Chapter 50: Identifying the Beads
When we arrived at the Pasa Auction House, we were once again given a grand reception. It is worthy of being a leading auction house, and just by looking at the quality of the staff inside, you know that it must have done a lot of hard work. Knowing what we were here for, the waitress at the front desk quickly led us to the best appraiser in the auction house, Oldoka.
As the best appraiser, the appraisal department of Oldoka is in a separate room, which is also for the sake of some customers, the principle of the auction house is not to ask the source of the goods, only to ask the value, even if you are auctioning the national seal of a certain country, as long as you can get it, absolutely do not care whether it will offend that country.
I took out the black beads I had taken from the giant octopus, handed them to Master Otdorka, and said, "Please help me identify them!"
Master Oldoka was an old man in his seventies, with gray hair, dressed in gray magic robes, and his eyes shining with wisdom, he picked up the bead, looked at it carefully, and said, "It's a magical bead, and it doesn't seem to be a magic core. Then he placed it on a special platform, placed his hand on it, and immediately, a cyan light enveloped the beads. After a while, Master Oldoka took his hand away and said, "Extremely rare, this bead should be called an ink bead, and it is only possible to find it on an octopus that has lived for thousands of years. Although it is not a magic core, but looking at the abundant magic power in it, it should be equivalent to the magic core of an eighth-level poison demonic beast. And its special function is to be able to remove dust, carry it on the body, and be spotless, so it can also be called ink transfer beads. Seeing that there is plenty of magic in it, it is clear that the octopus didn't even use much magic before it died. ”
I secretly admired it, and I didn't expect him to know that the bead was obtained from an octopus, and that the octopus had not used poisonous magic. Master Oldoka wrote on a piece of appraisal paper: The special treasure ink bead is of excellent quality, and the reserve price is 200,000 gold coins. Obviously, he mistakenly thought that I was planning to auction it, but how could I be willing to exchange it for gold coins for such a treasure?
With a faint smile, I asked curiously, "Master, did you use wind magic to identify it?"
"Yes, I'm a wind magician, and I specialize in detective magic, and I just used the wind of inquiry. "Master Oldoka said kindly.
"Thank you, Master, for helping me identify. "I didn't expect that the application of magic was so widespread, and my interest in magic became even stronger.
"I should thank you, but I rely on you for food, and one percent of the auction will be used as the appraisal fee, and my fee is not low at all!" Master Otodorka said humorously.
"You deserve it. But I'm not going to put it up for auction, I don't know how the appraisal fee should be calculated?" In my opinion, there have never been a few such beads in the whole continent, after all, like the octopus I killed, there may be a lot of them in the deep sea, but it is really rare to see them on the mainland, not to mention that even if there is such an octopus, there may not be other ink beads, and he can identify it only by a simple wind of exploration, which can only show that he has reached the pinnacle of detection magic.
"If that's the case, you'll need to pay three thousand gold coins. Master Otodorka, apparently not surprised that I was not auctioning the beads, replied with a smile.
Out of the auction house, the time was close to night, and after solving the pressure of the two artifacts, I proposed to find a hotel to have a big meal, and the delicious Alice and Xiao Yu were naturally cheering, and even Ranke was excited.
Since you are going to the hotel, it is natural to go to the best Sky Blue Hotel. It is the best hotel in Osdel, and although the food does not taste as good as what I cooked, it is much better than what I used to eat, and Ranke and I both drank a lot of wine. And seeing that I was in high spirits, Filia and Qinsi also drank a few glasses together, and the two little faces as white as jade floated red, even I was dumbfounded when I was used to seeing Filia's stunning beauty, not to mention the lascivious boy Rank. Under Filia's supervision, Alice naturally couldn't drink good wine, but she and Xiao Yu almost took care of half of the dishes. After eating, as soon as I settled the account, even if I was as indifferent as me, I screamed, and I spent more than 2,000 gold coins, which is enough for ordinary people to eat for a few years.
With a sigh, I had to pick up the drunk Ranke and walk back slowly with the three girls. Philia and Jeans walked in front, whispering a few words from time to time, while Alice took my right hand and walked beside me, if it weren't for Rank, it would have been very comforting.
Back at the General's Mansion, Ranke naturally had the servants of the General's Mansion to take care of him, and Alice had been shopping for an afternoon at the store, and had already fallen asleep in my arms on the way.
