Chapter 082: Reaching the Summit Overnight
The female host was also shocked by the huge sum, and her tone was no longer as fluent as before. She said stiffly, “Is anyone willing to raise the price…”
Everyone couldn’t help but despise the brainless woman on the stage. Now, who among the audience would dare to raise the price?
The final auction was decided with one hammer.
When the transaction was successful, the woman on the stage turned her head. Her powerful aura made everyone in the audience dare not make a sound. She said to the crowd, “Is the creator of this sword here?”
Chen Ran was stunned. He hadn’t expected this woman to mention him. But since she was so generous, he couldn’t just sit there. So, he stood up from the crowd and walked toward the stage.
“Ma’am, I made this sword. May I ask what your instructions are?”
It was only when he got close to the woman that Chen Ran gradually felt a pressure.
This woman was very tall. Chen Ran considered himself to be of above-average height among men, but this woman was a whole forehead taller than him, which was a big blow to him. And the substantial aura that the woman exuded, which made people not dare to look at her, even though she was wearing a veil.
“The sword is very good,” the woman said, holding the Light’s Defiance in her hand. She then glanced at the luxurious scabbard and said, “This sword is too beautiful, especially this scabbard. It’s too luxurious. It always makes one feel that it’s a decoration. The purpose of a sword is to protect, to repel enemies, not for looking at. So I don’t like this kind of scabbard. If you can change it to a more ordinary one for me, I’m willing to add another hundred thousand gold coins.”
“Ma’am is absolutely right.”
Chen Ran did not refute, nor did he have any opinion on the price. For this woman to say such a thing at least proved that she was a pragmatic person, only caring about the essence of the sword. It was no wonder that a person with such a temperament could achieve her current fame.
Chen Ran explained, “For a sword like this, such a scabbard is indeed too dazzling, too ostentatious. Merchants chase profits, so you should understand our little thoughts, miss. Not everyone can understand the inner substance. To be honest with you, I actually have a normal scabbard that should meet your standards, miss. It’s just that I hesitated at the time and finally chose this new one. For your generosity, miss, just give me two days. I’ll make some slight modifications to the original scabbard and give it to you for free. I will definitely not disappoint you. You can just send someone to the local church to pick it up then.”
“Alright then. I’ll have someone pick it up then,” the woman’s tone was very direct. She continued, “Besides this sword, do you have any other works?”
“For now, this is the best I’ve made,” Chen Ran answered honestly. “Of course, as long as you give me time and enough materials, I can make more satisfactory and more practical weapons.”
“Good. If you have good weapons in the future, you can come to the fiefdom of the Tulip Roland family, or anywhere I am. If the things are good, I’ll take them all,” with that, the woman put down the sword and left directly, leaving only an attendant to handle the auction house matters. She left very briskly.
In the instant she passed by Chen Ran, he smelled a faint scent of tulips, which was very pleasant.
Chen Ran turned around and casually used his Eye of Insight to observe the woman. As the man with the goatee had said, the woman looked to be under thirty, and her strength was almost at the level of a quasi-elite of the eighth tier, which meant that she would not be at much of a disadvantage against a ninth-tier fighting spirit warrior. She was truly worthy of the name of the empire’s number one woman. Chen Ran also specifically glanced at the middle-aged man in the cloak who was following behind the woman and was even more startled.
Damn it, even her attendant is a tenth-tier sword saint. When will I be so cool?
Comparing people to people was infuriating. Chen Ran just sighed in his heart. But fortunately, his career had finally started. One million gold coins. He had never expected it to exceed his estimated price by half. It seemed that good days were about to begin.
Of course, once a person became successful, people like flies would always flock to them.
“Little brother, I didn’t expect you to have such skills at such a young age. In the future…”
“This handsome little brother, have we met somewhere before?”
“To have such a net worth at such a young age, brother, in the future…”
Although Chen Ran was dressed ordinarily at the moment, a group of rich people and nobles came forward to congratulate him. After the matter at the auction house, he could be said to have instantly achieved success. Everyone came to praise him for being young and promising, with a limitless future. There were also a large number of gold-digging women who came to congratulate him, flaunting the most attractive parts of their bodies, the expanse of white seeming to want to blind his eyes.
Chen Ran couldn’t stand such a grand scene and directly retreated.
After walking a few steps, he ran into the man with the goatee who had been sitting next to him before. This humble and steady man smiled and greeted him.
“Little brother, I didn’t expect you to have such skills. Even that woman thinks so highly of you. I really misjudged you before.”
Chen Ran still had a good impression of this man. “You’re being too serious. My knowledge is insignificant compared to yours, senior. I still have a lot to learn in the future.”
“Don’t be so hypocritical between men. Looking at your temperament, you don’t seem like someone who would be content to stay in such a small city. If you have the chance to come to Diya to play, maybe there will be a chance for cooperation. If you need help, you can come to me.”
The man with the goatee took out a business card from his clothes and handed it to Chen Ran. Then he waved to him and turned to leave, his figure quickly disappearing into the crowd, low-key and silent.
Chen Ran glanced at the simple business card. There were no extra patterns on it, just a rough address and his name, Mihawk.
In life, one would always meet some strange people. Most of the time, after meeting them, it would be difficult to meet them again, but you would always be full of expectations. Just like the current Chen Ran, he always felt that in the future, he would meet this man and that Tulip woman again, as if it were branded in his heart like fate.
He put the business card in his clothes and, at the invitation of an auction house attendant who came to greet him, walked toward the backstage.
Until he saw a pile of real national gold vouchers in front of him, all his fatigue was finally swept away in this moment. Chen Ran was boiling. Looking at the 100 thick gold vouchers, which represented a solid 1 million gold coins, he was extremely satisfied.
At this, the person in charge of the Xilan City bank, who managed the finances for the auction house every year, came forward to talk to him. He said that as long as Chen Ran deposited the money in the bank and let them manage it, with Chen Ran’s current net worth, they could report to the higher-ups and change his money card from a gold card to a supreme diamond card, allowing him to enjoy various preferential treatments at national banks everywhere. Chen Ran readily agreed. Anyway, he could get some extra interest.
The only thing that made his heart ache was that the transaction tax would cost him a gold voucher, which was really huge. In little Dongfang’s words, one gold coin was four roasted chickens, and ten thousand gold coins was 40,000 roasted chickens…
