The wizard starts by trimming the donkey's hooves

Chapter 197 Harvest at the auction (two chapters in one)

"1600!" A fat nobleman on the first floor raised his hand and said.

But soon, the subsequent bids were quickly flooded. For this rare ore, although its properties are relatively simple, it still attracted the pursuit of many nobles as a raw material for knight armor used in specific environments.

"1700!"

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"2100!"

After the price rose to 2100 gold, the bidding began to stagnate.

Ren thought for a while and asked the beautiful woman to quote a price of 2500.

When the beautiful woman solemnly held up the 2500 sign on the second floor, the old man Idris, wearing a monocle, looked delighted and his voice rose twice as he shouted:
"A distinguished guest bid 2500. Is there any higher bid?"

After three calls, no one answered.

I just heard the chief auctioneer Idris display a circle, and after stimulating the warm atmosphere in the venue, he said loudly: "The number of mithril ingots this time is a total of five standard ingots, and the starting price is 2000 imperial gold coins. Now, The bidding begins!"

It is rare for five standard ingots to appear at once this time.

Renn was not interested in this at all.

Unexpectedly, Jenny on the side took it first. When she opened it, she was instantly attracted by the row of shining golden pearls.

Like the last ice iron ingot, for Renn, mithril is not only a rare ore, but also the main material for forging the mithril carved plate armor suit.

Antiques
In Renn's eyes, it is expensive, but does not have much practical use. It feels more like it is used to set off a family's heritage.

"2500!" A thin nobleman on the first floor raised his hand impatiently and said.

The beautiful woman also picked up one with great interest and looked at it. It was shining with golden light and round in color. It was indeed very beautiful.

I saw five long metal ingots on it, which seemed to be similar to silver ingots, but the surface light was obviously much brighter, and at the same time, there were also dots of bright starlight mixed in.

Moreover, the production of mithril, whether it is the Dragon Empire or the Eagle Federation, is extremely rare, and ordinary people rarely encounter it.

Fortunately, Renne made a lot of gold coins this time by betting on the bloody duel.

Conservatively estimating, Ren thinks that after using up all these ice iron ingots, he can at least upgrade the armor caster professional level by more than one level. Perhaps, two levels are barely possible.

"Mother, these golden pearls are so beautiful."

As Idris spoke, he mysteriously lifted the red cloth on the tray.

But it’s hard for a clever woman to make a meal without rice.

At this time, the chief auctioneer Idris began to introduce: "The next lot is an extremely rare ore."

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But unfortunately, most of the next auctions are antiques.

Although having the materials is not enough, Ren will have to solve the problem of inscriptions in the future, but the problems can be solved one by one.

Therefore, the availability of materials is sometimes the most important thing.

"It's Mithril!"

At this time, a female attendant knocked on the door and respectfully brought in the twelve golden pearls that the beautiful woman Jennifer had just taken in a luxurious carved wooden box.

The beautiful woman suddenly giggled and said: "It seems that the Baron still likes mithril very much, just like us women like jewelry such as gold and pearls!"

Because of the harvest of ice iron ingots, Renn was even more looking forward to the next auction.

"Snapped!"

hiss! This is a mithril ingot!
This immediately made Renn happy.

Soon, the subsequent quotations became higher and higher. Mithril has many more uses than ice and iron ingots, so it naturally attracted the pursuit of most male nobles.

After the price rose to 3500 gold, the bidding increase began to slow down.

Many nobles on the first floor also immediately recognized that this precious and rare ore was mithril.

At this time, Ren turned his head and whispered in the beautiful woman's ear: "No matter how much others pay, it is still a hundred higher than them."

Otherwise, there may not be enough funds to obtain the Mithril Ingot.

The first time Renn heard about mithril was when he went to exterminate the murlocs half a year ago. Captain Willen said that someone once obtained a very valuable piece of murloc when he killed the murlocs. Mithril Ore.

"Mythril ingot!"

Because in outside situations, beautiful women still pay great attention to their manners, words and deeds, and they always address Renn in a more formal way.

"3500!"

"2800!"

Ren's attention instantly moved away from the golden pearl. He looked seriously at the tray displayed by Idris on the auction stage.

But trying to scare off others from competing for mithril by directly increasing the price by 500 is obviously a miscalculation.

Huh? Rare ore?

As the auction hammer fell, Renn successfully took the ice iron ingot!
Perhaps to others, the price is a bit high, but these ice iron ingots have special meaning to Renn.

