'Oh? A drop. How much can a single drop help her? And why can't she sense what it is?'
[It can help her with at least 50-70% of her awakening. She couldn't sense it as her bloodline is dormant. It's already surprising that she can feel any familiarity. With the resources you have already provided her, it would be easy to awaken her dormant bloodline within a week.]
The bidding continued. It had reached 200 high-grade spirit stones already. If people knew what the item actually was, they would go wild to get it. Even if it was just for a collection.
Red decided to take it. He raised his voice to bid.
"1,000 high-grade spirit stones."
The guests who were bidding just now stopped and looked at the private room on the 3rd floor in disbelief.
This guy offered 1,000? Wasn't that too much?
Still, nobody wanted to compete with the guests on the 3rd floor as they naturally had more money than anyone else. And 1,000 high-grade spirit stones is already more than 3rd-rate forces could afford.
Some of the 2nd-rate families could still afford it, but then they wouldn't be able to bid for anything later.
"1,000 high-grade spirit stones going once! Going twice! And... sold to the esteemed Patriarch Vaelanor."
The auctioneer didn't even wait for people to come out of their stupor and directly announced. She knew that others wouldn't dare to match that price.
One of the servants quickly brought the stone tablet directly to Red's private room.
Red casually tossed a spatial ring with spirit stones and took the stone tablet, before tossing it to Scarlett.
"Take it... It contains a drop of true dragon's blood. It will help you with your awakening."
"W-WHAT!? TRUE DRAGON'S BLOOD?"
Scarlett was stunned beyond belief. A drop of true dragon's blood was very rare even in the God Realm, let alone the Celestial and Mortal Realms.
"Surprised? Well, I don't blame you. It's indeed very rare, and we got it for a cheap price as well. Hahahaha..."
Red wouldn't care about the price anyway. But it still felt good to get something that was so valuable for a cheap price.
His instincts from his previous life to save money were still kicking in this life.
"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Chuu.~"
Scarlett directly hugged his hand and kissed him on the cheek. She wouldn't normally do that, but she was just too happy.
"Hahahaha... It's nothing, just keep it and train well."
"Okay..."
Scarlett was slightly embarrassed. She realized what she had done and the blush crept up her slender neck.
Red wanted to tease her more but decided to leave it for later. He couldn't be too hasty. Some things are more valuable after waiting.
He looked around and wanted to have some more wine, but it seemed that he had already drunk everything.
He was basically drinking wine as water. The wine was too good and he couldn't get drunk anyway.
He turned around and was about to call the servant in front of the door to bring some more, but Scarlett was faster.
"I'll go and ask for more wine!"
She skipped towards the door.
'What a good girl... Sigh... I'll need to get some capable maids in the future. Some that can do their job while being around us. I feel it won't be easy to find them, though...'
The auction continued.
After another half an hour, they finally brought out the Wyvern Egg that Red wanted to buy.
"Next up, we have something very special! A real Wyvern Egg! It was appraised by our experts and the beast inside is perfectly fine and healthy. It will need a lot of spiritual energy to hatch and it will be very hard to control the beast when it grows up. But... for the ones willing to risk it, the payoff could be great! You could be the only one who owns a wyvern as your beast mount!"
"Wow! A wyvern! This is amazing!"
"Yes! I would give half of my lifespan to obtain this egg!"
"What are you talking about? Even if you manage to obtain it by some miracle, you wouldn't be able to control it! Heck... You wouldn't even be able to hatch it!"
"Shut up! Let me dream a little bit!"
People in the hall went crazy with excitement. Most of them knew they could never afford it or control it, but the excitement was still there.
They saw the real Wyvern Egg. They could brag about this for years!
The auctioneer continued.
"The starting bid is 500 high-grade spirit stones. Please start bidding."
"500 high-grade spirit stones!"
"550 high-grade spirit stones!"
"600 high-grade spirit stones!"
"700 high-grade spirit stones!"
The price kept going up very fast.
"Darling, darling! Are we going to buy it?"
Eve was also enthusiastic about it. She knew that her darling came just for this egg.
"Of course, my dear. We will definitely get it."
Red decided to bid for it directly.
"5,000 high-grade spirit stones."
Silence.
Everyone was stunned by the price increase. It's not that they didn't expect that the price could reach 5000, but they were stunned that someone directly increased the price from less than 1,000 to 5,000.
Insane...
"6,000 high-grade spirit stones!"
Someone from the private rooms on the 2nd floor increased the price.
It was one of the separate rooms reserved for guests from other empires. It seemed that a high-ranked family from another empire was determined to buy the egg.
"7,000 high-grade spirit stones."
Red continued to bid. He wasn't annoyed at all. This is an auction, the highest price wins. Status didn't matter to him.
"7,500 high-grade spirit stones!"
"10,000 high-grade spirit stones."
Red decided to increase it more. He was having fun. Who would have guessed that bidding could be so fun?
But then...
"I am the Crown Prince of the Azure Empire! If you know what's good for you, you will stop bidding and hand over this egg."
'Hoho? Someone wants to intimidate me with their status? Is this the famous spoiled Young Master that needs to be slapped?'
"Hahahaha... I don't care who you are. It's all the same to me... If you want the item, pay the higher price. This is an auction."
Red laughed directly. He didn't know what was good for him? It was clearly the other party who didn't know what was good for them.
