章節 87: Slave Auction 2
The lights suddenly dimmed, and the chatting quieted. An announcer walked on stage and bowed to the crowd.
"Lords and ladies, welcome to Guidon's slave auction. We are excited you could join us today. We would personally like to thank the City Lord, Timothy vont Alms for his hospitality in your fair city; and William vont Ballard for letting use his theatre. A round of applause for both men," the announcer pointed to their adjourning boxes.
The crowd gave a roaring applause. The City Lord and Will both stood up and waved to the crowd.
"Now on to the main attraction," the announcer yelled.
All of a sudden music played, as lines of naked people walked onto the stage. First, the debt slaves walked out, followed by the war slaves, and last were the sex slaves. The naked people wore a magic collar. On the announcer's command, the slaves rotated a quarter at a time. Their full naked body was on display for the crowd.
Men hollered, whistled, and ogled at the sex slaves in the front. Moreover, the sex and war slaves would flaunt their bodies, under the instruction of the announcer.
"Look it's Daksa, in the back! Sir, William you will buy my brother won't you please?" Dhriti begged.
Daksa saw his sister wave to him from the box. Seeing his sister wave, Daksa smiled but was not allowed to wave back. He knew from her letters, that she worked for a powerful man, William vont Ballard.
Even though he was the blacksmith in a rural town, even he had heard the rumors about William vont Ballard. It was almost a year since his games had taken the kingdom by storm. The local tavern had purchased Will games and served as a source of entertainment for the entire village.
The announcers motioned for the slaves to leave the stage, it was time for the bidding to start. The debt slaves were sent out first. Some debt slaves were sold by themselves, others were sold off in pairs, and some pairs were broken apart on stage and sold off as individuals.
When it was Daksa's turn, Will heard listened to the announcer, "Okay milords, this slave is a village journeyman blacksmith. He is young, fertile, has all his teeth, and he is a hard worker. Let's start the bidding a 10 silvers."
Will watched as the bid rose from 10 to 15, to 20...to 31 silvers. Dhriti sat anxiously watching the biding. She didn't dare say a word to Boss Will, rather she silently prayed. As the bidding slowed to 37 silvers, Will finally raised his paddle.
Gasped filled the theatre. People were curious as to what the God of Games, William vont Ballard came to purchase. In the crowds' eyes, the value of this village blacksmith just increased ten-fold.
Some even wondered, could this country bumpkin be secretly involved in Will's next invention. There was a rumor that Will was going to unveil a miraculous flying machine during his auction in the capital. However, a few people were so stunned, they missed the auctioneer congratulate Will on winning the lot.
"Thank, thank, Boss Will! I owe you life debt for saving my brother, sir." Dhriti the reserved carpenter repeatedly thanked Will.
The debt slaves auction quickly ended. After a short intermission, the auctioneer brought out the first war slave. The starting price for the most haggard war slave was 90 silvers, the starting bid for most was 10 gold.
Half an hour later, the announcer brought out a tall 1.8 meters naga woman with curly fiery red hair, black eyes, her upper body was tanned caramel complexation, but her lower body was covered in black and red scales. Her body was also tattooed in scares.
"This woman was caught fleeing across the Beastman border. Her clan was wiped out by the Tiger Tribe. When she crossed the border, she killed several local guards, even while missing one arm, before she was finally captured and put into custody.
Chloe's eyes widened at seeing a Naga woman in person. However, Will's heart beat fast with murderous intention. Without realizing it, Will's killing intent was felt by Vanessa, Dhriti, and Chloe.
Dhriti had always known her boss was a skilled fighter, he was ranked first at the Knight Academy, but when she felt Will's killing intent, her body began to shake uncontrollably, she felt she was about to die. The sheer terror of that feeling caused her body to tremor.
Vanessa had felt Will's killing intent before, however, it didn't stop her from being anxious. She knew her Boss visited the Tribal Lands this summer, and that a close friend and mentor was executed in front of him. She was sure this Naga woman had to play a part in the story somehow.
Only Chloe was not affected by Will's killing intent, she looked at Will with concern, "Hey Will are you okay?"
"I should buy this slave just to murder her!" Will said through clenched teeth.
Chloe, Vannesa, and Dhriti had never heard Will talk like that before, it was utterly terrifying for Vanessa and Dhriti.
"I'll pay her Will. I'll use her to train against, to grow stronger," Chloe said.
"Just make sure she suffers every day," Will finished releasing his killing intent.
The exoticness of the Naga woman drove up prices. Owning a Naga would certainly be amusing. Most humans looked at Beastmen as no better than animals. The person who purchased this woman, except for Chloe, would certainly treat her as a pet.
"Let's start the bidding at 50 gold, 60, 70, 80...." the announcer said excitedly as the price skyrocketed.
Chloe continued to raise her panel, but once the price rose to past 200 gold she lowered her paddle.
"Why'd you lower your paddle?" Will asked.
"I only have 200 gold. My father only gave me 150 gold, and I've earned another 50 from quests," Chloe said dejectedly.
"I'll stake you," Will replied.
Hearing Will's words, Chloe raised continued to raise the panel until she won the Naga woman with a price of 550 gold.
The crowd looked at the excited Chloe in the stand smiling. All the lords knew her father. He was a famous tailor after all. Her family was only one of two titled tailors in Fermion. People also knew her father didn't have 550 gold to loan to his daughter to purchase a slave. They looked at Will grinning next to the smiling Chloe.
At that moment she became the number one contender for Will's finance.
Will, Chloe, Vanessa, and Dhriti left after box to settle their account. Neither Will or Chloe wanted to stay for the rest of the auction, although Will was courious to know see the sex slave auction. Although, that could be put off for another time.
Behind the stage, the group easily past security at made their way to slaver accountant. Will paid the 550 gold, 37 silver and their 'lots' were brought out to them.
Daksa and Dhriti hugged as soon as they were reunited. The Naga woman looked at Chloe as if she was a snack. However, when she looked at Will she smiled. Will restrained himself from decaopitaling right then and there.
"Thank you Sir. William vont Ballard, for purchasing me and reuninting me with my sister," Daksa bowed at the waist respectfully to his new owner.
"Daksa you will live and work with me at my shop. I built you a forge, so we may work side by side," Dhriti said.
"Very good. Daksa, Vanessa is my senior clerk, she speaks for me. Listen to carefully to her," Will said, and gave a slight nod to Vanessa.
Vanessa secretly slipped Dhriti a note from Will. Inside the note were the schematics for the bicycle. The note instructed Dhriti secretly transport the cartwheels from the general store warehouse to her shop, where Daska would weld the bicycles. Afterward, she would return the finished products to the warehouse secretly in the cover of night, with her normal shipments of games. No one, not even her staff could learn of this project. All 500 bicycles had to be completed before Will left for the capital.
After a short conversion, Will, Vanessa, Chloe, Dhriti, and Daska parted ways. Will returned tot he cottage. Vanessa returned to auction, she had to settle accounts after the auction was over, Chloe brought the Naga woman to the Valyerie Guild to be safe guarded, and Dhriti and her brother, went to her house to catch up.
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