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Chapter 690: Chapter 79 Aiwass’s Residence Chapter 690: Chapter 79 Aiwass’s Residence After obtaining the Fruits of Sin Thorn, the Pure White Saintess quickly hurried off, seemingly eager to verify some conjecture of hers.

Meanwhile, Cardinal Matilda left with Aiwass, preparing to go downstairs to their living quarters.

Generally speaking, this should have been Pure White’s job.

Cardinal Matilda usually wouldn’t leave the Department of Sanctity.

But since Pure White had private matters to attend to, the blue-haired Cardinal chose to watch over Aiwass for her.

Whether as a student, a guest, an Archbishop, or the key figure able to resolve Amberficate…

one cannot simply give him an address and abandon him outright.

“Remember this place, Aiwass,”

Matilda stepped onto the elevator with Aiwass and explained, “There are twelve sets of these elevators on each floor.

You can go to the one closest to you and wait.

Each set has one going up and one going down—golden ones only go up, black ones only go down.

They will stop for three minutes on each floor.

“If it’s too crowded, wait outside for the next one, don’t push.

Even though there are barriers for protection, it is still very dangerous.”

Matilda guided Aiwass with patience, like teaching a child to ride an elevator for the first time.

Aiwass nodded upon hearing this.

Indeed, this contraption looked dangerous.

This “elevator” had handrails, but was not entirely enclosed.

It looked more like a protruding observation balcony, and it was quite intimidating.

The timing device here was highly visualized as well.

The elevator wasn’t a physical entity, but a kind of barrier.

Its metallic part was actually a ring, and it looked more like a force field generator.

The dark golden illuminated patterns crawled like vines on the black force field, gradually filling up the black disc-like field.

Once it was filled, the disc detached from the ring and began descending with a flash of dark golden light.

It descended quite quickly.

After a brief delay, it plummeted as if in free fall.

The intense sensation of weightlessness made Lily somewhat scared—or rather, tense enough to clutch Aiwass’s arm.

Aiwass, on the other hand, had no reaction to it, and even felt somewhat nostalgic.

Soon, they began to slow down abruptly.

Then they gently came to a stop at the twelfth floor.

Some people left here, while others entered from outside.

Lily finally let out a sigh of relief.

Aiwass could feel the sweat in her palm.

He glanced at Sherlock subconsciously and found him surprisingly calm, merely holding his arms with a hint of boredom.

“Your luggage has already been sent to your living quarters by the guards,”

Cardinal Matilda spoke gently, instructing like a mother, “Your living quarters are on the fifth Ring, while the place of study is on the ninth Ring.

It’s not that we don’t want to prepare quarters for you on the ninth Ring…

but mostly Elves live above that, and you might not adapt to the Elves’ living rhythm and ways.

Plus, there might be some Elves who are quite xenophobic.

“From the fifth Ring downward, currency can be used normally.

The environments of the sixth and seventh Rings are rather primitive; don’t go there if it’s not necessary.

There aren’t any guards stationed there, so it may be dangerous.

“If you want to buy something, you can go to the first Ring, where there is the most variety.

If you can’t carry your purchases, you can hire a Troll to help you transport them.

They are very strong, and the hiring cost is not expensive.

“The fifth Ring is geared towards research, so it’s already quite quiet compared to below.

If you want to live on a lower level, you can tell me, or you can tell Pure White.

We can also arrange for you to move to a lower level.

“Every Ring has quite a large living area.

If you want to travel, you can find some protruding houses in the middle of each Ring.

They are near the elevators.

Just like the elevators, they keep rotating, and you can use them to quickly get to a certain sector.

Then, go further inside or outside to find your destination.

It will be closer this way.

“Remember not to harm The Great Tree; that is an absolute Taboo.

That’s why combat scale is strictly limited here…

If you have disputes with others, try to resolve them without damaging the floor.”

At this point, Cardinal Matilda looked at Aiwass, then glanced at Sherlock, “Try not to use fire abilities.

This isn’t like outside; the floor cannot withstand burning.

If the floor is damaged, immediately seek an Elf Archbishop nearby to heal the floor, and do not flee—the Pope is watching you.”

“Healing the floor?”

Sherlock suddenly spoke up, “Does this also belong to…

‘Advanced Divine Art’?”

“Correct.”

Matilda nodded, “Illumination is actually a healing skill that can only be used on beings with lifespan, emotions, and intelligence.

Therefore, Illumination cannot help plants recover from injuries, nor can it restore the remains left by Angel Envoys.

“Healing the divine body already belongs to Advanced Divine Art, so it’s very troublesome.”

She smiled at Aiwass and said, “I have high hopes for you.

