WTYTIAAN Chapter 10
by VolareLillian flapped her wings and leaned in, blinking her eyes at the thing Yan Yunqing took out.
“Dragon scale?!” Lillian exclaimed, “You can even pull out dragon scales, what is your identity?!”
The dragon race can basically be considered the strongest individual combat force on this continent. Each dragon is a natural warrior with considerable destructive power, and their entire body is a treasure. Every part of a dragon is an excellent material for alchemy and medicine.
Even their feces…
Ah, well, that’s a bit of a smelly topic.
In short, if the dragons weren’t so powerful, their race would have been exterminated by humans who coveted their body parts long ago.
Even the strongest guard beside that perverted prince, no, all the guards, would only have a 10% chance of winning against a dragon. One breath from a dragon, and they’d all be happily kicking the bucket.
Unlike the angel race, which has secluded themselves for many years and can’t be found, the dragon race occasionally comes out to be active. Each time, they inevitably come out to harm the human race, slaughtering everything like a killing machine to show their presence and warn those who harbor malice towards the dragon race before returning.
From this, it can be seen how popular dragon-related items are in human territories.
After all, they are alchemy and medicine materials that are worth more than they cost.
Lillian couldn’t control herself and almost pounced on it, disregarding her image. “You’re taking out such valuable things… Wait, you’re not planning to use this to blow up the Auction House, are you?”
Lillian looked at Yan Yunqing with shock and a pained expression, as if looking at a spendthrift, “You…”
“Isn’t that okay? This should be quite valuable.” Yan Yunqing said casually, “You add more of those prank spells to it. When the auction is about to end, we detonate it, and we can successfully create chaos.”
The Auction House will definitely take good care of such a good thing after they get it. Maybe they’ll directly hand it over to the highest-ranking person in charge present at the Auction House today—an explosion on an important figure should cause quite a stir, right?
Even if it’s directly put away, the place where it’s stored should be very important, right?
When the venue becomes chaotic, it will be their chance to escape.
Lillian quickly understood the stakes and Yan Yunqing’s plan. She clicked her tongue and painfully touched the dragon scale, “But we don’t necessarily have to use a dragon scale…”
Yan Yunqing waved his hand, “This thing isn’t worth much to me, but it’s the most valuable thing to the Auction House.”
Yan Yunqing didn’t understand the current conflict between the human race and the dragon race, but when he played 《Demon King》, the blood and scales of dragons were very precious alchemy materials.
Although time has changed quite a bit, the characteristics of these materials shouldn’t have changed much.
Dragon items aren’t worth much to Yan Yunqing. When establishing the empire in the early stages of 《Demon King》, Yan Yunqing’s main character forcefully subdued the dragon race before incorporating them into his forces.
During this process, he collected a lot of scales, blood, and other materials. He even had complete dragon bones and dragon tendons, but those took up too much space and were thrown into the palace warehouse.
I wonder if his palace has been preserved after so long?
It contains a lot of good things he got from farming the Dragon Valley dungeon… The dragon’s treasure trove is really rich!
To the point that the dragon prince was beaten so badly that he seemed to have developed Stockholm syndrome, gradually becoming perverted towards the Demon King. He personally drew his tendons, peeled his bones, and even selected the most beautiful scales to make a set of armor for the Demon King.
That armor is still quietly lying in his backpack.
Yan Yunqing looked away with a slightly guilty conscience. If he had to say which of the Demon King’s dependents was most in line with the game’s announcement of “wanting to slay the king due to the Demon King’s disappearance and riots,” it would be this dragon prince.
His settings weren’t good to begin with, so it’s understandable that he became even more perverted later.
…When he gets out, he has to avoid the dragon race. This race is also long-lived. If that dragon prince isn’t dead, then he’ll be the one to die.
Just thinking about it is annoying.
Lillian wanted to struggle for a while, but time didn’t allow her to consider it further, because Yan Yunqing calmly pressed the “add 10,000 gold coins” button more than a dozen times under the gaze of that Bato Fifth Prince.
He even made a face at the prince.
What are you looking at? It’s one-way glass, do you think you can glare at me? Stupid, you’re glaring in the wrong direction!
Yan Yunqing wanted to laugh when he saw the Fifth Prince glaring at the air. “Hurry up and put on the magic, remember to do it discreetly. I think the Auction House attendants will come to check if we’re qualified to bid soon.”
With so many private rooms, the Auction House couldn’t possibly know the identities of everyone in every room, especially someone like Yan Yunqing, who was invited up midway.
To avoid bidding a high price but the guest not having the money to pay in the end, the Auction House would definitely come to confirm his identity, or rather, his bidding capital.
Then the dragon scale will have to be given out. You can’t do anything in front of the attendants, right? Wouldn’t that be like an old man hanging himself, tired of living?
Lillian gritted her teeth and did as Yan Yunqing said. She took out a small magic wand from somewhere and carved complicated patterns on the dragon scale with magic power while feeling heartbroken.
The Bato Prince had his face ruined in public by Yan Yunqing, who was hiding in the private room. His face turned red, and he looked like he wanted to rush in and argue with Yan Yunqing. He was stopped by several guards around him. After saying something, the prince glared at the air again and turned back to his compartment.
The host on the stage was still smiling. Someone bidding a higher price was obviously better for him. Who it was didn’t really matter.
However, qualifications still had to be verified, so the host on the stage wasn’t in a hurry to drop the hammer three times. He was still chatting casually to buy time, making the people below laugh from time to time.
