The end result wasn't much of a surprise for the trained eye, even though the person who had the advantage tried to make it look like he had a difficult time.
The crowd enjoyed the 'acting' and they even benefited a bit from what they saw and experienced, but for the 'real' Masters this was nothing but a lousy play.
Eric and the Young Prince were the same, they both were thinking the same thing, that was why Eric's next words kind of shocked the Young Prince,
"Bid and buy him, no matter what!"
Eric didn't seem like one that would need to buy such a warrior to his side, he himself was more than enough.
Not to mention that his women seemed to be quite good as well, so why would he even want to buy that!?
Thinking in his usual narrow-minded way the Young Prince thought that Eric just wanted to scratch his horns once again with First Knife, which wasn't necessarily a bad thing.