They all call me an Outer God.

Chapter 233 Fifteen Million Gold Coins
The trainer's voice still echoed on the stage, and every audience member held their breath. The scene was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

"The lion's current bid is 1,531 gold coins. Is anyone else going to raise the bid?"

"One thousand five hundred and thirty-one gold coins for the first time!"

"One thousand five hundred and thirty-one gold coins, second time!"

"One thousand five hundred and thirty-one gold coins, for the third time!"

"Okay, no higher price, we..."

"Ten thousand gold coins."

"!!!"

A gasp rippled through the room as everyone gasped and turned to a corner where a man in a top hat held up his bid, the number displayed prominently displayed as—

Ten thousand.

"Is he crazy?! This thing is worth at most two thousand, what is he trying to do by offering ten thousand now?"

"Who is this person? I don't recognize him at all."

"Which family is involved in such a large-scale operation?"

Many people were suspicious of the bidder's identity, while others thought he was just making wild guesses and couldn't possibly pay that much money.

The animal trainer squinted at them and said, "Are you sure you want to bid ten thousand? I wonder if you have enough money with you, sir?"

"Of course I brought enough."

With that, Ria left her seat and walked step by step toward the stage.

The spotlights shone on him, and everyone's eyes were on him as he went from an inconspicuous place to the center of the stage.

"Snapped."

His shoes stepped onto the table.

Next, Ria opened her palm, revealing a gold coin that glittered under the light.

"As you can see, this is my sincerity."

"Are you here to mess with us?" The animal trainer's expression froze, and some of the audience members jumped up from their seats.

"Playing tricks on you? Why would I play tricks on you?" Ria put away the gold coin, afraid that it would be stolen if it remained exposed to the air any longer.

The young man approached the cage where the animals were kept, grabbed the bars with both hands, and leaped lightly onto the iron cage. Then, he sat on the edge of the cage with his legs crossed in a rather unrestrained manner, took off his mask, and spread his hands to face everyone.

At that moment, he opened the golden eyes on his body. These eyes, under the light, displayed an eerie color that was completely indistinguishable from ordinary light, making it seem as if dark-colored illusions and double images would appear before one's eyes just by staring at them.

"Am I not even worth the starting bid of 10,000 gold coins?"
Now let's make a deal, my dear ladies and gentlemen.

Let me see how much money you have, let me see the wealth of your richest among you, let me see if you are worthy of surviving under my protection.

"Now, I declare the auction open, starting price—"

"Ten thousand gold coins."

As soon as he finished speaking, countless black tendrils spread out of the shadows as if vines had suddenly begun to grow, quickly binding the animal trainer and the caged animals so they could not move.

They continued to extend along the top of the tent, encircling the metal and quickly covering most of the tent, almost replacing all the metal.

The next second, Ria simply raised her hand, and they vanished instantly, as if they had never existed.

The audience immediately realized that this was a polluter, and a polluter more powerful than any commodity they had ever seen. The oppressive force of his methods was unheard of for many, and a few had only experienced such danger in patients who had mutated after death.

Now this person is actually saying that he is an item available for auction, and the ringmaster hasn't shown up to stop him, which means that this is indeed a surprise prepared by the circus for everyone.

Immediately, those people went into a frenzy, completely abandoning any thought about whether their minds had been corrupted.

"What on earth are you——"

The animal trainer looked up at him in disbelief, but Ria gestured for him to shush.

“Your commander hasn’t said anything, so you don’t want to meddle. I think he probably doesn’t want to see you meddle either.”

Lia closed his eyes, his ears filled with the frenzied, almost throat-ripping voices of the crowd. Their bidding made the young man's soul tremble with excitement, as if a greedy dragon had suddenly fallen into a deep mountain full of gold.

"I'll give you 100,000!"

"Two hundred thousand!"

"Three hundred thousand!"

"..."

"one million!"

"..."

"five million!"

"..."

"Fifteen million!!!"

The sounds around her grew increasingly intense, and at that moment, Ria opened her eyes and found the person who had bid the highest among a pile of identical clown masks.

The person, realizing they were being watched, became smug, and even unconsciously increased the speed of their blood flow.

The poor animal trainer had never seen anything like this before. He was terrified. This patient had single-handedly stirred up the emotions of so many people, and the price had already skyrocketed to a level he could never have imagined in his life, and it was still rising wildly.

Although the audience is full of wealthy people, the current bids are already beyond the reach of many. Once the final price is set, the bidders will inevitably have to go bankrupt or even sell their assets to pay for the fee.

Fifteen million gold coins—that's no longer just ordinary gold coins. The beast tamer seemed to see what lay behind that money—

The wealth accumulated over many years, even through generations of inheritance, was wiped out in an instant, and the person in the cage was someone they didn't even know.

If this person wanted to, it wouldn't be impossible for him to kill them in an instant, but he didn't. Instead, he sat there quietly waiting for the auction to end.

Even more terrifying is that the commander, Bucklove, also showed no reaction to Ria's behavior, as if he had silently approved or even condoned his actions.

"I vaguely remember the leader saying we were recruiting a magician, and the magician was hidden among the audience... Could this be the Corruptor?"

It must be said that the commander has a very discerning eye.

At this moment, the beast tamer really wanted to shout: "Captain, the magician you've got your eye on is about to sell himself out!" But he held back and didn't say a word because at this moment, Ria had her eyes fixed on him.

The animal trainer shuddered, then suddenly realized what the other party wanted him to do, and almost jumped up and down in fright.

He was quite bold, but those golden eyes were no ordinary things; the corrupting properties they contained were terrifying.

Currently, the highest price has reached 15 million, and animal trainers have reason to believe that the reason the price is no longer rising is not because some people think it's not worth it, but because they can no longer afford to pay a higher price.

"The final price is 15 million gold coins. Anyone want to raise the price?"

(End of this chapter)