Chapter 153 – Encountering A Familiar Face (1/2)

Chapter 153 – Encountering A Familiar Face

“Big brother… I don’t think this is a good idea.”

Roran whispered into Calron’s ear, as the two youths passed a line of guards whose cultivations were at the Saint stage.

“Relax, Roran. We are customers here and there is no need for them to attack us.”

Calron calmly muttered while continuing to walk ahead into the open-air auditorium.

Early in the morning, Calron had decided to not open the shop and go to the Slave Market to purchase a few staff members instead. He could have just hired people from the city to work for him, but Calron felt that if he could give a better life to the pitiful slaves, then he would rather buy them and set them free of their shackles.

After convincing Ellie to stay behind at the inn with Tanny, Calron took Roran and they both set out to the biggest slave auction in the market, where they sold a variety of the best battle slaves, beast slaves, etc.

“I don’t like the way that they are staring at us.”

Roran grumbled at not being taken seriously by Calron.

The reason why Roran felt uncomfortable was due to the fact that all the people entering the auction appeared to be extravagantly wealthy and were surrounded by their own bodyguards. Whereas, the commonly-dressed pair of him and Calron looked like two kids coming out explore and have fun.

“We won’t stay here for long. Let’s just go to the battle slaves section first, and then we can see if we want to continue searching here.”

Calron pointed at an ongoing auction in the far distance at the right of the auditorium, and hurried there.

A large rectangle stage was located there, while the auctioneer loudly called out the biddings. It also appeared to be the most densely crowded section of the auditorium.

“Alright.”

Roran replied, as he quickly followed behind Calron.

“250 gold…..going once …. 270 gold! …. going once…. going twice….. sold to number 31224!”

A sound of a vibrant bell rang throughout the stage, as the auctioneer called out the identity of the person who won the bid.

When entering the auction, each group is given a number card after they have deposited an initial 100 gold. This was to make sure that the people participating in the auction were not falsely bidding and trying to inflate the prices. Of course, upon leaving the auditorium the person could claim the 100 gold back after paying for their successful bids.

A two-meter black ape enveloped in chains was pulled off the stage by two staff members and was taken towards the person who had won the previous bid.

Third rank of Saint stage…

Calron mused while glancing at the black ape, and then pushed through the crowd ahead to gaze at the remaining slaves.

There were around seven battle slaves standing just behind the stage, and all of them were human males varying in both age and height.

Let’s see which one I should go for.

Calron thought inwardly, as his irises morphed into a bright grey color.

The first one is not bad… sixth rank of Saint stage, but lots of people will compete for him and the price tag would be very expensive as well.

Calron observed the slaves, and tried to pick one to bid on. The others were around the second to sixth rank of the Saint stage, with the last one being at the seventh rank and most probably the highlight of the auction.

After learning about their cultivation stages, Calron tried to get a glimpse of their personalities and mental mindset. Although he was not very adept at using the Divine Perception to completely look inside someone else’s mind, he could still catch glimpses of their thoughts.

Anger… despair… bloodthirst… revenge… melancholy…

A wide range of emotions rushed into Calron as he opened his mind to sense the slaves’ feelings. He did not know which slaves were projecting which emotions, and sometimes, even the emotions of the surrounding customers seeped into Calron’s mind.

This is getting very confusing, I need to focus only on one emotion.

Calron closed his eyes in concentration and narrowed down on the single emotion that he wanted.

Hope.

He did not want a slave whose only aim was to enact revenge or to take out their built-up fury. He wanted someone that wanted to live and who had aspirations and dreams for the future. It was to prevent any negativity atmosphere around Ellie, so she would be surrounded by people who would show her the goodness in humanity.

There!