As a key auction house, 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 officially open for business, Elf Reyna and Jimmy Martell each sent a large number of gifts.
Leina personally escorted a batch of treasures collected from Darkhor back home, and it didn't even arrive for three days.
Wang Chao also brought a large amount of supplies obtained by destroying the main city. He was busy until yesterday afternoon to arrange all the supplies and logistics.
Jimmy couldn't come to support him in person. The city he just conquered didn't even have a magic guild, and there was no foundation for building a teleportation array at all.
However, he still sent orders early and quickly sent back some treasures, all of which were looted from the two cities he had just conquered.
This viscount belongs to a baron, and his status is not too high. Naturally, the collection at home cannot be compared with that of Count Ani.
However, Jimmy only sent the top ones. Taken individually, they are all valuable rare collections.
After Xu Lai picked up the person, he also arrived at the venue early and sat in the top and highest box of the auction house.
The only people in the box were 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 is relaxing, and Xu Lai is not willing to let them continue to work hard, so he sits next door and drinks tea or something.
In the box, after everyone exchanged appropriate greetings, because Knight Entan was not familiar with Princess Naga, many of the words were not in-depth.
Everyone simply drank two cups of tea and ate some dragon meat snacks made by the castle cook, 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 the Minister of Qingfeng City's Commercial Department and is in charge of the entire Qingfeng City's business.
Wei Yihong originally came from a sales background, and selling things is considered his job, but the things he sells today are of a higher grade.
In order to ensure that the atmosphere in the venue will be ignited right from the opening, and also to commemorate the first auction of the auction house, the first lot on the stage today is an artifact.
Moreover, this is a well-known artifact, and its reputation is even more exaggerated than that of the Angel League.
No way, this is a world where dragons exist and are extremely powerful.
Neither angels nor demons are as famous as dragons.
Not only are there many types of dragons, but each type is very powerful, and there is even the only level 10 holy dragon.
The most exaggerated thing is that even though the dragon itself has many varieties, it also likes to breed indiscriminately, so that almost all camps in the world have the blood of the dragon.
For example, dragon eagles, griffins, dragon flies, flying dragons, hydras, etc., all have the blood of the dragon family.
The dragon is so famous that the artifacts related to the dragon are also famous. The most famous one is naturally the Dragon Slaying Sword.
Whether they are angels, demons, Behemoths, or Titans, no matter how powerful they are, they will be like that when they die.
However, the dragon is full of treasures, and that is not an empty talk, it is actually practiced with his own life.
Therefore, among the artifacts related to dragons, the Dragon Sword is the most famous and sought after by the most people.
The opponent Xu Lai is most worried about now is not a stronghold ready to move, but a demon from hell.
These guys are neither giant creatures nor creatures with dragon blood. The dragon-slaying sword may have extra damage to giant creatures like the abyss lord.
However, there was only one dragon-slaying sword, and it was least able to exert its effect when placed in Xu Lai's hands.
In addition, there are no giant creatures in the empire camp, so they are not easily restrained by the Dragon Slayer Sword, so they can safely and boldly sell food.
As a good opening lot, Wei Yihong set a starting price of one gold coin for this lot after introducing the Dragon Sword.
The meaning of a gold coin is to make everyone eligible to bid.
The price increase of one gold coin is to make most people feel involved.
Sure enough, the dignified dragon-slaying sword was only sold for one gold coin, and the price could be increased by just one gold coin each time, which aroused the enthusiasm of many people.
Whether it is the lobby or the private room, there are constant calls for prices.
The auction will provide number tags to all bidders, but simply holding up the tags will not satisfy their sense of participation at all.
The auction house is divided into halls and private rooms. As long as the capital is verified and you apply to become a bidder, you can enter the hall with one or two companions.
The private room has entry barriers and additional fees, but you can bring more people and get the service of a waiter.
Compared to the constant bidding in the hall, there was almost no movement in the private rooms downstairs or upstairs.
They knew very well that the starting price of one gold coin only made people outside lively and lively. The people who could really decide the ownership of these artifacts were the people sitting in the box.
Those who can sit in the box have extraordinary status.
Xu Lai has already seen the specific list. Many of them are wealthy people from the south, as well as some dignitaries from the imperial capital and the northern empire.
