As soon as the three chained woman were dragged on the stage, various gazes fell on them, inspecting every little detail on them from head to toe.
Amon also looked at them with a curious gaze, for them to be auctioned off here meant that they were probably no normal slaves.
The first two women in the row looked almost identical, their long raven black hair flowed down their backs, delicate slightly tanned skin and long ears which showed that both these women were probably elves.
However, in contrary to their beautiful appearance, their eyes were full of fear and despair.
Nonetheless, they were both very beautiful, however both of them paled in comparisons to the third one.
She had long white hair cascading down her back, snow-white skin without even the tiniest flaw, beautiful crimson eyes and a face which looked like it was sculptured by the best craftsman this world has ever seen.
This caused most of the man present in the hall to stare at her, but yet in comparison to the twins whose eyes were full of fear, the third woman had none of that.
Her piercing crimson eyes surveyed the room with a mixture of hatred and defiance.
Even though she was bound by shackles, she refused to yield to her destiny.
Seeing her look Amon was reminded of his past in the void like her, he was also once confined with no way to escape, alone with no one else to rely on with an unknown future awaiting him.
Yet, like he did, she did not fall into despair.
However, he was soon interrupted with his thoughts as James started talking
"Our last three items today are three slaves two elves and one vampire.
They were captured on a planet named Evandel which a clan from central continent recently conquered.
After they got captured, they were brought back to our world and then bought by a representative of our auction house in the central continent.
The elven twins will be sold off as a pair and the vampire separately.
Because elves and vampires are both part of a species whose live expectantsy is much higher than that of humans, they are first rated research material if you are researching a way to prolong your life. Besides that, all three of them are still virgins, so you could have fun with them before you start your research or sell them to someone else."
After these words left his mouth, Amon could see a shiver ran through both elves while the vampire directed her gaze full of hatred towards James. James however didn't care about their reaction and continued with his speech,
"All of them are under the influence of an enslavement spell, so they can't harm themselves or others without the command of their master and will experience a strong pain whenever they don't follow the command of their master. But enough talk, let's start the bidding for the elven twins the starting bid is 10 000 gold and each additional bid has to be at least 1000 coins higher than the one before."
"11 000" Could soon be heard from lounge 2
"12 000" replied the bidder from lounge 8
"13 000" shouted someone once again out of lounge 2
"14 000" screamed someone from lounge 7 this time.
This entire spectacle lasted until the price reached 25 000 gold and number 2 once again won the bid.
However, after he won the bid, Amon inspected the magus in the second lounge closer.
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He was about halfway to rank 2 but looking at his old and wrinkled appearance Amon concluded that his life expectantsy should be a few more years at most so he most likely bought the elves to try to increase his lifespan before he died to get enough time to reach rank 2.
While Amon inspected the magus the two elves were brought away, after what he knew about that auction they should only be delivered to the lounge of the buyer after the end of the auction, so for now they probably locked them somewhere up.
Amon wasn't interested in these elves personally, the vampire was far more interesting, but he felt pity for them.
He knew how the magi handled a conquered world, anyone talented or useful to the research of the magi will be brought back as slaves, while everyone who resists or deemed useless will be killed.
Most worlds are at peace so they most likely never faced something like the invasion of the magi, they probably saw a lot of disturbing things before they ended up here.
While thinking about their fate, he used his soul senses to scan the building, immediately finding the elves locked up in a room covering in a corner while holding each other's hands.
While looking at them, he thought,
'With their behavior, keeping them will be very bothersome for me.
Maybe I can free them, but what will they do without anyone to rely on in a different world ?
This would pretty much guarantee that they would be captured again in the best case scenario.
I can't bring them to their original planet either because it is also controlled by the magi, and they probably wouldn't face a much better situation than here.
So the fastest solution would be to take them back to their planet and kill all magi there before placing the planet in a different spot, so it won't be found again.
However, to do that he would need to find out where that planet actually is and for that he would need to find out which clan sold these elves than find someone in the clan who knows the world coordinates than he had to travel there to find and erase all magi before dropping the elves off.
Just thinking about all of that made him lose his motivation, 'I need at least a few hours for all that stuff' he thought.
'Well I am currently occupied and don't really feel like searching a planet so let's just do it later, and I can just store the two elves away and release them if I find their planet or a similar one in the future.'
Still sitting in his lounge with Sophie standing behind him, he reached out with his will towards the elves, and before they even realized what happened they suddenly disappeared without a trace, only to appear again in a section of the void realm.
Within the void realm, if Amon wished it there would be no time, so the twins just floated around in the dark void, frozen in time without even realizing it.
If Amon let them out a few years later, it would seem to them that they just left the room they were locked in.
"Well, this is most likely the easiest solution for me" Amon mumbled to himself.
"I'm sorry I couldn't understand you, your Highness" said Sophie after hearing Amon mumbling.
Amon replied still a bit in thoughts "Just forget it I was talking to myself" Hearing that Sophie simply nodded.
Soon, Amon concentrated again on the currently ongoing auction for the vampire.
The current bid was already at 30 000 gold even higher than both elves combined and was still rising as soon another bid of 35 000 was announced from lounge 2
'This old man must be really rich he bought most items in the auction and still has enough money to bid on the vampire. Well it doesn't matter I have more' He thought while raising his voice and said in a calm slightly bored manner "50 000"
For the first time in this auction all eyes were focused on him until now no one really bothers looking at him much he was in an VIP lounge, but he never bid on anything during the whole auction, so nobody cared about him.
"60 000" could be heard from lounge 2, but Amon didn't care about that raise and said again in a bored tone "100 000".
As soon as these words left his mouth he could feel strong Mana fluctuations near lounge 2.
'The old man is probably angry right now' he thought, however the old man did not increase his bid anymore.
A few seconds later the ecstatic voice of James could be heard as he said "Sold for 100 000 gold to the young gentleman in lounge 1. Sadly this was our last item in today's auction, I hope everyone got what they came for anyone who bought something please wait by your seats we will send someone to collect the payment and bring you your wares, I hope everyone enjoyed this event."
After he said this, James left the stage and like him many others who didn't buy anything also left, leaving the hall empty for the most parts because the most items were bought from someone in one of the VIP lounges.
A few minutes went by, and a knock could be heard on the door before it slowly opened, revealing Midas, who was followed by a guard and the vampire.