The current bid for Beauty No. 10 had already quintupled from 300,000 to 1.5 million dollars. It was indeed quite an enormous amount.
Many of the people in the auction hall actually just wanted to buy a beautiful woman and use her as a plaything, but 1.5 million dollars was too expensive in their opinion.
Besides, she was only the first beauty put up for auction, and there were many more to come. Everyone felt that it wouldn't make sense to spend so much money on a woman when they haven't seen the others yet.
So almost everyone gave up and stopped bidding.
"1.5 million dollars, going once!
"1.5 million dollars, going twice!
"1.5 million dollars, going thrice! Sold! Congratulations, Mr. Gray. You have successfully bought Beauty No. 10!"
Symbolic applause filled the air in the hall, but many were looking at Lucas with bizarre gazes, as if mocking him for being a wealthy but foolish dimwit.