Chapter 9: Dark emerald katana
"whaa- ? hunting missions?"
his almost popped out looking at the screen, heavenly fate.. this is the first time he heard this term, so he asked the system.
<< the heavenly fate can be described as a fate or destination, as for the heavenly fate itself, it can lead you to your toughest times to fortuitous time to help you achieve a certain destination. >>
"in other words a portagonists cheat that helps them to get any women, power.. "
<< that's certainly explains but every heavenly fate is different from one another in terms of capability and paths. >>
"ah.. so that's the main factor the MC's in the novels becoming op."
...
[the 10th item is the eye of gorgon, this treasure is also retrieved from the ruins of Skyfall city. ]
[this can be used as a alchemy ingredient, or a ingredient to forge wepons]
[starting price is 500000 spirit stones...]
"well what's that system?"
<< I am not your fu*king appraiser or something.. i am just guiding you. >>
he was speechless, staring at the light blue system screen, he sighed in disappointed.
"well why is this system is so different than the novels.."
he looked at the 'gorgon eye' that locked in a glass box that also half covered in a brown cloth.
suddenly he noticed the stare of the hooded guy at balcony of the private rooms.
he was shocked to find this guy in this auction, but the hooded guy looked away entered the room again.
Ethan was able to recognize him at a first glance with his black robe with same patterns and same hood, he was more shocked to find him in the private chamber of the 'Ruan' clan.
he immediately processed some possibilities, but didn't dare to come to an conclusion.
while the man in hood noticed him and immediately contacted Alice through a jade slip,
"Hey i spotted Ethan in the general chamber, but it seems he noticed me staring at him."
"whaat? Ethan really? are you sure? I don't know what is he doing here, but i think he just here to watch the event, let him be.."
as he ended his call Alice looked back at his god mother, who is staring at the 'gorgon eye'.
"Mother do you like this eye?"
"yeah? actually i am thinking if we can forge a sword by using this eye, what kind of ability would we get?"
she said with a clam expression, without even looked at him, that pissed him.
"I see.. if mother likes it so much, why not bid for it?"
"Alice, call me god mother, okay?, and i am just curious, it's not worth spending so much spirit stones."
"Understood, god mother."
he looked down and gritted his teeth in anger, he looked around him, there was general Kim looking at him.. he felt humiliated.
'just wait... God- mother...'
after a while now is the turn for 13th item.
Ethan's eye shone as he looked at the stage, the bunny girl uncovered the black cloth from the sword, that was a katana.
[Now for the 13th item we have this dark emerald katana, this is a earth grade weapon similar grade to the black demon sword.]
[we don't know about it's origin, and the name is something given by us, so from the expert's appraisal we are able to define it's grade.]
[the starting price is 60000 spirit stones...]
This caught Ethan's eyes, he looked at the katana while drooling, as he was always a big fan of katana.
'i want this...'
[let's start the bid.]
"65000 spirit stones"
yes, Ethan was the one who raised the bid.
"68000!"
a lady from the general chamber bid for 68000.
"tsk, 70000!"
meanwhile Alice looked at Ethan from the duke family's private chamber, in first floor.
'what the heck is this guy doing... a earth grade katana, huh? i should bid.. nah, katana isn't my thing anyway.'
Elizabeth felt his heart beating fast, her eyes widened, as she heard the voice, she got up and walked to the balcony.
"Your Grace?"
all the people and the host dumbfounded looking at the Duchess, but she looked around, then spotted a certain individual, who was sitting on the corner of the general chamber, she foucused on him a bit.
"Ethan?"
she blurted out loudly.
"Mother?"
Ethan looked at his mother, while gulping saliva, his heart started to beat fast, just looking at her beautiful face made him blush, no one noticed that though.
"oh! im sorry.. Ethan come up here."
"you don't need to apologize Your Grace,"
all people said while staring at her beautiful face, she didn't care looking at them, as Ethan nodded and rushed upstairs to the Duke's family VIP chamber.
"hello mother, it's been a while..."
he said, while a smile on his face, but it's too hard for her, her heart was beating too fast, it's been years since she last saw his face, now it's more difficult for her to keep calm, looking at his handsome face.
