Celestial Era: The Rise of the Full-Time Enhancer

The item is also on an old parchment like the other skill manual that was just sold.

"The next item is one of the famous arts of the Aura Knights… The Soul-Forging Skill Manual! With this skill, crafting magic tools will be a lot easier even for beginner crafters! Don't underestimate the Aura Knight's crafting skills, although they are known to have decent combat skills, their crafting arts are also incredible, especially in terms of speed. Soul-Forged weapons may not be that strong compared to the ones created by normal Magic Craftsmen since their requirement to start forging is extremely low, but they can be used for emergency and urgent matters! If you're lacking money, crafting magic items using this method will also allow you to earn some easy gold coins!"

Velvet announced as she tried to make the Soul Forging Skill look very important. Unfortunately, Aura Knights weren't that popular here. At the very least, within the Black Tower's territory, Aura Knights weren't that greatly valued because of their limited potential.

Once they reached the 3-Star Rank, they would indeed be comparable to two or three Arch Knights but fighting against a Grand Knight is still not easy.

Of course, Aura Knights have their usefulness as well in terms of their upkeep or maintenance. They don't require Mana Crystals in their cultivation after all.

Only those Aura Knights that are also cultivating mana as a magician needed these crystals and there weren't many of them.

Anyway, Vincent was excited as he hinted Yasin that he was interested in the Skill Manual.

"Leave it to me, Sir Vincent…"

"Good… Acquire it at all costs."

With his approval to use their money, Yasin felt confident as he waited for the bidding to start.

As soon as it was announced that this skill manual was worth 1,200 Mana Crystals, he waited for the others to bid.

He didn't want to appear desperate to acquire the item as he observed the reaction of the bidders.

As expected, the bidders don't seem serious about this Skill Manual. None of the bidders at the balconies or VIP rooms are participating as they allowed those at the first level to bid.

However, as soon as there were only two people left competing for the Skill Manual, Yasin decided to join and bid 500 Mana Crystals higher than the current bid.

"4,600 Mana Crystals from Number 56!" Velvet said as she looked at the two previous competing bidders.

They both went silent after Yasin joined the bidding as they considered whether to continue fighting for the Soul Arts.

After a few considerations, they decided to just give up since bidding more would affect their budget.

There are still a lot of items to be sold anyway. Although Soul-Forging Skill is quite uncommon to find, it can still appear somewhere else, especially in some old organizations that are nurturing Aura Knights.

Just like that, Yasin managed to get the item with a single bid at the most crucial time. Adding the fact that they are at the second level, his bid made it a little intimidating to the others as well. Not everyone can just reserve a balcony in the Auction House after all. It means that he has deep pockets that he could spare in case they still tried to compete.

"Great… Call an attendant and bring this money. Complete the transaction now. I want to see the Skill Manual." Vincent said as Yasin immediately acted.

The auction is still being continued but the next item didn't interest Vincent at all.

The transaction was immediately settled with Yasin's help as he brought the old parchment to Vincent.

It is now carefully placed inside a decent black linen bag making sure it's protected from being crumpled.

As soon as Vincent took it out, he felt that the parchment seem to be made of a beast's skin. He had appraised many of these in the Appraisal Master Hall already and even without using his system skill, his experience still allowed him to recognize whether this parchment is good or bad quality.

Anyway, that's not important right now.

He spent a bit of his energy as he activated his Appraisal Skill.

Ding!

[ Appraisal has been successful. ]

[ You have discovered a Skill Book: Modified Soul Forging Technique. ]

[ Skill Book: Modified Soul Forging Technique ]

[ Quality: Tier 3

Durability: 19/20

Description: A durable parchment made of demon-eyed goatskin. It contains a full instruction manual to learn a modified skill called Soul Forging Technique. Because of its modification, this Soul Forging Technique can be used as a prerequisite to learning a skill called Soul Sealing.

Remarks: This item can not be enhanced. ]

'Oh? There's something like this? I'm sure I've gotten all the information about this skill book inside the Knowledge Base Crystal, but I've never read anything about it being related to Soul Sealing… Does the auction house knows about this?'

Vincent mused as he felt curious about the modification made by the creator of the skill. It was a pity that his appraisal skill doesn't include their creator's name unlike the Tier 4 Appraisal Arts that he heard about.

Anyway, he immediately tried to see whether he could use his "Learn" Skill, and luckily, he was able to learn it.

[ A Skill Manual found. Would you like to learn the skill Modified Soul Forging Technique? ]

'Yes…'

As soon as he answered, a flood of information came rushing into his head as he endured that dizziness and headache it caused.

After a few minutes, he managed to calm down and confirmed that he learned the skill.

There is now an additional skill listed on his Soul Arts when he tried to check his status.

At this time, another two items were already sold by Velvet.

The items being sold were all quite valuable but the most important ones hadn't appeared yet.

"Our next item for this day is quite special… Just like the previous auctions we've held, every tenth item will be something you would look forward to."

Velvet said as she caught everyone's attention. She waited for the attendants to bring the veiled item forward. There is even a couple of security personnel guarding the next item and not leaving the stage at all.

As soon as the veil was removed, what showed in front of everyone was a glass jar filled with slime and two inauspicious eyeballs.