After an hour, the venue was finally fully occupied by hundreds of people from different statuses in life. The lights of the venue finally dimmed dark, leaving only the light that is currently shinning upon the stage in the center.

Soon after, the venue quite down as a beautiful Elf woman slowly walked onto the stage.

"Good evening to you ladies and gentlemen. I am Madam Flores, the President of the Elves Secret organization in the Emerald Tree Kingdom," The beautiful Elf woman introduced herself.

"All of you present here should already be long aware that we are having an auction today. So, without further ado, let's begin," Madam Flores said as she pulled down the Magic Cloth covering the first auction item.

As soon as the Magic Cloth was removed, it revealed inside 12 pieces of a seed from some kind of Magical Plant, each put inside different Magic Glass containers.

"Let me introduce this to you. What you are all looking at right now is an item called Evergreen Seed. This is produced by an Evergreen Plant that the Evergreen royal family is giving away as prizes for every Emerald Event. One could even say that it wouldn't be called an Emerald Event without the Evergreen Plant," Miss Flores said before letting out a chuckle. She then continued, "Jokes aside. As the majority of you already know, this Evergreen Seed helps improve the Summoner's Blessing of any level of Magical Beast Tamer to a certain degree. We can't give any precise example as the effect varies from person to person, but I guarantee to all of you in the name of the Elves Secret organization that this is a helpful item. The starting bid for each piece is 100 gold coins with every bid no less than 10 gold coins, you may all begin,"

As soon as Madam Flores finished introducing the item, the bidding quickly began.

"100!"

"150!"

"200!"

"300!"

"500!"

"..."

The bidding war for the Evergreen Seed quickly becomes intense, its price reaching higher and higher in every passing time.

Inside one of the high-class rooms located on the 3rd floor of the venue, Leo was closely observing everyone who was bidding for the Evergreen Seed, intending to gather more information first before joining. He was doing this in order to know the accurate value of the auction item.

He might have read the list of items for the auction a while ago, and he even discussed with the others on what item to buy and not to buy. But most of those items were something that they still don't know a lot about, thus what they were discussing was only if the items were useful for them or not.

As for the Evergreen Seed, it was deemed useful for them, because although they don't have any Magical Beast Tamer in the Mischievous Lion Guild yet, they could instead use it to attract a few of them to join.

"1,100 gold coins, going once, going twice, sold!" Madam Flores said before banging the wooden hammer she's holding on a piece of wood on the top of the table in front of her.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

A female Elf receptionist quickly walked onto the stage and brought down the container that contained one of the Evergreen Seed inside to the buyer who won the item.

While that was going on, Madam Flores signals the start of the second Evergreen Seed.

"100!"

"300!"

"500!"

"1,000!"

"1,500!"

"..."

This time, the bidding war didn't bother with any warm-up anymore as it immediately became intense.

"We should have bid for the first Evergreen Plant if only we knew that the price of the second one would rise up by this much," Cassandra said in regret.

"Indeed," Elizabeth and the others nodded their heads in agreement.

"Don't worry, we are still unfamiliar with the items for auction, so this is within my expectations," Leo said as he waited for the final bid.

"2,500 gold coins, going once, going twice, so-"

"3,000!" Chief Lago suddenly interrupted as he received a signal from Leo to bid 500 gold coins.

"3,000 gold coins, going once, going twice, sold!" Madam Flores banged the hammer again. Afterwards, she motioned her head for the third Evergreen Seed.

"100!"

"200-"

"3,000!"

Out of everyone's expectations, the same room that bought the second Evergreen Seed quickly yelled out its bid.

"This..."

"That person over there is really not planning on giving the others any chance to bid,"

"We should give up for the third Evergreen Seed and go with the fourth Evergreen Seed instead,"

With everyone giving up, the third Evergreen Seed was soon sold to Leo for the price of 3,000 gold coins.

"100!"

"3,000!"

The venue immediately erupted in loud noises as the fourth Evergreen Seed was again bid for 3,000 gold coins by the same exact room once again.

"Is that person actually planning to buy every Evergreen Seed in the auction for 3,000 gold coins?"

"I hope not, right? If that really turns out to be true, I would definitely regret not bidding for the first Evergreen Seed,"

"Give up with the fourth Evergreen Seed and proceed to the Fifth Evergreen Seed. I don't believe that the person inside that room would compete with us again,"

The same as the third Evergreen Seed, the people immediately give up the fourth Evergreen Seed, hoping that this time that person wouldn't bid anymore.

Unfortunately...

Fifth Evergreen Seed.

"3,000!"

Sixth Evergreen Seed.

"3,000!"

Seventh Evergreen Seed.

"3,000!"

Eight Evergreen Seed.

"3,000!"

Ninth Evergreen Seed.

"3,000!"

All the following Evergreen Seed was bid the same exact amount of 3,000 gold coins by the same exact room as the one from before.

