The door of this building had nothing special about it like the whole building, so when I stood in front of it I didn't imagine it would shine by dark red light suddenly out of nowhere.
It was the sa light as the token, which was in my hand. I looked at it again to see it was shining with the sa color. Everything happened so fast, as in less than a few monts we all disappeared from here leaving the place quite as it was.
As for us, we appeared inside a spacious hall that couldn't be better described by any word other than luxurious.
We were standing in front of long stairs, made of strange tal that was prettier than any jewelry I had ever seen. The stairs were in dark red color, like the color of the token in my hand.
"Welco my guests to our modest auction hall."
Suddenly this loud warm voice appeared coming from far, at the end of those stairs. He was a fat, really fat NPC who was moving with strange agility that didn't match his body.
I waited for him to descend all these stairs, and then I said:
"We ca here on the invitation of this token."
I raised my token to be seen by him. the NPC smiled warmingly as he said:
"I know, I was notified by the auction house of your presence. May I know your na? co co, don't stay outside like that, co with ."
He motioned with his hands towards the front. I didn't refuse his gesture as I started to climb these long stairs. On the sides of the stairs, there were many statues that pictured n and won doing everything related to trade and bargain.
I saw a statue of a rchant counting coins, another for a rchant weighing sothing, and many other statues describing monts inside the auction house.
Everything here was clear evidence over this place trade, however that wasn't the case from outside.
"May I know your na please?"
This fat NPC had crossed all the stairs we climbed in no ti and stood next to as he asked that. I simply replied:
"My na is Agatha. By the way, why do you try to hide yourselves? The building from the outside was really misleading."
My question was t by a short laugh from that NPC as he explained:
"It's the policy of our secret rchant hall. We don't like to attract any undesired attention, or uninvited guests. Our guests are usually special people who don't like ddling with the common. They also hate to be disturbed by people they don't know."
His answer gave a clear view over this place, it wasn't a normal auction hall. This was like a dark market, hidden from the eyes of everyone. It wouldn't be strange if I found so nobles here, this place had the distasteful scent of them.
'Be wary princess, this place belongs to one of the great families.'
Shin suddenly sent this warning to . this swordsman tended to stay away from lately like he was avoiding .
'Finally you decided to speak up with .'
I didn't intend to let him go smoothly like this. I was really mad at him and his weird attitude. I felt he was jeolous, and I hated jeoulus people.
'I thought you don't need anymore,' he replied.
'Really? Then what about that long story about being cursed and a reincarnation of a bloody princess?' I asked.
'She wasn't a princess, she was one of a kind, existence above kings and queens,' he replied.
'I don't care what she was, I live my own life as I wish, and that isn't the answer to my question,' I said.
'Hmm, I thought you might need so ti to play here, especially this is the first ti for reaching this stage,' he replied.
I wasn't convinced by his reply, he seed to like a sore loser. Was he trying to get by his sweet talks and old forgotten legends? I sighed, this prince was really crazy if he thought he could get like that.
'Fine, I will take all the ti I need to play and have fun,' I said as I didn't read his next ssages. I decided to neglect him for now, hoping he would return to his mind and his old self.
It took a few minutes to reach the end of this staircase, where I was t with a more extravagant hall. There were many shiny statues carved of different kinds of ores, which gave the one the feeling of being extraordinary.
"Welco to our modest auction hall, I hope you can find what you are looking for. My na is Mody, and I'll be your assistant today."
I was attracted by these fat NPC words, which made realise sothing.
"I can buy things here, like the usual auction house, right?"
"Yes you can buy things here, however things put to auction here can be bought by gold coins or by direct exchange with other items," he said while leading the way towards a free table with enough big seats for the five of us.
"What about selling things here? my purpose to co here is to sell not buy."
"You can sell whatever you want, my fine lady. Please sit here and enjoy our service. Tell what do you want to sell exactly?"
I just sat on the seat, which gave the feeling of sinking deeply into it. I suddenly had the idea of sleeping here and rest for a while, a thought that my mind rejected firmly as I said:
"Shin, show him samples of what we will sell here."
Shin took out several equipnt that I knew of, dragon and cragen pieces of equipnt began to show up in front of Mody, who began to inspect them carefully for so ti before muttering:
"these equipnt ca from the secret dragon and cragen dungeon if I'm not mistaken," he then turned to look at with widened eyes, "How did you get this dungeon?"
I was taken aback by his recognition of the dungeon, however I cald myself the next mont. It was simply possible for these NPCs to have a special skill to know the origin of any equipnt.
"That's none of your business, you just need to know we have thousands of these equipnt to sell."
I had to be sharp and not give any chance for him to ask for further information. He didn't give up on my dungeon as he rushed to say:
"There is a request from a special custor who wants to get his hands on this dungeon. He is willing to pay a high price for such a dungeon, what do you think? Do you want to arrange a eting with him?"
"Not interested, I just want to sell my equipnt. Can you arrange that for or I have to look for another person to do so?"
Mody seed hesitant for a mont before saying:
"These equipnt are special, and if you intend to sell a huge amount of them then you will get yourself a high price indeed."
"Good, Shin, tell him how much equipnt we have, and leave a full set of spearman class on the side for ."
Shin looked at hesitantly then he said:
"Unfortunately there was no equipnt for spearman class."
"How? Last ti there was so much of this equipnt," I said.
"Perhaps because there was no spearman in our group so far that made it possible for not having any spearman class equipnt," Rody spoke up his mind.
His theory was acceptable, but for to be the only spearman in the group was sothing strange. Was my class so rare? I didn't expect that.
"Anyway, just tell him what we have."
Shin then started to narrate what we have to Mody. After he finished, Mody said with so surprise over his face:
"Fourteen thousand and seven hundred pieces of equipnt, that's really a big amount of equipnt. Do you want to sell them on patches or one bulk?"
I knew if I wanted to get the highest price from them then I should sell them in patches, but that would take ti and I didn't like staying here. so I said:
"Sell them in one go."
"Ok, give a few minutes then. The auction hall fee is five percent of any transaction done here," he said.
"No problem for , just finish this task fast. How can I check the goods you sell here?"
I wanted to pass ti exploring the goods auctioned here, who knew I might pump into sothing special or I needed.
"You can explore all the goods through this screen attached to each seat," he said as he pointed towards a button on the hand of my seat. Each seat had this button, which made a screen appear once I pressed it.
It was like the auction house screen, however the goods sold here were strange in nas and fewer in number. That was beside the high price of each item. I even noticed a couple of items sold in hundred of thousands of gold coins.
"Let's navigate this list and look for anything that might be useful to us."
"My princess, everything here is beneficial to us," Elyo said with shining eyes that I was familiar with. I sighed, never let a girl begin a shopping tour like this.
"Just select what is beneficial to our upcoming battles and its price is within range," I said with a soft sigh.
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