Chapter 131: Feather Snake Sail
Just as the auction master finished speaking, someone inside the large hall shouted their quote, “100 gold.”
When Zi Di raised the price to 150 gold, the room went silent.
“Congratulations to room 21.” The auction master clacked his hammer, ending this auction.
Both sides did the transaction on the spot once again.
The fresh water infusion bottle was a survival type treasure.
After experiencing Mystifying Monster Island, the survivors had a strong demand for this kind of treasure.
They could make use of it during voyages.
After all, seawater was undrinkable.
Normally, ships store fresh water in bulk.
Of course, to get more fresh water, there were many good ways of doing so. Such as using a magic formation to make water.
The fresh water infusion bottle was silver level, and for many people, it was too extravagant and an unnecessary and pointless expense.
Silver level lone figures such as treasure hunter Hong Zhu needed such a treasure too. But she hoped to spend her money on defensive tools and storage equipment.
She didn’t prioritize the fresh water hanging back that much.
As Zi Di took the fresh water infusion bottle, an exquisitely small compass was placed onto the auction stage.
“This item is a palm compass, silver level…” The auction master enunciated clearly at a medium pace.
It was a maritime navigation device that could indicate a ship’s orientation.
The dragonman youngster decided to quote his price first.
The Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps lacked a true navigator, and currently the dragonman youngster was substituting for that role. Luckily they had the Deep Sea Monster Fish; the alchemy ship had abundant ocean maps and could precisely orientate its position.
Therefore, that compass was a treasure that would greatly help the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps.
The dragonman youngster’s bid swiftly suppressed the audience.
The selling price ended up being 130 gold.
The dragonman youngster slightly frowned, he intended on continuing to increase the price.
Such a treasure was not currently necessary, but the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps was doing well as of late.
It’s better to have something than nothing.
Naturally, the dragonman youngster was not wholly determined to win this item.
“If it went over 160 gold without a winner, I would have stopped bidding.” The dragonman youngster thought to himself.
“140 gold.” When Cang Xu saw the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps hadn’t acted, he called out a price.
After knowing who had bid, no one was interested in the item anymore.
When the auction master saw that there were a few in the audience with ideas, he said a few sentences to instigate them, but it didn’t do anything.
“140 gold going once.”
“140 gold going twice.”
“140 gold going three times.”
“Congratulations to room 21 for getting this compass!
The situation surprised the dragonman youngster somewhat.
140 gold was still a bit above the bottom line, he didn’t expect things would go so smoothly.
This was a happy occasion.
But Fei She frowned somewhat, “Not good.”
The other buyers also felt surprised too.
Many were gazing directly at or implicitly at where room 21 was on the second floor.
The auction had just begun, yet the first three items had all been obtained by room 21.
“Such a ferocious position.”
“Who are they actually?”
The buyers mentally associated them with Ya Ma, and a layer of faint restraining fear covered room 21.
In room one, Hun Tong, who was smiling as he chatted with Song Shou about some things, wrinkled an eyebrow at this.
The auction played a critical role in Two Eyes Island’s commerce.
First, it was an extensive business event that could bring a great amount of tax money to Two Eyes Island. Second, it could spread Two Eyes Island’s fame and attract more customers to Two Eyes Island for the higher level the auction was, the higher level the outsiders coming to Two Eyes Island were.
Hun Tong had organized many auctions and was very experienced at it.
He knew and researched the item types, the presentation sequence, and so on.
The first item had to warm and energize the audience, while simultaneously being somewhat rare and not being of low level.
The second and third items had a similar function too.
The third item was to set the ambience of the auction and was to motivate the buyers to raise the prices.
Although three items had been sold off, the ambience hadn’t reached Hun Tong’s ideal level.
The entire auction stage was still trending towards silence.
The reason was that all three items were bought by a single group.
That was bad!
The depressing atmosphere was not conducive to competitive sales.
Hun Tong didn’t want to see a monodrama; he wanted a hundred flowers to bloom.
