The Survivor and the System

Chapter 5: Auction!

Under the shining sun, Edward who was sitting in the tub slowly opened his eyes, the deep blue liquid in the tub once again becoming clear.

But Edward did not feel the heartache of the previous days, having spent 3 weeks in closed meditation. Edward had already spent a total of 3 bottles of Level 6 Body Strengthening Elixir, this brought Edward to the High stage Body Formation level. Only one more stage before he became the peak Stage and made sure he passed the maturation test.

But with this speed, Edward was no longer worried. There are still 11 months left before the maturation exam begins.

With 11 months time and his efficient cultivation speed, Edward was confident that he was able to go even higher, even the level of a Combat Elite was no longer impossible.

But the problem this time is, he lacks system points to buy Elixir. It seemed like he would once again visit the Primary Trading House to earn a lot of system points.

But is there a treasure worth a million gold coins like before?

The Primer Trading House could not possibly collect a treasure worth a million gold coins within 3 weeks.

Edward considered whether he should buy all the treasures present in the Primary Trading House?

But if he did that, it would attract a lot of attention of the big clans in the city of Javes Chity and would endanger his own life.

Thinking up to here, Edward decided to visit the Primary Trading House. Maybe Edward can find a little advantage.

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Under the plain black robe covering his identity, Edward walked into the Primier Trading House.

Once again, the luxurious and elegant interior became the first view of Edward when he entered this shopping center.

Seeing Edward coming, the waiter sitting in the reception chair immediately got up and greeted Edward cheerfully.

"This master, do you intend to buy any more high-class treasures?."Friendly and polite, the waiter asked.

Edward nodded."Right?."

"Well, what kind of treasure do you want?."Ask the waiter with a smile.

"I want something better than before, does the Primary Trading House have it?."Ask Edward.

"Better treasure?."The waiter was stunned, yet he quickly nodded."Wait Mister! I will confirm this to the person in charge first."

Edward nodded."You better hurry!."

The waiter left in a hurry.

After a few minutes, two men approached Edward. The pungent smell of perfume made Edward frown a little deeper.

A breath hit the back of Edward's neck until he became a little dazed.

Edward turned around and met his face with a pair of beautiful and clear eyeballs, a face that was smooth and white like snow in combination with a large cleavage almost made Edward out of his consciousness.

It was Jenny Jonson, Edward always thought that this woman was beautiful, but when he saw her from a very close distance. Edward realizes that Jenny is more than beautiful.

Jenny gave a very sweet smile to Edward, I don't know what the goal is? but it was enough to make Edward's face flushed. Luckily his face was covered in a black cloak hood, otherwise he would have been very embarrassed.

Edward held the shock in his body then turned his gaze from Jenny to Javier.

Jenny frowned, this was the first time her beauty had no effect on a young man.

Realizing the situation, Javier immediately opened the conversation."Sir, it's good to see you again."

Edward nodded and said."So how?."

Edward doesn't want to mince words or he'll lose control under Jenny's charm.

"Hehe, I've confirmed your request. The treasure you want is a Sky-class treasure and it is not sold in general, but you can get it if you attend the auction."

"Today the Primary Trading House held an auction and some Sky-class treasures will appear there."Javier.

An auction?

Excitement flashed in Edward's eyes, by attending the auction. He could definitely spend a lot of money and earn System Points, this was truly luck.

Edward said flatly."Then, I'll see the auction."

Jenny was completely ignored in this situation and it pissed her off.

Sensing the change from Jenny, Javier quickly introduces Jenny to Edward."Oh yea. Sir, this is Young Miss Jenny Jonson. The next heir to the Jonson clan."

Edward nodded but did not say anything, Javier felt awkward but he still led Edward to the auction.

Edward is taken to the second floor of the VVIP and gets the perfect view of the auction stage.

Meanwhile, the first-rate nobles were on the first floor of the VIP and the second-rate nobles were seated under the open stage.

