1669 The Auction Interface
The item was covered with a thick brown fabric. And then the lady started to speak up.
“The next item we are going to sell is a very nice treasure, rarely found in our universe. This treasure is estimated to be a high-grade artefact, something that was claimed from the outer battlefield…”
“It’s trash,” the moment Hye heard this item came from the outer battlefield, and his interest suddenly plummeted. He didn’t like taking a gamble, buying a piece of rock on the premise it might contain a heaven defying treasure inside.
As he lost interest in this item, he started to examine the interface again. The feed showed that the auction lady selling that item was taking most of the screen in front of his face. But there were more options there as well.
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“Hescos are here?!” Hye was surprised when he spotted many Hescos race figures attending this auction, “don’t tell me they allowed them to come here… That doesn’t make sense…”
He paused, thinking about the great feud he heard before between the people running and owning this world and the Hescos race. The only explanation he got was that accessing such an interface didn’t need the person to be really here.
“They must be out there at their homes, taking part in the auction, just like how I’m doing it right now,” he felt this was the most logical explanation for all this. And then he started to read various names of many races, including his old friends and enemies.
“Dragons, Hectors, Selvators, and Berserkers are here as well… Last time I got my chariot from one of the Dragon races. It’s a regret I can’t get anything from them right now,” he mulled over this, while recalling his past and long away encounter with the dragon big shot when he started the apocalypse.
Aside from this list, which contained thousands upon thousands of names, he found another section below the feed window. It was the one which he’d decide when to bid, how much he wanted to bid, and even use the buyout option of any item sold there if it was possible.
The item that was sold right now got an initial price of eighty million silver grade bones. He found the standard allocated bid increased by one thousand silver bones. As for the buyout price of this item, it was one hundred and sixty million silver grade bones.
“Hmm… So, the buyout price is double the base price of any item,” he kept watching for a few hours without taking part in anything. From this, he noticed that any item with a buyout option always was double the base price of it.
And yet, no one ever tried to buy out any item. First, the final price of any item with a buyout option always ended with tens of million silver grade bones worth price below the buyout option. It looked as if there was a tacit agreement between everyone to stop the bidding at a certain limit.
So there was no need to use the buyout option to begin with. Not to mention all the items he found with such an option were all things that came from the outer battlefield. As for other items, they never showed such an option except for rare occasions.
Hye edited the increased bid from one thousand to one hundred thousand. “I hate playing it slow,” he muttered while then turning his attention towards the ongoing auction biddings.
He watched how the process worked. He got used to how to raise a bid using one’s voice, shouting the increase of prices and such. But here, there were only bubbles of smoke appearing around the ground, showing the amount of increase by anyone, coupled with his name, number, and race.
The first ten minutes were always hectic. Lots of bubbles appeared like the sky was raining on them. Then slowly, the bubbles would decrease, and only less than ten bubbles would keep popping every now and then, fighting among each other to win the prize.
He noticed that the ones fighting over any item came from the three main races in the universe, with few coming from Dragons, Selvators, and a few other races he never met or heard about before.
The fight over each item would last for an hour or two. Hye started to grow bored from watching the same process happening over and over again, opened his inventory, checked the endless number of bones he had, before finally deciding to buy something.
He didn’t join the ongoing bidding fight right away and went first to check the list of items. The list did indeed remove any sold item, showing only the one currently being sold as the number one item there. So, he didn’t need to go through any trouble to find out the nearest interesting item he could make the best use of.
This item came from the outer world, but it had something that attracted Hye’s attention. It got weird darkness energy exuded out from it. When he looked at its picture, all he could see was a dead rock, with nothing special or remarkable about it except its weird black colour and lustre.
It felt like any light would die the moment it touched this rock. From the description provided about it, Hye knew this was obtained from a recent colossal war, one that happened between ten war overlords from both universes, lasting for an entire year.
Hye didn’t know what a war overlord even meant in the outer battlefield, but it seemed like it was a prestigious name. He checked the initial price of it, and it was just at sixty million only. Without the need to wait for the auction over it to start, he knew the buyout option was one hundred and twenty million.