The Invincible Overlord of Heroes.
Chapter 586: Dragon Slaying Sword and Qilin Stone
As a focused auction house, the Qingfeng City Auction House is hundreds of times more luxurious than Xu Lai's castle.
Knowing that Xu Lai's auction house was about to open officially, the elves Reina and Jimmy Martell each sent a large number of gifts.
Reina personally escorted a batch of treasures looted from Darkhor back home, and it had not been three days since she returned home.
Wang Chao also brought a large amount of supplies obtained from destroying the main city, and was busy until yesterday afternoon to arrange all the supplies and logistics.
Jimmy couldn't come in person to show his support, because the newly conquered city didn't even have a magic guild, and there was no foundation for building a teleportation array.
However, he still ordered his men to send back some treasures as quickly as possible, all of which were looted from the two cities he had just conquered.
This viscount and baron's status is not very high, so the collection in his home naturally cannot be compared with that of Count Eni.
However, Jimmy only sent the best ones. If taken individually, they are all rare collections worth a lot of money.
After Xu Lai picked up the people, he arrived at the venue early and sat in the top-level box at the auction house.
The only people in the box were the city lord Su Ya and Yu Lan.
Giselle and Elvie were in the smaller box next door.
They have no interest in socializing or anything like that.
On days like this, everyone was relaxing, and Xu Lai didn't want them to continue working so hard, so he just sat next to them and drank some tea or something.
In the box, after the appropriate greetings, since Knight Entan and the little Naga princess were not familiar with each other, many of the conversations did not go into depth.
Everyone simply drank two cups of tea and ate some dragon meat snacks made by the castle chef, and soon waited for today's auctioneer to take the stage.
Today's auctioneer is none other than Wei Yihong, who has been promoted to Minister of Commerce of Qingfeng City and is in charge of the entire Qingfeng City's business.
Wei Yihong originally came from a sales background, so selling things was his job, but the things he sold today were of a higher quality.
In order to ensure that the atmosphere in the venue is ignited right from the start, and also to commemorate the auction house's first auction, the first item on stage today is a sacred artifact.
Moreover, this is a well-known artifact, and its reputation is even more exaggerated than that of the Angel Alliance.
There is no way. This is a world where dragons exist and they are extremely powerful.
Whether it is angels or demons, their reputation is not as loud as that of dragons.
Not only are there many types of dragons, but each type is also very powerful. There is even a unique 10th-level holy dragon.
The most exaggerated thing is that not only do dragons have many species, they also like to breed indiscriminately, so that almost all camps in the world have dragon blood.
For example, dragon eagles, griffins, dragon flies, flying dragons, hydras, etc., all have dragon blood.
Dragons are so famous that all the artifacts related to them are also very famous. The most famous of them is naturally the Dragon Slaying Sword.
No matter whether they are angels, demons, behemoths or Titans, no matter how powerful they are, they will be useless after they die.
However, the dragon is full of treasures, which is not just empty talk, but is actually practiced with their own lives.
Therefore, among all the artifacts related to dragons, the Dragon Slaying Sword is the most famous and the one most sought after by people.
The opponent that Xu Lai is most worried about now is not the stronghold that is ready to make a move, but the devil from hell.
These guys are neither giant creatures nor creatures with dragon blood. The Dragon Slaying Sword may only have additional damage to giants like the Abyss Lord.
However, there is only one Dragon Slaying Sword, and in Xu Lai's hands, it is least able to play its role.
In addition, there are no giant creatures in the Empire camp, and they are not easily restrained by the Dragon Slaying Sword, so you can sell them out with confidence.
As the opening item, after introducing the Dragon Slaying Sword, Wei Yihong set a starting price of one gold coin for the item.
The meaning of a gold coin is that everyone is eligible to bid.
The increase of one gold coin is to make most people feel involved.
As expected, the Dragon Slaying Sword was only sold for one gold coin, and the price could be increased by one gold coin each time, which sparked the enthusiasm of many people.
Whether in the hall or in the private rooms, there were constant shouting of prices.
The auction will provide number plates to all bidders, but simply raising the plates will not satisfy their sense of participation.
The auction house is divided into a hall and private rooms. Once you have verified your capital and applied to become a bidder, you can enter the hall with one or two companions.
The private rooms have entry thresholds and additional fees, but they can accommodate more people and receive service from waiters.
Compared with the constant shouting in the hall, there was almost no movement in the boxes downstairs or upstairs.