The hall looked extremely spacious and was able to accommodate tens of thousands of people, this was a huge auction. Boiling sounds and discussions from the people filled the hall.

When Edward entered, the auction event had officially begun with the knock of a hammer echoing throughout the auction hall.

At this moment, on the stage, under the bright light, the red-robed beauty used her charming voice to describe the thing in her hands.

Under the deadly and obvious sound of the sound, a truly unworthy item has a price increase at an exponential rate.

Sitting in a VVIP chair, Edward quietly glanced at the beauty on stage. With his perfect observation, Edward realized that most people were here for him and not the items that were being auctioned.

The main auctioneer of the Primary Trading House is Yolanda Jonson. She is a very famous beauty in Javes Chity and her adult charms make many people interested in her.

Suddenly, the silent Edward turned around and looked at the man sitting below the stage and hidden in a corner. Her arms swayed with the words of Yolanda's little red mouth and her hands disappeared under her waist …

“Sial!” Lightly cursing, Edward who was under the robe, rolled his eyes: This person is so shameless!

Upon seeing the item in Yolanda's hands, Edward lost his interest. He had no time to give away the junkyard even though he had unlimited money even if the seller of the item was a beautiful woman. After turning his gaze away from Yolanda, Xiao Yan began to slowly look around the hall.

"Huh ... dad?" His gaze stopped, Edward focused on the middle-aged man sitting in the front row below the stage. Suddenly, Edward's facial expression became ugly as he muttered: "Does that Old Man have any interest in that woman?"

The strange thought did not last long because Edward had learned that his father's gaze was not focused on Yolanda but rather looked into the distance, as if he was waiting for something.

Why is John Collin here? Pondering the question, Edward turned his gaze again. This time, Edward was quite surprised to realize that the clan leaders of the other two great second-rate families, the Hopkins Clan and the Murphy Clan were here!

It seems like something interesting will be at the auction to attract the attention of the three.

In this city of Javes Chity, there are 3 first class families and there are three 2nd class families. These six great families are the largest and most influential clans within Javes Chity.

However, 1st class families tend to close themselves from the public and rarely follow customers like this, only second class clans often appear but that applies if there are interesting items at auction.

Now that each of the three second-rate great clan leaders had appeared, it was a sign that there was an interesting item that would appear at the auction.

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To be honest, the woman named Yolanda was an expert at creating atmospheres. His gaze and smile made the price of goods rise exponentially for a while. Moreover, whenever the price was raised, he would send a charming smile to the person who had just issued the latest price and they would forget their pain of paying more for the item.

The atmosphere within the auction house remained at its peak with his smile.

"Hehe, everyone, the auction house has just received a new auction item. I believe that everyone will be interested."After auctioning off the latest item, Yolanda suddenly stopped and said loudly towards the audience. With a wave of his hand, a servant quickly lifted the jade plate and in the middle of the plate were several transparent glass bottles. People could see a light green liquid inside the glass bottle.

"this is a second-rate pill."With her delicate hand picking up the jade bottle, Yolanda's charming voice calmed the auctioneers for a moment. But soon, those yells became increasingly violent, in the continent the pill spirit refined by Alchemists was the most sought after item.

Every pill that an Alchemist refined would have a special effect that was extremely useful for spirit training.

In this spirit continent, with many people doing spirit training. A special pill is a kind of cheat in a video game, it will make people eliminate many obstacles in his training and make him reach heights that have never been achieved before.

Hence, nearly 100% of the people in the spirit continent treated the Pill as a priceless treasure.

As the name suggests, alchemists are capable of making special pills that increase one's strength. Every free-agent alchemist sought by many powers.

The reason why alchemists had such a high position was because alchemists were extremely rare and how strict the requirements to become an alchemist were.

First of all, there must be a fire attribute. And then, in the fire attribute, one had to have a small piece of the wood attribute to act as a catalyst in pill refining.

