Auction Part 1

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The day arrived. I was wearing a Gold cocktail dress I had designed that was hiding me magnificently. I was dressed to the nines and surrounded by my wonderful women. Close to me was Yuri on the arm and the other Mally. Mally was starting to show the baby bump and was smiling all the time. She also took time to educate herself in the higher society and had been brushing up on it. They swiftly told me the information necessary for me or reminders on things I needed to talk about.

I went from Wizard representative to another, greeting guests politely talking briefly before moving on. I was the number one person who people wanted to talk to. I was the creator of the potions on auction tonight and an Ambassador to my nation. This was an incredible time for me to make contacts for my business as well. I told some who expressed interest in larger quantities of the less rare potions I could make. I said to them that with a deposit, I would order the ingredients before making it. I would give them seventy percent of all potions produced with this. This was a fantastic way for me to make easy money for the amount of work.

The customer would absorb all the risk I would get to charge them for only the ingredients, but I would take a large portion of the profits of the extra potions produced for myself. This would incentivize me to do a better job for a higher rate of success. This would also limit how much it cost these wizard towers. I heard many expressions of interest. I told them for anything formal, though; they would have to come to meet me back in the embassy.

This seemed to appease most of the Wizard towers. There was one, though, that seemed to have a problem with it. This Wizard tower was in the Beholders province of the demon lands. Their tower was called Eye Tower. Their form of wizardry was unique, and I wasn't sure how to explain it. The main thing was that their way of using mana was only usable by their race. What they wanted, I had never made it before, and they wanted every potion that was created for themselves. This was compounded with how rare the ingredients to it was plus its difficulty. One of the problems with Beholders that most of their grip came from tentacles. This made it extremely difficult to make potions. That did not mean their race was entirely bad at it. I remember Timbits of history about beholders who could become dexterous enough usually became Alchemist masters.

Alchemist masters were rare, and only fifteen were known to be alive. One was in our Silvermoon tower as an A rank powerhouse. I had never personally met him, though. He was a recluse that would sometimes drop a book of information for us to read before going back to his thing. That did not mean that he wasn't one of the most useful people in our tower. He would rarely drop a portion into our hands in payment for the materials we supplied him with. Some of these potions allowed a B rank wizard to become an A-ranked with more mana than they knew how to deal with. These potions were game-breaking and currently beyond my understanding of mana. I still wanted to take one of these potions to research on my own. The books of his findings were pieces of art that I had gotten my hands on only once. I spent a year looking into his results, learning much from the book he dropped into the hands of the tower over sixty years ago. The insights it showed me were nothing less than brilliant.

This was the main reason our Tower created so many accomplished Alchemists. The problem was now becoming where all those other Master Alchemists were. One just so happened to be an A ranker in the Empire. This Alchemist has a single apprentice in the Empire but does not widely distribute his findings. This was a boon to the Bunny-kin that used our Master Alchemist results to create a robust export for our country. The other Master alchemists seemed to be Travelers, though with their whereabouts unknown. They all were powerful women and men that traveled the world to the best of our countries knowledge.

That didn't change my current predicament, though. The Eye tower wanted me to use their materials to make potions with not enough gold to make it worth my time. They chipped in nothing to make it so. They also seemingly didn't want to take no for an answer. I started to get annoyed, which prompted a pinch from Yuri, who was gracefully talking while I was in thought.

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