Chapter 249: Chapter 249: That’s Really Terrifying

Watching the countdown with less than 30 seconds remaining as the price kept climbing, Grand Magician Drinkwater felt his heartbeat accelerating like crazy.

Even a few days ago when he was surrounded and attacked, it hadn’t been this thrilling.

Fifteen seconds left!

Steeling his heart, he placed a bid directly. 1.5 million!

All in!

A full 180,000 gold coins more than the previous bid!

He just wanted those big shots to be unable to react in that instant. As long as there were a few seconds of hesitation, a few seconds of pause, this Spring of Life would be his!

The sudden jump from 1.32 million to 1.5 million left many people’s inputs of 1.33 million or 1.35 million getting system prompts that their bids were too low.

When they paused in surprise and reacted, they saw the price had already become 1.5 million!

A sudden surge of nearly 200,000?

Who was this person?

Had they made up their mind they absolutely had to get it?

Should they keep bidding?

These questions flashed through their minds. Before they could make a decision, or after they’d already decided and were preparing to input, time was up!

Grand Magician Drinkwater collapsed to the ground somewhat exhausted!

Success!

He’d actually bought it!

Although all his family wealth had been put on the line, even his home property had been mortgaged, as long as he succeeded, he was saved. Once he took out those enemies later, he’d earn everything back!

Grand Magician Drinkwater only felt like his entire body had entered an excited state. He didn’t even realize his clothes were completely soaked through. If you wrung them out, you could probably squeeze out four pounds of sweat.

Magic Space.

In a "Magic Net Auction Forum" that had just been opened in recent days, the spectators had already gone crazy.

"Holy crap! The transaction price actually reached 1.5 million gold coins!"

"Last time the Spring of Life appeared, wasn’t it only several hundred thousand gold coins?!"

"After all, this time it’s the entire continent competing together. Higher is pretty normal."

"I feel like I could never make this much gold in my lifetime."

"These big shots are really loaded. Over 80 people gave bids over a million gold coins. Although they weren’t ruthless about raising prices, their funds are still pretty solid. The later auction items probably won’t be easy to get!"

"My dad’s also a legendary mage. This time he only prepared 300,000 gold coins total. How can the gap between people be this big?!"

"Count your blessings. I’m a count, and I put all my liquid funds in Dragon Bank. That’s only around 200,000 gold coins. Now I just feel like a poor person."

"I feel like this auction’s total transaction amount will definitely be a terrifying number. Absolutely unprecedented. As for whether there’ll be anything after, that depends on whether the Magic Net continues to hold auctions at this high level in the future!"

The end of the first auction item directly shocked countless spectators.

This morning when they woke up it was less than a fraction of this.

Only at this moment did they realize the previous stage was just small potatoes. The time these big shots really made their moves was when it was about to end.

Otherwise, unless you could give a super high price that made others lose the desire to compete...

Actually, by this point, basically everyone understood why every single auction item in this auction needed to wait so long. Turned out it was for people to raise funds!

If something caught your interest, you’d have 24 hours to raise funds as much as possible. If it were a regular auction, you’d have to make a decision in a few minutes. There’d be no time at all.

Under this kind of stimulation, the prices of auction items would naturally skyrocket.

In fact, the following auction items also proved this point.

Almost every treasure’s price far exceeded the stream viewers’ estimates.

At minimum 50% higher, at maximum 3000% higher. Even some ordinary goods had their prices pushed sky-high in this atmosphere.

Dragon race.

In the Council of Elders.

Dragon of Despair Nidhogg glanced at Grand Magician Drinkwater who was excited to the point of nearly passing out, and cracked a smile that would scare other races to death if they saw it. "What a great start. The auction went so smoothly. Taking advantage of this opportunity, we should be able to completely open up the situation."

"I’ve already arranged everything. I absolutely guarantee every auction item can be delivered to customers. There definitely won’t be any problems." A silver dragon spoke up.

"Same with funds. After delivery, I’ll transfer the gold coins to the auctioneer’s account." A golden dragon nodded slightly. "But our accumulated deposits have already approached 400 million gold coins. Is that really okay?"

"How much have we loaned out?" Dragon of Despair Nidhogg nodded slightly.

"Only over 80 million. Plus, I suspect after the auction ends, most of them might pay it back." A flash of worry passed through the golden dragon’s eyes.

400 million gold coins—after the auction ended, some would definitely flow out, but because of the 5% annual interest, maybe 200 to 300 million would stay in their hands. They needed to loan out at least 100 million to ensure they broke even.

But the golden dragon quickly heard some shocking news. "Viscount Roster just contacted me. He wants to loan 50 million gold coins. What do you all think?"

"A viscount... Roster? That one who started the Magic Conductor reform?"

Some dragons instinctively wanted to say, what gives a viscount the right, but they quickly realized that if he didn’t have the ability to pay it back, why would the Grand Elder mention it? Thinking carefully, they discovered this important figure.

"Yes, he wants to establish a new type of transportation in the southern region of the Kingdom of Dawn. A believer of the God of Technology. I’m very interested."

Dragon of Despair Nidhogg paused. "I’ll send the relevant materials to your Magic Net accounts. You all take a look too. I think we can lend it, and we can also reach long-term cooperation with them... Of course, 10% interest definitely has to be paid. Business is business, regardless of how close the partnership."

While the other elders checked the relevant information, Dragon of Despair Nidhogg once again focused his attention on the auction.

Watching each auction item being auctioned off at higher prices, he couldn’t help getting excited. With so many people auctioning, with so much capital flowing in, this proved that after this auction ended, Dragon Delivery and Dragon Bank’s reputation would be completely established. The business coming next would naturally increase more and more.

Especially the top figures of various races—after experiencing the convenience provided by the dragons, naturally they’d choose more services in the future.

More business meant more points.

More points meant more children.

Nidhogg already understood that his initial worries had completely disappeared. There was absolutely no shortage of business. As long as they worked diligently, the dragon race would no longer lack descendants.

The tense and thrilling auction continued until six PM before ending.

And at this moment, the total transaction amount had reached an astonishing 240 million gold coins!

On the Magic Net, people paying attention, discussing, and tallying related data had already fallen into shock and numbness one by one.