Chapter 1057 Jackpot

Chapter 1057 Jackpot

The first thing Lex did was teleport to Leroy. The fairies were still around the Manor, and had actually moved towards the lake. They had never seen such a large body of water, and its soothing waves and clear waters attracted their weary minds.

They had been prepared to begin their lives on the run, and a part of them still felt like they could not stay at the Inn for too long. But the land was too beautiful, the waters too calming, the people too welcoming, which was already eroding their weakened will power.

Lex's sudden arrival startled the group, but he only waved at them, and hurried to turn to Leroy.

"I have a small favor to ask you. Do you know how I can store fairy dust? Does it require some special material?"

"Fairy dust, like I've told you, is something similar to partially solidified spiritual energy. As soon as it touches something, it is absorbed into it. But storing it is also pretty simple. You either need material which is completely saturated with spiritual energy, and cannot absorb anymore.

"High quality spirit crystals can be used for this purpose, but they cannot be used to store fairy dust for long periods, as they will eventually lose their energy if they do not remain in a high energy concentration area. The second is a material that is completely inert, and cannot absorb spiritual energy at all. That is much harder to find, but is better for long term storage.

"Do you need some fairy dust? You can just say the word, and we will do what we can."

"Not for now, but if I need your help I'll let you know," responded Lex, before teleporting away once more.

He did not need to store fairy dust for long anyway, so he would just make do with making a bottle out of spirit crystal. There was a small issue. Haraash did not mention how big he wanted the bottle to be. Considering that this was supposed to be rare, he assumed it was not too big.

After that, it was just a matter of teleporting everywhere he needed. All the ingredients were pretty simple to gather, and he decided to grab an extra drop of Mountain milk for Vera as well. The fairy dust proved a small obstacle, mostly because Lex didn't know how to judge if what he was making was good enough.

"Sit child, sit," Haraash suddenly said, putting all the items away. "Clearly you are in great need of this information, lest someone squish you one day. But the price has been paid, so you can only get what you paid for. The method I will teach you has the possibility of completely cutting off all ties of fate, karma and such. That means if anyone wants to track you, they will have to use some other method, which is far from simple.

"But there is a drawback. This method is not strictly mobile, and cannot be on your person. It will require you to choose a place which will then be sealed off. The area does not have to be small, so you can potentially create a base or a proper home there. I thought that this might not best fit your needs, since if you ever need to escape you can always retreat to the Inn, and that is essentially what that place will become. A refuge to where you can escape, unless you mean to start living there perpetually."

Lex frowned for a moment. Indeed, that is not what he had imagined. But at the same time, he could think of more than a few reasons why such a thing might be useful. More importantly, although Vera might not know what problems he might face in the future, she foresaw him paying her multiple times for this!

That meant that he really might end up needing a place to hide, besides the Inn! The insinuations for that weren't good, if he was being honest. Why would he ever need to hide elsewhere, when he can retreat to the Inn? Once it was in working condition, he could teleport to it from anywhere in the universe.

Surely any refuge he created himself would not allow him the same convenience. The thought was... troubling. But he would think more about it at a later time. For now, he turned his attention to Master Haraash, his expression much more serious than it had been before.

"Since the Innkeeper has asked me to rely on my own abilities, then I must have the mental fortitude not to use the Inn as my last form of defense. Even if it never happens, I need to at least prepare a safe place for myself with the intention of relying on it. Please, enlighten me about how I can go about building this protective layer. I assume it will require a lot of work."

"You have no idea young man. The requirements to build it are far from simple. Just picking out the right location, the first hurdle, has defeated most who sought to build this. Give me your hand and close your eyes. I will begin transmitting all the information to you. This will take quite some time, so I hope you have nothing urgent coming up."

"Nothing that can't wait a bit," said Lex as he closed his eyes and prepared himself.

Haraash began transmitting some information to Lex, but before he even began to teach him just the requirements of this protective barrier, he had a lot of prerequisite knowledge he needed to teach Lex.

On the bright side, Lex was receiving a crash course on many complicated topics. Since he had been so interested in learning new things lately, he had hit the jackpot.