Chapter 196: Harvest at the Auction (Two chapters in one)
"1600!" A fat noble on the first floor raised his hand and said.
But soon, the bids behind him quickly drowned out. Although this rare ore has a relatively simple nature, it still attracts many nobles as a raw material for knight armor used in specific environments.
"1700!"
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"2100!"
After the price rose to 2100 gold, the bidding began to sluggish.
Ryan thought about it and directly asked the beautiful woman to bid 2500.
When the beautiful woman raised the sign of 2500 dignifiedly on the second floor, the old man Idris with a monocle, his face was happy, his voice was raised twice, and he shouted:
"A VIP bid 2500, is there any higher bid?"
After three shouts, no one answered.
"Pah!"
As the auction hammer fell, Ryan successfully won the ice iron ingot!
Perhaps for others, this price is a bit high, but these ice iron ingots have special meaning to Ryan.
Conservatively speaking, Ryan felt that after all these ice iron ingots were used up, he could at least upgrade his armorer professional level by one level, or perhaps two levels.
With the ice iron ingot as a reward, Ryan was looking forward to the next auction.
Unfortunately, most of the next auction items were antiques.
Ryan was not interested in this. In Ryan's eyes,
antiques
were expensive, but they did not have much practical use. They were more used to highlight the heritage of a family.
At this time, a female servant knocked on the door and respectfully brought in the twelve golden pearls that the beautiful woman Jennifer had just bought in a luxurious carved wooden box.
"Baroness Crawley, this is the competitive item you bought." The female servant bowed and handed over the wooden box.
Unexpectedly, Jenny on the side took it first. When she opened it, she was instantly attracted by the row of shining golden pearls.
"Mother, these golden pearls are so beautiful."
The beautiful woman also picked up one with great interest and looked at it. It was shining with golden light and round in color. It was indeed very beautiful.
At this time, the chief auctioneer Idris began to introduce: "The next item is an extremely rare ore."
Idris said while mysteriously lifting the red cloth on the tray.
Huh? Rare ore?
Ryan's attention was instantly moved away from the golden pearls. He looked carefully at the tray displayed by Idris on the auction table.
There were five long metal ingots on it. They seemed to be similar to silver ingots, but the surface light was obviously much brighter, and at the same time, there were also some bright stars in it.
Hiss! This is a mithril ingot!
This immediately made Ryan's eyebrows bright.
"Mithril ingot!"
"It's mithril!"
Many nobles on the first floor also immediately identified that this precious and rare ore was mithril.
Moreover, the production of mithril is extremely rare in both the Dragun Empire and the Eagle Federation, and ordinary people rarely encounter it.
It is rare that five standard ingots appeared at once this time.
And Ryan first heard about mithril when he went to exterminate the murlocs half a year ago. Captain Willen said that someone had obtained a piece of extremely valuable mithril ore when killing murlocs.
Like the ice iron ingot last time, for Ryan, mithril is not only a rare ore, but also the main material for forging mithril carved plate armor suits.
Although having materials is not enough, Ryan will have to solve the problem of inscriptions later, but the problems can be solved one by one.
But a good cook cannot cook without rice.
Therefore, the availability of materials is sometimes the most important position.
Fortunately, Ryan made a lot of gold coins by betting on the bloody duel this time.
Otherwise, he might not have enough funds to get the mithril ingot.
Chief auctioneer Idris showed the items around, stirred up the atmosphere, and then said loudly, "This time, there are five standard mithril ingots, with a starting price of 2,000 imperial gold coins. Now, the bidding begins!"
"2,500!" A thin noble on the first floor raised his hand impatiently.
But it was obviously a wrong calculation to scare off others from competing for mithril by directly raising the price by 500.
Soon, the bids behind were higher than the last. Mithril has many more uses than ice iron ingots, so it naturally attracted the attention of most male nobles.
"2,800!"
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"3,500!"
After the price rose to 3,500 gold, the increase in bidding began to slow down.
At this time, Ryan turned his head and whispered in the beautiful woman's ear: "No matter how much others bid, it's one hundred higher than them."
The beautiful woman immediately chuckled and said, "It seems that the Baron is still very fond of mithril, just like us women like jewelry such as gold pearls!"
Because in public occasions, the beautiful woman still pays great attention to her manners and words and deeds, and she always addresses Ryan in a more formal way.
