Chapter 85: Just Take It, It’s Just Some Shiny Stuff

Seeing Iris rich like that, the happiest person was Leo, no one else. Before, he wasn’t a resource manager, but during the resistance, he’d been through enough scarcity and hardship. He understood clearly the importance of Iris’s mountain of treasures for future actions.

After showing off, Iris put everything back into her bag. At the same time, she shot Michael a glare that made him jump.

“What are you looking at? Aren’t you going to give me a hand?”

Michael rolled his eyes at her. Clearly, she was the one who made a mess, so why was she making him clean up? What was more annoying was why she skipped Leo and only targeted him.

But right now, he also didn’t dare curse her. Earlier, she actually hit him until his head bled. More importantly, that cup. And of course, he was afraid she’d ruin the treasure, not afraid of her hitting him.

The more he thought, the more he regretted it. The golden cup was originally very beautiful; now it’s all dented. The material was still there, but the aesthetics were completely gone.

“Where did you get all these treasures from? Moreover, not all of them are raw materials. There are many finely crafted items here.”

He was quite curious about the origin of these things. Looking at these exquisite things, they didn’t look like something a muscle-bound dragon could make.

Iris immediately noticed the disdain in Michael’s eyes. She grabbed a ruby and threw it straight at his head when he wasn’t paying attention.

This time she used a bit less force. Of course, it wasn’t because she was afraid of hurting Michael. She was thinking about her energy herbs. Even though she had a whole mountain of them, wasting them on a bastard like him was annoying.

“F*ck!”

Michael raised his middle finger in a ’friendly’ gesture straight at Iris’s face. This time she didn’t throw very hard, so he had the strength to curse like that.

Iris didn’t say anything, just smirked and then quickly rushed right in front of Michael. In his surprise, she grabbed his middle finger and bent it backwards, then twisted it back.

She did it so delicately that his finger didn’t break but it hurt extremely badly. Maybe the bone inside cracked a little, but Michael’s recovery ability was very good, so she didn’t think it was a problem.

“You’re a god’s successor. Can’t you behave a little elegantly? Don’t embarrass us, okay?” Iris shook her head and sighed, utterly fed up.

Michael heard those ’wise words’ from her and immediately stopped feeling the pain in his finger. Instead, his eyelids twitched… no, his whole face twitched.

“Did you even hear what you just said? Behave elegantly? How can you use that word for yourself?”

He felt both his ears and his intelligence were deeply insulted. You could say Leo would become an elegant person, but Iris, whether in the past, present, or future, did not fit the word ’elegant’.

“Want it to break for real?”

Iris clearly wasn’t listening to a word Michael said. She just needed to squint, smile, and gently ask one question, and Michael immediately shut up.

“Yeah, this is right. This is how a god should talk. Gotta understand the principles of how to behave and treat people. Now help me clean up.”

Feeling that her hand was no longer holding his middle finger, Michael could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Of course, he wasn’t surrendering to her. He was just scared because he temporarily didn’t have enough strength. Right now, he just had to swallow his pride and bend down to start gathering the treasures again.

A diamond ring appeared in front of him. Feeling annoyed right now, he wanted to steal some of Iris’s stuff to vent his anger.

So he took the ring and put it in his pants pocket. In his heart, he wondered how much this thing would be worth in this world.

Not even a few seconds later, he felt his plan wasn’t thorough. What if the people on this continent didn’t like diamonds? Then what he was holding would just be trash, right?

So, using his intelligence, Michael started ’accidentally taking’ a few more items like: gold, rubies, jade, emeralds, and many other types of gems.

His tiny pants pocket, of course, didn’t have a huge capacity. Not long after, it was bulging with the pile of stuff Michael had ’accidentally taken’.

He’d had his head down picking up stuff this whole time, so Michael didn’t know what the hell was going on around him. Suddenly, he felt like he was being stared at by something weird, so he warily looked up.

Iris faced Michael and didn’t rush over to beat him up. She just smirked and continued cleaning up the pile of treasures on the ground.

Her attention was only on the holy herbs, energy herbs, and a few especially beautiful gemstones.

Michael was stunned by her strange behavior. Normally, if she wasn’t going to hit him, she should at least grab something and throw it at his head, right?

“Can I really get it?”

“Except for the energy herbs, just take a bunch of those shiny things and play with them. I have tons of that stuff, although most of it I left in my territory. Later, when you’re strong enough, just run over there and take it.”

Iris was a god, not an idiot. There was no reason for her to stuff all the treasures she’d gathered for millions of years into a bag. Although she brought quite a bit along, the part hidden in her territory was even more.

Hearing about a huge treasure hoard, Leo and Michael raised their eyebrows a little but their attitude showed they didn’t really care. Compared to that, the bag Iris was carrying was much more practical.

Why hadn’t such a huge fortune been taken over by some kingdom after all these years? One, it was hidden extremely thoroughly; two, there were extremely powerful beings guarding it. Of course, the most likely scenario was a combination of both.

When Leo heard her say they could keep these gemstones, he immediately took off his shirt. He used that shirt full of patches as a bag and gathered a huge pile of gold and gems.

“You don’t have a problem with me taking this much, huh?”

Although he asked that, his hands kept picking up treasures. It wasn’t that he was greedy. He was considering the possibility that Iris might lose that bag.

“Hmph, you don’t need to ask my permission for this trivial stuff.”

Iris put her hands on her hips, the corner of her mouth lifting slightly. Besides strength, now she could also crush both gods financially.

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