Abyss Sequence-Chapter 356 - 13: Shopping

Yan Luo almost lost his composure.

Even as calm as he is, when he heard Julia say the word ’concubine’, his mind went blank for a moment.

Noticing the fiery gaze from beside him, Yan Luo cleared his throat: "There’s no need for a concubine, that trend is out of date now in Midgard. As for granting you the blood, I think that’s something that can be done."

"Really?!" Julia screamed, her voice cracking.

"However, I have a condition."

Upon hearing this, Julia wasn’t surprised.

After all, this is the Saint’s blood, something every Elf dreams of having. To think one could obtain the Saint’s Blood without any cost would be truly delusional.

"Go ahead," Julia said respectfully.

Yan Luo raised his hand and patted Sasa on the shoulder, saying: "There’s something we’d like to learn from your academy’s library. Our connection with the Abyss has been severed for too long in Midgard, and we’ve lost parts of our history. We need your help. So, my condition is that you help us gain access and find a way for Sasa to enter the academy’s library to learn some things."

"This..." Julia couldn’t help but hesitate.

It wasn’t that she was hesitant about the condition itself; rather, she even felt it was too simple.

It was just that Julia was puzzled about her own abilities.

She didn’t have enough connections to get Sasa to enter the academy.

Even though Julia herself was just a regular soldier in the Lingge Corps, and her father was an Intercity Messenger, she didn’t have that kind of influence.

At this moment, Sasa supplemented: "You just need to find a way to contact the academy. As for how to make a deal with them, we can handle that ourselves."

Julia vaguely guessed that Sasa intended to trade something with the academy.

—— The Saint’s Blood!

For humans to enter the academy’s library to read books, only the Saint’s Blood could move the academy’s administrators.

Yan Luo’s earlier conversation had already revealed his true identity, which is the ’Saint’.

The reason Sasa wanted her to make the connection was that she would be receiving the Saint’s Blood and would be the best proof of having it on the human side.

Julia originally wanted to say something else, but she swallowed her words.

Because Sasa entering the academy’s library to read had no disadvantages for the Elves, and if she refused to help Yan Luo and the others connect with the academy, she wouldn’t be able to receive the Saint’s Blood.

So, Julia chose to remain silent.

Seeing Julia’s attitude, Sasa nodded with satisfaction.

Taking a deep breath, Julia nodded and said, "I will help you contact the academy. But before that, you should at least give me the Saint’s Blood, right?"

Sasa took a blood drawing tool from her bag, turned around, and inserted it into Yan Luo’s arm, drawing a tube of bright red blood.

Just looking at that blood, one could feel a strong, surging Life Force.

Julia swallowed, her body trembling slightly, her breath becoming rapid and heavy.

That was the ’Saint’s Blood’...

—— Yan Luo is indeed a ’Saint’!

Sasa handed the tube of blood to Julia, "Drink it."

Julia was dumbfounded, "Drink... drink it?"

Was the granting of the Saint’s Blood really this simple? Just drinking it meant being given it?

"Yes, drink it!" Sasa said, holding Yan Luo’s blood.

Julia carefully took the tube of blood, looking at the blood in the plastic tube like red crystal, she suddenly gathered the courage to pour the blood into her mouth.

Yan Luo closed the translation plugin and turned to speak to Sasa in Chinese: "I’ve always felt that ’granting the Saint’s Blood’ is more like granting ’permission’ rather than my blood having special powers to give others superpowers."

Sasa nodded, replying in Chinese: "I think so too. No matter how powerful your blood is, Yan Luo, it can’t easily give others superpowers."

Julia didn’t quite understand what Yan Luo and Sasa were saying, as it was always humans learning Elf language, and Elves rarely learned human language.

She was alright, having learned some Chinese pronunciation initially to communicate with Yan Luo, now she could understand a bit, but other Elves wouldn’t understand if humans spoke their language in front of them.

Oddly, realizing this made Julia feel a chill inside.

Humans could understand what Elves were saying, but Elves couldn’t understand human language. Even if humans spoke ill of them in front of the Elves, they wouldn’t know what humans were saying and might even think humans were praising them.

This was a terrifying thing...

Julia decided that after leaving, she would suggest to the Lord to learn human language.

Thinking of this, Julia stood up and said: "Yan Luo, thank you for the blood, I’m going to contact the academy now."

"Go ahead," Sasa smiled at Julia.

Julia nodded and turned to leave.

After Julia left, Sasa stretched lazily, "The initial goal in Alfheim is almost completed, now all we have to do is wait."

"So, we can freely move around now, right?" Wang Lingyu asked with anticipation.

Yan Luo nodded, "Yes."

Wang Lingyu jumped up with joy, pulling Yan Luo and Sasa to get up from the sofa.

"Let’s go, let’s go! This is my first time in the Elf World!"

After entering the house, they had taken off their exoskeletons and were now in casual wear, ready to go out.

Wang Lingyu hooked Yan Luo’s arm with her right hand and Sasa’s shoulder with her left, walking boldly down the streets of Gass City, glancing around and exclaiming from time to time.

The trio of humans looked quite odd, attracting numerous Elf gazes.

The humans usually appearing in Gass City weren’t very tall compared to the Elves. Yet, now there was a human taller than most adult male Elves, which sparked a lot of curiosity among the Elves.

What puzzled Wang Lingyu was that there were no vendors in Gass City, making shopping less enjoyable.

"What’s going on? Are there no vendors in the Elf World?"

Hearing Wang Lingyu’s confusion, Sasa answered with a smile: "Elven society is like this. They are almost in a communist phase. If an Elf needs something, they directly find another Elf who has it for an exchange. They don’t usually buy items. They’ve never developed a universal equivalent and just barter instead."

Wang Lingyu realized, "So, if I fancy something, I can directly find the Elf who owns it and trade with them?"

Sasa nodded, "Yes, exactly."

Wang Lingyu immediately smiled, searched her pockets, but found nothing to trade.

"Yan Luo~" Wang Lingyu looked at Yan Luo with a prolonged tone.

Yan Luo asked, "What do you want to trade for?"

Wang Lingyu excitedly pointed at a female Elf’s headpiece not far away, "That headpiece, I really like it!"

Yan Luo walked over directly and negotiated with the Elf.

Soon, Yan Luo traded a flashbang with the Elf for her headpiece.

Watching from a distance, Wang Lingyu was a bit dumbfounded. When Yan Luo came back, she was surprised and asked, "You, you... traded with the Elf using a flashbang?"

Yan Luo replied bewildered, "What’s so surprising? Barter is exactly like this; the item’s value depends on the willingness of both parties."

Wang Lingyu shook her head repeatedly, "No, no, no, what I mean is, you traded a flashbang with an Elf?"

Yan Luo finally understood what Wang Lingyu was trying to say.

The flashbang, in Wang Lingyu’s world, was a controlled item and shouldn’t be traded lightly.

However, to Hunter, flashbangs were readily available and unlimited.

After all, it wasn’t a high-explosive device, just a tactical tool.

Yan Luo explained Hunter’s rules to Wang Lingyu, and she then understood that in Yan Luo’s eyes, a flashbang wasn’t considered valuable.

Subsequently, Wang Lingyu relaxed, happily wiped the headpiece Yan Luo had traded with a wet wipe, then wore it on her head.

"Does it look good?" Wang Lingyu asked Yan Luo with a smile.

Rarely showing a smile, Yan Luo’s eyes softened, and his lips curved slightly, "Yes, it’s very beautiful."