Since there are many nobles bidding, it is not appropriate to suddenly increase the bid amount. Therefore, after Ryan expressed his determination to win the bid to the beautiful woman, the rest was left to the beautiful woman to raise the placard.
"3600!"
"3700!"
At this moment, every bid made the old man Idris, who was wearing a monocle, smile more brilliantly, and his voice gradually rose. He shouted: "A VIP bid 3700, is there any higher bid?"
At this time, there were not many nobles who continued to bid.
Although mithril was scarce, it had already started to have a small premium at this time. If it was not urgent to use it, many nobles began to give up bidding.
"3800!" A young noble heir stood up with a "whoosh", and seemed to be a little impatient.
He was seen holding up a sign and looking around, as if he wanted to find out which family was so disrespectful to him.
When he looked around, he saw the beautiful woman who was bidding in the box on the right side of the second floor. When she raised her placard, she seemed to think of something. Especially when she saw the black-haired young man next to the beautiful woman, her face changed immediately. She immediately sat back in her chair and coughed, saying,
"Ahem! I'll tidy up my clothes."
"3900! A VIP bid 3900. Is there a higher price?" The chief auctioneer who noticed the beautiful woman raising her placard again shouted.
The nobles looked at this scene with great curiosity. There were very few people in Meister who could make the eldest son of Viscount Hamady suffer. So, everyone looked up.
Hey! It turned out to be Baron Hammer! The
one who raised the placard was Baroness Crowley. No wonder...
One point to be explained here is that according to the rules of the Axon Auction House, the second-floor box can only be used by nobles with titles. For noble heirs without titles, they cannot apply alone.
Finally, five mithril ingots were bought by Ryan at the price of 3,900 gold.
This made Ryan sigh that the trip was worthwhile. Even if there was no subsequent harvest, the harvest of these two rare minerals alone made him very satisfied.
"Next, there are two rare extraordinary combat skills. In order to prevent the VIPs from missing out on their favorite combat skills, I will reveal the names of these two combat skills to everyone in advance this time."
Ryan knew the intention of the chief auctioneer Idris to reveal it in advance, which was to increase the intensity of competition.
If it was not announced in advance, many nobles would not be busy bidding, and would expect whether the second extraordinary combat skill would be more suitable for them and cheaper.
But in this case, once the two extraordinary combat skills belong to different categories, there will be no situation of mutual price reduction. On the contrary, the scarcity will make the competition directly fierce.
At this time, the benefits of advance notice came out.
Like the one-handed sword combat skill?
Only one copy, do you want it?
"The first extraordinary combat skill is a one-handed sword combat skill that is less circulated - "Tidal Sword Skills Compendium", which contains two complete secret skills." Chief auctioneer Idris pointed to a tray covered with red satin and said.
On the tray was an old parchment scroll, which should be the compendium itself.
"The second extraordinary combat skill is "Kadar's Boxing Compendium" from the deceased boxing master Kadar Ace, which also has two complete secret skills."
"Both of these combat skills can be used as family inheritance combat skills. Perhaps in the inheritance from generation to generation, they will create unique family secrets."
When Ryan heard the name of the first extraordinary combat skill, his brows furrowed.
One-handed sword combat skills?
He didn't really want it.
But when the second extraordinary combat skill was reported, Ryan was even more stunned!
Huh?
Boxing?
This was something he had never expected.
There would be extraordinary combat skills like boxing.
The nobles around were whispering, and seemed to be discussing how a very rare boxing-type supernatural fighting skill could appear. You know, there are very few nobles who fight with weapons like "brass knuckles".
Even assassins prefer daggers or short swords that can kill with one blow, rather than brass knuckles.
Ryan thought about it and made a decision quickly.
If he had to choose, he planned to get "Kadar's Boxing Compendium" instead of Tidal Swordsmanship.
As for the reason?
It was because in these two battles, the opponents Ryan encountered were much faster than Ryan, which made Ryan feel very passive in the battle.
And fighting skills like brass knuckles and daggers, normally, have very flexible steps or dodging moves.
Once mastered, Ryan felt that it would make up for his shortcomings very well.
Another point is to consider the price factor. Obviously, the supernatural fighting skills of one-handed swords have the most people practicing, and the competition will be extremely fierce.
And the people who compete with him in boxing will probably be much fewer.
Sure enough, the bidding for the "Tidal Swordplay Compendium" was extremely fierce, with more than thirty rounds of bidding. In the end, it was bought by a baron at a price of 11,000 gold.
