Chapter 221: Checking the Rest of the Minor Auction Area!

Duke Albert simply laughed in response to Pedro's joke. At this moment, they had nothing much to talk about anymore. Thus, Pedro decided to leave and use that time to check the Minor Auction Area and see if he would be able to see some 'hidden treasures' instead.

This, in turn, would allow Duke Albert to take care of the things that he needed to do—including things like handling matters about the death of Duke Kleon. After all, Duke Kleon was still one of the highest-ranking officials, following the Royal Family and their advisors.

Fortunately, Pedro did not need to take care of that mess. Else, things might have been more complicated and several more people might have perished. Well… If Duke Albert would betray him of some sort, Pedro could just simply smash the Auction Den into rubbles. So, Pedro had nothing much to worry about, especially that Ragas and Clara were currently on his side.

"With a lot of coins… I wonder what should we check first?" Pedro said as he rubbed his chin whilst walking with Ragas to the first floor of the Auction Mansion, where the Minor Auction Area was located.

"Young master, if I may… I suggest that we purchase some decent skills and weapons for the Pops and Kiths so that they won't be a dead weight for us to carry all the time!" Ragas said that made Pedro think.

"Hmm…" Pedro pondered. And after a few seconds, he shook his head and said, "That would just be a waste of money. The majority of the demi-human slaves are women. Though they have the so-called motherly instinct to protect their children from enemies, they are still not blood-born warriors that we could simply develop and use in the future."

At this moment, Pedro glanced towards Ragas as if he was reading his mind. Then, he said, "If you are going to ask me why did I purchase them despite knowing that fact… The answer is simple. They have certain abilities that are better than an ordinary human. It would be useful in some tasks in the future. That is why I chose the demi-human slaves instead of the humans."

"In any case… We currently have no problem in terms of weapons and skills. It would be best to focus on checking rare materials, accessories with special effects, alchemy products, magic crystals, and other unusual stuff… I just hope that our pockets won't become empty after this!" Pedro said that made Ragas smirk.

"Young master do really know how to joke!" Ragas chuckled, "Being that close to the Duke… I doubt that you would run out of coins! Hahaha!"

Pedro simply smiled and said, "Who knows…"

Since Pedro and Ragas had arrived in front of the room where the magic crystals are being displayed, they decided to check that area first. Each magic crystals had a starting bid of 4 gold coins. And for some reason, there were no other guests who placed a bid on any of the magic crystals.

Knowing who were the typical guests of the Auction Mansion, Pedro had assumed that the reason why no one bid for the magic crystals was because most of the guests already have their own territory and has already sufficient magic crystals in hand.

Thus, Pedro was not in a hurry to place a bid on any of the magic crystals. There was still a lot of stock after all, and it's not that there would be players capable of entering the Auction Den any time soon.

The magic crystals were very important to strongholds because they are their source of energy. Teleportation Portals, Magical Protection Barriers, and even just the lights at night were all powered by the magical energy stored in magic crystals.

Although it was a rare material that can be mined by a very slim chance, most of the strongholds in Bearth are not short of it because most of the strongholds have developed already in long periods of time.

So, magic crystals were commonly important to small strongholds—like villages, that were transitioning into bigger strongholds—like the Kingdoms. And because of the monster wave all around Bearth, most of the transition of some strongholds were put on hold, consequently reducing the demand for magic crystals.

Well… The demand would surely increase afterward, especially when the adventurers/players would start building their very own strongholds.

Pedro, as stingy as ever, wanted to take advantage of this chance and allow the starting bid price of the magic crystals to drop over time. That way, he could buy as many magic crystals as he can for future use, and even for resale at a higher value.

After leaving the Auction Area specifically for magic crystals, he proceeded to the Auction Area for rare materials. In that area, Pedro made several bids on ores that had no previous bids and cost around a gold coin or less.

It was not because he is planning to become a blacksmith, but… He wanted to have a rare ore with him, at the least, so that he could hand over a good material to an NPC blacksmith in case he encounters one, and in case he got their favor at some point.

As for the accessories, nothing had attracted his attention. That said, he placed a bid on one elegant ring for two gold coins. Its effect was just an additional attribute that was similar to the other accessories available. But… Pedro placed a bid on it in thoughts of giving it to Sabrina.

He remembered how Sabrina had misunderstood when he gave the Ring of Voices to Loren. Well… It was just a few gold coins. Sabrina's happiness was still something priceless to him.

Afterward, Pedro simply placed a bid on several rare potions like strengthening potions—which increases one's strength for a certain period of time… Status resistance potions—that gives the user a specific resistance like poison resistance, heat resistance, stun resistance, and such… And some reverse effect potions—that can make one bleed continuously for a certain period of time or can make one lose his/her consciousness for a certain period of time.

For a few minutes, they checked other Minor Auction Areas before heading back to their VIP room. That said, before they could enter the room, the Knight that Duke Albert had assigned to guard the room's door stopped them and accompanied them to another room where his demi-human slaves, together with Clara, were relocated.

At this moment, Pedro wanted to try pulling the Legendary Sword on the open area with Clara. However, he decided not to do so because he did not want to add another problem to Duke Albert. Thus, he could simply let everyone else rest as he holed up himself to the discussion room and started making more of the transformation skills.

'I should make as many transformation skills as I can make! I might have not much time to do so in the future! After all… This might become the special item that would become the flagship of the commerce in my future Kingdom! In any case… It's nice that I gained a time to relax a bit after a long journey.' Pedro thought as he casually makes a transformation skill page and consequently increasing his mastery in skill making, and at the same time increasing his success rate in making wolf transformation skill.

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At this moment, outside the game, the whole world is in eruption as the price of the wolf transformation skill page that was placed in the auction had reached a staggering amount of 1 Million US Dollars and was still continuously rising.

The ordinary players could only drool from such profit, wishing that they were the lucky ones who were able to obtain such an awesome skill page. Some of them even started posting memes and jokes about the trending topic.

While on the other hand, various independent giant gaming organizations, government-sponsored gaming organizations, and even some independent rich video game streamers were furiously participating in the bid just to obtain the current coolest skill in the current trending game in the world.

The ordinary people might think that it was absurd to pay such a huge price for an in-game item but… the thrill, the enjoyment, and the prestige brought by the skill was something that the players sought for. While others sought for the power and uniqueness that they might obtain from the skill—which they could take as an advantage against other players.

It was truly a skill that they don't want to miss. In fact… Most of the giant gaming organizations had regretted not being able to obtain the first few copies of the wolf transformation skill page which was only sold for three gold coins.

That said, with a rare opportunity in front of them, plus the fact that there might no other copies of the said skill page left, everyone fought over the transformation skill page, even those who had once obtain a copy of it.