Chapter 233 - The Auction

Chapter 233 The AuctionOnly with the Space Stone could the guild build up its own Transmission Formation. In this way, it didn’t need to pay the system for the expensive transmission fee and rental. Moreover, through the encampment setting, it could charge other players for using the transmission fee.

When the guild encampment developed to a certain scale or had anything to attract other players, the guild would earn a considerable income via the Transmission Formation. For example, the guild had an instance zone nearby, numerous players would choose the nearest transmission spots, aka, the guild’s Transmission Formation.

Undoubtedly, this would bring a substantial economic income for the guild. Thus, to establish a Transmission Formation of its own and tear down the system’s was an urgent matter for the big guilds which had built up the encampment or were working on the encampment.

Therefore, various guilds were enquiring and searching for any news about Space Stone. However, the scarcity of the material exceeded their imagination. After the game was opened, they couldn’t find any information about it.

Now it just showed up in the auction of the Treasure Pavilion, which also made the big guilds sigh about the increasingly rich deposits of the Treasure Pavilion. Meanwhile, some big guilds that were on friendly terms with the Treasure Pavilion were starting to enquire about the sites of the Space Stone.

“1,100 golden coins!”

“1,200 golden coins!”

“1,500 golden coins from Indistinguishable!”

“1,600 golden coins from Tough Man Alliance.”

However, the auction was not cold or cheerless. Plenty of big guilds joined the fierce bidding, which gave a shock to many unspecialized characters and members of small guilds. Even though they didn’t know what the Space Stone was used for, they could tell its value. Otherwise, these big guilds wouldn’t all join the bidding.

The price of the Space Stone kept going up and reached 3,000 golden coins very soon. Those weaker guilds all remained silent, for 300,000 dollars in real money were too much for them.

“3,200 golden coins from Dynasty.”

“3,300 from Indistinguishable!”

“3,500 golden coins from Antiquity!”

“3,600 from Glory!”

However, the big guilds didn’t intend to stop and yet the auction got even more fierce, because they were deeply aware of the necessity and value of the Space Stone. Now, besides the Midsummer, all the top 10 guilds on the guild list of the Huaxia District were all bidding without anyone giving in. The booths were rather bustling.

“4,000 golden coins from Dynasty.”

In the No. 2 booth, Crown Prince increased the price of the Space Stone to 400,000 dollars.

The auction hall was silent for a while. Numerous big guilds fell into anxiety. 400,000 dollars was a high price, almost the highest price of the Space Stone. If they were to increase the bid, they must consider whether it was worthwhile or not. After all, 400,000 dollars was enough for them to pay for one-month rental of the system’s Transmission Formation.

Most importantly, the bidder was Dynasty. If any guild continued to bid, not only the bidding price would surpass the value of the Space Stone itself but also it would be thought of as if competing against the Dynasty. Given the power and influence of Dynasty, many big guilds would try to avoid that.

Therefore, many big guilds which were in good terms with Treasure Pavilion, including War Spirit Hall, were all asking Qian Duoduo secretly about the source and place of origin of the Space Stone. Or they actually hoped that Qian Duoduo could sell the Space Stones separately. After all, the first auction item was a set of Space Stones, which consisted of ten stones and were enough to build up a middle-size Transmission Formation.

Yet, obviously, never could they know the source and position of the Space Stone but they learned another relieving news from Qian Duoduo, that was, there would be three more sets of Space Stones to be auctioned.

Instantly, other big guilds gave up bidding the first set, which was also a gesture to show respect for Dynasty. After all, 400,000 dollars was already the highest price of the Space Stone and it would be not worthwhile to increase the bid.

“4,200 golden coins from Antiquity!”

However, some people didn’t want to show respect for Dynasty. A provocative voice came from the No. 9 booth, as if rivaling against Dynasty on purpose.

“4,500 from Dynasty.”

Inside the No. 2 booth, Crown Prince’s voice didn’t change a lot. The players in the hall couldn’t see the situation of the booth, but they could guess that he was probably frowning at the moment.

“4,700 from Antiquity!”

In the No. 9 booth, the frivolous voice carried the persistence of the speaker.

“Dynasty, 4,800 golden coins.”

It was a pity that Crown Prince said calmly without his voice much changed.

“5,000 from Antiquity!”

The voice from No. 9 booth didn’t sound like giving up, which made the numerous players in the auction hall quite surprised, including the players in the other booths.

Did the new guild Antiquity hold a grudge against Dynasty?

The price had risen to 500,000 and the No. 2 booth became quiet too. It seemed that Dynasty didn’t intend to be the sucker.

“Hem. Can’t the Dynasty, the No. 1 Guild in the Huaxia District afford a few thousand golden coins?”

