Chapter 386 - The Final sale
Outside the auction house, Jack was still waiting patiently. There had been no new information and no messages from Ray in a while. But no use was good news.
"At least I don"t hear any screaming. I don"t think Ray"s been in one place for so long without something happening." Jack thought. Although often he would also be the cause of the commotion half the time.
While patiently waiting, it seemed like once again, and another commotion was being caused down the auction house"s pathway. Many people would often travel up and down the auction pathway, as there were stalls spread throughout. It would sometimes be the best place to get a bargain.
Items that we"re unable to be sold in the auction house, or for whatever reason were chosen not to be sold, would be placed here. Because of this, Jack and the others were able to safely stay not too far away from the auction house without raising suspicion.
When Jack turned to look at what was causing such a scene, he could see a group of ten people of all ages, walking down the pathway. Each of them wore Decent armor and equipment and looked like a strong guild. At the front of this group was a female wearing a black scarf around her neck.
"Where have I seen that before." Jack though, thinking he had seen a familiar item like that.
"Do you recognize any of them?" Someone asked from one of the stalls.
"No, but look at what they are wearing, they must form quite a strong guild to afford equipment like that."
"Do you think they are entering the auction?"
Just then, the group of ten fanned out and started to look at items from the stalls. Quite quickly, the reaction they had seemed to calm down.
The female leading them before carried on looking at the auction house, while an old man part of the same group approached her from the side.
"Can you believe it, they don"t; even recognize us from before Katy." The old man said.
"Yes, it"s amazing how we only pa.s.sed through here yesterday as slaves, yet now we are free and looked up to. I hope our king is alright." She said.
Ray had given Katy the orders of buying equipment from everyone using the gold he had given them. Shortly after, they were to wait in front of the inn for further instructions. However, Katy had decided to go against this order. She had a strange feeling that the way her new king had left meant there was something dire about to happen.
Knowing full well where he was Goggin, she had decided to head to the auction house. At first, she wanted to go alone, but the others had decided to follow. As the old man had said, with a shower and a new set of clothes, not a single person knew they were the same slaves as yesterday.
Inside the auction house, the two guards had finally stopped attacking the man with the electrical spears as soon as he had transformed. The bindings around kept him tight, but after only a minute of being transformed into a werewolf, he started to return once again into being a human.
Seeing this, Ray knew exactly what was happening due to his dragon eyes.
"He"s too weak even to keep up the transformation. The only thing they could do was force him." Ray said.
"They"re probably feeding him their bare minimum for days now," Steven said. "They"re scared. If they feed him properly before the contract seal is put on him, he will regain his strength and run away."
The others in the VIP room were suddenly reenergized, and a new feeling had entered the room. It was as if this was the whole purpose of most of them coming to the auction.
Steven looked at the others, and all he could see where all their eyes glued to the person on stage like a pack of meat. They all had a disgusting look on their faces and didn"t even realize what they looked like.
"Are we going to buy this one as well? If we get him, then that means the black ring army will have five in their collection." Bones said, standing next to his boss Fenny.
Both Ray and Steven had overheard their conversation and what they had just said had come as a huge shock to both. Ray had never expected them to obtain so many werewolves, just how many were there? From the information he had gathered, the Blackring had arrived in the town around the same time as them.
Suppose they sold some yesterday and even sold some today. It must have meant they still had quite a few lefts.
"Are they breeding them? Like some breed of dog?" Ray thought.
This also came as an ultimate shock to Steven. He knew some operation was going on. Every month or so, he would gather information about transporting werewolves for sale at the auction house. Now he realized how naive he was being. The information he gathered was only what he could get a hold-off. There were many of his kind that had been sold off, and he was unable to save.
This was something he really couldn"t forgive. There and then, he decided he wasn"t leaving this town until he saw both his mother and father dead. He even felt like death was letting them get off too lightly.
The bidding had started, and the price this time, started at a ma.s.sive amount of 50 gold coins; eventually, it was raised to 70 and purchased by the Black rings. As the top guild in the kingdom, it seemed like they had brought a lot of funds.
The whole reason the Blackrings were in the city of Zrey in the first place was due to Ray. After the incident that happened at their camp, only a few people were wiped out a vital part of their forces. Fenny was worried. He searched for anything to increase the power of his guild when he had come across this.
They had brought over a large amount of gold in hopes of increasing their guild"s power for the future.
Three more a.d.u.l.t werewolves were brought onto the stage, and the same display was shown. The guards would electrocute them until they would transform. Proving that they were indeed werewolves. Seeing this over and over again was causing Steve"s heart to blacken.
Whereas Ray, he knew humans were already this cruel. It didn"t change his thoughts one bit.
"The auction is not over yet, as there was another last-minute addition added into the event. Please, I give you a rare one of a kind. A female child werewolf."
Finally, onto the stage, wrapped in chains and full of tiers. Rachel walked onto the stage.
"Don"t worry, Rachel," Steven said. "We"ll save you no matter what."