Chapter 61: Paradise Auction

  These two days, Gala's mood has been exceptionally good. There are no annoying people, no headaches, and no need to take care of any troubles herself. Every day is extremely leisurely, this feeling is really comfortable.

  Every morning, I wake up, meditate for a bit to solidify my internal energy, then head out to buy some food. After returning home, I exercise and recall the martial arts moves I learned before. Then I take a bath, have a simple lunch, start doing experiments and researching materials in the afternoon, cook dinner at night, reward myself, and finally summarize what I've gained from the day. This life is really too comfortable!

  The only thing that didn't go smoothly was that the materials here were more complex and varied than I had imagined, and if I wanted to study them properly, it wouldn't be easy at all. Moreover, the most important thing is that I don't have any suitable research tools on hand, so for any material, I have to rely on my own spiritual strength to explore it, which is really too tiring.

  "Alas." He let out a sigh, dropping the ore in his hand and collapsing into the soft chair he had spent thirty silver coins on. Although expensive, it was indeed comfortable, at least allowing him to relax when he was most exhausted.

  "It's just another piece of scrap iron..." Galo looked at the ore he had just obtained "The structural density is too poor, it's basically garbage. As expected, you get what you pay for, the ancients were right."

  In order to save money temporarily, Gallo did not purchase high-end materials, but only bought some ordinary ore or plants as the initial research objects. However, after all, garbage is still garbage, and it's completely useless for himself. Alchemy isn't Chinese cooking, which can make bad ingredients delicious. This is incorrect for alchemy.

  "Really going to splurge? Unlikely~~~" Gallo sighed, sat for a while, then suddenly jumped up "Splurging is just splurging, who's afraid of whom, anyway it can be earned back soon." Now Gallo only hopes that good materials can produce something good, to supplement his dwindling wallet.

  It just so happened that as soon as he stepped out, Galo ran into a familiar face, Master Delan. He hastily approached him and asked, "Master Delan, it seems your body has recovered quite well."

  "There's no comparison, I was really blind at that time, you are indeed a superior being." Master De Lan smiled and said.

  Ka Luo shook his head, "Actually, if it wasn't for Master De Lan taking action first, I wouldn't have known what happened to Young City Lord. At most, I could only say that I've read too many books and just happened to know."

  "Alright, alright, stop being modest. By the way, looking at you, are you going out?" Master De Lan waved his hand and changed the subject.

  "Yes, I want to go out and buy some things."

  "Shopping?" De Lan Master looked at Jia Luo "I heard that the Lord of Tudor City said you plan to stay here for a while, what do you want to buy? Although I only come to Yu City a few times a year, it's still quite familiar. Tell me, I'll take you there."

  "That's a real hassle, Master. I want... uh, how to put it... materials. Yeah, that's what I need, materials." Galo thought for a while before barely managing to come up with an analogy for what he needed.

  "Materials?" Master De Lan was taken aback "What materials? Materials for what?"

  "Unprocessed is fine, whether it's plants, minerals, magic cores, or anything else." Galo suddenly became excited, the feeling was like a person who had been starving for several months and was presented with a large amount of food.

  "Such material?" De Lan's eyes gleamed with a strange light as he looked at Jia Luo "A girl like you, I reckon you'd only be interested in flowers, clothes, and delicate things, eh? Well, it just so happens that I'm going there too. That place is sure to have something you'll like."

  Master De Lan turned around and walked in one direction, Gala hurriedly followed up and asked "Master De Lan, the place you mentioned is..."

  "You don't know? One of the three most famous buildings in Yu City, this is something that everyone on the entire continent knows about." De Lan smiled and said "The world's largest auction house, a paradise for adventurers."

  Ka Luo finally understood that the so-called "largest" referred to the environment and size of this place. The Adventurer's Paradise was directly connected to the Adventurer's Guild and was one of the highest-level venues within it. Here, countless materials excavated by adventurers were sent to each branch guild, which would then arrange for them to be uniformly delivered here. The benefit of doing so was that it could directly open up the largest market, and from Master De Lan, Ka Luo also learned another reason.

  It's worth noting that while every city has a trading post, sometimes the trading post is directly affiliated with the country. If an adventurer risks their life to obtain precious materials here, but the country needs them and buys them almost without competition, then compared to this, the time, effort, and even life spent by the adventurer are completely incomparable. Therefore, as long as it's a good or unknown material, it will generally be handed over to the guild for sale, and the guild, in order to reduce trouble, has transported everything to this most neutral and fair city.

  "Speaking of which, you're quite lucky. In about ten days or so, it'll be the annual top-tier auction in Yucheng. You know, this kind of auction is a large-scale sale that relies on the city and the Adventurer's Guild collecting the best items throughout the year. I recall that over a decade ago, they even auctioned off a spiritual artifact."

  "Spirit tool?" Gallo was taken aback, what thing is that?

  De Lando looked at Gallo in surprise "Don't you even know what a spirit vessel is?"

  Karo recalled "I think it was said to be a high-class item?"

