Chapter 206: Jarvis Roland's Gift
"Three hundred fifty jin sule."
Just as Jarvis Roland was about to hammer down the final bid, a soft female voice that stirred endless imagination in people's hearts successfully interrupted his action.
"Three hundred fifty jin sule, first call! Three hundred fifty jin sule, second call! Three hundred fifty jin sule, third call! Congratulations to Guest Number 67 for successfully bidding on the 【Dream Plane Creature Island Coordinates】!"
As the last auction item was sold, with Mr. Jarvis Roland presiding over the conclusion, tonight's auction ceremony officially came to an end.
"Three hundred fifty jin sule—alright, that price is acceptable."
Liji-Xiaosi was not surprised that Miss Jia Na would bid on the 【Dream Plane Creature Island Coordinates】.
Moreover, after the eye-opening experience of tonight, a mere three hundred fifty jin sule was not a particularly high number for Liji-Xiaosi.
Of course, if Liji-Xiaosi were asked to spend three hundred fifty jin sule to bid on something, she would rather die than do it.
"But I think it's a bit expensive. Normally, the price of a 【Spirit World Coordinates】 is only around three hundred jin sule."
Unlike other auction items, 【Spirit World Coordinates】 are a no-cost item. Apart from Wizard Apprentices of the Summoning System like Miss Jia Na who would buy them, they usually fall into the category of unsold items and are difficult to sell.
However, as a Summoning System spellcaster who is about to be promoted to a Three-level Wizard Apprentice, if Miss Jia Na encountered a 【Spirit World Coordinates】 that was not in her collection at this point, she would definitely try her best to acquire it.
After all, besides the Elemental Planes such as the 【Thorn Plane】, 【Flame Plane】, 【Disaster Plane】, and 【Undead Plane】, the only Plane coordinates Miss Jia Na could use for 【Contract Summoning】 were 【Heavenly Holy World】 and 【Mirror Layer Domain】.
Therefore, the appearance of new coordinates was a relatively fortunate event for Miss Jia Na, who wanted to enrich the types of her Contract Summoning creatures as much as possible and did not want to perform 【Contract Summoning】 again in a Plane of the same attribute.
After all, 【Contract Summoning】 is different from 【Elf Summoning】. Compared to the low intelligence and rigidity of Elemental creatures,
creatures summoned through 【Contract Summoning】 are mostly magical creatures with intelligence no less than that of humans. Not only are their abilities diverse, but their potential is also extremely high.
And as one of the affiliated Planes strongly related to the Prime Material Plane, Miss Jia Na is also looking forward to her first "Dream Plane creature" contracted in the 【Dream Plane Creature Island】 in the future.
One of the main Laws of the 【Dream Plane】 is 【Beautiful Dream】, and 【Beautiful Dream】 has a very close connection with the ""Law of Beauty"". Therefore, Miss Jia Na can conclude that when she performs soul resonance in the 【Dream Plane】, she will definitely receive responses from many Dream Plane creatures.
Just like when she was in the 【Thorn Plane】, the Thorn Flower Fairy almost eagerly rushed to sign a contract with her, requiring almost no effort at all.
So, when signing a contract, Miss Jia Na can choose the best among the options and strive to find the 【Dream Plane】 creature that suits her best.
However, looking at the crowd leaving the hall one after another, the same question still lingered in Miss Jia Na's mind.
Where did the youth necklace go?
"Miss Jia Na, please follow me."
Looking at Aimi Li who walked up to her, Miss Jia Na gave her a thoughtful glance, then turned her head and whispered something to Liji-Xiaosi, and followed Aimi Li to a lounge in the backstage of the Otter Opera House.
"Good evening, Miss Jia Na."
Just as Miss Jia Na had expected, the person Aimi Li brought her to see was Jarvis Roland.
"Good evening, Mr. Jarvis Roland."
Following Aimi Li's guidance, Miss Jia Na sat down opposite Mr. Jarvis Roland. But after she was seated, she simply looked calmly at the man before her and did not speak first.
"Miss Jia Na, I think you should know that I personally admire you very much—both your performance and the Charm you exude on stage are truly masterpieces of nature. Even in the Otter Opera House, or even the entire Water Marsh City, it's impossible to find an actor as excellent as you."
Smiling, she took the cup of red tea handed to her by Aimi Li. In response to Mr. Jarvis Roland's string of praises, Miss Jia Na still just smiled and nodded, without giving a direct response.
"Aimi Li, bring those two things over and give them to Miss Jia Na."
"Okay."
Saying that, Aimi Li placed the gift box that had already been prepared in front of Miss Jia Na.
"Miss Jia Na, please open it and take a look."
Miss Jia Na, who roughly guessed Mr. Jarvis Roland's purpose, did not refuse and naturally opened the wooden gift box on the coffee table in front of her.
As expected, in addition to the 【Dream Plane Creature Island Coordinates】 information that Miss Jia Na had just bid on but hadn't paid for yet, the other item was the primary purpose of Miss Jia Na's visit to the Water Marsh Wizard Gathering Place—the youth necklace.
Or rather, the greenfield necklace.
"Regardless of whether today's cooperation talks succeed or not, these two items will be my personal gifts to Miss Jia Na."
He's too good.
This Jarvis Roland is really too good.
Even though she knew the other party was trying to poach her, as the one being poached, Miss Jia Na still had a very good impression of Mr. Jarvis Roland.
"If Miss Jia Na can join the Otter Opera House, I can pay you ten times the fixed salary of the Nightingale Opera Troupe, and also offer a 5% profit sharing contract."
Slowly sipping the red tea in her hand, Miss Jia Na still did not respond to the tempting conditions offered by Mr. Jarvis Roland.
It was only after a moment that she put down her teacup and said to Mr. Jarvis Roland with sincere tone:
"Mr. Jarvis Roland, thank you for thinking highly of me. However, the Nightingale Opera Troupe has shown me great kindness, so I have to decline your invitation."
Actually, from the perspective of salary, the conditions offered by Mr. Jarvis Roland were very tempting. However, the other party overlooked one point, which is that Miss Jia Na is first and foremost a Wizard Apprentice from Turin, and only then an opera actress.
Turin, for Miss Jia Na, is no longer just a simple Three-level Wizard Gathering Place. There is the academy that values her, and there is also the network she has painstakingly built.
The sunk costs she has invested for all of this are far too great, something that cannot be measured by just a few jin sule.
Leaving everything else aside, just the academy privileges that Anthony-Black Sparrow has explicitly promised her, as well as the spot in the Dordogne-White Tower Trial - plus the gifts of precious items like the magical alchemy seed and "Ancient God Contract Studies", are enough to make Miss Jia Na "firmly" stay in Turin.
At least before going to the Dordogne-White Tower, Miss Jia Na cannot do anything to betray Anthony-Black Sparrow.
Otherwise, offending an old Undead Wizard who has lived for who knows how long for a little bit of "jin sule" is a very unwise thing to do.
Moreover, Miss Jia Na is also confident that when she renegotiates with the Nightingale Opera Troupe this year, she can achieve the same level of compensation as the conditions offered by Mr. Jarvis Roland.
As for the so-called "kindness of recognizing talent", it was simply a phrase Miss Jia Na came up with on the spot—·