The Innkeeper

Chapter 1142 Swooning across the realm

Lex did not even need his spirit sense. His left eye had mutated a long time ago, allowing him to peek at things related to laws, but that left his right eye as normal. Recalling how cool it felt using Evisceration with his eyes, Lex underwent the journey to find cool and powerful techniques based on his eyes. He was not, in any way, inspired from any anime he had seen, as that would be unoriginal and plagiaristic, which he was not.

After consulting Pel, Mary, and Dr. Best, as well as a few other knowledgeable people as well as the many records in the Midnight Library, Lex discovered something genuinely surprising. Among the many races in the universe, and many powerful abilities, one of the most powerful eyebased abilities had actually been developed by a human countless eons ago.

It had a long and epic lore behind how it was created, not to mention an amazing yet tragic history of how it disappeared over countless years. The person who created it was a Prime, which is also something Lex studied a bit about. But the more important matter was it gave Lex the inspiration to create his own technique which would also have an awesome and epic lore that he would hire someone to create for him at some point eventually.

He channeled his energy into his right eye and illusory characters began to appear on his sclera around his iris, while a tiny Glyph appeared within his pupil. The characters that filled the white part of his eye formed an array, while there was an accompanying Glyph in the middle of his eye which worked independently of the array while complimenting it, forming a synergistic effect. That, accompanied by his spirit energy which had countless affinities and could easily act as a bridge between his eye and the effects of the array and Glyph.

It sounded complicated, and it really was, but it resulted in a unique eye-technique that was completely unique to Lex. It was nowhere near being the best in the universe at the moment, but it had the potential for it.

Time seemed to slow in his eyes and his vision zoomed in on the meteor, allowing him to not only see it, but analyze what was so special about it. Compared to the Molten Giant, the meteor was actually much more dangerous as it carried a hint of a law Lex did not recognise, and it was clearly and directly aiming for the angel.

But while it was powerful, the only thing that made it actually dangerous was that hint of laws. Considering Lex could deal with them even in his current state, it was not an issue.

His eye focused on the meteor, and it seemed to dissolve into thin air, disappearing from sight.

In truth, all Lex had done was push it behind space and into the Void, but without creating any spatial fluctuations, no one could tell what happened.

”Amazing, ladies and gentlemen! Just amazing!” the narrator roared on everyoneʼs screens. ”Just a gaze was enough to erase any threat before him. Looks like itʼs going to take more than a small meteor if someone wants to take the angel away from his strong, steady arms. Get voting, ladies and gents, if you want to see them end up together, or be ripped apart. In the meanwhile, letʼs check up on our other contestants.”

Lex shook his head once the meteor disappeared. Why would people volunteer to come to this death show? It made no sense to him.

”I have to go look for someone. If you want to leave this place I can give you a key to the Midnight Inn. No matter where you are, teleporting to the Inn shouldnʼt be an issue.”

Lex held out a golden key, and could not help but notice how the golden color of the angelʼs hair and eyes matched the key. Maybe angels suited the Inn a lot more than humans.

The angel, however, looked at the key, and then back at Lex.

”Even though I was forced to come here, that does not mean I want to leave so easily. Like I said, Loverʼs Island is a 4 star planet that is largely uninhabited. The resources one can find here are way beyond the reach of normal people. This is an amazing opportunity. Especially for me.”

The angel tried to spread her wings, but they would not extend properly. Black lines spread across the pure white feathers, making them look diseased and weak. Lex scanned the wings, and immediately realized that this was no ordinary disease. Getting rid of it would not be easy. Of course, Lex would still have to try his hand at it. He could think of a couple of things that might work.

”Since I was born, I have been a victim of a dreadful curse. I have heard rumors that on this planet there is a spring that can wash clean this curse that has worked its way right into my… what are you doing?”

The angel was in the middle of explaining her tragic backstory, well aware that gaining the sympathy of the countless viewers watching the show live would be the ticket to surviving. What she had not expected was for Lex to shoot her wings with a strange, white light.

Black, acrid smoke began to rise from the feathers, and a warm sensation began to spread through her wings which had never felt anything other than the frigid cold before.

”Just like I thought, itʼs troublesome,” Lex said as he withdrew the white light. ”If you canʼt find the spring to heal yourself, you can come find me in the Midnight Inn. I can heal your wings for you, but itʼll take a few days. Itʼs really quite troublesome.”

The angel was dumbfounded.

”How… how did you do that? Even our best healers could not heal my curse!” she exclaimed.

What neither Lex nor the angel knew was that countless angels who were watching the show were even more stunned than her. They knew full well the extent and difficulty of healing congenital wing diseases. It wasnʼt that it was impossible, but rather that it required the effort of incredibly high leveled angels, and that was not something all angels could afford or arrange.

But if they could get their hands on Lex… better yet, if that angel could get Lex to fall in love with her and then get married…

It was as if proverbial dollar signs appeared in the eyes of countless angels across the realm.

”Iʼm a doctor, healing people is my business,” Lex shamelessly boasted. The truth was, he had devised multiple techniques that used the healing factor of his blood without having to actually use his blood. Originally he thought that this would reduce the effectiveness of his healing, but under the right conditions, it could actually be better.

”I… my name is Thaliel Silverlight. How… how may I address you?” she asked, a soft blush appearing on her face. It wasnʼt that she was suddenly enamored by Lex, though the more she thought about how powerful he was, and his good looks, and his medicinal prowess, and his calm attitude…

No, she was blushing because she was looking forward to having her wings healed. That was it. She was not in denial at all.

”My name is Lex. Iʼm going to go search for my target now. You can accompany me if you wish. If we come across the spring then we can part ways.”

”Ah, yes, of course. But leaving is not so easy. We need to complete objectives to be able to move on. Each territory has its own objective. I suppose rescuing me might have…”

”Donʼt worry about it,” Lex said as he placed his hand on her shoulder. ”Itʼs not so easy to stop me.”

With that, Lex teleported himself and Thaliel away. An invisible barrier appeared, blocking their teleportation, but Lex needed to only touch it for the barriers to unravel. Putting up defenses in front of him, the uncrowned king of defense, was a joke.

But even though Lex was now aware that countless people were probably watching them, since he was on a show, he did not know that his casual action of dismissing the barrier and becoming the angels rescuer had caused countless women across the realm to swoon. At the same time, Thaliel suddenly felt like she was in danger. It was as if countless people across the realm suddenly were suddenly targeting her and wanted her gone.

Lex was not paying attention to the blushing angel beside him. He had already used the tracking technique to locate which way Sim was, and was heading that way. He just needed to stop after every short while as there were countless barriers blocking teleportation across the planet.

At the same time, he also spread his spirit sense around him. Since this was a 4 star planet, he wouldnʼt mind grabbing a few treasures if he came across them. It would be practically criminal to just let them be.