Abyss Sequence-Chapter 376 - 33: Traveling Merchants

"None of you do anything, let me handle this alone."

With those words, Yan Luo charged alone towards the two city-breaking level demons.

Wielding magnetic field power of over twenty thousand horsepower, Yan Luo’s punch could destroy a low-rise office building. Even for a city-breaking level demon, a punch like that wasn’t easy to withstand.

The poison toad failed to react in time, and Yan Luo’s fist landed right on its back.

The punch power penetrated the skin and muscle, reaching deep into its body, causing severe damage to the poison toad’s internal organs.

"Gwa!"

The poison toad let out a loud cry, spitting out a mouthful of fresh blood.

Feeling the pain, the poison glands beneath the poison toad’s skin expelled even more toxic mist.

Unfortunately, for Yan Luo, the toxin was utterly ineffective.

Not to mention his ability to isolate the toxin using magnetic field power, even without that, his incredibly robust metabolic ability would fully break down any toxin that entered his body, unable to harm Yan Luo in the slightest.

Breathing in the toxic mist, Yan Luo hammered down another punch on the poison toad.

This punch completely shattered the poison toad’s bones, rendering its limbs powerless, and its body collapsed with a thud.

Yan Luo jumped off the poison toad’s back and, with a side-kick, the demon’s internal organs exploded, rupturing blood vessels and organ fragments spewing from its mouth.

Seeing the display of Yan Luo’s strength, everyone was dumbfounded, unable to speak.

A city-breaking level demon dealt with so easily?

After dealing with the poison toad, Yan Luo didn’t stop; in an instant, he appeared in front of the weasel.

The scent of toxic mist had not yet reached the weasel’s nose when Yan Luo launched a punch, hitting it right on the snout.

The snout, besides the reproductive organs, is the most fragile area of the weasel’s body. Yan Luo’s punch not only shattered its snout but also broke its facial bones, which kept piling towards its brain.

Reeling backward, the weasel started to fly back, but Yan Luo reached into the air, grabbed its head, and brought it back with a knee strike.

An immense force ran through the weasel’s body, stretching all its muscles taut.

Its body stiffened for a moment before the weasel collapsed completely, dead silent.

A city-breaking level demon thus perished. Even being directly hit by a rocket couldn’t kill it, yet under Yan Luo’s two attacks, it had no capacity to resist and died.

Looking at the weasel’s corpse, Yan Luo took a deep breath, took out a skinning knife one and half meters long from his space pouch, and began cutting into the weasel’s body.

With the help of other Hunters, Yan Luo disassembled the entire five-meter-tall beast within just ten minutes.

After dissecting the weasel, they turned to dismantle the poison toad’s body.

Compared to the weasel, the poison toad held more value.

Though Yan Luo’s punches broke many poison glands within the poison toad, some remained intact. If preserved properly, they could be taken back to Blue Star and kept in a vital enclosure, allowing the poison glands to remain active and continuously produce toxins.

The potency of the poison toad’s toxins was unknown to Yan Luo and his team, but as a city-breaking level demon, the toxins it produced must be valuable.

After dismantling the two demons, the convoy set off again, driving along the riverbank towards Mayin City.

Reaching the marked location on the map, Helena took out a bone flute and blew it standing by the riverbank.

Soon enough, a bridge spanning the river emerged, and the convoy drove onto it.

Upon arriving in Mayin City, they learned that Elves from two cities had arrived by boat, eager to purchase goods from the human caravan.

Food, clothes, production tools, these were all needed by the Elves.

The human caravan had already helped Mayin City establish wind and hydroelectric systems, enabling the city to deal more easily with aquatic demons.

Once the stored electricity is integrated into the river water, any city-breaking level aquatic demon approaching the city could be instantly killed.

Witnessing the magic of human products, Elves from other cities grew interested in them too.

Worried that the human caravan might not reach them, they sent Elves to Mayin City to purchase human-made products from the passing caravan.

Coincidentally, the caravan brought along many harpoons this time.

These harpoons mainly relied on mechanical energy, using a winch to compress an internal spring to the limit, then releasing the harpoon attached to a rope, while also connecting to a power system to rotate the winch, enhancing the recovery and launch speed of the harpoon.

They could be used for hunting or city defense, making them highly useful for Elf cities situated along rivers.

Since selling them is selling them to someone anyway, the caravan emptied its stock of ’harpoons’ directly at Mayin City, allowing the two Elf fleets that came for shopping to leave fully loaded.

After handling a batch of goods in Mayin City, the caravan set off again.

However, their next destination wasn’t Pirie City.

Pirie City lies deep in the mountains, far from any Elf city, making it unsuitable as a trade route hub. So after consulting with Julia’s father Mirel, since the penultimate dual-world trade, the caravan altered its trading route.

Following the river downstream, traveling a slightly longer route than to Pirie City, they could reach an Elf city called ’Pearl City’.

It derives its name from the Elves’ livelihood of rearing giant clams.

The pearls produced by the giant clams serve as wide-use casting materials, whether for crafting magic tools or creating arrays.

To rear the giant clams, part of Pearl City was built underwater—a massive city spanning the riverway.

Pearl City warmly welcomes the arrival of human caravans.

This is because humans bring many tools that can be used to dive and accelerate the production of pearls from the giant clams, tools far more effective and convenient than the ones produced by Pearl City itself.

Additionally, during their first visit, humans brought knowledge of clam farming, assisting Pearl City significantly.

Thus, Pearl City warmly welcomes the caravan’s arrival.

"Lady Sasa, welcome,"

The Lord of Pearl City approached Sasa, thanking her earnestly, "The knowledge you taught us last time helped us produce a better feed that the giant clams love. Nowadays, many giant clams have returned to the underwater part of Pearl City."

The giant clams and the Elves of Pearl City have a coexistent relationship; the Elves are responsible for feeding the giant clams, and the clams produce pearls in return.

These not-so-intelligent demons seem to sense that the pearls they produce highly benefit the Elves, so during pearl harvesting, they don’t obstruct but even assist.

After all, pearls are essentially ’foreign objects’ to the giant clams, making them more comfortable once harvested.

Due to the invention of a new feed favored by the giant clams, without noticing, more and more clams gathered and settled in their designated pastures.

For Pearl City, this is a blissful burden as more clams mean more feed production, requiring more Elves to monitor them.

Luckily, many clams came with pearls inside, slightly alleviating Pearl City’s financial pressure.

Facing the Lord’s gratitude, Sasa shook her head with a smile, "We are in a mutually beneficial relationship; since you treat us sincerely, we will naturally reciprocate sincerely."

Upon hearing Sasa’s words, some turned to gaze at the truck drivers affiliated with the Pension Association.

Everyone in the team knew about the despicable deeds the Pension Association had done. If Yan Luo hadn’t intervened, the Elves might have been driven to desperation.

Bullying the honest folk is something only those without a bottom line would do.

The primary product of Pearl City is pearls from the giant clam demons. This time, coming to Pearl City for trade, merchants from various factions led by Sasa purchased many pearls.

Even Sasa bought some.

"I think these pearls could become carriers for engravings," Sasa said to Yan Luo, "If we grind these pearls into powder and mix them into ink, perhaps we could create something similar to talismans."

Upon hearing this, Yan Luo waved his hand and allocated a million in funding to Sasa for this research.

Sasa instantly bubbled with joy.

Because knowing Yan Luo’s personality, even if the grant is not fully used, she could apply the leftover to other projects.

This is much more satisfying than applying for research funding from the school!