"Are you sure you're not messing with us?" Flint gave Kinlock a dangerous look.
"No, no! Absolutely not. It really is a cosmic wonder!" Kinlock hurriedly waved his hands.
"What can it do, then?" Nie Yun asked skeptically.
"It's indestructible!"
"Right! And?"
"It's just... indestructible." Kinlock gave a dry laugh.
The two of them: "..."
So it had no abilities besides being indestructible? It really was useless!
"One of my ancestors stumbled across this thing in a mine. For hundreds of years, successive heads of the Locke Family tried every possible method to cut it open.
"But after centuries of trying everything-cutting, extreme collisions, extreme cold, extreme heat-we still couldn't melt it, even at a hundred billion degrees Celsius.
"We also spent centuries studying it through physical, chemical, and microscopic analysis, but we couldn't even identify what it was made of. In the end, we could only classify it as a cosmic wonder and shelve it," Kinlock said helplessly.
"My ancestors originally considered selling it outright, but unfortunately, it had so little practical use that they feared it wouldn't fetch a good price. So they simply kept it as a family heirloom.
"Rest assured, my lords. Even if it isn't worth much now, it's still an exceptionally rare wonder of the universe. Keep it in your collection, and once technology advances enough to unravel its secrets, it will definitely fetch an astronomical price!"
Afraid the two would think he was fobbing them off with junk, Kinlock did his best to tout its value and potential appreciation.
"Sure! Keep it for a few tens of thousands of years, and even a toilet I've used could fetch an astronomical price as an antique. Do I need you to tell me that? This thing is completely worthless right now!" Flint scoffed, clearly dissatisfied