Chapter 109: Finding the vault.
At the first glance it was impossible to get in the God’s vault solely because Lunax had no palace, lair or even a shack. No one knew where he actually stayed, and no one cared. The elemental lord was their deity and people didn’t dare to question anything about him.
Lee knew that the success of any operation lie in proper preparation and investigation, thus the first thing he did was to gather information who actually had received the God’s gifts.
Turns out either most recipients kept their achievement a secret or there were not that many to begin with. Out of the fifteen publicly known figures, all had items that stood out, thus for them it was impossible to maintain secrecy.
Two of them were Arax and Slivax whom Lee had already met, and it was out of the question to ask them for help. On the other hand, the rest were strangers, and he started by finding and interviewing them all.
Unsurprisingly, several of these local celebrities were popular and had quite a few fans who catered to their every whim. And while having servants was convenient for them, they made Lee’s job harder. He couldn’t come up to these people unobstructed, without anyone asking what he was up to first. Thus, in the beginning he was forced to gather the information from underlings.
As expected, at their level the procedure of acquiring the God’s gifts was something one would describe in ancient myths and legends. It involved stories about mystical places the lucky individuals were brought to, and unbelievable magic that was used to open the sacred vault.
Obviously Lee ignored everything that was related to the contents of the vaults, since the exaggeration at that point became ridiculous, but he managed to filter out few useful things nevertheless.
First of all, the vault was somewhere underground. He already guessed it, but everyone basically confirmed this suspicion.
Another curious thing about the procedure was that Lunax actually never brought the lucky ones to his vault personally. It was either to maintain his mysteriousness, or he was simply too lazy, or maybe busy – the caretakers handled these matters. And one of them, Coulax, the head caretaker, was always present.