Chapter 130: dagger with the sand of time
"18 thousand gold galleons"
"18 thousand gold galleons first time"
"19 thousand gold galleons"
Someone increased the price that did not speak till now.
Jack looked at the person for a moment from his booth and then went silent for a few moments. Jack felt that this person is arranged by the owner to increase the price of this useless sword.
There is no good organization in this world or in any world. After having power they would become corrupt. It is especially so in the place where they would not have many rules to oversee this kind of religious organizations.
They can label anyone as a hectic and kill them without a second thought irrespective of the situation and truth. Unfortunately this is the same with every religious organization. Beliefs are like a double edged sword.
They can be good to move people in a positive way. They can also be bad to cause trouble and destroy the world. It all comes down to the point of having a good person in charge of that. It is almost like the king of a country.
A good king can lead the people to live better lives and strengthen the country. A bad king might cause the system and the country to collapse to the point where it could not be revived back.
Jack did not increase the price any more. That person looked anxious for some time. He never expected that the other party could detect the problem in bidding so quickly. Other also detected this and they stopped bidding causing the problem for the elder.
That person was unable to pay the price with red face. So he was sent out of the auction house and was banned from entry. Everyone knows that this was done by the original owner of the sword, but they did not say anything.
This is because that person has a strong background. He is like a second generation rich called Robert from Clive family. Well they are not as strong as Dumbledore. But things change and no one is strong and no one is weak forever.
Since it is like that the person with the previous bid would be asked if they are interested in buying the sword. That person is Jack and Dumbledore. Jack and Dumbledore looked at each other and decided to buy the sword.
Well they are already making a profit here. If it was correctly used they can make over 50 thousand gold galleons as profit. So it was fine. After spending another 18 thousand gold gallons they bought the sword.
With that the auction continued with many artifacts and items. Jack would buy things occasionally that might possess traces of rare materials that can be extracted. Other than that some rare herbs that are useful for him were also bought.
Getting these things Jack was happy. Finally it was the end of the auction. The last item was on the display on the slightly tilted table. It was a small dagger with strange structure. First of all it looked like it was made out of transparent crystal and gold plating at the handle.
The gold plating has an open and close switch that opens the back end of the handle. The insides of the dagger handle are hollowed and it was filled with few ounces of multicolored sand.
This multicolored sand has a strange attraction which would make people want to release it. The current amount is only a fifth of the total space of the hallowed handle of the dagger. The auctioneer started to introduce the information of the dagger.
"This is a special artifact from an unknown origin. It holds the key to the magic of time. Unlike the magic that is used to travel back in time this can directly increase the lifespan of a person. All you have to do is to release the sand from the other end.
Originally some people have conducted experiments on it and found that the full handle of sands of time can give the user around 100 years of life span. It would make their body 100 years younger or to their peak position of the body based on the will of the user.
The reversal is not temporary but permanent and there are no side effects. The current amount of sand of time present in the dagger is only a fifth and can give the person around 20 years.
It might not bring you back your youth, but it can still reverse 20 years of your life for you and your body. The sand of time only works in this dagger and it was highly volatile. After it comes out of the dagger it would directly becomes normal sand giving the life energy to the user.
Also one cannot fill back the normal sand into the dagger. There are densely packed runes on the dagger that are like ants crawling on it. But none of them obstructed the clarity of visibility through the dagger.
It is really a craftsmanship of a god. These are the runes that would help keep the dagger contain the sands of time. Now the starting price is 150 thousand gold galleons. Every increment should be no less than 5 thousand gold galleons."
Immediately the people started the bidding war. This time some really high level people from other countries started to bid. Jack did not have any thoughts of buying this thing. Even Dumbledore did not want this thing.
The reason why they waited till now is because the value of this thing is really high. But there is a flaw in this thing. The people that had it before should have done a thorough research on this thing.
With the research information they can do anything. It can be both good and bad or to create something similar to this again in a simple way. Since they are selling it now means that there are two possibilities.
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