I Am Genie-Chapter 92: A ’Fair’ Trade

The holy herb, when touched to the storage crystal in an activated state, immediately gets sucked inside as if it were one of the natural laws. No need to ask why; it's simply the rule.

Right after that, the storage crystal shrinks back to its original size, itself also not emitting any energy fluctuations.

The only difference is that the crystal isn't transparent like before. Iris can see the holy herb is inside it.

She snatches the crystal and then observes it, whether Raphael agrees or not. Of course, even if she were ruder, Raphael wouldn't be annoyed because who would blame someone who gave them five holy herbs?

"Interesting... I just need to do the same as you earlier, and then this holy herb will fall out, right? Like this, from now on, distributing energy herbs or holy herbs will be much easier."

She tried transmitting a bit of energy inside and immediately understood how the storage crystal works. This way, she doesn't need to show up in person every time she distributes resources but can hand it over to others to do it.

"Do you have a lot of these crystals?"

Iris isn't asking just for fun. If Raphael lacked them, she'd give him some; anyway, she's rich. Having a lot of things like this around her doesn't give her anything to use them for.

"Before, I probably filled a small box with them but when I fled, I couldn't bring them along. Now I only have this one left. This thing isn't very easy to find either; the price is also high. Back then, because of my status, people selling to me usually gave me the 'friend price' of one million. In the market, it's worth five million or a bit more if bought through auction."

Most people with high enough social status in this world keep one or several storage crystals on them.

When exploring the Ancient Forest, if they're lucky, they'll find an energy herb or, even rarer, a holy herb. If they don't have a storage crystal, they'll miss out on a large sum of money.

Moreover, a storage crystal isn't a disposable item. The durability of this thing is hard to measure because even passed down through how many generations, it doesn't wear out. So many nobles don't hesitate to spend large amounts of money to buy it.

Iris hearing that isn't really clear. But she understands it's very valuable. Human currency she's never used so she doesn't know what exactly five million can buy.

"I have quite a lot of these. Let me give you some to use."

She spoke and then started rummaging through her bag. One by one storage crystals she took out as Raphael stared dumbfounded.

The amount she took out was even more than his peak period. Moreover, her expression looked like she still had a lot left.

"Enough, enough. I don't think I'm lucky enough to find that many energy herbs or holy herbs."

Raphael quickly stopped her. He really had no way to use up all these storage crystals. Selling them wasn't very meaningful since currently he didn't need money.

Iris, hearing him say that, then nodded and continued rummaging through her bag, taking out four holy herbs. At the same time, she also wanted to try using storage crystals, so she put all four herbs into four crystals and then handed them to him.

"Take them. Try to reach level ninety-five quickly, okay? With strength like that on this continent, you probably won't run into many problems unless you actively cause problems."

Though not a contractor, she understood clearly the strengths of each level of contractors. From level ninety up, each level increases energy reserves by one level. Level ninety-nine has energy reserves ten times that of level ninety.

Raphael also knew so he calculated just enough was fine. His lifespan was still plenty so no need to rush leveling up. Moreover, resources like holy herbs are rare. Saving some is more useful than using them all right now.

"Thank you."

He slightly bowed his head to her. This was the first time in his life he bowed like that to a 'little girl'. If she hadn't given him so much, he wouldn't have done it.

"Why are you thanking me? Can't you do something more practical?"

???

Do what? You're not lacking anything, are you? Besides, if it's about fighting, just call your subordinates to do it, isn't that fine?

Raphael was momentarily stunned by this question. If she needed something precious, he didn't have any. If she needed his help, it felt a bit redundant because he was sure her subordinates couldn't possibly be worse than him.

"I'm not sure I can help you with anything."

He couldn't just agree casually either. After all, a god's request most likely would be something with extremely high difficulty.

The hesitation in Raphael's words wasn't hard to notice. Iris wasn't blind either; she knew he was imagining something over the top.

"It's not that hard; I'm just lazy. You remember the first sentence I said when I met you today?"

???

Why didn't you just say it straight from the beginning? You made me worry for nothing the whole time and it turns out you just wanted me to help with some small trivial matter.

But helping her with one thing made Raphael feel much more comfortable. Suddenly her giving him five holy herbs along with a bunch of storage crystals made him a bit awkward.

Now if he helped her make a proper place to stay, that would feel comfortable. That much stuff in exchange for getting a contractor of demigod level to build a house really is a fair trade... No, must say Celestial Sword God is more accurate.

If using that title praised by the world, then indeed his work would be worth a bit more... This is one hundred percent a 'fair' trade.

Moreover, in the future they'll be teammates anyway so helping, even if it's a legend of the continent helping a teammate build a house, is nothing to be ashamed of.

"Ha ha ha, rest assured, leave this task to me. Though I'm not a carpenter, building a wooden house isn't too bad."

Raphael patted his chest, affirming that he was very capable in this matter.

Of course Iris wasn't very trusting after seeing both the inside and outside of the 'house' he was living in.

But what Raphael would build would surely be much better than this rickety thing. At the very least, it would be good enough to show off to Leo and Michael.