On the top floor of the seventh story of the
Everyone had assumed that this auction would draw very few attendees, yet every single seat was taken…
This was only because the Zero Wing Guild had imposed restrictions from the outside: you either had to be a member of the Zero Wing Auction House, or you had to carry at least two gold in your backpack. Players with that kind of liquid capital were generally expert players. Even if they couldn't afford Zero Wing's private residences right now, they would have the chance in the future.
As for the ordinary players and elite players — there were simply far too many of them, and the auction could never have accommodated them all.
"Captain, look — so many adventurer teams have come this time. Not only are there well-known teams from the
But thinking about it more carefully, it wasn't hard to understand. After all, Stone Forest Town was simply too good.
It not only had such an advanced auction house where barter was possible, giving adventurer teams a chance to trade the rare items and equipment they had obtained for what they actually wanted, but it also had the arena's high-level battle rooms that could help experts like them improve at a rapid pace. If they didn't come to develop in Stone Forest Town, that would be the strange thing.
"Let them come," Can Yun said with a smile, glancing at several of the Black Dragon Empire's top fifty ranked adventurer teams. "I already had Feihu prepare a lot of funds. I'm not afraid of losing to them."
Originally, his plan had been to go all out for the Adventurer's Home auction that the Torchlight Trading Company would hold in a few days. But once he realized just how prosperous Stone Forest Town had become, he understood that relying on the Flame Cloud Fox's finances alone would be nowhere near enough to compete with those top-tier adventurer teams. After all, the Zero Wing Guild had imposed purchase limits — only five Adventurer's Homes were being sold.
So he had changed his mind. Securing two or three private residences in Stone Forest Town would be enough — just barely sufficient for the main members of the adventurer team.
To that end, he had specifically mobilized the entire Flame Cloud Fox's funds and gathered a full five thousand gold. That was enough to buy a decent private residence in the trade district of the Black Dragon Empire's capital.
While everyone was quietly discussing the Zero Wing auction, Youyu Weixiao stepped out from behind the curtain and began presiding over the auction.
Because this auction only had Stone Forest Town's private residences and shops up for sale, Youyu Weixiao didn't bother with lengthy introductions. She simply listed the locations of the private residences, set the opening bid at eight hundred gold, and let everyone start bidding.
"Eight hundred fifty gold!"
"Nine hundred gold!"
"One thousand gold!"
…
The very first private residence had barely gone up for sale before the price climbed and climbed, surging past twelve hundred gold in the blink of an eye. The free expert players in attendance clicked their tongues in disbelief, and the dozens of adventurer teams were completely demoralized. That kind of money could buy a decent private residence in a regular NPC city, yet they couldn't even afford one in a player town.
"Sixteen hundred gold!" Can Yun called out through gritted teeth.
"Twenty-four hundred gold! The FFF Adventurer Team wants it!" Not far away, a forty-five-year-old female Elementalist in a water-blue mage robe calmly dropped a bid.
The price of twenty-four hundred gold instantly drew everyone's attention, and all eyes turned to the female Elementalist who had named such a sky-high sum.
"Holy crap — the FFF Adventurer Team, one of the Black Dragon Empire's top teams, is competing too? They're basically not letting us Star Moon Kingdom's adventurer teams live!"
"That's gotta be
After hearing the female Elementalist speak, the adventurer teams that had still been considering competing immediately gave up the idea, one after another falling silent.