"Baroness Crowley, this is your competition item." The waitress bowed and handed over the wooden box.

Since there were many nobles bidding, it was not appropriate to suddenly increase the price increase. Therefore, after Ren expressed his determination to the beautiful woman, he left the rest to the beautiful woman to raise the placard.

"3600!"

"3700!"

At this moment, every time a bid is made, the old man Idris wearing a monocle will smile brighter, and his voice will gradually rise, shouting: "A VIP bids 3700, is there any higher bid? ".

At this time, there were not many nobles on the venue who continued to follow the price.

Although Mithril is scarce, at this time, it has begun to command a slight premium. If they are not in a hurry to use it, many nobles have begun to give up bidding.

"3800!" A young noble heir suddenly stood up, seemingly out of breath.

I saw him raising his sign and looking around, as if he wanted to find out which family was so disrespectful to him.

When he looked around and saw the beautiful woman making a quotation holding a sign in the middle-right box on the second floor, he seemed to think of something, especially when he saw the black-haired young man next to the beautiful woman. His complexion immediately changed, and he immediately sat back on the chair, coughed, and said:

"Ahem! Let me tidy up my clothes."

"3900! A distinguished guest bid 3900. Is there any higher price?" the chief auctioneer shouted as he noticed the beautiful woman raising her placard again.

All the nobles immediately looked at this scene with great curiosity. The eldest son of Viscount Hamady could be embarrassed. This was definitely one of the few in Mayist, so everyone looked up one after another.

Huh! It turns out to be Baron Hammer!
The person holding the placard was Baroness Crawley, no wonder.
One thing to note here is that according to the rules of the Axon Auction House, for the private rooms on the second floor, the minimum requirement is that a noble with a title can use it. Heirs of nobles without a title cannot apply alone.

In the end, five mithril ingots were collected by Ren at a price of 3900 gold.

This made Ren couldn't help but secretly sigh that his trip was worthwhile. Even if there were no subsequent harvests, the harvest of these two rare ores alone made him very satisfied.

"Next, there are two rare extraordinary combat skills. In order to prevent the distinguished guests from missing their favorite combat skills, I will reveal the names of these two combat skills to everyone in advance this time."

Renn was fully aware of the intention of the chief auctioneer Idris's advance disclosure, which was to increase the intensity of the competition.

If they were not notified in advance, many nobles would not be busy bidding, and would be looking forward to whether the second extraordinary combat skill would be more suitable for them and cheaper.

But in the current situation, once two extraordinary combat skills belong to different categories, there will be no situation of lowering the price of each other. Instead, competition will become fierce due to scarcity.

At this time, the benefit of advance notice comes out.

Like one-handed sword fighting skills?

Just one, do you want it?

"The first extraordinary combat skill is the less popular one-handed sword fighting skill - "Tide Sword Skills Compendium". The compendium contains two complete secret skills." Chief Auctioneer Idris pointed to the red silk satin aside Padded tray, said.

There is an ancient parchment scroll placed on the tray, which should be the compendium itself.

"The second extraordinary combat skill is derived from the "Kadar's Boxing Compendium" written by the late boxing master Kadar Ace. It also has two complete secret skills."

"No matter which one of these two combat skills, they can be passed down as family combat skills. Perhaps in the inheritance from generation to generation, the family's unique secret skills will be innovated."

When Ren heard the name of the first extraordinary combat skill, he frowned.

One-handed sword fighting skills?
I don’t really want it.

But when the second report of extraordinary combat skills came out, Ren was even more stunned!
Ok?
boxing?

This was something he didn't expect at all.

He actually has extraordinary combat skills like boxing.

The whispers of the surrounding nobles seemed to be discussing how an extremely rare boxing-like extraordinary combat skill could appear. You must know that there are very few nobles who fight with weapons like the 'Zhihu'.

Even assassins prefer daggers or daggers that can kill with one blow rather than pointing fingers.

Ren thought for a while and quickly made a decision.

If he had to choose, he planned to get 'Kadar's Boxing Compendium' instead of Tidal Swordsmanship.

As for the reason?

It's because in these two battles, the opponents Ren En encountered were much faster than Ren En. This made Ren En feel very passive in the battle.

As for combat skills such as finger-tiger and dagger, normally, they will have very flexible steps or dodge moves.

Once mastered, Renn feels that it will make up for his shortcomings very well.

Another point is the price factor. Obviously, the most people practice the extraordinary combat skills of one-handed swords, so the competition will be extremely fierce.

And there will probably be a lot less people competing with him in boxing.

