When Arthur woke up in his bed, he turned his head towards the window to see what time it was. Although he could not tell what time it was because it was cloudy, he saw that the bed next to him was empty. “Rook must have woken up early,” he thought, trying to flex his muscles. But just as he was about to flex his muscles, the injuries that the askar inflicted on his body yesterday caused him to squirm in pain.

“Fuck you, Askar” he muttered to himself.

He sat on the edge of his bed, despite his body's obvious objections. Then he thought of the warrior class he had won and rejected last night. He had enough classes and he didn't want to add another.

Then, with difficulty, he walked to the close and started to change. “I wonder if the others are awake,” he thought. And after he changed, he opened the door and started down the stairs leading to the lobby.

When he got down to the lobby, he was met with an unexpected sight. Lady Elise and the members of the team were sitting at a table drinking coffee. Askar smiled at the sight of Arthur staggering.

“Does something hurt?” he said with a grin.

“Did you hit me on purpose, I barely got out of bed”

“See it as motivation and try not to get beaten up again,” Askar said.

Arthur then turns to Lady Elise

“Welcome Lady Elise”

“Thank you,” said Lady Elise.

Arthur nodded, then pulled up a chair and sat down.

“How are the sales?” said Arthur.

“Oh, that's what I came to talk about. A total of 22 hors were sold for 200 gold. I think we will sell all the coffee we have in 2 weeks.”

"Wonderful ." He said, then saw Old Mike.

"Mike can I get me something to eat" she said

“Haha just woke up? though, what else could it be after the askar bea-teaching” Old mike said, tean find this tongue-twisting quite funny, so they burst into laughter.

When the laughter stopped, Lady Elise turned to Arthur.

"Isn't it your first time at Manumit,Arthur " she said.

"Yeah"

“I don't think you've been able to get around properly with the coffee business,” said Lady Elise.

“It was a bit like that”

“There is winter auction is held in the afternoon if you want, you can join me ”

Arthur considered this invitation and thought that there would be a nice change.

“I would be happy to join you, Lady Elise,” he said.

"But first I have to eat something or I might starve," he said.

"We'll go out after you eat," she said.

Just then, Old Mike came up to him with soup and fresh bread.

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Arthur and lady Elise were driving through the streets of Manumit in a carriage. The back of the carriage had seats facing each other. The roads were clean despite the constant snowfall. This was thanks to the adventurers. City officials were preparing quests for Low-level Water manipulation mages where they could earn some money instead of sitting idle in the Winter.

The roads have gone far away. Although it was winter, the streets of manumit were alive. People could not give up shopping and earning money even if it was winter. As Arthur passed by, he saw some of them drinking smoky coffee on them.

“Coffee seems to be well liked by the Manumit people,” said Arthur when he saw this.

“So almost all the inns have queued up to buy coffee,” said Lady Elise.

"There's something I don't understand, can you enlighten me," said Arthur.

“Of course,” said Lady Elise.

“Why didn't your competitors have coffee, and you did?”

“As a matter of fact, the timing of your arrival played an important role. Usually, when winter comes, Bitter seeds are sent north, where the guards there are more in danger, so much is consumed. Nearly all of the city had sold their bitter seeds for the winter, only me and the other ones left.”

“Those who sell to the north are biting their hats, then,” said Arthur.

“Hahah Yes, our biggest competitor, Gold Hoarders, sold them all to the north 3 days before we started our promotional work, you should have seen their faces after we introduced the coffee” Arthur and lady Elise stopped in the carriage while laughing at the misfortunes of others.

As Arthur got out of the car, he stood in amazement at the building in front of him. The building was a Marble building with a height of at least 20 m.

Lady Elise, who saw this state of Arthur, said, "Well, isn't it impressive?"

“Yes, whose building is it”

“The Trade Guild Association had it built so it could hold important auctions”

"Let's go in, it's about to start," said Lady Elise, after letting Arthur examine the building a little longer.

Arthur and lady elise climbed the wide stairs of the building. When they came to the giant door, a satyr greeted them.

“Welcome to the Manumit auction house, Lady Elise,” he said.

“Thank you,”

“Please, this way,” he said, and started walking. Without realizing where they were going, Arthur started to follow the satry in front of them with Lady Elise. The corridor was decorated with very luxurious-looking patterns. And it was illuminated by Magical lamps at certain intervals. After walking a little along the corridor, they came to a door, Satry pushed open the door and showed the Room with his hand and bent down.

Arthur and lady Elise entered the room. The room looked like the lodges of Football stadiums.

After saying "I'm sending a waiter to take care of you right away" he closed the door and left.

“Lady Elise, sometimes I forget how rich you are, that's a good reminder,” said Arthur, and laughed.

“Aren't you rich too, Mr. Arthur,” said Lady Elise.

Lady Elise was right, when all the coffees were sold, they would have a large amount of money per person. But Arthur had never seen this money as his own. That money sounded like a fund that would only fund the city they were going to build.

When Arthur sat on the chair in front of him, he saw the chairs filled by non-vips downstairs on the ground floor in front of them. They had obviously arrived just in time. Because an Elf woman appeared on the stage. After the woman took the stage, the hum in the hall was cut off.

“I want to thank and welcome everyone for participating in the Manumit winter auction, we will have many priceless items to be auctioned today. We even prepared a big surprise for you.” said.

Some workers brought the first product to the stage.

“If you want to start without wasting time, here are 12 fireball scrolls, a product that will save lives if you have it with you when you need it, starting with 10 gold and 5 gold upgrades.”

As soon as the presenter on the stage finished his speech, the offers began to come.

