Chapter 6 An Elven Princess as My Bodyguard
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Translator: JayM
Chapter: 6
Chapter Title: An Elven Princess as My Bodyguard?
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According to Vivi's words, Yue Ling was considered quite a capable fighter in their world.
And that she was a bit stronger than the former.
In that kind of world with extraordinary power, the value of a strong person shouldn't be comparable to just a thousand tons of food, right?
Previously, Su Yi hadn't thought about it this much. Anyway, with the trading platform as a guarantee, Vivi couldn't pull any tricks on him.
But now that he thought about it carefully, he still felt that something wasn’t right.
Though since the person involved was right here, he simply asked his question directly.
Yue Ling wasn’t surprised that he would ask this and answered calmly.
"Because if I continue to stay there, my strength alone cannot bring much help to Princess Vivi. Instead, it would only bring her trouble."
"The allied forces attacking Dream River City have many reasons for starting the war, and I happen to be one of them. As long as I leave Dream River City, the portion of the allied forces that came for me will retreat, and the pressure on Dream River City will be greatly reduced."
"Previously, I had nowhere to go. Out of her friendship with the Elven Race and me personally, Princess Vivi took me in under immense pressure. Now that there’s a better place for me to survive in and it would alleviate the pressure on Dream River City at the same time, I naturally won't ask for more."
"So, your identity isn’t ordinary, huh?"
Su Yi looked at this beautiful elf with some surprise.
He had thought that Yue Ling was just one of Vivi's handmaidens or personal guards, which was why she could be so casually sold to another world by Vivi, who was a lord.
Now it seemed that there was another hidden story to this matter.
"That's another story entirely."
Yue Ling smiled with some helplessness and briefly explained the whole story.
In fact, it wasn’t complicated. It was just a cliché story of internal strife within a race.
The Moon Elf tribe she belonged to was once the most powerful tribe in the Elven Kingdom, controlling the most important Spring of Life in the Elven Race.
Later, a tribe in the Elven Kingdom called the Dark Elves, in alliance with the Orcs, defeated the Moon Elves and became the new masters of the Elven Kingdom.
It would have been one thing if Yue Ling was just a princess of a fallen kingdom, but just before the fall of her kingdom, the high priestess of the Moon Elf tribe used magical means to seal the core of the Elven Race's Spring of Life, a thing called "Life Force," inside Yue Ling's body. At the same time, the high priestess had her take away all of the water accumulated by the Spring of Life.
What kind of concept was this?
When the water from the Spring of Life flowed into the lake and was diluted countless times, it became the world-famous Moon Lake in their world. The water in the lake wasn’t called water. It was called the Original Essence of Life.
When the Original Essence of Life was diluted countless more times, it became the kind of Water of Life that Vivi had previously traded to Su Yi.
It could be said that this Spring of Life was the most precious treasure of the Elven Race.
And after losing its most core component, the spring had become dormant.
It was no wonder that the new masters of the Elven Kingdom would search high and low to find her, the former princess, forcing Vivi to have no choice but to send her to another world.
"I roughly understand now."
After understanding Yue Ling's identity and background, Su Yi had no more doubts about this transaction.
If he had to say something, it was that he felt that he might have gotten the short end of the stick in this matter.
Clearly, by accepting Yue Ling into Blue Star, he was doing Vivi a big favor, yet that woman still demanded a thousand tons of food from him.
Her conscience was truly rotten to the core!
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After a simple exchange to get to know each other and explaining some points of attention to Yue Ling, Su Yi left the warehouse with her.
Su Yi didn't have a very specific concept of just how strong Yue Ling's strength was.
However, after personally seeing her casually twist a piece of rebar as thick as a baby's arm in the corner of the warehouse into a pretzel, he knew he was set.
With Yue Ling by his side for protection, those shady underground forces would surely have no way of dealing with him.
He could confidently sell all the gold in his hands through Old Liu's connections.