The bidding for the "Kadar Boxing Compendium" was much slower, with only eight rounds of bidding. In the end, it was bought by Ryan at a price of 4,200 gold.
The beautiful woman and Jenny looked at each other and looked at Ryan in confusion, as if they didn't understand why Ryan didn't choose Tidal Swordplay, but chose the Boxing Compendium that few people chose.
Especially since Ryan has a very strong two-handed sword foundation, it would be relatively faster for him to learn the one-handed sword extraordinary combat skills.
However, the beautiful woman herself was not familiar with martial arts, so she didn't ask much.
——Soon
, the attendant came in with a tray. The pale yellow sheepskin scroll on it was the "Kadar Boxing Compendium" that Ryan had just bought.
After Ryan took it with a smile on his face, he opened it and read it casually.
".The boxing master Kadar Ace gradually created and perfected this boxing while observing the attacks of tigers, so this boxing can also be called tiger boxing."
The preface briefly wrote a paragraph.
Tiger boxing?
Ryan's face was thoughtful. This is similar to some ancient boxing in the previous life. They all evolved into boxing suitable for humans by observing tigers, leopards, bears, etc.
Among them, the health-preserving boxing "Five Animals Play" and the powerful fighting boxing "Xingyi Quan" are typical representatives.
Retracting his thoughts, Ryan continued to read.
I saw that Kadar boxing recorded a total of five boxing styles.
The first style is the punch, and the matching step is the forward sprint step. The
second style is the left swing punch, and the matching step is the right slide step.
The third style is the right swing punch, and the matching step is the left slide step.
The fourth style is the upper hook, and the matching step is the multi-directional slide step.
The slide step is to push the left or right foot against the ground and move horizontally to one side about the distance of the sole of the foot, and the other foot immediately follows and maintains the original posture.
According to the records in the outline, these four styles can be transformed into corresponding claw strikes, which is why it is called tiger boxing.
The last is the fifth style of dodge, called the pendulum retreat step.
Each move had a corresponding step, especially the last move was a dodge move, which made Ryan quite happy.
However, when Ryan saw the bottom, he raised his eyebrows.
Huh?
Is this a sharp brass knuckle?
A simple brass knuckle design appeared in front of Ryan. The biggest difference from ordinary brass knuckles is that there are four sharp protrusions at the joints of this brass knuckle.
Each protrusion is dagger-shaped, sharp at the top and thick at the bottom, about ten centimeters long, imitating the meaning of tiger claws.
It is conceivable that if an enemy with weak defense is hit by a heavy punch with this brass knuckle, four blood holes will appear on his body.
In other words, this set of Kadar boxing has even designed the type of brass knuckles. Only by wearing sharp brass knuckles can the lethality be maximized.
In addition, there are secret techniques.
As for the secret techniques, the first one is called "high-speed combo", which is a secret technique of bursting out in a short period of time and hitting as many punches, left swings, right swings and other moves as possible.
The second secret technique is called "hundred cracking strikes", which must be equipped with sharp brass knuckles. It is also a secret technique of turning fists into claws in a short period of time, using moves such as upward slashing, downward slashing and left and right swinging.
The following auction items did not appear any more that Ryan wanted to buy.
After the auction ended, Ryan returned home and could not wait to start practicing this "Kadar Fist".
After all, as long as he could upgrade this extraordinary combat skill to level 10, he could immediately change to the legendary profession [Weapon Master]!
The thought of this made Ryan faintly excited.
In the indoor training ground, Ryan practiced one move after another according to the human figure pattern drawn in the outline.
After a while, the system prompt sounded:
[You have trained in Kadar Fist, and your understanding of it has improved! ]
[You have learned a new skill - Kadar Fist]
[Your skill Kadar Fist has been improved, and your experience value is +1]
Kadar Fist level 1 (1/100) appears on the Knight (Extraordinary) profession panel. The icon is actually a tall and strong man with a tiger head and a human body standing upright. A pair of sharp claws and sharp knuckles are very similar, waving in a waving state, quite brave.
Since Ryan is no longer a rookie, and his experience in learning combat skills is no longer the same as it was six months ago, Ryan upgraded it to level 3 in one afternoon.
However, from level 3 onwards, the speed of improvement began to slow down.
Ryan knows how to speed up. If he can find the right person to practice or compete with, he can quickly improve again.
As for adding points?
That is naturally something that will be considered after level 5.
"Knock, knock, knock!"
Huh?
