Episode 3: The Beast Mountain Range Chapter 4: The Price (above)

Proulx Hall, the sound of music that resonates throughout the hall is like a babbling brook flowing through one’s heart, and the visitors in the hall are quietly viewing each and every stone sculpture.

The hall is divided into three main exhibition halls, the general exhibition hall, the masters exhibition hall and the masters exhibition hall.

One of the ordinary exhibition hall area is the largest, the exhibition of stone carving works are also the most, in the northeast corner of the ordinary exhibition hall put a company of three works, these three works have a very special temperament, as long as the stone carving a bit of research, will feel that special temperament.

However, there are more than ten thousand stone carving works in the common exhibition hall, these three works are like a needle in the sea, it is difficult to be noticed.

“Most of these works are empty of form, but without substance.”

Count Juno, who was now over a hundred and sixty years old, was walking slowly in the middle of the hall of the Proulx Hall, his eyes sweeping over one piece of stone sculpture after another. Count Juno did not have any other hobbies, but loved stone carvings. Every day, he would spend a morning in the Proulx Hall.

However, there were too few pieces that could make Count Juno’s eyes light up in the ordinary exhibition hall.

“Your Excellency the Count, what stone carvings do you value?”

Next to a beautiful waitress came over, because Count Juno came every day, some of the service staff of Proulx Hall were also very familiar with Count Juno.

Count Juno shook his head and smiled, “Haven’t found it yet.”

“Lord Count, the works in this ordinary exhibition hall are far inferior to the works in the masters’ and grandmasters’ exhibition halls, why do you spend most of your time in this ordinary exhibition hall every day?”

That female attendant inquired curiously.

Count Juno pretended to smile mysteriously and said, “You don’t understand, the works in this ordinary exhibition hall are extremely numerous, and there may be a good work somewhere, and the feeling of finding gold from among the mud and sand, that is very wonderful.”

“Oh?”

The waitress looked at Count Juno with some doubt.

Count Juno said no more and continued to admire one stone carving work after another, but when he walked in front of those three works of Linley, Count Juno couldn’t help but have his eyes light up, with his eyes that had been studying stone carvings for a hundred years, he could tell at a glance the special features of these three works.

“Cool, natural, lonely ……”

Count Juno couldn’t help but say.

That was a kind of temperament, for a stone sculpture to be called a masterpiece, it was a special kind of temperament that was needed. Count Juno immediately felt the kind of cool, solitary temperament that came from these three works, and this special temperament immediately impressed Count Juno.

“Come over here and note the price for me, I will bid 100 gold coins for each of these three pieces.”

Count Juno said directly to the female attendant next to him.

The lady-in-waiting immediately took out the record book from her bosom with a smile, first recorded the number of these three stone carvings and wrote down the price tag, and then took out three stickers and pasted them beside the three stone carvings, with ‘100 gold coins’ written on all three stickers.

While the waitress was recording, Earl Juno appreciated the three stone carvings more and more carefully.

“Huh, no!”

Juno’s dusky eyes suddenly lit up, staring at one of the ‘Velociraptor’ stone carvings, “Why is the carving of the scale armor on the back of this Velociraptor so coherent with the contour lines of its legs? According to reason, the scale armor should be carved with a round knife, while the leg outline should be carved with a flat knife, even if one is more careful, it’s impossible to achieve one hundred percent smoothness and naturalness!”

Juno had been studying the stone carving for a hundred years.

Originally, he wasn’t considered a rich noble, but with his unique vision, collecting stone carvings at low prices and selling some at high prices also made Earl Juno a rich man in Finlay City.

“Could it have been done with a tool? Impossible, the curves of the scales as well as the degree of concavity, other than a round knife, how could any other tool be able to achieve such a perfect degree?”

Juno’s brows furrowed deeply, he had never seen this bizarre scene before.

“Lord Earl?”

The female attendant beside him could not help but shout in a low voice when she saw Count Juno like this.

Count Juno’s eyes lit up, and he said in his heart, “I didn’t expect that I would be able to come across such a special work in this ordinary exhibition hall, I can’t let anyone notice him, I’ll mark it at 100 gold coins, it will make some people scrutinize this work, and it might lead to the price of this work to be greatly increased.”

Count Juno made a decision at once.

It would not be too late to bid again in the last day or two of this work’s exhibition.

“You help me withdraw the bid.”

Count Juno directly said to the female attendant next to him.

“Revoke?”

The waitress was stunned, according to the rules generally after bidding is not allowed to revoke, but Count Juno is the old patron of Proulx Hall, the waitress still very dryly removed those three stickers.

“Dare I ask Earl-sama, why did you revoke it again?”

The waitress inquired.

Count Juno smiled mysteriously and said, “Don’t ask about that, by the way, let me ask, what is the termination date of the exhibition of these three stone carvings?”

The lady-in-waiting carefully flipped through the record book in her hand before she said with a smile, “The last day of the exhibition of these three stone carvings is June 30th. These three pieces were also just moved here for the exhibition yesterday afternoon.”

Count Juno nodded slightly.

“Alright, I’ll take another look around, you get busy.”

Count Juno said with a smile.

Count Juno’s heart, however, was secretly surprised, in his opinion, the true price of each of these three stone carving works should be able to reach around three thousand gold coins. Because the average master’s work was around one thousand gold coins. And these three stone carvings, the carving technique of each piece was very special. This special carving technique alone could increase the price of the work by two times. ……

Count Juno came to Proulx Hall every day, as expected, because the whole common exhibition hall has too many stone carvings, these three good works really no one noticed, even if someone saw, but those people can only feel that these three works are good, but they can’t see through its value.

On June 10th.

Count Juno once again came to the Proulx Hall, casually observing in the Hall’s general exhibition hall, but when he walked to the location of Linley’s three stone carvings, his face abruptly changed, because the three stone carvings all had price stickers next to them.

The price of each of the three stone carvings was ‘300 gold coins’.

Seeing this price, Count Juno cursed in his heart, “Idiot, even if you can see that this stone carving is excellent, don’t make the price too high for the first time, isn’t this purely attracting other people’s attention?”

Count Juno was angry in his heart, but he couldn’t do anything about it, he wasn’t qualified to revoke the offer that was made.

As expected, Count Juno did not expect.

On the day of June 12th, when Count Juno came here again, the price of that sticker had changed.

“500 gold coins?”

Count Juno’s eyes couldn’t help but narrow, “It seems like there are quite a few people who know what they’re talking about!”