40 Sky-High Price (1/2)

Regardless of how talented an Apprentice Alchemist was, they needed time to mature. The abstruse and unfathomable alchemy theories and the boundless sea of alchemy formulas both needed a lot of time to digest and understand. Many Apprentice Alchemists failed to ever become full-fledged Alchemists.

It could be said that a 30-year-old Alchemist was a rare talent.

As for someone like Cadgar that had become a Great Alchemist at the age of forty, he was unique in Thousand Sails City.

But now, Cadgar himself had described this Great Alchemist that had compounded a Ghost Potion and a Volcano Potion as ”younger than they could imagine”...

Although Cadgar didn't say how young the person was, everyone here could more or less guess that the age was younger than 35, or else Cadgar wouldn't have exaggerated so much.

The Black Horn Auction House had already taken root in Thousand Sails City for twenty years, so everyone present knew of the character of the Chief Auctioneer. This Chief Auctioneer had always been rigorous, and even during an auction, Cadgar had never excessively exaggerated the introduction of an item being auctioned.

When Cadgar said that there was only one of some item, even if you searched all of Noscent, you definitely wouldn't find a second identical item.

It was the same now.

Cadgar had said that this was a Great Alchemist younger than they'd imagine, so this Great Alchemist was definitely no older than 35.

Thinking about it, a Great Alchemist that was younger than 35 and could enter the realm of a Master anytime, such a crazy possibility made everyone in the audience feel feverish. They all made guesses and discussed the possibilities. The interest that these forces held toward this future Master Alchemist even surpassed the value of the two potions themselves.

In just a few minutes, there were at least seven or eight major figures that had called for their most trusted and capable subordinates, whispering them some orders.

In short, before bidding even started on the final lot, it had already caused a huge commotion across the entire venue.

”The following two potions will start at the low price of three hundred thousand gold, and the minimum bid increment is thirty thousand gold.”

Seeing that he had reached the effect he wanted to achieve, Cadgar officially called for bids on the final lot with a pleased smile.

”1 000 000 gold.” Cadgar's words had just finished when a voice came out from a box on the second floor. ”These two potions will belong to our Ash Tower.”

The voice that announced the bid was the one who had bid against Solomon for the Hell Destroyer incantation.

The hatred and hostility between the Sage Tower and Ash Tower could be traced back to the distant 3rd Dynasty. These two forces residing in the eastern part of the kingdom were constantly fighting each other. They fought over everything, natural resources, talents, knowledge, equipment, they were completely unscrupulous in their attempts to suppress each other.

As early as several hundred years ago, there was a large-scale war which resulted in many mages losing their lives. It also planted the seeds of hatred in the hearts of the survivors. Although there had been no open conflicts for the next hundred-plus years, the battles in the dark were even more intense than they had been before the great war.

Since the Ash Tower had placed a bid, the Sage Tower would naturally follow, unwilling to fall behind.

Although the Hell Destroyer incantation had cost 1 400 000 gold, half of it had been covered by Lin Yun, so Solomon still had enough funds to put up a fight for something of this caliber.

”You said these potions would belong to the Ash Tower?” Cadgar had yet to say anything when Solomon's coughing voice came out of the Sage Tower box. ”1 100 000 gold.”

This clear provocation was a challenge to the Ash Tower's reputation, so how could the Ash Tower allow that? A cold snort came out before another bid followed.

”1 300 000 gold.”

”1 400 000 gold.”

”1 500 000 gold.”

”1 600 000 gold.”

”1 700 000 gold.”

...

The two men kept outbidding each other, and in no time at all, the price had reached 1 700 000 gold without anyone else getting involved. This was such a big venue with so many forces, yet no one else had placed a bid.

Who didn't know that these two eastern forces were irreconcilable adversaries? It seemed that they were fighting over two potions right now, but they were mainly suppressing each other.

This auction was akin to a battle between two major magic forces.

But it wasn't as if everyone was scared of these two forces. All those sitting here today were great and influential figures. If they found something that they felt was worth it and was highly beneficial to them, they would go for it even if they risked offending another power.

The problem was that they hadn't reached that stage yet.

The ownership of the two potions had yet to be decided, so offending two forces at once wasn't such a good idea.