Svarog

The people of the Robot Settlement also looked over curiously.

"Who's that?"

"No idea. Judging by his clothes, he shouldn't be from our Underworld, right? The Underworld doesn't have clothes that fancy."

"Could the passage between the upper and lower cities have opened again?"

"Look at that deer—it can actually breathe fire!"

"Damn, that deer's amazing. If I had one at home, I wouldn't have to worry about the cold anymore."

"With that tiny tent of yours? The moment that deer goes inside, it'll probably burn the whole thing down."

"Like yours is any bigger?"

Listening to the crowd's chatter, Ye Yun, Clara, Hook, and Leos arrived before a large gate.

At the entrance, a Traffic Light Automaton was verifying visitor information.

"Verifying! Verification passed! Clara, welcome home!"

The gate opened.

A three-meter-tall humanoid robot appeared before Clara.

"Clara, welcome home."

Clara recognized the robot at a glance.

"Mr. Svarog!"

Clara jumped down from Leos's back and ran up to Svarog, showing him the medicine Ye Yun had sold her.

"Mr. Svarog, Clara found medicine! Everyone can be saved now!"

Svarog glanced at the medicine and had a nearby automaton take it away.

"Scanning!

Test result: Healthy."

After scanning Clara and confirming that she was unharmed, Svarog said,

"Clara, do not go to Rivets Town. It is dangerous. You could be injured."

Clara replied with a grin.

"It's okay, Mr. Svarog. Clara didn't go alone. There were other people too."

As she spoke, Clara introduced Ye Yun and the others to Svarog.

"Mr. Svarog, they're Clara's good friends~ Brother Ye Yun and Mr. Leos."

As for Hook, Svarog already knew her. The little girl would sometimes come to the Robot Settlement to play with Clara.

Svarog looked at Ye Yun and Leos. After scanning them, the lens atop his head blazed red.

"Danger! Danger! Extremely powerful individual units detected! Protect Clara!"

Svarog pulled Clara behind him in one swift motion.

Clara hurriedly explained.

"Mr. Svarog, Brother Ye Yun isn't a bad person! He's the one who sold Clara this medicine!

Mr. Leos is a good person too. He protected Clara all the way back to the Robot Settlement."

Hearing this, Svarog deactivated his combat state.

"Clara's friends. Good people."

Ye Yun looked at Svarog and wondered whether he should follow the original plot and ask about the Stellaron's secret like Stelle had.

In the original plot, Stelle and the others had initially been able to speak normally with Svarog through Clara's introduction.

It was only after they asked about the Stellaron that Svarog went berserk.

After thinking it over,

Ye Yun gave up on the idea. Beating Svarog would be easy enough.

But why make trouble for himself? Was fighting not tiring?

Ye Yun waved a hand.

"You're Svarog? Don't worry, I mean you no harm.

I just brought Clara back and made a deal with her along the way."

Svarog looked at Clara, then at Ye Yun.

"A deal? What deal?"

Ye Yun took out the Stellar Jade Clara had just used to buy the medicine.

"This. As long as you have this, you can trade for supplies with me."

Svarog scanned the Stellar Jade in Ye Yun's hand.

"Decorative item. Worthless."

Ye Yun heard Svarog's conclusion.

"It might be worthless to you, but it's very valuable to me."

"If you don't believe me, you can try making a trade. This thing is worthless to you anyway, isn't it?"

The computer in Svarog's mind processed for a moment and reached a conclusion.

"Acceptable."

Svarog immediately sent instructions to the nearby automatons, ordering them to collect Stellar Jade.

Five minutes later.

Several automatons returned with over a dozen pieces of Stellar Jade. Clara also took out some Stellar Jade she had collected over time.

Ye Yun counted them. Neither more nor less—exactly fifty pieces.

Summoning the Exchange Scale, Ye Yun placed all fifty pieces of Stellar Jade onto it and exchanged them for Star Coins.

A few seconds later, fifty 100-denomination Star Coins appeared in Ye Yun's hands.

Ye Yun handed them to Clara.

Clara took them and examined them curiously.

Ye Yun explained,

"These are Star Coins, the currency I use. You can use them to shop with me."

After saying that, Ye Yun took out his phone and sent Clara the product information he had previously shown Natasha.

Clara's phone soon rang. When she opened the Communication App, Ye Yun's message was at the top.

Clara opened it and started reading. It had been better when she hadn't looked, because the moment she did, she was stunned. How were the things listed here so cheap?

She had 5,000 Star Coins in her hands. That meant she could buy 500 bottles of the Golden Sore Medicine from before.

Or fifty tons of food!

Clara couldn't help wondering if Brother Ye Yun had sent the wrong message.

"Brother Ye Yun, did you send the wrong thing? The items here are too cheap."

Ye Yun took it from Clara and looked at it.

"That's right. This is the one."

Clara was instantly dumbfounded.

Bassaka! This Stellar Jade could actually be exchanged for so much food!

The ones she had just found were only a tiny portion of the Stellar Jade she had collected. She had thrown away most of it on the spot!

What had she done?!

Clara anxiously prepared to run off and search the places she had visited before for Stellar Jade, but Svarog stopped her.

"Clara, trade first. Confirm whether this person's words are true."

Hearing that, Clara could only complete the trade first.

"Then, Brother Ye Yun, please exchange all of it for rice for Clara."

Hearing this, Ye Yun took the 5,000 Star Coins from Clara's hands, summoned a bubble containing rice, and pressed it against them.

The Star Coins and the bubble vanished at the same time.

The bags of rice within the bubble gradually enlarged and landed on the ground. Five hundred neatly stacked bags of rice appeared in the small plaza.

Svarog walked over, reached out, and opened one of the bags to inspect it.

"Scanning! Scan complete! High-Quality Rice!"

Clara was overjoyed at the result.

"That's wonderful! Everyone can be saved now!"

Hook stared at the piles of rice, her eyes filled with shock.

"Oh wow! If all this rice belonged to Hook, Hook could probably eat for several really, really long times!"

After finishing his inspection, Svarog immediately had several automatons come out and transport the rice for proper storage.

This rice could extend the Underworld's survival time.

Meanwhile, Ye Yun checked his mission progress.

Mission 1: Receive a total of 20 different customers.

Current progress: 7/20

Reward: Lottery Machine x1

Mission 2: Achieve a total turnover of 100,000 Star Coins from now on.

Current progress: 5.8/10

Reward: Emissary Level Strength x1

After checking the mission progress, Ye Yun figured that, barring surprises, he should be able to complete Mission 2 tomorrow.

Natasha's side should bring in a large amount of turnover, and Svarog's side would definitely bring in a large amount of turnover afterward as well.