"Next item up for Auction is a protective necklace. This item can protect you against one sneak attack that you are unaware of, up-till a certain degree.
Attacks below the master level will be nullified completely, whereas attacks above the master level strength will be reduced in their effectiveness by 30-50%.
It is a great defensive item, which can save your life in critical situations and has a reset cooldown of only 24 hours.
The price starts at 1 million gold coins, with increments of 50,000 permissible" Raya said, as she introduced item number 4, as Leo immediately looked towards Big Dawg for his assessment.
After looking at the item for a while, Big Dawg showed Leo 4 fingers, indicating that it was worth 4 million gold coins.
"Alright, do we have 1 million?" Raya asked, looking to start the bidding once everyone had time to think whether or not they wanted to bid for the item or not, as Leo immediately came out of the gate and said "3 million–"
"3 million gold coins by the player with the number 98 placard!
Thank you for your bid!
Do we have 3.1?" Raya said, as once again Leo's bid caused the room to be thrown into an awkward silence.
Eventually, someone bid 3.1 million gold coins for the item and won the bid, however, the atmosphere was very awkward with not more than 10 people clapping as he won.
The guy could have probably won the item for much less of a price with not many being interested in it, however, with Leo directly spamming high bids from the start, he ensured that regardless of the item, nobody was walking away with it paying less than 70% of what it was worth.
At this point, bidding number 98 had been registered in everyone's brain, however, Leo was just getting started.
Everyone felt that it was a little weird that Leo would place a bid for 3 million and not follow it up with 3.2, however, that was just how Leo played.
Since he had placed a bet of 4 million before this, people knew that he had at least 4 million to spare, which is why they found his behavior to be even more peculiar.
As the auction continued, Leo continued to make bids on items 5 through 15, as he would place a large bid on an item as soon as it was displayed and not follow up with a bid after that at all.
Not winning a single one of the bids he placed, Leo just proved to be a menace to others as 4 out of those 10 items sold, were sold for only 100,000 over Leo's bid.
Hence when Leo did the same to item number 16, a mage class spell book, the dismay of the crowd was audible.
"What the hell is wrong with that guy? Did he not just place a bid for 4 million gold coins for an Archers Bow and Arrow set?
Why is he also bidding for a mage's spell book?
Is he purposefully trying to sabotage everyone's auction?"
"Number 98 is a psycho, he's definitely just pushing prices to stick it to everyone. He might not even be a mage or in need for this item, but he's being a jerk bidding on it"
"We should let number 98 win a couple items with his crazy bids, as that would shut him up.
Let's just stick him with a shit item"
"No! We must absolutely not let number 98 win anything. He must walk away from this auction having bid on every item but having won none!"
"Grrr! I hate number 98, I'm a mage and I want this item, but I don't have 3.5 million gold coins, why did that jerk bid 3.4?"
The uproar in the crowd was real when Leo placed a bid for item 16, as he single handedly seemed to have turned the entire crowd against himself.
Sweat beads started to form on Big Dawg's forehead when he saw how outraged everyone was, however, as he looked towards his neighbor, he found Leo to be relaxing in his chair with a big smile on his face, as if he was thriving off the hatred.
'What a terrifying guy…. He's unfazed as the rest of the players hate him…. If it were me, I would crumble against public opinion and hesitate to raise a placard again, however, he is completely unbothered' Big Dawg thought, as he gulped a mouthful of saliva.
As he turned his head and glanced towards Cervantez, he found Cervantez to be grinning wildly as well, as the two top players looked like birds of the same flock.
Just like Leo, he too enjoyed the frustration of the crowd as he silently appreciated Leo's performance in this auction so far.
While the masses were focused on number 98 and his douchey actions, Cervantez was focused on how the numbers who had already won an item were not bidding again.
The average money pool that players had come to this auction with was around 2-5 million gold coins, which gave them enough purchasing power to buy exactly one item.
Once they bought this item, their finances ran dry and they were unable to participate in the auction anymore.
Cervantez himself had only 4.5 million gold coins for this auction which was why he could not risk bidding like 'TheBoss', however, if he had a bigger bidding pool he would most definitely have chipped in as well.
At the rate that 'TheBoss' was eliminating the competition, Cervantez assumed that there would be not more than 50 bidders left for the last 50 most important items, which would improve his chances of securing a couple items or more significantly.
"Not only do I know what is the limit of some of the people who have not won an item yet…. I also know what type of items they are interested in thanks to 'TheBoss'.
Number 24 only has 3.2 million in funds and is interested in mage type items.
Number 45 only has 3.7 million in funds and is interested in swords.
Number 71 only has 1.7 million and is nearly broke…." Cervantez thought, as he mentally revised the information of his competitors one after another feeling elated at having an edge over them.
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