CH349 Post-Auction Profits; the Cradle and Echelon
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"It's as you predicted," Haggleworth reported. "The nine parties reached a prior agreement before the auction."
Alex sighed wryly. "Of course they did."
He didn't look particularly bothered by it. Instead, he leaned back and asked, "So then, who won the bid? And how much did they drop for the ring?"
"The alliance between the Alchemy, Forgesmith, and Runesmith associations," Haggleworth said with a frown. "Just fifty Top-grade Mana Stones. That's barely half our projected estimate."
The gnome's disappointment was almost palpable.
Alex's lips twitched.
A single Top-grade Mana Stone—a rarity in itself—was valued at around fifty million gold coins, even at its lowest market rate. Fifty of them? That was easily two and a half billion in value.
Considering he'd only spent about fifty thousand gold coins worth of materials to craft the item, the sheer profit margin was absurd.
