Giselle entertained the thought for a mont, but dismissed it quickly enough. There was no reason to risk it.
"Thank you for the offer, I will keep it in mind," she said politely. "If you truly wish to assist , then perhaps you can keep an eye out for a few items I'm in search of but have no leads on. If you find any information on them, you can just inform of it and leave the retrieval to ."
"Sure, why not?" Lex said nonchalantly, sensing that she wanted to keep a distance between them. "I co across a wide variety of things in my line of work. Just give the list and I'll keep my eye out."
Truthfully, Lex was quite confident in being able to find whatever she needed - until he saw the list. It did not help that he had no idea what so of the items were, and while he understood what so of them were, had no idea how to find them.
"Also, please do not make use of information gathering organizations or anything of the sort to search for these. Just the knowledge that soone might be looking for these items itself might lead to trouble."
Lex raised an eyebrow and looked back at the list. Quintessential sand? Journal VI of Matriarch Parween? Cotton eyes? Ruins of the Eldrim Pantheon? These were only so of the items on the list that Lex could vaguely understand what they might be.
"Is it alright if I look up information on these things myself? I must admit, I'm not familiar with so of these."
Giselle hesitated for a mont, as if thinking about it.
"If you must, then it's best if you only look into one, or at most two items. Individually, these an nothing, but if you look into them all and soone draws an association between them, then it might an trouble - for you and I both."
Got it, so mysterious background and backstory. Giselle was really living an interesting life.
"Fine, in that case, if I happen to co across details of any of these items, I'll try to contact you. Likewise, if you run into a lead on Defilers or Defiler cores, then you know where to find ."
Giselle nodded, and just like that they ca to an understanding. Lex couldn't help but feel that their exchange had been sowhat… lacking. But there was no point in dwelling on it now.
There was nothing really left to discuss, and since Lex interrupted her get together with Liaz, he excused himself so that they could continue with whatever they were doing. A few monts after he left, Liaz returned and sat back opposite to Giselle.
"Do you believe now?" Giselle asked, her expression becoming neutral and her voice even.
"Fine, I won't be able to fight him. I could feel it in my bones just standing in front of him. But this is an exchange, not a donation. You still need to help get my hands on true dragon's blood sohow if you want my help."
The atmosphere between the two did not seem nearly as friendly as they had made it out to be in front of Lex, not that it mattered. Giselle knew that she could probably ask Lex for help with the dragon's blood. But the whole reason she had given him a list of things basically impossible to find was so that he couldn't get involved with her. It was for the best.
"Give three weeks, and I'll get you in the blood. You just focus on fulfilling your part of the deal."
Lex, anwhile, had gone to see soone else. Vera and her mother were basically full ti residents of the Inn now.
Between the two of them, and Vera's services she made available through the Guild room, they had enough MP to live here for tens of thousands of years without a problem.
When he visited the house that they had basically permanently rented, Vera was sitting on the floor, painting her nails while Kristine, her mother, was reading the latest newsletter from the Newsroom.
The knock on the door surprised them both, especially since Vera hadn't expected anyone to co. The fact that she literally didn't know she was about to be visited by soone was an insane abnormality, but it brought her only excitent!
There was only one person who could ss with her divination ability so much, and it was her favorite custor! She rushed to the door and opened it to find Lex, just the person she thought it would be!
Honestly, he was weird. Most of the ti, she couldn't see anything related to him whatsoever. The few tis she did end up seeing him in her visions, it just involved herself telling him random things which would end up getting her massive rewards.
In fact, the mont she laid eyes on him, she just had another vision of herself sharing so crucial information with him.
"Lex! What brings you here?" she asked with a massive smile. Of course she could guess what actually brought him here, and it absolutely improved her mood.
"I hope I'm not disturbing you. I was just running a few errands so I thought I'd drop by. I owe you quite a bit for all your advice so far, so I thought I'd get around to paying you a bit."
He handed her a spatial bag containing the Phoenix feather, so Hearts blood of the Jorlam, a few dragon scales, so dragons blood, so ores and treasures from the Trials of Eternity, a couple of treasures from Lovers Island, and a few miscellaneous treasures he looted from the countless Earth immortals he killed back during the Trial itself.
"To be honest, your advice has helped quite a lot, and I'm pretty sure it saved my sister's life too, so expect more of where that ca from."
Vera only smiled and took the bag without any formality.
"No problem! By the way, I had another vision. If you have any plans to visit any angels coming up, you might want to delay them for a while. Your… popularity with angels after Lovers Island has shot up quite a bit, and it might actually beco troubleso for you if you approach them any ti soon."
Lex was confused by Vera's statent. What did Lovers Island have to do with angels? He did not believe for a second that he was so heartthrob that angels would suddenly find themselves infatuated with him.
He was completely ignorant of the fact that how easily he had resolved Thaliel's cursed wings was borderline miraculous, which had made angels of all levels keep an eye on him. In fact, the only reason he hadn't been sward by angels in the first place was because of the countless devils that filled the Inn.
Inadvertently, the Inn had beco a place that angels wanted to avoid just because of how much the devils loved going there, thereby saving Lex from a great headache. As it happened, the angels were spending a lot of ti doing research on Lex's relationship with devils, trying to co up with ways to distance him from them so that he may co closer to them. Without knowing it, he had beco just one more reason why angels and devils seed incapable of getting along.
Lex could not think of the reason why he might want to avoid angels, but he knew better than to question Vera. So far, she hadn't led him astray.
"Vera dear, why don't you invite your friend in," said Kristine who suddenly appeared behind her daughter.
Kristine was a re mortal in the Golden core realm, yet her gaze gave Lex chills. It was the gaze of a mother looking for a son-in-law!
Fortunately, before Lex could make an excuse to leave, Vera just slamd the door shut. Even though the houses in the Inn had perfect sound insulation, through his system, Lex couldn't help but peer in to see what was happening.
Vera was once again fighting her mother, telling her that she was going to marry an Oolin no matter what! Her mother, on the other hand, had other ideas.
Lex made himself scarce. Although he was not afraid of combat, this was one fight he did not want to get involved in.
"Alright Mary, it looks like my schedule has opened up," Lex said returning to his office. "We can put the matter about Heaven and Hell on the back burner for now, although we should make a list of devils we can consult about how to make a Hell. Sothing tells 1000 years to make a Heaven or Hell is a little short. But that's not our first priority at the mont."
"What is our first priority?" she asked, still in her angel costu.
"Well, I think it's ti I negotiate a few things with the system again. We're going to be changing how the Midnight Inn works from now on."
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