"I imagine everyone is very curious about what's inside this box?" The auctioneer pointed at the box, surveyed the audience, and smiled. "Don't worry. I'll introduce it right away."
The auctioneer gently held two corners of the box and opened it.
Everyone craned their necks to look, only to discover that the box contained a necklace.
The entire necklace was emerald green, made from some unknown material. Under the auction house's Magic Lamps, it reflected a faint, deep blue glow.
The light flowed ceaselessly over the necklace as though alive, giving it an air of profound mystery.
"Now, I have the honor of introducing this necklace to you. It is called the Deep Blue Sea, carved from the legendary azure coral stone, that most precious of materials harvested from the depths of the ocean. The material alone is worth an astonishing sum. More importantly, the man who made this necklace was none other than the legendary Lifao Grand Archmage!"
At those final words, an uproar swept through the audience.
This necklace had actually been made by Lifao Grand Archmage himself! Even if it hadn't been made from any precious material, it would still have been worth a fortune!
After all, at last year's auction, a mere Goose Feather Quill that Lifao Grand Archmage had used had fetched the staggering price of 130,000 gold coins!
As though he felt the audience hadn't been shocked enough, the auctioneer pointed at the necklace and continued, "Besides that, this necklace has a very practical function. Lifao Grand Archmage personally inscribed a Water Magic Array on it. Although no one has yet been able to activate the array on this necklace, rumor has it that this Water Magic Array is a Forbidden Spell array!"
The audience erupted again.
A Forbidden Spell array?
If the magic