Chapter 270: Auction
In the Deadwater Fish-Man Village in the Deadwater Oasis, the atmosphere of the Winter Veil Festival gradually reached its climax, and the inauguration ceremony of the Backwater Fish-Man Village began at this time.
The inauguration ceremony was arranged by Yang Yi himself, and the whole process was very simple, mainly divided into three parts.
It starts with a morning arena competition, followed by a ribbon-cutting ceremony at noon, and finally an auction in the afternoon.
Combined with the food, wine and festivities of the Winter Veil Festival, the ceremony is enough to keep everyone who comes to the ceremony happy.
Yang Yi rarely got up early this morning, but there were many people who got up earlier than him.
In order to maintain order in the arena, Slark sent a whole team of 100 battle fishmen to garrison the arena.
The arena on the first level of the town is actually the lowest level of the arena, with a circular clearing in the middle of the arena surrounded by three-tiered terraced stands without seats.
When a hundred fighting fishmen entered the arena, the lowest level of the stands was occupied first, and the remaining stands could accommodate less than 300 spectators.
The protagonists of today's arena are not the fishmen of Ratchet Town, but the goblin Gulgosok and his gladiators.
Goblin Gurgosok came to the door after seeing a notice posted in Backwater, a flattering goblin who claimed to have worked in the arena in Garkison but was swept away for some reason.
When the goblin was kicked out of Garkison, he brought with him a few gladiators who had earned money in the Garkison Arena, and when he learned that there was an arena in Backwater Village, he immediately ran to talk to the fish-man about business.
Arena gladiatorial battles are popular among many races in the world of Azeroth, and the arena is often the most popular place during many gatherings and celebrations, so savvy goblins have long seen the commercial benefits involved, and some goblins specialize in arena business.
I heard that some well-known arenas often hold tournaments that are a grand event, and the amount of money wagered on each tournament is staggering, making the organizers make a lot of money.
One of the most famous is the Arena of Doom, organized by ogres, which is a sacred place for all gladiators, and winning a laurel in the Arena of Doom will not only lead to great wealth, but also fame.
The goblin Gurgosok is said to have wanted to take his gladiators to the Hammer of Doom to try their luck, but his gladiators are still far from the arena where they can stand on the Hammer of Doom.
Yang Yi had seen that the goblin Gulgosok was accompanied by a troll servant and seven gladiators.
The six gladiators were level 3 boarmen, kobolds, and gnolls, level 4 centaurs and terror totem minotaurs, level 5 undead, and a level 6 ogre.
The level 6 big ogre was dressed in black heavy armor, like an iron wall, and the big iron rod in his hand was as thick as a pillar, and he was the trump card of the goblin Gulgosok.
After Yang Yi woke up, he ate breakfast while surrounded by fish people and came to the arena.
Yang Yi just hoped that the arena could attract more spectators, and he didn't want to make much money from it for the time being, so he just charged the goblins a little bit of venue fees and security fees and let the goblins arrange it themselves.
Goblin Gulgosok deliberately put on a golden coat and big red gloves today, and he looked bewitching.
This goblin is worthy of a professional who has worked in the Gymison Arena, which was full on its first day of opening.
It is said that for this reason, the goblin and his troll minions have been distributing flyers about the arena everywhere as early as a few days ago.
The rules of the arena are relatively simple, and those who want to challenge can go to Woody, the troll minion, and pay the entry fee to participate in the competition, and they can go down to the more goblin gladiator to duel.
There are great rewards for each victory, and the winner who ultimately defeats all the gladiators will receive a weapon of level 4 fine quality as a prize.
Level 4 quality weapons are very attractive to many people, and they have successfully attracted a large number of spectators to buy tickets to enter the venue, and the tickets alone have made the goblins make a fortune.
Rushing for generous prizes and attractive prizes, many itchy trailblazers paid the entry fee for the last challenge.
The pioneer has been in this world for a long time, and everyone knows that there is no such thing as fighting monsters or doing tasks to earn experience to upgrade in this world, and their own strength in addition to physical fitness is to look at combat skills.
When the pioneers first entered this world, most of them had never practiced real fighting, and a few of them had only practiced some sports fighting, and only a few of them had practiced martial arts since childhood like Ouyang and Chen Nanfeng.
So Ouyang and Chen Nanfeng quickly distanced themselves from the others in terms of rank.
In order to improve the level, many pioneers began to work hard to improve their combat skills, and if they had the conditions, they invited a master or coach to teach them, and if they didn't, they buried themselves in hard training or found someone to learn from them.
Therefore, during this period of time, the level of the pioneers generally began to increase, and more and more people successfully promoted to level 1 fighters, and some people even posted promotion strategies on the forum for reference.
However, there are still a few pioneers who can raise the combat level to level 3, that is, the intermediate level.
Yang Yi looked at it for a while and found that the opponent chosen by the pioneer in the next battle was a level 3 boar man. Kobolds or jackals were quickly beaten to the ground.
It seems that the strength of the pioneers still needs to be improved, after all, the practice of martial arts is not a year and a half to produce results.
Yang Yi stayed in the arena for a while, didn't see a Trailblazer win a game, and the more he watched, the less interested he became, and left.
By noon, it was time to cut the ribbon for the ceremony of the backwater village.
