Wizard Immortal

Chapter 225 Corpse and Ice Coffin

The auction continued in place, under the watchful eyes of many.

However, compared to the first item, the second item was much less valuable. It was just some artwork collected by ancient elven nobles. It might be very precious to mortal nobles, but it was not worth mentioning to wizards, let alone a formal wizard like Adir.

Apart from a few wizards who have a particular fondness for such things, very few wizards would offer a price.

Ultimately, the second item was sold for five magic stones to a middle-aged wizard in a red robe.

Next, more and more items were auctioned off, mostly precious antiques used by elven nobles, or some low-grade enchanted items.

These things all share one common characteristic: they are related to ancient elves, and most of them are said to have been unearthed from ancient elf ruins.

During the auction, Adir also made several bids, buying some trinkets that he found interesting, mostly enchanted items unearthed from ancient elven ruins.

Most of these enchanted items have been repaired. After all, even things made by ancient wizards would be damaged after tens of thousands of years and could not remain in their original state.

Most of the items that are up for auction are in relatively good condition. After some simple repairs by wizards, they are put up for auction and their power is generally weak.

Adir bought these items not to use them, but simply to study these enchanted items made by the ancient elves and see if he could glean some of their alchemical techniques.

The auction is still ongoing ahead.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, the old man in red robes who was in charge of the event stood in the center of the stage. Beside him, several burly men who looked strong and powerful lifted a huge blue ice coffin up with all their might.

After lifting it up, they opened the lid of the ice coffin, revealing its contents.

A light, chilly breeze blew out, carrying with it long-forgotten dust and grime.

At that moment, several wizards present had a change in expression, as if they sensed something, and their eyes all turned to look into the ice coffin.

On the ice coffin lay a stunningly beautiful young woman in a light blue dress, her eyes closed, as beautiful as Sleeping Beauty from a fairy tale.

Unlike ordinary girls, this girl had long, light silver hair, and her ears were much smaller than normal. A faint magical aura emanated from her, carrying a deep, chilling presence.

"This is!!"

In that instant, many of the wizards present changed their expressions, staring blankly at the elven girl inside the ice coffin.

"This was recently unearthed from an ancient site, and according to the date, it dates back to the period of the Bloody Calamity."

At the front, sensing the gazes of those around him, the old man in charge nodded in satisfaction and began to explain to the people below: "According to the information we obtained at the time, this deceased elven girl should have belonged to the ancient elven royal family, and may even have been a princess, which is why she was so well protected after her death."

He pointed to the ice coffin in front of him: "Look, everyone, this kind of ice coffin is also a unique magical item. It was made by ancient elven wizards specifically to protect corpses. Once a corpse is placed inside, it will crystallize within a day, thus keeping the corpse forever in the appearance of when it died and never decaying."

Looking at the crowd below, he enthusiastically and loudly explained the auction item, then announced its price: "Including the corpse and the ice coffin, the starting bid is one hundred magic stones!"

As soon as the words were spoken, silence fell over the area. After a while, a voice rang out: "Two hundred magic stones!"

"Five hundred magic stones!"

"Eight hundred!"

Voices rang out continuously, and within a short period of time, the price of the ice coffin was raised to one thousand magic stones, and the price was still slowly rising.

In a nearby room, upon seeing the ice coffin in the distance, Adi immediately stood up, his eyes burning as he gazed at it.

To be precise, he wasn't actually looking at the ice coffin, but rather at the lifelike corpse inside it.

"It seems there are quite a few good items at this auction," Fred's voice rang out again from the side.

He looked at Adir, who had stood up beside him, with some surprise, and then smiled and said, "We're lucky. This kind of ice coffin made by the ancient elves can not only preserve the body perfectly, but the material itself is also a precious material that is almost extinct. In recent years, we've seen fewer and fewer of them."

Unlike Adir, his interest was clearly not in the corpse inside the ice coffin, but in the ice coffin itself.

