Chapter 1113 Only one choice

Chapter 1113 Only one choice

Lex grumbled as he walked towards the ORR. He had a stump instead of a hand. The Origin realm was waiting for him to return to. There was some critical mission waiting for him on some utopia planet. He didn't have time to be babysitting a few earthlings.

Just because they had rapidly grown in technology, civilization and cultivation without massive corporations bottleneck progress for personal gain, they all thought they were so amazing. Who even cared that in a mere fifteen years they had surpassed human civilization back on earth? Or used science to explain cultivation? Or created a machine that used dumb A.I. meaning A.I. that won't gain a soul as well as the Midnight Inn's massive catalog of techniques to create a machine that analyzes humans and designs a cultivation technique and method suited specifically for them? Lex certainly didn't.

Lex snorted once more. How dare they make a video game about the Midnight Inn and keep him as an unlockable side character?

"Mary, spread the word," Lex said as he went to get his arm fixed. "In exactly twelve hours, the Midnight Inn will be opening back up. To commemorate our reopening, there is going to be an event, and after that we will be kicking off the Midnight Games once more. But the games are going to be a little different this time. Instead of worlds, participants will be individuals and represent only themselves, or a small group."

"Any details on what the event will be?" Mary asked. Oddly enough, this was the first time Lex had mentioned something like this. Diiscover new stories at novelhall.com

"No. The workers all just need to know that we will be expecting a sudden influx of new guests. I will try to keep the numbers low for now though."

It would be great if Lex could just open up the system, do the task in Utopia, and then lock it back down. The Midnight realm had more than everything he needed to grow, and now with the Inn being able to support tribulations once more, he could easily stay here until he became an immortal.

Honestly, he had grown too fond of the Inn and everyone in it, so he wasn't willing to give up. That left only one viable option - become stronger than any other foe out there who might seek to challenge him? And wasn't that essentially the same thing as becoming the best?

To that end, he had been doing a lot of research these past few years. He talked to his idiotic system and forced it to give him quest rewards in the form of knowledge that he had hidden deep within the Midnight library.

That knowledge basically only pertained to one thing: how to become the best. Whether it was fortunate or unfortunate, on such a path, Lex needed to be proactive. He could no longer wait for prizes to fall into his lap, or wait to encounter good luck.

He already had possibly the best cultivation technique in existence, so now he just needed to make use of it in the best way. So, after much research, he had discovered the best conditions and circumstances under which he should become an immortal, and for that, he had to return to the Origin realm.

Not only did he need to return, he was on a time limit. His growth in the Nascent realm was much quicker than anticipated, and Lex actually had to put seals on his own body to prevent himself from automatically growing into the next level. But those seals had now begun to fail.

Lex had a matter of months to arrange everything.

So it was not just the Midnight Inn that would be returning to the Origin realm. It would also be Lex the dragon slayer, and if the amount of attention his previous stunt with the dragon attracted was anything to go by, then what he had planned for his grand return would turn him into an overnight sensation. Hence the need to forge himself a proper weapon, as well as the few other preparations he had made.