The Tiny Lina Maya

Chapter 49 - Crystal Stone

"In this world there is no such thing as an eternal enemy, only eternal interests. As long as the interests given are large enough, they can be our allies" Uriel said. 

"What do you mean?" Wiro was confused not understanding Uriel's intentions.

Then Uriel took out the Black Gem Pendant.

"After you meet the chief of the Mustang tribe, show him this."

Simultaneously, Wiro and Lina stared at the rock.

Wiro was surprised.

"Is this a high-tier crystal stone? Isn't it only obtainable in a First-class Beast City?! How could you have such a precious stone?"

"Lina took him" said Uriel.

Then Wiro immediately looked towards Lina, but Lina's face instead looked like she was confused thinking.

Lina was confused as she felt very familiar with that Black Gem Pendant, but she could not remember where it came from.

His memory of that. With Lina falling ill the other day, she accidentally forgot about the stone's origin.

But his intuition told him that the Black Gem Pendant was very important to him and he also did not want to throw it away.

"Can you give it back to me after you use it?" Lina asked. 

In a very simple way, Uriel promised, "Of course, this is yours, nobody can take it."

As long as the Pendant was returned to her, Lina was relieved.

Then Uriel continued to say to Wiro.

"Tell the Mustang chieftain, that there were many high-grade crystals in the Stone Wolf clan, but they had all been robbed by the Black Water Wolf clan. If the Mustang tribe wants to cooperate with you, just give them all the crystals."

Hearing what Uriel said, Lina immediately asked, "But we don't have any crystal stones. What will we give to the people of the Mustang tribe?"

Uriel then smiled and said, "On that, they should ask the Black Water Wolf clan. After all, it was a crystal taken by the Black Water Wolf tribe. Where is that stuff hidden? Only they know. Does that have anything to do with us?"

Suddenly Lina felt that this handsome and gentle man next to her, had a completely dark side.

Wiro immediately made his decision.

"Let's do what you say!"

...........

Wiro came down the mountain, crashing in the wind and snow. Secretly, he met the leader of the Mustang clan.

When Wiro submitted a proposal for cooperation, the head of the Mustang clan was slightly interested, but eventually refused.

Although the Mustang clan hated the Black Water Wolf clan, but according to them, the Stone Wolf clan was not necessarily good. The Mustang Clan did not want to chase away the Tiger that was at the front door, but instead let the Wolf in from the back door.

Wiro had also hoped that the other party would have this kind of reaction, then calmly, he took out the Black Gem Pendant and held onto the necklace rope while slightly shaking it.

"Do you know what this is?"

As soon as the head of the Mustang clan saw the Black Gem Pendant, he immediately opened his horse's eyes and asked nervously, "High grade crystal..? How could you have such a precious crystal like this..?"

Then Wiro tried to explain what Uriel had said.

"We used to have a lot of crystal stones like this, but they were all taken by the Black Water Wolf tribe. If you are willing to cooperate with us, all these stones will be yours. Do you think I'm wrong if I take back our ingredients that they stole?"

While listening to Wiro's words, the Mustang chief constantly moved his head left and right, with his unblinking horse eyes, following the movements of the Black Stone held by Wiro and repeatedly swallowing his own saliva.

"Such a noble stone, if it could be owned by the people of the Mustang tribe, we would definitely become the most powerful tribe in this Black River. In the future, I can exchange all kinds of rare materials for that stone and can even obtain the qualifications to stay in First-class Beast City."

Just by thinking of that alone, the Mustang chieftain became extremely excited.

As soon as he gritted his teeth, he immediately agreed to Wiro's cooperation proposal.

"I agree to cooperate!"

Then Wiro kept back his Black Gem Pendant and smiled then said, "Your choice is very wise."

...........

Wiro returns to Stone Mountain and returns the Pendant to Lina.

He stroked the Black Gem and kept thinking about how he could get the Pendant.

In his mind suddenly came a voice that he had not heard for a long time.

"Ting Tong's!

"Congratulations, you have triggered a special task!"

"Gather crystal stones with five different colors."

"After the task is completed, you can get a special gift."

"Hm??" Lina's stunned.

This was the first time he had triggered a special mission.

"Special mission? Whatisit? What special gift is that? Sounds awesome!" Lina wondered in her heart. Then he asked Wiro, "Is this kind of crystal hard to obtain?"

Just because it was noticed by the little girl, with her bright eyes, Wiro's heart became like a flowering. If he were to change back to his original form, his Wolf tail would definitely be lifted up into the sky while shaking, as a sign that he was very happy.

He then raised his chin, in his haughty style he replied, "This colored Crystal Stone, is a special type of Energy Gem. The Spirit Beast could absorb the energy from these Crystals to strengthen themselves. Almost all locations that could produce Crystal Stones, were controlled by the First Class Beast City. It was very difficult for an ordinary tribe, to be able to obtain a colored Crystal Stone like this."

Hearing Wiro's explanation, Lina was disappointed, "If I wanted to collect crystal stones of five different colors, that would be very difficult?"

"What do you want so many crystal stones for?" Ask Wiro.

Lina was silent and could not answer. Wiro who saw Lina was now just silent and did not ask anything more, then in his casual style, he gave the leather bag containing the crystal to Lina.

"Catch."

Lina quickly caught the leather bag. Then he opened it and saw that there were ten Crystal Stones inside.

Everything was transparent, the crystals were colorless and only about the size of a fingernail.

Then Lina asked, "Does this also include the Crystal Stone?"

The voice in Lina's mind replied, "Yes."

Wiro who thought Lina was asking him also replied, "Of course, it is also one of the Crystal Stones! Crystal stones that have a color are very rare and difficult to obtain. Currently, most of the coins circulating among the tribes, were Crystal coins already formed from this colorless Crystal Stone."

Lina suddenly recalled when she went to the market with Uriel, she also took out the Crystal coins and bought a lot of items.

It turned out that this Crystal coin was money.

Lina took out one Crystal coin and returned the leather bag to Wiro. 

"I only need one crystal."

Wiro frowned and said, "I gave it to you, you take it."

Previously, Wiro had already moved all his food and animal skins into the basement of Lina's house. Only this Crystal coin remained, which had been with him all along. Because now Lina was already his partner, he also gave this Crystal Stone to her.

But Lina instead returned the Crystal coins belonging to Wiro.

Wiro immediately said, "When spring comes, I will search for as many game animals as I can and I will exchange all the food for the Crystal Stone, I can find as many as you want."

Lina quickly waved her hand, "No need, it's your prey. Keep it to yourself."

Hearing that, made Wiro unhappy.

"Are you looking down on me?!"

Lina looked at him as she said stuttering, "T t no.."

"If you don't look down on me, why won't you accept my things?" Wiro asked Lina angrily.

Lina didn't understand the point and couldn't answer.

Seeing Lina who was not speaking anymore, further affirming her guess, she immediately turned around and left.

He ran so fast, that Lina could not catch up to him.

Lina who could not catch up to him, could only keep the bag containing the Crystal coins and he would keep it well. He'll return it when Wiro wants to use it.