Chapter 158: Celebrate Good Times
Despite Benton’s reservation about the Trial Pagoda being a point sink, he pulled the trigger, confirming that reward as his selection, and the System stowed the building in his spatial ring. The time taken to bathe and deal with the prompts allowed a decent amount of his qi to be restored, but he still decided to consume ten spirit coins to add another one hundred thousand units back into his pool.
With the tide finished, he wasn’t expected to run into any danger, but it was better to be prepared than to be caught off guard.
Clean and replenished enough to handle any dangers he realistically might encounter, Benton could finally go to the village and check on everyone. Just as he was about to head that direction, however, he took a second to think about his next actions and discovered that he really wanted to perform one more task first.
He Quickstepped to the sect grounds and looked for a good spot for the new pagoda.
It would be a central building for the Rising Tide Sect, something that made the sect extraordinary. He wanted to give it pride of place instead of hiding it away. Unfortunately, with only the arena having been sited, it was hard for him to visualize exactly how the grounds were going to take shape.
He had mentally designated an area away from the arena to be the sect’s central administrative complex, so he picked a location there that seemed like it would work and placed the Trial Pagoda. Unlike with the structures he took from the Righteous Rain Sect, there were no visible foundations to deal with. Instead, when he placed the building, he got a pop up.
Does Host want to confirm this location for the Trials Pagoda?
“Yes, please.”
The prompt made him think that the placement would be permanent, but he could deal with that condition. The other buildings could be maneuvered around it. After all, one of them had to be the first to be sited.
Foundations grew out of the bottom of the building and burrowed into the ground.
Neat.
While he didn’t know the exact layout of the area, he did know that he wanted the Contribution Points Shop to be near the Trials Pagoda because he planned to designate Peng Zhen as the one responsible for managing access to the trials. To an extent, anyway. Obviously, the merchant would have to coordinate with Benton for ones involving death stakes and for permission to use Sect Points, but the actual schedule and the amount of contribution points to charge the trial-takers wasn’t something that the sect leader needed to concern himself with.