LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 82 A Happy Wife Is Equal To A Happy Man
Seeing that the audience had calmed down, Wieland stopped his pressure and spoke
"Now to start with the auction here it is one of two rarest items we will be selling tonight, a piece of "black star iron", a young lady went up the scenario with a little box which she opened to show a small black ore.
"This is an extremely rare sky grade material which was found in a secret realm which we will reserve the ubication, the owner has stated that the price is to be paid either on an equivalent treasure or in spirit stones, the starting price is 50,000 spirit stones and each increase should be of at least 10,000 spiritual stones".
The crowd was dumbfounded, on the past auction the best item that was sold was at the peak of the mysterious grade and so the bid war started.
"60,000" said a middle-aged man that was occupying a private table.
"80,000" offered a veiled woman that was seated on the general zone.
Many people clearly wanted to participate but the price was not something everyone could afford, the bids kept coming until the price reached the big sum of 120,000 spirit stones it was then when things calmed down until the guest of the VIP room number 3 placed a bid.
Kray Rein didn't bother to use the voice distorting formation he directly spoke clear and loudly.
"150,000", although the item was of sky grade it was just a material which still needed to be processed to be used and besides the amount of it was quite small, being honest the price reached its limit at 110,000 spirit stones but Kray had a friend in the Kraft family which would be able to use it to create a good weapon for him and thus he decided to buy it for him.
Wieland was satisfied with the price, in truth the owner of this piece of metal was an old friend of him and he was secretly happy for his friend, as he was about to declare Kray the winner, he heard a man voice saying.
"180,000" … Silence fell in the auction house and Kray's face became annoyed, "since the other bidder was distorting his voice then he was not from any of the big four families so it was probably just a bumpkin trying to show off his wealth, let's see how far will you go with the act" he thought.
"190,000" said Kray but just when finished speaking Aster also augmented his bid "210,000", the other people attending the auction were enjoying the show, since they were not able to participate this was a kind of entertainment for them.
Kray gritted his teeth he only had 300,000 spirit stones as his personal life savings and another 300,000 spirit stones which his father gave him to bid for the rumored weapon that it will be offered at the end of the auction, he turned to see the elder Kurt and spoke.
"Elder can you please help me find who is the one occupying the VIP room number 1?", the elder Kurt nodded.
"Yes but… with that old man from the Kraft family here we can't do anything too harsh young master", Kray was aware of it but outside of the auction house was a completely different story.
Kail was observing his "dear" brother and he was internally laughing "things might end up on a completely different way than what you expect hahaha".
Wieland notice the kid from the Rein family was not bidding anymore and he decided to wrap things up.
"The winner is the guest of the VIP room 1", the assistant closed the box retired from the scenario, the opening item was a special thing to draw out everyone's attention but the following items were not bad but not anything special and so they were presented on a different way.
A pair of staff members pulled some kind of mobile platform until it was behind Wieland and the items were presented and sold one by one, Kray bought a small shield and a set of defensive talismans.
While the auction kept on going back on the VIP room 1, Lilia was confused about why did her son bought that piece of metal.
"Sweetie, although I don't have that specific material in my spatial ring, I had better ones so why did you buy it?", even if that amount of spirit stones was nothing for her, the price was still too high for only a piece of sky grade material.
Aster smiled but he only said "it's a secret for now", the reason as to why he bought that metal is because he already caught his mother stealing some glances at the ring both Alice and Aria were using so it was just a matter of time until she found out that it was him who gifted them the rings.
Following the tradition, he needed to create one for Lilia and while he was still thinking what materials should he use that black piece of metal was like a gift from the heavens, that deep black color matched his mother's hair color perfectly and so he decided to buy it no matter what, after all a happy wife is equal to a happy man.
Aster came out of his daze because he noticed Alice paying special attention at the current item that was being auctioned, a red jade pendant "looks like we have a winner", he thought.
The original plan of the date was to buy a sword for Aria and a gift for Alice and luckily, she seemed interested in something.
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Wieland was supervising the auction, "things are going quite well… although I might have a headache due to the brat of the Reins doing something stupid, still I wonder who is that masked boy on the room 1 to be so adamant on buying that metal, it might be the successor of some old forge master or something like that I guess".
While the old man was lost in his thoughts, he heard the crowd exalted again and soon he realized why, there was another competition between two VIPS and for his surprise the room number 1 was participating again but this time against the room number 6 unfortunately that was also occupied by the Rein family but this time it was the young miss… Kayla Rein.
Speaking of Kayla, she was pulling her hair out of frustration right now, she found a pendant which she liked and when she was about to win the bid someone started bidding against her.
"5000" spirit stones….
Not even a few seconds passed when Aster doubled the price.
"10,000"
Kayla almost lost it but remembering the elder Wieland she decided to try a different approach.
"11,000", first she placed her new bid before adding in a clearly feminine voice,
"That friend on the room number one, can you give me some face and let me have this pendant, it's designed for women after all".
Aster recognized the voice and he laughed out loud in his room before answering.
"20,000", I agree with you, this pendant is clearly designed for women but for the world's well being it should only be used by a beautiful one".
… "pfffttt, hahaha", some people in the crowd couldn't hold back their laughs, even Wieland felt the corner of his mouth trembling "this guy surely has a thing against the Reins" he thought.
As expected, Kayla didn't take the comment too good.
"How dare you!!!, I'm Kayla Rein the princess of the Rein family come out and say it to me face to face if you dare".
Aster smiled and decided to try a little experiment, he directed his pressure just at the room where Kayla was staying and waited to see if it worked.
He saw some cracks appearing on the glass wall that was used on the room and his suspicions were confirmed, there were no cultivators on the peak of the stellar axys realm and since the material used to create that special glass was quite scarce the result of processing it could only block spirit sense and pressure form the middle stage of the stellar axys realm and below.
Taking advantage of the fact that the audience were still quite noisy discussing he took out a talisman with the number "1" engraved on it and spoke.
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Aster felt something blocking his pressure and he decided to try and force it but before he could get intense the formation used to call for assistance from the staff illuminated.
"Esteemed customer, please forgive my intromission but I don't think that pendant is worth killing someone from the Rein family".
Feeling that the other party lowered the intense of his pressure Wieland secretly let out a sigh of relief, before continuing.
"As an apology for letting that Rein brat throw her family name around, the pendant will be given to your esteemed self without any charge, I hope for your understanding".
Wieland was not stupid this person paid 210,000 spirit stones for an item which price was about half that amount so 20,000 spirit stones were probably nothing for him, the auction house was already profiting a lot from just the first item bought by him so even if they paid for the pendant there won't be any problem.
After a few seconds which seemed to be years for the old man Aster answered.
"Fine".
Wieland finished the transmission and shouted.
"Little girl, do you think the Rein family has the power to throw their weight around in my auction house!!!, this time I will let you go with a warning, but there won't be a second chance, the winner is the esteemed guest of the VIP room number 1".
Kayla was angry, "first some unknown asshole called me ugly and now this old bastard dared to shout at me in public when not even my dear father has ever done it!!!, just you wait Kraft family I won't let this end here humph".
Back on Aster's room Alice was smiling from ear to ear, she kissed her brother and whispered in his ear.
"Thankss for that, I will make sure to show you my "gratitude" later ♥ hehehe".
Aster couldn't stop his hand from going down her waist to fondle her ass, he was all smiles while thinking "yup, a happy wife is equal to a happy man hahaha".