Chapter 194

A lone man and a lone woman, not to mention that the girl was more proactive, and they chatted until they got into bed.

It went on from the afternoon until dusk.

Afterwards, Wayne picked up a pipe specially made by a Hobbit, smoked a few puffs of pipe-weed, and touched Julie's head with a somewhat melancholy tone, saying: "I told you long ago, Julie, it's impossible for us to be together. I am a half-elf, and my lifespan is more than ten times yours. When you are old, I will still be the same as I am now, basically unchanged."

"And I am an adventurer, with no fixed abode, and I will leave Goldshire in a short time and go to other places."

Julie heard this, but lay on Wayne's chest full of happiness, her fingers gently stroking the muscles on Wayne's body, and said with a slight smile: "Yes, you told me long ago, but I have also thought about it very clearly."

"When I was locked in the cellar, I thought my life was about to end, but you saved me. You are my hero."

"For ordinary girls like us, this might be the biggest adventure in life."

"I don't expect to be with you for a lifetime. In the future, when you pass through Goldshire, just remember that a girl liked you. Perhaps by that time I will have my own family. You can come to my house for a meal. For me, this is a beautiful memory."

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That night, Julie did not spend the night at his house. The farm girl also didn't want her parents to know that she had dedicated herself to an adventurer, so she returned home before dark.

The next morning, when Wayne was drying herbs in the yard, Mr. Lawrence came over.

However, this gentleman was not here to find fault, but because of a task Wayne entrusted to him.

"Wayne, the things you asked me to buy for you, I bought them all for you. They are in the carriage outside the yard, a whole carriage, a complete set of alchemy equipment, a whole carriage of herbs."

As he spoke, this quite capable farmer wiped the sweat from his forehead and said with some emotion:

"I ran through the entire Stormwind City to buy so many herbs. Fortunately, my brother still knows some acquaintances, otherwise, it would be impossible to buy so many and so complete so quickly."

Lawrence handed Wayne a bill and a small bag of gold coins in a money bag, saying:

"Wayne, this is the remaining money and the bill. By the way, the matter of the auction house you asked me to inquire about also has results."

"The Brown Auction House in Stormwind City holds an auction once a month, which will be held in about two days. If you are interested, I can accompany you."

For Mr. Lawrence's suggestion, Wayne was very moved. Counting the days, he couldn't stay in Azeroth for a few more days. It was just in time to go to the auction house of a big human city like Stormwind City before leaving. Maybe he could buy something he liked.

And after buying things, he would leave immediately, and others would not be able to trace any information about him, and he would not cause any trouble.

Thinking of this, he nodded to Lawrence, then counted ten Azeroth gold coins from the money bag he handed back, handed them to the middle-aged man, and said: "Then I'll trouble you, Mr. Lawrence. This is your reward for these few days. Please prepare a carriage when the time comes, and let's go to the auction house to have a look."

Lawrence didn't refuse and reached out to take the ten gold coins. This was the reward they had agreed upon long ago. Although he still had some savings after abandoning the farm, if he wanted to open a bakery in Goldshire that could support his family, this head of the family had to earn more money.

Soon, with the help of several porters, the large carriage of goods was moved into the warehouse of Wayne's house, and after that, Mr. Lawrence also said goodbye and left.

After Mr. Lawrence left, Wayne took out the magic wine pot hanging on his belt and first put the intermediate mana potion and intermediate healing potion refined today into the two grids in the wine pot.

And in this wine pot, hundreds of bottles of the two potions were already fully stored, which could almost be used as daily consumables.

Anyway, the drinks in this wine pot would have their time locked. In the future, no matter how many of these potions were stored, they could not only be used as first-aid medicines to save people, but even if they were used as commodities and sold at high prices to other people in need, it was a profitable and stable business.

And this time he entrusted Lawrence to spend a large sum of money to buy Peacebloom, Silverleaf, and other herbs for making healing potions and mana potions from Stormwind City, all for this matter.

