Chapter 238: Chapter 238: Money World, Auction Begins!

1 AM.

The World Economic News Agency released an ordinary news piece—a roughly 20-second video with Audrey’s livestream as the background, paired with text covering how many people entered the livestream, peak viewer count, how many chose to donate, total donation amount...

The data was so detailed it basically recorded all the information visible in Audrey’s livestream backend.

Because the thumbnail was Audrey’s nearly perfect face, it instantly attracted many night owls to click it. The moment they entered, intense, excited background music paired with Audrey’s livestream achievements appeared before everyone!

"Wait, the Magic Net only has so many users total, but over 600,000 people clicked into the livestream?"

"No way?! Made 360,000 gold coins in one night?! Even some cities’ annual tax revenue couldn’t reach that number, right?! Too exaggerated!"

"Is this real? Livestreaming makes this much money?"

"I work so hard adventuring, decoding ruins, gambling with my life, and feel like I only make 30,000-50,000 gold coins a year. The gap is way too big, sob!"

"??? Amazing! Decoding ruins makes you 30,000-50,000 a year? Bro, I suggest you find someone to record when you explore and post it online, stream occasionally—your income could probably double."

"This is way too fake, right? People really donate hundreds of thousands of gold coins to someone they’ve never met? And over ten thousand people donated!"

"I was there, it’s real. Roster territory’s second Magic Conductor invention master also donated quite a bit. He’s number two on the leaderboard."

"I feel like his number two spot is definitely more comfortable than the top spot. Don’t forget Audrey’s at the Church of Love and Beauty in Roster territory! They can actually meet in person."

"So, can someone tell me exactly how to make money livestreaming? Also, if one livestream already makes this much money, after the auction ends and the new storefront and shopping features appear, how much money will that make?!"

Originally many people were just having fun, looking at stuff online for entertainment. Online was online, reality was reality. But Megan’s news release made everyone realize that with the Magic Net’s latest update, a brand new era had arrived!

The Magic Net combined with Dragon Bank and Dragon Delivery—many things could now affect reality.

For the vast majority of Magic Net users, these 360,000-plus gold coins were a massive number. Such wealth was impossible to ignore. At this moment, countless people felt their hearts stir, couldn’t help thinking about how they could operate to earn this much.

As this video fermented, more and more people really started researching how to gain followers, how to make money... Though people recording their faces obviously increased a lot, more professional content or people imitating viral videos also started surging.

Some people who’d had ideas before became even more determined after seeing these profits.

Magic Net videos seemed to be experiencing a second update wave.

Meanwhile, elsewhere.

Dragon Delivery’s business became increasingly busy. Dragons could handle even virtual donation transaction models according to the rules, so physical auctions should also be possible...

Plus with the earlier Eternal Night Dome incident, so many treasures involved—it was basically certain many big shots would participate.

More and more supernatural beings or nobles’ collections were sent to Dragon Delivery for inspection, registration, and awaiting auction.

However, as news from Dragon Delivery locations spread and various on-site videos were posted to the Magic Net, more and more people got curious—with so many auction items, exactly how long would it take to auction them all?!

There were just too many treasures gathered!

Until this point, they hadn’t realized what form the Magic Net video auction would actually take!

Finally.

Auction day arrived!

The moment auction time hit, everyone using Magic Net videos received a notification—

[’Auction’ ’Storefront’ ’Shopping Cart’ and other sales and shopping services are now officially open. Switch to the Magic Net auction site?]

"Yes!"

Of the Magic Net’s less than 1.6 million users, over 1.1 million people clicked to switch to a livestream called ’Magic Net Auction’ the instant they saw the announcement.

"I’m sure everyone’s really curious about what form the Magic Net auction will take and how it differs from real auctions, right? As the person in charge of the Magic Net auction, let me explain..."

A character that looked like a little angel in the video quickly started explaining.

The biggest difference between the Magic Net auction and other auctions was that the Magic Net auction wouldn’t be like other auctions where each collection had to finish before the next one started. Instead, after introduction, it would be directly displayed on a secondary interface. Users just needed to click the auction hammer in the lower right corner to open it.

The secondary page would display the current highest price for that collection. Users could choose to raise the price themselves. Any bids before the countdown ended were valid.

For this auction, all collections had a unified auction time of 24 hours. In future auctions, sellers could freely choose time—anything from 1 minute to 72 hours could be set.

The little sprite in the video spoke incredibly fast, but everyone could hear clearly. Even the newest, most abstract concepts seemed instantly understandable to everyone... This wasn’t surprising since the sprite was the Master of Depravity in disguise, with divine power enhancement making the effect amazing!

"So the auctioneer will introduce items one by one, then after introducing them, throw them directly to another page, and anyone can bid before this time tomorrow? Then couldn’t I just bid right before it ends tomorrow?"

"I think it’s pretty good. This way if there’s something you like, you have plenty of time to raise funds."

"Compared to traditional auctions, it does have certain advantages. Just feels like it lacks some excitement!"

"Wait till the countdown starts, then see if it’s exciting! Plus no one knows who your competitors are!"

"Damn, putting it that way, it seems pretty advantageous. No more worrying about being threatened by other buyers or getting intercepted! Oh right, this time dragons are delivering to your door too—that’s even more perfect!"

Amid everyone’s discussions, the Master of Depravity, having switched appearances, finally entered the formal auction phase.

At this time, 1.2 million users had gathered in the auction livestream.

The vast majority of supernatural being users and noble users had entered. Of course, there were also some people watching for fun who couldn’t afford anything.

Storm Sea.

An old man wearing moon-white robes, white hair and beard, kind face but very disheveled, looked at the first item on the Magic Net auction and his eyes went wide.

If other high-level magicians were present, they’d be shocked—this disheveled old man was actually the legendary magician Drinkwater!