The Innkeeper

Chapter 1750: Confrontation

The work was far from simple. Lex would have loved to summon hundreds if not thousands of workers from the Inn to expedite the work for him, but that wouldn’t work. This was because crafting the foundation of the forge, even a temporary forge, not only required immense power, it also required precise control, the likes of which hardly anyone else had.

Among the entire staff of the Midnight Inn, besides Lex, only Anita had sufficient control – from controlling the horde of beautiful undead she controlled. But Anita was increasingly taking time off as she was getting closer and closer to her delivery date. Although the expected date was still a couple decades away, these things were unpredictable. A few decades to her would be like a few days off to a mortal woman. It was completely normal to be early, just as it was completely normal to be late.

Lex kind of wondered what the baby’s gender would be – or its race – but that sounded like a rude question to ask so he kept his musings to himself.

Of course, there was also Orin himself who could help out, but it was pointless to mention him because he was busy doing other stuff for the forge.

So Lex found himself at the base of the crystal volcano – to be clear, he was at the base inside the volcano hole – etching the ground with a microscopic formation that tapped into the realms energy rather than the mountain’s own. The idea was to empower the mountain, not drain it.

At the same time, he was melting a special pollen collected from an immortal tree planted by the Sovereign turtle, and using it to coat the formation etchings to protect it from the heat, as well as create a second layer of flooring upon which even more formations would be drawn.

Lex didn’t even summon clones, nor did he use spiritual techniques or Lawcrafts.

Orin, the expert in this field, told him that every step of the forging process needed to be done by hand, step by step, meticulously, even if it was for a one time use forge. It was not just about the quality of the work being done – Lex’s clones could have maintained that quality.

Instead, it was about the sincerity of the work as well. The more shortcuts one took, the less one was sincere about the outcome. Instead, the more they cared about the end result, the more sincere they would be during the process.