my age of magic

Chapter 841 342. The Lively Auction
There were a few wisps of faint clouds floating in the sky, and the sea-like blue sky was washed extraordinarily clear by a torrential rain.

There was no wind, people stood on the street like a steamer, and the heat wave hit their faces, but everyone's enthusiasm remained undiminished, and they flocked towards the square building like a sea tide.

Only at this time, will you realize that there are not so many nobles in the imperial capital. In the crowded crowd, the subordinates are pushing and shoving, trying to open a way for the masters, but they find that they are surrounded by nobles Aristocrats, so become restrained.

Dozens of gorgeous magic caravans congested No. [-] Avenue. Originally, this bustling street was full of traffic and pedestrians on weekdays, and it happened to be the day when the summer auction was held.At the entrance of the auction house gathered nobles from all the blocks of the imperial capital, as well as merchants who came from all over the world. Everyone held up their admission tickets, and the servants and waiters around them tried their best to squeeze a passage and enter smoothly. The auction house made the already chaotic scene even more out of control.

Looking up at this huge square building with a height of nearly [-] meters, it looks unusually magnificent. According to Noah, this building the size of a football field is divided into five floors, and each floor has a relatively independent auction hall. Surrounded by one hundred and eight stone pillars nearly [-] meters high, it is hard to imagine how those round stone pillars with a diameter of more than three meters stand up. The sculptures on the high dome have very complete and exquisite reliefs. Over the years, due to the wind and rain, the exposed stone of the entire building has been stained with water and rust, and the mottled rust spreading from the stone cracks covers the entire building exterior.

The Fifth Street is the area with the richest nightlife in the imperial capital. In addition to the auction house, there are also various magnificent or luxurious buildings, such as the Colosseum, the Opera House, the Adventure Group Guild, nightclubs, commercial buildings, and the Royal Hotel. etc.

Noah pointed to the circular building adjacent to the auction house, and said to Louis: "I heard that a grand gladiatorial ceremony will be held in the arena over there recently, and then, brother, don't forget to bring me and Ji Jia .”

Louis reached out and rubbed Noah's hair, with a look of doting on his face, and said to him: "Where did you hear the news? Your news is very well-informed, and I just received the news. The Duke of Jingyue led the ten most elite Constructed Knights of the North Wind Legion, and Prince James of Haiyinsi City led the eight most elite Constructed Knights of the South Wind Legion and two Naga Sea Clan regiments , I heard that the battle between Qiyan City and the swamp tribe in the wild swamp is also very tense, and only one legion commander and two constructed knights will be sent here..."

With a look of surprise on his face, Noah interrupted Louis's words: "So many powerful armies are gathered together in the imperial capital, what exactly does Charles want to do?"

Louis smiled slightly and explained: "Of course it is to change the previous decline. All planes are in a bitter battle. If this drags on for a long time, the overall economy of the empire will soon be dragged down. Without continuous support from all planes to the imperial capital The imperial capital is about to fall into the embarrassing situation of shortage of various supplies, and in the face of such a situation, as the Emperor of the Green Empire, it is impossible to just sit idly by anyway."

Noah's eyes widened, with a look of disbelief on his face: "That's why the most elite knights of the empire are sent to various planes to participate in the battle?"

Louis didn't have too much expression on his face, and said: "Probably so! Before going out, there are always some grand wrestling ceremonies or something. Holding wrestling activities is probably to wake up those who live a comfortable life in the imperial capital. The blood of the nobles, those nobles who don’t want to send troops into the war, always have to donate something else, the early end of the war of planes is in the best interest of the Grimm Empire.”

Hearing what Noah said, I remembered the letter I wrote to Grand Duke Jingyue half a month ago. Princess Sha brought a team of Constructed Knights to visit me in my residence. But maybe that squad of knights is the advance team sent by Duke Jingyue to the imperial capital.

Summer is the safest season for the province of Sluyte. During the rainy season, the Galloping Horse River is extremely turbulent, and all the barbarians can be blocked on the north bank of the Galloping Horse River. It is probably because of this that Duke Jingyue accepted the call of Charles the Great. , lead the most elite Constructed Knights in the North Wind Legion to help those plane lords.