In the Spirit Mainland, one's attributes are determined by their soul. A soul from birth will have only one, the only attribute and reject the other attribute. So it was impossible for one to have two attributes.

Of course, nothing is impossible. In a million people, there would always be someone who had a mutated soul. Among these people who had mutated souls, some had the potential to become Alchemists!

However, someone who possessed the attributes of fire and wood was not enough to become an Alchemist. It was because one also had to have a strong Soul Perception or Soul Molding!

In pill refinement, the three most important requirements were: Matter, flame and the perception of one's soul.

Ingredients. They should be natural treasures. After all, even the best alchemists were unable to concoct god pills from the trash mine. Therefore, a good base ingredient is essential for a good pill.

Flame. Or the fire required when refining pills. The flames used in refining pills could not be normal flames but rather, they had to be spirit flames made despite the sprites with fire attributes.

Since refining pills was a terrible task, the extended period of refinement required a lot of spirit energy and as such, every brilliant alchemist was also a powerful fire-type Fighter Elite.

The final requirement was Soul Perception.

When refining pills, the intensity of the flame needed to be controlled with strict precision. If the flame was a bit too hot, the pill inside the furnace would burn to ashes, wasting the alchemist's time and effort. Therefore, controlling the intensity of the flame was a prerequisite to becoming an alchemist. But in order to have control over fire, one had to have an incredible Soul Perception, without Soul Perception, even if one met or even exceeded the first two requirements, there was no point in trying to refine a pill.

Under these strict conditions, people who had the qualifications to become an alchemist were few and rare. As there were not many alchemists, the magic pills they refined were also very few and rare. Since rare things were precious and pills could definitely be defined as rare, alchemists all had an honorable position, to the extent of being overstated.

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Back to the Auction Hall..

"This thing is named Elixir Body Strengthener. This was only effective for those below the level of a Fighter Elite. Practicing using Elixir body boosters allowed those below the level of Elite Brawlers to have increased efficiency in training! Hehe, if you like your son or grandson to be called a genius, this is perfect for you!."His attractive mouth lightly inhaled those words and left the minds of the auctioneers shackled.

Everyone knew, that becoming a Spirit Expert was everyone's dream. That was because being a Spirit Expert, one would gain respect and status like a small leader in a village. And also they would have the qualifications to access a high-level Spirit method with pure Sprits within their bodies. But to become a sprit expert, one had to be a Fighter Elite and a Fighter Elite was not easy to achieve.

One has to go through the basics first, which are the six stages of body building.

Many of the younger generation had struggled to reach that level, yet they remained stuck at the body-building level until the elderly. Some were better and broke through to become a Fighter Elite after training for 30 years, except for those with natural talent.

However, being a young Combat Elite and being called a genius was the dream of all the younger generation.

When he heard Elixir strengthening the body, everyone's eyes instantly shone.

"Elixir Body Booster? It can increase one's Spirit training speed? Miss Yolanda, the people at that stage are unable to take the pressure off the pill right? ”Although Yolanda is very charming, there are also many people who remain calm and after a moment of silence, someone asks an important question.

It was true, someone who was at the body formation level had relatively ragged meridians. If it was to get pressure from outside energy, then it was at risk of death.

"Hehe, this elixir was personally examined by our Roger master and found to be a second tier pill. There won't be a problem, everyone can be sure of that."Yolanda lightly laughed as she responded.

Hearing that Roger personally examined the pill, those in doubt did not question the effectiveness of the pill anymore. Everyone knew that Roger was a second-tier Alchemist Master.In the entire Jeves Chity, even the clan leaders of the three first-rate families had to be polite to him.

Edward in the VVIP room stared at the glass bottle in Yolanda's hand with furrowed brows.

Edward muttered."Why would the Body Strengthening Elixir be able to appear here?."

Ding!