Carefully placing Alice on the bed, looking at her quiet and lovely sleeping face, I couldn't help but kiss her gently on the forehead, and then retreated with Philia and returned to her room.
"Jean Si seems to like God?" when she helped me change my pajamas, Filia came out coldly, and I was startled.
"No!" I said in surprise, my face full of disbelief, "I already have a wife, how can she still like me?"
Filia chuckled, "Surely, although she seems to have been hiding it, she can't hide it from my eyes." When I was shopping today, her eyes were staring at you all the time, but you didn't notice it. Not to mention ......"
"What's more?" I said curiously, and even though I had no ambition for Qinsi, I was proud to have an elf like me.
"What's more, my sky is so good, everything is superior, it's hard for Qin Si to like it or not?" said Philia proudly, her eyes full of deep affection.
"Don't think about it, you're the only one who will treat me as a treasure!" I said with a smile as I gently scraped the bridge of her nose. Even if I am unheard, I know that it is very difficult to make elves like humans, elves themselves are one of the most persistent races in love, even if they have a long lifespan, elves who have lost their spouses will never find a lover again, but will only die alone. Falling in love with a human means that the elves will face a long period of loneliness, which is also destined to be a tragedy. Therefore, it is almost impossible to make elves fall in love with humans.
Seeing that I still didn't believe it, Filia smiled mysteriously, knowing that it was difficult to convince me for a while, so she asked instead: "Seeing how happy you are today, is it because you can finally create your own artifact?"
I smiled and said, "With my current strength, unless I meet the top masters of the gods and demons, it will be the same with or without weapons." I'm happy only because I can finally pay off a debt. Then, he carefully explained to her that he had been punished by the Kali patriarch for destroying the dragon council chamber.
Sticking out her tongue, Filia said in surprise: "I didn't expect the punishment of the dragon clan to be so heavy, just destroying the ground of some council halls, and actually punishing two artifacts or five hundred years of labor, if you change people, you really can't complete it." ”
Looking at her coquettish appearance, I smiled and said: "You must know that the people who can enter the council hall are basically the elders and patriarchs of the dragon clan, for them, five hundred years is really nothing, although the two artifacts of the human race will make them a little painful, but it is definitely not unacceptable." Didn't I find three artifacts in that little time!"
"Hehe," Philia said with a smile, "Two of the three artifacts were snatched from Carter's saint-level masters, I think King Carter has already regretted provoking you! ”
"Don't talk about those misers. Remembering that it was because they refused to give me even a little bit of gold, and that I couldn't even pay the entrance tax, I said hatefully: "If they weren't so stingy, I wouldn't have been penniless when I just left the island." When I went out of the island to ask for gold coins, I was actually reprimanded by the patriarch. ”
The name of the dragon clan's greed for money may be more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people than their strong strength, thinking that I would actually want the dragon clan to ask for gold coins, Filia couldn't hold back any longer, and giggled: "Dare to reach out to the dragon clan patriarch to ask for gold coins, probably you are the only one." ”
Shaking my head helplessly, I smiled bitterly: "At that time, I didn't know that the dragons would be so greedy that they wouldn't even give me a little money. Fortunately, there are a lot of monster skins in my ring, and I sold hundreds of thousands of gold coins in a small seaside town, otherwise I wouldn't even have the money to add mercenaries, so maybe I would really miss out on you. ”
"yes! If I hadn't met you, I would have died in the bandits' camp. Thinking of that tragic moment, Filia's tears seemed to be falling again.
I hurriedly hugged her into my arms and comforted her softly: "Don't think about the past anymore, just be happy now." He took out the Cold Soldier Sword and the Ink Bead from the ring, "This sword will be handed over to you to use, and now I can't teach you Chinese martial arts because of the oath, but soon I will send the dragon crystal to the Water Dragon Elder, and when the time comes, I can contact the Kali Patriarch, and I can teach you and Alice to practice martial arts." Although this ink bead is black, it looks beautiful and restrained, so I'll give it to you as my first gift!"
Filia nodded obediently, after untying her heart knot, her whole person was already much more cheerful, and it was just a temporary feeling just now, after all, that experience had too much impact on her. For what I gave her, she was already able to accept it calmly. According to her thoughts, everything she has is already mine anyway, so it's actually the same whether she takes it or not. But she obviously doesn't really care about what kind of gift, she only cares about my heart.
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