At this time, I heard Louis say to Noah again: "I heard that the emissaries of the night elves from the Evernight Forest and the silver moon elves from Buenos City, the capital of art, have arrived in Green Capital, and they probably want to intervene this time." Plane war, if Charles doesn't turn the situation around as soon as possible, who knows what kind of impact it will have."

Noah is not very good at analyzing these strategic matters. He said distressedly: "I didn't want to recall the famous adventure groups in the empire to enter the rich planes privately owned by the grand dukes. Is it enough to reverse the situation?"

Louis pointed at the crowd gathered at the entrance of the auction house, sighed slightly and said, "Looking at today's scene, it's not hard to imagine how bad those plane wars are. The mid-level magic herbs transported by North by air are said to be auctioned in groups. Now I don’t know how many nobles want to buy some. Doesn’t the lack of magic herbs explain the problem? A large number of wounded soldiers need to consume a lot of treatment Potion."

He seemed unwilling to share too much negative news about the war of planes with Noah, so he changed the subject: "I'm afraid the most popular items in this auction will not be some advanced magic pattern constructions and epics like in previous years." Weapons, but healing magic-like herbs and repairing magic-like metals, everything must be compromised for the war of planes!"

Louis turned his head and asked Noah and me: "Jijia, Noah, are you going to go to the magic pattern structure and rare weapon auction hall, or come with me to the second auction hall where magic herbs are auctioned, but we have to hurry up , I’m afraid it will be more difficult to squeeze in if you go late.”

We moved a little bit to the auction house venue with the crowd, and we didn't know that auction house could accommodate so many people.

Noah smiled and rejected Louis's proposal, and then said: "Hey, Louis, you guessed it wrong, we are not going the same way, and Ji Jia and I are going to visit the Magic Gem Auction Hall!"

Louis didn't expect that Noah and I would be interested in magic gems, but he didn't think too much about it, and just said casually: "This year, magic jewelry, magic gems, artworks and auctions will be auctioned together. Your choice really surprises me. Unexpected, but I suggest you pay attention to those magic jewelry that restores mana, if you like it, you can take a picture, Noah, Ji Jia, have you brought enough magic crystals?"

Noah puffed up his chest, patted the money bag hanging around his waist with his hands, and said quite proudly: "I have enough money, don't worry about us, Louis, I have saved a lot of money recently."

Then Luis' eyes fell on me, and my heart warmed up, and I quickly said: "Oh, I also brought all my belongings. Look, I have prepared a lot!"

I took the money bag out of the magic pocket, and it was as heavy as a bag of rice.

Untie the rope, open the mouth of the bag, and let Louis and Noah see the magic spar in the money bag. More than 3000 magic spar swollen into it, probably Louis and Noah did not expect that I would put so many magic spar With it by my side, Noah came over and saw the magic spar in my purse, and wailed: "I swear, I don't want to see Jijia's purse again, this is a bit too shocking."

Louis explained to Noah: "Basic magic herbs, hemostatic bandages and magic black iron have made him a lot of money for a while, and his money bag is bigger than yours. I'm not surprised at all. Think about it, Noah Ya, you need to learn more from Jijia in the future."

Then he turned to me and asked jokingly, "Hey, Ji Jia, is it because the Duke of Samoyed from the Hierro plane wanted to marry his daughter to you, so he gave you such a generous dowry?"

"Eh..." I glanced at Katerina with a guilty conscience. To be honest, the supply of the entire Xinliu Valley is almost all the dowry left by Quartermaster Felix to Katerina. Among my properties, there are really some The composition of the dowry, but it is not the property of the Duke of Samoyed.

Katerina blushed a little from my eyes, but at this time she was wearing the emperor squid leather battle skirt and the 'Earth Shield' leather jacket. The face, the gentle eyes and the wild smell emanating from the leather battle skirt gave her a unique flavor.

Maybe it's because she has the blood of the orc rabbit people in her bones, so she wears the leather armor and skirt with the taste of orcs.

