The Innkeeper

The upgrade to the features was nice. It also indicated that as the system's functionality was being repaired, its performance was also increasing. EVen this was only at 40% functionality. Lex could not even imagine what would happen if the system reached 50%, or even 100%!

On top of everything, Lex's system authority had also increased to level 5!

That was incredibly useful, as he could now purchase even more things from the system directly! More powerful and diverse formations, get more detailed answers from Mary, as well as exercise his control over more aspects of the Inn.

Although the notification about his authority increase was the simplest, it was perhaps the most useful.

That only left behind the three quests he had been given altogether! But even if he had been given three quests at once, Lex did not feel pressured or alarmed by them. Instead, not only did they seem pretty easy to accomplish, they also seemed very interesting. They also seemed designed especially for the latest application of his tavern.

The first quest was to provide materials that could strengthen the laws within the Inns territory. Lex had a strong suspicion that the system could easily get them if it wished, but was delegating the task to Lex to make him suffer.

But the thing was, both Lightning tribulation shards and space crystals were things he could easily get! In fact, Vera had only recently reminded him that there were countless oracles still within the Inn who were requesting his service to remove lightning shards from their souls.

Each person had dozens to hundreds of such shards in their soul, depending on their level. Gathering these would be the easiest, and he would actually get paid to do so! The Space crystals should have, theoretically, been the hardest to find.

They were formed as a crystallization of space, which is something that did not happen naturally. Under normal circumstances, Lex would have had to go to a place where space had been shattered and was rebuilding, or find fragments of space that had become trapped within the void, or go to places where the space laws had suffered some abnormal mutation and resulted in space crystals.

But as it happened, since the Midnight realm was a developing realm, and its space was ever expanding and growing, even though its laws had not completely settled yet, the entire realm was riddled with space crystals.

He didn't even need to leave the territory of the Inn and he'd be able to find an entire mine for it, so getting a mere 1000 crystals was… maybe worth five minutes of effort? If he was slow about it.

Fire tribulation embers, then, became the difficult thing to collect. It was not something that could be found within the Midnight realm, and getting his hands on it might have taken some effort if circumstances were different. But, due to Lex's deep history with lava and volcanoes, he had been thoroughly researching them lately, and discovered a specific region within the Origin realm.

It was a particular star that, for reasons no one knew, was made up entirely of Fire tribulation fire. It had been that way for thousands of years, and was a very famous spot used by many to train for their fire tribulations.

That did not mean it would be easy to get his hands of Fire embers from there, but with his history with the infinity emporium, he was sure he could hire them to get some embers, if they didn't have some saved up already.

So basically the one quest that had the most dangerous punishment could be easily resolved. With the teleportation function operational, Lex could even go and give the infinity emporium the commission right now!

In fact, that was one of the first things he planned on doing. Now that a bunch of guests had been sent out of the Inn, the news that the Inn had an entirely new realm all to itself would spread.

That would, inevitably, attract some kind of trouble. That was one of the reasons why he wanted to close the Inn as quickly as possible. But having it open for a short time offered many advantages that he wanted to avail.

In short, the first quest was not nearly as difficult as it was made out to be. He even intended to complete it as quickly as possible to get the best possible reward.

Then came the second quest. It was hard to determine how easy or difficult this would be. Theoretically, it should be pretty easy. He just needed to find some guests on the verge of dying and save them, or maybe lend weak guests a cultivation technique or something along those lines. With the tavern traveling from place to place, within five years, it shouldn't be difficult to change the destiny of just a hundred people.

That finally left the third quest, which was to attend six events, each specifically focused on a different cultivation level. This again did not seem hard. With access to countless worlds, finding six measly events over the course of five years should not be hard at all.

The only thing that Lex was slightly curious about was whether those five years were in the Midnight realm, or outside? Since time flowed three times faster in the Midnight realm than in the Origin realm, if he only had five years here, then that would equate to a little more than a year in the Origin realm.

Whereas if it were five years in the Origin realm, it would be equal to fifteen years here. Considering he intended to use the tavern to complete the quests, he hoped it followed the timeline of the Origin realm, but he had a feeling that was too much to ask for.

Lastly, there was the restriction on the grade of systems he could absorb. It was a predictable issue, considering what happened with the resin. But it wasn't urgent, so he'd deal with it in the future.