Not long after, when he returned to the Wizard World and returned to Kaer Morhen, these potions could be used as good gifts for his sorceress lovers and witcher brothers. Presumably, they would all like such practical things.

Of course, he still wanted many good things in the world of Azeroth, but he was troubled by having no channels. As for whether he could buy any good things next, it would depend on his luck in this auction.

Soon, two days passed in a flash. Wayne took the time to help Sheriff Duhan catch several spies from the Defias Brotherhood and completed an expert-level task. The rest of the time, he had been concentrating on improving alchemy and made dozens of bottles of healing potions and mana potions.

When the time to set off arrived, Wayne and Lawrence took a carriage and set off for Stormwind City. Accompanying them was the farm girl Julie.

Facing Wayne's somewhat confused gaze, Julie revealed a cheerful smile and said: "Wayne, today is the day my cousin Harley has a holiday. She is now an apprentice priest in the church school, and I'm just hitching a ride."

To this, Wayne certainly didn't refuse. He said with a smile:

"Then let's have dinner in the city together after the auction ends in the afternoon before going back."

"Speaking of which, I haven't seen a real priest yet."

This was originally just a casual remark Wayne made, but it immediately attracted Julie's strange gaze. The girl tilted her head and asked with some confusion: "Wayne, as an adventurer, when you were injured while performing a task, haven't you ever looked for a priest to treat you?"

Wayne, who knew he had let it slip, was not flustered at all. Looking at the girl, he immediately smiled and said:

"Haha, I really haven't looked for a priest to treat me, because I have never suffered any injuries that needed treatment."

After he mumbled a few words casually, the topic quickly turned to other places.

Two hours passed in a flash. When entering the gate of Stormwind City, several Stormwind City guards came to check, but it was just a routine check. The three of them paid a few silver coins as entry fees, were not obstructed, and were soon allowed to enter the city. Sitting in the carriage, Wayne carefully observed the Stormwind City outside through the window. How should he put it? As the capital of the Kingdom of Stormwind, Stormwind City was indeed quite magnificent, both sturdy and beautiful, even more majestic than the newly built Wyzima in Temeria.

And according to Lawrence's introduction, just this one city of Stormwind City had a population of over a hundred thousand. In terms of area, it was not on the same level as Wyzima.

And the Brown Auction House they were going to today was a quite famous auction house located in the commercial district. It was said that the main business objects were commoners, merchants, and adventurers, and it basically did not sell those flashy but useless works of art.

It was not liked by the nobles, and the auctioned goods were mainly equipment, weapons, and potions that improved strength. Occasionally, they would also auction some strange things found by adventurers on their way, which were quite popular among the commoner class.

Not long after entering the city, Mr. Lawrence drove the carriage and stopped by a square in the center of the city. After Julie waved goodbye to them, the carriage moved forward again and entered the relatively prosperous commercial district.

Wayne leaned out of the window and looked out. Hundreds of shops of all kinds could be called dazzling on the entire street. There were all kinds of shops, and people were coming and going in an endless stream.

However, most of the shops on this commercial street were operated by humans.

Mr. Lawrence told him that there was also a dwarf district in Stormwind City, where there were many shops operated by dwarves, selling some specialties made by dwarves, and there were also some gnomes operating shops there. If he was interested, he could take time to have a look.

Soon, their carriage stopped in a spacious place specially used for parking carriages, and then Wayne, led by Lawrence, entered the Brown Auction House, which was decorated simply and durably and occupied a quite large area.

After entering the auction, a beautiful female clerk immediately greeted them. She led the two to a desk to register simply, and then handed Wayne a number plate carved from wood, with the number 101 on it.

Holding this wooden plate, the two were soon led by another female clerk into a large auction hall.

The light under the field was slightly dim, and rows of seats were arranged neatly according to a certain distance, with three or four hundred of them. And directly in front of these seats, on a stage illuminated brightly by a dozen magic lamps, a short, fat, and somewhat funny-looking auctioneer was telling jokes to the bidders who had already arrived.