It was better to do this kind of thing sooner rather than later. Su Yi immediately contacted Old Liu again and proposed a transaction of twenty kilograms of gold.
This time, Old Liu didn't dare to agree directly, only saying that he needed to ask the boss above him first and told Su Yi to wait for news.
This was within his expectations, so he wasn’t surprised.
After all these matters were settled, Su Yi suddenly realized that for a moment, it seemed like he had nothing to do.
It was just past five in the evening.
He looked at Yue Ling, who was sitting quietly in the passenger seat.
"Did you bring a change of clothes? How about I take you to buy a few sets?"
"This set of clothes of mine has a special magic formation in it. It can self-clean, so I don't need to change or wash it."
Yue Ling shook her head somewhat absent-mindedly.
Although this was just the suburbs of Jiangcheng, the various buildings along the way and the multitude of vehicles driving on the road still deeply shocked this visitor from another world.
When she heard from Vivi before that she was being sent to a strange world, she never expected that she would come to such a strange place.
Everything here seemed to be different from the place she was in before.
It was inevitable that her attention would be attracted by all kinds of novel things.
However, she had a reserved personality. Seeing that Su Yi had been communicating with others through his mobile phone and was also driving, looking very busy, she didn’t directly open her mouth to ask him questions.
"Good stuff!"
Su Yi took a moment to glance at the beautiful long dress Yue Ling was wearing and made up his mind that he had to get some clothes like this from Vivi in the future.
Clothes that didn't need washing would definitely sell like crazy, alright.
But one thing at a time. Regarding the matter of buying clothes, Su Yi still insisted.
"Your clothes are a bit too different from the mainstream fashion style here. If you keep wearing this, you'll inevitably look out of place when you go out. It's better for us to go and buy a few sets for you."
His reasoning was sound and convincing.
Yue Ling didn't insist on wearing her own set of clothes all the time. Hearing his words, she said in a gentle voice:
"Okay, I'll listen to your arrangements."
Only then did Su Yi nod with satisfaction and drive straight towards the shopping mall.
Black stockings, white stockings, JK, OL*... he dared not even imagine how good the effect would be when Yue Ling, with her perfect figure like that of a model’s, put these on.
Ahem, actually, these were all incidental. Su Yi's main intention was to get her a few sets of clothes to make her look less out of place and to help her quickly integrate and get used to modern life, that was all.
And besides clothes, he also had to get her some other things.
Like a mobile phone and such.
This was necessary for her to integrate into life on Blue Star. If she didn't immediately know how to use it, she could learn slowly.
Anyway, Su Yi wasn’t short of this bit of money now.
As for the problem of the language barrier, it was actually easier to solve.
He had seen it in the trading platform's points mall before. There was an item one level lower than the [Myriad Worlds Language Mastery Card] called the [World Language Mastery Card]. After using it, it could allow a person to quickly master all the languages of a single world.
The selling price for one was only 10 points.
Currently, Su Yi had already completed one transaction with Vivi, so he had obtained 8 points.
If things continued like this, he felt that after trading the ten tons of fruits, vegetables, and meat, or the remaining one thousand tons of flour, he would have enough points then.
When the time came, he could just get one for her.
This was much simpler than directly teaching her to learn the Jiuzhou language from scratch.
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*JK and OL are common abbreviations used in East Asian pop culture. JK (Joshi Kousei) is Japanese for "high school girl," referring to the Japanese schoolgirl uniform fashion style (sailor collar, pleated skirt). OL (Office Lady) refers to the professional attire of a female office worker (blouse, pencil skirt, etc.).
T/N - Ah, so that’s the backstory. Wait, why does that story sound like the Warcraft game plot? Or maybe the Warcraft story is in itself just a generic cliche fantasy plot… Anyway, I do agree that the MC got the short end of the stick in that transaction. Even if he’s not really in danger, he’s still harboring the Princess of the Moon Elves for Vivi. I think he deserves a bit more compensation apart from Yue Ling protecting him from danger.