Chapter 600: It is important to spend an amount that will make my husband proud
The sound of exclamation was not just coming from our booth, but also several others. Not all of them, but I heard at least one sharp gasp followed by murmurs from another booth. It was to the extent that I could hear them, despite the booth designed to muffle sound. Even Zarfa, who hardly got excited about any of the items before, widened her eyes in shock.
That showed how much this relic was something special. But...
I leaned down and asked Zarfa in a whisper. "What’s that?"
"Ah, so..."
Through Zarfa’s explanation, the bead seemed to be a relic connected to the human Goddess. Jin had found one in a ruin somewhere in the west during the rest period before they started their adventure in that blasphemous kingdom. Later, the Templars showed them another one and said that it might help them locate the Goddess.
How, you ask? Who knows. They just felt the Goddess’ power in the relic, and felt like if they gathered more of the beads, they could use the power as a beacon to trace where the Goddess was...or something like that.
"I see..." I nodded, staring at the beads with more interest right now. I didn’t care if it was merely a relic connected to the Goddess, but if we could use it to find Her? That was another story. "Hmm...but why is it being auctioned here in the open?"
I mean...wasn’t this something important? I would have thought whoever owned the bead would go to the church or try to sell it through the black market. Hell, they should have tried reaching out to the Hero if it was something connected to the Goddess, seeing that they were in this kingdom anyway.
Oh, perhaps they didn’t think the Hero would pay much?
"Maybe they have no idea what it is?" Zarfa shrugged. "But it’s still a relic, so it’ll still fetch a high price even if the use is unknown."
"Hearing the reaction from other booths though..."