Chapter 686 Auction of Cobalt Gold Mine

"Cut the net! Cut the net!"

Captain Foster made a decisive decision and loudly issued an order. The crew members looked at each other in blank dismay.

"Did you hear that! Cut it! Damn it!"

Seeing that the crew members were in a daze, Foster cursed loudly. The latter finally came to his senses, and immediately found a machete and cut off the rope connecting the fishing net. In just one minute, everyone realized that the fishing boat was being dragged in another direction by the fishing net... It was not until the fishing net was cut that the huge dragging feeling finally disappeared.

"Don't stand still! Manfan! Get out of here!"

The captain's words made the crew get busy quickly, and Foster carefully stared at the turbulent sea, the fear in his heart made the hands holding the steering wheel tremble violently. Because this fishing boat is not a light warship, its moving speed is not fast. But now it is not fully loaded, and the forward speed is quite impressive under the condition of tailwind, and Foster doesn't care about the direction he is moving forward, as long as he leaves the sea area over there!

With such thoughts in mind, the ship began to slow down after sailing for a quarter of an hour. The crew members were still guessing what the fishing net hit just now, while Foster frowned and looked at the scattered small islands not far away: "Why did you come here..."

There are many similar uninhabited islands on the outside of Laximan. The large ones are more than ten square kilometers, and the small ones are only about a hundred square meters. Fishermen usually don’t come here, because there are too many hidden reefs here, and accidents are easy to happen if they are not kept clean. So Foster immediately chose to go around, but before he started to turn the rudder, he heard the crew yelling...

"Captain! There's something on the shore!"

"Where?"

"Look at the shores of those islands!"

"I*! What is that!?"

"Goddess of the sea, is this a murloc?"

Foster turned his head and looked, and immediately found that things seemed to be far beyond his imagination. He originally thought that there was nothing on the coast of the island, but when he looked carefully, he discovered that the place he thought was "sea water" was actually It's a large dense mass of murlocs with blue stripes!

Looking at the past, I really can't count how many bluegill murlocs are in front of me, but what is certain is... If you are targeted by them, you will definitely not be able to escape.

So Foster immediately turned around, ready to leave the range of the island quickly, but when the bow was just right and ready to accelerate at full speed,

Everyone saw the sudden bulge of the sea...

Until the preliminaries of the "Crown of Late Autumn" started, the "White Pearl" never returned to the port.

*****

September twenty-eighth.

In Duriel City, Speaker Jeremy didn't care about the overdue boats at the pier. His eyes were only on his eyes because the auction held by "Nogforge Auction House" was in progress.

As the auction house with the highest level of Lashman and the rarest auction items, none of the auction items in Nogforger are of course ordinary items, and all the people present here are also famous people.

Many magisters came from the six colleges, as well as representatives of the famous families in the kingdom, as well as envoys from several great powers who were about to participate in the "Crown of Late Autumn". Smaller countries do not even have the qualifications to enter here, and Iska Country is naturally lucky to be shortlisted, but Evely and Doris are sitting quietly in the corner, seeming interested in the auction items Not a big deal.

This is Eveli's political wisdom. Being invited to attend represents Lashman's approval; not participating in the auction shows their "obedience" attitude that they do not want to cause trouble. To put it bluntly, the protagonists of this auction are the mages from various academies in Rahiman's country. They only need to be low-key spectators.

All the representatives from the other academies were young representatives, but Barrenna Academy was attended by Mr. Rotika in person. Of course...you can guess why he came.

The auctioneer of Nogfogg Auction House is very good at mobilizing the atmosphere. The previous dozen or so auction items have already heated up the scene, and the bids of the gold masters seem to be filled with invisible gunpowder. And after the penultimate auction item was launched, the smoke seemed to be completely ignited...

"How can it be!?"

"8 kg is scary enough, but it's still refined?!"

Eveli and Doris didn't understand why the surroundings exclaimed. They are not orthodox Laximan mages, and they don't understand what this level of cobalt gold mine means. However, following the auctioneer's introduction, participants from other countries also understood how precious this humble blue ore is...

All Rahiman's current floating magic circle raw materials are related to cobalt gold mines. And "cobalt gold" itself usually refers to ore, that is, large rocks mixed with many other substances. Rahiman's cobalt-gold ore has a lot of impurities. Out of 10 kg of cobalt-gold ore, the final refined "cobalt gold" is only 2 kg at most. Many people have such preconceived notions, but they never thought that the 8 kilograms of cobalt-gold mine in front of them... turned out to be the weight after purification and refining!