“15”

“20”

Arthur wondered how high it would rise. He had no idea how the scrolls were made or used. It soon went up to 45 gold and, with no more bidders, was sold to a Minotora.

They brought the other product right after. This was a ring engraved with a storage enchantment. But since it occupies about 50m3 of space, it looked like something quite valuable.

After saying that the starting price was 100 gold, the auction started again. Arthur liked this environment very much. And when he founded the city, he thought of establishing one of his own, just as design ideas were attacking his mind, he heard it sold for 280 gold.

New products were constantly coming in and being sold. Arthur looked at Lady Elise and didn't seem to care much about anything.

"Aren't you going to buy anything," said Arthur Lady Elise.

“There was nothing that interested me, I usually buy products that will make me profit,” said Arthur with a smile and nodded as if to say I understood.

The Elf woman who ran the auction stepped forward.

“Yes, we have the last 3 products left. And the remaining products are all more valuable than the other,” he said, stopping deliberately, making the event even more dramatic. Arthur thought that the woman was made for the job.

“Let's start with our first product, then. “Yes, here is the Golden armor,” he said.

As soon as the employees behind her heard the name of the product, she pulled the cover off her. Underneath was a golden armor-like outfit. To give a little more detail, the presenter went to the stand where the armor was located and spoke as he turned around.

“This armor was made from webs woven by golden spiders living in the Garab desert. I guess I don't need to mention how dangerous the golden spiders are."

As if confirming what the host said, some people were telling those sitting next to them what they had heard.

“In the trials, we found that even a level 45 mage could not deal damage with Magic.”

“Yes, let the starting price start with 1000 gold ,” he finally said.

Arthur was amazed at the beauty of the armor. But when he heard the Presenter's words, he was thoroughly surprised. Couldn't a rank 45 mage do damage, that meant a platinum rank adventurer, they were pretty rare.

Arthur looked at Lady Elise and didn't seem very interested. But the same cannot be said for the other vips. A crazy auction race started from the second floor lobbies in Arthur sitting right now. It was eventually sold to someone for 2200 gold.

Arthur finally realized that they weren't all that rich.

The server switched to the 2nd product after the sale.

Without waiting for him to speak on this, the workers had lifted the veil.

Under the cover was a lamp that flashed blue. The server went over to explain the product.

“The lamp you see in front of you was found in a dungeon in the north, and while the adventurers who found it were carrying it with them, it started to flash with a pattern, maybe it's a code, no one shown could figure out what it was. Since we do not know exactly how valuable it is, we are starting it without an initial value, you can increase it as much as you want.”

Arthur was locked in the flashing lamp. The flashing intervals seemed familiar. Then, all of a sudden, lightning flashed in his mind. It was morse code. But who in this world could have known Morse code in here ? Thousands of questions raced through Arthur's mind.

Since no one wanted to pay for something worthless, 30 gold coins were also leftfor lamp.

“40” gold he said.

“Are you interested?” said Lady Elise.

Arthur, trying not to show his excitement.

“I like to solve riddles, and there might be a great treasure on the end,” said Lady Elise, though she knew something was up, but she didn't push any further.

Someone gave 45 gold, when Arthur raised 50, Arthur won when there was no other bidder. Arthur was relieved. But the presenter didn't seem too happy about the cheap sale of the product he was expecting to be sold at a high price.

Turning to the waiter who came into the room.

"When can we get it" he said

“When the auction is over, the item will be brought to your room, sir,” he said.

The server has switched to the final product. The product came in a box.

“I guess I don't need to explain much for this product,” he said, and opened the box with his own hands. The final item of the auction would often be the most valuable item. All the viewers held their breath and waited for the final product. When the server chest was pulled to the open side, he saw that there was something like a Blue stone inside.

There was silence at first, and then the building fell into complete chaos. There was a voice coming from every head. And it was pretty loud.

Arthur didn't understand what was going on. However, Lady Elisee looked at the chest in amazement.

“What is that?” he said at last.

"Oh you're so lucky Mr arthur, it's been 10 years since a dungen core was last sold." ' he said, overcoming his surprise.

“Is that the dungeon core?” Arthur looked again at the stage where the chest was.

The presenter was trying to maintain order. Finally, after the audience got over the initial shock, they fell silent and began to watch the events that would unfold.

When the situation calmed down, the presenter began to speak.

“As you can tell, this is a Tier 2 dungeon core Auction will start at 10000 gold.” said.

“20000 thousand gold” said one of the 3 floors.

Arthur looked at Lady Elise and said, "Who's on the 3rd floor?"

“The third floor is reserved for the royal nobles, no one can fight them for this core, a Dungen Core means the revival of the economy in their land. 'For this, the nobles are going crazy now. ' she said and smiled.

Before long, it rose to 80000 gold levels. It had been a long time since Arthur had stopped calculating numbers. Everyone was approaching their psychological limit. 91 thousand gold was said and no one increased it. After the server confirms the sale

“Today's Auction is over here. Thank you everyone for participating”

Before long, Someone entered with a lamp in his hand.

Arthur remembered that he didn't have any money with him, and lady Elise asked if we could deduct the money. When Lady Elise nodded, she said to the person who came, "You can withdraw from my account."

Arthur took the lamp and put it in his Enchanted pouch to examine in detail later.

And they headed for the door to exit.

Getting in the carriage and going to the inn

He said, "Well, how did you find the auction?"

“My eyes have been opened, thank you again for inviting me”

The car began to make its way through the dark streets towards Old Mike's inn. Arthur was dying to know what message the lamp in his hand held. But he had to hold out until the inn. And his eyes were on the road.