Chapter 1274 - Starry Sky Auction (3) (1/2)

Starry Sky Auction (3)

Throughout the first day of the auction, Wilder ‘tricked’ Lin Yun eight times, and his mood greatly improved. He was now looking at Lin Yun with the pride of a winner.

‘Andlusan idiot, I’ve long seen through your tricks. You want to trick me? I only needed a couple times to see through all your tricks.

‘Haha, I’ve gotten you four times in a row. You must be thinking of a way to get back at me, right? It doesn’t matter, the game has just started, I can give you a chance.

‘That country bumpkin has a really thick skin, I tricked him so many times, yet he didn’t lose hope and kept on smiling. That fool might already be used to that kind of thing.’

Wilder was holding a wine cup, a satisfied smile on his face as if the goddess of victory was already standing behind him while Lin Yun was completely vulnerable.

Lin Yun kept a smile on his face, not caring about it.

Faleau, who was sitting next to him, remained silent, clearly aware of what was going on.

‘Sir Merlin has the situation under control. Those idiotic Rodneys are just dancing in the palm of his hand…

‘Sir Merlin lost at most 500,000 to 600,000 purple golds, which isn’t a big loss for what he wanted. The show has yet to start…’

As an item’s auction finished, a new one was put on display. It was a seemingly black component. It looked like it was a component of a bigger magic tool, a component that didn’t seem too significant. There was a dark aura lingering on top of it, not too powerful, but very pure.

“This thing is rumored to have come from the Nesser Dynasty. It is a part of a magic tool made from a powerful Evil Dragon. The material is very hard and is supplemented by very pure darkness power.

“It is a very valuable research material to those who research Magic Tools, the history of the Nesser Dynasty, or Chromatic Dragons. Moreover, this component’s pure darkness power is worth studying.

“The starting price is 800,000 purple golds.”

Lin Yun squinted as he looked at the displayed item. It was fifty centimeters long and looked like a strange steel circle twisted into a bizarre shape and burnt black from flames.

The Origin Chapter!

One of the augments of the Book of Death!

Lin Yun had recognized it when he saw it in the illustrated handbook. The Origin Chapter was the only thing with such a bizarre shape, and it gave a strange feeling of perfection in one’s memories.

In the oldest legends, the world originated from darkness. From the endless darkness, planes were born one after another until light was born and tore a corner of the darkness. Then, countless lives were born and the world kept evolving until now, giving birth to the endless planes.

The Origin Chapter didn’t have power by itself. It would be useless no matter how much one researched it, as it needed to be fused with the Book of Death before it could start to function.

Lin Yun felt the Book of Death shiver when the Origin Chapter was taken out, as if it couldn’t wait to fuse with it.

The reaction was a lot more intense than when it sensed the Element Chapter. This showed that the Origin Chapter was a lot more important than the previous Augments.

But Lin Yun remained calm and didn’t bid even though he wanted to fuse it with the Book of Death immediately.

Something that only had research value would only interest those crazy about research or some dark mages. Aside from these, no one would bid.

After all, there were two reasons for something like that to be auctioned: Either the item had already been thoroughly studied, or it had no value and would be auctioned at a high price for fun.

Very few people were interested since there were plenty of similar items at every Starry Sky Auction.

Within three minutes, the price slowly rose to 960,000 purple golds.

Wilder was a bit dissatisfied with the price. Although the starting bid had been somewhat high, it hadn’t greatly increased and would at best reach 1,300,000 purple golds.

‘Damn, this won’t do, this is the item with the highest starting price that our family auctioned, how could it only be worth 960,000 purple golds?

‘I have to increase its price, but what if no one bids after me?’

Wilder looked at the seemingly uninterested Lin Yun, rolled his eyes, and smiled.

“1,500,000!”

After shouting, Wilder immediately taunted Lin Yun.

And sure enough, Lin Yun immediately started bidding as if he had been invited to battle.

“1,600,000!”

Wilder was overjoyed and kept shouting.

“1,800,000.”

“1,900,000!”

“2,000,000!”

In less than five seconds, the price soared from 1,500,000 purple golds to 2,000,000. After yelling two million, Wilder was getting ready to increase the price once again, when he suddenly realized that Lin Yun stopped bidding.

Cold sweat suddenly trickled down Wilder’s face.

No one would keep bidding for a broken item that only had some research value. Only Lin Yun would be willing to keep bidding.

If Lin Yun wasn’t willing to bid again, then it would be the equivalent of Wilder spending a lot of money to buy back the item he auctioned.

The Starry Sky College didn’t really care about these matters since they took a 10% commission. It didn’t matter who bought a lot. After all, even if someone auctioned an item and bought it back, they would still have to pay the 10% commission.

Moreover, people bid on their own items to increase their value every year, and it wasn’t rare for some to fail.

No one knew who the seller was at the time of the auction, but it would be a different matter after the auction. Someone would dig out information every year, and some people would become laughingstocks for a decade.

Naturally, some would be successful and sell their items at a high price. They would be praised and no one would find it unreasonable. In the Odin Kingdom, being able to sell something at ten times its price was a skill.

“2,000,000 once…”

Wilder’s expression became unsightly as the auctioneer started the countdown. It seemed that after the auction, they would become the biggest joke of this auction and their name would even be mentioned as a joke outside the Odin Kingdom.

“2,000,000 twice…”

At that time, Lin Yun bid, “2,010,000.”

He smiled at Wilder, and seeing his unsightly expression, he suddenly understood that the Origin Chapter had been auctioned by the Rodney Family. They would have been embarrassed if Wilder bought it back.

He only bid 10,000 more, but this also indicated that he wanted that thing and wasn’t just trying to anger Wilder.