"What is that?"
"No idea!"
"Doesn't look like anything special. Why would the Hundred Benevolence Store use it to open the auction?"
People were whispering to each other, discussing in low voices, most of them wearing puzzled expressions.
Only a small number seemed to recognize where this thing came from, and they immediately straightened up, their gazes burning as they stared at this lump of rock.
Someone muttered, "Its texture is like iron, its weight like a mountain! This… could this be a Starry Core from when the world first formed?"
The old man on the stage burst out laughing when he heard this. "Good, there really is a well-informed senior who recognized it. That's right, this seemingly ordinary lump of rock is exactly what all worlds looked like at the very beginning—a Starry Core!"
There was a stir in the stands.
No one who could appear here was a novice, so naturally they all knew what a Starry Core was.
