Devjan walked Rudra and guided him towards a specific guest waiting room. At the entrance, Rudra saw the shiny and bold words, 'VIP Guest Room.' He was being treated as a VIP, but he knew all of this was to put a better impression on him.
Rudra entered that VIP room, and the scene he was greeted by made him regret his arrival. That room was decorated with luxurious accessories. The ground was covered by a red mat, whereas the wall had luxurious deep brown wooden colors, and the ceiling was filled with deep and intricate patterns that would cause anyone to wonder
In the room there are a few round tables a little away from each other, and on the nearby chairs sat the VIP guests of the auction house. One of those people was his own grandpa Vihaan! Therefore he seemed to be in such a hurry when he took Rudra to that wooden house.
"Come, Mr. Aadarsh, please have a seat.", Devjan pulled out a chair and gestured.
Aadarsh nodded as he took a seat on that chair, and Devjan with the fast tapping sounds of his feet, walked out of the room. Rudra was very nervous because his grandpa was sitting only a few tables away from him. Fortunately, most of the tables were filled with people, the corner seats were mostly vacant.
He took the chance and sat on a corner seat to avoid being caught by his Grandpa's keen eyes. But Rudra also spotted some familiar and unfamiliar faces sitting around the same table where Vihaan was. The familiar face was Vashihaan, leader of the Storm Forge clan, beside him was the elder of that clan. The other familiar face was Mahaaj, the main elder of his clan. And a few more unknown people who talked very politely with them, as if they all were friends and had known each other for a long time.
Rudra shook his head and looked towards other people around him. This was when he spotted Vijay, the vice leader of his clan, and another man sitting at the table near Vihaan's table. But both Vijay and that man didn't have any talk as if they both were strangers to each other.
Soon after a staff announced that the next auction was about to begin, and as if he had gotten a life, Rudra felt excited. But at first, he let his grandpa and other clan members leave. He then stood up in the last and walked towards the 1st auction hall.
But before he entered the auction hall, he was stopped by the same middle-aged man who gave him a VIP pass. Rudra took that pass and entered the hall. Within the auction hall, all the seats were filled with a crowd of people shouting, leaving the whole hall without peace.
The other VIP people sat in the VIP seats, Including Rudra's own grandpa, therefore he decided to avoid risks, and he took a corner seat instead. He very easily found a corner seat and sat there.
After a few minutes, the room lights darkened, and under the only spotlight, a lady walked into the room wearing a red dress, with a mixture of black-colored borders and endings. It was Parika. She stood at the podium on the central platform and the spotlight was highlighting her Charming presence to everyone.
"It's a fortunate day for you to be here, you can't stop yourself from buying the valuable items being auctioned this time. Let's see who loots most of the fortune.", Parika announced in such a way to make those people stay until the items are introduced and if they get tempted enough they will spend all their budget on unwanted items.
Parika gestured and a maid with a plate upon which a box was kept walked towards Parika. Parika opened that box, and a broken purple horn was presented to all the people, "This is the metal horn of the 1st rank purple horned beast, this horn has high endurance, and can absorb the power of all attacks, and release it into one blow over the opponent, this can be forged into a great 1st rank weapon, the initial price is 4000 white stone coins and every bid should be over 2000 white stone coins! "
"6000 white stone coins!", someone shouted out the first bidding.
Rudra was shocked to hear this amount, really the auction hall this time had a very valuable thing to begin its first auction with such a bidding. The bidding to obtain that horn kept increasing rapidly and at last, the bid reached the amount of 15000 white stone coins.
No one had enough guts to bid more high, and the horn was sold for nearly 150 iron shillings. Similarly, many valuable items appeared which were auctioned at unbelievable amounts. But later some Ayurveda pills were presented, which caused Rudra to pay attention.
"Next are the rank 2 pills which can strengthen one's bones, making them much stronger, hence these can help the body's energy to increase even more. The bone-strengthening pills. We are auctioning all 3 pills at once, the initial price is 1000 white stone coins, and every bid should be higher than 1000 white stone coins.", Parika said with an alluring smile.
