Volume 4: The Swan Song (Remastered) Chapter 39: The Auction House

As the most famous smuggling city in the Underworld, the most common buildings in Cordilla are shops and auction houses. Here, as long as you have enough capital, you can buy anything!

Mind you, it's "whatever"!

Even if you want to buy a hero, Cordilla will be able to meet your requirements, as long as you pay a sufficient price, of course.

Although the lord here, Alvira Koman, is only a legendary-level existence, but the profession of this female dark elf is an extremely rare shadow witch, as a master of playing with the power of shadows, in the environment of the underground world, the actual combat power of this legendary dark elf female lord, I'm afraid no one is willing to try it.

However, despite her strength, the Shadow Witch rarely interferes in specific matters, as long as she follows the rules she has set and pays her gold honestly, anyone can live freely in Cordila. As a result, it's a playground for freelance mercenaries and lone heroes, and what these lawless guys bring is unscrupulous smuggling and slave hunting.

A large number of slaves are sold here every year, most of them from underground races such as cavemen, harpies, or Medusa, but there are also occasional human and elven slaves, and these rare goods are constantly being contested by the slavers.

The player can also own a slave, which is the equivalent of a pet for the player, but with a higher level of intelligence than a pet. In the past life, there were also some players with special fetishes who would come here to buy female slaves, and as for what to do when they bought back, I don't think I need to say more.

Yu Bin chose a small auction house located on the west side of the city, and from the introduction of this auction house, it is mainly for the auction of various raw materials.

After paying the entrance fee of five gold coins at the entrance of the auction house, Yu Bin also received a list of the items to be auctioned today.

Auction houses are not open every day, and most auction houses only hold an auction after accumulating a sufficient quantity and quality of goods, so Yu Bin will buy an auction list near the entrance of the city gate to find out which auction houses hold auctions today and what are the areas of their respective auctions.

After all, for Yu Bin, there is not much capital to buy too good things.

What the? You say pick up the leak?

Xiao Baiwen has seen too much! There are a lot of high-level appraisers in the auction house, do you really think that a player who is less than the third order can find treasures that even those appraisers have not noticed? What's more, it's an underworld! Even if Yu Bin is lucky, he can't save the treasure from those guys who are eyeing him.

After walking into the auction house, Yu Bin found a random seat in the hall and waited for the auction to start.

The auction house was not very popular, and even when the auction began, the seats in the hall still seemed empty.

As the auctioneer displayed the raw materials for this auction in the same way, soon, the quotations were quoted from the mouths of those customers, and if the transaction was sold, they could pay the gold coins on the spot and take the things away.

It's a pity that until the end, Yu Bin didn't buy what he fancied, but there was a little bit of Saron Evil Iron, but unfortunately it was less than two kilograms, and it was still unrefined raw ore, which was bought by a fallen dwarf blacksmith, and the price was two pieces of rare-level equipment and 50,000 gold coins.

It's not that Yu Bin can't offer a higher price, it's just that it's too much of a loss to buy such a little Saron Evil Iron at a higher price, and secondly, the fallen dwarves are famous for their grudges, these dwarves living in the underground world are not as cute as their cousins on the main plane, and the deceit of the underground world has long made these dwarves develop the characteristics of cruelty and cunning, if Yu Bin dares to snatch food, he may not have to move his head before he walks out of this auction house.

In addition to this small amount of Saron Evil Iron, there is also a Moonlight Sand and a small bottle of Angel Tears, the former can be used to increase the success rate of forging, and the latter can be drunk directly, which can increase a certain amount of basic attributes according to the user's potential, but unfortunately, both of these things were bought by an alchemist who looked a little older.

Although he returned empty-handed, Yu Bin was not very disappointed, this kind of thing was very common in his previous life. Actually, it is not so much disappointment as Yu Bin is a little expectant.

Because even such a small auction house can take out the Saron Evil Iron for auction, and there are still very few bidders, which undoubtedly shows that it is not very difficult for Yu Bin to get his hands on this ore.

Compared to the large number of high-level players who poured into Kodila in the previous life, and the auction prices of various materials here far exceeded the actual value, what was now displayed in front of Yu Bin was undoubtedly a virgin land that had not yet been developed.

With anticipation, Yu Bin found the hotel he had set when he and Ailan were separated.

"Supplies ready?" Ignoring the innkeeper, a dark goblin, with his small green eyes, Yu Bin walked up to the second floor of the inn and pushed the door open, where Alan and the others were resting in the room, while the ghost Manas was floating around Keldila as always, enjoying himself.

