Three seconds later, the curtain on the stage at the bottom of the semi-circular hall was split in two and pulled out from the middle, and the lights in the hall converged there, and the master of ceremonies of the meeting stood in the center of the booth from behind the curtain wearing a neat black dress, wearing a gorgeous dance mask on his face, and holding a small loudspeaker for amplification in his hand.

Finn recognized the little trumpet in the master of ceremonies' hand. The continent of Ferdia, which was officially designed by the game based on the medieval Western fantasy world, does not have microphones that are too out of the times, but clever wizard craftsmen have used magic devices to create amplified horns that can resonate with the qi element, and this kind of magic horn on the battlefield can be used for the hosting scene of various meeting places with a little modification, the only flaw is that the price is too expensive before the great demon tide comes, and this kind of amplification equipment cannot be popularized because of this simple and straightforward reason.

The master of ceremonies stood on the booth of the auction and bowed. After the ceremony, he looked up at the guests in the venue, put the small speaker in his hand in front of his mouth and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the underground world of Hurenger! ”

As he finished speaking, he raised his arms and smiled professionally, and the people in the hall responded to him with courtesy applause, and then watched with curiosity and anticrisy as the staff of the two parties walked from behind the curtain of the booth to the front of the stage.

The two staff members each held an object, one of which was an ordinary-looking sword, and the other a standard heavy infantry shield. The two men came to the master of ceremonies with these two pieces of equipment, and after the master of ceremonies turned around and took the common from one of them, one of them grabbed both sides of the shield with the other person next to him, and showed the front of the shield to the audience on the front of him.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the shields you see now were born in the military foundries of the Violet Kingdom, and they were forged with the mission of sending them to fortresses and battlefields, and becoming the most trusted bronze walls in the hands of heavy infantry." The master of ceremonies raised his hand and tapped the shield beside him with the sword he had just taken from a staff member, "This shield comes from the same place as its siblings, it can perfectly block the claw strike of an angry bear, and it can also knock its wielder's opponent to the ground with a shield strike." ”

"Do you want to sell this thing to us?" A man in the ordinary seat asked in a loud voice with a playful tone.

The man who spoke out seemed to be a little-known nobleman, his costume was more ornate and elegant than that of ordinary commoners, and the tone in his voice did not sound very interesting to the words of the master of ceremonies that had just introduced the shield.

The words of the little nobleman were not so much questioning as questioning. Violet's standard heavy shield does have reliable defense, but it is not difficult for people with a little access and connections to get their hands on this equipment, and the demand for such items is often not the rich, but the young and ambitious adventurer warrior with little savings at home.

The first sale of the auction may not be the best, but it can be said to be an appetizer on a table, and it has the important role of arousing the interest of customers and heating up the atmosphere of the venue. In other words, if the appetizer that the party can get is only the level of a standard heavy shield, then the level of this auction can be imagined, and the VIPs in the box on the second floor will definitely not waste their wealth on such ordinary goods.

At the end of the little nobleman's speech, many people in the hall began to whisper, the master of ceremonies at the booth still wore his professional smile and announced unhurriedly: "Of course not." ”

"And what do you sell?" The little nobleman stood up with his arms folded.

"We're selling swords now." The master of ceremonies shook the sword in his hand.

"But there's nothing special about that sword." The little nobleman shrugged.

There was a low snickering from the audience.

At the same time, more than a dozen VIPs in several boxes on the second floor of the venue also shook their heads one after another. They didn't say anything, but they began to be a little disappointed in the auction.

In the face of this small commotion in the hall, the master of ceremonies did not argue anything, just kept the smile on his face, and then turned to face the indicated heavy infantry shield, and suddenly moved under his feet, and without warning, a forward thrust stabbed the long sword in his hand into the shield of the heavy shield.

"Poof——!

There was a crunch of metal hitting.

The people in the hall stared at the long sword in the master of ceremonies' hand and the shield that the two staff members raised together. A second later, everyone present saw that the longsword had not only penetrated the shield deeply, but had also formed a layer of ice on the shield centered on the piercing opening, reflecting a light blue cold light.

In an instant, both the ordinary guests in the hall and the VIPs in the box on the second floor flashed a term in their minds - magic weapons!

