1465 In the Auction House
Alex made his way to the largest auction house in the city, followed by his two elders and a few soldiers that were there to keep guard of him. He walked into the auction house with just his elders, surrounded by many sounds of praises and flattery.
The people in the auction house were more than happy to have Alex come to their auction house.
“To think we would have His Majesty himself grace our auction house, not as a guest, but as a seller is a blessing for all of us,” one of the old men said.
“I cannot even fathom what His Majesty could have that he will be selling,” one of the women said.
Alex walked along without a thought in the world, simply nodding and smiling until they took him to a room with a bit more privacy. Only 3 other people were there, compared to the dozens that had surrounded him outside.
“Would you mind introducing yourselves again?” Alex asked the three.
“I am, Hu Niuju the owner of this auction house, Your Majesty,” an old man with a long nose and gray hair with widow’s peak said.
“I am Bu Fengluo,” the other man with black hair said. He wasn’t as old as the owner, but there was still some age for him. “I am the manager of this auction house.”
“I am Hu Biaolin,” the last of the three, a girl with a beautiful face and bright smile spoke in a soft, sweet tone. Her voice was mesmerizing when she said, “I am the auctioneer of this auction house.”
Alex smiled as the three bowed to him at once. “It’s a pleasure to meet you all,” he said. He turned to the girl and asked, “Since you have the same surname, I assume you are the owner’s daughter?”
“I am, your majesty,” the girl said respectfully. She showed no sign of nervousness when speaking to him at all. “I have trained my whole life to be an auctioneer and am happily one now.”
“I see,” Alex said. “Shall we get to the point then?”
The three were interested. “Please tell us, your majesty, what is it that you wish to sell?” the manager asked.
Alex reached into his storage ring and pulled out 7 pill bottles. “I’m sure you saw the lighting that repeatedly struck the palace in the past few days,” he said. “This is the result of that.”
The three of them were excited. It was obvious that Alex, as an alchemist, was going to bring out pills to sell. They would’ve been surprised if there were no pills involved, but they were quite surprised to see that there wasn’t anything other than just pills.
Sure pills were great and the ones he made were exceptionally so, but… there were only so many pills that the auction could accept. If any of the pills were in the least bit unnecessary, they would have to refuse to sell them for the sake of their customers.
And yet, how could they refuse a King so easily? They felt slightly awkward, and the three did not speak at all.
Alex understood their situation and decided to give them some levity by telling them what the pills were.
“Let us start with the first pill here,” he said, opening a pill bottle and taking a pill out of it. It was a blue pill with lightning scars on it, exactly 5 of them.
The 3 people looked at the pill with curious eyes. More so than the pill, they were curious about the pill veins, which they had never seen in a pill, ever in their life.
They were aware of it, thanks to the show that Alex had put on when he had first arrived in this continent, but this was their first time seeing these pill veins, so they were more than amazed by it.
“This is the Saint Lightning Resistance pill,” Alex said, ignoring their awe. “Eating this gives you resistance to lightning up to a certain degree.”
This was the pill that he had to finish the recipe for the 10 Elders when he was first brought along to the Sunborn Sanctuary all those years ago. He had since not only made pills multiple times but had also made ones that had 8 pill veins.
The ones he was presenting were with simply 5 pill veins and were thus a very bad one. This was no different than what he had given the beasts.
“Theory is, if you eat this, you will have a much easier time when breaking through to the Immortality realm as you will be able to fight the Tribulation lightning without taking much damage.”
“What?” the owner was the first to react. “It can resist tribulation lightning?” he asked.
“That is the theory,” Alex said. “It can block normal lightning, I’ve tried that, but I’m not sure about tribulation lightning. However, we can be certain that this recipe is 10s of thousands of years old, so it is possible that it can do what I say I can.”
“So, Will this pill be possible to be sold in this place? Or will it cause a problem?” Alex asked.
The manager shook his head. “Cultivators will do anything to surpass Immortality. Just the possibility that this pill brings will make them buy it. We will happily accept that pill. It will be one of the best things we will be selling”
Alex chuckled a little. “I hope that is not true as this is the worst pill I will be selling today,” he said, putting the pill back into the bottle. “There are 5 pills here, so record that.”
The girl took the bottle and wrote a talisman with what Alex had said just now before wrapping it around the pill bottle.
Alex then brought the second bottle out and popped out a pill.
The pill had a soft, creamy white color, once again with the many veins. Alex presented the pill.
“This is the Saint Spirit Immunity Pill,” Alex said. “If you eat this pill, you will be immune to all forms of Spiritual attacks for a certain amount of time.”
This was the pill that Alex had received through Jai Heiyun in order to perfect it. She had used her reward to either receive a perfect pill recipe or to improve an existing recipe and that was how Alex had come to get it.
“It is originally meant to last for an hour or two, but with the pill veins, it can last for nearly 5 hours,” he said. “However, this comes with the chance that the energy is exhausted if you are continuously bombarded with spiritual attacks.”
“If you are not, however, this pill works fantastically.”
The three were in shock. “It… makes you immune to spiritual attacks?” the owner asked.
“Completely,” Alex said. “For the first two hours of eating the pill, you can forget about ever being hurt by a spiritual attack. The later hours are where it wears off, so you will have to be more careful there.”
“Woah!” the owner said. “That is amazing. What about the drawback?”
“No drawbacks,” Alex said. “Well, except for the fact that the pill has diminishing effects if eaten back to back.”
“Incredible,” the owner said. “Honey, write that down.”
The owner’s daughter wrote it all in a talisman and wrapped it around the pill bottle once Alex handed it over.
“This is the next pill,” Alex said, bringing out another pill. This one had a jade green color to it with specks of black all over it in a uniform pattern. Streaks of black lightning scars covered it entirely, five of them in total.
“It is called the Saint Poison Neutralizing Pill,” he said. “As you can imagine from the name, it is an antidote pill.”
The three nodded, slightly surprised by the fact that Alex was deciding to pull out this pill after the last one. Why would he pull out an antidote after such an amazing pill?
“But of course,” Alex continued. “This isn’t a normal antidote pill. In fact, I do not believe it is even fair to call it an antidote as you will never be poisoned after eating this pill in the first place.”
“This pill is something you eat beforehand and the energy settles in your body. Once you are affected by a poison, the energy in this pill can kill it even before it shows any effect,” Alex said. “If you are ever to come across a pill that would kill you instantly, this is the pill that will help you survive.”
This was a pill that Alex upgraded using a pill he had found in an auction in the Silvermoon City in the Northern Continent. It was Ronron that had bought it in his stead and he had upgraded the True rank pill to create this Saint pill.
“A precautionary pill,” the manager said curiously. “And how many poisons can it protect you from?”
“I have yet to test it out entirely, however, from what I do know about poison, this level of pill will make you completely immune to any Level 8 poisons.”
“It can also protect you completely against some Level 9 poisons, but it has to be on a case-by-case basis. As for Level 10, it is not possible to be sure, but we can just say it doesn’t for the sake of it,” Alex said.
“Even so, Level 8… “the owner said. “That would mean that all naturally available poisons and venoms can be stopped using this pill in advance.”
Alex nodded. “It is good, isn’t it?”