The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 829  Auction Collection

Over the course of the next week, thousands of merchant caravans rolled into town from nearby cities, and the cold storage warehouses were slowly emptying, while other buildings were repurposed as massive smoke houses to cure the whale meat for longer-term storage.

It would be some time before the price of whale meat recovered, but Karl thought that within the next few weeks the demand for other meats would begin to increase. Even if it was cheap and incredibly high energy, people would only want to eat the same thing for so long. The teachers were getting much better with basic Runecrafting and Alchemy, but more in the Alchemy realm. Runic Alchemy class under Remi had yielded incredible results, and the store was well stocked with potions and tinctures of all sorts, along with the apprentice made Commander Rank items. Ashbringer had made three pairs of war axes for Karl to upgrade to Overlord Rank, and today the representative from the Castle was coming to pick up their first shipment of powerful items.

The whole Guild was looking forward to his arrival, as Karl and Ashbringer had gone all out to troll him this time. All of the items that they had produced for the City this time were Overlord Ranked, but there were only ten rings, and the six axes.

The Gargoyle at the gate whistled to let them know that someone had entered, and Karl moved to the door to greet their guest. ”Overlord Karl. Itʼs a pleasure to meet you in person. I am Rock, Lord General of the Drodh City Guard.” The burly bronze demon announced as soon as he saw Karl standing in the doorway.

”Lord General Rock, itʼs a pleasure to meet you as well. We have created a small number of items this month, but I believe that the City Governor will be pleased with them.”

The General looked amused. The intent here was to resell them at auction if they were suitable, not for the Governor to profit off them, other than the small handling fee.

But when Davis placed the items on a counter, General Rock couldnʼt contain his eager smile.

”Are those Overlord Ranked Epic Grade weapons?” He asked, moving close to inspect them.

”Indeed. And all six are identical. They have [Life Leech], Skill Damage Increase, Sharpness and a rather sizeable damage increase.” Davis explained with vague gestures to different portions of the runes, as he didnʼt know what they actually meant.

”Then the rings?” General Rock asked.

”The rings are all combat oriented. Titanic Strength, Injury Negation, and Agonizing Blows. Iʼm told that it is quite effective. The agony effect should turn even a slap to the face into the equivalent of a stun spell.” Davisʼs smile had a somewhat evil tone to it. He had gotten Karl to inscribe that into a pair of gloves for him to wear at work, so that problematic customers could be disabled without serious injury.

He had inadvertently learned a valuable fact during testing. You could not torture a Vampire with pain spells. Their venom converted pain to pleasure in their victims, so they didnʼt scream when being drained. But it made the Vampires entirely immune to pain.

Mick thought it was hilarious that the ultimate method for disabling problematic customers didnʼt work on her at all, despite it being four Ranks above her.

”Youʼre saying that you have three matched sets of weapons, and ten Overlord Ranked rings, all of which are combat oriented, with an innate control ability?” The General asked.

Karl nodded. ”That is right. The materials we found this month were particularly good. I will try for more variety next month, but I donʼt think that we will be able to make Totem Ranked items for some time.”

The General looked like he was going to choke on his tongue.

What Totem Ranked items?

That wasnʼt something that you simply sold at the auction. Plus, who would even buy it? You would have to gather the leaders of half the cities in Drodh just to get enough people for proper bidding.

No, Totem Ranked items were the sort of thing that were given to Heroes and National Guardians for great deeds in war, single-handed defence of a nationʼs border or other similarly insane deeds.

From what he knew, there were currently no Totem Ranked dungeons in the Dragon Isles, or anywhere else on the planet. Only a few Overlord Ranked Dungeons had opened during the wave of upheaval, and that was already problematic enough.

Once he recovered from his shock, the General began to mentally calculate the likely selling price, but came up short of a solid answer. There was no way to tell how high the price might be run up on items so rare within Drodh.

Not only that, but there were instructors from Lared here for some reason, and they would have certainly informed their superiors at home about the items being created here. If foreign bidders started to show up to the auction, the prices might get completely out of hand.

”Did you have a target price for these items?” The General asked carefully.

Karl shook his head. ”Not particularly. What they sell for, they sell for. Itʼs more of a test of the market to determine what we should make next month to keep the funding for the artisans of the Darklight Host at a suitable level.”

The General sighed. That was what he was afraid of. Materials for such high-quality items had to be insanely expensive. But they might also be part of the auction, as many rare materials for advancement were.

If he knew that they were actually making countertops out of material capable of being turned into Overlord Rank items, he might die of outrage.

”Alright, I will take these to the Castle, and they will sort them for sale. However, I would be prepared for the Governor, or his representative, to come to you with a procurement request for custom items after seeing these.”

Karl nodded. ”We are always happy to accept custom orders.”