249 The Appraisal

Unlike that not so bright guard that didn't recognize my status as an auction guest, the sect members that walked around the sect district only had slight contempt in their eyes without questioning me out of the blue, as I wouldn't have been able to access this district otherwise…

In fact, the only thing that made me stand out was my unusual looking leather armor, if it was Tie or Tia that were in my place they would have blended in without any trouble!

Thinking how this would have been the norm if I followed the 'White Spear Sect' members into this district from the beginning, it looked like I made the right choice, after all, even though I was mostly indifferent to stranger's opinion, it would still be annoying to be glanced upon as if you were some sect's dog…

'Hopefully this auction would be worth the trouble…'

"Welcome, dear guest, how can this humble servant help you..."

As soon as I stepped into the auction house's building, which was considered as one of the biggest in the whole district, a servant came up to me with a 'Welcome'...

'Let's take a look first…'

"Can I check the item list of today's auction…?"

Putting the matter of auctioning something myself as my second priority, I wanted to check the items first to gauge the amount of money that I would have to invest in case I found something that I wanted…

"Sorry sir, but you are…"

Taking out the ticket I had to ensure my status in case he was muddle headed as well, but it turned out that…

"I'm still very sorry sir, I can't help with that, you status is only that of a guest, in fact, even normal sect members can't view the list as well, you would need to be at least above elder level or to be a VIP of our auction house…"

'Oh! so it was like that…'

"And how exactly does one become a VIP of this auction house…?"

"Ahem… one way is to spend over one thousand gold coins bidding in our auction house, and the other way is to auction items of similar value to one thousand coins as well…"

The servant face had a somewhat irritated expression on it as he seemed to think that it was a waste of time explaining these points to me, but unlike the guard who somewhat had enough authority to question me, he was but a servant in an auction house, so he couldn't really out what he thought of into words…

"That's great then, I have some items here that I would like to auction!"

"Oh, I see sir seems to have some business to do, let's head to the appraisal room then…"

Still a bit unbelieving that I would take out something worth more than the one thousand limit, the servant showed me the way to the so called appraisal room…

"Hmmm, it's you little Three, what brings you here?"

"It seems that this dear guest has something to take out for the auction, so I took him here for you to appraise his items, master Doyle…"

"I see, sit down young man, it's unlikely that what you brought would be able put to display in today's major auction, but it might be used in one of the following minor auctions before the tournament, so show me what you have got."

"Alright then…"

Putting my hand in the bag hung on my shoulders that had nothing more than the sleeping Light and some other useless fillers to make him comfortable, I took out a… crystal.

"Oh, is that an elemental crystal…? Did you really bother to come here to auction one elemental crystal…?"

Still taking the crystal that I put on the table, since this was part of his profession, he still needed to inspect my item before refusing it.

"Hmmm, let's see, with this much elemental presence, it should be a grade one elemental crystal, as for its element…"

As he held the crystal in his hand, I started to feel a familiar presence around the crystal…

'It seems pretty similar to my mental energy, but it seems a bit unrefined in comparison…'

"This is… fire element…? Wait! It contains wind element as well… No no, it's not just these two… there are more than… three, four, five… there are at least ten elements in this crystal! All in the same capacity as a normal grade one elemental crystal should hold! Just how is this possible!"

That's right, I decided to finally take out some of my elemental crystals for trade, if it was before, I would have obviously refrained from taking out something that's expected to draw a great deal of attention, but in my current case, I wanted to draw as much attention as possible for the upcoming 'Show Off battle Royale', not to mention that my current identity was already a fake one, if stuff started to get annoying, I could simply use illusion to assume another identity…

Of course, while these sect members of this domain seemed to have more advanced mental energy, or a high 'Wisdom' stat, I still have a good amount of points to bump into the illusion ability if needed…

"Please w-wait here for a second! I will be back in no time! Little Three, take good care of this young master till I come back!"

The middle-aged master Doyle got of his chair and ran away with the crystal in his hands impatiently, acting as excited as a young man who found a great toy, unlike what his earlier demeanor portrayed…

On the other hand, the face of the servant showed a great change, turning into one that's mostly made of surprise with partial relief mixed in…

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"Grand Master Dan! Grand Master Dan! I-"

"Why are you raising your voice as such, my hearing is still good, whatever matter you want to talk about, calm yourself down first before talking any further…"

"Grand Master Dan! This matter can't really wait! Please take a look at this!"

"Oh!"