Very soon, a mocked voice came from the No. 9 booth, which assured the players at present that there must be enmity between Antiquity and Dynasty.

“6,000 golden coins.”

The one from No. 2 booth bided again. Although Crown Prince didn’t sound different from before, judging from the increase of 1,000 golden coins, he was not that calm.

Indeed, a few thousand golden coins were only a hair off a bull’s back to Dynasty. Despite the high cost, Dynasty’s reputation couldn’t be measured by money.

“6,500 from Antiquity!”

In this way, the second round of bidding started again. Only No. 2 booth and No. 9 booth were competing, that was, Antiquity and Dynasty. The other guilds and the players at present became onlookers.

The bid didn’t last long. When the bid went up to the 12,000 golden coins, equaling to 1.2 million dollars in real money, Dynasty still chose to give up and the Space Stones were acquired by Antiquity.

This made the onlookers feel somewhat disappointed as well as sigh about Crown Prince’s prudence. At least, when he was thought of being obsessive, he suddenly gave up.

When the second auction item came out, the players felt surprised at Crown Prince’s sagacity and meanwhile looked at No. 9 booth with disdain.

The second auction item was still a set of Space Stones, which rendered Antiquity that spent 1.2 million on the first set of the Space Stones a foolish squanderer.

And the over-high price was brought up by themselves and facilitated by Dynasty. Hence, many guilds dart an awed look at No. 2 booth. The leading guild, Dynasty, was quite tough indeed.

The second set of Space Stones was acquired by Dynasty at the price of 3,500 coins. It was not expensive. For what happened just now, no guilds dared to compete with Dynasty, let alone the No. 9 booth.

The people from Antiquity didn’t have internal information so they didn’t know there would be several sets of Space Stones to be auctioned. And the big guilds knew that from Qian Duoduo.

So did Dynasty. Hence, they stopped badgering after having Antiquity trolled. Only Antiquity was swindled for being not close to the Treasure Pavilion.

There were four sets of Space Stones auctioned at the event. Apart from the previous two sets, the latter two sets were acquired by Glory and Indistinguishable. Those who had built up their own encampments were also the most active bidders. Especially when it came to the fourth auction item, the bidding price was almost more than one million again.

The Space Stones were from Xiao Feng. Only these Space Stones brought the benefit of over three million for Xiao Feng.

“Next is the fifth auction item, the random pet eggs (of rare type)! The floor price is 500 golden coins and the price increase must not be less than 10 golden coins.”

The fifth auction item was a pet egg, which was obtained by Liu Qiangwei via lucky drawing on the Treasure Island yesterday. In fact, apart from the Space Stones of Xiao Feng, all the other items were acquired by Liu Qiangwei in the server-wide Treasure Hunt. In light of her incomparable luck, she had won more prizes than her bag could hold.

This was the reason why Xiao Feng didn’t attend the auction. He was aware of all the auction items and he had no interest in them.

Xiao Feng only wanted the skill points that Liu Qiangwei got by chance but the skill points couldn’t be traded.

“Pet eggs of rare type! 500 golden coins!”

“I bid 600 golden coins! No one shall compete with me!”

“Go away! You want to get the rare pet with only 600 golden coins! I bid 750 golden coins!”

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The auction was going on. From the fifth item to the ninth one, all the five items brought more than tens of thousands of golden coins, aka, millions of dollars in real money, for Liu Qiangwei.

Especially a rare skill book–Counterattack for Block was obtained by Antiquity Guild at the price of 5,000 golden coins.

Liu Qiangwei was not in the booth. She was sitting with Midsummer Lily in the hall, watching the auction on the platform in surprise.

She didn’t expect the income to be so decent. These several auction items were not all that she acquired from the Treasure Hunt Island. She had got a full bag of rewards and after she took them all back, she just threw them to Qian Duoduo.

If she sold them all out, wouldn’t them be worth more than tens of million?

Liu Qiangwei fell into silence and even thought earning money by luck, which was an impractical idea.

However, she also knew that it was impractical. Although these rewards were gained by her via lucky drawing, the Treasure Points needed for lucky drawing were exchanged with Xiao Feng. Otherwise, she was not that capable to kill others for the Treasure Points.

Yet, Xiao Feng didn’t ask her for the things, which meant that these things worth more than tens of millions just belonged to her. This was quite a fortune. Now the development of Midsummer must be supported by a mass of capital, so Liu Qiangwei couldn’t help feeling delighted.

She looked to the No. 1 booth, which was the exclusive booth of Xiao Feng. Yet, he was not in there.

Liu Qiangwei had been a bit disappointed that Xiao Feng didn’t come to the auction but now she felt quite relieved. It was lucky that he didn’t come, or he would ask for a share of the profits, which was a bad thing for her.