"The equipment has been replaced, but there are some potions that are not available in sufficient quantities, and Keldila is working on them." Alan, wiping his dagger, pointed to Keldila by the window, where some simple alchemy equipment was being placed, and the flask was clearly neutralizing the potion.

"Did you buy anything good?" Yu Bin also found a place to sit down, routinely maintaining his armor.

Lei Guang spread his hands: "I found some good equipment, but the price here is too high, it's just a money grab!" A green one-handed staff dares to bid for four hundred gold coins! ”

"Pretty cheap!" Yu Bin didn't think it was too expensive, although this price was about twice the price of the main plane, but compared with the craziest prices in the previous life, it was still a lot cheaper, "I bought the drawings and formulas, right?" ”

"Five equipment blueprints, three recipes, and by the way, I also bought a Shadow Bomb blueprint!" Alan said, taking out a few drawings from his backpack, "Nearly 100,000 gold coins, I now feel that the entrance fee to the city is too cheap for only ten gold coins." ”

Yu Bin took the drawings, flipped through them, studied one of the equipment drawings directly, and then threw the two formulas to Keldilla, and handed the remaining one to Lei Guang: "Shadow bomb?" It's a good thing, but unfortunately we don't have anyone here to study engineering. ”

After Keldila used up the materials for making the potion at hand, Yu Bin and the others distributed the materials they could collect.

"There are still a few resistance agents, and our stock is almost empty." Keldila said as she cleaned up the alchemy equipment on the ground.

"There's no way around it." Alan carefully tucked the potion into his backpack to make sure it wasn't misplaced.

Yu Bin shook his head: "I'm afraid we have to wait here for a few days, and the next journey will not work without enough resistance potions." Alan, tomorrow you take them to those shops to see if you can buy any raw materials, don't care about the gold, now we have to make sure we have our own supplies. ”

"Understood." Alan nodded.

Nothing was said all night.

With the launch of the second day, after separating from Alan, Yu Bin continued to search for an auction house that might sell the Saron Evil Iron.

However, even Yu Bin himself didn't think that just the day after they entered Kodila, things would change drastically.

It all started when Yu Bin entered the Black Rose Auction House that afternoon.

As a well-known auction house in Kodila, the Black Rose auction house mainly sells high-end ores, herbs and items, but in reality, this medium-sized auction house really depends on the slave trade, which is known for its profiteering. And this auction house only auctions "high-end goods", that is, elves!

Whether in the Entagre continent or in the underground world, elven slaves are an extremely rare commodity, these natural darlings are difficult to capture, and the slave catching team that captures elves will be wanted and hunted down by the entire elf race, which invisibly increases the value of elf slaves.

Note that the elven slaves mentioned here are not those elven soldiers who have no intelligence, but those high-level civilians with a high level of intelligence, that is, those elven NPCs with life skills.

With their high intelligence and beauty, the elves were desirable to everyone, and the slave owners were happy to auction off an elven slave because it meant a lot of wealth and fame.

Unfortunately, when Yu Bin paid the entrance fee and entered the auction house, he saw that the hall was almost full of people, and even the boxes upstairs were obviously shaking figures, and at a glance, he knew that this was an auction house to auction rare items.

When Yu Bin was in the last column of the auction list, when he saw a line of words clearly written "Elf girl, original, natural priest", he already had a wry smile on his face. If he had known that there would be an auction of elven slaves here, and it was also an auction of natural priestess elven slaves among the rare, then he would have turned around and left without saying a word. Because such an auction means great risks and countless troubles.

It's a pity that the entrance fee for the entire fifty gold coins has already been paid, and if you just leave, I am afraid that the people at the auction house will think that you are a spy for your business rivals. So in the end, he found a corner seat and sat down, ready to be a spectator, quietly waiting for the auction to end.

With the sound of a hammer striking the board, the auctioneer announces the opening of the auction.

The same lot was sent like a stream, perhaps because the finale was so attractive, so the previous lots, which were considered high-quality in terms of quality and rarity, did not attract too many people to bid.

Especially there are a few things in it, even Yu Bin felt excited, and almost wanted to buy it, but after thinking about it again, he still didn't make a move.

The reason why this is so is because Yu Bin saw his goal on the list: five Saron Evil Iron Ingots.

A full five kilograms of Saron Evil Iron, and it was also a refined Saron Evil Iron Ingot, which was enough for Yu Bin to give up the other lots and use all the funds to compete for this thing.

Soon, with the sound of the auctioneer's hammer, a new lot was sent, and it was the five Salonian iron ingots that Yu Bin had been looking forward to.

