Chapter 41: The Mysterious Bidder
"Blatantly attacking a nobleman at an auction house, are you provoking the authority of the Empire, ma'am?
"I don't think a baron can represent the face of the Empire. Olwes looked at Count Renette, who was tentative and looking at her identity, and didn't even stand up, "I think we can continue, if one of us on the field has no other plans." ”
The hall calmed down after the small conversations, the intrigues of the nobles often did not come to the surface, the hanging Gothic court crystal lamps appeared brighter, and the auctioneer smiled slightly, motioning for the assistants to bring the fifth lot to the stage.
Lost in a foreign country, the half-sage-level equipment, a visual work created by the alien dwarf master Botu a hundred years ago, "Vulture Armor", some stiff curves make it have a hard and cold beauty, no one doubts its exquisite craftsmanship.
It's just that the bad luck that wraps around this fierce armor is not a rumor, and nine great knights died on the battlefield in the first battle they put on it, and they were stolen and lost on the way back, which is almost a strange story.
At the moment when it appeared on the stage, the nobles and wealthy businessmen of the Titan Empire were a little disappointed, just because it didn't seem to be wearing demon light.
With some hesitation, Olwes raised the price tag, 250 gold Caesars, which made the people who looked curiously at the noble lady laugh, but they also increased the price carefully, and a quarter of an hour passed, and the price climbed to 300 gold Caesars, and the box on the second floor yawned very clearly.
"500 pieces! for the lady who made the first bid. ”
The people on the first floor looked up angrily, including an angry Olwes, who had not yet weighed the risks and benefits of the collection.
However, although this price was nowhere near the value of a half-sage piece of equipment, it was also the last thing many collectors thought of, and the auctioneer did not hesitate, and the sixth lot followed.
"Congratulations, ma'am. A nobleman in front of Olwes turned around with a smile, a man with elegant manners, and he took advantage of his free time to quip, "Although it is an unlucky thing, if it doesn't work, it can be sold and auctioned off, and the materials forged by the dwarves are still worth a few gold coins even if they are all turned into molten steel." ”
Olwes glanced at him, "Even if I throw it into the Siamasu volcano, it will take three days and three nights to dissolve." She sighed, "I wish there was a big knight who could put it on and surprise the guy upstairs who was teasing us." ”
The man shrugged his shoulders, clearly not holding out hope.
It wasn't until the eleventh lot that Olves's eyes lit up, and the dark purple flower bloomed in the soil like living water, and the wind-like fluorescence could be seen in the glorious hall.
The flower of Pan, which only grows in the mountains and forests of eternal daylight, and quietly withers the moment the living creature steps in, and can only be artificially collected with the soil of the abyss, and this troublesome and remote material rarely appears in the eyes of people.
"Two thousand gold Caesars. ”
There was an exclamation in the hall, and Olwes gritted her teeth, the anger in her eyes seemed to whip the auctioneer on the stage back and forth, why was there such a high reserve price?
Her amethyst ring was stacked with endless treasures, but there weren't many rich gold coins, and if she were to take one of them and cash it out, Olwes would be heartbroken and rolling on the ground.
It's one thing to give back and reward, it's another thing to spend money, and Olves' worldview is clear.
"Two thousand four. A calm voice came from the second floor.
"Three thousand!", but a box on the other side did not give a cent.
"Three thousand four. ”
"Four thousand. ”
"Four thousand four. ”
“......”
Olwesse's body trembled, and the sandalwood armrests beside her clicked with her.
"You're alright. The man in front turned his head again, watching her spiral up on the edge of rage.
"It's fine. Olwes took a deep breath, a little glad that the mask had hidden her pale complexion, she knew long before she came to the auction that this might happen.
"Is that good, Your Majesty? Winifred looked at the aristocratic girl with a luxurious mask who was full of horror below, and couldn't understand where Emperor Constantine's happiness came from.
Listening to the palace guards on the opposite side still dutifully continue to lift up without stopping, he could only shout out the voice of "Eight Thousand Four" in a brisk tone, he had gradually lost his fear of the high Caesar gold coins, and felt that he was a numb quotation machine.
In the other boxes on the second and third floors, the strange sight almost passed through the thin curtain to look at these two aliens, even if two feuds were to compete, there was no need to mix together like two red-eyed bulls at the beginning.
On the whole, however, they were still happy to hear it, and there was already the sound of wine glasses and the chuckle of noble ladies from the upper floors.
This was the material she needed for "Nemosine's Mist Armor"! Olves's bright blue eyes were reddening.
She stood up like lightning and held up the tag, "Eight thousand five."
"Fifteen thousand four!", a loud voice from the same box drowned out her voice almost at the same time.
She sat down very cowardly, and curled up her knees in the mink chair very unladylikely.
The handsome auctioneer's gaze, which was supposed to stop at her, flashed quickly with the blink of an eye, and it was very gentlemanly to save a little face for her.
