The 'Guardian'[2]
[Emma POV],
"You must have some gold coins?" I inquired.
I wasn't sure if this was going to work, but it was the only thing I could think of at the time.
One thing I knew about Ace, or rather, about everyone I knew, was that we were all f'cking poor.
Our situation cannot even be described as being poor. While this seemed a little far-fetched, it wasn't far from the truth, as the gold coins we had on hand couldn't even buy the most basic rare-grade weapon or item.
So I reasoned, why not take advantage of this opportunity to earn some blood? Though I feel bad, it's for the better, right?
In novels, villains don't even need to ask people if they have money since they will have it if they kill them, but fortunately, the primordial chronicle was like Ace storage ring for coins, so even if they were killed, they wouldn't bust out gold coins.
At least among the humans who perished here, I did not see anyone busting out their gold coins, and Ace is the reason I said it was fortunate that no one did.
Although he appears to be in a vulnerable state right now, he is not. If he wanted to return to his peak state right now, he could simply take the basic health and mana pills he has and swallow them, and bam, he will be back to his peak state.
Or he could just level up since I believed he had enough primordial chronicle. I also have enough primordial chronicle to level up, but there's no way I'm wasting one to heal someone else when I could keep it to heal myself in a pinch in times of danger.
Am kind, but that does not imply that I am stupid.
Because of individuals like Ace, I can say that humans are fortunate in that they do not burst their coins upon death. Ace gives me the impression that he is too neutral at times. He does not appear to be a good person, nor does he appear to be a bad person.
Though I can tell from the little time I've spent with him that his ideas are on the good side, I couldn't beat my chest with confidence and say that Ace wouldn't do anything to the humans here who were about to die if they happened to bust their coins when they died.
So I thought that if I could entice Ace that there is an opportunity to earn blood, he might be more interested in assisting these people if he saw a profit.
As these thoughts raced through my mind, I turned to face the man who had been taken aback by my' strange' question. Seeing this, I spoke up and asked him the question again.
"You must have some gold coins?" I inquired, and the man, who heard my question again, quickly nodded as four shiny gold coins appeared in front of me.
Seeing this, I was about to say something when the man suddenly slapped the girl in his arms, who was already losing consciousness slowly, in an attempt to wake her up.
"Wake up, Jessie. It's daddy, wake up ", he said softly several times to the girl in his arms.
So they're a father-daughter pair.
"Dad?" muttered Jessie, who was already losing consciousness as her father, who had heard this, spoke hurriedly.
"Good, Good. Jessie, Listen to daddy and and bring out all of your gold coins ", said Jessie's father several times before stopping when three more gold coins appeared in front of me.
Together with the previous four gold coins, this totals seven gold coins. Rich people.
Though the gold coins were in front of me, I did not pick them up as I turned to Anna and motioned for her to allow me to communicate with Ace via telepathy. After all, picking up the gold coins is pointless if I can't get Ace's attention and get him to corporate with me.
And, thankfully, when I told Ace about my plan to provide healing services in exchange for gold coins, he immediately agreed and even suggested prices we should charge people based on their injuries.
This.....
Ultimately, he gave me some basic mana pills to replenish my mana so that I could heal the girl to the point where her life was no longer in danger. For some reason, Ace stated that I should not heal her or anyone else to their peak health while remaining cost-effective.
I'm not sure what he meant by that, but I'm glad I was able to help in the end, and as I suspected, the other humans around us who saw this also gestured for us to heal them, and according to Ace's arrangement, we healed them according to the price that he set, and the only ones who couldn't pay were the humans who battled two rank 1 bravyrr wolves. They eventually paid for their lives with the wolves' crystal cores, much to Ace's satisfaction.
As for the reason of why they didn't have gold coins when they could have exchange the rank 1 monsters corpses for coins in the exchange section, it was because of the damage on the monsters body.
Their corpse was damaged very badly that even if they exchange it, it would even reach half of the normal coins they could have received if the corpses were still okay, thus the reason why the could not pay with coins but with the crystal cores.
The state of the object one wants to exchange really matters a lot as it tells the amount of coins one would receive.
In the end, everyone was happy as we took this time to rest. We took this time to rest and recover since we didn't know what would happen next. After all, we were still in this challenge trial, or whatever the primordial chronicle called it.
Additionally, Ace burned all of the corpses on the trial grounds. I'm not sure why he did it, but I'm sure it wasn't to give those humans a happy ending. This type of behavior did not fit with what I knew about Ace.
[If Ace's actions perplex you, read Chapter 19 again. Humans who die at the hands of monsters resurrect and become zombies, so Ace burned their bodies to prevent this.]
As I considered these things, I took a basic mana pill to replenish my mana and closed my eyes to rest.
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