The Innkeeper
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chapter-368-04061305
At the moment, Lex did not care much what the Noel family was thinking because he was feeling too impatient about the upgrades to his system. The fight with the murderer had been incredibly tough, but at the same time, Lex could feel that the killer himself was too much of an amateur, and perhaps had not been using the system for long.
It was unlikely Lex would ever encounter such a weak system user again. Moreover, even if he did, Lex was not a mindless killer. He could not accept randomly killing someone just to steal their system - unless they provided him with a sufficient reason to get rid of them, of course.
Setting all that aside for now, Lex looked towards his notifications.
New notification:
System upgrade complete! New System status unlocked:System: Midnight Inn
System Grade: Divine (broken ~ SSS - B+ )
System Owner: Lex Williams
System functionality: 12%
System self-repair time: 33,312 billion years
New Notification:
New features unlocked. New features include:Beyond the grave
Blend reality
Fishing well
Murderer
New Notification:
Inheritance detected! Unlocking the Inheritance lounge. Please submit the inheritance to activate the Inheritance lounge.
New Notification:
Live map function unlocked!
New Notification:
Inter-realm broadcast unlocked!
New Notification:
Murder ground unlocked!
New Notification:
Targeted scan unlocked!
New Notification:
Remote prescience unlocked!
New Quest: Accelerate the system's recovery by absorbing more systems!
Quest Reward: 1 Maximum grade level reward
Remarks: Sometimes, helping yourself is the same as helping others
New Quest: Help your guest overcome his alcoholism
Quest time limit: 3 days
Quest Reward: Midnight Signature Brew Coffee
Remarks: There is more than one way to serve a guest
New Quest: Recruit Zagan the ocean King as a Midnight Inn valet
Quest reward: Rainbow bridge
Remarks: Good luck, bro
Lex blinked several times as he read the many notifications, as there was a lot of information to absorb.
Right off the bat, his system's level was way too high compared to the murder system, so why did it appear as if that system was more proactive in directly helping its user? At least, he seemed to have abilities that Lex would have guessed came from the system because the killer himself did not seem skilled enough to learn them - especially something as complicated as teleporting at his cultivation level.
He had a few guesses of his own, but he ventured that it was most likely because either their systems were of different types, or because his was apparently broken.
As far as system types were concerned, Lex had too little information to make an accurate judgment. All he could venture was that his system was focused around running a business and the killer's was directly focused on a type of action. This was why his system only gave him support in terms of helping that business, while the killer's system focused on making it easier for him to perform that action.
He would need to encounter and study a few more systems to work out how the division happened or what they were based on.
Then came the focus on his system's broken status. Considering the fact that his system could reach the entire universe while being broken, apparently, made it so that the system's true capabilities were genuinely beyond his comprehension.
Apparently it was only working at 12% of its maximum capabilities, which left a lot of room for Lex to imagine what kind of services it really had.
As for the time required for it to heal on its own, Lex completely ignored it. He had no idea what would happen to him tomorrow, let alone 33,000,000,000,000 years later.
Next, his attention directly snapped to the 4 new features the system added. He didn't even need to ask Mary about them, for the system informed him of its own.
Beyond the grave:
If a guest enters the Inn right before the moment of their death, in exchange for all their accumulated wealth, they can continue to exist at the Inn as a guest in the form of a spirit. The amount of time the guest can stay as a spirit depends on the amount of wealth exchanged.
Blend reality:
The Midnight Inn can sometimes merge with portions of the worlds connected to the Inn, allowing guests to directly enter or sometimes see into the Inn.
Fishing well:
Guests can attempt to fish in the well. The well leads to worlds connected to the Midnight Inn and unowned items can be fished through it. The item can be immensely precious or completely common and depends on luck.
Murderer:
Every time the host kills someone stronger than them outside of system grounds, the host can learn one of the victims abilities/techniques
Just these new features were incredible, and Lex could see them becoming very popular in the future. But, a part of him could not help but feel that Beyond the grave and Murderer were not normal features of the Inn, and had instead been unlocked because the system had merged with the murder system.
If this theory was true, then in the future he would be able to unlock new cool features depending on the system he merged with his own. This theory was both easy to prove and incredibly hard. It was easy because all he had to do was merge with a system, while it was hard because Lex had no idea how to look for other system users.
He could spend more time pondering these matters later, but for now, his attention turned to the next unlocked room: the Inheritance lounge. He did not need to wonder what the inheritance was as the next feature unlocked by the system, the live map function, clearly outlined it for him!
It was the bracelet that had the Lucky Sutra inside of it! That was the inheritance.
Not wasting a moment Lex picked it up and submitted it to the system, activating the Inheritance lounge!
New Notification:
Lucky Sovereigns inheritance detected. Malicious karma was detected! Eradicating karma and absorbing the inheritance.
New Inheritance: Lucky Sovereigns Lucky Sutra
The Lucky Sovereign ran out of luck one day and died in the 7 Nation Crystal realm. Before his death, he condensed his ties of karma into a bracelet and embedded it with his Lucky Sutra. Anyone who cultivates the Lucky Sutra would slowly be influenced by the Sovereign's karma. Once they cultivated sufficiently, due to the influence of karma, the Lucky Sovereign would be reborn in the cultivators body!
The Lucky Sutra is not a direct cultivation technique, but rather an auxiliary technique used to influence Luck. One of the many ways it can be used is to allow the wielder to steal the luck of any victim he kills, activating it to save himself from bad luck at critical moments. But beware, stealing good luck inherently attracts bad luck!
Notification: Inheritance lounge can now be placed. Guests can attempt to gain the inheritance, though the chance of failure is high. The Inheritance will not disappear upon being learnt, and can continue to exist in the lounge!
'Bloody hell!' Lex thought to himself as he read the description of the inheritance. On the one hand, he suddenly understood why it was so hard to kill the killer! He had absorbed the luck of so many victims. On the other hand, he had really dodged a bullet by not trying to read the Lucky Sutra. Though, come to think of it, had he not entered his overdrive state he would have absorbed the bracelet into his body, and then may have been forced to cultivate it. He wouldn't be surprised if that's what happened to the killer.
In a way, his luck was pretty good that he chose to enter the overdrive state at that time and not later.
Shuddering at the thought, he set the matter aside, for the system had taken care of it for him! He then turned his attention to the live map function!
It was incredible, and, in a way, was a deeper version of his normal scan function. His scan allowed him to check the status of anyone within the system grounds while the live map showed him everything that was happening at the Inn and the tavern, and highlighted different people and items in various colors, giving him even more information. Stuff like friendly or hostile, treasure or poison, a potential Inn recruit or someone to be wary of were all things that the map allowed him to do.
It was like the maps in video games, only more details. The only unfortunate thing was that, once again, it was only limited to the system grounds or else he'd never have any problems avoiding trouble again.
Lex then looked at the next unlocked feature and his eyes shone with excitement. The Inter-realm broadcast would save him a lot of trouble , and make life much, MUCH easier for him. Most of all...
Lex held out his hand and activated it. After a moment, Fenrir, the wolf he was normally able to summon from the Inn to the various worlds with him, appeared in front of him.
