Life God City, the top-floor auction hall.
The grand auction that had lasted all day officially came to an end.
With the fall of the gavel, the entire auction proceedings concluded.
Guests of every race and the city's powerful figures rose amid a clamor of voices, preparing one after another to collect their purchases.
The crowds had yet to disperse from the vast hall, and spectators remained. Most of the powerful attendees had not yet left the venue, which was still bustling.
Under the auction's rules, all purchases could only be handed over once the entire auction ended.
The Little Princess of the Human Race, sold earlier as the final attraction, was among them.
Her beauty was exquisite and peerless, her bearing cool and aloof, yet her fate was tragic. A surviving descendant of the Human Race's Royal Family, she had ultimately been secured for an astronomical sum of Divine Crystals by the eldest legitimate young master of the Luo Family, one of the Divine City's foremost clans.
The auction had only just ended. The hall had yet to empty, and guests were still rising and moving about.
The Luo Family's eldest young master could no longer contain his burning desire and greed.
He could not be bothered to wait for the crowds to disperse. Burning with impatience, he took his personal attendants through the surging crowd and hurried ahead to the auction's backstage area.
His power was immense, and he ran rampant through the Divine City. Accustomed to throwing his weight around, he never observed ordinary queuing rules.
Relying on the Luo Family's deep foundations and connections throughout the Divine City's upper ranks, he passed through without obstruction.
He quickly paid the astronomical sum of Divine Crystals, completed every handover procedure, and led out the Little Princess of the