Chapter 1323 The Party
?"The hell is going on?" Ning shouted in a frustrating voice once all the customers in the shop were gone.
The shop had a steady stream of customers the last few days thanks to the auction. Sales had been amazing on the day of the auction, and while it had dropped to a fraction on the following days, that was still incredible when compared to beforehand.
They were continuously selling over 100 different items in a day, and that was enough to start causing Ning some problems. Thankfully, he had managed to find a way to make many items in a short period of time.
Simpler items, ones without techniques, were easier to make and took a shorter time. Still, he would have to find ways to get his hands on more items.
The number of items sold would dwindle soon, and he wouldn't have to worry.
But that was never what he was worrying about in the first place.
It had been 3 days since the auction had ended and no one came to get the Shadow scythes at all. The person had bid 20 thousand Fire Coins and yet not a single coin had come to Ning.
"We were scammed, weren't we?" Rova asked from the side.
Ning sighed. "Seems like it," he said with a sigh.
Hadden turned around from where he had been sweeping through the shop now that the day had come to an end.
"What will you do now, teacher?" he asked.
"What I can do," Ning said. "Someone messed with me, thinking I wouldn't know. They're going to have hell to pay."
He turned to look at the two. "Close the shop for now. It's time I left," he said.
"My Grey barely passed the test too this year. I saw no reason to put on a party for such a result," the man named Evan said. "Young lady Bethanie apparently ranked in the top 10 for the entrance, so this is very much suitable for her though."
"My daughter should be trying next year. She will want a rare beast as a gift for her next birthday," another woman said with a sigh.
"How was your daughter's result, sir Ning? Did she do well?" the men asked him.
"She—"
"Sir Ning's daughter came first in the entrance exam," Trven Briggs walked from the side, ignoring the fleeting glances people threw him and Ning. "As they say, You will always find water around Water Essence."
"Incredible," one of the men said to Ning.
"Are you sure you're not some sort of lord?" another one asked.
"It would be hard for a commoner to get this much knowledge," another said. "You must tell us where you are from, sir Ning."
Ning gave a rueful smile. "I'm afraid my story isn't as good as you are hoping. I just happened to find a few books in an abandoned house in the middle of a forest during my journey through the eastern mountains of the Springwind continent. That's it."
"Woah!" one man exclaimed.
"Tell us more," another said.
Someone handed Ning a drink and started requesting him to say more. No matter how Ning looked at it, they were trying to get him to reveal how he made the artifacts as good as he did.
He couldn't escape them for nearly 15 minutes, during which time he made up stories one after another about his journey in the Springwind Empire, before saying how he came to the Blueflame Continent.
Once he was done there, another group came and wanted to talk to him. And then more and more.
He went through many people until he came face to face with another group of people that he had never seen before.
It quickly became clear who exactly they were.