The Duke of Eternity lifted the veil and peered through the specially made neck straps of the box. He observed that everyone's reactions were very agitated, but still within a manageable range.

Heh~

These foolish orcs have clearly failed to discover the biggest secret hidden in this auction!

Only him!

The wise Duke of Eternity has discovered it!

His elven ears twitched; someone had come to the door. He quickly sat down on the sofa, maintaining the demeanor befitting a duke.

Aphrodite knocked on the door and came in, setting out the low-pollution fruit again for the Duke of Eternity.

But the Eternal Duke still misses the big white steamed buns from before.

[Qin Yiyi: It's not that bad, it really isn't. Steamed buns only rank third in the tentacle monster's heart, and that's only when there are only three kinds of food available.]

The auction for the five groups began soon afterward.

"Starting bid: one thousand gold!"

The Eternal Duke, as the top seed in the VIP box, immediately raised his placard.

"Three daughters!"

Hiss~

The Eternal Duke truly lives up to his reputation as a wealthy elven duke; his generous donation of three thousand gold coins has shocked everyone present!

Keep in mind that the final transaction price for the three sets was only three thousand gold, but the starting bid of these five sets was one thousand gold, which immediately soared to a price higher than the transaction amount of the three sets.

However, the other private rooms immediately followed suit.

"Three thousand five hundred gold!"

The Eternal Duke immediately replied, "Five thousand gold pieces!"

The average price of this set in previous auctions was only around 700, but Eternal Duke has now raised the average price to 1,000 gold per set. At that point, it's better to just grab a single set from before!

The rest of the people calmed down.

Thinking that there were still a few groups left, they decided to let the Eternal Duke go crazy first, let him grab two more, and then the rest would be everyone's.

So no one followed, and the Eternal Duke took the first five groups.

His face was practically beaming with joy. He knew he'd made a killing buying these five sets for 5,000 gold coins. Before anyone else could even process the major time constraint and thought it was the same as a typical master's production, he discovered the time limit was several times longer. He had to take advantage of this information gap to shoot as many sets as possible!

The second group of five went online, and Uncle An just hit him with a hammer.

The Duke of Eternity then raised his placard.

"Five thousand gold pieces!"

The crowd erupted in uproar. If five groups were worth five thousand gold coins, wouldn't ten groups be worth tens of thousands?

"That's not a good thing he did, raising the average price all by himself! Will others even be able to bid on it anymore?"

"Exactly! Who's that big shot in that private room? Are they just trying to drive up the price?"

The other guests in the private rooms also sent people to inquire, but the Eternal Duke didn't want to pay them any attention. Before they could react, he immediately placed two orders for five sets, meaning there were ten of each item! Just thinking about it made him happy!

While he was enjoying himself, others noticed that something was wrong.

"I don't think he was trying to inflate the price. I had the chance to catch a glimpse of him when I came in earlier. He seemed to have elven ears, so he must be from the Eternal City. Elves are always honest and upright, and they wouldn't do anything deceitful!"

"I'm just wondering why he asked for such a high price. Did he discover something that we haven't?"

Everyone fell into deep thought.

Suddenly someone asked, "Have you noticed that fifty minutes have passed in the heart?"

?

"What do you mean?"

"What I mean is, why do I still feel like my stamina is increasing even after fifty minutes?"

"!!! My attack is also!!!"

"What?"

Anyone who participated in the auction during the break in the first half and ate food experienced this problem!

They ate during the break in the first half of the auction, which lasted about an hour. They had already rested for about fifteen minutes while they ate, and then it took about forty-five minutes from when they started eating until the auction resumed. The two auctions had just ended a dozen minutes ago, and it had been an hour since then, but the increase in price still didn't seem to have subsided.

They suppressed their excitement and quietly checked the time and increase status with several people, only to find that the increase had not subsided yet.

"Please interrupt the auction. We've discovered a problem! There's something wrong with this 0-pollution-boosting food!"

Someone stood up and pointed directly at the food with zero pollution increase, causing everyone's hearts to skip a beat, while the people at Hans Auction House smiled.

"I knew they couldn't possibly have so many foods with zero contamination; they were all problematic foods!"

The marquis's daughter breathed a sigh of relief.

"Luckily, I didn't take pictures of the problematic food!"

The mercenary group was secretly gloating; luckily, they didn't have enough money, or they would have lost everything.

Some people even egged them on.

"Feel free to speak your mind if you have any questions. If Black Rose Auction House sells counterfeit or substandard goods, we will not let them get away with it!"

"That's right. Which of these people here doesn't have a family backing them? Do you really think the Black Rose Auction House would deceive us like this?"

A representative from the group that ate the zero-pollution amplification food looked at Uncle An with deep sorrow.

"They really deceived us!"

But what he said next surprised everyone present.

"We've been eating the zero-pollution amplification food for an hour now, why are we still in the amplification state! Wasn't it supposed to last fifty minutes? An hour has passed and we're still amplifying! Black Rose Auction House must provide a reasonable explanation for why this food can so powerfully amplify our abilities!"

"Exactly, we need a reasonable explanation. How could the increase take so long?"

The people at Hans Auction House were incredibly excited and joined in the commotion! Sure enough! Something must have gone wrong with the people at Black Rose Auction House!

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