Chapter 25-The auction II
We arrived at the auction hall shortly. It was not very far from my mansion. There was a lot of people trying the enter the hall. This was also special day when outer and inner disciples were allowed to enter core disciples zone in the sect. So, you could see multitude of disciples from lower ranks that came just to have a look.
Auction hall had four entrances. That being one for outer disciples and elders, second one from inner disciples and elders, third one was for core ones and last was from VIPs. We headed straight to VIP entrance. Looks of jealousy evident on thousands of disciples and elders as they looked at me walking towards the VIP entrance with two beauties in tow.
I ignored the looks and let the miss Ai lead me. We arrived in front of the entrance with three rather strong cultivators. Two standing next to the entrance itself and one checking invitations that enabled one to enter via VIP access. As he steeped towards us, he spoke.
"Invitation please!" He looked at me but Miss AI quickly reacted and pulled the paper from her ring.
"Here!" She extended a hand with the paper towards the person .
The man took the papers looked at them and then quickly returned them to miss AI and stepped aside.
"Please go ahead and have a nice evening Lady assassination section leader Weng!"
He bowed deeply as he spoke.
"Thanks!" Spoke Ai as we started walking towards the entrance.
Once inside we were led to a personal cabin. It screamed luxury. There was a sofa and coffee table both lined with gold with some precious gemstones socketed into it and very expensively looking fabric woven in. The table had even mural glass top.
One could see paintings on three walls and on the ceiling was a chandelier that looked like it was made out of pure gold. The fourth wall was covered by silverish metal. An assistant that led us inside spoke.
"If you need something please use the bell on the table I will be here right away. To watch the auction please use the control panel on the table. Once activated you should be able to see outside but nobody can see inside, for bidding again please use control panel. As an VIP you don't need to overbid you just need to match the existing offer!"
We nodded to her and thanked her. She quickly left the room after that. We sat on the sofa. I was put in the middle with AI and Yuki cuddling into me from each side like it was no big deal. I placed one of my hands on Yuki's thigh and started to gently caress it up and down. This was when Ai surprised me with her boldness when she grabbed my other hand and placed it on her thigh while she cuddled into me so much that I was starting to thing that she wants to merge with me. But when I looked at her and seen her smile, she was enjoying her mischief a lot. So, I just squeezed her thigh a little and then started to caress it up and down, almost touching her sacred garden every time I went up, exactly like I did it with Yuki. I glanced at Ai and seen her still smiling and even winking at me, after that I looked to the other side towards Yuki which was smiling and encouraging me to go for it I just chuckled and decided to no longer care and just enjoy the situation.
Auction started shortly. First few auctioned 'objects' were rare slaves. I could barely hide my disgust from actually selling people. But I could no longer hold back when I saw a little girl with snow-white tiny fox ears, tail and hair being auctioned. It was cute little girl that may have been around 8-9 years old that was being auctioned like some merchandise. My blood started boiling and I could no longer hold back.
"How those motherfucking bastards can even sell a child? Do they have no fucking morals? I am fucking murderer and it makes me want to vomit just looking at it. I am very tempted to just kill every fucking bastard that bids on that child!" I screamed, extremely angry.
Ai decided to add fuel to the fire and spoke. "You know how much would your cultivation progressed if you took her virginity? She is an ice spirit; she is filled to the brim with ice Qi!"
Before announcer could even start betting or even announce the initial price a voice sounded across the auction hall.
"You degenerate pigs! Any one of you fuckers that even things about betting on that kid will become my next victim. I will slaughter you like pigs you are! You…."
I was dragged back by Ai from the control panel and she hugged tightly and spoke gently.
"I am sorry Fen; I was just pulling your leg. I went too far. I just wanted to test your resolve and I went too far. I apologize!"
While she was apologizing the whole hall froze, they just heard a threat from the VIP section. They didn't know from which cabin it was but they started to get worried. After a few seconds of frozen silence a voice sounded.
"ASSASIN SECTION LEADER'S BOOTH YOU ARE GETTING A WARNING FOR INTERRUPTING AN AUCTION! ONE MORE WARNING AND I WILL BE FORCED TO ASK YOU TO LEAVE THE AUCTION! THIS IS A LEGAL TRADE PLEASE REFRAIN FROM INTERRUPTING THE AUCTION ANY FURTHER!"
The moment the whole hall heard the words 'ASSASIN SECTION LEADER'S BOOTH' they paled. When the announcer started the auction for a little girl nobody was ballsy enough to bid. Nobody wants the assassin capable enough to sit in leader's booth to be after them. It was not worth it.
The announcer started to slowly lower the price but nobody bid, everybody just looked with paled faces on the cute little girl. After several minutes of price lowering announcer received a message and spoke.
"The elder that decided to auction this object decided to gift it to the person in assassination section leader's booth instead. He also wants to apologize if he insulted somebody, he didn't knew that auctioning this young spirit would upset somebody this much."
During all this time Ai was still apologizing to me for stirring me on. I calmed down when I saw that nobody bought the girl, once I heard the announcement that she was gifted to me I turned to Ai.
"Can I set her free?"
She nodded. "You can but it won't help her much if you just let her go."
"What should I do?"
She chuckled. "If you really want to help her you need to take her to the country of eternal snow and ice on the far, far south. That is where ice spirits like her live. And once there you need to find a village that is willing to take her, or even better village she came from."
I nodded. "Far, far south it is then!"
Both Yuki and AI giggled and we managed to calm down. There were two more slaves on the auction and everybody felt visibly hesitant to buy slaves after what I did so their prices ended up being very low. About this time somebody knocked on our door. Shortly after the knock a voice of the woman that led us to this room could be heard.
"My apologies. The Ice spirit that was gifted to you arrived."
Yuki quickly stood up and went to open the door. Behind the door stood a woman with a kid. Yuki led the kid inside the room and closed the door. When I saw the spirit, I asked.
"Are you hungry? Or thirsty?"
Small child didn't answer but AI spoke quickly after that.
"Most of the spirits don't understand human language Fen."
I nodded and spoke in my head. 'System I need to learn a spirit language!'
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We can do that, but it will cost you all of your SP!
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'Perfect. Go for it!'
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Spirit communication learned.
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I was rather weirded out when I noticed that no SP went missing.
'Why didn't you take any SP?'
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I am not a heartless bitch. I can see that you really want to help that kiddo, so I decided to help you!
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I shook my head quickly. This was not the time to think about my system antics.
I looked towards the little kid and I spoke.
"Si hladná? Alebo smädná?"
Ai and Yuki froze as they heard me speak to the little girl. Girl was shocked for a moment and then she spoke so silent that it was barely audible.
"Hladná aj smädná!"
I quickly grabbed the little bell and rang as hard as I could. Lady from before opened the door and I spoke right away.
"Please bring her something good to eat and drink! Fast!"
She froze for a second and looked towards the girl, after that she quickly shook her head and spoke.
"As you wish Sir!" And she left the room.
Meanwhile both AI and Yuki woke up and Ai spoke right away.
"How did you spoke with her?"
"In spirit language!" I answered quickly not paying any attention to the consequences of my answer.
"And how do you speak spirit language when you until recently did not even knew it existed?"
Ai asked impatiently.