After Wayne and Lawrence found the seats corresponding to the number on the wooden plate and waited for another half an hour in the auction hall, the auction officially began.

This auction had a total of more than two hundred auction items, including goods that had failed to sell at previous auctions and new goods added to this auction. They would be auctioned in turn according to the starting price from high to low.

After the auction began, the short, fat auctioneer named Jamie also became serious. His mouth was very smooth. During the half hour of waiting for the auction to start, Wayne had already experienced it deeply.

After he stood on the podium exclusive to the auctioneer, with the sound of a wooden hammer hitting a wooden board, Jamie said in a mellow voice: "Ladies and gentlemen, now the auction of the Brown Auction House officially begins."

"We invite the first auction item, a steel longsword from a high-level dwarf blacksmith, a one-handed sword, one meter long, double-edged, forged from high-quality steel, with a starting price of fifty silver coins. There are ten in total."

"Each price increase is five silver coins. Everyone is welcome to bid."

With the introduction of the auctioneer Jamie, some cold-shining steel swords were placed on the bright exhibition stage. The sword body was beautiful, the material was excellent, and it had the name of a high-level dwarf blacksmith. Although it was not a good sword, it was enough for ordinary warriors to use, and the price was quite low.

It was soon sought after by some adventurers with mediocre strength and wealth. The price was soon raised to eighty silver coins and then bought by a strong human warrior.

And the other nine steel swords were also soon sold out at prices of eighty silver coins or higher or lower.

After selling the first product, the auctioneer Jamie didn't talk nonsense and immediately started the auction of the second auction item.

"The second auction item, a half-plate armor forged by a high-level dwarf blacksmith, made of pure steel, with excellent defense, classic styling, moderate weight, very suitable for those fledgling warriors, and very helpful for battle. There are five in total, with a starting price of three gold coins."

"Each price increase is not less than ten silver coins. Everyone is welcome to bid."

With Jamie's introduction, several half-plate armors were also carried by the staff to the display stage. As plate armor, because of the consumption of materials and labor costs, the price was several times more expensive than steel swords.

However, soon, these half-plate armors were also bought by some warrior adventurers.

Then came the third auction item, the fourth auction item, the fifth auction item.

The prices were from low to high, including weapons, equipment, potions, and scrolls. As Master Wayne, who was not short of money, he entered the procurement mode immediately after a short restraint. As long as he liked the product and the price was not outrageous, he would buy it without hesitation.

Because he had a credit limit of over 150,000 gold coins in Vivian's bank, Wayne never needed to worry about money. As for the problem of owing money, after obtaining the treasure from the Lonely Mountain in Middle-earth in the future, all expenses could only be considered small numbers.

The auction proceeded very quickly. After the 150th auction item was pushed out, Wayne had already bought more than 20 auction items in the Brown Auction House, spending more than 200 gold coins, making many adventurers and merchants participating in this auction look sideways frequently, curiously looking at this handsome young man.

However, Wayne didn't care too much about this. Just as Mr. Brown said, most of the people participating in this auction were commoners, merchants, and adventurers. Even if he had a little outstanding performance, it wouldn't cause any trouble.

"Below, please invite the 150th auction item, the Enchanting Scroll: Crusader. This is the work of a master-level enchanter."

"As for the effect of this enchanting scroll, it can give a weapon a special effect, which can have a certain chance to make the user's strength greatly increase when attacking the enemy, and the user will get the healing of the Holy Light, restoring a certain amount of physical strength and life force. It is a very powerful weapon enchantment."

"Starting price is fifty gold coins, each price increase is not less than two gold coins. Now everyone is welcome to bid."

And as the auctioneer Jamie's voice fell, this enchanting scroll immediately aroused the interest of several melee adventurers present and began to bid for it.

Crusader enchantment, this could be considered a top-level enchantment even in the 60s or 70s when Wayne played the game.

He didn't expect to encounter it in the auction house. Looking at this product, Wayne's eyes were glowing, and he immediately made a decision to win it.

(End of chapter)