Sure enough, the bidding for the 'Tide Swordsmanship Compendium' was extremely fierce, with each round of price increase exceeding thirty rounds. In the end, it was bought by a baron for a price of eleven thousand gold.

The bidding for the 'Kadar Boxing Compendium' was a lot more demanding, with a total of eight rounds. In the end, it was bought by Ren for 4,200 gold.

The beautiful woman and Jenny looked at each other and looked at Renn with confusion, as if they didn't understand why Renn didn't choose Tidal Swordsmanship, but instead chose the boxing outline that few people chose.

In particular, Renn also has a strong foundation in two-handed swords. Learning the extraordinary combat skills of one-handed swords will be relatively fast.

However, the beautiful woman herself was not familiar with force, so she didn't ask any more questions.
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Soon, the attendant came in holding a tray. The light yellow parchment placed on it was the 'Compendium of Kadar Boxing' that Ren had just photographed.

After taking it with a smile, Ren opened it and started reading.

"The boxing master Kadar Ace gradually created and perfected this boxing technique while observing the tiger's attacks. Therefore, this boxing technique can also be called tiger boxing."

The preface is a short paragraph.

Tiger Boxing?
Ren's face looked thoughtful. This actually has something in common with some ancient boxing techniques in previous lives. Through observing tigers, leopards, and bears, they gradually evolved into boxing techniques suitable for people to use.

Among them, the health-preserving boxing "Wu Qinxi" and the powerful fighting boxing "Xingyiquan" are typical representatives.

Putting his thoughts back, Ren continued to read.

I only saw Kadar boxing, and a total of five boxing styles were recorded.

The first form of punching is matched with the forward sprint step.

The second position is to swing the fist to the left, and the pace is to slide to the right.

In the third position, the right fist is swinging, and the pace is sliding to the left.

The fourth type of uppercut is a multi-directional sliding step.

To slide, push your left or right foot on the ground and move laterally to one side about a distance of one foot, and then follow with the other foot, maintaining the original position.

These four movements, according to the outline, can be transformed into corresponding claw strikes, which is why it is called the Tiger Boxing.

The last step is the fifth dodge, called the pendulum step back.

Each move has corresponding steps, especially the last move which is a dodge move, which makes Ren quite happy.

However, when Ren saw the bottom, he raised his eyebrows. Huh?
Is this a sharp-edged sword?

A simple design of a finger tiger appeared in front of Ren's eyes. The biggest difference from ordinary finger tigers was that there were four sharp protrusions at the joints of this kind of finger tiger.

Each protrusion is dagger-shaped, with a sharp top and a thick bottom, about ten centimeters in length, imitating the meaning of a tiger's claws inside.

It is conceivable that if an enemy is hit by a heavy punch with such a finger and the defense is not strong enough, there will be four more bloody holes in the body.

In other words, this set of Kadar boxing has been designed even with the type of matching finger tiger. Only by wearing the sharp blade finger tiger can the maximum lethality be exerted.

In addition, it is a secret skill.

As for the secret technique, the first one is called 'high-speed combo', which is a secret technique that involves punching, left punching, right swinging and other moves in a short period of time.

The second secret skill is called 'Hundred Crack Strike', which requires the equipment of a sharp-edged finger tiger. It also transforms fists into claws in a short period of time, using moves such as upward lifting, downward slashing, and left and right swings.

In the subsequent auctions, there were no more items that Ren really wanted to buy.

After the auction ended, Ren returned home and couldn't wait to start practicing this 'Kadar Boxing Technique'.

After all, as long as he can upgrade this extraordinary combat skill to level 10, he can immediately switch to the legendary profession [Weapon Master]!
Thinking about this made Ren slightly excited.

In the indoor training ground, Renne practiced each move according to the humanoid pattern drawn in the outline.

After a while, the system prompt sounded:
[You have trained in Kadar boxing, and your relevant understanding has improved! 】

[You have learned a new skill - Kadar Boxing]

[Your skill Kadar Boxing has been improved, experience value +1]

Kadar Boxing Level 1 (1/100) appears on the Knight (Extraordinary) career panel. The icon is actually a tall and strong man with an upright tiger head and body. A pair of sharp claws and sharp blades are very similar to a tiger. It's like waving, quite brave.

Since Renn is no longer a newcomer, and his experience in learning combat skills is no longer what it was half a year ago, Renn upgraded it to level 3 in one afternoon.

Just starting from lv3, the improvement speed starts to slow down.

