The rest of the 242nd Royal Auction passed like a blur.
Not because it was uninteresting—on the contrary, many items sparked vicious bidding wars—but because after the Dragon God Core, Kain could not even hope to participate in any future bids and was now a mere sightseeing tourist.
Moreover, despite the impressive items that broadened Kain's horizon's, there was no finale item to match last year's God's Eye, the item that shattered every previous auction record and drew out multiple 9-star beast tamers from seclusion just to compete for it.
This year, the final item—a rare beast egg found in a relic with dual top-quality bloodines: Titan and Asura—still sold for an impressive 700 billion Celestial Dollars. But the silence in the hall after the hammer dropped wasn't awe. It was polite. Restrained. Anticlimactic.
Kain didn't mind.