The barrier, the tower, and even the Eastern Empire all sent some people over, all in the boxes on the top floor.
Xu Lai did not come forward to greet them, but Wei Yihong had left a meeting request for Xu Lai on behalf of the representatives of these forces.
Xu Lai still doesn't know what the purpose of these three major forces is, but except for the tower, he doesn't really want to see the other two, and his intuition is that there is nothing good to do.
Unfortunately, as a lord, unless Xu Lai has nothing to ask for in the future, he should stay on the sidelines so that we can meet each other in the future.
"Box No. 10 on the second floor, Mr. Mole, bid 500,000 gold coins!"
After the excitement, the big guys in the box finally started to take action.
And as soon as they took action, the hall became silent.
Everyone was shouting about the price just now, but in fact the increase was not large. It was mostly a few thousand or a few thousand, and occasionally it increased by tens of thousands of gold coins.
But as soon as these big guys in the box took action, the price doubled, which made the people in the hall do what they wanted to do.
Although the crowd was unhappy, some mercenary captains had even sat down with each other to discuss raising funds to purchase this dragon-slaying sword.
Anyway, if you want to slay a dragon, it cannot be done by one or two people. Even a mercenary group often overturns.
Everyone raises money to buy a dragon-slaying sword, and then forms a team to slay dragons. If you are lucky enough to kill a few dragons, you might even get a magic weapon for free.
But before these mercenary captains could come up with a conclusion, the price of the Dragon Sword had already skyrocketed, reaching a terrifying price of 800,000 gold coins.
Xu Lai remembers that the merit missions in the temple were only worth about 200,000 yuan in exchange for an artifact.
In the beginning, Xu Lai used 10,000 gold coins to exchange for 4,000 points of merit. Calculating, an artifact butterfly with a merit value of 220,000 can be purchased for about 550,000 gold coins.
However, although the butterfly attributes are not bad, it cannot be compared with the Dragon Sword. If nothing else, it is instantly killed by its popularity.
What's more, judging from the redemption of priests and angels' summoning quotas, the merits of the temple are rewarding.
It can be seen from the fact that the temple has only opened the exchange list and merit tasks to a few heroes such as Xu Lai.
This is an auction for Xu Lai. Not to mention gathering the entire rich class of the empire, at least half of them will come. With so many people competing together, it is only normal for a 10%-30% premium on even ordinary magic equipment, let alone an artifact.
Therefore, the price of 800,000 gold coins did not stay there for too long.
"Box 1 on the 5th floor, Mr. White Gloves, bid 1 million gold coins!"
White Gloves is the code name Entan gave himself. Although he is now the first heir to the throne, he can be called the Northern Empire. The number two person.
However, the fact that he lost a royal war horse to Xu Lai because of throwing away his white gloves still made him brood.
"So you are also interested in this sword. If you had told me earlier, I would keep it for you and not put it up for auction."
Entan rolled his eyes and said: " Please don’t, I can’t afford to pay back a favor worth more than one million.”
Xu Lai smiled slightly and stopped talking nonsense, lest this guy really take it seriously and asked him to give it to him.
The entire auction house has a total of 5 floors and adopts a cylindrical construction plan.
In the center of the first floor is a circular platform, which is the main venue for the auction.
The hall has all the tables on the first floor except the circular high platform. Starting from the second floor, there are all treasure boxes, arranged in a circle around the auction table.
The further up you go, the fewer the private rooms are, and the corresponding private rooms are larger and more luxurious.
Ordinary private rooms can be purchased with money on a first-come, first-served basis. Those above the 3rd floor, that is, the top ones, are all by invitation only.
Of course, those people sitting on the fourth floor today were not invited by Xu Lai, but got invitations through Jimmy, Reina, and Wei Yihong.
No. 1 on the 5th floor. As soon as the room number was announced, the whole audience was silent for a long time.
It wasn’t until Wei Yihong, the part-time host, dropped the hammer twice in a row that the man codenamed Mr. Mole on the second floor reported a price of 1.05 million gold coins.
“Why don’t you continue to follow me?”
Seeing Entan pondering for a long time, Xu Lai couldn't help but ask.
Entan smiled bitterly and said: "One million gold coins buys a sword. If my father finds out, he will have to skin me.
