Chapter 6: Unexpected reward
In the stage of the auction hall, there are 20 slaves who looked around the age of 12-14. The slaves were chained to each other and bruises could be seen all over their body.
The crowd had mixed reaction upon looking at the slaves on stage, some including Long Jun had an excited expression written on their face, while others looked at the stage with pity
"Let me introduce the 21st item of the night! These children are slaves who are brought from outside of the empire and their origin is very mysterious. Our information gathering squad once mentioned that one of the slaves here belong to a fallen noble house." Kai explained as he gestured to the slaves in the stage
However, Long Jun didn't hear anything that Kai have said as he was fully focus on reading one of the slave's status
[Name: Yue Qing
Age: 14
Talent: 70
Physique: Divine Moon body {The possesor of the Divine Moon body is blessed with very high affinity to the shadow element. The Divine Moon body is one of the most powerful and suitable bodies for practicing shadow arts/ illusion arts. Once the posessor of this body matured, she will be one of the most powerful assasin}
Cultivation: Qi Condensation 1st stage]
'This girl is even more talented than me and Ming Huo!' Long Jun thought to himself as he read through Yue Qing's information
'I should win this bid no matter what it takes' Long Jun said
"Alright! For this round of the auction, the 'goods' are auctioned as a group and if you win the bid, you will win all of the slaves in the stage. The starting bid for this round is 100.000 low grade spirit stones and the minimum increment is 10.000 low grade spirit stones" As soon as Kai said those words, almost all of the people in the crowd who had excited expression began to frown
Even if a participant is interested ine one of the slaves, he/she would at most spend 10,000 low grade spirit stones. It is simply not worth it to pay 100,000 for this batch of slaves.
However, the same case could not be applied to Long Jun, seeing that even the worst slave had a talent of 20
Seeing that no one had bid for the slaves, Kai was about to lower the minimum bid when he heard a sound coming from the furhtest back of the hall
"100,000x low grade spirit stones" Long Jun raised a bid for the first time he entered the auction
Noticing that this was the only chance he could sell the slaves for a high amount, Kai quickly said "100,000 going once, going twice!, sold to the gentleman on the back"
'What an idiot.. hahaha' Kai thought to himself
'An unexpected jackpot hahaha' Long Jun thought
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Night slowly passed and the auction came to an end. As soon as when the auction ended, a staff from the gold organization came up to Long Jun and said "Sir, please follow me to complete your purchase and collect your goods"
"Lead the way" Long Jun said as he followed the staff who brought him to a room near the auction hall
Inside the room, Long Jun could see another staff of the gold organization seeting on a couch and 20 slaves standing behind him
As Long Jun could not wait to turn these slaves to his sect disciples, he hurriedly took out 100,000x low grade spirit stones and handed it to the staff
The staff checked and confirmed that the amount of low grade spirit stone is indeed correct "Sir, I have confirmed that the payment have been completed. I will now then transfer the soul contract of these 20 slaves to you. With the soul contract in your hand, these slaves will follow your every wish." The staff explained
"Alright" Long Jun replied
The soul contract transfer only lasted for just a quick moment and after holding the soul contract for these 20 slaves, Long Jun felt like he could kill all the slaves with just a thought if he wishes to
"Then have a good night sir!" The staff bowed and left the room, leaving Long Jun and the kids alone.
It is a common practice of the gold organization to organize a room for all bidder winner as it is common for winners to be robbed if the winner did not have a powerful background behind him
Looking at the 20 kids who are standing in front of him, Long Jun could tell that all of them are scared and sorrowful
"I am not a bad person, so you all don't need to be scared" Long Jun said in which the slaves began to tensed up even more
"Sigh, it seems you all don't believe me when I say that huh?" He continued speaking and moved closer towards the slave, looking at their face one by one
Most of the slaves did not dare to look at Long Jun in the eye and had their head down, looking at the ground. Noticing that the slaves are really terrified of him, Long Jun then opened his mouth once again
"Alright alright... everyone, can I have your attention for a moment?" Only then did all of the 20 slaves looked to him
As all of the kids were looking at him, Long Jun held the soul contract in his hand and ripped all of the contract and burned them to the dust
"Wha-" one of the slaves were about to say something, but stopped midway
"From now on, every single of you are no longer slaves." Long Jun said slowly as most of the kids were surprised of his actions
Tears ran down their face as they heard Long Jun's words, realising that they could finally live as a normal person
"Do- Does that mean we are free?" one of the kids spoke
"Well, technically yes. However, I did bought all of you with a huge amount of spirit stones, so I could not simply let you go just like that." Long Jun replied
"Then, what are we supposed to do?"
"Ah, you don't need to work for me or anyting. The reason I bought all of you is not to have you all work for me, but to recruit you as my sect disciples."
No reply came from the kids as all of them were shocked to their core hearing Long Jun's words. In this world, cultivating to become strong is the dream of all youngsters, the same goes for these kids. However, as slaves, even the idea of cultivating is just a hopeless dream
"No need to be so surprised. I can sense that all of you are quite talented in cultivating and decided to gamble in all of you. So, how about it, do you want to be the disciples of my sect?"
"YES!!" all the kids replied simultaneously
Ding*
[Side Quest Completed]
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Ding*
[Hidden mission completed: Recruit a disciple who have at least 70 talent]
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'What an unexpected reward'
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