Chapter 415 - 311: Crystal Clan

Up close, the girl appeared entirely like a glass sculpture, her entire body consisting not of smooth lines, but of tiny hexagons. Clearly, these are the crystal clusters forming her body, far more delicate than the clusters of the warriors surrounding her.

The crystal girl spoke, making a series of crisp sounds, but Long Yi couldn’t understand them. Then the girl switched languages several times, but Long Yi still couldn’t understand them. Suddenly, Long Yi remembered that he could speak another language.

He tried speaking in the Giant’s language, instantly causing a surprised look to appear on the girl’s face.

"You’re not a human? You’re a Giant?" The girl asked in the language of the Giants.

"Sort of, you could also say I’m not, have you ever seen a Giant as small as me?" Long Yi asked with a smile.

"I apologize, even though I know some things about humans, I don’t understand the human language." The crystal girl said.

"It’s fine, I also didn’t understand all the other languages you were speaking. My knowledge is certainly lacking compared to yours."

The crystal girl nodded, saying nothing, but glanced down at the Giant Monster.

"This was my first hunting mission, I messed it up." The girl said.

"This is also my first time trying to capture something like this alive, I think, I’m about to mess it up as well." Long Yi said helplessly.

"Alive? No wonder you tried to use mental control on it. But your little mage made a mistake, the mental force sensing range of this giant creature needs to be adjusted upwards by three sections."

"I see! Thank you!"

Long Yi quickly translated the girl’s words to Little Zi. Little Zi immediately adjusted. Just after that, the Crystal Core of the Giant Monster stopped flashing and the light disappeared. From the puppet heart, a series of tendrils extended out and enveloped the Crystal Core. The tendrils also pulled the puppet heart to the Crystal Core, merging the two together.

"Thank you for your help. If it weren’t for you, maybe today I would have tasted more than just the failure of the hunt, I might have lost my life. But now, facing only defeat, I’m already quite content."

The crystal girl seemed very despondent. Although she tried to express nonchalance, her eyes were clearly more honest, she kept staring at the Giant Monster.

"May I ask you a few questions?" Long Yi asked.

"Your Highness, we should leave. The explosion just now has made the space tunnel unstable." The crystal warrior commander who had been there earlier landed next to Long Yi and spoke to the crystal girl.

"It’s fine, for our saviors, I think we still have time to answer questions." The girl said.

Then, the crystal girl turned to Long Yi and said, "Please ask, our savior."

Hearing the term ’savior’, Long Yi blushed slightly, after all they had gained from the situation.

"May I ask, are you from the Plane of Crazy Demons?" Long Yi asked.

"The Plane of Crazy Demons? So, this name is still circulating in your world?" The girl countered.

"Er, sorry, it’s the only name I know." Long Yi scratched his head. Indeed, this name is somewhat embarrassing.

"Never mind. Our Demon Tribe indeed has a dark history, that can’t be denied." The girl said.

So, they were the legendary Demon Tribe!

A long, long time ago, the Demon Tribe was just like humans. On their own planet, they developed a great civilization. They quickly formed a unified Empire and began exploring beyond their world. However, not all exploration can have good results. After a reckless adventure, a Demon Tribe mage was infected with the Crystal Poison. And so, with this as the starting point, the Crystal Poison started to spread throughout the world of the Demon Tribe.

Unlike the human world, the sun in the Demon Tribe’s world was blue and lacked the ability to exterminate the Crystal Poison. It took the Crystal Poison less than a month to spread through the entire Demon Tribe’s world, leaving no creature uninfected.

For a time, almost all creatures went mad. They instinctively sought new objects to infect, however, the newly born demons did not have the ability to cross between dimensions.

At this time, the Giants appeared.

As the elder sons of the gods, the Giants had always been paying attention to all sentient life in the multiverse, and the Demon Tribe was no exception. The Giants never expected that the highly civilized Demon Tribe would be brought to the brink of collapse in just a month. Moved by this, the Giants tried to find a solution. This Crystal Poison was extremely potent, so much so that even the Giants or the Dragon Clan couldn’t resist it. It wasn’t created by gods, but gave birth in the rift of space and time.

The Giants started visiting various civilizations, trying to find a suitable solution. Finally, with the help of several civilizations, the Giants invented the Crystal Poison vaccine and also developed a treatment medicine.

This medicine can reawaken the consciousness of those infected, disallow the Crystal Poison within their bodies to infect others, and relieve the infected from their madness. Before long, a few of the Demon Tribe regained consciousness, but their infected bodies could not be changed. So, these awakened members of the Demon Tribe chose to live in symbiosis with the Crystal Poison. However, the medicine didn’t always work.

