The Innkeeper

Chapter 1476 Casually making money

Chapter 1476 Casually making money

"There is no one size fits all answer for such a situation," the Rhinocentaurs said. "The answer can generally be determined by looking at a couple of things. The first would be the kind of ability used by a system. For example, if a target is being tracked by a system, which is relatively a loose connection, then there is a chance that the target can escape the system's grasp.

"If the ability is more of a core function of the system, such as a beast tamed by a taming system, then it is much more difficult, if not entirely impossible to escape its grasp. The only possible way to get out of such a situation would be to use another system's ability to counter it. But then the second ability would have to somehow perfectly negate the ability of the first system. It's not like any random ability would work.

"The second thing to look at, when trying to negate a system ability is the rank of the system involved. The higher the system ranking, the harder it is to avoid or remove. For example, I once heard of a guy who got marked as a repeat customer by a B ranked system.

"Later on, that seemingly insignificant acknowledgment led to that person's identity being compromised, and he was assassinated. The person involved was a Heavenly Immortal who was adept in camouflage, and yet he was easily recognized by a system user."

"So you don't have any means to hide from a system's detection?" Lex asked, seriously studying the two rhinocentaurs. He had long suspected, and practically confirmed that they were somehow connected to a group of people who hunt systems and system users.

Heck, Lex even thought about the possibility that the Rhinocentaurs, as well as everyone else in their community, were under the influence of an even stronger system.

These were things he could not confirm, but he could take advantage of. Their insight already proved invaluable. It made sense that the type of connection mattered. For example, Lex would not be happy if he found out one day that Inn employees could suppress their connection to the Inn, then it would be devastating.

In a lot of ways, that connection was just as much a protection for the workers as it was for the Inn. It kept them from betraying the Inn, which would be pretty important in a situation where any Inn worker was kidnapped. He was also fairly certain that the Go board he was a part of was a pretty central ability of a system - if it indeed was caused by a system. Still, it was good to be sure.

The two Rhinocentaurs looked at each other, and remained silent for a bit, almost as if lost in contemplation. Of course, Lex was certain that they were secretly communicating somehow. Eventually, though, one of them showed an extremely pained expression, and then took out a cloak from his spatial ring - or at least it appeared that way.

"This might work against some weaker systems of level C and below," the Rhinocentair said as he handed Lex. "It also depends on the ability."

"How does it work?" Lex asked as he grabbed it, and immediately began studying it using his left eye's ability and his own spirit sense. Unfortunately, if there was something extraordinary about the cloak, it escaped his notice - which he supposed was the point.

"The user just needs to wrap it around their body and channel some energy into it, and it should begin working. Just remember, it hides from preexisting system abilities, it does not defend from new ones."

It was a regular piece, and Lex couldn't understand the relevance of it, especially since it did not affect him in any way. Yet he dared not dismiss it either.

For a brief moment, Lex considered trying something with Divine energy. That unusual energy, which could even create miracles, might do the trick. But it was also a finite resource, and Lex didn't think it would work. He wasn't in a desperate situation just yet, so he didn't try it.

Instead, he diverted his focus on something else. He contacted Vera, and asked her if there were any oracles who wanted to get their souls cleansed. She was still upset about losing her abilities, and she nagged him a bit, but eventually she helped out.

As it turned out, there was quite a massive list waiting for him. No one wanted to bother him, despite being quite desperate themselves, for they didn't want to end up provoking him somehow. If he decided that he suddenly didn't want to help because the oracles had been annoying him, then they would regret it forever.

Although such a thing wouldn't really happen, it wasn't as if the others knew that.

So, he asked her to connect him to some of them, and began cleansing their souls. Within their souls, many of them had smell specks of shards of tribulation lightning, eating away at their very existence.

Those whose lightning shards weren't too concentrated only suffered excruciating pain, while others had their actual souls devoured by the lightning constantly zapping them.

Lex himself found the lightning shards to be quite a tonic. It was like a nice, soothing massage, helping him relieve the tension in his muscles. But, since there wasn't any actual benefit, Lex gathered most of the shards, put them in a bottle, and put the bottle in the Gift Shop.

It wasn't everyday that one could buy lightning in a bottle, so he priced it quite high, at 100 million MP per small bottle containing 10 shards and 90 specks of lightning.

Lex was mentally prepared for the bottles to stay in the Gift shop for a very long time, and so focused entirely on helping the oracles. Yet within only a few minutes of putting them up, the bottles disappeared.

That was one of the benefits of having millions of people at the Inn visiting for the games. There was a large variety of them, and they all needed various things.

But after putting up only a few bottles, Lex had to stop. Most of the oracles who wanted this service didn't live inside the Inn, and a message would have to be sent to them.

Lex briefly considered meeting the angels to help out with their wings, but his intuition was warning him against meeting them. So, with no other excuse to keep him there, Lex finally brought out the ticket to the Seraphim Resort.