[Elixir Body Strengthener is a Tier 2 Pill that was long gone several thousand years ago, the system obtained its information then updated it to a Tier 1, tier 3, tier 6 Pill. In effect, Elixir Body Strengthening is sold by the system 10 times better than Elixir in the spirit continent.]

The sound of the system answered Edward's question, exhaling a sigh of relief. Edward felt better, and Edward saw that the Elixir in Yolanda's hand was light green. It was much different from the Body Strengthening Elixir sold by the System.

This explains Edward's doubts.

Slightly turning his gaze to his father, Edward realized that the previous calm expression he had on his father had changed slightly.

"850!."Just when Yolanda's voice stopped, someone shouted the price.

"900!."The other price comes right after the first price is called.

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The price went up quickly and within a few seconds, it was 13,000!

Although Edward's father was somewhat excited, he did not immediately call out the price and instead closed his eyes, waiting for the bid to reach its peak.

The price went up again but soon, the voices went out. At that moment, an elder sitting in the first row lightly said."20,000!."

After mentioning that price, the last voices in the auction died. Some people turned to look towards the emotionless elder but could only sit back, disappointed. They did not have the wealth to be in a price war with the Hopkins Clan.

"Hehe, Ronal Hopkins. Isn't your son already a Combat Elite, why are you still thinking about this Body Strengthening Elixir?."A middle-aged man who was also sitting in the first row turned around to fake a smile at Ronal Hopkins.

"Theo Murphy, can I buy it for my future grandchildren?."Ronal Hopkins clearly disliked the middle-aged man and coldly scorned the latter.

"Let's see if your luck allows you to have grandchildren, maybe someday your son finds himself without … ".After silently cursing Ronal, Theo then exclaimed."23,000!."

"25.000."

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Within 10 minutes and under everyone's shocked gazes in the auction, both of them were like dogs scrambling to eat and raising the price to 31,000!

"40,000!!."John Collin who was previously sitting quietly with his eyes closed suddenly exclaimed and made people dumbfounded.

Everyone inside the auction hall fell silent and turned their gazes over to John Collin. Even Ronal Hopkins and Theo Murphy were stunned by the sudden rise in prices.

"Hehe, the leader of the Collin Clan, looks like you really want this Body Strengthening Elixir!." Ronal Hopkins smiled.

John Collin glanced at him and said."If you want it, then just raise the price. I promise I won't raise the price again."

Ronal Hopkins stopped and thought about the truth in John Hopkins' words. Immediately, he shook his head as his goal here today was not for the Body Strengthening Elixir. If he was wasting money just for that, then it was not a good decision.

Theo Murphy on the other hand, seeing that Ronal Hopkins stopped raising its price, also shrugged his shoulders. Although the Body Strengthening Elixir was very tempting, its purpose was not that. Therefore, he also stopped raising his price.

"Collin clan leader John Collin has bid 40,000 Gold Coins, does anyone want to raise the price?." Looking at the quiet hall, Yolanda smiled as she reminded the crowd.

"Since no one raises the price, this Body Strengthening Elixir will go to clan leader John Collin." Seeing that no one answered, the understanding Yolanda lightly tapped her small hammer on the table, signifying that the Body Strengthening Elixir had found a new owner.

In the 2nd floor VVIP room, Edward did not know whether to laugh or cry. Edward knows that his father bought Elixir Body Strengthener for him, which shows how much his father cared about him. But Edward already had the object even with better quality.

"Hehe, next, we'll auction off the last auction item!."Placing the tranparam glass bottle back into the plate, Yolanda waved her hand and the light in the hall dimmed. Bending down, he took out a silver plate and in the middle of the plate was an unadorned green scroll.

The scroll was slightly glowing green and with the reflection from the silver plate, it was cast in a mysterious light.

"Earth-class High-tier Spirit Method, the roar of the storm!."

Edward who sat in the VVIP room immediately showed interest.

It was a Sky-class Treasure!

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