The woman in the purple dress noticed the same pattern too. She frowned as soon as she saw the old man frown, and she immediately said to him, "Are you saying that he might want to outbid us for the furnace that we came here for?"The old man nodded. "If he is an alchemist as we suspected, then yes, I believe he'll be interested in that furnace too."After thinking for a while, the girl smiled and said, "Sigh, we don't need to be afraid of him right, Mister Musa? He might be interested in that furnace, but he probably won't have as many spiritual stones as we do. I mean, he already spent about a hundred million spiritual stones, so he probably won't have the funds to outbid us later. Ordinary alchemists won't be able to use that furnace either. The minimum proficiency to utilize it to its fullest is at least second-grade high-rank. Otherwise, it'll be a waste of its potential."Musa could only smile bitterly. "Haven't you noticed? He only bids for spiritual herbs that are at least t
The spiritual herb was soon delivered to Severin."That's amazing, Brother-in-Law! We got this on the cheap, didn't we?" Megan asked with a smile.Severin answered, "We did. There are a lot of valuable items here, and it's almost like we're building up our own stock from the auction.""The next item to be put up for auction is very valuable, though some people might not find it valuable at all," Caroline began.Caroline's introduction left Sheila scratching her head. "How can something be valuable to some and have no value to others? It's really weird.""This here is an cauldron. It's a third-grade spiritual tool that can increase the success rate of one's pill refinement by fifteen percent. More importantly, it is a triple-chamber cauldron. This means that there are three inner furnaces of which one batch of the same material can be placed in each respective chamber. This comes to a total of three batches, thus allowing the alchemist to refine three pills simultaneously. Though i
Severin had an excited look on his face because he believed that no one aside from him would want to bid for that. It would subsequently allow him to get the furnace with ease. Unfortunately, he was taken by surprise when the purple-clad girl in VIP Room Three took a step forward and said loudly, "Three hundred and thirty million!"Everyone gasped when they heard that. The girl had raised the starting bid by thirty million dollars right from the get-go."This is the first time that the people from VIP Room Three joined the auction. Boy are we in for a treat!" Someone exclaimed in surprise when they heard that the person from VIP Room Three had made a bid."Whoa! That pretty lady in VIP Room Three has her eye on the cauldron! Is she still an alchemist?" Jeremy's eyes widened in surprise as he looked at the beautiful woman standing on the next-door balcony."Three hundred and thirty million dollars! Anyone higher bids from the floor? This young lady seems to be very knowledgeable! Sh
The audience engaged in a lively discussion after she made her bid."Haha, now we're talking! I can't wait to see the look on Mister Severin's face after he loses out on this!" Jeremy felt as though he had an outlet to vent his anger even though he did not participate in the bidding. After all, Severin had cut him off several times already."Eight hundred million! The young woman from VIP Room Three has made a bid of eight hundred million high-grade spiritual stones! Do we have nine hundred million?" Caroline could not hide the excitement in her voice. She believed that the person who put it up for auction would be very happy after knowing that the cauldron was appreciated by those who knew its value and ended up being auctioned for a high price.Severin, on the other hand, smiled indifferently and said calmly, "I'll offer one and a half billion!""Did I hear that correctly?! Mister Severin has made a massive bid of one and a half billion!" Caroline became increasingly excited. Sev
"Diane, did you see that? They raised the bid to 2 billion spiritual stones now! It won't work if we raise the price by a little. The others must know the value of this item too! But I know Severin is going to be the last one laughing!" Megan giggled.Meanwhile, Caroline was stunned. Normally, she would be in charge of controlling the flow of the auction and also lit up everyone's enthusiasm. Before she could do her job today, the bidders from VIP Room One and VIP Room Three had already started increasing the price to 2.5 billion spiritual stones."3 billion!" Stephanie yelled out while staring at Severin.Once again, the price shocked everyone."Oh, my god! 3 billion spiritual stones! This is crazy! Who is in VIP Room Three? I don't think I have ever seen them before.""Totally crazy. They didn't participate in any bidding before this and I thought they were only acting posh and wanted to show off their wealth. But I'm so wrong!"The crowd had gone crazy. They did not think they
After that, he called gently, "Four billion!"He estimated Stephanie was almost reaching her limit so he only increased two million from Stephanie's previous offering.At that moment, Stephanie's smile froze and her mouth was twitching."Four billion! Mister Severin just called four billion. Miss, are you planning to increase the bid?" Caroline shouted out excitedly.As of this moment, only two people were bidding against each other. Thus, she just asked Stephanie directly.Stephanie's face looked terrible because everyone was watching her and waiting for her to increase the bid, especially after what she said just now. Yet, the price had already reached her limit.With an embarrassing smile, she said, "You win. I didn't bring enough spiritual stones to continue. I can see how much you like this cauldron and you also mentioned that you are an alchemist so I'll just give up on it."The situation was too embarrassing for Stephanie to continue staying in the auction center. After f
Musa looked at his waist and smiled embarrassingly, "Hehe. Me too. Still, this is the first time to attempt something like this and I'm feeling guilty about it. I'm really scared we will accidentally get the sect involved."Stephanie thought about it and said nonchalantly, "Nonsense! We just need to be careful about letting him know who we are. If he found out, we just have to kill him and that's the end of the story.""Are you serious?" Musa smiled bitterly and thought it was a bad idea.The look on Stephanie's face showed that she was quite shocked by Musa's reaction. "Musa, you're not you. Isn't this what you have been teaching us? Didn't you tell us it's normal for people like us to have blood on our hands? Didn't you tell us to be cruel? Didn't you tell us those are essential for our survival and avoid being killed by the others?"Musa smiled bitterly. "That's necessary when we are in a secret realm. We shouldn't feel sorry for those monsters or people when we are on a treasur
As the auction ended, Severin stretched his back and went back into the room."Today is so awesome! We were the center of attention!" Megan giggled."I need to drink some before we go. After all those biddings, I'm so thirsty."Severin quickly poured himself a glass of red wine and drank it before leaving."We have obtained some fourth-grade spiritual herbs from this auction which is terrific! Do you think we can come here again when they have the next auction?" Sheila asked with a smile.Seveirn smiled bitterly and responded, "We have already wasted a lot of time coming here this time. I don't think we should come soon. If I really need those spiritual herbs, I can ask Beryl or the others to help me. They can come over to get the alchemical pills from me and help me to auction them. Once the auction is done, all they need to do is send me those spiritual stones. I don't need to come over myself."Diane laughed and said, "I think you're the only one who dared to ask Beryl and the