Chapter 117: Soul Bone Trouble (Part )
Nottingham City Centre Square.
City Lord Xiao and Deputy City Lord Romanyak have already set up a temporary stage to display the soul bones to be auctioned:
Produced from the head soul bone of Moo Spring Ox.
The area was already surrounded by soul masters and people from small families.
It has only been three days since the news of the soul bone auction was spread, but Notting City has become completely lively. Many soul masters from other cities have rushed here during this period, just to see the true appearance of the soul bones and to think about whether they can fish in troubled waters.
Notting City's patrol team and the guardian knights of Notting City's martial spirit branch hall also gathered at the outermost part of the stage to jointly maintain law and order.
Zhou Qing, Tang San, Xiao Wu, Romantina and the rest of the spirit masters from the Notting Adventure Guild stood guard at the edge of the stage, always on guard against nearby spirit masters.
Tang San and Zhou Qing stood close to each other, scanning the spirit masters outside the auction stage, and said with emotion: "The students and teachers of Notting Academy, plus the adventurers in Notting Guild, are only about a hundred people, but now a spirit bone has attracted more than five hundred spirit masters, and even more than twenty of them have spirit power fluctuations above level thirty."
"We really underestimated the value of soul bones."
It was also the first time that Zhou Qing truly felt the preciousness of soul bones. Even though it was a hundred-year level soul bone, there were actually soul masters coming from other places to do so.
If the time was not limited to three days, the news could have spread even further, and even soul masters at the Soul Sect and Soul King levels might have rushed over.
You know, soul bones are something you can only come across by chance in this era of Douluo. Even most Titled Douluo can only possess one soul bone.
Perhaps Titled Douluo would look down upon the hundred-year-level spirit bones and would not absorb them himself, but if he really saw them, he might have some thoughts of fighting for them.
This is something that can increase the foundation of the family or sect!
"Soul masters from Notting City and other cities near Notting City are welcome to participate in the Notting City Soul Bone Auction."
Romantina's father, Romanak, climbed up the stairs on the left side of the stage and came to the center of the stage, behind the head soul bone that was displayed to everyone.
"This soul bone was found by my daughter when she was helping someone hunt a soul beast. Fortunately, nothing tragic happened... However, for some reason, this soul bone is not suitable for me and my daughter, so I plan to auction it off."
After briefly introducing the origin of the head soul bone, Romanyak knew that the soul masters below were getting impatient, so he shouted loudly: "Well, without further ado, the soul bone auction officially begins!"
"Starting price: 200,000 gold soul coins!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a soul master shouted, "Two hundred and ten thousand!"
"Two hundred and twenty thousand!"
"Two hundred and fifty thousand!"
The soul masters below were all excited, shouting one after another.
Tang San asked Zhou Qing beside him: "The price the city lord gave you was 500,000 gold soul coins, right?"
"Yes." Zhou Qing nodded. "Looking at their excitement, this soul bone may be sold for more than one million gold coins. However, apart from the preparation expenses and the part of "honor" to City Lord Xiao, Romanyak himself can get 700,000 to 800,000 gold soul coins."
at this time.
The value of the soul bone has increased to nearly 820,000.
"Nine hundred thousand!"
The mayor of Falling Star City, Darles, directly raised the price by 80,000, bringing it to 900,000. For a moment, the whole place was silent.
For most civilian soul masters, 200,000 gold soul coins would take most of their lives to accumulate, while the total savings of soul masters who formed small families would only be around 700,000 or 800,000.
Therefore, when the price reached over 500,000, only a dozen or so family soul masters with some wealth in the venue still insisted on making an offer.
For prices above 800,000, only three parties are making offers.
The master of the Notting City Wuhun branch hall: Mashuno.
Lord Xiao of Notting City was one of the people hosting the auction, but he also asked his subordinates to disguise their identities and participate in the auction.
This is little known.
If Zhou Qing and others didn't have the relationship with Romantina, they wouldn't know about this.
The last party is Darles from Luoxing City. Although he is a down-and-out noble from Xingluo City, a lean camel is still bigger than a horse, and he is definitely financially strong.
"Nine hundred thousand once!"
Romanak knocked the hammer again, hoping to raise the price even higher.
Matthew No has already given up the bidding.
City Lord Xiao's subordinates received a signal from City Lord Xiao on the stage and raised the price by 20,000, bringing the price to 920,000.
"Nine hundred and seventy thousand." Dales glanced at the guy who was against him and was covered in a black cloak, sneered, and shouted to Romanak and City Lord Xiao on the stage, "I have directly raised the price by fifty thousand. Others can no longer afford it. Let's make a final decision quickly."
Romanyak looked at City Lord Xiao.
"Lord Darles, you and I are both the lords of a city. We must be fair and just in this situation." Lord Xiao grinned and secretly signaled his subordinate with his eyes to continue raising the price.
Aren’t old friends meant to be tricked?
You are the mayor of Luoxing City in Xingluo Empire, and I am the mayor of Notting City in Tiandou Empire. We can cooperate, but we cannot have any overly close relationship on the surface, right?
"Ah~"
Zhou Qing sighed slightly and said to Tang San beside him, "This City Lord Xiao is still greedy. He thinks that he can make Darles suffer a small loss by relying on his identity as a 'fellow traveler'. But in this situation, he can't take advantage of small gains."
Tang San had been with Zhou Qing for a long time, and he understood the ins and outs of it.
He also heard the implication of Darles's previous words, which was that he had already seen that the man in black who raised the price was City Lord Xiao's agent, and hoped that City Lord Xiao would not be too greedy.
But what about City Lord Xiao?
Maybe he heard it, but he felt that he had a pretty good relationship with Darles, so he thought Darles would suffer this little loss. After all, they were of the same kind...
Instantly, Tang San's eyes showed a hint of resentment, and he responded to Zhou Qing in a low voice, "Can you please not give some normal words strange meanings?"
Tang San now regrets that he unconsciously said a lot of four-character idioms when communicating with Zhou Qing in the past, which led to Zhou Qing learning them.
Then--
These four-character idioms were gradually given other meanings by Zhou Qing that went beyond the original meanings of the words.
Or obscene!
Or funny!
Or it may be ridiculous!
But based on what they have been experiencing so far, it happens to be true - it's so speechless!
"Life needs a sense of humor." Zhou Qing showed his white teeth, laughed, and watched the man in black raise the price to one million gold soul coins.
Then, ten seconds passed, and Darles did not raise the price again. He just stared quietly at Romanak holding the auction hammer on the stage...
(End of this chapter)
