The second part officially began, and some of the items even caught Hades's interest.
The display platform rose, bearing only one item this time.
A small stack of metal cards, each about the size of a palm. There were only a few of them.
Everyone present recognized them.
They were character cards from the Trading Card Game that had swept the world.
Cards depicting ordinary people existed in countless copies, making them less valuable.
The stronger and more influential the person depicted, the higher the card's quality. Made from special metal, such cards were difficult to damage even with fire or heavy blows.
Besides depicting the person, each card carried a brief description of their abilities. It even expressed the strength of major figures through combat power ratings.
According to Heaven Card Company, the card with the highest combat power depicted Rocks D. Zebek, the leader of the Evil Legion who had forged the Rocks Pirates' unrivaled supremacy.
Its combat power was an astonishing 999,999.
Only ten copies existed in the entire world.
The company had even promised to buy back any one of them for one billion Beli.
That announcement had stunned the entire world.
The value of rare cards soared across the global market. What had once been children's toys became prized collectibles.
They were popular not just with children, but with adults as well, especially pirates.
Their combat power ratings were also useful measures of strength.
Rumor had it that a dedicated analysis team worked behind the scenes to determine the ratings of these powerful figures.
To give the figures of the seas a clearer ranking, character cards were also assigned ratings from one star to a maximum of ten.
Star ratings took a broader view, accounting for strength, forces under their command, influence, and other factors.