The square cobalt gold ingot emits a little bit of blue light under the illumination of the light circle, but the member of Rotika, who is staring at it, feels a little cold in his heart.

Balenna College, which almost monopolizes cobalt-gold mines, naturally knows how difficult it is to find these ores. It can be said that someone found the 8 kg ore by chance, but looking at the purified ore ingot in front of him, he immediately realized that there must be something behind it. Means massive mining and smelting!

Who is it! What does he want to do? !

Rotika glanced around unkindly, but also knew that it was impossible to judge the seller behind the cobalt gold mine. All he can do now is to buy it at all costs to reduce the chance of the cobalt gold mine being lost to other academies...

With this in mind, he directly raised the starting price of 3,000 gold coins to 8,000, and after several other colleges caught up to 35,000, he gritted his teeth and broke the price of 40,000 gold coins, forcing the cobalt gold mine into Ballenna Seoul Academy!

This is definitely the highest auction price in tonight's auction. Such a terrible high price made the representatives of those small countries dumbfounded. All the tributes added up are worth less than 3000 gold coins!

Eveli did not expect that a seemingly inconspicuous stone could be auctioned off at such a high price...

Rahiman's gold coins were rich in gold and heavy in weight, but the reason why they didn't fetch a higher price was because the "Nogfogg Auction House" only accepted cash and did not collect payments in installments. Therefore, dropping the 40,000 gold coins really caused Barrenna Academy to bleed.

"The person who sold it made a lot of money!"

Doris sighed, looking at the ore, it felt like a mountain of gold coins. At this moment, she suddenly thought of Rody who liked to brag about his gold coins, and said with a smile: "You said that if the envoy of Karen Kingdom came to participate in this The auction, I guess you will be scared to death right away? If there are more stones like this, wouldn’t the country be incomparably rich?"

"That's why I didn't invite this kind of people. People in small places are like frogs in a well after all."

Eveli sneered disdainfully, and then continued: "There is no way to buy more cobalt gold mines... If the quantity is too large, it is not an auction. This kind of thing is priceless, and it is all about high-level games."

What she said is actually more reliable. The resource of cobalt-gold mine is used a little bit less in Laximan, and money alone is useless. And to be honest, several other academies are very dissatisfied with Barrenna's behavior: It's fine if you are stuck with the materials and don't give us research. ?

But they just said a few words in their stomachs. Barlenna College is very strong, and it can be called the number one force in Rahiman's current situation. Although the other colleges are not unaffected by this attitude, there is no need to touch his bad luck after thinking about it, so I gave up .

Rotika got his wish, but he was more concerned about the seller of the cobalt-gold mine. However, the reply from Nogfogg Auction House was simple: "anonymous auction", and the identity of the seller will not be announced.

This answer was expected, but what Rotika didn't expect was that after the 8 kg of cobalt-gold mine was removed, the director of the auction house suddenly walked to the front of the stage, knocked on the amplifying circle, and said softly: : "The seller of this cobalt-gold mine also asked to read a description for the item auction, please wait a moment."

Such a situation did not surprise all the funders, because similar notices had appeared many times in the past, most of which were to say good things to the buyers and wish them well. However, today the director of the auction house took out an envelope with a serious face, took out a blank sheet of paper, and said loudly: "From now on, on the seventh day after the cobalt gold ore auction is successful, the cobalt gold ore ingots of the same quality will be sold in Laximan On sale."

After reading a sentence, the whole venue instantly became extremely quiet. The representatives of the various colleges looked at each other in blank dismay, and didn't react for a while, but the member of Rotika of Balenna looked livid, and suddenly grabbed the auction contract that the auction house had just handed over to him!

"What's the meaning?"

He stood up, gritted his teeth and asked. But the latter raised the note in his hand without changing his face: "Nogfogg Auction House is only responsible for reading the seller's message, and has no right or obligation to leave a message to explain."

These words immediately made Rotika feel a puff of breath in his throat. Indeed, no matter how powerful he was, he would not be able to force the Nogforge Auction House to break the rules. If someone had robbed him of the cobalt-gold mine just now, he would have dared to confront anyone who came. But behind the auction house, there are all the colleges and many retired powerhouses. A Balenna College is really not enough.

This made him feel hot on his face, but in the end he swallowed his anger and sat back.