"75,200,000 gold coins, HandsomeDevil."
"75,200,000 gold coins. Going once. Is there any further bid?"
"75,300,000 gold coins, InfernoRider001."
"75,300,000 gold coins. Going once. Is there any further bid?"
"75,300,000 gold coins. Going twice. Is there any further bid?"
The auction price for the Guild Creation Token had finally stopped exploding upward and slowed to a crawl, creeping forward in increments of only one hundred thousand gold coins at a time. Each new bid was followed by a heavy, suffocating silence, as if the entire arena was holding its breath. It was clear that the major Guilds were no longer just calculating value, they were feeling the pressure, the strain of pushing their finances to the absolute edge.