But I know a few The big businessmen in the south 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 always make 50,000 or 80,000 yuan.
I’m not confident I can earn more than one million.”
Entan did not continue to follow, so after two rounds of bidding, this dragon-slaying artifact finally fell into the hands of Mr. Mole, No. 10 on the second floor.
It’s just that he has to shell out a full 1.5 million gold coins before he can take away this artifact.
This Mr. Mole is unknown to others, but Xu Lai knows everyone’s code name.
He is the president of the Southern Maritime Alliance. He owns nearly one-third of the merchant ships in the alliance. He is an out-and-out super rich man.
The merchants who went to Naga territory before were members of the Grand Alliance.
However, after Naga climbed up to Xu Lai, he stopped trading with the merchants in the south. As a result, these people followed Naga's team and found Qingfeng City.
Originally, these southerners wanted to threaten Su Ya and make Qingfeng City cut off its trade with Naga.
As a result, the threat failed. Wei Yihong, who had heard the news from nowhere, took him for a tour of Qingfeng City, and his attitude directly changed to cooperation.
For this reason, Suya, Emilia and the Maritime Merchant Alliance jointly funded the expansion of Naga Town into a large port city.
Although the city has not yet been completely built, the port has been built, so among the people present today, there are more rich people from the south.
After a good start, although the dragon-slaying sword was bought by a mysterious rich man, the atmosphere at the scene became heated.
After all, 1.5 million gold coins, an exaggerated amount that even the dignified first heir to the Northern Empire was reluctant to part with, opened the eyes of many people.
As a knight, Entan naturally covets artifacts like the Dragon Sword.
The rhetoric just now was just to deal with Xu Lai and his father. Anyway, if his father was angry, he would sell it at worst.
If he wasn't so angry, he would have kept it for himself.
It’s just that the Emerald City is in dire straits, and bad news has come from the Western Empire.
At this juncture, he knew that his father would never agree, and one million was already the limit of his temptation.
The second lot, the third lot, and the 10th lot are all provided by Qingfeng City.
They are one portion of high-quality dragon meat, 99 portions of high-quality dragon meat, a piece of complete dragon skin, as well as some finished dragon skin armor and some dragon scale armor.
There are 9 lots in total, ranging from a single piece to several packages, from dragon meat, dragon skin to dragon blood, dragon tendons and dragon scales, claws and teeth.
A total of 9 pieces of materials were sold for more than 500,000 gold coins, making the fat man who bought the dragon-slaying sword beam with joy.
Of these 9 lots, the dragon meat is naturally not enough to produce a whole dragon. As for other materials, a half-giant dragon can definitely be extracted.
Even if the auction price is inflated, killing a level 8 dragon and finding someone to divide the materials will cost around 300,000 gold coins.
After deducting the remuneration of mercenaries and tailors, a giant dragon earning 100,000 is not too much.
If you think about it this way, a dragon-slaying sword only needs 15 giant dragons to make back the money and make a lot of money.
After other people settled the accounts like this, they also felt that they were at a disadvantage because they failed to earn this advantage.
So starting from the 10th lot, everyone’s enthusiasm increased even more.
Xu Lai is now at a loss about money. He can't even count the reserves in the space ring.
Therefore, he has no interest in how many gold coins he has sold for his own things.
On the contrary, Xu Lai was very interested in the goods other than his own belongings that others had consigned to the auction.
"One general order, the bid for box number 1 on the 5th floor is 300,000 gold coins, the third time!"
This time, Wei Yihong didn't even call out the code name of the auction item. Everyone knew it very well, and he was afraid that it belonged to this city. The master takes action.
This is Xu Lai's first time raising a placard. Whether he is sitting in the lobby or in the box, he is basically willing to give this face.
The first time he shouted 250,000, some people tentatively followed him, but he followed up by shouting 350,000, and everyone immediately became silent.
Only the real owner of this lot gritted his teeth with hatred.
In fact, Xu Lai had talked to Dian Jiangling before he showed up at the auction house.
However, this man was not as talkative as the owners of those rings, and was completely indifferent to the 800,000 gold coins offered by Xu Lai.
"The following is the 31st lot of this auction, the artifact Summoning Stone Water Kirin!" (End of this chapter)