The other wizards present did the same; apart from a few eccentric individuals, the rest of the wizards didn't even glance at the corpse.

Once a corpse sealed in an ice coffin is removed, it will lose its crystallized state after a period of time and turn into a rotting corpse.

Even the most beautiful girl is nothing but a pile of rotting flesh once her body has decayed, and she won't attract the slightest attention from these wizards.

Unless the corpse is a pure-blooded ancient elven king, then perhaps it is possible to find a way to obtain the powerful bloodline of the ancient moon elves from the corpse.

But if this corpse were truly a pure-blooded elf king, it certainly wouldn't be brought here for auction.

While the corpse of an ordinary elven royal would have significant research value, it was far less precious to the wizards present than the ice coffin.

"That's too much!"

As the atmosphere around them grew increasingly heated, a voice rang out from a corner.

Solana looked at the elven girl lying quietly in the ice coffin in the distance, her eyes filled with anger: "Disturbing the dead's rest is bad enough, but now they're going to auction off the corpse! It's blasphemy!"

She looked at the people around her who were making bids, and felt extremely angry.

Because she possessed the blood of an ancient moon elf, despite lacking the aptitude of a wizard, she had always longed for the beauty of the ancient elves. Therefore, she always felt disgusted by any act of desecrating an elf's corpse.

Moreover, the corpse being auctioned off at this moment is not only a beautiful elven girl, but also possesses the bloodline of a moon elf, and may even be a princess.

The similar identities and bloodlines made her feel close to the corpse in front of her, and she couldn't help but feel disgusted by the act of putting the corpse up for auction.

Unfortunately, even though she was a princess of the Goro royal family, she was not born with the aptitude of a wizard, so she did not receive much attention. At this time, she could only mobilize a limited number of magic stones, which was not enough to compete with the wizards around her. She could only watch as the wizards around her kept bidding.

Before our eyes, amidst the bidding of numerous wizards, the price of this ice coffin was raised to eight thousand magic stones, and only then did the bidding gradually subside and cease.

The wizards present were generally aware of the value of the ice coffin before them. Even with the corpse of the elven royal inside, it was only worth this much; anything more would be unreasonable.

"Looks like this is the price." In a corner, looking at the ice coffin in front of him, a wizard whispered.

"Ten thousand magic stones."

At this moment, a voice rang out again. Although the voice was calm, it was very firm, and one could feel the determination in it.

The people around looked in the direction from which the sound came, only to find that it was coming from a small room.

"It's that wizard."

Looking in the direction the voice came from, Solana's eyes lit up: "I remember he came with Lord Fred."

"Ten thousand magic stones! Anyone else offering a higher price?"

The host's excited voice rang out again from ahead.

The elderly man in the red robe, who was in charge of providing support, looked excitedly in the direction from which the voice came. Although he was somewhat surprised, he still shouted loudly, hoping that someone would continue to bid.

This time, however, there was not a sound coming from below.

The old apprentice in white robes who had previously bid eight thousand magic stones looked at the host on the stage and shrugged helplessly.

"Alright! Congratulations to this gentleman for acquiring this ice coffin!"

Seeing the reaction below, the old man in the red robe announced loudly.

"Ten thousand magic stones is a bit expensive."

In the room next door, watching the ice coffin being carried away, Fred ate a white fruit and looked at Adir with a smile, saying, "This ice coffin plus this corpse, eight thousand magic stones is about the limit. Ten thousand magic stones would be a bit of a waste."

"It's okay."

Adir smiled and shook his head, seemingly in a good mood: "I have some experiments going on recently, and I need some corpses of pure-blooded elven royalty."

"You want to try to extract the bloodline of the ancient Moon Elves from the corpses of the Elven royal family?"

Looking at Adir, Fred guessed.

Hearing his words, Adir did not deny it and nodded directly.

"That's good, but it's too difficult."

Fred nodded: "The purification of ancient bloodlines has always been a major challenge for modern wizards. I remember conducting many such experiments when I was young."

