Chapter 161

"So many people."

Elisa's green eyes were full of vigilance and surprise, but not so much that people would notice. She was currently walking on the main street of Sedona City, looking at the bustling crowd coming and going. People were talking and laughing, and she hadn't seen this kind of atmosphere in a long time.

After the Elven Forest was destroyed, Elisa escaped from the forest and moved into the human kingdom, where all she saw was deceit, with everyone wanting to capture her in exchange for money. However, she found a sense of ease here, as the people around didn't have grim expressions. Their eyes don't seem to show any signs of scheming. 'Maybe this is because they had enough food to sustain a proper life. They all have more than enough food to eat, so why would they scheme on how to fill their stomachs?' Elisa thought as she looked at the wheat drying on the sides of the road.

"Hmm? There are so many people over there." Elisa saw a long line of people ahead and couldn't help but walk over to take a look.

"It smells so good." As she got closer, Elisa smelled a strong and delicious aroma. She could clearly smell vegetables, meat, mushrooms, and other stuff from the scent. "What could it be? Why does it smell so good?"

Elisa's green eyes sparkled. She could feel her stomach rebelling, and just as she decided to go over and take a look, she saw three female beastkins walk toward her, which startled her.

The three beastkins were all very beautiful, and she knew - or rather, recognized- one of them from when they were in Sakura City. These three female beastkins are only slightly below me in terms of beauty. They are much more beautiful than those so-called most beautiful nobility in the capital.

Their beauty was the reason Elisa was surprised. Those corrupted nobles will definitely buy these beautiful beastkins at exorbitant prices and lock them up in dark rooms to play with. 'How come these beastkins are walking out around openly in crowded places and aren't afraid to be kidnapped by slave merchants to be sold?'

"Wait, there's another possibility." Elisa slowed her pace and thought of something. These beastkins must be the slaves of the nobles of Sedona City. Only this explanation can justify them openly walking on the streets without fear- the commoners all knew these three beastkins.

Elisa had seen such situations before. For example, the most famous genius princess in the kingdom, Princess Lucy, had a beastkin maid. The beastkin maid could walk freely in the capital, and no one dared to disrespect her because she was Princess Lucy's maid.

The three beastkins were Annie, Helen, and Ayesha. The beastkins that Elisa recognized was Ayesha as she had seen Ayesha eating grilled fish when she had previously hidden on a ship.

"Annie, weren't we going to buy buns? Why did we come here?" Helen asked, puzzled.

"We rushed out in a hurry and didn't bring any copper coins…" Annie said, shaking her fox ears helplessly.

"I did, Young Master gave me a silver coin, saying it's my pay for the month,." Ayesha said, raising her head.

"Young Master also gave me my salary in advance, also a silver coin." Helen added, a bit embarrassed. I already receive free food and housing, and I can still receive a high salary of a silver coin a month. I haven't even worked for a month yet, and my lord already gave me my pay.

"…" Elisa was frozen in place as she listened to their conversation. 'Am I hearing things? A silver coin a month? Even the elite of the kingdom, the royal knights, may not even have a salary of a silver coin a month.'

"Silver coin? You two idiots, buying buns with a silver coin, do you want to slowly count copper coins in front of the bun store?" Annie rolled her eyes. "I don't want to count a thousand copper coins in front of the bun shop."

"It's okay to count them." Ayesha didn't mind at all.

"Um…" Helen shook her head, thinking of the people waiting in line to buy buns, and said softly, "We can't, it would make the people behind us wait for a long time."

'What are buns? Is that what the long line was for?' Elisa followed the trio, now very curious about them. It is a bit conspicuous to buy something that costs a few copper coins with a silver coin.

"Then what should we do? I only have a silver coin." Ayesha was a bit anxious. She had come out with Annie and Helen to taste the delicious buns that Mina had spoken highly about.

"Don't worry, let's go to the money depository and exchange the silver coin for copper coins. Remember to ask Nicole to exchange the silver coin for copper coins next time you go out." Annie sighed.

Helen was going to return to her tribe tomorrow, so Annie had come out to accompany Helen with shopping, especially the buns Helen loved to eat. They could have just told the castle kitchen to make some buns, but Helen insisted on buying buns from the bun store, saying something about how its buns were the first buns she had eaten.

Annie understood what Helen meant. Like Helen, Annie had some sentiment toward her favorite food, egg-fried tomatoes. Even though she had tasted tastier than egg-fried tomatoes, she couldn't forget the feeling when she first ate egg-fried tomatoes.

"A money depository? What kind of place is that?" Helen asked, confused. 'Why have I never heard of it before?'

"It's a place where you can exchange money." Annie said lightly. "For example, steel coins are kept in the money depository. If someone needs steel coins, they can go to the money depository to exchange for them."

Annie remembered that the money depository was a place that Lucas had secretly set up, telling her that its purpose was to pave the way to open a bank in the future, though she didn't really understand what he meant.

"Oh? There's such a place?" Helen exclaimed.

The corners of Annie's mouth slightly lifted, and she said softly, "There will only be more and more magical things in the future."

"What are you girls saying?" Ayesha asked, confused. She tilted her head, causing her hair to whip.

"Uh…" Annie and Helen glanced at each other 'Why does Big Cow seem a bit stupid and cute?'

Elisa, who was following them, was also in a daze. 'What are steel coins?' Since arriving in Sedona City, Elisa kept hearing unfamiliar terms, making her feel like she was a stupid, inexperienced elf. The thing that she did at noon made her feel like her intelligence had dropped. Looking at Ayesha, Elisa felt like she was looking at herself at noon when she had been acting a bit stupid.

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