When Did I Become An Artifact Dealer?!
Chapter 106 - 107: Blue Beard’s Daughter

Chapter 106: Chapter 107: Blue Beard’s Daughter

After those sea people surfaced from the water, they walked on the sea as if it were made out of glass. When they arrived at the beach, they started dancing together with the local people.

Cail looked at them and asked Yrin, since he seemed to be knowledgeable about this, "Should we be worried?" They seemed to be only dancing and not doing anything else.

Yrin was leaning on a coconut tree. "Not really. Human flesh is not on their menu. As for this Threshold party, it is more like a ritual than anything else. After dancing for the entire night, they will go back to the waters."

Then he narrowed his eyes. "As for the people, they are also fine. Aside from exhaustion, they’d even receive a bit of blessing for participating in the ritual."

Hearing that, Cail leaned back down. Fortunately, it wasn’t another mess. Then he looked at the excited Yrin and asked, "Do you want to join them?" At this point, he was no longer hiding that he was a void user. Yes, he had finally realized that he didn’t have a talent for acting.

"Sure! Why not?" Yrin didn’t mind that they were another species. He looked at Cail and waved for him to come. "Why don’t you join? This species is good at calculating fate. How about you try it?"

Cail looked at the sea people, and sure enough, some of them were already putting up stalls. Cail also realized that there seemed to be void energy gathering here, meaning that a lot of void users wanted to join the fun.

Since it wasn’t harmful, Cail agreed. He was also interested in these sea people. He had no idea if they were sensitive about the number of their people, but he had an urge to kidnap one and stuff it in his space. But of course, that was just an urge. He didn’t want to mess around for now.

His body was exhausted. Maybe he should just join the fun.

He and Yrin walked around and saw the sea people selling some kind of specialties. Cail walked towards one of the stalls and picked up a large pear. It was a beautiful pear with an iridescent glow. It reminded him of Sellene.

It was to his taste, but he didn’t know what the currency of these sea people was. He looked at the stall owner and asked, "How much is this?" This guy better understand human language.

Fortunately, Cail’s worries didn’t come true. The sea people were very knowledgeable about human language. The stall owner’s pure black eyes looked at the pearl in Cail’s hand and said, "200,000 Nu."

"This is daylight robbery." Cail was relieved that the currency was Nu, but also speechless at the price. He bargained, "Brother, you live in the sea. Getting pearls shouldn’t be that hard, right? Why is it so expensive?"

The sea person at this stall was also a shrewd merchant. Hearing Cail’s question, he shifted the blame to humans. "You guys already harvested a lot of pearls, so we are having a hard time finding one. So I think 200,000 Nu is a good price."

Of course, Cail wouldn’t accept that. The two of them went back and forth until finally, the sea person relented and accepted Cail’s 12,000 Nu offer.

Still, after staring at the beaming sea merchant, Cail was suspicious that 12,000 Nu was probably not his lowest price. But there was nothing he could do but look at the sea merchant’s sharp teeth as he eyed the card that Cail swiped. Yes. They were advanced.

Cail looked at the pearl in his hand. The reason why he was so adamant about buying this and not the other pearls was unknown, but whether psychological or just him tripping, this pearl seemed to look more beautiful than the others.

"Where was that man?" Looking around, Cail found Yrin sitting at some kind of psychic booth. Cail walked towards him.

Yrin saw Cail coming. He patted the seat beside him and pointed at the sea person dressed as some kind of shaman. "This is their high priest. Come on, greet him."

Cail gave him a weird look. He didn’t strike Yrin as someone who was polite to others, but it seemed like he needed something from this high priest, so Cail said hello and sat down beside him.

"Yrin, it looks like you made a friend?" The high priest looked at Cail and smiled.

Yrin and the high priest seemed to be familiar with each other. Yrin nodded. "Yeah. And it looks like you are still alive?"

It sounded like a curse, but it was valid. High priests typically die early because they receive backlash whenever they use their ability.

"I’m still alive and kicking." The high priest wasn’t offended and just laughed. At this point, just living a few more years was a blessing. "You here for the same reason?"

This time Yrin looked serious. "Yes. But I remember your Threshold party doesn’t seem to be today. Why did your tribe surface early?"

"There is a shift in the void. The void energy is getting thicker, so we need to adjust the time of our ritual," the high priest said as he took out some weirdly shaped rock.

"I guess the end is near," Yrin said casually. Then he looked at Cail, about to ask him if he was scared, but Cail was staring at the shiny rocks blankly.

Yrin nudged him. "You wanna get guessed too?"

Cail looked at him. His mind was floating, but he was listening. "No." He was a bit scared. Yrin mentioned the end was near. It would be hectic if Cail’s readings showed that he was the one who destroyed the world. He knew that sounded farfetched, but hey, look at what Virehn did.

After placing all the necessary tools on the table, the high priest talked to Yrin about his issue. "It has been many years since the Blue Beard’s daughter was lost. After all the readings I did for you, I don’t think that child is still alive."

This time Yrin’s face darkened. Just like what Cail was doing before, he was staring at the rocks. Cail sensed that he seemed scared to look the high priest in the eye.

Yrin picked up one shiny rock and played with it. "I’ll never stop looking for her until the day I die."

Cail felt that he was hearing some gossip. He never expected this casually looking guy to be that devoted.

The high priest had no choice. "Then pass me her picture." They had already done this multiple times.

Yrin took out a photo from his pocket. On it was a beautiful little girl, around seven years old. The girl was sitting on green grass, and on her head was a huge beach hat that almost covered her face.

She was smiling at the camera, and there seemed to be someone beside her, but they were cut from the photo.

"She looks familiar," Cail thought, but he couldn’t remember who it was. He didn’t voice his thoughts because he knew that he would face constant questioning.

But when started feeling that a person looked familiar, it is usually not a good sign. Cail made a mental note.