  "Uh-huh, that's about it. You see, ordinary things are just called things, and slightly better ones are considered high-end products. Those kinds of things are at most made by skilled blacksmiths, but compared to others in the same category, they have superior performance. Even better than those are magical tools that can be imbued with magical energy, and above those are spiritual instruments. Generally speaking, ordinary magical tools can only use magic up to level 6, but spiritual instruments can use magic above level 6. That axe that was auctioned off over a decade ago could unleash the power of a level 7 earth-based spell, 'Earth Dragon's Roar'."

  "What about those above 7th level?" Gallo became interested, this method has some similarities with alchemy.

  "Seventh level or higher?" Master De Lan shook his head "Little guy, I really don't understand if you're really clueless or just pretending to be clueless. Magic power of eighth level or higher is already at the divine artifact level. Alas, I've lived for over 70 years and have never heard of a divine artifact."

  Ka Luo furrowed her brow, as she suddenly remembered a question. The twelve Sacred Suits on her body had been given to Bai Ke and Luo, one each, leaving her with ten. Moreover, she had let Bai Ke experiment with them, and after wearing the Sacred Suit, Bai Ke could even break through his own limits, using tenth-level forbidden spells, unleashing devastating power. Although it was said that he was borrowing a human body, but in this case, wasn't the Sacred Suit what they called a divine artifact?!

  Moreover, the White Kuo's was just a synthesis of the Emperor Devil Crab's energy, but he still had even stronger Holy Armors on his hands, such as the Mermaid Saint Armor, the Heavenly Horse Saint Armor, the Evil Twin Saint Armor, the Pure Angel Saint Armor, and the Libra Judgment Saint Armor. If these few Holy Armors were to exert their maximum strength in the future, what kind of power would that be?

  "Ah, we've arrived." Deblau stopped, interrupting Galo's thoughts. "This is one of the three major buildings in U City, Adventurer's Paradise."

  As Gala raised her head to look around, the building's vast area was beyond imagination, and it was built with high-grade stone materials, filled with a unique elegance. Although it was an auction house, there wasn't any feeling of luxury or grandeur, but rather like walking into a hall filled with artistic atmosphere, very comfortable.

  "What a great building." After taking a closer look, Gallo discovered that this building was absolutely a work of art, full of worldly styles, rough and delicate, internal and external, majestic and elegant. This really made Gallo admire it.

  "Not bad, right? I was also stunned when I first came here." De Lan walked over and handed over a card with a pattern of heaven on it, along with the number 1937. "You wear this card around your neck, it's required here. Every person entering or leaving, except for those with other work personnel ID cards, must fill out information to receive one of these cards. When you leave the gate, this card must be returned. The card number changes every day, so don't lose it. Alright, the materials area you're heading to is over there, take a look yourself, the address is on the back of the card. I have some other things to attend to, let's meet again later."

  "Thank you so much, Master Delan. I'm troubling you again and again, I'm really sorry." Gallo hastily took the card with both hands and bowed deeply.

  "There, there, seeing you reminds me of my granddaughter, she's also 17 years old and will be coming to You City in a few days. Maybe by then, you two can become good friends, haha! Alright, I'm running out of time, see you later!"

  As the old man left, Gallo turned over the card and found a very detailed map on the back, marking the location of each place. According to what was written on it, Gallo easily found his target.

  The items sold here are divided into three levels, the highest level is the annual auction, the second level is the small-scale auction held every three days, and the next one is the third-level auction that Gallo is looking for now.

  It's not really an auction, it's just that all the unconfirmed and non-high-end materials are put together, let others choose freely, as for whether they're good or not, well, that depends on individual eyesight and skills. Due to the large quantity of items, this place is over a thousand square meters in size, with nearly a hundred staff members.

  As the annual auction is approaching, there are a lot of people here, so it's quite noisy. Fortunately, this place isn't quiet, and transactions are being made, which means there's communication going on, and that's a good thing.

  Ka Luo took a glance and walked directly to the mineral area. After all, Bing Yue's body was mainly formed from minerals in the future, so taking a look at this aspect of materials would definitely be beneficial.

  It's indeed a high-end auction house, with over 50 tables of minerals on display, in all sorts of colors, it's really astonishing. Gallo took a quick glance first, then started searching slowly, now he can't help but think of being a housewife, buying things every day and having to consider the prices, sigh.

  There are many things, which means it's also much more convenient to find what you're looking for. I've only just finished browsing six tables and Galo has already bought several pieces of ore. The minerals sold here are generally in large quantities because others buy them to make weapons or armor. Like the small minerals Galo bought, they usually won't be resold, so the prices are relatively cheap.

  In front of the table, a large mineral block about the size of a human head was placed, and many people were staring at it with their eyes fixed on it, as if it was something good. Galo walked over to take a look, and found that it was just an ordinary steel plate, but the forging technique looked good, and the purity was high.

  At this time, someone next to him exclaimed, "Wow, it's indeed a masterpiece of the dwarf master. With such materials, I'm sure you can make a top-notch product."

  "Yes, it's really enviable, I'm afraid only dwarves can produce such high-quality materials."

  Ka Luo listened and then looked at the iron block again, shaking his head involuntarily. He thought to himself, "High-quality? This material can be considered average at best. Alas, the difference is too great."

  But Gharwan didn't think that such a simple action of shaking his head would also bring trouble.