It's a creation that has been enchanted by a wizard craftsman!

The master of ceremonies turned his back to everyone and bent the corners of his mouth proudly, then gritted his teeth and pulled the long sword out of the shield again, and then changed back to the signature smile on his face and said to the people in the venue: "This child's name is called, and his personality is a little stuffy. Sao, as you have just seen. ”

After speaking, he stood quietly on the booth with his sword in hand, waiting for the people in the hall to ask other questions.

For a long time, there was a silent silence in the hall for half a minute.

"If there is nothing wrong...... "The master of ceremonies saw that there was no one who wanted to raise anything publicly, so he continued to push the scene to the next stage of the auction, "The reserve price of this sword is two hundred gold coins, and the bidding can begin." ”

The master of ceremonies' words fell, and the atmosphere in the venue was silent a few seconds ago, but now it quickly became active.

"Two hundred gold coins? So expensive? Raymond sat next to Finn and looked at the emcee on the booth from afar, his eyes widened in disbelief, and then he turned his head to look at Finn in a blank manner.

"This is just the floor price, and the price of this sword will go up." Finn prompted him.

After saying that, he also turned his head to look at Raymond, and found that the latter's expression became even more sluggish.

"There's nothing strange about that, Raymond." Seeing that his companion seemed to be unfamiliar with magical items, the young paladin smiled kindly, and then went on to explain, "The market price of magical weapons is never something that the poor can afford, and their superior quality often matches their value, which is one of the reasons why many adventurers are eager to obtain them. ”

"But it is clear that the poor cannot afford them, and neither can the average adventurer." Raymond thought for a moment, and followed Finn's explanation and deduced, "So it seems that the only people who can buy this sword can be merchants and nobles, or... A whole adventure group. ”

The next second after Raymond's words fell, after a lot of discussion in the audience in the hall of the venue, someone in the left seat of the venue first joined the competition for this appetizer.

He bid two hundred and one gold coins, which was higher than the reserve price, and the master of ceremonies at the booth then shouted the man's offer through a small loudspeaker.

"My lord, we have a check for a thousand gold coins, would you like to join the bidding?" The moment he heard the offer, Arroyo twisted his fingers, then leaned forward and turned his head sideways to look at Finn, who was a seat away from him.

Arya sat between Finn and Arroyo.

The elven girl's expressionless expression seemed to state to her surroundings that she had no interest in the auction herself, and that she had just come with it. After noticing Arroyo's intention to consult Finn on her actions, she blinked, then simply leaned back against the back of the table and chair, a pair of thin ears lazily leaning back on the top of the chair with her head, giving up the communication space in front of her to Arroyo and Finn, who were separated from her.

Finn looked back at Arroyo from Raymond's direction, and he waved his hand at the thief youth and said bluntly, "There's no need, let's just keep waiting." ”

At the end, he paused verbally, then whispered, "Don't forget why we're here." ”

The young thief nodded knowingly, then withdrew his gaze and leaned forward to sit back upright.

While Finn was talking to Arroyo, the price of that handful had risen a lot as Finn had predicted for Raymond, from the initial two hundred and fifty gold coins, all the way to the equivalent of two hundred and ten, two hundred and twenty, and two hundred and thirty gold coins, and soared to the current price of two hundred and eighty gold coins.

"I can't believe that an enchanted sword is worth so much money than an ordinary sword." When the offer of two hundred and eighty gold coins was surpassed by a new bidder with three hundred gold coins, Raymond, who had only been concerned with polishing his combat skills in the past, suddenly felt that his common sense in market trading was too naïve.

He felt that the auction had suddenly become a hunt in the forest, the magic sword on the booth was like a running elk, and the wolves in the audience kept jumping out from behind the bushes to join the hunt, but there was only one winner of the hunt, because the wolf had more meat and less meat.

The most vigorous leader wolf at the moment took the lead with an advantage of three hundred gold coins, but just as the host of the venue was about to stand behind a table in the booth and ring the third wooden hammer, the distinguished guest from the box on the second floor of the venue finally read his battle letter to the ordinary visitors in the hall on the first floor.