"What was the final result?" Adir asked him.

"Without a doubt, I failed."

Fred shrugged: "If the bloodline of ancient creatures were so easy to purify, then modern wizards wouldn't be this weak."

Hearing this, Adir nodded slightly.

Extracting a superior ancestral bloodline from a degenerated bloodline was an extremely difficult task, even in ancient times.

If Adir didn't possess a chip that allowed him to directly observe the bloodline chains within his bloodline, he wouldn't have been able to do this.

"Although I failed, I also learned a lot from that period of crazy experiments."

Looking at Adir's expression, Fred smiled and said, "There are many wizards who do this kind of experiment. If you want to do this kind of experiment, there's no need to collect materials at the auction."

"In some places, there are places that specialize in excavating and selling the corpses of ancient elves from ruins. If you want to collect experimental materials, you can go there."

"kindness?"

Hearing Fred's words, Adir was stunned: "There are places like this?"

"certainly."

Fred laughed and said, "Actually, we have places like that in our market here, just on a smaller scale."

"However, you should be prepared. Generally speaking, the corpses of elves with good bloodlines are not only rare, but also very expensive."

He looked at Adir and explained, "After all, from ancient times to the present, simply preserving corpses has been no easy task."

"I understand." Adir nodded, indicating his understanding.

Ahead, as time passed, one auction item after another appeared and was auctioned off.

However, after that ice coffin, Adir lost interest in the other auction items. Apart from occasionally bidding on a few things, he didn't care much about the rest.

After a while, as time passed, the auction gradually came to an end.

Adir and Fred walked out of the room together, following a path, and soon arrived at a large hall.

There, several people were already waiting.

"Greetings, sirs!"

Upon seeing Adir and Fred, an old man in a white robe walked up with a smile and looked directly at Adir: "My lord, you have auctioned off a total of seven items, which, according to our calculations, amount to a total of 17,300 magic stones."

"Seventeen thousand three hundred magic stones."

Upon hearing the number, Adir nodded slightly, unsurprised.

In addition to the ice coffin, he also bought several other items at the previous auction, which together cost a considerable amount.

He pulled a small bag from his pocket, counted out the high-grade magic stones inside, and asked seemingly casually, "Can you exchange high-grade magic stones for magic crystals here?"

"this···"

Seemingly surprised that Adir would ask this question, the white-robed old man paused for a moment before smiling and saying, "Of course, that's no problem."

"However, if you normally use ordinary magic stones to exchange for magic crystals in our guild, our guild will still need to take a 1% handling fee."

"Cough..." A cough suddenly rang out.

Hearing the words of the white-robed old man in front of him, Fred's expression turned unfriendly. He looked at him with a pair of somewhat cloudy eyes, and a unique spiritual fluctuation emanated from him, which was instantly suppressed.

The white-robed old man in front of him immediately turned pale. Before he could react to what was happening, Fred's voice rang out again: "This is Lord Adir, also a guardian wizard of our Kingdom of Gaur."

"The Guardian Wizard of the Kingdom of Gaoluo..."

Hearing Fred's reminder, the old man's hand trembled involuntarily, then he immediately realized what he meant and looked at Adir with a respectful and fervent expression: "Of course, for a distinguished person like you, this one percent handling fee can be completely waived!"

P.S.: I'd like to recommend a friend's book, "Rebirth of the Chinese Culinary Saint." Here's a brief summary:

Li Yu, the youngest culinary master in China, is unexpectedly reborn into a parallel world where meat has just been legalized.

What? Global recipes have been lost? And the most famous dish in Eastern cuisine is actually kimchi?

Of the 108 dishes in the Manchu Han Imperial Feast, only about 20 survive.

With only one-tenth of the eight major cuisines remaining, how can Chinese cuisine possibly survive on the "caramelized sugar" series?

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I haven't read the book myself, but I'm recommending it as a friendly suggestion (this lazy author begs all readers not to hit me).

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