"Lot 21, five Salon Evil Iron Ingots, these are high-quality Saron Evil Iron Bars refined by master blacksmiths, both in purity and integrity, they are the best!" As he spoke, the Dark Goblin Auctioneer grabbed an Evil Eye Rabbit from the cage he had brought up next to him and threw the carnivorous rabbit that lived in the Underworld onto a piece of Saron Evil Iron Bar.

With a slight snort, the lively Evil Eye Rabbit was contaminated by the evil power contained in the Saron Evil Iron Ingot at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the original pale gray body quickly turned purple black, and wisps of purple mist with an evil aura began to emerge from the body, and the Evil Eye Rabbit infected by the evil power immediately became very irritable, and flew towards the dark goblin auctioneer on the side with a kick of his hind legs.

With a wave of his hand, the dark goblin, who was three points shorter than the Fallen Dwarf, flew out of his palm and shot through the head of the Evil-Eyed Rabbit, leaving only a corpse twitching on the ground.

"Five pieces will be auctioned together, starting at 200,000 gold coins!" The Dark Goblin Auctioneer didn't even look at the dead Evil-Eyed Rabbit, because he knew that a slave would come out and clean the ground, and the small gavel in his hand would strike to announce the auction begin.

"Two hundred and fifty thousand!" "Two hundred and seventy thousand!" "Three hundred thousand!" "Three hundred and thirty thousand!"

The staggered bidding sound made Yu Bin have to admire these NPCs, who were able to take out hundreds of thousands of gold coins to bid for these five Saron evil iron ingots without blinking.

To be honest, at this stage, it is true that only Yu Bin has the ability to participate in this kind of auction, and if he changes to any other player, I am afraid that he will not have this strength, of course, those game merchants say otherwise.

In a short time, the price of five Salong Evil Iron Ingot climbed to the height of 820,000 gold coins, which was already far higher than Yu Bin's psychological expectations.

In previous lives, even a few years after the Ntagri world was fully opened, the value of gold coins was not as strong as it had been at the beginning, and a piece of Saron Iron Ingot could sell for a hundred thousand gold coins at most. After all, this thing is an ore raw material, and even if it is refined, it is basically not used anywhere else except for forging. Coupled with the fact that this ore naturally contains a large amount of evil power, it is almost impossible for him to be used by the Order-abiding Camp, so the amount of Saron Evil Iron that can actually be used is actually not much.

Yu Bin felt that even if these Saron Evil Iron Ingot had been refined by a master blacksmith, they would still be sold at a price of 150,000 gold coins per piece, but now they were nearly 100,000 gold coins higher than Yu Bin's psychological price.

However, as the price reached 800,000, there was a lot less bidding voice, and when the 820,000 bid appeared, no one continued to bid for a while.

"Eight hundred and fifty thousand!" Just when the dark goblin was about to drop the hammer and announce the end of the bidding, Yu Bin did not hesitate to quote the price of 850,000.

Not 825,000, not 830,000, but 850,000, a full 30,000 markup!

Because Yu Bin knows that this is the underground world, not the main plane of the Entagre Continent, what is important here is strength, in the field it is a fist, in the auction house, it is gold coins!

Increase the price by 5,000 at once, and those NPCs in the underground world will think that you are just lucky and brought a little more money, but the increase of 30,000 in one breath can allow these guys who are afraid of the soft and afraid of the hard to weigh their strength and see if they are qualified to wrestle with a guy who can take out 850,000 gold coins in one breath to buy a few Saron evil iron ingots.

That's how the Underworld survives! Never let the enemy see your weaknesses!

"Eight hundred and fifty thousand! Someone has given 850,000 gold coins! Does anyone still want a price increase? This is a Saron evil iron ingot refined by a master blacksmith, 850,000, no one has increased the price? Well, these treasures are yours! The gavel in the hands of the Dark Goblin Auctioneer fell heavily, announcing that Yu Bin had successfully bid for these Saron Evil Iron Ingots.

"Undead?" As Yu Bin walked through the aisle in the middle of the hall, walked to the auction table, paid the gold coins, and took the goods, all the NPCs in the auction house immediately saw Yu Bin's identity clearly.

"Damn the Undead !!" At this moment, a roar full of anger and hatred sounded from a box on the second floor, and then the curtain of the box was blown open by a wave of air, and I saw a human mage holding a magic staff in his hand, standing there with an angry face, staring at Yu Bin deadly, "Say, where is the Book of your?" Then I can give you complete death!! ”