However, the Sea Snake Clan was ranked last among the seven overlords, and the Wasteland Sea that they were in was not rich in resources. If the Sea Snake Clan wanted to obtain the Heart of All Evil, it would be impossible for them to not suffer a huge loss if they wanted to compete with the other overlords.
"150,000,000 gold coins!" The Sea Demon Clan that did not participate in the competition at first finally made a move, and Prince Cliff raised his paddle to make a new bid. The bid was not made casually, because Prince Cliff had already revealed his trump card previously. Hence, Prince Cliff made a bid to eliminate Falter first.
Indeed, after hearing Prince Cliff's new bid, Falter immediately seemed to be struggling. If he were facing a small force, he could still use the power of the Sea Snake Clan to threaten the other party like he did to the Divine Conch Clan. However, compared to the Sea Demon Clan, the Sea Snake Clan could only be threatened. The difference in strength between the two clans was too great.
"160,000,000 gold coins!" Before Falte could respond, the person in the Octopus Clan's private room made a new bid. Among the seven overlords, the Octopus Clan was considered one of the wealthiest. With the magic scroll business, they could reap huge profits from all over the world every year.
The Octopus Clan's bid finally made the struggle on Falter's face disappear, and was replaced by a dejected look. He fell onto the chair weakly. Although he could fork out that many gold coins if he worked hard, he knew very well that it was obviously not Falter's limit. Even if he worked hard to gather the gold coins, it would be of no use.
Just as Falter thought, the price of the Heart of All Evil did not stop at 160,000,000 gold coins. Soon, the Giant Shark Clan, the Octopus Clan, and the other overlords pushed it past the 200,000,000 gold coins mark. At this point, there were basically only a few who participated in the bidding, and only the Sea Demon Clan, the Giant Shark Clan, and the Octopus Clan were left.
Of course, even for the three major clans, 200,000,000 gold coins was already a huge number. The speed of the bidding slowed down, and the price began to rise slowly from 1,000,000 gold coins.
Lin Li was initially interested in the Heart of All Evil, but his interest vanished when he saw the price being pushed to such an extent. Although he could afford it, there was still the question of whether it was worth it.
The Heart of Ten Thousand Evil had two main uses. One was to provide endless magic power, and the other was to suppress evil. However, those two uses were not very important to Lin Li. A Saint-level magical crystal that provided magical energy was actually much purer. There were also two pieces of the debris of the stars, Holy Light and Gloomy Dark, which were stronger than the Heart of All Evil. He was only interested in the Heart of Ten Thousand Evil to study it. It was obviously not worth it to spend so much money on it.
After losing interest in the Heart of Ten Thousand Evil, Lin Li shifted his attention to something else. He suddenly discovered that the Divine Conch who had won the bid for the Coral Staff had already left the auction house. However, that was not strange at all. The Divine Conch had obviously participated in the auction for the Coral Staff. Since he had already gotten the item, and someone else was coveting it, there was no better time than now to leave.
Compared to the Heart of All Evil, Lin Li was more interested in the Divine Conch. Hence, when he saw that the Divine Conch had left, he immediately contacted Norfeller, who was still in the embassy, and asked him to secretly keep an eye on the Divine Conch.
Others might think that the abilities of the Divine Conch were useless, but Lin Li did not think so. Hence, he also planned to hire a group of Divine Conch. However, now that the Divine Conch had the Coral Staff, they would probably be like birds that were startled by the mere twang of a bow. They might even actively or passively disappear. Hence, Lin Li asked Norfeller to keep an eye on them. After everything was over, he would be able to hire the Divine Conch.
After making these arrangements, Lin Li's attention returned to the auction. The price of the Heart of All Evil had already been pushed to 230,000,000 gold coins. The last bidder was Prince Clive of the Sea Demons. The Octopus Clan had already withdrawn from the competition. The only one who was still competing with the Sea Demons for the Heart of All Evil was Gerina of the Giant Shark Clan.
