The Innkeeper

Chapter 1374 I want to be...

chapter 1374 i want to be...

this time, it did not take long for powell to return, and this time he looked extremely excited, and also a little tense.

lex did not show it, but he suddenly raised his guard, as his instincts suddenly warned him that he was about to encounter a critical moment - one that would directly impact his entire life!

lex could not comprehend why buying a bunch of items could lead to something that could alter his entire life, but it did not take a genius to detect that it had something to do with why powell looked so tense.

internally, he just sighed. he was just trying to focus on his inn for goodness sake. why did everything have to be so complicated?

"i have good news," powell said, his voice filled with excitement though lex could easily tell it was feigned.

"we have about 99.8% of all the materials you require on hand, and can easily acquire most of the remaining ones in a couple of days at most. there is only one item that is slightly complicated to procure, and i cannot give you an estimate of when i will be able to get my hands on it.

"but fret not. considering your vip status at the emporium, i will personally go out and try to get it. you can check back in two days when the other items are ready to see if i have it

"also, we need to discuss your payment. although it is highly valuable, considering the number of items you are buying, the amount is a little insufficient."

this was actually the first time ever lex haggled over prices like this at the emporium. essentially, the items lex provided had no real price, and their value could only be estimated. with their worth not having a fixed value, mostly because they were priceless, putting a price on them was difficult. the emporium naturally wanted more, and though lex could pay more, he wanted to increase the value of his possessions. this, a fierce bargaining session ended with powell coming face to face with lex's inner capitalist for the first time ever.

eventually, they reached an agreement, and powell handed lex a number of spatial bags which contained most of the items he requested. he went through the bags with his spirit sense, and in one of them encountered a lockbox with a few words engraved on it that read, 'do not open in emporium'.

lex showed no abnormal reaction upon sighting that, and merely nodded, telling powell he would see him in a couple of days before returning to the inn.

yet when he was at the inn, the feeling from his instincts heightened. it seemed that whatever was in the lockbox would result in a critical choice in his life that would alter his future. one way or another, he had to make a choice.

but since he didn't sense any danger from the lockbox, lex returned to his apartment and took it out.

that meant that this was a critical, life altering decision.

"i just want to be hokage... i mean, i just want to be a simple innkeeper. why so many obstacles?"

he now finally understood why powell had seemed nervous. clearly, he did not know whether or not lex would follow through with the instructions in the box.

but, lex decided to do it. although he wanted to avoid any unnecessary troubles, that did not mean he was afraid of them.

over the next short while, lex went over all the items he had bought, and planned out his construction of the second tavern. he couldn't really begin until he had all the materials, but he could prepare.

he picked out a distant spot in the midnight realm, outside the midnight inn and far away from any intelligent races. he had a feeling that the expedited method to grow a void stabilization sequoia tree might leave this place drained of all energy for a while, almost like a dead zone.

lex suddenly paused, and had a thought. was this the reason why earth was a dead zone? had someone refined an incredibly powerful treasure, or nurtured some incredible plants there at some point in history, leaving that place devoid of all energy?

once again, his instincts were silent, not providing him an answer. normally, an immortal could intuit simple things just based on their advanced level, yet in this lex found himself without an answer.

lex groaned as he added investigating the secret of dead zones on his list of things to do once he was no longer avoiding unnecessary trouble.

once the specified time was near, lex teleported to the origin realm. perhaps because he had been recently thinking about it, he could not help but teleport to earth.

instantly, he was hit with a wave of nostalgia as he saw the blue planet, though it had changed a lot.

in that instant, though, his instincts began telling him that earth hid a few more secrets that no one had uncovered just yet. lex put it on the back of his mind.

how could he not know that a planet that imprisoned a demi-dao lord for thousands of years surely hid some super secrets? but now was not the time to dwell on these things.

he pulled out the talisman, and used it.

lex felt himself being teleported away, and did not resist. it was time to find out what all the fuss was about.