Chapter 196: Harvest at the Auction (Two Chapters in One)

"1600!" A fat noble on the first floor raised his hand and said.

But soon, the bids behind him quickly drowned out. Although this rare ore has a relatively simple nature, it still attracts many nobles as a raw material for knight armor used in a specific environment.

"1700!"

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"2100!"

After the price rose to 2100 gold, the bidding began to sluggish.

Ryan thought about it and directly asked the beautiful woman to quote a price of 2500.

When the beautiful woman raised the sign of 2500 dignifiedly on the second floor, the old man Idris with a monocle, with a happy face and a voice raised twice, shouted:

"A VIP bid 2500, is there a higher bid?".

After three calls, no one answered.

"Pah!"

As the auction hammer fell, Ryan successfully won the ice iron ingot!

Perhaps for others, this price is a bit high, but these ice iron ingots have special meaning to Ryan.

Conservatively speaking, Ryan felt that after all these ice iron ingots were used up, he could at least upgrade his armorer professional level by one level, or perhaps two levels.

With the ice iron ingot as a reward, Ryan was looking forward to the next auction.

But unfortunately, most of the next auction items were antiques.

Ryan was not interested in this at all.

Antiques

In Ryan's eyes, they were expensive, but they didn't have much practical use. They were more used to highlight the heritage of a family.

At this time, a female servant knocked on the door and respectfully brought in the twelve golden pearls that the beautiful woman Jennifer had just bought in a luxurious carved wooden box.

"Baroness Crowley, this is the competitive item you bought." The female servant bowed and handed over the wooden box.

Unexpectedly, Jenny on the side took it first. When she opened it, she was instantly attracted by a row of shiny golden pearls.

"Mother, these golden pearls are so beautiful."

The beautiful woman also picked up one with great interest and looked at it. It was shining with gold and had a round color. It was indeed very beautiful.

At this time, the chief auctioneer Idris began to introduce: "The next item is an extremely rare ore."

As Idris said this, he mysteriously lifted the red cloth on the tray.

Huh? Rare ore?

Ryan's attention was instantly moved away from the golden pearls. He looked carefully at the tray displayed by Idris on the auction table.

There were five long metal ingots on it, which seemed to be similar to silver ingots, but the surface light was obviously much brighter, and at the same time, there were also some bright stars in it.

Hiss! This is a mithril ingot!

This immediately made Ryan happy.

"Mithril ingot!"

"It's mithril!"

Many nobles on the first floor also immediately identified that this precious rare ore was mithril.

Moreover, the output of mithril is extremely rare in both the Dragun Empire and the Eagle Federation, and ordinary people rarely encounter it.

It is rare that five standard ingots can appear at one time this time.

And Ryan first heard about mithril when he went to exterminate the murlocs half a year ago. Captain Willen said that someone had obtained a piece of extremely valuable mithril ore when killing murlocs.

Like the ice iron ingot last time, for Ryan, mithril is not only a rare ore, but also the main material for forging mithril carved plate armor sets.

Although it is not enough to have materials, Ryan will have to solve the problem of inscriptions later, but the problems can be solved one by one.

But a good cook cannot cook without rice.

Therefore, the availability of materials is sometimes the most important position.

Fortunately, Ryan made a lot of gold coins by betting on the bloody duel this time.

Otherwise, there may not be enough funds to take the mithril ingot.

Idris, the chief auctioneer, showed the items around and stirred up the atmosphere in the venue. He then said loudly, "This time, there are five standard mithril ingots. The starting price is 2,000 imperial gold coins. Now, the bidding begins!"

"2,500!" A thin noble on the first floor raised his hand impatiently.

But it was obviously a wrong calculation to scare off others from competing for mithril by directly raising the price by 500.

Soon, the bids behind were higher than one another. Mithril has many more uses than ice iron ingots, so it naturally attracted the attention of most male nobles.

"2,800!"

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"3,500!"

After the price rose to 3,500 gold, the increase in bidding began to slow down.

At this time, Ryan turned his head and whispered in the beautiful woman's ear: "No matter how much others bid, it's one hundred higher than them."

The beautiful woman immediately chuckled and said, "It seems that the baron is still very fond of mithril, just like us women like jewelry like gold pearls!"

Because in public occasions, the beautiful woman still pays great attention to her manners and words and deeds, and she always addresses Ryan in a more formal way.

