Watching from the private room, Kael remained silent as almost everyone in the hall bid on the dragon turtle shell. Voices mingled, each bid rising higher.
The reason he couldn't bid on the item was simple.
First, although that shell offered impressive defensive capabilities, its practical usefulness was questionable. Being the shell of a dragon turtle, its weight was excessive.
That was the main reason.
The second was even more economic: the cost of maintenance and repair. Every minor repair would require at least one hundred mana stones, and the greater the damage, the greater the expense.
On a real battlefield, such an object was not an advantage, but a constant source of loss.
The margin between profit and cost was too narrow. Bidding on that item would only bring him more losses than gains. Besides, in his current situation, he did not need to acquire it.
He already had enough items stored in his space rune rings, each one more useful than that obsolete shell.
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