At that moment, the owner of the third box from the left on the second floor joined the competition of the hunters, and the staff who submitted the price code arrived at the booth of the venue on time and handed a small note in his hand to the master of ceremonies who presided over the venue.

"Four hundred gold coins!" The master of ceremonies picked up the note and read it, then immediately announced in a loud voice, "The new bidder has bid four hundred gold coins, and he has opened up the gap of one hundred gold coins with his chaser in one go!" ”

The people in the ordinary seats on the first floor were suddenly stupid.

The guests in the other boxes on the second floor did not seem to have any intention of competing with the bidder for their prey, while the ordinary guests in the audience on the first floor almost all had an irrepressible retreat in their hearts. Among them, a caravan leader from the Farentan Empire had reserved interest in the magic sword, but after a calm thought, he finally gave up trying to try his luck by continuing to raise the price.

For a while, the atmosphere in the venue changed from active to quiet, and the desire in the hearts of the bidders was suddenly extinguished like a fire poured with cold water, and the jumping offer of four hundred gold coins gave them the feeling that a group of wolves chasing an elk suddenly burst out with a gunshot, and the ammunition in the chamber "snapped" and killed the fastest leading wolf, and the old hunter, who had won from the beginning, finally calmly walked out from behind the grass, and then carried the elk that was already tired and ready to return triumphantly, The rest of the wolves were completely suppressed by the black smoke of the old hunter's hand.

"Boom."

After confirming that the quotation was correct, the hammer bearer at the booth struck the wooden hammer.

There was silence in the hall, and no one raised the price.

"Boom."

Five seconds later, the second hammer.

Still no one has increased the price.

"Boom."

The third hammer.

"Deal!" The emcee's voice judged that the VIP from the box on the second floor had won the auction.

The first sale of the auction was sold for 400 gold coins.

"It's... That's too big, isn't it? Raymond raised his head and looked at the magic sword that was taken down from the booth by a staff member, and then subconsciously buried his head and glanced at the ordinary curved sword inserted into the sheath at his waist, and finally turned his gaze to the young paladin beside him, "Finn, is this guy who bid four hundred gold coins crazy?" ”

Faced with the confusion of the future Sword Master, the young paladin replied with a sideways look, "No, Raymond, I think he is very sane. ”

"But he probably only needs to use more than three hundred gold coins to take down that sword." The young swordsman stretched out three fingers and tried to argue, "but he bid four hundred gold coins in one go." ”

"Think about it differently, Raymond." The young paladin suggested, "If you add money a little bit at the previous pace, that person's signal to the other competitors is probably 'This game is fun, I'm going to get in too.'" However, the nature of the four hundred gold coins is different, and the man raised the price by a hundred in one go, which is to tell everyone 'this is my prey, you all get out of here'. This kind of decisive act in the underground auction hall not only represents an uncompromising momentum, but also a declaration and deterrence that must be won. ”

"It's... Is it like this? After hearing Finn's explanation, Raymond's eyes looked suspiciously past Finn to Arya and Arroyo, hoping to get a convincing answer from the mouths of the other two companions.

The elven girl next to Finn sat as if she was immersed in the thought of something, and she still raised her head and leaned back in her chair as if she didn't care about herself, while Arroyo, the young thief, turned her head sideways and looked at Raymond with a grin and said, "Your Excellency's explanation is very good, and this figurative metaphor summarizes more clearly than what I intended to popularize to you. ”

"But let's be honest." As soon as the conversation changed, Arroyo shifted his gaze from Raymond's face to Finn, "As a holy warrior, you know a lot about the unspoken rules of black market trading, and I think I have to admire your erudition once again. ”

"Come on, don't slap me." Finn smiled and glanced at Arroyo, "It's just a little 'advanced' common sense, not knowledgeable." ”

Suddenly, just as Finn and Arroyo, the hosts, were about to end the conversation and wait for the next auction item to be put on the stand, the elven girl, who had been on the sidelines, suddenly opened her eyes from the silent fugue.

"Finn." For a moment, she made a cold sound, and her neck, which was still leaning on the back of the seat, shot straight back.

"Arya?" Finn was immediately caught by Arya's reaction, "What's wrong?" ”

"I noticed a problem." The elven girl froze down, and then turned her head to look at the holy warrior youth beside her, her eyes serious.