"Your Majesty, do you know her?"
"Aiqing, don't you know her too?", Constantine smiled with the same pleasure and grimness as he chased a fox during the autumn hunt, "Virginia. ”
Viscount Winifred was a little surprised, carefully looked at the girl in the hall on the first floor, and finally shook his head helplessly, "Forgive the minister's clumsiness. ”
Konstantin laughed and patted his pet on the shoulder, "You, you are the best at pretending to be confused." ”
The horrific bid came to an end with the last horrific offer, but no one could understand why the other box, which had been competing against each other, was silent.
A large number of nobles on the first floor who were distraught left the scene, and the rest were really nobles and gentry.
Olwes clenched the amethyst ring with some annoyance, wanting to take out two or three pieces of legendary equipment and smash them on their copper-smelling faces, but she was a little afraid that these Titans' local tyrants would pull out four or five sets of demi-holy equipment with their backhands and slap them on top of their heads, blinding their great determination.
The auction room seemed to adjust its layout slightly, and the next auction item was clearly up a notch, no longer a flashy semi-finished product, a spar waiting to be discovered, or a cursed dangerous item.
The appetizer that came out was the court armor of the mysterious Zhenwu Dynasty in the East, which was supported by a hanger of extremely weight-bearing steel, and the three sets of flawless pieces were presented without even washing the blood stains on them.
Except for the cunning and cunning arms dealers who eat people and don't spit out bones, maybe only a big auction house will flow such fine products, and the armaments are constantly released, and no one thinks about where these arms come from, and they are all thinking about the needs of the family and throwing out their chips.
Olwes listened quietly to their offers, not letting go of everyone who spoke up, she was weighing and comparing the strength of the Goldmers family as a benchmark, silently watching the foundation of the Titan Empire surface.
The Goldmers family, which ranks last among the ten major families of the Orman Empire, is also known as the Sword Sect family, and most of the family heads have reached the strength of the Great Sword Sect in their prime, and occasionally those with excellent luck have stepped into the threshold of the semi-saint level and reached the height of the Sword Saint before aging.
The Great Swordsman, who is two ranks lower than the Great Sword Sect, and the court knights, who are slightly higher, are the backbone of the senior aristocratic family and the royal family, respectively, and the number of these two and the strong people who play a key role determine the overall strength of the force.
The royal family of the Titan Empire has 20,000 human court knights, which is a terrifying number, and the number of great swordsmen accumulated in its territory is even more, not to mention its vast sea of warriors of the Golden and Silver Ages, and its complex and orderly military system.
The auction is coming to an end, and in addition to various rare materials, a total of 216 sets of court knight armor have flowed into the arms of the nobles, and the price of each set of armor fluctuates around 230,000 Caesar gold coins.
Olwes felt a little cold in her body, no wonder the kingdoms and kingdoms around her vast territory, including the two major empires of Orman and Safavid, together supported the ambitions of the emperors of the Titan Empire.
This huge empire, which is deep in the interior, fed and restricted by many countries, has been moving knives behind the backs of all countries, but it does not dare to really gather the strength of one country to gallop to one place.
However, the situation of other large and small empire kingdoms is not very comfortable due to his existence, and the kingdoms scattered in the western realm are united by the Western Holy See and the Safavid Empire, relying on faith and equipment to fight against orcs whose fecundity and combat power are also far superior to those of humans.
However, a hundred years ago, the Titan Empire suddenly attacked the hinterland of the Safavid Empire, and swept away the wives, daughters and family property of the warriors who fought with the orcs in the distance, causing the front line to collapse and half of the western frontier to become orc rations.
The old pope was alive, and the first thing the new pope did when he took office was to expel the Titan Emperor, His Majesty the Emperor didn't need faith, but his people needed it, His Majesty the Emperor didn't need treatment, but his soldiers needed it.
By the time the Titan Emperor figured out what was going on, a quarter of the population and hundreds of thousands of priests and priests had already left the barbaric land.
Two knights of the Holy Grail, eight knights of court, a hundred knights of the royal court, and three thousand knights of the court went straight to the far west with the humility and repentance of the emperor, the cathedral of Valencia, and never returned, in exchange for only a letter of forgiveness from two hundred pious ascetics and the pope who were not afraid to set foot in the land of the devil.
Time passed, and after His Majesty of the Titan Empire reflected on it, he launched another surprise attack on the Zhenwu Dynasty, the Peacock Kingdom, the Gameni Dynasty, and the Orman Empire eighty-seven years ago, sixty-two years ago, forty-nine years ago, and twenty years ago, and caused the four families to almost die.
After this, the world changed its mind about the venerable and powerful Titan Empire inherited from the Golden Age, and Olves, who had nothing to gain, got up from her seat and left the arena in hatred, scolding, "Barbarian Empire!".