Agatha The Legendary Guild Master

The door of this building had nothing special about it like the whole building, so when I stood in front of it I didn't imagine it would shine by dark red light suddenly out of nowhere.

It was the same light as the token, which was in my hand. I looked at it again to see it was shining with the same color. Everything happened so fast, as in less than a few moments we all disappeared from here leaving the place quite as it was.

As for us, we appeared inside a spacious hall that couldn't be better described by any word other than luxurious.

We were standing in front of long stairs, made of strange metal that was prettier than any jewelry I had ever seen. The stairs were in dark red color, like the color of the token in my hand.

"Welcome my guests to our modest auction hall."

Suddenly this loud warm voice appeared coming from far, at the end of those stairs. He was a fat, really fat NPC who was moving with strange agility that didn't match his body.

I waited for him to descend all these stairs, and then I said:

"We came here on the invitation of this token."

I raised my token to be seen by him. the NPC smiled warmingly as he said:

"I know, I was notified by the auction house of your presence. May I know your name? come come, don't stay outside like that, come with me."

He motioned with his hands towards the front. I didn't refuse his gesture as I started to climb these long stairs. On the sides of the stairs, there were many statues that pictured men and women doing everything related to trade and bargain.

I saw a statue of a merchant counting coins, another for a merchant weighing something, and many other statues describing moments inside the auction house.

Everything here was clear evidence over this place trade, however that wasn't the case from outside.

"May I know your name please?"

This fat NPC had crossed all the stairs we climbed in no time and stood next to me as he asked that. I simply replied:

"My name is Agatha. By the way, why do you try to hide yourselves? The building from the outside was really misleading."

My question was met by a short laugh from that NPC as he explained:

"It's the policy of our secret merchant hall. We don't like to attract any undesired attention, or uninvited guests. Our guests are usually special people who don't like meddling with the common. They also hate to be disturbed by people they don't know."

His answer gave me a clear view over this place, it wasn't a normal auction hall. This was like a dark market, hidden from the eyes of everyone. It wouldn't be strange if I found some nobles here, this place had the distasteful scent of them.

'Be wary princess, this place belongs to one of the great families.'

Shin suddenly sent this warning to me. this swordsman tended to stay away from me lately like he was avoiding me.

'Finally you decided to speak up with me.'

I didn't intend to let him go smoothly like this. I was really mad at him and his weird attitude. I felt he was jeolous, and I hated jeoulus people.

'I thought you don't need me anymore,' he replied.

'Really? Then what about that long story about being cursed and me a reincarnation of a bloody princess?' I asked.

'She wasn't a princess, she was one of a kind, existence above kings and queens,' he replied.

'I don't care what she was, I live my own life as I wish, and that isn't the answer to my question,' I said.

'Hmm, I thought you might need some time to play here, especially this is the first time for me reaching this stage,' he replied.

I wasn't convinced by his reply, he seemed to me like a sore loser. Was he trying to get me by his sweet talks and old forgotten legends? I sighed, this prince was really crazy if he thought he could get me like that.

'Fine, I will take all the time I need to play and have fun,' I said as I didn't read his next messages. I decided to neglect him for now, hoping he would return to his mind and his old self.

It took a few minutes to reach the end of this staircase, where I was met with a more extravagant hall. There were many shiny statues carved of different kinds of ores, which gave the one the feeling of being extraordinary.

"Welcome to our modest auction hall, I hope you can find what you are looking for. My name is Mody, and I'll be your assistant today."

I was attracted by these fat NPC words, which made me realise something.

"I can buy things here, like the usual auction house, right?"

"Yes you can buy things here, however things put to auction here can be bought by gold coins or by direct exchange with other items," he said while leading the way towards a free table with enough big seats for the five of us.

"What about selling things here? my purpose to come here is to sell not buy."

"You can sell whatever you want, my fine lady. Please sit here and enjoy our service. Tell me what do you want to sell exactly?"

I just sat on the seat, which gave me the feeling of sinking deeply into it. I suddenly had the idea of sleeping here and rest for a while, a thought that my mind rejected firmly as I said:

"Shin, show him samples of what we will sell here."

Shin took out several equipment that I knew of, dragon and cragen pieces of equipment began to show up in front of Mody, who began to inspect them carefully for some time before muttering:

"these equipment came from the secret dragon and cragen dungeon if I'm not mistaken," he then turned to look at me with widened eyes, "How did you get this dungeon?"

I was taken aback by his recognition of the dungeon, however I calmed myself the next moment. It was simply possible for these NPCs to have a special skill to know the origin of any equipment.

"That's none of your business, you just need to know we have thousands of these equipment to sell."

I had to be sharp and not give any chance for him to ask for further information. He didn't give up on my dungeon as he rushed to say:

"There is a request from a special customer who wants to get his hands on this dungeon. He is willing to pay a high price for such a dungeon, what do you think? Do you want me to arrange a meeting with him?"

"Not interested, I just want to sell my equipment. Can you arrange that for me or I have to look for another person to do so?"

Mody seemed hesitant for a moment before saying:

"These equipment are special, and if you intend to sell a huge amount of them then you will get yourself a high price indeed."

"Good, Shin, tell him how much equipment we have, and leave a full set of spearman class on the side for me."

Shin looked at me hesitantly then he said:

"Unfortunately there was no equipment for spearman class."

"How? Last time there was so much of this equipment," I said.

"Perhaps because there was no spearman in our group so far that made it possible for not having any spearman class equipment," Rody spoke up his mind.

His theory was acceptable, but for me to be the only spearman in the group was something strange. Was my class so rare? I didn't expect that.

"Anyway, just tell him what we have."

Shin then started to narrate what we have to Mody. After he finished, Mody said with some surprise over his face:

"Fourteen thousand and seven hundred pieces of equipment, that's really a big amount of equipment. Do you want to sell them on patches or one bulk?"

I knew if I wanted to get the highest price from them then I should sell them in patches, but that would take time and I didn't like staying here. so I said:

"Sell them in one go."

"Ok, give me a few minutes then. The auction hall fee is five percent of any transaction done here," he said.

"No problem for me, just finish this task fast. How can I check the goods you sell here?"

I wanted to pass time exploring the goods auctioned here, who knew I might pump into something special or I needed.

"You can explore all the goods through this screen attached to each seat," he said as he pointed towards a button on the hand of my seat. Each seat had this button, which made a screen appear once I pressed it.

It was like the auction house screen, however the goods sold here were strange in names and fewer in number. That was beside the high price of each item. I even noticed a couple of items sold in hundred of thousands of gold coins.

"Let's navigate this list and look for anything that might be useful to us."

"My princess, everything here is beneficial to us," Elyo said with shining eyes that I was familiar with. I sighed, never let a girl begin a shopping tour like this.

"Just select what is beneficial to our upcoming battles and its price is within range," I said with a soft sigh.