Renn knows how to speed up, and if he can find the right person to practice with or compete with, he can quickly improve again.

As for extra points?

That is naturally something that will only be considered after level 5.

"Boom boom boom!"

Ok?
It stands to reason that the servants all know their training room and should not come to disturb it.

Did you say something urgent?

Renn couldn't help but be a little surprised when he heard the knock on the door and said:

"Please come in!"

I saw Jenny saying apologetically: "Sir Ren, I'm sorry, but the person in charge of a caravan came outside and said that he has something that he wants to hand over to you personally."

"Huh? Caravan?" Renn couldn't help but look confused.

"Yes, Sir Ren, it seems to be a caravan from Rosby County." Jenny said with certainty, and at the same time, added another sentence.

Rosby County? Could it be that
Renn immediately thought of a possibility.

"Go and have a look."

When Ren and Jenny arrived at the front yard of the mansion, they saw a large pile of things wrapped in gray cloth that had been moved to one side of the front yard.

A fat businessman walked up and said with a smile: "Dear Lord Ren, I am entrusted by Knight Haas to deliver these precious items to your mansion."

"I'm really sorry to ask you to come and sign for it in person. This is because Knight Haas has repeatedly emphasized that the things here are very valuable and need to be handed over to you in person."

"Thank you, you have worked hard along the way." Renn said with a slight smile.

Jenny on the side was very discerning and asked the maid to prepare some coins to express her gratitude to the fat businessman.

After the fat businessman left, Ren lifted the veil, and sure enough, there were twelve pieces of turtle shell that he had cut off from the body of the scaly-bearded ironback turtle.

In fact, it was originally thirteen pieces, but one piece was directly broken by Ren during the battle.

As for these hard and thick turtle shells, Renn has already thought of their use, which is to use them to create a piece of equipment that is not uncommon - turtle shell shields.

Of course, ordinary turtle shell shields are made of ordinary turtle shells, and are completely incomparable to what Ren wants to make.

For Renn, his main purpose is to obtain a sufficiently high experience value reward by making a turtle shell shield made of the scale-bearded ironback turtle.

Of course, he wasn't sure about this yet.

It's just a reasonable inference that knight's plate armor made from rare ores has higher experience rewards.

As an entry-level behemoth, the Scale Bearded Ironback Turtle is as powerful as a great knight, and its shell is naturally a rare material.

Therefore, Renn felt that there was a high probability that he would be rewarded with considerable experience points as an armorer.

So, as soon as dinner was over, Ren came to the blacksmith shop.

For the production of the turtle shell shield, Renn had already made preparations in advance. To put it simply, after rounding the edge of the turtle shell, wrap it with a circle of iron bars, and create a metal handle with a hole in the middle.

In this way, a turtle shell shield is completed.

In general, the defensive power of a turtle shell shield relies heavily on the hardness of the turtle shell itself.

Half an hour later
Ren wrapped a long narrow piece of iron around the turtle shell, picked up the blacksmith's hammer, and began to hammer it.

After setting it in, start looking for a suitable drilling position near the top of the turtle shell to set the metal handle.

Soon, he would complete the above process and hold a turtle shell shield in his hand and wave it briefly.

At this time, the system prompt appears:
[You have carried out the forging work of the turtle shell shield, and the related understanding has been improved! 】

[You have learned a new skill—turtle shell shield making]

[Your skill Turtle Shell Shield Making is improved, experience value +124]

[You focus on making turtle shell shields, and the Armor Caster professional experience value +202]

hiss! This experience value is really rich!

Ren's eyes immediately lit up!
"It seems that my previous speculation was correct. The rarer the material, the higher the experience reward. Also, the higher the difficulty of forging, the higher the system experience reward."

This is the shell of a scale-bearded ironback turtle, which is comparable to a rare ore, so the reward experience is very rich.

After a rough calculation, Ren found that after he completed all the twelve turtle shells, he could raise the armor caster from lv5 to lv6, and it was more than enough.

This couldn't help but put Ren in a good mood, and he immediately started making it with great enthusiasm.

After spending more than four hours, Renn made ten turtle shell shields in succession, and successfully upgraded the armor caster to lv6.

Once again, you will be rewarded with one skill point and one attribute point.

At this time, the remaining attribute points on the attribute panel reached 6 points, and the remaining skill points were finally no longer 0, but 1 point.

Satisfied, Ren left the blacksmith shop and returned to the mansion to rest.
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at the same time.

Ever since Renn won the bloody duel, Baron Alonso's face had not looked better since he returned to the mansion.

