With Lord Proteus bleeding and silenced in the corner of his floating throne, the atmosphere in the Grand Amphitheater shifted completely.
Auction Master Black-Beard wiped sweat from his bearded chin, glancing nervously toward VIP Box Number Five before raising his heavy bone gavel once more.
GONGGGGGGG!
“Lot Number Sixteen through Lot Number Ninety-Nine!” Black-Beard bellowed, waving his arms as seventy dark-iron carts were wheeled onto the jade stage by golem teams. “The ancient heritage of the Pre-Flood Empire of Atlantis!”
The seventy carts held eighty-four separate treasures excavated from the sunken royal ruins over the past three centuries.
There were thirty-six Hydro-Spirit Cultivation Tablets carved from translucent sea-jade, covered in ancient First Age script that taught harmonious water cultivation.
There were twenty-four Deep-Sea Alchemy Cauldrons cast from abyssal meteorite bronze, each inscribed with natural self-heating fire formations.
And there were twenty-four crystal jars containing Star-Coral Vein Seeds: miraculous biological seeds capable of purifying poisoned ocean trenches and restoring dead reefs.
