After that little incident with Sea Cannon, the rest of the auction went smoothly, without any further disturbances.
In the end, Lin Yuan's Eternal Compass sold for three hundred Abyssal Sea Fragments to someone from the previous batch of players nicknamed "Lucky."
Lilia's Longevity Pill, meanwhile, sold to an Authority Holder-level powerhouse for one hundred and fifty Abyssal Sea Fragments, plus thirty low-grade relics.
Only someone at the Authority Holder level could produce so many low-grade relics in one go.
However, the auction had an identity protection mechanism for people of that level, so Lin Yuan did not know exactly who had bought his Longevity Pill.
With that, Lin Yuan now had a total of four hundred and fifty Abyssal Sea Fragments and thirty low-grade relics.
After the auction ended, Lin Yuan immediately found the manager and bought some supplementary materials from the Consortium, upgrading his Energy Collector twice in succession.
His Energy Collector had previously been level four. The next two upgrades required eight and sixteen relics respectively, along with varying quantities of Mechanical Cores and other basic materials.
As a result, Lin Yuan's Energy Collector was now level six and could restore 100 points of A-rank Energy per minute.
That way, his sustained energy recovery could keep pace with his increased total reserves, and he would not find himself in the predicament he had faced upon first entering the East Pole Sea, when his natural energy recovery had been nowhere near enough to replenish what he used.
However, the number of relics required to upgrade the Energy Collector increased exponentially. The next upgrade would require thirty-two relics, followed by sixty-four, then one hundred and twenty-eight...
Even low-grade relics existed in limited numbers in the Endless Sea. Lin Yuan seriously doubted that his Energy Collector could reach a particularly