315: Chapter 12, Soul of the Water Moon_2 315: Chapter 12, Soul of the Water Moon_2 The only problem is explaining to his fiancee, but that issue isn’t hard to handle.
As a noble lady, she would absolutely be no stranger to this sort of matter, her ntal capacity for such things wouldn’t be lacking in any fashion.
It’s better to be linked with a gossip about a singer, than getting entangled with another noble lady.
No matter how beautiful a singer is, she ultimately wouldn’t be able to cross the threshold of social status.
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The start of the auction dissipated the sensuous atmosphere of the room.
Normally the bear would be enjoying the spectacle, but now he was subrged in contemplation.
In the world of bears, there’s nothing like this.
If you co across a female bear you fancy, you go straight to mating, and it’s done.
The scene before him baffled Belsden.
With the bear’s lifeti of experience, he was entirely unable to understand the relationship between the two humans now.
Perhaps to attract more participants, the war horses weren’t being sold as a complete bundle, but were auctioned off in groups of a hundred instead.
This annoyed the big shots who had covertly agreed to divide up the war horses.
Once the groups were split, even smaller nobles had the capital to bid.
Perhaps a family buying a hundred war horses might have so difficulty, but gather a few close friends and family, and suddenly, it’s not a problem.
With more participants, the price naturally rose.
After an exploratory bid of fifteen hundred gold coins, Hudson just beca a spectator.
After the first group of war horses broke the two thousand gold coin mark, the number of bidders suddenly decreased quite a bit.
Finally, they were sold for the astronomical price of two thousand eight hundred gold coins.
Hudson’s expression darkened gradually, this price was beyond the market value.
The cost-effectiveness of buying war horses at such a high price was extrely low.
Even though he’d swindled a sum from the mysterious organization, he was still fundantally broke.
Rather than using large amounts of gold to bid for war horses, it would be better to go back and train his infantry.
Watching as group after group of war horses were snapped up, Hudson knew the previous agreent was now void.
Compared to the people in the booths, the small nobles below made up the majority.
Because they needed fewer, they could afford higher markups.
A family purchasing ten or eight war horses, may increase by fifty percent, still only adding around hundred or eighty gold coins.
But Hudson couldn’t do that.
A gap of thousands of war horses, if all purchased at a premium, would result in a budgetary black hole.
Not just Hudson held back, almost none of the nobles in the boxes got involved in the auctions.
The war horses fell into the hands of small nobles from various counties, also adding to their survival chances on the battlefield.
The ones playing big brother didn’t need to contend with their little brothers.
The main reason was because the cost is too high.
The abundant resources were slowly accumulated by their ancestors, they weren’t allowed to be squandered.
After the auctioning of the war horses, the atmosphere in the auction house had been pushed to a climax.
One astronomical figure after another relentlessly stimulated Hudson’s nerves.
No wonder these businessn loved to hold auctions.
If they were sold elsewhere, there wouldn’t be this many potential custors competing, these war horses definitely wouldn’t fetch such a high price.
If they set up an auction house, they’d probably make a killing on just the transaction fees…
All of a sudden, Hudson realized this lucrative business had nothing to do with him.
The auction house attracted so many custors because this was Bera City.
As the capital of the Southeastern Province, it had the greatest purchasing power in the whole province.
In the backwater that was the Mountain Domain, who, having satiated themselves eating, would go to that remote and impoverished place to trade?
“The next auction item is our finale for today, a magical magic wand – The Soul of the Water Moon!
It is said to have been crafted by the continent’s top alchemist, Master Kemboy.
Embedded is an eighth-order magic core, which cos with an energy supplent device.
The magic power in the magic core can be replenished with a magic crystal as long as it is not completely exhausted at once.
When casting water magic, it can reduce magic power consumption by thirty percent and increase the original power by twenty percent, except for forbidden spells!
The minimum starting bid is eight thousand gold coins, each increase must not be less than five hundred gold coins, bidding starts now.”
The auctioneer’s words instantly ignited the whole venue.
A magic wand that reduces magic energy consumption by thirty percent and increases power by twenty percent is a rare sight in everyday life.
Anyone possessing such a treasure would keep it for their own people.
Even if it’s not useful now, future generations will always find a use for it.
It ended up at the auction, probably due to the ongoing war, so noble who treasured this item, couldn’t hold out financially, and was forced to part with it.
“Ten Thousand Gold Coins!”
Hudson raised his card without hesitation.
As a magician, encountering such a premium magic wand, it’s hard to justify not participating in the auction.
To Hudson, although a bit awkward, it would still be a decent gift.
His fiancee was a water mage.
Giving a Junior Magician to use, would purely be a wasteful squandering, but who made Hudson feel guilty?
Moreover, such a gift, even though given away, the future would still bring it back.
The at is eventually in the pot after all.
“Twelve Thousand Gold Coins!”
“Thirteen Thousand Gold Coins!”
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The price quickly skyrocketed, soon breaking past the twenty-thousand milestone, showing no signs of stopping.
“Twenty Thousand Five Hundred Gold Coins!”
“Twenty-Five Thousand Gold Coins!”
Hudson raised his card again, raising the bid by four and half thousand gold coins at once, this was already Hudson’s psychological bottom line.
Spending so much money just to win a woman’s smile.
In the depths of his heart, he couldn’t help but inwardly criticise himself for going mad.
Unfortunately, it isn’t just Hudson that’s gone crazy, those families with a water magic teacher, they are truly insane.
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