Svarog.

The people in the Robot Settlement also turned to look this way with curiosity.

"Who's that?"

"No idea. Judging by the clothes, they're probably not from our Underworld, right? The Underworld doesn't have such fancy outfits."

"Could the passage between the upper and lower cities be open again?"

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

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

"In your little tent? Don't let that deer in, or it'll torch the place with one breath."

"Yours isn't any bigger, you know?"

Listening to the chatter from the crowd around them, 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 swung open.

A humanoid robot, three meters tall, appeared before Clara.

"Clara, welcome home."

Clara recognized the robot at a glance.

"Mr. Svarog!"

Clara jumped down from behind Leos, ran up to Svarog, and showed off the medicine Ye Yun had sold her.

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

Svarog glanced at the medicine and had an automaton beside him take it away.

"Scanning!

Test result: Healthy."

After scanning to confirm Clara wasn't injured, Svarog spoke.

"Clara, don't go to Rivets Town. It's dangerous there. You'll get hurt."

Clara said with a grin.

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

With that, 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 one sometimes ran over to the Robot Settlement to play with Clara.

Svarog looked at Ye Yun and Leos, scanned them both, and the lens on his head flared with red light.

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

Svarog pulled Clara behind him in one motion.

Clara quickly explained.

"Mr. Svarog, Brother Ye Yun isn't a bad person! These medicines are what Brother Ye Yun sold to Clara!

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

Hearing this, Svarog deactivated his combat readiness.

"Clara's friend. Good person."

Ye Yun looked at Svarog in front of him, considering whether to follow the original plot and ask about the Stellaron's secret, like Xing did.

In the original story, Xing and the others could have a normal conversation with Svarog at first, thanks to Clara's introduction.

It was only when they brought up the Stellaron that Svarog went berserk.

After thinking it over.

Ye Yun gave up on that idea. Beating Svarog would still be easy.

But why make trouble for himself? Isn't fighting tiring?

Ye Yun waved his hand.

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

I'm just sending Clara back and making a deal with her on the side."

Svarog looked at Clara, then back 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 items. Worthless."

Ye Yun heard Svarog's conclusion.

"To you they might be worthless, but to me they're very valuable."

"If you don't believe me, try trading. It's not like this stuff is worth anything to you, right?"

The computer in Svarog's brain whirred through calculations before reaching a conclusion.

"Agreed."

With that, Svarog sent commands to nearby mechs to collect Stellar Jades.

Five minutes later.

Several mechs returned to the scene carrying over a dozen Stellar Jades, and Clara also brought out some she had collected over time.

Ye Yun counted them—exactly fifty, no more, no less.

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

A few seconds later, fifty Star Coins with a face value of 100 each appeared in Ye Yun's hands.

Ye Yun handed them to Clara.

Clara took them and looked at them curiously.

Ye Yun explained.

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

With that, Ye Yun pulled out his phone and sent Clara the same product list he had shown Natasha earlier.

Clara's phone soon rang. Opening the Communication App, the first message was from Ye Yun.

Clara opened it and looked. She was fine at first, but then she was shocked—how could everything here be so cheap?

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

Or buy 50 tons of food!

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

"Brother Ye Yun, did you send the wrong one? The things here are way too cheap."

Ye Yun took Clara's phone and looked.

"That's right, this is it."

Clara was instantly dumbfounded.

Bassaka! These Stellar Jades could actually be exchanged for this much food!

The ones she had just found were only a tiny fraction of what she had collected—most of them she had thrown away on the spot!

What had she done!

Clara frantically wanted to run off to the places she had been before to find more Stellar Jades, but Svarog stopped her.

"Clara, complete the transaction first. Confirm whether what this person says is true."

Hearing this, Clara had no choice but to finish the trade first.

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

Ye Yun nodded, took the 5,000 Star Coins from Clara's hand, summoned a bubble wrapped around rice, and pressed it onto the coins.

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

The bags of rice inside the bubble gradually enlarged and landed, neatly stacked in 500 bags across the small square.

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

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

Clara was overjoyed at the result.

"Great! Now everyone can be saved!"

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

"Oh my god! If all this rice was given to Hook, Hook could eat it for a super long, long time!"

After finishing his inspection, Svarog immediately ordered several mechs to come out and store the rice properly.

This rice could extend the Underworld's survival time.

Ye Yun, meanwhile, was checking his mission progress.

[Mission 1: Accumulate 20 different customers served.
Current progress: 7/20
Reward: Lottery Machine x1

Mission 2: Accumulate total revenue of 100,000 Star Coins from now on.
Current progress: 5.8/10
Reward: Emissary Level Strength x1]

Ye Yun looked over the mission progress. Barring any surprises, he should be able to complete Mission 2 by tomorrow.

Natasha's side should bring in a large chunk of revenue, and Svarog's side would definitely contribute a big amount as well.