Chapter 66 - The Bid

Emilia has the blessing of the Goddess of light due to which she can see the light that is emitted by a person. She is able to see the exact colours but for Rex, nothing was visible at least that's what she thought!

But never would have she imagined that the Rex's light was COLOURLESS!

That was why she was completely surprised when she saw Rex.

"W-who is he...?"

The colour black represent evil or bad and white represented good and pure. The same went for other colours where red represents anger or dominator, blue represent calm and gentle, green represent sweet and humble, yellow represent agitated or Unhappy and finally pink represented beauty! Beside these there were other colours too.

But Rex didn't have any of those colours.

"No colour? Or does it mean Colourless? Is that even possible?"

She was mumbling to herself all these but the butler who was beside her was looking at Bandis continuously.

"He is indeed a strong man, I am unable to see his power level..."

The butler was strong too and could be easily compared with many strong masters. If he were to be classified by rank then he would easily be the 3rd or 4th strongest in the kingdom of Rhone with respect to the registered ranks!

But this great man wasn't able to see through Bandis's cultivation strength which made him think that he was indeed a strong person.

"Hmm, Maybe miss doesn't want anyone young or handsome, rather she wants someone strong!", that's what he was thinking when suddenly the auction began!

"Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, I am the host for today! Thanks for attending the auction hall. Today we are going to...", the host began the introduction which marked the start of the event.

The gate was closed which forbade anyone else from entering. The only selected few people who were deemed as VIPs were given seats in the front.

Other than them, the seats were arranged by numbering where the other people sat based on the number plate that was provided to them.

"So first of all we would like to showcase the items! Please prepare yourselves to welcome our extraordinary items that we have gathered!"

One by one the items were started to be displayed. The people started bidding on the items and almost all of the starting items were won by Emilia.

She had the intention of getting many things from the start and had gained permission too so there was no issue in her buying the items but this was making other people hold a grudge against her.

"Damn, why is she here?"

Emilia was a princess of another kingdom who used to travel many places. She had been admitted to the Royal Magic Academy. She had been given an assignment by them to wander and look for interesting things during the holidays provided.

And that was why after traveling to many places, she decided to visit Rhone.

"Your highness, are you sure about buying so many things?"

Emilia suddenly looked towards the butler and asked, "Did our money yet over?"

The butler Immediately shook his head as if he was denying it. He said, "We have used only 10% of the wealth we brought..."

Emilia immeditely grinned and said, "Then why are you panicking?"

The butler was quite experienced about these things. He knew that doing this would bring only hate and curses on Emilia and the family from the other people and that was why he was trying to stop her hit she was not ready to submit yet.

She wanted to buy many more things from the auction hall which she had visited for the first time.

She was excited to buy the next item too when suddenly the lights were turned off and only one light was Switched on which lighted the stage.

"And now, lets welcome the main item of this event!!!"

A lady immeditely brings something in a trolly towards the host and leaves immediately.

'Lub Dub Lub Dub'

Rex's heart was beating fast. He was getting anxious.

"W-what's happening? This feeling... it's as if..."

The crest on his back which was actually the red dragon's crest was being impatient.

Rex understood that it was because of the item which was just now brought in front of all.

"We have to buy this at any cost!", Rex mumbled.

Bandis and Zormugand heard this and were immediately ready to buy it.

Zormugand himself was a dragon and he too was getting a strange feeling but he neglected it thinking that it was a nonsense.

The host immeditely remived the piece of cloth that was being kept on the item.

"WOAHHHH!!!", there was a loud scream from everyone. Even the esteemed guests were shocked by the appearance of the item.

'LUB DUB LUB DUB'

This sound was clearly heard by everyone since it was echoing due to their complete silence.

It was a giant heart that was beating even after it was separated from the body.

"This is a dragon's heart!"

The moment the host announced this, all of them suddenly became excited to buy it since it was said that eating a dragon's heart makes the person immortal with eternal youth.

Even though that was not the case, everyone blindly believe it. This was yet another facade spread by the church.

Their aim was to only kill the dragons and nothing else and that was the very reason for them to make up this lie.

"The starting bid is.... 1,000,000 (one million) gold coins!"

The moment they heard the large price many of them gave up right away. But there were still many who were ready to afford such great prize to get it.

It was the same for Emilia too who wanted to buy it because in their country the same lie was interpreted in another way.

In their kingdom it was said that the dragon's heart could cure any type of disease so she antes to buy it at any cost for the sake of her mother and younger sister!

"We have to buy it no matter the cost!", she clenched her fist as she said that.

"Let's start!", the host immediately shouted after which a man suddenly stood up with his number plate and said a bid.

"One million and ten thousand gold coins!"

Another person stood and increased the bid again. The fight was going between them which was being intervened by many other people.

The bid had been risen to 20 million golds successfully but still the people weren't ready to let this go.

The bid was still rising when suddenly Emilia stood up and said, "100 million gold coins!"

The moment she told that it was completely silent. Not even a single word was being uttered by anyone.

The bid was finally set at 100 million good coins which was a very huge amount. A person can live the entire life without working if he or she had that huge amount of money which she was ready to throw for the sake of the heart.

The host and the seller were quite happy and baffled when they heard the huge amount of money. After all the His was raised from 20 million good coins to 100 million good coins right away!

The host was about to announce that Emilia would be getting the heart when suddenly some movements were noticed and some sounds were heard.

Since the hall was completely filled with silence it was inevitable for them not to notice someone speaking and the direction of the voice was coming from the place where Rex was sitting.

"What are they whispering!", Emilia was intriguied since earlier and now she was even more eager to listen their words.

After whispering for a while Bandis immeditely raised Rex's number plate which had a mark of '111'.

He announced, "We would be buying it with 1 million coins!"

"..."

"Hahahahaha!"

The sudden silence broke and everyone started to laugh. Even the host was laughing which also included Emilia.

She looked at Rex a bit with a lot of effort and thought that he was just saying a joke to lighten the mood.

"Look at them, the bid here is 100 million good coins and hey are bidding the starting amount that was 1 million gold coins! Hahaha!"

All of them were making a fun of him and so were the ones who were on the back stage.

Rex was confused because he didn't understand the reason for their laughter.

The host immeditely said, "I'm sorry but your bid will be invalid..."

"Huh?", Rex was even more confused.

"Am I ineligible to make the bid?", Rex asked.

"Of course not! You can bid as well...", the host replied.

Bandis immeditely intervened and said, "Then why was our bid called invalid!!!?"

He was in anger and confusion at the same time.

Everyone were still laughing at them and the host too was trying to explain them when suddenly Emilia stood up and said, "Listen, the bid price has been raised to 100 million golds, so you have to bid a higher amount.... 1 million golds is too less!"

Everyone started to laugh again when Rex suddenly stood up and said, "Yes, thank you for the explanation but can you tell me by what means is 1 million platinum coins less than 100 million gold coins?"

"Huh...?"

The silence returned again and everyone stopped laughing immeditely the moment they heard this.

Even Emilia herself was shocked and asked, "1 million... platinum coins?"

NOTE:

100 copper coins = 1 bronze coin.

100 bronze coins = 1 silver coin.

1000 silver coins = 1 gold coin.

1000 gold coins = 1 platinum coin.

TO BE CONTINUED...