Everyone was left unable to fight back as they either don't find fighting for the Evergreen Seed worth the price of 3,000 gold coins or they just simply can't afford to bid a much higher price for it.

One thing is for sure though, Leo has angered a lot of people by trying to hoard all the Evergreen Seed.

As the Tenth Evergreen Seed was presented for auction, the same exact price was thrown out once again.

"3,000!"

Unlike the last time though, the people weren't planning on giving Leo an easy time anymore.

"3,100!" A Fat Elf yelled out.

Someone finally decided to step forward to give Leo some trouble.

"3,200!" Chief Lago said his bid.

"3,300!" The Fat Elf yelled out.

"3,500!" Chief Lago said his bid.

"4,000!" The Fat Elf yelled out while smiling smugly, as if he's expecting already that the person inside the room would fight back.

Contrary to the Fat Elf's expectations, though, Chief Lago didn't bother fighting back anymore.

"4,000 gold coins, going once, going twice,"

"Wait!" The Fat Elf quickly yelled out to interrupt Madam Flores.

"Oh, what seems to be the problem, my dear customer?" Madam Flores said with a smile on her face.

"Before confirming my bid, can't we ask from that room first if he's really not planning on fighting back for the tenth Evergreen Seed anymore?" The Fat Elf replied. Right now, his forehead was covered with sweat. He only has a total of 10,000 gold coins with him right now, so if his bid of 4,000 gold coins for the tenth Evergreen Seed was confirmed, he would be losing nearly half of the money he had brought. Losing 4,000 gold coins is not really a big problem for him as he can easily earn that money back again, instead, the problem is he's going to lose the opportunity to bid for more important auction items later on in the auction. Once he loses such an opportunity, it would in turn affect a lot of his future plans. He really doesn't want for such a thing to happen to him, that's why he didn't hesitate to throw away his face and asked such an embarrassing question.

"Since one of our kind customers is asking, then," Madam Flores nodded her head as she turned to look at the room where Leo and the others were at as she asked, "Dear respectable guest, do you still have a plan on outbidding this gentleman down here?"

Hearing Madam Flores' question, Chief Lago quickly turned to look at Leo to ask him on what to reply. But seeing his look right now, he quickly understood where this is going... He can't help shooting a look of pity towards the Fat Elf that decided to cause trouble to Leo.

With a mischievous smile on his face, Leo replied, "Then can I bid 400 gold coins and 1 copper coin?"

"You..." The Fat Elf pointed at Leo's room in disbelief. He exclaimed loudly enough for the entire venue to hear, "What a cowardly person. I really thought that you would have the guts to fight a bidding war against me, tch, tch, tch,"

"I think you misunderstood something here, so I'll do the honor of explaining to you the difference between a coward and a fool. Right now, I am neither of those two, but once I bid against you, it would mean that I am a fool. Don't think that I don't know what you were planning to do. The only thing I did here was to return to you the favor. No need to thank me, for I am just a kind-hearted man," Leo replied with a mocking tone in his voice.

Unbeknownst to the Fat Elf, Leo had already realized in the second bid that the latter was trying to cause him trouble by purposely raising the price of the tenth Evergreen Seed.

Although this is indeed his first time participating in an auction as huge as this one that the Elves Secret organization had held, that doesn't mean that he can't use the experienced he had learned in the past.

"You're the fool! Why don't you just go down here and fight me?!" The Fat Elf exclaimed in anger. Hearing Leo's reply made him quickly realize that the situation right now has become irreversible. Thus the only way out for him was to cause as much trouble as possible enough for him to get kicked from the auction of the Elves Secret organization.

Unfortunately...

"You heard the response of the respectable guest," Madam Flores smiled before quickly banging the hammer and yelling out the word, "Sold!"

Bang! Bang! Bang!

As the President of the Elves Secret organization branch in the Emerald Tree Kingdom, Madam Flores was clearly not a fool. She knows what the Fat Elf was thinking, that's why she confirmed the bid despite him trying to cause trouble. But of course, she wouldn't let the Fat Elf get off easily...

The sound of the loud banging hammer made the Fat Elf slowly fall back on his seat with an ugly expression on his fat face. This time, he hasn't only offended the person in that room, but also Madam Flores of the Elves Secret organization. He can't help regretting his decision before. If only he didn't let anger control him, he would have still been able to enjoy this auction. It's just that he really wanted to get himself an Evergreen Seed to improve his Summoner's Blessing, that's why he became so angry and decided to cause trouble.

Amidst the look of pity from everyone's eyes in the venue, the Fat Elf was guided by a powerful male Elf receptionist towards a room where he would be paying and claiming the tenth Evergreen Seed that he had won in the auction. Though the majority of the people in the venue already knew that the Fat Elf wouldn't only be receiving that...

They can't help turning their head to look at the room that caused everything to happen, with fear and wariness in each of their eyes. They quickly realized that the Fat Elf was obviously an example of what will happen if they offend the person inside that room.