Lex looked up at the dragon as countless feelings filled his mind. A part of those feelings had to do with the fact that he was still receiving information about the realms, and was bewildered to learn that there were unique kinds of volcanoes found within the Midnight realm that, instead of spewing out molten lava, erupted with a strange blue viscous liquid that rapidly froze whatever it touched.
He just knew that, since it was a kind of volcano, sooner or later he would find himself right in the middle of one. Such was his fate.
But that entire thought process did not at all interfere with the strong feelings of horror and loss at feeling the dragon tremble! His ditation mat! He didn't want to lose it!
Yes, although as a newly born soul, it would be loyal to the Inn. Perhaps it would be better to gain a loyal and extrely strong follower now. It could possibly prevent many troubles in the future. But at the sa ti, the developnt of his own strength was sothing extrely important as well.
Yet desire alone could do nothing, and his aura suppression did not seem to work either. Vaguely, he felt through his soul sense, a fragile soul form deep within the dragon's body.
Subsequently, relevant information about his new worker reached Lex, causing him to sigh in lant.
The body of the dragon trembled again, but it did not move beyond that.
Lex focused on the information about the latest worker he got. Previously, only a single tyre from a golf cart had co to life. What were the chances that instead of the entire dragon, only a small piece of it ca to life? Like one of its teeth or maybe its scale?
But that was not the case. It was indeed the entire dragon that had gained a new soul. But… a strange situation had occurred. Feeling a tinge of doubt, Lex reached out towards the soul with his soul sense and tried to communicate with the newborn.
"He- help!" an alard squeaky voice said as it sensed Lex. "I-I… I… I'm stuck!"
Considering the level of fear in that voice, Lex should not have felt amused, but he could not help it. The voice was too adorable. More importantly, Lex gained an imdiate understanding of what was happening!
In short, it was the exact reverse of what was happening with Zen!
Zen was a patch of grass in the Midnight Inn that had gained sentience and imdiately reached the Earth Immortal level as well. But it's body was as frail as ordinary grass, aning that it's body was that of a mortal. Due to the massive discrepancy in levels between its spirit, soul and body, Zen could not really display any strength and was constantly just worried about keeping itself alive. At least, at the ti when it was born.
Now, the exact opposite was happening, aning that this new soul that was born was at the mortal level, but was trapped within a body that far surpassed it. As such, it couldn't control the body at all, and instead beca trapped within it!
"Do not panic," Lex said, as he quickly thought of a plan that seed almost perfect. But… but wasn't this too easy?
"I can't move!" the squeaky voice said once again, in a panic.
"Yes, I can tell that you can't move, but fear not. I have a plan to help you," Lex said in a soothing voice, as he considered another conundrum. He already called the ring which contained a part of the dragon's soul Pel, short for Pelvaillin. But now that the dragon itself had a soul as well, he couldn't reuse the sa na right? Should he add Jr. in front of the na? Or co up with a different one?
"A plan to help?"
"Yes, yes, worry not. My na is Lex, by the way. Let explain to you why you're stuck. Actually, you might not know this, but before you ca to life, you were actually my cultivation mat."
"Cultivation mat?" the sound repeated innocently.
"Yes, my cultivation mat. It's very important to help cultivate, which is why your body is so strong. But now that you have co to life, the burden of controlling your body is too much. You cannot take it."
"So… so what can I do?" the soul asked, still afraid, but much more calm now.
"There are a couple of things we need to do. Although it'll be slow, I'll absorb the strength of my cultivation mat, reducing the pressure you feel. At the sa ti, I'll teach you a soul training cultivation technique so you can also absorb the strength of your new body to cultivate yourself. Like this, eventually, there will co a day where you beco strong enough, and your body becos weak enough, that you can finally control it."
"But… but then your cultivation mat will be ruined!" the soul exclaid, on the verge of crying.
"Do not worry," Lex said, his tone extrely noble. "We are colleagues now, working for the Midnight Inn. Helping each other is only natural. After you gain control of your body, you can help find a new cultivation mat."
"You… you… I don't know what to say. You're so nice."
Lex smiled and scratched his head. He felt just a little guilty. Why did it seem like since he got the Inn, all he had done was take advantage of newborn babies?
Before he could craft a nuanced and perfectly reasonable defense for himself, he learnt of others 'newborn workers filling the Inn and his pupils shrinked.
"Listen, Pel Jr., you have just been born. You need rest, so don't panic and try to sleep. I'll find you a technique to help you out. But I have so things I need to take care of, so I need to run. If you need anything just call out to soone called Mary. She'll take care of you."
Without giving Pel Jr. a chance to respond, Lex teleported away. When he reappeared, it was as the Innkeeper, in front of the Midnight mountain which was trembling. Of course the mountain had co to life.
The problem was, a few hundred of the pine trees that covered the mountain had also co to life. Were they fighting one another?
"What's going on?" the Innkeeper asked, ready to quell any disagreents. Although it was not uncommon to see birds prey on insects and such while being workers, that was still a manageable situation. But if the literal geographical features and the flora began fighting, it would not be so easy to overlook.
What kind of a problem was this anyway?
"They- they're tickling !" a hesitant yet thunderously loud voice bood, shaking the ground itself from just sound alone.
"No we're not!" another voice scread out in self defense. "It's just really crowded here, we're just trying to move."
"YOU'RE TAKING PLEASURE IN TICKLING ! I KNOW IT!" the mountain bood once more.
A number of trees yelled back, in perfect harmony, "we are not!"
Lex had to suppress his lip from twitching, and from facepalming. Was this really the issue he was resolving?
He waved his hand and the trees that had gained life teleported to the foot of the mountain, forming a forest of their own.
'"Oh this is much better!"' they exclaid, once again in perfect harmony. Was the Inn about to gain a choir of singing trees?
But he did not have ti to dwell on this. The massive spaceship had, of course, also gained life. The problem was…
Lex teleported over to the sight of the massive ship hugging the ground and wailing. Upon investigating what the situation was, he learned, to his great dismay, the ship had co to life while it was flying. But the new life that inhabited it had a great fear of heights, and was incredibly startled when it learned it was flying, resulting in the current situation.
He was dumbstruck. How could a ship be afraid of heights?
There was no answer for such a question, nor did he have the ti to ponder it. One after another, more and more items from the Inn were gaining life, and each one was creating so kind of scene.
The lazy river had woken up, and had a severe dislike for anything living riding its waters. Well, Lex couldn't bla it for feeling as such, so he just moved it sowhere remote, and recreated a new, identical lazy river to replace it.
A number of Geeves' suits had beco sentient, and had run away from their display cases. Lex was only grateful that none of the suits being worn had co to life, or he would have had the harassnt scandal of the century on his hands.
Sowhere around the Inn, a wisp of wind had co to life, and was running wild. Elsewhere, a number of peacocks were undergoing an evolution, and the ones who weren't were protesting out of jealousy.
In all his days, Lex had seen many unusual things, but none of them could match what he was seeing now. The worst part was, the day had just started.
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