## Chapter 262: Climax Auction
## Chapter 262: Climax Auction
There were twelve items headlining the Auction.
As the host, the Pluto Pirates only put forward one item themselves.
The remaining headlining items were brought out by other Factions or individuals, especially individuals.
For individuals, such treasure were often like hot potatoes; once exposed, they would bring about mortal danger.
The Great Sea is vast, and there are always people who obtain some treasure for various reasons.
This World Expo gave them a channel to exchange these treasure for Beli.
Many precious things cannot be revealed; revealing them means death.
With the Pluto Pirates and "Pluto" Hades' many years of reputation as a guarantee, coupled with the Pluto Pirates' cooperation with the Dark Bank, none of their intelligence would be leaked.
This allowed them to confidently hand over their items to the Pluto Pirates, avoiding situations of double-crossing.
Therefore, each of the final headlining items was actually extremely precious.
This included one Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit, one Logia-type Devil Fruit, five Ancient Zoan Devil Fruits, and one rare Paramecia Devil Fruit.
This was absolutely unimaginable in previous Auctions.
Several of them were even Hades' Targets.
The first item, the Thousand-Year Blood Ginseng, had already further broken the record for this Auction, reaching a sky-high price of 5.
4 billion Beli, enough to empty a Faction.
In the future, 5 billion Beli could buy a small country, let alone 5.
4 billion Beli now.
Such a sky-high price was difficult to surpass.
The second item was the Ancient Zoan Land Crocodile Fruit, the auction item brought out by the Pluto Pirates.
A precious Ancient Zoan Devil Fruit, this undoubtedly attracted the interest of many Factions and Pirates.
To be honest, Hades didn't initially take this Auction too seriously, thinking that the Ancient Zoan he brought out was already considered precious.
He didn't expect that on the day of the Auction, the value of the headlining item he prepared could only rank at the bottom among the many headlining auction items.
This also gave Hades the idea to continue holding Auctions, perhaps once every so often.
To attract those treasure that couldn't see the light of day.
Ultimately, this Devil Fruit was won at a high price of 640 million Beli by Anz, a Dragonoid Cadre of the Tyrant Dragon Pirates.
The third item was a famous sword, the famous sword "Sky Splitter," ranked among the Twenty-One Great Grade Swords.
The value of a famous sword isn't actually that high, because it's only a treasure for a Swordsman.
Of course, there's another reason: most Swordsman aren't very wealthy.
Among those present were quite a few powerful Swordsman, and as soon as this Sword appeared, it attracted their gaze.
Shiki "The Golden Lion," who had been watching for so long, finally made a move, spending a high price of 120 million Beli to win this Sword.
This Sword was naturally not prepared for him; his "Sakuragi" and "Withered Ten" were already at the level of the Twenty-One Great Grade Swords and had been tempered with Haki for many years.
His Deputy, Reinhardt, still held a Skillful Grade Sword in his hand, which was clearly somewhat inadequate as the face of the Flying Pirates.
The fourth item, the Ancient Zoan Terror Bird Fruit, was taken by the Demon King Pirates for 690 million Beli.
The fifth item, the Ancient Zoan Terror Baboon Fruit, was taken by the Silver Axe Pirates for 720 million Beli.
The sixth item, the Ancient Zoan Velociraptor Fruit, Hades made a move and won this Devil Fruit for 800 million Beli.
The seventh item, the Ancient Zoan Short-Faced Bear Fruit, was also taken by Hades, who obtained this Devil Fruit for 840 million Beli.
Shiki did not make a move for these Ancient Zoan Devil Fruits.
One reason was that he didn't bring that much money this time.
Secondly, the Flying Pirates currently couldn't afford to spend too much Beli.
Over the past year, the Flying Pirates had expanded rapidly, gaining a lot of money but also spending a lot.
The Sky Kingdom required huge amounts of wealth for construction, and the establishment and expansion of the intelligence agency also required vast funds to support.
Furthermore, Shiki had no obligation to cultivate those Subordinate.
Except for his true Confidants.
Although Shiki was good to his Subordinate, the only people he truly trusted were Reinhardt and Atlas.
Both Reinhardt's Air-Air Fruit and Atlas's Mythical Zoan Titan Fruit were provided by Shiki.
The Titan Fruit was even a gain Shiki obtained at God Valley.
Shiki felt a little regretful in his heart that so many precious Devil Fruits had passed him by, but he didn't dwell on it too much.
Things like Devil Fruits would come eventually.
Shiki had also accumulated quite a collection by now.
Many Pirates in the Flying Pirates originally joined for powerful Devil Fruits.
Shiki was aware of this; many Pirates were like this during the Rocks Pirates era.
This doesn't mean he couldn't buy these Devil Fruits, but he hadn't encountered one that truly moved his heart yet!
The person truly longing for them was on an Unnamed Island in the Great Sea.
Kaido, living like a Wildman and undergoing training, looked at these powerful Zoan Devil Fruits one by one, feeling immense envy in his heart.
In his heart, he already had the dream of building a Zoan Ability User Legion belonging to him.
Unfortunately, all the Devil Fruits had no fate with him; he had no money.
The revenue from God Valley over the past year had long been spent.
And he wasn't at the venue.
He could only watch as the Zoan Devil Fruits went to others.
He felt some regret in his heart that he hadn't plundered more treasure from God Valley.
After the Battle of God Valley, he began wandering alone.
The eighth Devil Fruit was the Logia-type Mist Fruit, which allowed the user to turn their body into mist and possessed the ability to create mist.
After intense bidding, the Flying Pirates bought this Devil Fruit for 960 million Beli.
Shiki had taken a liking to this Devil Fruit.
The ninth Devil Fruit was the Paramecia Type Phantom Fruit.
This was an ability similar to the Shadow-Shadow Fruit, but it could only control one's own shadow.
In addition, it possessed ghostly speed and could create illusions.
Overall, it was a powerful Devil Fruit ability.
Hades still had no intention of stopping.
Ultimately, the Pluto Pirates bought this Devil Fruit for 760 million Beli.
This Paramecia Type, in the eyes of others, was ultimately incomparable to a Logia Type, as could be seen from the final auction price.
(end of chapter)