Gerina did not raise his paddle immediately. Instead, he waited for Grand Duke Weidi to ask twice before raising his paddle, indicating that he would raise the price by 1,000,000 gold coins. At the same time, one of the four Godly Generals beside him, Soro, had already appeared in the private room of the Sea Snake Clan.
It was obvious that Gerina was stalling for time. The purpose of stalling for time was to wait for the outcome of the negotiation between Soro and Farte. After a few rounds of bidding, Gerina was very clear that he was not as well-prepared as the Sea Demons. Hence, he set his sights on the tens of millions of gold coins in Farte's hands.
"The Sea Sapphire mine in the Agate Trench in the east of the Red Sea in exchange for all the gold coins in my hands?" Although Falter looked very calm on the surface, he was overjoyed when he heard the conditions that Divine General Soro of the Giant Shark Race had proposed. If this deal was successful, he would not have come to the auction for nothing.
"No, it's the mining rights for five years!" Soro emphasized expressionlessly. He was holding a contract scroll in his hand. The Sea Sapphire mine in the Agate Trench in the east of the Red Sea contained enough resources to be mined for hundreds of years. It was not something that could be bought with tens of millions of gold coins. Even if it was only the mining rights for five years, as long as he put in enough effort, he could earn far more than tens of millions of gold coins.
Farte was also very clear about this problem. However, he was even more clear that the Giant Shark Clan urgently needed the gold coins in his hands. Hence, he naturally hoped to use this opportunity to extort more benefits from the Giant Shark Clan.
"Well, you should know that there is still a mysterious auction item that has yet to appear in this auction. If I hand over all the gold coins to you, it would be equivalent to withdrawing from the auction in advance. If that mysterious auction item is very important to the Sea Snake Clan, then I would be making a huge loss, "Farte said as he swayed his long and thin neck. It was rare for him to extort from the Giant Shark Clan, so he was rather pleased.
However, Soro remained expressionless. After looking at Farte for a moment, he said, "Then, Young Lord Farte, I wonder what your conditions are? However, I still have to remind you that there should be many people here who are interested in the Agate Trench mine. The reason why my clan's young lord allowed me to meet you for the first time is because our two clans are usually on good terms. However, if your conditions are too harsh, then I can only find someone else. "
Hearing this, Farte also knew that his conditions could not be too harsh. Indeed, as the other party had said, if he were to ask someone else for this condition, there would definitely be many people who would be willing to make this deal. He secretly calculated in his heart. When he heard that another round of bidding had begun outside, he said, "How about this? I want the mining rights for the Agate Trench's Sea Sapphire mine for ten years. Also, regardless of whether you win the Heart of Evil in the end, it cannot affect the deal between us."
"Ten years is too much. The mining rights are seven years at most." Soro already knew the bottom line that Griner had told him, so he spoke very straightforwardly and in a tone that left no room for doubt.
Although he was a little dissatisfied with Soro's attitude, obtaining the mining rights for seven years was already a considerable gain. Farte did not say anything else and took the contract scroll from Soro's hands. He slightly modified the time limit on the contract scroll and added a clause that it would not affect the deal regardless of whether the other party won the Heart of Evil. Only then did he sign his name.
After completing the deal with Farte, Soro immediately returned to his private room and informed Griner, who was stalling for time.
After receiving the news, Griner immediately became spirited. He changed his previous strategy of increasing the price by one million gold coins and directly increased it by twenty million gold coins, raising the price of the Heart of Evil to two hundred and seventy million gold coins. By doing this, he was also telling the sea demons that he had found reinforcements. As for how much reinforcements they had, they could slowly guess.
As expected, after Griner directly increased the price by twenty million gold coins, the sea demons fell into a short silence. After all, when Griner was at his limit, the sea demons were also at their limit. Now that Griner had obviously found reinforcements, it would be difficult for the sea demons to compete for the Heart of Evil on their own.
"I wonder where Griner got his money from. It seems like we'll have to put in more effort for this auction," Prince Clive said as he turned to look at his wife. As Prince Cliff spoke, he turned to look at his wife, but he didn't seem to be in a hurry.
