Chapter 339: Bidding Begins

"Due to this auctioned item being excessively large, bidding will be conducted in Gold Coins during the auction. However, during delivery, conversion using materials, magic items, and other such goods will be permitted."

Phew—

Beatrice's words made some people who were originally worried about whether they could afford it heave a sigh of relief.

If it was possible to settle the payment using other items, then the room for maneuverability in between would be immense.

Some Cunning Merchants even started calculating whether they should eat the price difference once and exploit the Witches' Gold Coins.

"The starting bid for this item is 100 million Gold Coins, with each bid increment being at least 1 million Gold Coins. Then! Let the auction begin now!"

Following the strike of the wooden gavel in Beatrice's hand, the auction for the Magic Array officially began.

However, surprisingly, even after the auction started, it remained very quiet down below.

Not the kind of quiet from not speaking, but rather that no one raised their paddles.

"Aha, is no one bidding? It seems they've been frightened."

Inside the luxurious private room of Tarot Manor, Vivian touched her head and laughed as she looked through the glass at the awkward scene below.

A starting bid of 100 million Gold could be said to have pierced the heavens.

One must know that accepting a non-life-threatening mission at the Adventurer's Guild only paid a few Silver Coins. A single Gold Coin was enough to issue over a dozen missions.

However, facing such a situation, Lan Qingyou was not flustered in the slightest.

Floating in the air, she looked down through the glass at the U-shaped hall filled with over ninety thousand people.

"It's natural to be frightened, after all, the amount is right there. But this doesn't mean no one will bid. The incident was sudden, and the people dispatched right now simply haven't received news from above yet."

Who let this thing be a good item.

As long as it was a good item, under the circumstance of a suitable price, someone would definitely buy it.

Although 100 million Gold Coins seemed like a lot, for certain people and certain organizations, it was completely affordable.

This was also the reason why there was a rule that payment could be made using things like materials.

After all, if it were cash, even the Supreme Council, which could mint coins, would have to mint for a long time...

"But I believe this should be a very wonderful mysterious auctioned item, right?"

Lan Qingyou said jokingly.

"It's more than wonderful, it's simply wonderful to the extreme. If I wasn't out of money, I would definitely buy it too. This way, who knows how many fruit trees and tobacco I could plant in our Forest Elf autonomous territory."

【Justice】 Riesling grinned with a cigar dangling from his mouth.

Because there were ladies present, his cigar was not lit.

However, this guy was also an existence who played the pig to eat the tiger.

Since ancient times, tobacco and alcohol had been the most profitable industries. Yet this guy opened and closed his mouth talking about having no money, being poor, having to sell his undies...

Hypocritical, too hypocritical.

"110 million!"

Sure enough.

Just as Riesling's voice settled, the number 11896 lit up in private room number 51 not far away, and a high-pitched voice was heard.

And it was an addition of ten million right off the bat, directly and instantly heating up the originally somewhat deserted atmosphere at the scene.

"No way, there's actually a sucker buying this thing."

"Isn't it normal for someone to buy it? This kind of thing wasn't meant for people like us who have to pinch pennies just to buy a little magic item in the first place."

"Hey! We can speak?"

"Really!"

"What's the point of being able to speak now? At most, we're just an atmosphere group."

"Although what brother said is a bit discouraging, it's the truth. Anyway, I don't want to become a part of their game. Better to just honestly shut up and watch the show."

"True that."

Unlike when they were first muted, where even if they couldn't make a sound they still had to wave their hands to show their presence.

This time, surprisingly, no one spoke up again. Instead, they quietly watched the people in the upstairs private rooms perform.

"120 million!"

"130 million!"

Because the guy who bid first added ten million at once, the people after him, regardless of whether they wanted to or not, did not bid lower than this amount when calling a price.

For no other reason than they couldn't afford to lose face.

It would be fine if they didn't win the bid.

But if they did win, then everyone would know that so-and-so was scraping the lowest price when bidding for this Magic Array.

At that time, let alone any talk of control, just development alone would likely be affected.

However, although the competition seemed fierce.

In reality, there were only about three or four parties bidding.

After a few rounds of bidding, the price had already risen from the initial 100 million Gold Coins to 200 million, and then to 300 million.

Those people who originally just didn't want to participate and become a part of the game were also dead silent.

Now it was no longer a question of whether they wanted to speak or not. Rather, right now, apart from opening their mouths wide to breathe like fish, they couldn't make a single sound.

Frightening.

Mainly just frightening.

In reality, there were quite a few existences in the hall who were wealthy when they were on Blue Star.

After transmigrating to Karim, they had also completed their primitive accumulation through various means.

That was why they had the money to buy auction tickets at high prices from others and bid on those magic items.

But compared to these organizations that casually threw around tens or hundreds of millions of Gold Coins, they were just small fries.

So right now, not a single one dared to breathe heavily, only able to listen to the price increments coming from the upper private rooms from time to time.

"What kind of backgrounds are these?"

Inside the Tarot Manor private room, 【Judgment】 Chu Yuan looked at Lan Qingyou with great interest.

As the host, she must surely know which people were sitting in which private room.

However, the truth was not so.

Lan Qingyou spread her hands and looked at Chu Yuan very helplessly.

"Unfortunately, aside from a few individual Clan Leaders, the heads of these organizations are just in private rooms with a few acquaintances. As for exactly who is in which private room, I'm not clear on that either."

"Is that so? That is indeed a pity."

After learning that the arrangement for the upper levels of this auction was actually so free, Chu Yuan didn't continue to ask further.

Although he was indeed curious about these wealthy and overbearing organizations, now was not the time to investigate these things either.

Because among these few bidding people, one of them was someone from their Supreme Council.

The Supreme Council, you know. They might lack other things, but they had plenty of money.

If it wasn't enough, they could just go full throttle minting Gold Coins.

Although some core raw materials, for example, Thorium, which allowed all currency to withstand powerful squeezing, needed to be purchased from Shang Chuan, other materials were very easy to get.

But Chu Yuan never expected that there would be so many organizations able to bid against them.

Yes.

In Chu Yuan's view, at this stage, there should be no one whose financial resources could be mentioned in the same breath as the Supreme Council.

"Judgment, it seems the intelligence system of your Supreme Council isn't that great either."

The one speaking was still that jokester Vivian.

She was currently seen sitting on the armrest on one side of the sofa, even stepping one foot on it, and then looking at Chu Yuan with a mocking gaze that completely didn't match her age.