The ribbon-cutting was actually quite boring, especially when Yang Yi found that the onlookers and aborigines were all looking at Bane the Minotaur who was invited to cut the ribbon together.
Fortunately, there are still fishmen in Ratchet Town who worked hard to cheer Yang Yi and not get cold, so Yang Yi successfully completed the process.
Next up is the much-anticipated auction.
Yang Yi was actually waiting for this auction, because he had already taken a fancy to a few things in the auction list.
So Yang Yi also participated in the auction.
Presiding over the auction was Yang Yi's specially invited goblin auctioneer Drezemitt, a goblin auctioneer who often worked in Orgrimmar's auction house and was a veteran.
Yang Yi was worried that the fishman's head would not be able to control the scene of the auction house, and he had no experience in this area, so he spent a lot of money to invite the goblin auctioneer.
After the auction began, Yang Yi found that there were many acquaintances.
Many big guild leaders have appeared one after another, including Xie Fei, the president of the Glory Guild.
Yang Yi sat in the front row, he simply greeted them as a landlord, and then ignored them.
As soon as the time comes, the auction house will start immediately.
Various lots were placed on a large table in front of the auction table, which attracted everyone's attention.
Don't look at the pioneers, the level strength is not high for the time being, but there are many people with great powers.
In the past two years, the Pioneers have been roaming around the world of Azeroth, drilling everywhere, but they have found a lot of good things. It's just that I didn't think about the opportunity to auction in Backwater Village before, so I smashed a lot of things in my hands, and this time I just took them out.
Goblin Drexemit is worthy of being the auctioneer who has presided over the Orgrimmar auction, and he has seen the big scene and is comfortable presiding over this small auction house.
As several lots were sold in his hands, the atmosphere of the auction gradually became enthusiastic.
During this period, Yang Yi also raised his cards to bid for a few lots, but fortunately, he was wealthy, and the things he bid for were not valued by others.
So Yang Yi successfully photographed a few things that he had taken a fancy to at the beginning.
First of all, the price of 9 gold coins won the auction of three leather patterns.
They are [Pattern: Fishman Scale Breastplate], [Pattern: Fishman Scale Belt] and [Pattern: Fishman Scale Bracer], and the leather armor made by the three leather patterns is excellent quality equipment.
As the name of the pattern suggests, the main material needed to make these three types of leather armor is the scales of the fish-man!
Of course, the source of the fish-man scales is the fish-people, just like the skinners skin the corpses of wild beasts, in order to make these three kinds of leather armor, you need to peel off the scaly skin from the fish-people's corpses.
Yang Yi took pictures of these three patterns, in addition to avoiding some big guilds from hunting fishmen to skin them for equipment after obtaining the patterns, more importantly, he felt that only the fish-people had the best chance to get the most fish-man scales.
"Fish-people don't think like humans, and the fish-people of Ratchet Town probably won't reject equipment made from fish-man scales peeled from the corpses of their kind." Yang Yi thought after taking three pictures.
The second item Yang Yi photographed was a cooking cookbook.
[Recipe: Delicious Wind Snake], the food on this recipe can be made by only a level 2 chef.
The reason why Yang Yi took this recipe was purely out of curiosity.
Because the recipe states that the ingredient needed to make this food called [Delicious Wind Snake] is [Mutant Fish].
[Mutant Fish] can be caught in the lake of the backwater oasis, what is the use of this ugly-looking fish, Yang Yi has never figured it out.
With this recipe, you can give it a try later.
【Recipe: Delicious Wind Snake】Since everyone didn't know the effect, no one grabbed Yang Yi, and finally he auctioned it with 1 gold coin, which is the minimum starting price set in this auction.
Next, Yang Yi and others bid for the alchemy [Formula: Sleep Potion] for 100 gold coins.
This alchemical potion can cause the drinker to fall into a stupor, and although the coma lasts only for a brief period of 12 seconds, it still arouses the interest of many pioneers.
Pathfinders have always liked this item with special effects, and the effect of this [Sleeping Potion] is very useful, but it is a little shorter, but it can be of great use if used well.
Yang Yi is also very fond of the effect of this alchemy elixir, which makes the drinker fall into a coma The effect is equivalent to sweat medicine, which is simply a necessity for walking the rivers and lakes.
In the end, Yang Yi held up another card and photographed the recipe of another alchemy potion.
[Recipe: Dream Elixir] is a recipe for refining an alchemy potion that can obtain the Dream Vision after use.
What is the use of gaining dream vision? Yang Yi didn't know.
But Yang Yi found that several people from the big guilds were holding up cards to snap up this alchemy formula, so he relied on his wealth and spent 500 gold coins to auction it.
Uncle is rich, and being rich is so capricious.
After the auction of [Recipe: Dream Elixir], there is only one lot left in this auction.
"Level 6 Epic Quality Two-Hand Sword [Destiny]...... of two truncated swords. The goblin auctioneer, Drexemitt, shouted excitedly.
Including Xie Fei of the Glory Guild, several people from the Great Guild came for the two severed swords of [Fate].
Although [Destiny] was cut in two in the battle between the mysterious human Big Chin and the beastmaster Lexa, that earth-shattering battle also advertised the two-handed sword of [Destiny].
Xie Fei and several other people from the big guild were saving money and waiting for the appearance of the [Fate] Broken Sword, but Yang Yi was not interested, he took the lead and left after taking pictures of what he wanted.