"Line up properly! Tickets are 300,000 credits per person. If you're paying in Sacred Crystal Stones, it's 20 million Sacred Crystal Stones per person!"
At the azure city gates of Azure Sea City, a four-meter-tall member of the sea crab race held a high-grade spirit artifact trident. His shrimp-like eyes glared impatiently at the group of job-changers, and his tone was far from friendly.
One job-changer after another paid the entrance fee with stifled resentment before being allowed into the city.
Ling Zhan was no exception.
After paying the entrance fee, Ling Zhan finally stepped into Azure Sea City.
What met his eyes were job-changers constantly coming and going.
Besides them, there were also various deep-sea races.
Sea crabs, sea shrimp, seahorses, merfolk, deep-sea elves... and more.
They were all deep-sea races that had settled in Azure Sea City.
They had their own language.
Furthermore.
The things sold here were indeed outrageously expensive.
A skewer of grilled octopus tentacles cost 500 Sacred Crystal Stones.
A plate of stir-fried kelp sprouts cost 700 Sacred Crystal Stones.
And those were merely ordinary ingredients.
If the ingredients were spirit herbs of a certain grade, they would easily cost tens of thousands of Sacred Crystal Stones.
Even lodging cost 5,000 Sacred Crystal Stones per night.
That was only the cheapest option. The presidential suite at the most expensive seven-star hotel cost hundreds of thousands of Sacred Crystal Stones per night. With all sorts of services included, it would cost no less than a million Sacred Crystal Stones.
If you did not stay, plenty of others would!
Even more outrageous was this...
Even if you did not want to stay at an inn or hotel and merely wanted to make do by lying in some street corner for the night, you still had to pay