You might actually be able to learn Advanced Divine Art.”

They chatted, and soon the elevator descended to the fifth floor.

Matilda led Aiwass to the “Perpetual Ring,” and Aiwass, driven by curiosity, asked, “When do I start learning?”

“No rush.”

Matilda replied offhandedly.

She said with a smile, “Enjoy yourself a bit; it’s not often you come here.

You can wander around a bit…

Oh, right.

You didn’t buy the ‘pass manual’ when you were at the first Ring, did you?

That thing is quite expensive.”

“I didn’t buy it,” Sherlock answered.

“Good you didn’t,” said Matilda, “From the first to the fifth Ring, every inn and residence provides a free pass manual.

But they’re all in Elvish…

You understand Elvish, don’t you?”

By the end of her sentence, she had already switched to speaking in Elvish.

Previously, only Pure White and Yanis had used Elvish when speaking, as well as during the ceremony when Aiwass was accepted as an Archbishop.

Otherwise, to accommodate Aiwass, everyone spoke in the language of Avalon.

“…Which means,” Sherlock said with an ironic tilt of his lips, “those Goblins are actually taking these freely provided items, translating them, and then selling them for money, right?@@novelbin@@

Isn’t that considered fraud, Cardinal Matilda?”

“It’s not.

Because there are indeed people who don’t understand Elvish.”

Cardinal Matilda shook her head: “So there are people who need it—we can only guarantee that you definitely get something after you pay.

But as for how much that thing should be sold for, we can’t manage that, nor can we possibly do so.

“Since you have to consider transport cost, labor cost, attrition, and other factors, pricing based on the commodity’s own value wouldn’t be fair.

And we have no intention of studying such rapidly changing matters, so we leave that to the market itself to regulate.

If someone is selling something at too high a price, there will definitely be others who offer a cheaper version.

“What we’re responsible for is preventing violence and fraud.

For example, monopolizing a product through violence, or not giving the product after taking the money, or vice versa—not giving money after taking the product—or playing word games, providing something different from what was sold.

“So when you go shopping, make sure to check the prices carefully.

It’s impossible to get a refund if you find something too expensive or unnecessary after buying it.”

At this point, Cardinal Matilda smiled faintly, “On this matter, Cardinal Loki has done some research.

He believes that fraud is necessary—it’s precisely because fraud exists that people’s conversations and actions are flexible.

It’s a kind of social lubrication, leaving room for flexibilities and allowances, and it also encourages people to consider the words and deeds of others.”

“Indeed,” Aiwass nodded, “If a society had absolutely no fraud, it would only diminish people’s thinking abilities, but it couldn’t eliminate ‘inadvertent misinformation’.

Such as forgetfulness or misunderstanding.”

“Regarding miscommunication between people, Cardinal Igor has an interesting view…”

As Cardinal Matilda chatted, she led Aiwass and the group to their accommodation.

It wasn’t a particularly big house.

In fact, it was even smaller than the little villa that Princess Isabel had given Aiwass.

From the outside, it looked like a two-story wooden house, with each floor appearing to be about eighty square meters.

There was naturally no courtyard, swimming pool, or garden.

But what puzzled Sherlock was that the house’s door had neither a lock nor a handle.

He tentatively reached out to push the door, only to find that as his hand approached the door, a segment of vine suddenly grew out to form a handle.

This startled Sherlock a bit.

His hand froze in mid-air.

Aiwass, however, directly grabbed the handle, turned it, and entered the house.

Once they all entered, the door closed behind them.

From the inside, the door still looked smooth, without any handle.

“Only the few lodgers and the Cardinal Archbishop will see the handle when you approach the door,”

Cardinal Matilda said with a laugh, “This is also a kind of security mechanism—although it’s not of much significance here within the Holy Nation, where it’s generally absolutely safe.

“This is a newly built room and hasn’t had any previous tenants, so you don’t have to worry about anything left behind; everything here is new.

There are four bedrooms in total, two on each floor.

There is also one bathroom, one dining room, and one study on each floor.”

As she spoke, she led the group towards the bedroom on the first floor closest to the outside and turned the doorknob.

She introduced proudly, “These wooden cabinets are thanks to The Great Tree.

You can put food that you haven’t finished in them, or you can put clothes in them.

When it functions as a wardrobe, it can automatically clean your clothes, provided they aren’t too dirty; and it can also serve as a food storage cabinet, preserving for about half a month to a month, keeping fresh fruit from wilting and meat from rotting…”

Cardinal Matilda spoke, casually opening one of the cabinets.

——The very next moment, the fresh corpse of an Elf clattered out of the storage cabinet.