But unfortunately, room 21 had shown off their seemingly substantial financial resources.
Hun Tong knew the business with Ya Ma, but he didn’t know who the buyers in room 21 were.
On the one hand, after the beast tide, many people came to Two Eyes Island and mingled together. On the other hand, Hun Tong wanted to restrain himself and didn’t honestly want to investigate these buyers. Investigations needed money and manpower. He was not an imperial secret spy and was no expert in this kind of thing, and after the investigation was complete, it would spoil Two Eyes Island’s image.
If these pirates heard about it, although Two Eyes Island could still be used to dispose of booty, who would want to suffer the feudal lord’s investigation?
Hun Tong thought quickly, then waved his hand.
An attendant immediately walked to his side and leaned over to hear his order, “Feudal Lord, what is your command.”
Hun Tong whispered to the attendant, “Adjust the order of the fourth item and the eight item for me.”
“Ok.” The attendant left the private room.
After the auction backstage received the order soon after, they quickly did the adjustment.
As the auction master was waiting for the third item’s transaction to be completed, he received a slip of paper from backstage.
When the auction master saw the order on the slip, he couldn’t help but think, “The fourth item and eighth item have been swapped with each other? A silver level item has been replaced with a gold level one.”
Such a sequence was uncommon.
Because gold level items surpassed silver ones in workmanship, the target audience was small.
The most fitting was naturally gold level cultivators, and although rare silver levels could barely make use of them, iron levels could only look at them and sigh.
In fact, although the auction was for cultivators, silver levels were a minority, the most common were iron levels.
In addition, the price of gold level items was also far higher than silver level ones.
There really weren’t many cultivators with such financial resources.
Generally speaking, gold level items were all towards the tail end. This was the most advantageous order for the entire auction.
But now, Hun Tong has issued such an adjustment.
“Why did the Feudal Lord do this?” The auction mater thought for a bit, then suddenly realized, “I understand. He is worthy of being Lord Hun Tong. Since the three items were all bought by a single party, this adjustment is in response to these circumstances.”
At that moment, two iron level fighters carried a large wooden chest together to the stage.
The wooden chest was obviously heavy; the two iron level fighters were puffing hard as they strained to carry it.
They opened the wooden chest, showing that it was packed tightly with a neatly and tidily folded sail.
The auction master raised his voice high, “Ladies and gentlemen, pay attention. This magic sail here is gold level. Please let me solemnly introduce the Feather Snake Sail!”
The two iron level fighters held the sail, then pulled, unfolding a portion of the sail.
The magic light beams aptly shined upon it, allowing the sail’s weaving lines to be clearly visible.
The sail appeared to be a mild cyan and it was obviously mainly made out of feathers.
The auction master then detailed the sail’s area, length, width, and other such data about it.
Everyone calmly listened.
The auction became so quiet that the buyers could hear each other’s breathing.
The breathing became heavier.
Feather snakes.
They were a snake type magic beast that was covered in feathers, had wings, and could fly.
Their feathers were mostly green, but it is said that rare ones had rainbow feathers.
This magic life form’s bloodline was high-end, and when young feather snakes broke out of their shells, they were bronze level. Adult feather snakes had slender physiques and traveled the vast sky with vigorous grace.
The feather snake race has even birthed a god!
That was always a remarkable achievement.
This meant that within the feather snake bloodline, there was a god level bloodline.
Speaking of which, the survivors had a relationship with the Feather Snake God.
They had lost then regained the Green Jade Gold Coffin, the Feather Snake God’s divine artifact!
The Feather Snake Sail’s main material was feather snake feathers.
It was a well-known magic sail whose main function was acceleration and flight. If it fitted into a light enough ship, the Feather Snake Sail could even allow a ship to lift off from the ocean surface and fly for a short distance!
For most people, such a momentary flight was an extravagant hope and didn’t consider it too much. But the Feather Snake Sail’s acceleration effect caused them to feel a rush of excitement.