Since there are many nobles bidding, it is not appropriate to suddenly increase the bid amount. Therefore, after Ryan expressed his determination to win the bid to the beautiful woman, the rest was left to the beautiful woman to raise the placard.

"3600!"

"3700!"

At this moment, every time a bid is made, the old man Idris wearing a monocle will smile brighter, and his voice will gradually rise, shouting: "A VIP bids 3700, is there any higher bid? ".

At this time, there were not many nobles on the venue who continued to follow the price.

Although Mithril is scarce, at this time, it has begun to command a slight premium. If they are not in a hurry to use it, many nobles have begun to give up bidding.

"3800!" A young aristocratic heir suddenly stood up, seemingly out of breath.

I saw him raising his sign and looking around, as if he wanted to find out which family was so disrespectful to him.

When he looked around and saw the beautiful woman making a quotation holding a sign in the middle-right box on the second floor, he seemed to think of something, especially when he saw the black-haired young man next to the beautiful woman. His complexion immediately changed, and he immediately sat back on the chair, coughed, and said:

"Ahem! Let me tidy up my clothes."

"3900! A distinguished guest bid 3900. Is there any higher price?" the chief auctioneer shouted as he noticed the beautiful woman raising her placard again.

All the nobles immediately looked at this scene with curiosity. The eldest son of Viscount Hamady could be embarrassed. This was definitely one of the few in Mayist, so everyone looked up one after another.

Huh! It turns out to be Baron Hammer!

The person holding the placard was Baroness Crawley, no wonder.

One thing to note here is that according to the rules of the Axon Auction House, for the private rooms on the second floor, the minimum requirement is that a noble with a title can use it. Heirs of nobles without a title cannot apply alone.

In the end, five mithril ingots were collected by Ren at a price of 3,900 gold.

This made Ren couldn't help but secretly sigh that his trip was worthwhile. Even if there were no subsequent harvests, the harvest of these two rare ores alone made him very satisfied.

"Next, there are two rare extraordinary combat skills. In order to prevent the distinguished guests from missing their favorite combat skills, I will reveal the names of these two combat skills to everyone in advance this time."

Renn was fully aware of the intention of the chief auctioneer Idris's advance disclosure, which was to increase the intensity of the competition.

If they were not notified in advance, many nobles would not be busy bidding, and would be looking forward to whether the second extraordinary combat skill would be more suitable for them and cheaper.

But in the current situation, once two extraordinary combat skills belong to different categories, there will be no situation of lowering the price of each other. Instead, competition will become fierce due to scarcity.

At this time, the benefit of advance notice comes out.

Like one-handed sword fighting skills?

Just one, do you want it?

"The first extraordinary combat skill is the less popular one-handed sword fighting skill - "Tide Sword Skills Compendium". The compendium contains two complete secret skills." Chief Auctioneer Idris pointed to the red silk satin aside Padded tray, said.

There is an ancient parchment scroll placed on the tray, which should be the compendium itself.

"The second extraordinary combat skill is derived from the "Kadar's Boxing Compendium" written by the late boxing master Kadar Ace. It also has two complete secret skills."

"No matter which one of these two combat skills, they can be passed down as family combat skills. Perhaps during the inheritance from generation to generation, secret skills unique to the family will be innovated."

When Ren heard the name of the first extraordinary combat skill, he frowned.

One-handed sword fighting skills?

I don’t really want it.

But when the second report of extraordinary combat skills came out, Ren was even more stunned!

Um?

boxing?

This was something he didn't expect at all.

He actually has extraordinary combat skills like boxing.

The whispers of the nobles around seemed to be discussing how an extremely rare boxing-like extraordinary combat skill could appear. You must know that there are very few nobles who fight with weapons like the 'Zhihu'.

Even assassins prefer daggers or daggers that can kill with one blow rather than pointing fingers.

Ren thought for a while and quickly made a decision.

If he had to choose, he planned to buy 'Kadar's Boxing Compendium' instead of Tidal Swordsmanship.

As for the reason?

It's because in these two battles, the opponents Ren En encountered were much faster than Ren En. This made Ren En feel very passive in the battle.

As for combat skills such as finger-tiger and dagger, normally, they will have very flexible steps or dodge moves.

Once mastered, Renn feels that it will make up for his shortcomings very well.

Another point is the price factor. Obviously, the most people practice the extraordinary combat skills of one-handed swords, so the competition will be extremely fierce.

And there will probably be a lot less people competing with him in boxing.

