First World Auction (1)

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Around 30 minutes later, Enzo and Ivan were currently sitting on the couch while messaging Juliet and Vincent in the group chat.

Ivan just informed the team that he found a section of the forest he was exploring that contained Iron Wood Trees. Juliet then told them about a new dungeon that appeared near the city she and Vincent were in, Dayborn city. The dungeon contained many vampire bats, so she and Vincent were starting to farm the dungeon for gallons of the bats' blood.

These discoveries made Enzo's job much easier, because now he only needed to get the ingredients for the blood potion and conquer his own dungeon.

The time to conquer the Lost Dragon's Lair dungeon was quickly approaching. Enzo only had two weeks to hit level 15, so once the world auction was over Enzo planned on focusing his full efforts on leveling.

Next the group decided to look at the changelog for the update.

The new streaming and video platforms were called LROLive and LROPlayback. Both platforms would be accessible through the LRO app and in-game. There were also pictures shown of the menus in game to explain just how to work everything.

Enzo didn't plan on becoming a streamer or anything because he knew privacy would be an important part of the game in its early stages, but he would rethink his decision later on.

The article also gave a little bit of information about the World Auction, but it wasn't anything important. The first World Auction would be an auction run by the system. It replaces the monthly kingdom or city auctions the NPCs have and will be a bi annual event. So, the second system auction will happen 6 months from now. The World Auctions would be split into 7 different venues, one for each Kingdom.

For example, every player located in the Kular Kingdom when the auction begins would be participating in the Kular Auction.

Each venue would then be separated into three different sections. The first section, and the one closest to the stage, would be the normal section and have no requirements to enter. The second section, the section behind the normal section, will be called the special section. The special section will house balcony seats and the requirements to enter that section are to have at least 10 gold coins. The third and last section will be the VIP section. To enter the VIP section the player will be required to have at least 100 gold coins. The VIP seating will be private booths located just above the balcony.

If there are more players with 100 gold coins then there are VIP booths available, then the booths will be first come first serve.

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Enzo and the group logged back into the game as soon as possible once the downtime was over.

As soon as he appeared in his room in the Silverwind Inn there was a message in front of his face.

[The very first World Auction will be starting in less than 5 minutes. Would you like to participate? Yes/No]

'Yes.'

[Player has selected 'Yes'. Now transporting the player to the World Auction house]

"Not this shit again!" Enzo cried out in pain.

A bright light assaulted Enzo's eyes, but it quickly faded.

When he couldn't see the light behind his eyelids anymore, Enzo took his arm from across his eyes and opened them up.

In front of Enzo stood an old man with short white hair and a short gray beard. He wore a three piece black suit with a white dress shirt and black tie. Enzo expected to see a monocle on the man's eye, but was disappointed.

"Good evening, sir. My name is Alfred and I will be your waiter for today." He said with a bow.

"Thank you." Enzo said as he looked up at the ID of the NPC

[Alfred ?????]

[Level ???]

'Holy shit.'

Enzo didn't know how high of a level someone needed to be undetectable, but it was at least much higher than level 100 because he has seen NPCs at that level before.

Enzo looked around the VIP room as Alfred went to stand by the door which was behind him.

The room was covered in a red carpet that looked freshly cleaned, and matching red walls. There were paintings and lamps covering the walls, and shelves with drinks on them sitting against the walls. In front of Enzo was a large window and in front of the window were a few comfortable looking couches.

Enzo went to sit down on the couch and looked out of the window.

Below him was what looked like a large stadium. It looked similar to how most sports arenas look, but much bigger. There was a large white stage in the middle of the floor, but nothing was currently on the floor.

Suddenly a screen popped up in front of Enzo labeled 'VIP Room #4'.

The screen had options to order food, participate in the auction, and Enzo's friend list.

Enzo first tapped on the friends list, and then tapped on Ivan's ID tag.

[Prometheus]

[Would you like to invite this player into your VIP room? There are only 10 slots available. Yes/No]

Enzo selected 'Yes' and then went down his friends list inviting the other vampire chasers, Jane, and Hephaestus.

They all accepted the invite, including Hephaestus even though he had his own VIP room, but Jane was the first to arrive.

Before the white particles fully formed Jane's character she screamed, "Enzo!"

Enzo stood up with a smile and hugged his ex boss.

"Hey, Jane. How have you been?"

"I've been good. How about you?" She asked with a smile and while returning the hug.

"I'm good, thanks for asking. Go make yourself comfortable, I invited everyone else as well." Enzo said.

"Alright."

The next to arrive were Vincent and Juliet.

"Hey guys." Enzo said and gave Vincent a bro handshake and Juliet a hug.

"Hey Enzo."

"Wassup." They responded.

Their reunion wasn't as exciting because they had met in the game before, whereas Jane hadn't seen Enzo in the game yet.

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Sorry for the late chapter, I was planning how I want the next volume to go as this one will be ending very soon.

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