"h-hello Ethan, come take a seat."
he glanced at Alice who was as shocked as others because of Elizabeth's action, meanwhile the lady who bid for the katana gulped and looked away.
[now let's continue the auction, 70000 spirit stones, any higher bid?]
"do you like the katana Ethan?"
"yes mother i like it, can you get that for me?"
he grabbed her hand with his hand, and looked at her with his eyes pleading her while a small grin appeared on his face, she immediately turned her head away hiding her blushing red face.
"S-sure why not."
"thank you mother."
"hahaha, n-no need to thank me."
Alice was shocked looking at her reaction, and clenched his fist, before looking away.
as no one raised the bid, Ethan got the katana for 70000 SS.
"Ethan! when did you come here?"
"from the very beginning.. "
they both are sitting facing each other the sofa, but they couldn't look directly at each other, it's not because of some grudge or something, but their hearts were beating very fast, they both are nervous.
Elizabeth who was a extremely beautiful lady, her silver hairs, flawless white skin with her small face sky-blue pupils and her pointy ears, in short a total goddess, in her early 40s, she looked very young almost as if she was in her early 20s, she was totally giving a vibe of a young maiden not a Milf, Ethan resembles his mother a lot, any one would guess them as siblings.
he had shoulder length silver hairs and skin as flawless as her, but her pupils were pitch black, his face is very symmetrical, overall he wasn't inferior to her mother in terms of looks.
suddenly her expression changed she looked down, while fidgeting her fingers.
"then...why didn't you come here?"
she asked him in a slow voice.
"that's.." he explained about his visit, and how he got here..
"well.. you were busy so, I thought I'll talk to you later"
she felt very relieved, and smiled at him, "i see.. do you want to talk about something ?"
"that's.. i will visit you tommorow?"
"o-okay!"
he looked around and thought it's not a good idea, to discuss about this.
the auction continued.
[the 14th item, we have this 'lightning elemental Crystal ', i think everyone is aware of how to use this, so let's begin the bidding]
[started price of the Elemental Crystal is 1 million spirit stones, least raising bid is 10000 SS.]
"1.1million"
"1.2"
"1.25 million"
"1.28 million."
"Mother, you have lightning element right?"
"yeah, it's already a advanced now."
"wow... that's great."
As they were chatting Alice looked at Ethan who was sitting next to Elizabeth, and clicked his tongue.
after sometime now is the time for the last item, Ethan felt the hype overrated this event, but the items weren't that great.
[now this is the last item we are going to auction today]
A woman brought a wooden box to the stage and placed on a table.
[this is a kasaya of heavenly grade, and this is a very powerful defense type artifact.]
everybody looked at a certain chamber where some Buddhist monks from were staring at the kasaya with glittering eyes.
but who cares about man everyone looking at a certain lady among them.
she was a beautiful lady with long black hairs, right! she isn't bald, her eyes were glowing golden, and she was wearing a white long robe, that prevents anyone to guess her size, and curves.
"mother, who are they?"
"ah.. they are from ' Nirvana palace ' it's in the southern region."
"i see, so.. ladies can be monks too?"
"of course.. why not?"
"it's just the first time seeing one."
'what a pity... a beautiful monk lady?'
Ethan already laid his eyes on her, though it's hard to conquer a monk but not impossible, after all he had what it takes.
...
At the end of the auction the monks managed to buy the kasaya in 3 million spirit stones.
after dealing with the payment Ethan got his katana, and they planned to leave.
as the stepping out of the auction house, they could see the Ruan clan before the carriages.
both party stopped and glared at each other, all the men from the Ruan clan staring at Elizabeth, while the general Kim took out his sword as they snapped out.
"Nice to meet you, Your Grace congratulations for obtaining the dark emerald katana."
she scoffed at them.
"it's for my Ethan.. anyway, we are in a hurry, so we excuse ourselves."
she didn't bother looking back and jumped to the horse carriage.
"come in Ethan i will drop you."
"sure moth-"
"call me mom like you used to."
"okay mom!"
the guard led Alice to another carriage as they left.
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