Soon after, Gray discovered that he lived next door to these two girls. Every time he returned from sightseeing, he would run into them.
The girl in yellow snorted coldly every time they met, clearly holding a grudge against him.
Although the girl in white did not do the same, she looked at him with a cold gaze, clearly categorizing him as someone who was not easy to befriend.
After the initial awkwardness, Gray no longer cared about the two's attitude.
After all, he had his reasons for rejecting them. Besides, he had no plans to further his relationship with them.
A few days later, the auction was about to begin. Gray rode a carriage to the auction house.
Nobles who were not from the Marquis of Tolte naturally did not enjoy special treatment. Gray sat in the ordinary seats on the first floor, waiting for the auction to begin.
About half an hour later, an old man walked up to the auction stage.
"Thank you all for attending this auction. The auction will now officially begin."
The old man coughed lightly, then announced the start of the auction.
"Today's first item is the Blue Tears earring, crafted by Grandmaster Kang Ge Jewellery over several years. The starting price is 100 gold coins, and each increment must be no less than 10 gold coins. The bidding begins now."
"150 gold coins."
"200 gold coins."
"250 gold coins."
… …
In the end, the item was bought by a noblewoman for 1300 gold coins.
"The second item is a runic fan crafted by Runemaster Jonah. It can produce cool winds while rotating. The starting price is 200 gold coins, and each increment must be no less than 10 gold coins. The bidding begins now."
"250 gold coins."
"300 gold coins."
"400 gold coins."
… …
In the end, the runic fan was bought for 2000 gold coins.
"The third item …"
"The fourth item …"
… …
Gray listened to the bidding in silence, but did not participate in the auction.
The auction held in Tourette City was clearly of a higher level than the Ford Auction House's auction that he had attended before.
If the auction held by the Ford Auction House was considered a low-end auction, then this one was a high-end auction.
Gray wasn't surprised. Since the blood essence of a desolate-level Gale Wolf would appear in an auction, the level of this auction couldn't be low.
Moreover, Gray reckoned that there were quite a few nobles like him on the first floor of the auction house who came from other territories, as well as the descendants of nobles.
This was because even though the final price was easily over a thousand gold coins, there were still a lot of people bidding on the first floor.
"The 15th lot …"
"The 21st item."
"The 26th item."
"The 30th item."
On the auction stage, there was a bronze vase that was more than ten centimeters tall on a tray. The old auctioneer spoke.
"Ten sets of Blood Beast Frost Tiger Blood. The starting price is 1000 gold coins. Each increment must be no less than 100 gold coins. The bidding starts now."
"Frost Tiger?
Forget it, his ability can only be considered average. "
Gray gave it some thought and ultimately gave up on bidding for the Frost Tiger blood.
The Frost Tiger was a berserk-level blood beast in the Hanhu Sequence. In terms of ability, it was an upgraded version of Hanhu.
If there wasn't any Jade Lizard blood, he wouldn't mind buying it. This way, when his strength reached the berserk-level, his blood beast ability would have a stronger ice characteristic.
As for the ice characteristic of Hanhu in his body, it had already been developed to the limit. After all, Hanhu was only a murderous-level blood beast.
If he didn't consume the blood of a higher level Frost Tiger, even if his strength reached the berserk-level, his ice characteristic wouldn't be enhanced.
However, after obtaining the Jade Lizard, he wasn't interested in it.
The power of the Frost Tiger's ice ability was only average among berserk-level blood beasts. Even if he wanted to enhance the ice characteristic of his blood beast after reaching the berserk-level, he would have to look for blood beasts with extremely powerful ice abilities.
"1200 gold coins."
"1500 gold coins."
"2000 gold coins."
… …
Gray gave up, but many people participated in the auction.
Generally speaking, the higher the level of the blood beast, the greater the increase in strength after consuming it.
Even if the blood method wasn't of the Hanhu Sequence, as long as the ability of the blood method was inclined towards ice, there would be a good increase in strength.
As for why these people didn't buy or bid for blood beasts of the same sequence as themselves, it wasn't that they didn't want to, but that it was difficult to encounter one.
For example, Gray entered the Red Leaf Forest this time. He originally wanted to hunt Gale Wolves and use their blood to aid his cultivation, but he didn't encounter any.
The same was true for the hunting teams that entered the forest to hunt blood beasts. Under normal circumstances, it was completely up to luck to be able to hunt blood beasts.
As for why the Fergus family was able to buy Gale Wolf blood and Gale Wolf blood essence from the Sidney family, it was because the Sidney family had a specialized hunting team that stored the blood after a long period of hunting.