Hearing this many people seemed to become interested in the pill, after all a 2nd rank pill that can strengthen the bones was intriguing for everyone present there.
"2000 white stone coins!", the first bid was announced.
Just like this bids kept increasing rapidly and some amounts were bid by the Skambha clan and Storm Forge clan. Whereas, the other VIP people also gave some bids.
"11000!", Rudra's heart was beating at its fastest after this.
"12000!", But after this amount, no one dared to move ahead. This bid was announced by the man who was with Vijay. His presence filled fear within everyone as if sewing their mouths.
After waiting for a few moments Parika began the countdown, "12000 white stone coins one! 12000 white stone coins two! 12000 white stone coins three!", Parika counted to three and slammed the hammer on the table kept beside her.
"The bone-strengthening pills have been sold to Mr. Kethur for 120 iron shillings!", Parika announced as she slammed the hammer.
Here Rudra's mind was completely filled by the thought of those coins. After his calculations, he knew that even after the taxes of the auction hall, he would get 1 bronze coin, that is 100 iron shillings! But after that when he noticed the man who was Kethur, it was the unknown man with his grandpa.
But keeping this aside, Rudra felt very excited, and without caring for the further items, he sneaked out of the hall through the dark sideways. Rudra was very excited to claim his price. He went to the same consignment room to wait for his prize.
After an hour, an old man barged inside and walked to Rudra. It was Devjan. Upon seeing Rudra sitting there, his facial expression became apologizing as he said, "Sorry, Mr. Aadarsh to make you wait. It was a big day for the auction house, we were busy with lots of paperwork and other agreements.
"And Your prize is here!", a woman's voice said.
Rudra saw Parika, covered in elegance who walked to him in her red and black dress, whose waist cuts were enhancing her beautiful curves. Rudra simply swept his gaze across the room to find nothing except himself, Parika, Devjan, and that middle-aged man.
Parika then chuckled and ordered the maid, who entered the room with a plate with a specific stone kept on it and a metal tablet. Parika picked up that tablet and passed it to Rudra. He read the words on it, "VIP Guest", which were specially highlighted.
"This is the VIP guest's tablet and you can take the VIP treatment in any Auction house through this and the auction charges will be reduced from 10% to 5%.
And here is your total prize of 114 iron shillings after deducting the charges.", Parika gave the currency stone to Rudra
Rudra looked at that shining currency stone and kept it within the spatial bag.
"It was a nice deal with you, I shall take my leave.", Rudra admired their hospitality. But he also knew it was all to make a greater impression. Then he walked out of the room
Here Parika was playing with her hair strand as she was smiling inwardly, her eyes as if they were taking interest in that man. Rudra removed his mask and walked towards the marketplace. Rudra had to thank Mayra for providing him with that body potion. Therefore he decided to buy something special for her.
But he had to buy something according to Mayra's liking. Rudra was still in the center area of the city, so he decided to visit a few shops. But he didn't plan to expend much, or his own sister would question him. After spending an hour on those streets enlightened with night lamps,
Rudra found an intermediate type 1 sword technique, which was a little expensive, but he still bought it for his sister, after all, due to that body potion he was able to obtain that mystical fruit. But even after that, at night time he was roaming in the marketplace, viewing its beauty, as lamps were burning everywhere providing light to the city.
He thought that if he bought one gift for Mayra, then he had to buy something for Kavya and Anya as well, he bought what he thought that both of his twin sisters would need, he bought two low-level spatial bangles in exchange for 2 pairs of spiritual somna fruit and green line flower and a few iron shillings, and walked towards the mansion. According to him, he had spent a lot, and now he had to save the rest of the money.
In the mansion he found his two sisters, Kavya and Anya, to get his work done.
"hey, Kavya, take this, this box is for you, a gift.
Anya this one is yours both of you open them in your room.
Whereas this one is for elder sister Mayra, hand it to her carefully, ok.", Rudra explains to them.
"Ok.", both of them replied as they went towards Mayra's room.
Rudra then went to his room, closed the door, and in the dim lights amidst the night he practiced the new magical skill he had learned this evening. Maybe that skill could be of some use to him in the clan tournament.