Even Michelle, the always trusted butler, didn't look good at the end of the day.

This time, it was Michelle's third time here. A maid reported: "Butler Michelle, the Baron smashed two antique vases and three teapots today."

Michelle was also stunned after hearing this!
It has been many years since I have seen Baron Alonso so angry.

The last time seemed to be the time when I was defeated by Miss Claire, right?
Can not remember
After thinking about it, Michelle decided to knock on the door.

At this time, suddenly, the door of the study room opened, and Baron Alonso came out with a gloomy expression.

When he saw Michelle, his expression softened a lot and said, "Michelle, arrange a carriage. I want to get out."

"As you command, Lord Baron."

After a while, Alonso arrived at the Meister County Prison in a luxury carriage.

In Maggie's office.

"Maxis, you must have heard the news, right? In a bloody duel, Ren defeated Baron Norman, who had just entered the level of a great knight. Do you still have the confidence to do what you promised before?" Alonso asked expressionlessly.

"Lord Baron, please rest assured that I have been advancing this matter."

"Although this new baron's fighting ability is quite outstanding, the person sent to Meister County by the organization this time is not an ordinary knight, so I still have full confidence."

"Please, Lord Baron, wait for the good news."

While Magis was telling the story, Alonso had been observing Magis's expression, as if he wanted to judge whether what the other party said was true.

Alonso watched for a moment, then nodded and said, "I hope it will be as soon as possible! Otherwise, Lord Renne's growth rate may exceed your imagination."

Although Maggis was confident in his words, Alonso, who has experienced successive failures, has now reached the bottom of his confidence.

To be honest, if Magis hadn't said "not an ordinary knight", Alonso wouldn't have any sense of expectation.

After Alonso left, Magis also frowned.

The strength of this Hammer Baron has indeed improved too fast!

In addition, although he was very confident in what he had just promised, he was actually having a headache because the new Brigadier General Paris obviously didn't pay much attention to his suggestions.

Two days ago, after listening to the reports from his close associates after they returned, he got a clear idea of ​​the general thoughts of the new Meister County leader.

The other party doesn't really care about Ren, who is not even a great knight at the moment. At this moment, the other party's attention needs to be more macroscopic.

After thinking about it, Magis waved to his cronies and said, "You may need to go to the Wild Wolf Hills immediately and report to Brigadier General Parix immediately about Ren's performance in the bloody duel."

"Now that the opponent clearly has the combat power of a great knight, I think, this time, the Brigadier General should stop looking down on the opponent." Magis sighed and said.

"As you command, my lord!"

Soon, the cronies left the office.

Two hours later, Magis's cronies rushed to Wild Wolf Hills.

"Huh? You can actually kill the great knight at the knight level?"

"This kind of situation is indeed rare. I didn't expect that such a talent could appear in a small place like Meiste." Brigadier General Paris did not hide the surprise on his face.

However, there was no hint of fear or fear on his expression, but instead there was a faint sense of expectation.

He thought for a while and said, "Just tell Maggie and I know about this."

"Originally, I wasn't interested. However, the fact that the other party can kill the great knight now is quite interesting to me. But if the Hammer Baron stays in the county all the time, I won't be able to do anything."

"So, you asked Magis to do his intelligence work well."

"If the other party leaves the county, notify me immediately."

At the end of the conversation, Brigadier General Parix also mentioned intelligence work. His confidants knew that the other party was reminding his boss to do his job well.

"As you command, Brigadier General." After saying that, the confidant bowed and slowly retreated.
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Early the next morning, Hamilton arrived at Wren Mansion on time as promised.

Soon, a luxury carriage carried Lane and Hamilton to the Usman family's mansion outside the county town.

Normally, most nobles would choose to live in the noble residence area of ​​the county. Firstly, it is safe, and secondly, there are many banquets and salons, making it easier to travel back and forth.

A few nobles will choose to live in manors close to the county.

Because the manor's area is generally relatively large, it can be used for horse racing. In addition, it is relatively quiet.

The Usman family is one of them. They rarely participate in banquets and social activities in the county. It may be due to immigration from outside, but it may also be other reasons. This is unknown.

Soon, the carriage arrived at the door of an ancient manor.

I saw that the walls around the manor were covered with vines such as wisteria, pothos, and ivy. It looked green and made people feel very happy.

And Knight Lawrence, whom Ren had met once before, was already at the gate of the manor, leading several servants and waiting respectfully.

(End of this chapter)