Queen Harleilia smiled faintly and looked at the Heart of Evil on the stage. "I didn't expect to see it here after searching for so many years. Compared to the effort we've put in over the years, this little bit of effort is nothing. However, I don't know what kind of reinforcements Griner has found. We have to prepare as soon as possible. "
Everyone in the auction hall had tens of millions of gold coins in their hands. As for the Seven Overlords, they had hundreds of millions of gold coins in their hands. Even at the end of the auction, they would still have a lot of money in their hands. Therefore, Queen Harleilia had to plan ahead. Otherwise, it would be difficult to obtain the Heart of Evil in the end.
However, as for how to prepare for it, they would have to carefully calculate it, especially in this auction. Everyone knew that the Sea Demon Tribe was in urgent need of money. If they didn't take advantage of this opportunity to extort a large sum of money, they would be either a fool or a fool.
Griner of the Giant Shark Clan had used the mining rights of a mineral vein for seven years in exchange for the support of tens of millions of gold coins from Falter. Although Queen Harleilia and Prince Clive did not know about this, they could imagine that Griner must have paid a huge price. When it was their turn, they had to think carefully about what kind of price they had to pay to attract other people to support them.
Moreover, there was another thing that the Queen and her husband had to consider, and that was whether anyone was willing to support them at the risk of offending the Giant Shark Clan. If they found external help first, everything would be fine. However, now that the Giant Shark Clan had gone this far, anyone who supported them would be equivalent to offending them. Even those forces who were not afraid of offending the Giant Shark Clan would most likely use this excuse to ask for more benefits from the sea demons. It could be said that the sea demons were already at a disadvantage in this aspect.
Thinking of this, Harleilia and Clive could not help but feel slightly helpless. Hearing that Grand Duke Wedi had begun to ask if there was a higher price, Clive had no choice but to raise the paddle in his hand and reluctantly increase the bid by one million gold coins. This was to buy some time so that he could think of a countermeasure.
However, Griner was currently riding high. As soon as the sea demons increased the bid by one million gold coins, he immediately raised his paddle and shouted, "280 million gold coins!"
"280 million gold coins. The young master of the Giant Shark Clan, Griner, has bid 280 million gold coins. Is there any higher bid?" The excitement in Grand Duke Weidi's heart could no longer be suppressed. The price of 280 million could be said to be an unprecedented sky-high price.
Grand Duke Wedi was elated, but his words added more pressure to Harleilia and Clive when they reached the sea demons. At this moment, Prince Clive's eyes suddenly lit up, and he said, "I thought of someone. Not only is he not afraid of offending the Giant Shark Clan, but he also has some conflict with the Giant Shark Clan. It's just that we don't have much of a relationship. I wonder if he will help us."
It was said that two hearts were connected. Upon hearing her husband's words, Queen Harleilia also relaxed her brows. She chuckled, and said, "Are you talking about that President Felic who doesn't give Griner any face?"
"That's right, it's him." Prince Clive nodded, but he did not relax because of this. Instead, he frowned, and said, "Unfortunately, we are not familiar with him. The last item of the auction has not appeared yet. He might not be willing to give up his chance to help us."
"How would we know if we don't try? We are just making a fair deal with him." Although Queen Harleilia knew that it would be difficult, she would not be willing to give it a try for the sake of the Heart of All Evil. Moreover, just like she said, it was just a fair deal. It had nothing to do with their relationship. The key was that the other party was not afraid of offending the Giant Shark Clan.
Lin Li and Connoris were sitting in the private room, feeling a little bored. The Heart of All Evil was not very attractive to them, and they could only watch the bidding from both sides. At this moment, someone knocked on the door of the private room. Connoris walked over to open the door, only to see Prince Clive of the sea demons standing outside.
"President Felic, do you have time now?" Although Prince Clive was ugly, he gave off a gentle and amiable vibe. Although his voice was a little hoarse, it could be said to be somewhat magnetic.
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