In the separate room on the 2nd floor.
The Crown Prince of the Azure Empire - Doneveer Vanevador, gritted his teeth and clenched his fists tightly.
Nobody ever dared to confront him openly when he announced his status.
"Is that guy looking for death? Quickly find out who it is!"
He yelled at the servants beside him.
"Y-YES! YOUR HIGHNESS!"
They greatly feared this Crown Prince. He was famous for being ruthless and for killing and punishing anyone who dared to ignore his orders.
He would sometimes even punish his servants for no reason at all.
He looked back at the Wyvern Egg.
He had to obtain it!
This was his greatest opportunity.
He had recently obtained a certain technique that could place a strong slave mark of the soul of ferocious beasts.
If he could obtain this egg, he could place a slave mark on the wyvern inside, and the beast couldn't disobey his orders when it hatched.
He could become the first and only wyvern rider. Even his brothers and sisters who were fighting with him over the throne would need to obediently step aside.
It was not like slave mark techniques didn't already exist in the world. It was just that they couldn't be used on powerful beasts like wyverns.
Once the wyvern grew up, ordinary slave marks would be broken as the beast would be too strong.
The technique he obtained could be considered to be an evil technique from the demonic path. This technique couldn't be broken easily at all.
He decided to continue bidding. He would invest every single spirit stone he owned to obtain this egg.
"10,500 high-grade spirit stones!"
"12,000 high-grade spirit stones."
Red replied indifferently. He could have increased the price even more to silence this Crown Prince, but he still wanted to have some fun.
"Y-Your Highness! We have investigated. The other party seems to be the new Patriarch Vaelanor of the Vaelanor family. He is rumored to be a complete waste in cultivation and became the leader of his family just because his father suddenly lost his life."
"Heh... A waste dares to compete with me? Even if he wins the bidding, I will easily take this egg from him later."
But he still couldn't stop bidding. If the other party won, it could be considered as bringing shame to his Vanevador clan and the Azure Empire.
If Red knew what he was thinking, he would have laughed. These idiots couldn't even investigate properly.
"12,500 high-grade spirit stones!"
Prince Doneveer yelled loudly.
"13,000 high-grade spirit stones."
"You! 13,500 high-grade spirit stones!"
"14,000 high-grade spirit stones."
The guests below were starting to lose their minds.
They never saw that much money in their lives, let alone owned it!
They couldn't even believe that someone could casually take out that many spirit stones just for an auction.
"14,500 high-grade spirit stones!"
"15,000 high-grade spirit stones."
"YOU! 15,500 high-grade spirit stones! If you can surpass this, I will stop bidding! But I advise you to carefully think about offending our..."
"16,000 high-grade spirit stones."
Red didn't even care what he wanted to say. He directly cut him off. Even so, he could guess what the other party wanted to say.
"Good, good, very good! I hope you can still laugh later!"
Prince Doneveer cursed under his breath. He then turned around towards his servants.
"Follow him after the auction... Tonight, we must kill him and take that egg."
"Y-yes! Your Highness!"
Back in Red's private room.
"Hahahahaha... that idiot is definitely planning to take action later and steal the egg."
"Darling, how do you know?"
"Ah... I just saw many people similar to him. I can guess his character easily."
Red couldn't really say that he had read too many novels and saw too many arrogant young masters, could he?
"Hmph... If that weakling wants to hurt darling, I will just kill him directly."
Eve was ready to go and deal with him immediately.
Red quickly caught her hand.
"Don't go, dear. Let him plot for now. We can have some fun later."
"Okay, darling.~"
Eve didn't really understand what he meant, but she would still listen to him unconditionally.
Scarlett, who was silent on the side, was watching this with interest. She found out that this man had a small sadistic side to him.
She quite liked it.
"16,000 high-grade spirit stones going once! Going twice! And... sold to Patriarch Vaelanor!"
The guests below started applauding and cheering loudly.
They had witnessed another miracle! They first saw the Wyvern Egg and later saw someone bid 16,000 high-grade spirit stones for it!
That was enough money to build a city.
A servant quickly brought the egg to Red's private room and took the spirit stones.
Taking the egg, Red waved his hand and created a small separate dimension using his Law of Space to store the egg inside.
Spatial rings couldn't keep living beings inside and he wasn't going to carry a big beast egg around with him.
The egg vanished into the separate dimension.
Scarlett clicked her tongue. She was envious of him. Not for the egg, but for being able to use the Law of Space.
"What now, darling? Are we going home?"
"Let's stay a bit longer, dear. Maybe we'll get another surprise later."
The egg wasn't even the final item of the auction. Some items were also kept a secret so nobody knew what was going to be displayed. Red was interested to see more.
"Okay, darling.~"
The auctioneer below continued with announcements.
"Next up, we have a bone sword! This sword was obtained in the same secret realm as the stone tablet we displayed earlier. Our experts couldn't determine what beast bones were used for the sword and couldn't even determine the grade of this sword. But, similarly to the stone tablet earlier, even our Martial Kings couldn't even put a scratch on the sword with their full strength!"
She removed the cloth from the tray and revealed an exquisite bone sword.
"THIS!"
Scarlett immediately jumped up and there was an angry look on her beautiful face.
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[A/N: I hope you liked this chapter! If you have any suggestions, please comment.]