Sure enough, the bidding for the 'Compendium of Tidal Swordsmanship' was extremely fierce, with each round of price increase exceeding thirty rounds. In the end, it was bought by a baron for a price of eleven thousand gold.

The bidding for the 'Kadar Boxing Compendium' was very high, with a total of eight additional rounds. In the end, it was bought by Ren for 4,200 gold.

The beautiful woman and Jenny looked at each other and looked at Renn with confusion, as if they didn't understand why Renn didn't choose Tidal Swordsmanship, but instead chose the boxing outline that few people chose.

In particular, Renn also has a strong foundation in two-handed swords, so it will be relatively fast to learn extraordinary combat skills with one-handed swords.

However, the beautiful woman herself was not familiar with force, so she didn't ask any more questions.

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Soon, the attendant came in with a tray, on which was placed a yellowish parchment scroll, which was the ‘Outline of Kadar Boxing’ that Ryan had just photographed.

Ryan took it with a smile on his face and opened it to read.

“. The boxing master Kadar Ace gradually created and perfected this boxing while observing the attack of a tiger, so this boxing can also be called tiger boxing.”

The preface briefly wrote a paragraph.

Tiger boxing?

Ryan looked thoughtful. This is similar to some ancient boxing in his previous life. They all evolved into boxing suitable for people by observing tigers, leopards, bears, etc.

Among them, the health-preserving boxing ‘Five Animals Play’ and the powerful combat boxing ‘Xingyi Boxing’ are typical representatives.

Retracting his thoughts, Ryan continued to read.

I saw that Kadar boxing recorded a total of five boxing styles.

The first style is a punch, and the matching step is a forward sprint step.

The second move is the left swing, and the step is the right slide.

The third move is the right swing, and the step is the left slide.

The fourth move is the uppercut, and the step is the multi-directional slide.

The slide is to push the left or right foot against the ground, move horizontally to one side about the distance of the sole of the foot, and then the other foot follows and maintains the original posture.

According to the records in the outline, these four moves can be transformed into corresponding claw strikes, which is why it is called the tiger boxing.

The last is the fifth move, the dodge, called the pendulum retreat.

Each move has a corresponding step, especially the last move is a dodge move, which makes Ryan quite happy.

However, when Ryan saw the bottom, his eyebrows were raised.

Huh?

Is this a sharp brass knuckle?

A simple brass knuckle design appeared in front of Ryan. The biggest difference from the general brass knuckle is that this kind of brass knuckle has four sharp protrusions at the joint position.

Each protrusion is dagger-shaped, pointed at the top and thick at the bottom, about ten centimeters long, imitating the meaning of tiger claws.

It is conceivable that if an enemy with weak defense is hit by a heavy punch with this kind of brass knuckles, four blood holes will appear on his body.

In other words, this set of Kadar boxing has even designed the type of brass knuckles. Only by wearing sharp blade brass knuckles can the lethality be maximized.

In addition, there are secret techniques.

As for the secret techniques, the first one is called "high-speed combo", which is a secret technique of bursting out as many punches, left swings, right swings and other moves as possible in a short period of time.

The second secret technique is called "Hundred Splits", which must be equipped with sharp blade brass knuckles. It is also a secret technique of turning fists into claws in a short period of time, using moves such as upward slashing, downward slashing and left and right swinging.

The next auction items did not appear again.

After the auction ended, Ryan returned home and couldn't wait to start practicing this "Kadar boxing".

After all, as long as he can upgrade this extraordinary combat skill to level 10, he can immediately switch to the legendary profession [Weapon Master]!

This thought made Ryan a little excited.

In the indoor training ground, Ryan practiced one move after another according to the human figure pattern drawn in the outline.

After a while, the system prompt sounded:

[You have trained Kadar Boxing, and your understanding has improved! ]

[You have learned a new skill - Kadar Boxing]

[Your skill Kadar Boxing has been improved, experience value +1]

Kadar Boxing level 1 (1/100) appears on the Knight (Extraordinary) profession panel. The icon is actually a tall and strong man with a tiger head and a human body standing upright. A pair of sharp claws and sharp knuckles are very similar, waving, quite brave.

Since Ryan is no longer a rookie, his experience in learning combat skills is no longer the novice he was half a year ago. In one afternoon, Ryan upgraded it to level 3.

However, from level 3 onwards, the improvement speed began to slow down.

Ryan knows how to speed up. If he can find the right person to practice or compete with, he can improve quickly again.

As for adding points?

That is naturally something that will be considered after lv5.