In the end, the blood of the Frost Tiger was bought for 5300 gold coins.
The auction continued.
"The 32nd lot, 10 portions of blood of the berserk-level blood beast Thorn Monkey …"
… …
"The 34th lot, 10 portions of blood of the berserk-level blood beast Whirlpool Turtle …"
… …
"The 36th lot, 10 portions of blood of the berserk-level blood beast Mantis …"
"The 40th lot, 10 portions of blood of the berserk-level blood beast Bull …"
… …
In the last auction, whenever Gray heard that the auction item was blood beast blood, he would listen carefully. However, he would give up after listening for a while.
It wasn't that he didn't understand the types of blood beasts. For some of the rarer blood types, the auctioneer would explain the corresponding abilities of the blood beasts. He would only judge after listening to the auctioneer.
"The 42nd lot."
On the auction platform, a light blue metal wrist appeared in front of everyone. The wrist was covered in runes, exquisite and beautiful.
"This is a rune wrist made by Master Norris. It will automatically activate in the face of danger."
"After activation, it can withstand a hundred attacks from a berserk warrior and ten attacks from a berserk warrior. The starting price is 10,000 gold coins, and each increase must be no less than 1,000 gold coins. The auction begins now."
"13000 gold coins."
"15000 gold coins."
"17000 gold coins."
… …
After listening to the auctioneer's introduction, the bidding continued. Even Gray couldn't help but feel a fire in his heart.
Although it could only withstand ten attacks from a berserk warrior, it was the best way to save one's life at a critical moment.
When facing a berserk warrior, not to mention ten times, even one or two times would be good enough.
Maybe because of this one or two times, reinforcements would arrive in time and save one's life.
This was especially true for someone like Gray who could command a berserk blood beast stronger than him.
Ten times of protection was enough for him to mobilize a berserk blood beast to come to his aid.
"I must get it."
Thinking of this, Gray immediately called out a price.
"40000 gold coins."
"45000 gold coins."
"47000 gold coins."
… …
However, his bid was quickly drowned out by other bids. Obviously, everyone wanted a life-saving method.
"100,000 gold coins."
"103,000 gold coins."
… …
Fortunately, when the price exceeded 100,000, the bids became sparse.
"105,000 gold coins."
Gray bid without the slightest hesitation.
The annual tax income of a viscount family was only about 10,000 gold coins. 100,000 gold coins would take a viscount family at least 20 years to accumulate. Obviously, this price was very expensive.
However, things like money were not as valuable as life. In addition, this thing could be said to be extremely useful to him. No matter what, he had to get it.
Now, he was glad that he brought an extra 500,000 gold coins. Otherwise, he would have missed this good thing.
"110,000 gold coins."
On the first floor of the auction house, a man gritted his teeth and bid.
"115,000 gold coins."
Gray continued to bid.
"120,000 gold coins."
The man gritted his teeth even harder.
"125,000 gold coins."
Gray increased the price without hesitation.
At this time, in the auction house, only Gray and that man were still bidding.
"It's that guy!"
In a VIP room on the second floor of the auction house, a girl in a yellow dress and a girl in a white dress were sitting inside. When only Gray and another man were bidding, the girl in the yellow dress immediately noticed Gray.
"I didn't expect this guy to be so rich."
The girl in the yellow dress curled her lips.
A bid of more than 100,000 gold coins, even with her family background, had to be taken seriously. However, seeing Gray's appearance and almost no hesitation, it was obvious that Gray's wealth was definitely far greater than this.
She rolled her eyes and then looked at the girl in the white dress with a fawning expression.
"Sister, this guy seems to be determined to get the arm. Should we …"
She was still brooding over Gray's refusal to let them ride the carriage.
"No."
The girl in the white dress interrupted the girl in the yellow dress.
She knew the girl in the yellow dress too well, so before the girl in the yellow dress finished speaking, she immediately understood that the girl in the yellow dress wanted to raise the price of the arm and make Gray suffer a hidden loss.
Although she really "didn't like" Gray, she didn't want to do so. Because once she did so, it was almost certain that she would become enemies with the other party. Although she wasn't afraid with her family background, she didn't want to add enemies for no reason.
"140,000 gold coins."
"150,000 gold coins."
In the end, the arm was bought by Gray for 150,000 gold coins.
The auction continued.
"45th auction item."
…
"47th auction item."
…
Although the following auction items were also quite good, it wasn't to the point where Gray had to buy it at all costs. In addition, he didn't know how high the price of the Gale Wolf's blood essence would be, so he didn't participate in the auction.
Finally, an exquisite small bronze bottle appeared on the auction stage.
The auctioneer looked around and said with a smile.