Chapter 701: Inter-Universe Transmission Experiment
As expected, the last set of pass tokens was acquired by His Lordship Benson, the God of Conspiracy. The other mid-tier deities simply couldn’t compete with the dominance of this higher deity.
As for Her Ladyships, the Goddess of Agriculture and the Goddess of Magic, they merely acted as supporters for the Nature Deities. Although they offered bids, they had no real intention of participating in the auction. Given their close relationship with Donald, they had already received hints from their master that pass tokens would be provided later, so there was no need for them to compete with other true gods here.
Of course, His Lordship, the King of Lies, also paid a heavy price to win the last set of pass tokens. In addition to three medium-tier immortals, he also acquired an item from the ruins of the Ancient Arcane Empire.
It was a fist-sized crystal ball that, when activated using mental power, revealed a series of ancient research materials from the Arcane Empire. However, only four-fifths of the content was visible, with the most crucial parts heavily encrypted with random codes and inaccessible.
Without understanding the principles behind it, even higher deities couldn’t decipher its secrets. Attempting to force it open would only trigger its self-destruct system.
Such encryption could only be broken by the thirteen most powerful legitimate heirs of the Arcane Empire at that time. But due to the downfall of the Arcane Empire, the lineage of arcane masters was almost severed. There were now no more than a handful of legitimate arch-mages left. Aside from those whose whereabouts were unknown or whose fates were uncertain, there was only Lady Radha, the God of Witches, Pale Hand, and the legendary witch-queen Ig, the legitimate heir of the Banai Empire.
The former was highly skilled, and her divine realm was located in the underworld, making it difficult for the King of Lies to take action against her. The latter could imprison the avatar of the Fallen Monarch and even subdue abyssal giants like Grant, forcing him to have several children with her, thereby losing much of his strength. This already demonstrated the cunning and power of that witch-queen. Although Benson wasn’t afraid, he also didn’t want to invite trouble. What if things went wrong like with Grant? It would be a huge embarrassment!
Moreover, Witch-Queen Ig had once been married to Grant. To deal with her, one had to consider the possibility of the Fallen Monarch getting involved.
Of course, aside from these, it was well known that there were also several arcane heirs among the elves. But even someone like the King of Lies didn’t want to anger the great Lord of Elves over some information of unknown details.
Although Donald was not of an orthodox arcane lineage, he obtained the Sky City from the Great Archmage Sera, thus gaining the inheritance of her line. As such, decrypting the encrypted documents was not a problem, especially with a legitimate archmage like Chikofield around. After the auction, an open free trade fair ensued, allowing the gods present to exchange items as they saw fit. If anyone could be considered the biggest winner of this auction, it was undoubtedly the non-combatant neutral deities represented by the God of Art, Galand, and the God of Knowledge, Asten. This nameless, loose group not only came out on top in competition against various other deity factions, including two higher gods, but also surprisingly offered five pass tokens for public trading during the subsequent free trade fair. The last five tokens were acquired by three major intermediate deity factions and two individual intermediate gods. Although none of the attendees knew the contents of the transactions between them, the smiles on the faces of the non-combatant deities present showed their great satisfaction with what they had obtained.