Now in the Crazy Demon Plane, a new demon tribe calls themselves the Crystal Demons, and they renamed the famous Crazy Demon Plane to Crystal Demon Plane. On a new planet in the Crystal Demon Plane, they built a new civilization. However, on their original world, a large portion of Crazy Demons still exist. The Giant’s potion couldn’t completely cure all the Demons that had gone mad, but those Demons continued to reproduce through their strong survival instincts, becoming representative creatures of the Crazy Demon Plane, Crazy Demons.

"What you are stepping on now is a Crazy Demon," the Crystal girl said. "This was my mission."

The Crystal girl comes from the royal family of the Crystal Demons and she holds the title of princess. In the Crystal Demon clan, regardless of whether one is a princess or commoner, the coming-of-age ceremony requires hunting a Crazy Demon to prove their strength.

So, the girl and her guards chose this one.

However, they underestimated the strength of the Crazy Demon. Continuous battles caused heavy losses among the girl’s guards, forcing her to use her own unique skill to destroy the Crazy Demon.

The skill was the Crystal Spear that Long Yi had seen earlier.

When the first strike hit the Crazy Demon, it was precisely the moment when Long Yi opened the planar portal. Monsters naturally fleeing from battle rushed out of the portal, and the Crazy Demon that was blown into fragments was thrown out of the plane.

Hence, the girl and her warriors pursued them.

"Oh..." Long Yi didn’t know what to say. This series of stories was quite tragic no matter how you looked at it.

"Alright, honorable rescuer, we should also leave. The sun in this world makes us uncomfortable. Do you have any other questions?" The Crystal girl asked, looking at Long Yi.

Next to her, the warrior immediately glared at Long Yi, however, obviously, this was not the time for observing and analyzing social cues.

"Actually, I have two more questions," honest Long Yi said modestly.

"Please, go on." The Crystal girl seemed to have a good temperament.

"If I say that I want to obtain a large number of Crystal Cores, will that offend you?"

"No."

"Oh, that’s great! I thought it might make you angry since we’re from the same plane."

"If I were to say I want lots of beef, would you be offended?" the Crystal girl countered.

"No!" Long Yi understood immediately. Creatures from the same plane naturally have varying importance.

"Then, will you help me? Of course, I will definitely provide appropriate compensation!" Long Yi was very pleased.

"I’m afraid that won’t be possible," the girl shook her head. "We, the Crystal Demon tribe, have already left our original planet with the help of the Giants and are now living on a new planet. There are no Crystal Cores that we can provide on our planet. Although any monster on the original planet can provide you with Crystal Cores, there are powerful Crazy Demons everywhere there. The trial mission I had this time was in an area where there are fewer Crazy Demons, even so, we still fell into a bitter battle. Without your help, it would have been unimaginably disastrous."

Long Yi nodded, finally understanding.

That means, there are actually two planets in that plane. Crystal Demon Planet is ruled by a group of new demon races who are more civilized and have symbiotically coexisted with the Crystal Poison. On the other hand, on the Crazy Demon planet, monsters rule, with powerful Crazy Demons looming everywhere. Also, the planar fissures in the human world were direct portals leading to the Crazy Demon planet.

At this thought, Long Yi realized that in the end, he has to rely on himself.

"Well, I have one last question," said Long Yi.

"Please go ahead." The girl clearly had good patience, although her accompanying warrior was about to point his crystal cannon at Long Yi’s face.

"In return for us helping you, could I exchange this Crazy Demon’s Crystal Core with you for a rank-nine monster? Oh, you should be aware of the human ranking system for monsters, right?" Long Yi asked.

Upon hearing Long Yi’s words, an extraordinarily bewildered expression appeared on the Crystal girl’s face. Not only hers but also her accompanying warrior slowly lowered his crystal cannon, transforming its shape back into a hand.

"Are you joking?" asked the Crystal girl.

"It must be a trap! Your Highness, humans are extremely cunning and there’s no way they would exchange a rank-sixteen Crazy Demon Core for a mediocre rank-nine monster!" the warrior next to the Crystal girl vented in a language Long Yi didn’t understand.

"Although I don’t understand what you’re saying, I assure you I’m not joking and am very serious about this matter." Long Yi said, "Look, we actually just want a rank-nine monster to create a vaccine for Crystal Poison, to later enter the Crazy Demon planet and hunt down some monsters for their Crystal Cores. And you wish to have this Crazy Demon’s Crystal Core to complete your trial – although I’m somewhat taking advantage of you here, I guess catching a rank-nine monster shouldn’t be too difficult for you."

The girl suddenly leaned closer to Long Yi and said seriously, "To prevent any misunderstandings because of my poor ability in Giant-tongue, I’d like to confirm with you once more. You are sure that you want to exchange this Crazy Demon’s Crystal Core that’s under our feet for a live rank-nine monster?"

Long Yi nodded his head, saying, "Yes, I’m sure." (To be continued. If you like this work, I welcome you to visit (qidian.com) and vote for recommendations and bookmarks. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile users can read on m.qidian.com.)