They knew very well that the starting price of one gold coin was just to attract people outside to have some fun. The ones who could really decide who would own these artifacts were the people sitting in the box.
Those who can sit in the box are of extraordinary status.
Xu Lai had already looked over the specific list. Many of them were wealthy people from the south, as well as some dignitaries from the imperial capital and the Northern Empire.
The fortress, the tower, and even the Eastern Empire sent some people over, and they were all in the box on the top floor.
Xu Lai did not come out to greet them, but Wei Yihong had already left a meeting request with Xu Lai on behalf of the representatives of these forces.
Xu Lai was still unclear about the purpose of these three major forces, but apart from the tower, he didn't want to see the other two. He had a feeling that nothing good was going to happen.
Unfortunately, as a lord, Xu Lai had to leave some room for him unless he had no need to ask for help in the future. So that they could meet again in the future.
"Box 10 on the second floor, Mr. Mole, offer 50 gold coins!"
After the excitement, the big guys in the box finally started to take action.
As soon as they made a move, the hall fell silent.
Everyone was shouting out the prices quite loudly just now, but actually the increase was not that big, mostly just a few thousand, and occasionally there was an increase of tens of thousands of gold coins.
But once the big guys in the box made a move, the price doubled. How could the spectators in the hall have fun?
Although the masses were unhappy, some mercenary leaders had even sat down together to discuss raising funds to purchase the Dragon Slaying Sword.
Anyway, it takes more than one or two people to slay a dragon. Even a mercenary group often fails.
We all pool our money together to buy the Dragon Slaying Sword, and then team up to slay the dragon. If we are lucky enough to kill a few dragons, we might even get a magical weapon for free.
But before the mercenary leaders could come to a conclusion, the price of the Dragon Slaying Sword had already skyrocketed to a terrifying price of 80 gold coins.
Xu Lai remembered that the price of exchanging a divine weapon for the merit missions in the temple was only about 20 merits.
At the beginning, Xu Lai used 1 gold coins to exchange for 4000 merit points. It turns out that a magic butterfly with a merit value of 22 can be bought with about 55 gold coins.
However, although the butterfly's attributes are not bad, they cannot be compared with the Dragon Slaying Sword after all. Apart from anything else, its popularity alone is enough to kill it instantly.
Moreover, judging from the exchange for summoning quotas for priests and angels, the merits of the temple are of a rewarding nature.
This can be seen from the fact that the temple only opens the redemption list and merit tasks to a few heroes such as Xu Lai.
Xu Lai's auction was a must, not to mention that he had gathered all the wealthy people in the empire, but at least half of them. With so many people competing together, even if it was just ordinary magic equipment, a 10%-30% premium would only be considered normal, not to mention a divine weapon.
Therefore, the price of 80 gold coins did not stay there for long.
"Box No. 5 on the 1th floor, Mr. White Gloves, offer 100 million gold coins!"
White Gloves is the code name Entan gave himself. Although he is now the first heir to the throne and the second most important person in the Northern Empire.
However, he still felt resentful about losing a royal warhorse to Xu Lai because of throwing away the white gloves.
"So you're also interested in this sword. If you had told me earlier, I would have kept it for you and not put it up for auction."
En rolled his eyes and said, "Please don't do that. I can't repay a favor worth more than a million dollars."
Xu Lai smiled slightly and stopped talking nonsense, lest this guy take it seriously and ask him to give it to him.
The entire auction house has a total of 5 floors and adopts a cylindrical construction design.
At the center of the first floor is a circular platform, which is the main venue for the auction.
The hall consists of all the tables on the first floor except for the circular platform. Starting from the second floor, it is full of treasure chests arranged in a circle around the auction table.
The higher you go, the fewer private rooms there are, and the correspondingly larger and more luxurious the space.
Ordinary boxes can be purchased with money on a first-come, first-served basis. Above the third floor, which is the top floor, it is all by invitation only.
Of course, those people sitting on the fourth floor today were not invited by Xu Lai, but received invitation letters through Jimmy, Lena, Wei Yihong and others.
Room 5, 1th floor. As soon as this room number was announced, the whole audience fell silent for a long time.
It was not until the part-time host Wei Yihong dropped the hammer twice in succession that the man code-named Mr. Mole on the second floor offered a price of 2 million gold coins.
"Why don't you continue to follow?"
Seeing Entan pondering for a long time, Xu Lai couldn't help but ask.
