Frontiers ~Chronicles of Bucket-san’s Detailed Pioneering~

Auction venues are usually restricted areas.

That's pretty much what the state just hosts, and it seems like there are a number of big venues lined up and lighted up.

It's usually an off-limits area, but it doesn't seem to be systematically the case, and there have been player pioneers who have tried to break in that have attracted interest, but they can soon be caught by security NPCs (non-player characters).

It was just trespassing, but it was a pretty heavy offense, so much so that no one has seen that person since I gave him information on the bulletin board.

This time you are properly eligible, and our carriage will head to the venue area without any problems.

Lots of auction venues, but only big buildings and it's pretty hard just to get around.

It's a state-sponsored auction, so it seems to be basically a carriage trip because a lot of people in a position will be there, but player pioneers like us don't have their own carriages.

The carriage I'm riding right now is something I could have prepared at the Kederick Chamber of Commerce, so I can use it to get around the venue for once, but this time I'm narrowing it down to just one venue for slow fun.

Of course, the items handled at that venue are mainly material related.

Micah and the princess don't have any particular items they're after either, so they're going to hang out with me.

It's my first auction.

Should I start by joining in and grabbing the atmosphere?

Plus, as the last big event of the summer vacation, we're here to have fun.

Micah and the princess are over for the summer vacation now.

You won't be able to log in for as long as you've done before except on holidays.

He seemed to decide to enjoy it slowly and gracefully the last day, as he was running to the event for offense until today.

Looks like we're about to get to the right venue!

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The desired auction venue is the building named 'Aquamarine Palace'.

It does have bright blue walls lit up like aquamarine, very pretty.

Other buildings bearing the gem's name, such as "Topaz Palace" and "Emerald Palace," are also auction venues.

All of them are huge and boast a size that can accommodate a lot of people.

But two of them, the particularly large 'Blue Diamond Palace' and 'Red Diamond Palace', do not seem to be used this time.

These two buildings are of such magnitude and glamour that they can be described as palaces.

It's surprising because it's only used during a special auction that it opens once a few years.

We'd love to come inside sometime, too.

But of course, you can't participate in that special auction to the extent of [Pioneer Union (Alliance) Rank/5-Star].

Well, once every few years, so there will still be plenty of respite.

I'm sure we'll get as much rank as we can join.

When you get off the carriage in the rotary in front of the venue, you are just admitted.

But there seems to be quite a few people waiting for admission, and it's hard to move on.

I don't think the waiting time will occur because the system will do the confirmation of eligibility, but is something wrong?

"Looks like you're rubbing something, huh?

"What is it? Didn't you qualify?

"No. Dress code"

I want to say a bit of a lot to Micah, who jumps a little despite her dress and confirms forward, but more than that, the princess is amazing.

It shouldn't have been different from us to be dressed today, but sometime that hand was fitted with a 'steel hobbing robe' and a wooden doll was on the street lamp nearby.

Apparently, they use the vision of the wooden doll to confirm it.

A variety of dedicated 'arts' can be used by princesses who are working out by acquiring 'Doll Users'.

Looks like one of them is called 'vision sharing'.

Sounds pretty interesting 'Arts', doesn't it?

"Did you come here in your regular clothes?

"Armor Equipment"

"Uh-huh. Aren't you stupid? Suppose you come to a state-sponsored auction in armor."

"It also said in the catalogue that you're required to dress properly.

Could the armor be in the suit?

"Haha. You're an idiot!

The person in question appears to have been seized by the guards and exited, but the auction catalogue also says properly about the dress code.

You won't enjoy it unless you know what more things will be on offer than attending an auction.

So I don't think I bought the catalog.

Did I forget to check the minimum rules with my eyes full of listings?

But I deserve that.

After the trouble was resolved, people flowed without delay, and we were able to enter the venue.

Eligibility wasn't a problem either, so go ahead and secure your seat.

The venue appears to have free seating on the ground floor and only designated seating on the second floor.

The second floor seems to be used by particularly high-profile people, so we don't have the edge for the time being, do we?

We were able to secure a pretty good position without too much front and too far back, so we decided to spend the three of us chatting until the auction started as it was.

I'm also confirming my participation in the competition.

Competition is managed by the system.

So you can easily participate by manipulating a dedicated window.

Since it is managed in the system, it seems that we do not know who is presenting the current highest amount, or quite an informational battle is demanded.

Well, we're novices at auctions, so let's start by grasping the atmosphere.

Even though you check in the catalog, it also affects that there was no material in particular that you really wanted.

I wanted it if I could, but it's never like I have to get it, even if I can't.

It's easy to enjoy!

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The 'Aquamarine Palace' auction was launched with the proclamation of the auctioneers.

One rare material after another is being competitively dropped on a platform that is brightly lit up at the moment.

I have been trying to bid for practice too, but I have not been able to compete for anything I have ever lost because I am totally unwilling to compete.

But it's still easy to call it a systematically managed auction.

Even beginners can easily join us.

The enthusiasm of the venue is considerable, even as the auctioneers are skillfully uplifted.

Though the material, it's like being in a State-sponsored auction, so many people seem to want it.

Well, I'm not much of a pin.

For example, 'Rainbow lizard tail' or something. I'm not sure what to use it for.

By the way, this one has been awarded for 1.6 million nil.

If you add a little, you can buy two intermediate facilities. That's a price.

Steel-based equipment is as expensive as the most expensive.

It's scary because that's the equivalent of just one material, isn't it?

Well, of course, it's natural that the ranks aren't equal.

Competing off materials that you don't even know well is not very expensive, but you can't.

So what I'm after is limited to materials that I understand how to use.

"I wonder where a rainbow lizard goes to see you?

"... Micah, it's that price because it's an auction, right? It's usually cheaper, right?

"Mm. I want to see you."

"Until the princess..."

Naturally, but it's an auction, so they should be competing off at a much higher price than the market.

So if it was the market, it should be cheaper.

It's just the kind of material that gets auctioned off, so whatever you think it is, it's too high a rank.

I'm sure it's a ranked material that doesn't usually come out hunting - rare in rare.

But I also know the two of you want to go hunting.

Even though it's cheaper in the market, it's still going to be quite a price.

Even half is 800,000 nil.

You can buy cheap steel-based equipment with a little extra.

It won't be delicious.

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The auction went well and the turn of material for my purpose came.

The general atmosphere has been grasped by participating in the competition one by one so far.

You mustn't panic about the movement at the beginning.

The battle is in the second half.

The funds can be largely afforded by the sale of steel-based equipment, but not all of them can be used.

I'm going to give up clean if I can't compete off by the amount I've decided.

'Then what follows is -' Rich's Skull '!

As you all know, the Dark Wise - the material of Rich - the culprit who was blocking the northern streets of Zabrina. '

Now that the auctioneer commentary has begun, the auction is about to begin.

"Rich's Skull" is one of those Rich drops that Micah and the others defeated after a struggle.

I know that other than the massive drop of bones, the 'Dark Holy Wreck Cloth' and the 'Cane of the Dead' are dropping.

But when it came to the skull, it was brought together with the bone and I didn't know it.

But it's a material that distinguishes it from other 'rich bones', and it's also a rare item with a high rank.

I guess it's all bad that The Dark Wreck Cloth and The Cane of the Dead dropped it.

Obviously these two are more rare items.

I naturally know the use of 'Rich's Skull' in my parents' information.

That's why I'm after you.

"- Then" Rich's Skull, "it's an auction start!

Let the battle begin!