Chapter 336: The Mysterious Finale Item

What was up with this guy Esmeralda today?

Previously, she clearly looked like a little invisible person, a guy who would just say one or two sentences and then turn invisible every time. But today, her words were a bit dense!

Looking at Esmeralda 'smiling' at her, Lan Qingyou couldn't help but complain in her heart.

No, the auction isn't over yet, I must hold on.

"Haha, Wheel of Fortune, what are you saying? I don't quite understand."

Squinting her eyes, Lan Qingyou smiled.

"Wow, it's fine if you pretend, but can you put a little more heart into your pretending? With such perfunctory words, I'm afraid everyone won't be able to pretend to turn a blind eye either."

Sitting on the sofa, 【Empress】 Jiang Lan smiled and shook her head.

Although everyone clearly knew there was definitely something fishy going on here, if Lan Qingyou wouldn't say anything, they couldn't do anything to her either.

Didn't you see even the person involved herself cooperating with their performance?

Of course, the most important thing was still Lan Qingyou's behavior.

Previously, Lan Qingyou always gave people an attitude that she didn't care about many things, so she would answer anything everyone asked. But now she refused to let up even to death.

From this point alone, it was really hard to say whether this counted as Lan Qingyou growing up or not.

But at least now she finally had something to care about in her heart, right?

...

"Alright, seeing how eager you all are, then I'll reveal a little bit."

After a stalemate for some time, seeing that more than half of the auctioned items were gone, Lan Qingyou finally spoke slowly.

"Hmm!"

The crowd, who had originally been quietly watching the auction below, couldn't help but turn their heads to look at Lan Qingyou.

"She probably... hasn't changed her personality, right?"

Vivian asked in a low voice.

"High Priestess, it's a bit rude to say that."

Jiang Lan smiled beside her.

"But she was so stubborn before, and now suddenly she says she's going to tell us. No matter how you look at it, it feels problematic."

Vivian complained.

It was indeed so.

Lan Qingyou's attitude shift was a bit large, and it was only an hour or two apart. No matter how you thought about it, it felt bizarre.

"Haha, could it be that she's planning to say it because she saw the items being auctioned below are about to be finished?"

Vivian's complaint drew the mockery of her plastic sister Gu Xiaobei.

But...

That really was a possibility!

Looking at the scene below where the sole S-grade item was already being auctioned, everyone thought the same.

"That's exactly it."

Lan Qingyou smiled and nodded...

And down below.

On the auction stage bathed in warm orange light, Beatrice heavily struck down the wooden gavel in her hand.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

"Congratulations to the customer in private room number 10086 for winning the sole S-grade Abyssal Blade in this auction at a price of 4,860,000 Gold and 80 Silver!"

Holding the microphone, Beatrice's face overflowed with a smile.

She never expected that someone would actually spend nearly five million to buy an S-grade weapon.

Although S-grade was indeed very rare, it was far inferior compared to world-class items that had obtained the recognition of the world's will.

Or rather, the two simply weren't on the same level.

And yet, people still fought tooth and nail for it, ultimately only being won by this customer number 10086.

It wasn't that she couldn't understand the actions of these rich people, but rather that after surviving in Karim for over half a year, the current Beatrice had long lost that sense of frivolity she had on Blue Star.

Coupled with the fact that during this time of becoming a Witch, she also had a new understanding of her new identity. So buying something whose quality wasn't even as good as an ordinary S-grade item at a high price like this was simply a waste of resources.

To use a popular phrase among the Witches, it 'didn't meet the standard of Equivalent Exchange.'

"Alright, since the S-grade auctioned item has already been sold, then today, let's enter the auction for the final, mysterious finale item of this event!"

Ah!? There's more!?

And it's a mysterious item?

Everyone, who originally thought the S-grade magic item was already the ceiling, simultaneously blanked out.

What was this mysterious item?

Previously, there were sales of Ancient Blood, potion recipes, Insulating Cloaks that allowed one to walk freely in magic turbulence, and S-grade magic items. But if none of these were enough to serve as the finale item of this auction, then what could be something that these Witches would look favorably upon?

With just one sentence, Beatrice hooked the curiosity of everyone at the scene.

Not just those in the main hall.

The Clan Leaders and organization cadres in the private rooms were the same.

For example, right now.

Inside a certain private room at the auction, a man with muscles so developed that they looked like they could burst through the light blue shirt on his body at any moment sat on the sofa like a warlord. With his legs crossed, he looked at the small projected screen in front of him and raised an eyebrow.

Then he turned his head, draped an arm over the back of the sofa, and looked at a woman behind him wearing an orange knee-length velvet dress who was currently looking down at a book in her hands.

"Katie, what do you think the Witches will bring out as the finale for this auction?"

"Shut up Nicholas, can't you see I'm currently appreciating the literary works of this world?"

The woman didn't give this muscle-head any good attitude.

Uh... it should be said that she didn't even raise her head, so naturally there was no talk of an attitude.

The disgust and aversion revealed in her tone were very obvious.

It seemed she was completely unafraid of offending this guy in front of her who looked quite violent.

"Tsk~~~ The Head of the Sociology Department of The Library is different indeed. Do you have to study so hard even at this auction in Heyang? Or is this the next book you want to copy?"

The rebuffed muscle-head Nicholas lightly whistled, and then retorted with a teasing tone.

Katie, full name Katie Meseta, was the Head of the Sociology Department of 【The Library】 who was mentioned previously as having made a huge fortune by copying books.

She was also the person sent by 【The Library】 for this auction.

It was just that compared to shopping, this guy seemed more interested in immersing herself in the ocean of this original book filled with Karim text in front of her.

After all, unlike those guys who only had muscles and only knew how to fight and kill, 【The Library】 was an organization primarily focused on copying books.

Therefore, besides buying a few books consigned by others that she didn't have, she had absolutely no interest in equipment, blood, or rare materials at this auction.

Yes.

Even with 'official business on hand,' her priority was still how to expand her bookshelf, so don't expect her to care about anything else.

Thus, Nicholas turned his gaze to another man and woman in the room.

Among this man and woman, the woman was sitting on a chair, draped in a white cloth curtain.

While the slender man with a short mohawk hairstyle that only had a tuft of pink hair in the middle was standing behind the woman, fiddling with a pair of scissors in his hand.