Chapter 1382 - Another Deal (1/2)

The girl tossed the quills that she was holding, and rolled the scroll in front of her before she stuffed both into a metal box. Then, she looked down at Lin Yun with a strange smile.

“So, expert from the main plane, let’s begin our transaction.”

After saying that, the girl threw the light crystal plate to Lin Yun. She then took out a new scroll, and quickly wrote on it with a quill in each hand.

A few minutes later, the girl threw the scroll out. It was a dozen meters long and full of bloody words that were written in the soul language of the Plane of the Undead, which could only be construed by soul power, and was known as the most flawless language. Even soulless creatures could sign contracts in such a language.

The cost to violate such contracts would be one’s life and will or the feeling of existence. It could simply erase all traces that proved a creature’s existence. Even the lifeless undead creatures and the soulless vampire ancestors could be bound by such contracts.

“Sir, would you like to take a look at the contract? We can talk about the plane later.”

Lin Yun’s eyes glittered. Weird brilliance surfaced in his pupils as he scanned the scroll.

“Lilith, you might have forgotten, but I offered the coordinates of the bone plane for the deal, not the plane itself. I’m not obliged to personally take you to the plane. That must be clarified in the contract.

“Also, I’m Merlin. You may call me Merlin.”

With a smile, Lilith changed the contract without wasting any time.

“Alright, Merlin. You’re right. It’s better to clarify the contract. Now, according to the contract, you should submit your coordinates.”

While Lilith talked, a thick tentacle suddenly extended out of the counter, and fetched a black stone box from one of the cabinets in the edge.

After opening the box, Lilith was suddenly stunned.

“Merlin, hold on a second. Those stupid undead creatures messed up the goods again. I need to find it.”

Another five tentacles extended from the back of the counter. They seemed to be infinitely long. All the six tentacles searched the cabinets, moving the stone boxes here and there.

Watching the scene, Lin Yun narrowed his eyes.

He suddenly thought of a natural-born extraordinary creature known as the Devil’s Secretary. They had the upper bodies of human girls and the lower bodies of octopus tentacles, which could infinitely regrow and extend as long as they had power. They had special abilities too.

When they wrote anything down, it would be 100% authentic. When anyone else read it, they wouldn’t be tricked or fooled at all. Even an ordinary person wouldn’t be tricked when they read anything written by a Devil’s Secretary.

Even an extraordinary creature couldn’t trick an ordinary person into seeing something different.

The sordid and suspicious devils only trusted such creatures when they needed to sign contracts. Only the contracts that such creatures wrote could be trusted by two devils at the same time.

That was why they were known as the Devil’s Secretaries.

Many things in the library of Heiss City were written by a Devil’s Secretary. They were the most knowledgeable beings. It was said that the library of Constance, the Lord of Wisdom, was managed by a Devil’s Secretary too.

Because the contract was written by a Devil’s Secretary, Lin Yun gave up the plan of summoning Lord Shawn, and asking him to check it. The blood was a mixture of ordinary living creatures, dead creatures, and undead creatures. There couldn’t be anything wrong.

While Lin Yun searched his memory, one of the tentacles dragged an ancient book that was more than a meter long to Lin Yun.

Two simple yet strange symbols were engraved on the cover of the book. The moment he saw the symbols, Lin Yun realized what they meant.

“The Forgotten Book! The Secretary’s Forgotten Book!”

Lin Yun looked at the book in amazement. After it was opened, he saw that each page of the book was full. However, the content was clearly not written by one person.

Some of the content was written in the soul language, some was in the undead language, and some was even in the Nesser language…

All sorts of languages could be found in the book. There were secrets, special curses, and even the locations of some treasure troves in the book…

But most of the content in the book was language. A lot of ancient wisdom and special curses were written in the book. There was even a way to kill a devil overlord…

However, while he understood them perfectly when he read them, he found that he didn’t remember anything at all except that he had just seen something incredible after she turned the page.

Still, Lin Yun was pretty certain that he didn’t see anything about the truth of Noscent’s destruction.

Unfortunately, after he read a couple of pages, the Forgotten Book was turned to a new page.

“Merlin, according to our contract, please write the coordinates of your plane in the book and complete our deal. We will give it to someone who needs it.”

Lin Yun smiled, and wrote down the coordinates of the bone plane in the Nesser language with a quill.

After he wrote down the coordinates, he felt that he forgot something. He glanced at the Forgotten Book, and knew that he had forgotten the coordinates. Or rather, the coordinates could only be seen in the Forgotten Book now.

Nobody would know the coordinates until they paid something to get them out of the Forgotten Book.

“Alright, Merlin. The deal has been completed. Are you interested in another deal? Since you know the Forgotten Book, you should know that there are a lot of secrets in the book that nobody else possibly knows.

“For a half, wait, one-third of your soul power, you’ll be allowed to read anything in the Forgotten Book. You may choose any entry that you need, and you only need to pay one-third of your soul power.

“By paying one-third of your soul power, you’ll be able to learn any secret you want to know.”

With a smile, Lin Yun closed the Forgotten Book, and slowly shook his head.

“Although I don’t remember what I read, there wasn’t anything I need. The secrets in the book are useless to me.

“However, there’s indeed another deal that we may be able to make. I need the rest of this plate, and in exchange for that, I can establish a Planar Path to that plane.”

Hardly had Lin Yun said that when the air became suffocating. Lilith turned cold, and dozens of her tentacles appeared around Lin Yun. One of the tentacles even turned into a sharp sting that aimed at Lin Yun’s head.

“Merlin, even the cunning devils don’t dare to trick me when it comes to contracts!”

Lin Yun pushed away the tentacle unconcernedly.

“Alright, Lilith, stop doing this. The contract has been signed, and the deal has been completed. We cannot go back on it. You should know the consequences of violating the contract better than I do.”

Lilith’s expression was quite awful. Because of the clarification that Lin Yun added to the contract, the deal was entirely different.

“Lilith, as I said in the very beginning, what I offered were just the coordinates of the bone plane, and what I got was an unimportant part of the broken crystal plate that had few words.

“It is not nearly as valuable a complete new, undeveloped bone plane. You must know that very well.

“The broken piece for a pair of coordinates is a fair deal. Whoever successfully builds a Planar Path with the coordinates will get a completely new bone plane and make a fortune. Considering that possibility, I’ll suffer a loss from the deal.”

Lilith slowly withdrew her tentacles, and nodded solemnly.

“You’re right. That deal was indeed not fair. We’ve completed that deal. So, let’s begin our next deal.”