The Eclipsecrawler turned her head sideways as she looked at the human, and then at the Gabana fruit he was sitting on. Even in the Primordial Garden, a Gabana fruit was not insignificant. In fact, she could count every single Gabana fruit that had ever matured within her realm, and she even knew how they were used.
It took her rely a mont's consideration to figure out which one of the fruits this was, and what had happened to it. From what she recalled, it had been purchased from her by one of the Ventura kids.
Well, she called them kids but they were actually elders among the organization's hierarchy. It didn't matter. Since she had sold it, she didn't care what happened to it, but... she really hadn't anticipated that those kids were buying it so that another, even younger kid could sit on it.
Of course, if the Eclipsecrawler had not disabled her awareness, she would instantly be able to tell what really happened to the fruit. She would sense Wu Kong's aura and, based on what she knew about him, would be able to devise what actually happened. Too bad that she didn't unseal her awareness, so she couldn't tell.
The more she looked at the human, the more she thought he was a genius. Why had she never thought of sitting on a Gabana fruit?
Hmm, probably because her arachnid body did not allow her to sit on the fruit so easily probably. But even so, the human had discovered a brand new use for the Gabana fruit! How interesting!
Lex, anwhile, continued to make the best use of his ti. In truth, it would take nearly two days before the next attack, so he could finally spare a mont to the various notifications the Inn had been sending him.
He directly ignored the ones about Dao Lords. Due to the difference in the flow of ti, things were going by much quicker in the Midnight Realm, but since the Primordial Garden was not a full fledged Mature realm, the flow of ti was not 3 tis faster. Even so, during the ti that Lex had been undergoing his tribulation, four different Dao Lords had co and t with Wu Kong.
That was a whole other issue which Lex would deal with later on. For now, he turned his attention elsewhere.
New Notification: Primordial energy detected! Activating Primordial Energy Scale!
Lex looked towards the Energy Scale. It was basically just a percentage bar for the amount of Primordial energy the system required to unlock its hidden features according to a quest he got previously. That was also a quest Lex wasn't eager to finish considering the ominous warning in the remarks by the system itself.
Fortunately, after all this ti, the scale had not even reached 1% so he had a lot of ti. He was instead hoping to connect the Inn to the Primordial Garden and unlock the Innkeepers glasses. For that he quickly bought a ticket and tore it. As long as he spent enough ti in the Garden, it would be connected to the Inn.
Lex read on.
New Notification: Ti anomaly detected! New feature unlocked: Ti Vault! Ti Vault
Stores anomalous ti energy for later use. Can currently be used in: none! Current balance: 14,442 years.
New Notification: Host realm increase detected! Existing features upgraded!
New Quest: You have encountered a Heavens Puppet. Wings like angels, arms like the devil and a halo like a saint. These incredibly rare beings, often considered empty vessels, are living servants of Heaven. Accept a Heavens Puppet as a guest at the Midnight Inn.
Quest Reward: 1 permanent Butter Knife upgrade
Quest tilimit: 361 days
Remarks: Even before history was recorded, it was still being witnessed. Your clothes being burned off during your tribulation were both witnessed and recorded.
Lex paused. A permanent Butter Knife upgrade. The stronger he got, the less that was tempting, but he could not ignore that an attack capable of crippling a Demi-Dao Lord was incredibly reassuring. If he could naturally upgrade his Butter Knife to such a point...
Lex took in a deep breath and put that thought aside. Let alone the fact that Lex had no idea how to contact and invite a Heavens puppet to his inn, even if he did, he would not focus on that right now. These were matters for later. He needed to see if the system had sothing that could help him in his current predicant.
Unfortunately, no matter how he searched through the notifications, he saw nothing that could help him out imdiately. Instead, he saw another, very troubleso quest - one that he needed to pay a whole lot more attention to. Chain quest initiated!
Quest Background: The universe is facing troubled tis as countless Realm Wars have been initiated. The fate of trillions changes every mont, and hope can provide neither shelter nor warmth. The Midnight Inn, however, can
provide both!
Quest 1: Re-enable universewide teleportation capabilities!
Quest ti limit: 26 days.
Quest failure punishnt: Shutdown of non-critical system features for 1 year, 300,000 MT.
Quest Reward: Tavern control upgrade!
Remarks: You can run, but since you have a habit of burning your clothes, that will show everyone your butt!
Lex grimaced. The system was always annoying him with its remarks, but it was actually the quests which would always get to him. Enabling universe wide teleportation would, most likely, end up causing a massive flood of refugees into his Inn, causing him to provoke countless forces.
The problem was, while the punishnt for failing the quest sounded bad, he had a feeling that things weren't so simple. He felt like the teleportation abilities might be forcibly enabled even if he kept them locked.
That headache, alongside the constant Dao Lords... Lex grimaced. It seed like he would need to bring the Innkeeper out of his seclusion and trick so people, or else his tenure as a Heaven Immortal might be really short.
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