outside to meet Uncle Dior.

The tavern was not crowded as yesterday evening, some adventurers were eating and drinking on the corner as some of them hitting on the waitresses while some soldiers had a beer at the bartender's counter and a hooded figure enjoying his hot stew on the table nearby.

Don knew he was Uncle Dior so he walked towards him and sat on the chair opposite of uncle Dior. Uncle Dior looked up and saw so Mike's face.

”You should eat something before we go out,” uncle Dior said while having a mouth full of hot stew.

Don just shook his head ”No, thanks”

”Your loss, this stew is so tasty” in a few minutes Uncle Dior licked the bowl clean and put the coppers for the stew on the table and went out followed by Don.

”While you were sleeping I asked one of the waitresses about the Thousand arms auction house”

Uncle Dior seemed to know the way so Don listened to him and followed him by side.

”Apparently Thousand arms auction was a franchise, they have many branches across the moon empire”

Uncle Dior took a turn to the left and led Don into a narrow alley.

”They deal with all sorts of stuff including slaves” Uncle Dior gritted his teeth while saying the latter part

”Is that so?”

Uncle Dior stopped moving and stared at Don

”Don't get any ideas they have a grandmaster protecting each of their branches so stealing from them ” he paused for a moment

”Is like taking a gold chalice from a dragon”

”Grandmaster huh? what about the guards?”

”Oh yes the waitress said the guards were all just for the show as they were just apprentice magi's”

Don was silent when he heard this so uncle Dior thought he was confused so he started to explain

”According to the waitress since slave city was not a commercial or trade town, the auction house was closed on most days, they will only open or start an auction if they got something special ”

As they were talking they walked into the market square, in the center of the market square was a statue of a plump man with many women at his feet.

The statue was decorated in flowers and incense sticks were burning.

Around the statue was an empty square and the people in the market square didn't even dare to look at the statue let alone go near

”Minister Brian” Don murmured and followed uncle Dior who didn't even take peek at the statue

”Where was I?”

”You were saying about the guards”

”Ah yes since they only open for few days in a week, why would they want to hire powerful guards also who is dumb enough to rob an auction house guarded by a grandmaster”

Eventually, they came front of a majestic three-story building, the steps and lawn was made of marble they were so shiny and clean you could see your reflection on its surface, the stairs connected with big eight marble pillars which were decorated with some paintings made by high-quality paint, the eight pillars supported a triangular structure which had a writing of 'Thousand Arms' while two banners covered the top half of each four pillars, the banners had a logo of sun and the rays coming out of it looked like close-fisted arms.

There was a blue carpet made by the first-rate fur, leading to the main door which was guarded by two blue feathered helm guards.

”Let's go inside and sell the magic core, and try to look at the auction”

Don was glad they encountered a magical beast if not there could have been some problems getting inside the auction house with empty hands.

The guards didn't seem to mind the two of them as they went inside.

The inside of the auction house was more marvelous than the outside, there were some fancy furniture located here and there and some magical plants were growing on the pots.

Don could see there were many paintings of some old people and magical beasts on the wall when he heard a soft feminine voice,