It stands to reason that the servants all know their own training rooms and should not come to disturb them.
Did they say something urgent?
Ryan couldn't help but be a little surprised when he heard the knock on the door, and said:
"Please come in!"
Jenny said apologetically: "Sir Ryan, I'm sorry, the head of a caravan is outside, saying that he has something to give to you personally."
"Hmm? Caravan?" Ryan couldn't help but look puzzled.
"Yes, Sir Ryan, it seems to be a caravan from Rosby County." Jenny said very confidently, and at the same time, added.
Rosby County? Could it be that
Ryan immediately thought of a possibility.
"Let's go and have a look."
When Ryan and Jenny came to the front yard of the mansion, they saw a pile of things wrapped in gray cloth, which had been moved to one side of the front yard.
A fat merchant came up and said with a smile: "Dear Lord Ryan, I was entrusted by Knight Hass to deliver these precious items to your mansion."
"I'm really sorry to ask you to come and sign for them in person. This is because Knight Hass has repeatedly emphasized that the things inside are very valuable and need to be handed over to you in person."
"Thank you, you've worked hard all the way." Ryan said with a smile.
Jenny on the side was very discerning and asked the maid to prepare some coins to express her gratitude to the fat merchant.
After the fat merchant left, Ryan lifted the cloth. Sure enough, there were twelve pieces of tortoise shells that he had cut off from the body of the Scaled Ironback Turtle.
In fact, there were originally thirteen pieces, but one piece was directly broken by Ryan during the battle.
As for these hard and thick tortoise shells, Ryan had already thought of the use, which was to use them to make a common equipment - tortoise shell shields.
Of course, ordinary tortoise shell shields are made of ordinary sea turtle shells, which are completely incomparable to what Ryan wants to make.
For Ryan, his main purpose is to make a tortoise shell shield made of scale-whiskered ironback tortoise material, so as to obtain a sufficiently high experience value reward.
Of course, he is not very sure about this.
It is just a reasonable inference from the fact that the knight's plate armor made of rare ores has a higher experience value reward.
As an entry-level behemoth, the scale-whiskered ironback tortoise is as powerful as a great knight, and its tortoise shell is naturally a rare material.
Therefore, Ryan thinks that he has a high probability of obtaining a considerable armorer experience value reward.
So, as soon as dinner was over, Ryan came to the blacksmith shop.
For the production of the tortoise shell shield, Ryan had made preparations in advance. Simply put, after the edge of the tortoise shell is polished and rounded, it is wrapped with a circle of iron bars, and a metal handle is punched in the middle.
In this way, a tortoise shell shield was completed.
In general, the defensive power of a tortoise shell shield depends heavily on the hardness of the tortoise shell itself.
Half an hour
later, Ryan wrapped a long narrow iron sheet around the tortoise shell, picked up a blacksmith hammer, and began to hammer it.
After inlaying it, he began to look for a suitable drilling position near the top of the tortoise shell to set the metal handle.
Soon, he completed the above process and held a tortoise shell shield in his hand and waved it a few times.
At this time, the system prompt appeared:
[You have forged a tortoise shell shield, and your understanding has been improved! ]
[You have learned a new skill - tortoise shell shield making]
[Your skill of tortoise shell shield making has been improved, and your experience value has been increased by 124]
[You have focused on tortoise shell shield making, and your armorer professional experience value has been increased by 202]
Hiss! This experience value is really rich!
Ryan's eyes lit up immediately!
"It seems that my previous speculation was correct. The rarer the material, the higher the experience value reward. In addition, the higher the forging difficulty, the higher the system experience value reward."
This is the tortoise shell of the Scaled Ironback Turtle, which is comparable to rare ore, so the rewarded experience value is very rich.
After a rough calculation, Ryan found that when he finished forging these twelve tortoise shells, he could upgrade the armorer from level 5 to level 6, and it was more than enough.
This made Ryan in a good mood, and he immediately started to work hard.
After spending more than four hours, Ryan made ten tortoise shell shields in a row, and successfully upgraded his armorer to level 6.
He was rewarded with one skill point and one attribute point again.
At this time, the remaining attribute points on the attribute panel reached 6 points, and the remaining skill points were finally no longer 0, but 1 point.
Satisfied, Ryan left the blacksmith shop and returned to the mansion to rest.
——At
the same time.
Ever since Ryan won the bloody duel, Baron Alonso's face has never been good after returning to the mansion.
