Weapon seller in the world of magic

Chapter 498  The Grand Auction (part-9)

With a spiked club in its hand, a semi-divine weapon Mark looted from the Wuji sect, the Battle Robot was ready for the battle.

While it is not an uncommon sight for a high-quality puppet to use such weapons, the legendary realm expert was still surprised because of how it appeared in its hands when a puppet cannot be bound to semi-divine weapons like Spirit Warriors do. Hence, either this puppet is slightly special because of its unconventional appearance or its master who was currently operating it remotely while probably sitting somewhere in the stands had teleported the item into its hands.

Or so, thought the master swordsman as he changed his weapon to a whip instead, surprising the audience.

As soon as the signal was given, he turned into shadow form and moved around at high speeds.

It was so fast that spectators saw dozens of realistic afterimages of the challenger, all over the battle platform. Not even the true experts (7-circle realm) who used peak-level concentration had it tough to track the real person. However, the battle robot remained calm with its eyes moving left and right at a fast pace.

But then again, this is nothing more than a puppet and is expected to be completely calm regardless of the opponents. Hence, they found its stillness reflected the calmness of its master who was probably giving it instructions telepathically.

After thirteen whole seconds, the moment has finally come when the challenger reached behind and launched an attack. The whip was stretched toward the robot and even captured its waist. All that's left for the challenger is to swing it away and throw it out of bounds.

But, sadly for him and his master, the prince, that plan wasn't materialized. Instead of the challenger swinging it away with his mighty strength, the robot's free left arm just went over its shoulder and caught the lash before swinging it over the same shoulder.

The challenger flew along with the whip and was about to crash onto the ground.

Just when he was about to free himself from the whip and escape from there, his eyes captured the spiked club moved at him at a blurring speed.

A great force struck him in the front with a couple of spikes pierced his chest before his entire body was slammed onto the floor.

"Argh…"

He couldn't help but let out a scream of pain as his head started spinning.

However, it isn't over yet.

The Robot motioned back its arm to raise the spiked club in the air, revealing the two holes in his chest, and once again it swung it down ruthlessly on his body.

"Ack…"

Spitting out a mouthful of blood and leaving the whip's handle, he rolled to the side after it freed him but raised the club once again.

This time, as it swung it down, the master swordsman expelled ether energy from the body to blast it away.

Taking him by surprise once again, the spiked club cut through the wave of ether energy like a sword cutting through the wind and ruthlessly struck his abdomen.

"Ack…"

At that moment, most of the spectators involuntarily shut their eyes, unable to watch how miserable a great legendary realm expert had become.

Watching the scene, Mark, on the other hand, let out a smirk, "Oops, that club has the ability to cut through ether energy attacks. Now, as the final touch…" *snap*

The club disappeared from the hands of the robot and it proceeded to raise the body with its hand firmly gripped over its injured opponent's neck; its other free arm was raised and clenched its fist, intending to give a powerful punch to its opponent.

As it motioned its fist to the back, three words escaped from Box No. 12 and echoed in the silent coliseum.

"I give up."

The Silent Auction House Master and Xin Rui couldn't help but clench their fists in happiness, although due to different reasons, the challenge failed.

The robot freed its opponent and walked away for a few meters before turning around and staying there like a statue.

Xin Rui gave a glance at the Auction House Master, who sent it back to the same storage ring given by Mark.

"The challenge was failed. The item will be moving to the next segment. We'll be taking an hour break. The sellers who are available here could meet Auction House Master Wang at the chancery and settle their accounts."

As she announced the break, two individuals in typical knight attire but with exquisite-looking armor set entered the field to support the defeated warrior.

Meanwhile, at Box No. 8;

As the individuals in other boxes were planning on preparing the funds to acquire this amazing robot, Song Yue was filled with joy, "Markie, that was super cool. And you have more of them in your storage ring? What if it ends up getting bid for 500 million as Sister Ling predicted? We could be so…"

Mark couldn't help but smile as he stared at Song Yue, who looked like she was cheered up a lot. That pale and bony appearance of her as if she was near death was still fresh in Mark's head. Looking at her forgetting the tragedy and smiling like a normal girl also made him happy.

But, the sudden change in her expression put an end to those feelings. She stopped midway and picked up the binoculars to watch the field, "Markie, it's him." She tugged the sleeves of his robes.

"What happened, Sister Yue?" Princess Shen Ling was the first to react among the people in the room.

Song Yue raised her finger and pointed to the field, "That knight on the left; I can't remember it properly because it happened at midnight but I think I saw him among those who abducted me."

"Hmm?" Mark also stopped smiling and paid attention to the knight Song Yue pointed at.

Dong Bao n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Rank: 6-circle (advanced stage)

Age: 38

Spirit Path: Swordsman

Attribute: Fire

Affiliation: Dragon Empire, Phoenix Empire (former)

Description: Dong Bao used to be a disciple of the Xu Sect and a sworn brother to Shang Jun. He left the sect due to unknown reasons and joined the Knight division of the Dragon Empire. He is currently one of the imperial guards who directly serve the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

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"Hmm? Sworn brothers with Shang Jun but is serving Tang Dynasty?" Mark's eyes flickered in surprise. "If Song Yue was right, then, there are more culprits behind the act."

If it was someone else, they would have thought a second time once again about the consequences in case they were wrong but Mark is different.

Just her strong suspicion and surprising details of the target were enough for Mark to conclude that he was a culprit. However, he also knew that he could not just barge and disrupt the auction.

Hence, he asked Song Yue to remain patient and calm until this event was over.

Roughly around 20 minutes later;

At the Chancery, the office of the Auction House Master, Wang Zhongwei was handing over the money to the adventurers from Box no. 7. "The total bidding amount of your auctioned items is 951 thousand gold coins. As you probably already know, our fees for the platinum grade items are fixed at 20%, semi-divine items at 10%, and divine or unique items at 5%. All of your auctioned items are of platinum grade and the cut will be 190,200 gold coins. Sparing the change, you will be receiving 761 thousand gold coins. Please check the amount. Here…"

The adventurers were checking the amount with a special monocle handed by the Auction House Master and the latter took his seat before crossing the list of items written on the piece of scroll.

*Knock* Knock* Knock*

The series of knocks on the door interrupted their concentration for a moment. Wang Zhongwei thought that it was another seller who was there to take his money and spoke loudly, asking them to enter the room.

The adventurers moved to the side to not disturb the proceedings. Little did either of them expect Mark to enter the room with the White-clad armor Knight, who made a great impression on them with his fighting skills during the challenge round.

Even Wang Zhongwei couldn't help but quickly stand up on his feet to greet them with a bow, "Lord Lu…"

"I wish to talk with you privately."