"Nothing smells different. Did you shower and change, or did nothing happen at all?"
Arabella finally snapped, her face burning. "What on earth are you thinking? And to think I was worried about your safety!"
"Ha! What danger could I be in?" Quintina said smugly. She pulled an odd amulet from around her neck. "See this? I bought it on the Demon Web! A Runic Script amulet. It's really powerful!"
When she said "Demon Web," she instinctively lowered her voice.
Tang Changsheng still heard her perfectly.
"Bought it on the Demon Web?" His expression turned rather strange.
The Demon Web did sell amulets and similar items, probably intended for ordinary people. In Tang Changsheng's view, their effects were quite limited, yet their prices were astonishingly high.
This Runic Script amulet, for instance, would have cost at least fifty Demon Web points.
As for what it could do... If it had even a third of the power of the Protective Talisman Tang Changsheng had given Arabella—enough to save her life once—that would already be impressive.
"Look, I bought some for you and Ling Xiaoyu too!" Quintina produced a colorful string of assorted amulets. Tang Changsheng stared.
What a spendthrift. There had to be eight or ten amulets on that string. At fifty points apiece, each one cost five million Great Chu Gold Yuan. The whole string was worth somewhere around fifty million.
That was no small sum. The Great Chu Gold Yuan was famous for its strength. It had originally been tied directly to gold, hence the name "Gold Yuan."
Issued by Great Chu, the world's sole superpower, it was a global currency. Even the North American Dollar, issued by the world's second-ranked power, North America, was merely a regional currency.
Neither its stability nor its worldwide acceptance could compare with