"Knock, knock!"

Hmm?

It stands to reason that the servants all know their own training rooms and should not come to disturb them.

Did something urgent happen?

Ryan was a little surprised when he heard the knock on the door and said:

"Please come in!"

Jenny said apologetically: "Sir Ryan, I'm sorry, the head of a caravan came outside and said that he has something to give to you in person."

"Hmm? Caravan?" Ryan couldn't help but look puzzled.

"Yes, Sir Ryan, it seems to be a caravan from Rossby County." Jenny said very confidently, and at the same time, she added another sentence.

Rossby County? Could it be that

Ryan immediately thought of a possibility.

"Let's go and take a look."

When Ryan and Jenny came to the front yard of the mansion, they saw a pile of things wrapped in gray cloth that had been moved to one side of the front yard.

A fat merchant came up and said with a smile: "Dear Lord Ryan, I was entrusted by Knight Hass to deliver these precious items to your residence."

"I'm sorry to ask you to come and sign for them in person, because Knight Hass has repeatedly emphasized that the things inside are very valuable and need to be handed over to you in person."

"Thank you, you've worked hard along the way." Ryan said with a smile.

Jenny, who was standing by, was very discerning. She asked the maid to prepare some coins to express her gratitude to the fat merchant.

After the fat merchant left, Ryan lifted the cloth. Sure enough, inside were the tortoise shells that he had cut off from the body of the Scale-whiskered Ironback Turtle at that time, a total of twelve pieces.

In fact, there were originally thirteen pieces, but one piece was directly broken by Ryan during the battle.

As for these hard and thick tortoise shells, Ryan had already thought of the use, which was to use them to make a common equipment-a tortoise shell shield.

Of course, the ordinary tortoise shell shields were made of ordinary sea turtle shells, which were completely incomparable to what Ryan was going to make.

For Ryan, his main purpose was to get a high enough experience value reward by making a tortoise shell shield made of Scale-whiskered Ironback Turtle.

Of course, he was not sure about this.

It was just a reasonable inference that the experience value reward of the knight's plate armor made of rare minerals was higher.

As an entry-level giant beast, the scale-whiskered ironback turtle is as powerful as a great knight, and its shell is naturally a rare material.

Therefore, Ryan felt that he had a high probability of obtaining a considerable armorer experience reward.

So, as soon as dinner was over, Ryan came to the blacksmith shop.

For the production of the tortoise shell shield, Ryan had made preparations in advance. Simply put, after polishing the edge of the tortoise shell to be round, it was wrapped with a circle of iron bars, and a metal handle was punched in the middle.

In this way, a tortoise shell shield was completed.

In general, the defensive power of the tortoise shell shield depends heavily on the hardness of the tortoise shell itself.

Half an hour later

Ryan wrapped a long narrow iron sheet around the tortoise shell, and at the same time picked up the blacksmith hammer and began to hammer it.

After inlaying it, he began to look for a suitable drilling position near the top of the tortoise shell and set a metal handle.

Soon, he completed the above process and held a tortoise shell shield in his hand and simply waved it a few times.

At this time, the system prompt appears:

[You have forged a tortoise shell shield, and your understanding has improved! ]

[You have learned a new skill - tortoise shell shield making]

[Your skill of tortoise shell shield making has been improved, and your experience value is +124]

[You focus on tortoise shell shield making, and your armorer professional experience value is +202]

Hiss! This experience value is really rich!

Ryan's eyes lit up immediately!

"It seems that my previous speculation is correct. The rarer the material, the higher the experience value reward. In addition, the higher the forging difficulty, the higher the system experience value reward."

This is the tortoise shell of the scale-whiskered ironback tortoise, which is comparable to rare ore, so the rewarded experience value is very rich.

After a rough calculation, Ryan found that when he finished forging these twelve tortoise shells, he could upgrade the armorer from lv5 to lv6, and it was more than enough.

This made Ryan in a good mood, and he immediately started to make it with full enthusiasm.

After spending more than four hours, Ryan made ten tortoise shell shields in a row, and successfully upgraded his armorer to level 6.

He was rewarded with one skill point and one attribute point again.

At this time, the remaining attribute points on the attribute panel reached 6 points, and the remaining skill points were finally no longer 0, but 1 point.

Satisfied, Ryan left the blacksmith shop and returned to the mansion to rest.

——

At the same time.

Ever since Ryan won the bloody duel, Baron Alonso's face has never been good after returning to the mansion.