Entan smiled bitterly and said, "If my father knew that I spent one million gold coins to buy a sword, he would skin me alive.
But I know that there are several big businessmen in the south who are very interested in this Dragon Slaying Sword.
I originally thought that if the price was good, I would take it and sell it to them, and I could make 5 or yuan.
I don’t have the confidence to earn more than one million.”
Entan did not continue bidding, so after two more rounds of bidding, this dragon-slaying weapon finally fell into the hands of Mr. Mole at No. 2 on the 10nd floor.
However, he had to pay a full 150 million gold coins to take this artifact away.
Others may not know this Mr. Mole, but Xu Lai knows everyone's code name.
He is the president of the Southern Maritime Merchant Alliance and owns nearly one-third of the merchant ships in the alliance. He is an absolute super-rich man.
The merchants who went to the Naga territory before were members of the Grand Alliance.
However, after the Naga climbed up to Xu Lai, they no longer traded with the merchants in the south. As a result, these people followed the Naga team and found Qingfeng City.
Originally, these southerners wanted to threaten Suya and force Qingfeng City to cut off its trade with Naga.
As a result, the threat failed. Wei Yihong, who heard the news from somewhere, took him to Qingfeng City for a tour, and his attitude immediately changed to cooperation.
For this reason, Suya, Emilia and the Maritime Merchant Alliance jointly invested in the expansion of Naga Town into a large port city.
Although the city has not been completely built, the port has been completed, so among the people present today, there are more wealthy people from the south.
After a successful start, although the Dragon Slaying Sword was bought by a mysterious rich man, the atmosphere on the scene also became lively.
After all, it was 150 million gold coins, an exaggerated amount that even the first heir to the Northern Empire was reluctant to part with. It was an eye-opener for many people.
As a knight, Entan naturally coveted the artifact like the Dragon Slaying Sword.
What he said just now was just to deal with Xu Lai and his father. If his father got angry, the worst that could happen was that he would just sell it.
If he wasn't so angry, he would keep it for himself.
However, the Emerald City was in a state of disrepair and bad news came from the Western Empire.
At this juncture, he knew clearly that his father would never agree, and one million was already the limit of his attempts.
The second, third, and up to the tenth lot were all provided by Qingfeng City.
They are one portion of fine dragon meat, 99 portions of fine dragon meat, one complete dragon skin, and some prepared dragon skin armor and dragon scale armor.
There are a total of 9 lots, ranging from a single item to several items in packages, from dragon meat, dragon skin to dragon blood, dragon tendons, dragon scales, dragon claws and dragon teeth.
9 sets of materials were sold for a total of more than 50 gold coins, which made the fat man who bought the Dragon Slaying Sword smile happily.
Of these 9 lots, the dragon meat is certainly not enough to buy a whole dragon, but considering the other materials, about a half-dragon can definitely be obtained.
Even if the auction price is inflated, killing a level 8 dragon and finding someone to divide the materials would cost at least 30 gold coins.
After deducting the wages of mercenaries, tailors and others, it is not excessive for a dragon to earn 10.
If you calculate it this way, a dragon-slaying sword only needs 15 dragons to make back its investment, which is a huge profit.
When others did the math, they also felt they were at a disadvantage because they didn't get this advantage.
So starting from the 10th lot, everyone's enthusiasm increased a bit.
Xu Lai is now very confused about money. He can't even count the reserves in his space ring.
Therefore, he was not interested in how many gold coins he got from selling his things.
On the contrary, Xu Lai was very interested in the goods that other people had entrusted to the auction, in addition to his own things.
"One order for a general, 5 gold coins for Box 1 on the 30th floor, the third time!"
Wei Yihong did not even call out the code name of the item for this auction. Everyone knew that it was probably the owner of this city who made the move.
This was the first time that Xu Lai raised a sign. Regardless of whether people were sitting in the hall or in the box, almost everyone was willing to give him this face.
When he shouted out 25 for the first time, some people followed suit tentatively. Then he immediately shouted out 35, and immediately everyone fell silent.
Only the real owner of this item gritted his teeth in hatred.
In fact, Xu Lai had already found someone to talk to the other party long before the order appeared at the auction house.
However, this man was not as easy to talk to as the owners of those rings, and was completely indifferent to the 80 gold coins offered by Xu Lai.
"Next, it is the 31st lot of this auction, the artifact summoning stone water Qilin!" (End of this chapter)
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