A few years earlier, Sotheby's had auctioned off a blue diamond weighing just over ten carats for more than forty million U.S. Dollars.
Now this blue diamond weighed over a thousand carats, a hundred times as much as that one. How could their values even compare? By weight alone, multiplying the price a hundredfold would put it at several billion U.S. Dollars. And diamonds were inherently more expensive the larger they were. Judging by diamond market prices, this thousand-carat colored diamond might well be worth Ten Billion U.S. Dollars.
Of course, the price could not actually be calculated that way. No matter how wealthy someone was, no one would spend ten billion U.S. Dollars bidding on a gemstone. That was merely a valuation; it did not mean anyone was willing to pay that much.
Still, a jewelry company might buy the Diamond to serve as its showpiece, or cut it into smaller stones to sell.
One thing was virtually certain: the diamond would fetch no less than three billion U.S. Dollars at auction.
Countless people envied whoever had obtained it. Who would not feel jealous of someone who had become a billionaire overnight?
Wealth acquired without personal effort was especially likely to attract other people's greed.
But the mysterious person who had obtained the Diamond was no fool. Whenever he appeared in public, even when having the gemstone appraised, he wore a mask.
Not only that, he had posted a hiring request on Satan's Hand Website, offering ten percent of the Diamond's final auction price to anyone who could keep him safe.
It was an undeniably extravagant offer. Countless people coveted the reward, and individuals and mercenary groups applied in droves.
In the end, however, the mysterious man chose the Godslayer Mercenary Squad.
According to him, he chose the Godslayer