Even the housekeeper Michelle, who has always been trusted, did not give him a good face throughout the day.

This time, it was the third time Michelle came over, and only heard a maid report: "Butler Michelle, the baron smashed two antique vases and three teapots today."

Michelle was also stunned after hearing it!

It has been many years since I saw Baron Alonso so angry.

The last time, it seemed to be the time when he was defeated by Miss Claire?

I can't remember clearly

After thinking about it, Michelle decided to go knock on the door.

At this moment, the door of the study suddenly opened, and Baron Alonso walked out with a gloomy face.

When he saw Michelle, his face eased a lot, and he said: "Michelle, arrange a carriage, I want to go out."

"Yes, Baron."

After a while, Alonso took a luxurious carriage and came to the Mayest County Prison.

In Maggis' office.

"Magis, you should have heard the news, right? Ryan defeated Baron Norman, who had just entered the level of Grand Knight, in a bloody duel. Do you still have the confidence to do what you promised before?" Alonso asked expressionlessly.

"Baron, please rest assured. I have been pushing forward this matter."

"Although this new baron is very powerful, the knight sent to Mayest County by the organization this time is not an ordinary knight, so I still have full confidence."

"Please wait for good news, Baron."

When Maggis was talking, Alonso was observing Maggis's expression, as if he wanted to judge whether what he said was true.

Alonso watched for a moment, nodded, and said: "I hope it will be as soon as possible! Otherwise, the growth rate of this Lord Ryan may exceed our imagination."

Although Maggis spoke with confidence, Alonso, who had experienced successive failures, had fallen to the bottom of his confidence at this moment.

To be honest, if it weren't for Magis's words "not an ordinary knight", Alonso wouldn't have had any expectations.

After Alonso left, Magis also frowned.

The strength of this Hammer Baron has indeed improved too fast!

In addition, although he was very confident in his promise just now, he was actually very troubled because the new Brigadier General Parricks obviously didn't pay much attention to his suggestions.

Two days ago, after listening to the report from his confidant, he knew the general idea of ​​the new head of Mayest County.

The other party didn't care much about Ryan, who was not even a knight at present. At this moment, the other party's attention should be more macro.

After thinking about it, Magis waved to his confidant and said, "You may need to go to Wolf Hill immediately and report Ryan's performance in the bloody duel to Brigadier General Parricks immediately."

"Now that the other party clearly has the combat power of a knight, I think this time, the brigadier general should not underestimate the other party again." Magis sighed and said.

"Yes, sir!"

Soon, the confidant left the office.

Two hours later, Magis's confidant rushed to Wolf Hill.

"Huh? He could actually kill the Great Knight at the knight level?"

"This situation is indeed rare. I didn't expect that such a talent could appear in a small place like Meister." Brigadier General Parix did not hide the surprise on his face.

However, his expression did not show any fear or fear, but a sense of expectation.

He thought for a while and said, "You and Magis tell them that I know about this matter."

"I was not interested at first. However, the other party can kill the Great Knight now, which is quite interesting to me. But if this Hammer Baron stays in the county town, I can't do it."

"So, you let Magis do a good job of intelligence work on him."

"If the other party leaves the county town, notify me immediately."

At the end of the words, Brigadier General Parix also pointed to intelligence work. The confidant knew that the other party was reminding his boss to do his job well.

"Yes, Brigadier General." After saying that, the confidant bowed and slowly retreated.

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Early the next morning, Hamilton arrived at the Ryan Mansion on time as agreed before.

Soon, a luxurious carriage carrying Ryan and Hamilton went to the Usman family's mansion outside the county town.

Normally, most nobles would choose to live in the noble mansion area of ​​the county town. First, it is safe, and second, there are more banquets and salons, which makes it more convenient to go back and forth.

A few nobles would choose to live in the manor close to the county town.

Because the manor usually covers a large area, it can be used for horse racing, and in addition, it is relatively quiet.

The Usman family is one of them. They rarely participate in banquets and social activities in the county town. Perhaps it is because of the migration of foreigners, of course, it may be other reasons, which is unknown.

Soon, the carriage arrived at the door of a manor with a sense of age.

The walls around the manor were covered with vines such as wisteria, green radish and creeper, which looked green and made people feel very happy.

Knight Lawrence, whom Ryan had met before, was already at the door of the manor, leading several servants and waiting respectfully.

Thanks to Gu Shaoqing for the 100 starting coins reward!