"Tsk tsk, the light leather armor of the sub-dragon skin, and the drawn magic patterns are so brand new, Ji Jia, you really exude the joy of being an upstart, is this red-haired girl your follower?" Louis said at this time I also noticed that the beautiful Katerina, with her long red hair and red eyes, stands out from the crowd, but her tall figure is snuggling close to me, wearing a gorgeous magic pattern structure, but her waist is exaggerated There was a broken blade tied to his head, and the visual gap attracted the attention of many people around him.

"Yes!"

I took a look at Katerina. Her identity is a bit special. Although she is following me now, she is still Qige's personal maid.The tacit understanding between Katerina and I made Louis pat his forehead, and said to Katerina with a trace of doubt: "I always feel like I saw you there!"

Katerina blushed slightly, just blinked her eyes, and kept silent beside me.

Following the flow of people to the gate of the auction house, although there was no way to jump forward, we were pushed by the crowd coming from behind, and we couldn't stop. We all had an admission ticket in our hands, so it went smoothly Squeeze into the lobby of the auction house, and even though there are a lot of people inside, at least it's not that crowded.

The large hall on the first floor was full of auction buyers, because the jewelry auction hall and the magic herbal auction hall are not on the same floor, so Noah and I were going to leave Louis in the hall on the first floor separately. The person in charge, as well as the beautiful female assistant with outstanding figure, a group of people are very eye-catching. When parting, Louis put his arm around Noah's neck, pulled aside, and whispered to Noah: "Later, I will Wink, no matter what, Shirley Newman can be regarded as the most outstanding magician in that province. You can win the favor of others. During this period of time, you have pulled his personal maid into bed. There is no one who doesn't like jewelry, if she has a fancy for a piece of magic jewelry, she might as well take the initiative to buy it, oh, you have to learn to please girls."

As he said, he pulled a money bag from his waist and stuffed it into Noah's arms without any explanation, so that Noah quickly put it into the magic pocket.

"Got it, it's really long-winded, and I'm not short of money!" Noah blushed a little and muttered in a low voice.

The magic material auction hall is on the second floor of the auction house. Louis led the Emerald Bay Trading Company to the second floor directly. The group of them will probably enter different auction halls, and may dabble in many auction items, otherwise there would not be so many The regional director followed Louis.

Noah usually doesn't pay much attention to the affairs of the Emerald Bay Trading Firm. He doesn't know what is missing in the firm. It should be some magic herbs and mithril ingots.

The auction hall for magic jewelry, gemstones, and artworks is on the top floor of the auction house. Katerina, Noah, and Shirley Newman and I went up the fifth floor along the spiral staircase. Obviously, there is nothing in the corridor on this floor. Aside from the crowded crowd, quite a few ladies and some jewelers walked into the auction hall in twos and threes.

There are even some rare elves in the crowd. It seems that every elf has very strict requirements on clothing and appearance. They wear exquisitely embroidered and hollowed-out costumes, and have light golden or silvery white long hair. Soft and supple, each sporting some fine jewelry.

The corridor is covered with scarlet blankets. The stone pillars on both sides of the corridor and the arched sky make the interior decoration magnificent. There is a round stone pillar every three meters, and the wall between the stone pillars is hung with exquisite Oil paintings, maybe because I took advantage of the leaks in the hotel in San Carlos, no matter where I go, I always like to stare at the oil paintings on the wall carefully, although I don’t understand those Art, but I can feel if there is magic in those oil paintings.

Shirley Newman held Noah's arm and asked me curiously: "Jijia, do you like these oil paintings?"

"Me? Of course... no, as a magician, I'm only interested in magic circles and space geometry." I said to Shirley Newman.

It happened that a group of young elf men and women passed by me. When an elf beauty passed by me, she looked at me contemptuously. For the contempt of the elf beauty, Katerina, who was by my side, looked at me with sharp eyes. Staring back, Katerina, who had returned from the battlefield, possessed a powerful aura, which made the elf beauty look away in a panic.

(End of this chapter)