As the Auction Arena's bell rang, the entire White River City fell silent. Practically everyone in White River City breathed heavily as they stared at the Magic Mirrors that had appeared on the streets, afraid that they would miss out on this battle of the Guilds.
For the sake of watching this competition, players outside of White River City logged onto the Starmoon Kingdom's official forums to watch the livestream.
Due to this competition, the entire Starmoon Kingdom fell silent for a time.
Meanwhile, the various major powers' members and independent experts watching from the Auction Arena grew nervous as they stared at the gigantic water ball that had suddenly appeared above the arena.
The water ball displayed the qualifying competition's rules, which were completely different from the competition in the Auction House.
Previously, due to the mediocre prizes, very few players had participated in the Auction House's competition or wagered battles. Hence, any player could participate. However, this competition involved the right to control White River City's Auction House. Not only was it of great importance, but there were also plenty of players participating. Hence, the system had set up a qualifying competition.
Only players who passed the qualifying competition qualified to compete for the Auction House's Auction House. If one's standards did not meet the standard, no matter how many resources one had, it would be meaningless.
"It's just a qualifying competition. The participation fee is actually so expensive?"
Everyone gasped involuntarily when they saw the participation fee set by the system, which was one Epic material.
Epic materials were extremely rare to the various large Guilds at this stage of the game. At this stage of the game, ordinary Guilds would be fortunate to have 20 or 30 Epic materials. Some larger Guilds might even have several dozen. After all, Epic materials had an extremely low drop-rate in 100-man Hard Mode Team Dungeons. Only First Kills had a slightly higher drop-rate.
Moreover, to prevent players from raiding low-level Team Dungeons, the system had set a limit for players above the Dungeon's Level Limit. Hence, none of these Epic materials would drop.
It was also pointless for newly nurtured players to equip themselves with top-tier equipment to raid low-level Team Dungeons. These Team Dungeons still required players' overall combat standards. Players with good combat standards would not remain at a low level. After all, the higher one's level was in God's Domain, the more opportunities there would be. It was simply not worth it for players to remain at a low level for too long just to obtain Epic materials.
Due to these two reasons, the various major powers had very few Epic materials.
Now, each person was only asking for one Epic material. Meanwhile, there were at least several dozen participating powers. It was no exaggeration to say that a large Guild's entire stock of Epic materials would be depleted in just one qualifying round …
Although everyone felt that the participation fee was extremely expensive, to the point that ordinary Guilds couldn't afford it, the various major powers still participated in the competition.
The various major powers' players shuddered when they saw that Starlink had spent over 400 Epic materials to participate in the Star-Moon Auction.
Meanwhile, the independent players outside the Auction House were even more shocked by this development.
Previously, everyone had known that the various superpowers were behemoths that shouldn't be provoked. Their foundations were far more robust than first-rate Guilds'. However, after seeing the number of participants for themselves, they still couldn't believe it.
Moreover, this was only one city. These superpowers weren't just competing for one city.
Did he really think that he could crush someone to death with just his wealth?
"So, this is a superpower?" Melody's despair deepened as she watched Starlink's members.
Setting aside the combat standards of these superpowers' experts, just the fact that these superpowers had sent over 400 players to participate in the competition was more than enough to crush a first-rate Guild like her.
The Auction House Competition wasn't a battle between ordinary players. Everyone would be evenly distributed to five very wide open battlefields. Players would kill each other on the battlefields and compete for the energy crystal balls that would randomly fall from the sky. This way, the power that obtained the most energy crystal balls would own the Auction House.
However, not only were players prohibited from using magic tools on these battlefields, but they also couldn't use large-scale, small-scale Spells. This was a test of the various major powers' overall strength. There was no room for trickery.
Although Ling Yi had sent 112 players to participate in the competition, which was slightly more than peak first-rate Guilds like Holy Reincarnation and Bloodbath Family, Starlink had sent over 400 players to participate in the competition. This was a massive advantage.
Moreover, aside from Starlink, King's Return, Blackwater, and Pantheon had also sent over 300 players. None of these superpowers could be underestimated. As for the other superpowers, most of them had only come to observe the competition. They had no intention of competing for White River City.
While everyone was shocked by the various superpowers' foundations, the next scene stunned them.
Every player participating in the competition was teleported into an independent space. Each independent space housed over a dozen Trolls. Among these Trolls, the weakest was a Lord, while the strongest was a Great Lord. There were a total of three Trolls. As for the levels given by the system, they were slightly higher than the average level of all participating players, which was Level 65.
Not only were there three Level 65 Great Lords, but there were also over a dozen Lord Followers. Ordinary expert players would've fled if they had to face such a force, yet the system wanted them to survive in this space for one minute. Moreover, they couldn't use any tools. The difficulty of the competition was so high that the expert players present despaired.
"Is the system joking?"
"This system must be insane. Let alone three Level 65 Great Lords, I won't even last 30 seconds against a single Level 65 Great Lord."
Many of the experts present had cursed their lack of Epic materials, preventing them from participating in such a competition and becoming famous. Now, however, they were speechless. They inwardly rejoiced. Otherwise, they would've wasted an Epic material.
"As expected of the Auction House's competition! It's amazing! The qualifying competition's standards are already so high! This trip wasn't a waste! "
"The competition's standards are indeed high. With such a high difficulty, I'm afraid most of the participants will be eliminated. Only the various superpowers' experts will survive."
"The small Guilds that want to make a name for themselves won't have a chance. However, I have a feeling that the Dark Night Empire's Bloodbath Family, Glory Empire's Holy Reincarnation, and the Purple Thorns Kingdom's Sin Realm will have plenty of players remaining."
"You're right. Not only do these Guilds have the support of corporations, but they also have plenty of powerful experts."
"Ling Yi sure is unlucky. She should've had 30 to 40 more players than these first-rate Guilds, and she should've had a chance of winning the competition. However, now that the qualifiers are out, she'll likely have fewer players than these first-rate Guilds."
"That's right. Although Ling Yi has developed well and has plenty of experts, the Guild hasn't been around for long. It can't compare to the veteran first-rate Guilds. If Ling Yi had been willing to invest in some large corporations, she would've had as many experts as Sin Realm and the Bloodbath Family."
For a time, everyone began to discuss the qualifiers, guessing which Guild would have the most members in the competition. Nobody had any objections to the number of players the various superpowers had qualified for the qualifiers. On the contrary, most of the discussions were about the first-rate Guilds.
Time passed quickly, and one minute went by. Everyone grew excited as they stared at the gigantic water ball hovering above the arena. They were curious to know how many players had passed the qualifiers.
Thousand Light Family: 9 players passed the qualifier.
Gale adventurer team: 5 players passed the qualifier.
Bloodbath Family: 32 players passed the qualifier.
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Star Alliance: 17 players passed the qualifier.
Sin Realm: 26 players passed the qualifier.
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Holy Reincarnation: 35 players passed the qualifier.
King's Return: 237 players passed the qualifier.
Pantheon: 175 players passed the qualifier.
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Blackwater: 204 players passed the qualifier.
Starlink: 339 players passed the qualifier.
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