“Knock knock.” The door to Yan Yunqing’s compartment was soon knocked on. At the same time, Lillian’s magic rune drawing was completed.
They looked at each other. Lillian decisively flew into Yan Yunqing’s hood and became invisible again.
Yan Yunqing pulled on his hood to make sure his ears wouldn’t show, and then raised his voice, “Come in.”
An attendant dressed person lowered his head and walked in respectfully. Unlike the one who received Yan Yunqing at the beginning, this person had a dark blue handkerchief pinned to his chest.
The host on the stage also had a handkerchief on his chest, which was light pink. It seemed that this Auction House had rules for distinguishing functions or status by the color of the handkerchief on the chest.
When the attendant closed the door and turned around, he quickly glanced at Yan Yunqing’s appearance. The look wasn’t offensive. If Yan Yunqing hadn’t been watching him, he might not have noticed it.
After confirming that Yan Yunqing wasn’t a young master from any aristocratic family he was familiar with, his attitude was still respectful, without any intention of looking down on Yan Yunqing.
“Sir, you have just bid for goods worth more than one million gold coins. Our Auction House has regulations that for auction items worth more than one million gold coins, guests need to pay a deposit in advance. May I ask how you would like to pay?”
The other party’s voice was like a breeze, speaking softly and slowly, making people feel comfortable listening to it. No wonder the Auction House would let him do this job of verifying qualifications, it was a very offensive job.
Yan Yunqing pulled on the brim of his hood, took out the dragon scale that Lillian had drawn the prank magic on from his arms, and threw it casually on the table in front of him. The dragon scale slid a short distance along the smooth table, accurately stopping in front of the attendant.
“Is this enough?” Yan Yunqing lowered his voice slightly, making the sound slightly different from his own tone.
The attendant lowered his head, listening to Yan Yunqing’s words, he almost didn’t react. After judging what the scale on the table was, a clear look of surprise appeared on his face.
It had to be said that the attendants of the largest Auction House in an empire were very mentally strong. Even if he was surprised in his heart, he didn’t do anything rude. He just showed more respect to Yan Yunqing.
No matter what the identity of the young nobleman in front of him was, he was not a small attendant who could offend him.
“Does sir want to use this as collateral, or as an auction item for auction?” The attendant quickly wrapped the dragon scale with the handkerchief on his chest.
“If sir wants to auction it, why not directly trade it to our Auction House? Our Auction House can take this dragon scale at three times the recent dragon scale transaction price, and we will not charge any transaction fees. What do you think, sir?”
If he didn’t participate in the auction, this price was indeed a very reasonable, even very high price.
Yan Yunqing’s original intention was not to sell dragon scales. Hearing this proposal, he couldn’t help but smack his tongue at the Auction House’s generous offer.
They were really rich. No wonder that prince could spend millions of gold coins to buy a mermaid.
Yan Yunqing, who had tens of millions of gold coins in his backpack, commented like this.
I’ll fight you rich people. JPG
“It’s just a small toy, whatever. It’s enough for me to pay for that mermaid.”
Yan Yunqing showed that he didn’t care about the gold coins at all, and looked like a lavish spender. “When it’s over, the remaining gold coins will be your reward.”
Yan Yunqing didn’t dare to let these people send the gold coins over first. The dragon scale he gave would explode in a while to create an opportunity for him to escape. If the Auction House had any way to track the location of the gold coins, wouldn’t he be carrying a bunch of locators with him if he took these gold coins?
Hearing Yan Yunqing’s “money-spreading” speech, the expression on the attendant’s face became more sincere.
Anyone would be happy to hear that they could get such a large reward next.
The attendant quickly left Yan Yunqing’s private room with the dragon scale in his hands, his footsteps hurried, and he even started running after leaving Yan Yunqing’s line of sight.
“How is it?” The manager looked at the compartment that had bid millions of gold coins from afar, unable to recall any news of any noble young master coming to the Auction House today. “Did you confirm the identity of that person?”
“I haven’t seen that young master’s face, so I’m not sure which family he’s from, but he gave this.” The attendant handed the dragon scale wrapped in the handkerchief to the manager. “And he’s dressed modestly, but actually very luxurious. He’s likely from Romunike… or maybe a noble or royal member from there?”
Hearing this, the manager took out a portable magnifying glass from the pocket in front of his collar, took the attendant’s handkerchief, and looked at it carefully. “It’s actually a dragon scale… Someone who can take out a dragon scale for trading at will, this person seems to be really rich and noble.”
“Then sell that thing to him. Later, you can send that mermaid directly to his compartment without waiting for the auction to end, and sell a favor to that young master.”
The manager properly put away the dragon scale. “If he bids for anything else next, send it over as well.”
“Yes.” The attendant responded. “Do you need to send someone to investigate the truth?”
“Did he come alone?”
“Yes, there is only one person in the private room, but I’m not sure if there are other people hiding their aura.”
The manager pondered, “No need, this kind of noble person will definitely have people protecting them in secret. There are other people with ulterior motives in the Auction House today, so don’t provoke other forces.”
“Yes.”
The attendant went down to do things according to the manager’s instructions. The manager looked at the location of the compartment a few more times, thought for a moment, turned his steps and entered the Fifth Prince’s room.
Compared to an disobedient half-breed mermaid, the value of the dragon scale was much higher. However, Lord Fei Wu’s emotions still had to be taken care of, lest this Fifth Prince caused trouble again and brought trouble to the Augreir Family and Lord Shelton.