Transmigrated as a Ghost

With the bidding for his top tier mithril chainmail underway, Marcus sat back happily as the price continued to soar.

"Sold, to bidder number 57, for eleven thousand eight hundred gold coins."

Smiling Marcus was quite content with the price his armor had gotten, and he was looking forward to how much his final two items were going to make.

'It seems that putting them up for auction was the right move. Even after the twelve percent cut the auction house takes, I have already earned over eighteen thousand.'

Very content with how things were going, Marcus leaned back and began drinking the wine he had found to be the most to his liking, and relaxed.

The rest of the middle part of the auction continued smoothly, and he decided to hold back on his antagonizing of Duke Fealltoir for the rest of the auction.

He had already forced the duke to spend plenty of his money and the duke had won their last match so he was hoping that would satisfy him.

'Ah here we go.' Marcus thought seeing the halberd he had made come up next.

And like the previous times his items had come up, Amelia paid special care to promote them, and as a result the price did increase even further than normal.

"Thirteen thousand."

Surprise on his face, Marcus could not believe how high his halberd's price had shot, since it was now nearly over twice its normal market value.

However, it had risen this high as a number of people in the private boxes seemed to want it, as well as a few high spenders down below.

This was because of the ice magic enchantments etched into the halberd, and especially the one that actually allowed it to absorb a certain amount of power from cold-based attacks.

Of course, anywhere else the halberd would not have made it so high, but in a kingdom that was cold and icy for more than half of the year, a weapon like this made a huge difference.

"Fourteen Thousand."

With the bid being raised by another thousand, even the most fervent bidders felt the pressure on their pocketbooks, and the bid of fourteen thousand soon won Marcus' halberd.

"Congratulations to our esteemed guest in box twenty-one for winning this halberd forged by Irene Geist, for fourteen thousand gold coins." Amelia said with a tinge of elation she could not hide.

So, far all of Marcus' items had sold above their normal value, and the auction as a whole had been following this trend.

'At this rate we are going to make a killing this year, and we have not even made it to the extremely valuable items yet.' Amelia thought, imagining the huge sum of money she was going to get after the auction.

After that the last few items in the middle section of the auction came out, and Marcus' set of scale mail he had made sold for twelve thousand one hundred gold coins.

"That concludes the second part of the auction. We hope that everyone has enjoyed our auction so far. Now we will be having a brief intermission, while we get prepared for the next section of the auction. And I am sure that this is the one most of you have been waiting for, where items or incredibly value and rarity will be available. But until then, please use this time to relax, and those that have won any bids will be able to collect their items."

Giving a slight bow, Amelia exited the stage, and went to inform her staff that they were going to make some minor changes to order that the next set of items would be auctioned in, as there was a certain item she wanted to go first.

Waiting in his box, Marcus was reading the book Lilia had won, and he could see why his little sister had taken such a liking to the story, even after just the first couple chapters.

However, as engrossed as he was in reading, when the knock on his door came, Marcus carefully placed the book down, and practically warped up to the door.

The compartment in the wall then opened and Marcus deposited the seven thousand one hundred gold coins he had spent for the small item box skill orb.

A few minutes later the compartment reopened, with the skill orb sealed within a clear box, along with a bag filled with his earnings from the four items he had auctioned were within.

With his item and money in hand, Marcus sat back down at on the couch next to Lilia and placed the box containing the item box skill orb in front of her.

"Here you go Lilia. Consider this an early birthday present."

Looking at the box, Lilia was a bit hesitant to take it knowing how much Marcus had spent on it, but he had handed her items far more valuable in the past, and she quickly took the skill orb and obtained the skill inside.

"Go ahead and test it out. Having an item box is really useful."

Nodding her head Lilia began opening and closing her item box, and started testing how much she could place inside and how fast she could take things out.

Once Lilia had finished up her experiments with the item box, she gave Marcus a big hug that would have snapped most people's spines, and said, "Thank you, this is a great birthday present."

Returning Lilia's hug, Marcus patted her head and told her that he was happy that she liked it.

After that Marcus opened up the bag of money he had received, which contained a sizeable amount.

'Looks like they converted most of it to platinum. I guess it is easier to move a few thousand coins rather than tens of thousands. But to think just these four items were worth around the same as nearly a hundred other regular mithril items.' Marcus thought as he stared at the bag that was filled with more than forty-one hundred platinum coins.

And with this new addition Marcus' total funds had skyrocketed up to just a little over one hundred sixty thousand gold coins.

Waiting through the rest of the intermission Marcus' anticipation was rising as he knew that the next part of the auction would feature the most valuable items, and that the adamantine ingots would be among them.

'I have five chances to win. At the very least I have to win one.' Marcus thought as the intermission was coming to its end and Amelia walked back onto the stage.

"I hope that you all enjoyed your respite, because now is the moment you have been waiting for. We are now going to begin the final section of our auction."

Cheers then resounded through the auction floor as many people had been waiting for this, and a majority had saved their money just for the one item they really wanted.

"Now our first item is one of the rarest metals in the world and is sought after by anyone wishing to make or have items made."

Amelia then motioned towards the edge of the stage, and everyone could see the recognizable green metal that had a beautiful luster to it being wheeled out.

'There it is.. It is finally time for me to obtain some adamantine.'