Even the butler Michelle, who has always been trusted, did not give him a good face throughout the day.
This time, it was the third time Michelle came over, and only heard a maid report: "Butler Michelle, the baron smashed two antique vases and three teapots today."
Michelle was also stunned after hearing it!
How many years have I not seen Baron Alonso so angry.
The last time, it seems to be the time when he was defeated by Miss Claire?
I can't remember clearly
. After thinking about it, Michel decided to bite the bullet and knock on the door.
At this moment, the door of the study suddenly opened, and Baron Alonso walked out with a gloomy face.
When he saw Michel, his face eased a lot, and he said, "Michel, arrange a carriage, I need to go out."
"Yes, Baron."
After a while, Alonso took a luxurious carriage and arrived at the Mayest County Prison.
In Maggis' office.
"Magis, you should have heard the news, right? Ryan defeated Baron Norman, who had just entered the level of Grand Knight, in a bloody duel. Do you still have the confidence to do what you promised before?" Alonso asked expressionlessly.
"Baron, please rest assured. I have been pushing forward this matter."
"Although this new baron is very powerful, the one sent to Mayest County by the organization this time is not an ordinary knight, so I still have full confidence."
"Please wait for good news, Baron."
While Maggis was talking, Alonso had been observing Maggis's expression, as if he wanted to judge whether what he said was true.
Alonso watched for a moment, nodded, and said, "I hope it will be as soon as possible! Otherwise, the growth rate of this Lord Ryan may exceed your and my imagination."
Although Maggis said it with confidence, Alonso, who had experienced successive failures, had fallen to the bottom of his confidence at this moment.
To be honest, if it weren't for Maggis's words "not an ordinary knight", Alonso would not have had any expectations.
After Alonso left, Maggis also frowned.
The strength of this Hammer Baron has indeed improved too fast!
In addition, although he was very confident in his promise, he was actually very troubled because the new Brigadier General Parricks obviously did not pay much attention to his suggestions.
Two days ago, after listening to the report from his confidant, he understood the general idea of the new head of Mayest County.
The other party did not care much about Ryan, who was not even a great knight at present. At this moment, the other party's attention should be more macro.
After thinking about it, Majis waved to the confidant and said, "You may need to go to Wild Wolf Hill immediately and report Ryan's performance in the bloody duel to Brigadier General Parricks immediately."
"Now that the other party has clearly possessed the combat power of the great knight level, I think this time, the brigadier general should not underestimate the other party again." Majis sighed and said.
"Yes, sir!"
Soon, the confidant left the office.
Two hours later, Majis's confidant rushed to Wild Wolf Hill.
"Huh? He can actually kill the Great Knight at the level of a knight?"
"This situation is indeed rare. I didn't expect that such a talent could appear in a small place like Meister." Brigadier General Paricks did not hide the surprise on his face.
However, there was no fear or fear in his expression, but a sense of expectation.
He thought for a while and said, "You tell Majis to tell him that I know about this matter."
"I was not interested at first. However, the other party can kill the Great Knight now, which is quite interesting to me. But if this Hammer Baron stays in the county town, I can't do it." "
So, let Majis do a good job of intelligence work on him."
"If the other party leaves the county town, notify me immediately."
At the end of the conversation, Brigadier General Parricks also mentioned intelligence work. The confidant knew that the other party was reminding his boss to do his job well.
"Yes, Brigadier General." After saying that, the confidant bowed and slowly retreated.
——Early
the next morning, Hamilton arrived at the Ryan Mansion on time as agreed before.
Soon, a luxurious carriage carrying Ryan and Hamilton went to the Usman family's mansion outside the county city.
Normally, most nobles would choose to live in the noble mansion area of the county city. First, it is safe, and second, there are many banquets and salons, which makes it more convenient to go back and forth.
A few nobles would choose to live in the manor next to the county city.
Because the manor usually covers a large area, it can run horses, and in addition, it is relatively quiet.
The Usman family is one of them. They rarely participate in banquets and social activities in the county city. Perhaps it is because of the migration of foreigners, of course, it may be other reasons, which is unknown.
Soon, the carriage arrived at the door of a manor with a sense of age.
The walls around the manor were covered with vines such as wisteria, green radish and creeper, which looked green and made people feel very happy.
Knight Lawrence, whom Ryan had met before, was already at the door of the manor, leading a few servants and waiting respectfully.
Thank you Gu Shaoqing for the 100 starting coins reward!
(End of this chapter)
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