The Innkeeper

Chapter 1553  The worth of 10,000 MT

Within the groupchat for system hunters - the very one that the two Rhinocentaurs were basic members of - there were channels for very senior level members.

In the channel with the highest level of security, one of the oldest, most mysterious members of the groupchat started to type.

Although he said no words, just the symbol of him typing was enough to get the attention of all members who were paying attention. After all, every time he spoke, something major happened in the universe, and each time there was a system behind it.

The last time this user had spoken, the entrance to the Nightmare Realm was discovered, leading to one of the most brutal wars in modern history.

Everyone waited with bated breaths, wondering what secret he had learned now. When he finally sent a message, however, everyone was surprised. It went against the very purpose of the groupchat!

SingleForever55: There's a system convergence event happening right now. However, we must not try to locate it, or try to infiltrate it. Ignore this warning at your own peril!

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The Henali, who had donned the appearance of an otter, seemed extremely irritable. He seemed even more vexed than Lex at the misbehaving guests, though Lex began to suspect his reasons were not as noble as he portrayed them to be.

In the projection - for which Lex needed to have a talk with him - he had said that the behavior of those from the Origin realm was embarrassing the realm on the universal stage. Now, ordinarily, Lex would believe that to be true to a certain extent. Yet this otter seemed to have body language that was too easily readable.

The otter was irritated that people had distracted it from what it really wanted to do. As for what that was…

Lex watched oddly as the otter stepped into the patisserie and queued up in line, waiting anxiously while staring at the menu. A few moments later, when it was his turn, the otter ordered a cappuccino and a croissant, and then eagerly waited for his order to be completed.

Lex sighed, and then teleported over. He gave the otter the courtesy of having the conversation before his order arrived, so he wouldn't be distracted during it.

"Hey, new guy," said Lex as he walked up to him, still wearing the Invincible Tyrant mask. "I'm going to warn you only once. Don't threaten innocent guests. That's not how we do things at the Inn."

The otters expression instantly fouled, and he looked at Lex as if he had blasphemed against him. Yet to his immense surprise, he was greeted only with indifferent eyes. Neither his personal strength, nor his identity as a Henali, nor his latest identity as a Inn guard intimidated the masked man.

"As a Henali, it is within my rights to govern the residents of the Origin realm," he stated bluntly.

"And as an employee of the Midnight Inn it is my right to not give a shit. Do not threaten guests of the Inn again. If they're breaking the rules, that's one thing. But if you threaten them just because you're too impatient, then go find another gig."

The otter's expression turned incredibly solemn, staring at the masked man with a dangerous glare in his eyes. Unfortunately for the otter, it had chosen the wrong target. More importantly, no matter what kind of expression he made, he still just looked like a cute otter to Lex.

The two entered into a standoff, and just as it seemed like it would turn into something much more serious, the otters order was complete.

"Fine, fine, I'll play nice," the otter immediately exclaimed and hopped on over to grab his order. He had to enjoy his treat while it was still fresh.

Lex shook his head, certain that the otter hadn't actually taken his instructions seriously, and teleported away. He did not have the time to spare on spoiled kids.

Fortunately, though, the situation at the Inn had calmed down a lot after that projection, and as more and more guards began to appear, he finally had the time to focus on other things.

Yet Lex did not rush to handle his other problems just yet.

He had come to rely on the system many times, and he knew that the abilities it boasted were much too powerful for the meager amounts of MP he usually spent. Heck, he got himself a Celestial level bodyguard all those years ago, and he hadn't even spent much MP. Now though, he had spent over 10,000 MT all at once, all on the event's security no less!

If all he got were guards, he would be seriously disappointed. The real reason he had spent so much all at once was not because he suddenly panicked.

He was much too experienced to panic so easily. No, the reason he spent it all was because he was testing the limits of the system. A fight between two Celestial Immortals was enough to attract the attention of over a 100 billion guests from across the Origin realm. But since one of those two fighters was actually someone who worked directly for the Henali, Lex actually expected that a Dao Lord from the Henali might show up.

Never before had Lex thought to challenge a Dao Lord. In fact, he still didn't think of it, since his system had been pretty clear in stating that it was still weak in the face of the Dao. Even so, he wanted to see what it could do.

At first, he almost felt disappointed. Nothing interesting or exciting was happening. But that's when his Host Attire attracted his attention towards something else entirely!

The Midnight realm was protected by a Destiny level formation that isolated the realm entirely, and was something Lex had relied on for a long time. Now, though, that formation began to fuse into the realm itself, causing a mutation in the realm itself.

As if that was not enough, he got another prompt from his attire, though this time it was so weak he almost couldn't feel it. Just as many new guards had been automatically summoned to the Inn, a new kind of energy was summoned into the Inn - a kind of energy Lex had never felt before, nor could he understand.

As soon as it entered the Inn, it began to dissipate, and mix into the very fabric of the realm.

Lex suddenly got the feeling that as long as that energy existed within the Inn, if anyone tried to divine anything related to it, they would regret it.

Lex's eyes flashed, and he suddenly teleported to his office, replacing the Innkeepers projection. He handed all security tasks to Gerard and Luthor, and he himself began focusing on the changes happening to the Inn.

Some of them, he felt, were permanent, such as the fusion of the protective formation. Others, however, would probably only last as long as the ongoing event, which is usually what happened when Lex used the Event panel.

But Lex had a feeling that he needed to imprint every single change happening directly into his mind. He had wanted to study realms and how they operated, and the changes happening to the Midnight realm in real time were so extraordinary that he doubted he could learn about them from anywhere else.

After careful deliberation, Lex even activated his Karmic vision, watching how the Karma of all the beings within the Inn changed as the realm underwent some changes.

Lex had the right idea, unfortunately for him, it was basically impossible for him to get the full picture of the changes happening to the realm, because the consequences of those changes weren't happening in the realm to begin with!

Within a certain branch of the Versalis Bank there was a meeting going on, and it had been going on since the moment Ripley revealed his suspicions about the Innkeepers realm. Let alone a few weeks and months, even centuries would be too short a period to deliberate over an organization that potentially had a being above a Dao Lord! Especially one who was so blatantly announcing his seat of power to the universe!

Yet at this moment, many people in that room suddenly began to bleed from their eyes. Not all of them, no. Only those who had clones within the Inn, and were spying on it with malicious intent began to bleed. Then they collapsed, falling onto the floor, their bodies trembling as if they had seizures.

Then everyone in that room suddenly started to feel as if they were suffocating. Fortunately, all they needed to do was stop trying to conspire against the Inn for the feeling to elapse.

Somewhere else in the universe, a member of the system groupchat decided to ignore the sacred words of SingleForever55 and tried to divine where the system convergence event was taking place. To be safe, the member used a perk he got from his own system.

But in the face of Lex's 10,000 MT, there was no place that was safe - at least up to a certain level.

Not only did the divination fail, he got hit with an emergency quest the likes of which would most certainly get him killed!

Inside Eden, a group of Angels were meeting to discuss how to politely convince Lex to give up on the favour Shireen had asked of him. But however polite their intentions may have been, the retribution of the system was definitely not polite.

Their feathers started to fall out and a certain dread suddenly gripped them.

All across the universe, anyone who had even the slightest iota of malicious intention towards the Midnight Inn was made aware of just how bad of an idea it was to plot against it.