"My name is Kalem, your humble host....honored guests...."

"And to kick-start our monthly auction...."

The slender man, Kalem, whom Ben now understood to be the auctioneer, announced with a bright smile as the purple curtains were pulled to the side, and the lady who had led Ben to his suite pushed a trolley that had an item covered with a white cloth on it.

Her professional smile never left her face, made even more dazzling by the pouring rays of sunlight as she stopped the trolley at the center stage, before retreating out of sight behind the curtains.

"I present to you the first item."

The man said aloud, pulling off the cloth and revealing the item underneath, garnering a lot of murmuring from the audience as they observed what had been presented on stage with varied interest.

Usually, the most important goods of every auction are set aside as the last items for the auction.

And monthly auctions present a total of twenty items.

This one was just the first, and as expected, though special enough according to the standards of this world, it still wasn’t too impressive.

"This, honored guests and distinguished ladies and gentlemen....."

"Is the most reflective mirror ever procured by our auction house, and one of the best for seeing one’s reflection because of a special material added in by a master level blacksmith of our kingdom. Polished to perfection."

The auctioneer smiled as he explained the uniqueness of the product on stage.

"It is even said to be as reflective as the one in the imperial castle."

The audience below murmured, some in wonder and genuine interest in this high-level mirror, while others didn’t seem too interested.

There were those at the auction simply for luxury, unique goods like this, and others for a different type of unique goods.

"We’ll start the bid at fifty silvers."

The auctioneer announced, and instantly from the crowd of guests, bids began to pour in one after the other.....

"Sixty...."

"Sixty-five...."

"Seventy...."

"Eighty-five...."

"One Gold...."

"Two Gold....."

The bids came flooding in one after another with raised paddles from every corner of the audience, only slowing down when it crossed the gold mark.

Starting the bid at fifty silver coins and getting bids already shows the caliber of guests at the auction.

A regular household of four can survive on one silver coin for a full month, since one silver coin is equal to one hundred copper coins. Copper coins are the usual everyday spending currency for the common masses.

But for this group of people gathered. Silver coins weren’t that much of a big deal.

Still, most would save whatever currency they possessed for better items along the tail end of the auction, except for those there for luxury items such as this.

At the end of the day, one gold coin was one hundred silver coins, so even to most of these people, that was still something.

"Going once at ten Gold coins...."

"Going twice...."

"Thrice...."

"SOLD!...."

"To distinguished guest number 24!"

The auctioneer announced giddily, bringing an end to the auction for the special mirror.

The winner was a lady dressed in fashionable attire in the crowd, smiling proudly for securing the mirror. Clearly someone of considerable influence, as well as someone who takes pride in luxury items.

"Did she just use that large sum on a freaking mirror ?" Ben murmured incredulously from his high-rise private booth.

"Its not even an ideal mirror.....just okay. More of rough, unpolished silver if anything..."

It was quite amusing to Ben, as he smiled, shaking his head from side to side, causing the servant attendant by his side to wonder what he found so amusing.

Ben had seen a similar ’mirror’ in his own room, the same as Faerwyn’s.

The only difference was that this one was of a much higher quality and polish, with some decorative inscriptions and fancy wooden framing.

It was a good mirror indeed, but.....

"Luxury mirror, my ass.... Should I show these people what a real luxury mirror is?"

Ben snickered. He wasn’t sure what the cost would be for him to replicate a version of the mirror from his former world, but he was certain it wouldn’t be much.

Ben could sort of understand why this seemingly common product is held with such high regard.

Apparently, natural glass is so expensive in this world that only an elite few have access to some, and it’s usually unrefined and held mostly as collectible treasures. Even more valuable than other minerals because of scarcity.

As for manufactured glass?

That’s just not something this world appears to be incapable of making. They were still far from such advancement, it seems. There is also the process of converting said glass to a mirror, the type of mirrors common in his world.

"Sigh...lets just keep watching."

Ben wasn’t going to make it known that he possessed a means to obtain something as wondrous as his version of a mirror when he didn’t have enough power to boot.

Possessing such a product without the required strength to back it up for someone without any influence like himself was simply asking for trouble.

That’s why he went with panties, and even at that, he still went through the route of Faerwyn. Partly because he intended to use it as a means to get into the pants of other powerful noble ladies, and also because it was just so convenient to do it that way.

Ben wasn’t really lacking anything he couldn’t afford with his system in hand. All he needed was beauties to bed. His doing other things would be a byproduct of that goal.

And in line with said goal, he already had his eyes set on the noble lady occupying one of the other special viewing areas to his right.

He didn’t know who she was, but she appeared to be quite an impressive figure, also at the early stages of the noble realm.

Most importantly, she was incredibly hot, almost a match in figure to Faerwyn.

But this person wasn’t even looking in Ben’s direction anymore after that first essence inspection all these powerhouses collectively did to gauge each other’s strengths.

Now her attention was on the stage, as if patiently waiting for something, almost eager.

Ben also had some interest in the lady who had led him to his booth previously, but that person was only at the master realm, and not nearly as beautiful as this one.

Now, Ben was looking for an avenue to secure her attention, waiting patiently and enjoying the delicacies presented to him.

The bidding continued with more variations of special items coming into play. Weapons and magic tools ranging from apprentice to master grade, luxury items like a potion said to assist with patterned baldness, and so.

The fifteenth item sold for a whopping two hundred gold coins.

Now it was time for the top five items—

The best-quality goods of every auction.

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