Chapter 105 Hell Fire Bombardment
"Thank you all for joining us today at the Cairosa Auction! Since we have quite the stock of items to sell today, especially since we even got a few last-minute surprises, I'll cut the small talk and introduce to you the first item!" The auctioneer shouted out as Shiro opened her eyes.
With an auction in a city this big, she should be able to find quite a few useful items.
"The first item to kick of this auction is a Skill Stone! Yes! You heard me right. The fabled skill stone that grants you whichever skill is hidden inside the skill stone! Not only that, but we have a total of 3 skill stones to auction!"
Shiro widened her eyes the moment she heard that.
'Skill Stone already??!!'
Even for a big city like Cairosa, a skill stone should still be extremely rare and yet, there were three skill stones being auctioned.
"The first skill stone has the skill Warden's Protection. A tanker skill that increases the defences of your teammates. The increase is equal to half of your own defence, plus, it also gives them a barrier that is equal to 20% of your HP! The bidding starts at 50 million! With no less than 1 million increments!"
"I bid 60 million!"
"65 million!"
"80 million!"
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Shouts for the prices could be heard as Shiro thought about the item. From what the auctioneer had described, a skill like this was a god send. But naturally, there had to be downsides to the skill as well.
With bonuses like that, the downside would probably something along the lines of weakening the caster.
Glancing over at her own income, Shiro could only shake her head. Right now she had a balance of 59 million. And yet, the first bet had already put her out of the bidding competition.
'Welp robbing it is.' Shiro thought to herself and glanced at the current highest bidder.
However, they were soon replaced by someone on the second floor.
*BING!
An astronomical value of 150 million appeared on the balcony of one of the rooms.
The bidder was a young man with short black hair. Besides him, were two body guards that looked almost identical. They both wore a suit and black shades that hid their eyes.
"Oh my, seem