The Innkeeper

Chapter 1408  Stupid

"Lex take me out of here, I already know what you want," Vera said, her face flushed with anger. Actually, she hadn't foreseen Lex's arrival at all! Why was it like this? The Nexus event wasn't supposed to come so quickly.

It would take hundreds if not thousands of…

Vera's eyes narrowed and she looked at her mother.

"Is it the old man? Is he suppressing my ability somehow so I can't predict what he's doing?" she questioned her mother, but Kristine only sighed.

"Your father is an amazing man. I have no idea if he did this, but the fact that there's a possibility he can is amazing, no? Why don't you agree to just meet him once? You know you inherited your powers from him, right?"

"Don't try to fool me. I will never go meet that old man. It's because of him that I'm almost 30 but I've still never had a single boyfriend! I'll be a spinster at this rate!"

Without waiting for her mother to respond, Vera grabbed Lex's hand and tried to storm out. Lex gave Kristine an apologetic look before teleporting away with her.

"You know, you're the first girl I've ever run away with," Lex said in a teasing tone.

"Don't flirt with me! I'm saving myself for an Oolin! I've already seen the face of my future husband, and I won't date anyone else!" Vera scolded.

Lex smiled as he raised up his hands, to show he meant no harm. Vera looked at him, and then snorted and then looked away. But then she looked back at him.

"Okay I lied. I don't know what you want. I think my father deactivated my ability somehow. If you kill him for me, I'll become your personal oracle."

"Hey, hey, hey, I work at an Inn, not an assassination organization. Besides, this sounds a lot like family drama, and I have way too much of my own to get involved with yours."

Vera snorted.

"How can your father control your ability anyway?" Lex asked curiously. "Does that mean you can't actually help me right now? I was hoping for a convenient prophecy or two."

Vera snorted again. But after a few moments, she sighed, and decided to open up. After all, in this situation, Lex was one of her strongest supports. All her previous plans were built upon her ability to foresee her own future.

"Predicting the future is tricky business, for more reasons than one. Getting punished by the Heavens, tolerating the great burden of knowledge, forgoing ordinary cultivation, these are just some of the obstacles ordinary oracles have to overcome. It's a path full of obstacles, but there are also many useful tools that help as well. Within this realm, there is one such special item that can be considered a holy item for all oracles. It's called the Essence Wormhole. Ever heard of it?"

Lex raised an eyebrow, not at all expecting to hear that name all of a sudden. Back when he completed his first quest and got the option to select a reward, he was presented with an option of five items. Regal Embrace was what he chose, and Mo's Blessing was what he originally wanted to choose, but lost the opportunity to do so. Besides those two, the list contained the Bangle of Narn, the Essence Wormhole and the Breath of Elizabeth.

He recalled the description for the Essence Wormhole as if it was still in front of him.

A unique existence that can be absorbed by a living being. Once absorbed it will absorb the consciousness of the beings past, present and future so that the being is aware of the existence of its entire lifetime and all the events that take place during it. However, a being that absorbs the Essence Wormhole will have all the events in its life become a fixed constant that cannot be changed.

Now that he thought of it, the description was somewhat similar to Vera's ability to see her own future, but not quite. After all, the Essence Wormhole came with a pretty severe drawback, which was that the person who absorbed it would have their entire life fixed along a specific path. But the future Vera saw changed all the time, though he had learned that such changes were actually not supposed to happen.

"Yeah, I've heard of it."

"Well, apparently my father knows of a way to secretly siphon off a bit of the Essence Wormhole's ability without suffering any repercussions, or affecting the Essence Wormhole itself. The first time he did it, it was all good until I was born, and stole his powers somehow. But the geezer just went and siphoned off more power from the Wormhole. Unfortunately, he's his own worst enemy, and couldn't help blabbering all about it to anyone who would hear.

"But, having the ability to see his own future whenever he wishes, he can always escape being caught. That's the whole reason my mom and I were imprisoned. Since they couldn't catch dad, they were hoping he would reveal himself to rescue us. But my stupid mom is stupidly in love with that stupid man. She literally told him not to save us, so he didn't even try.

"Now he suddenly wants to find us again, after so many years? I don't buy it. Plus, very conveniently, my powers stopped working a few days ago. At first I didn't think anything of it, but now I'm wondering if the old man had anything to do with it."

Lex was silent. Although the father seemed a little odd, he did not sound particularly evil. Maybe a little stupid and a scumbag, but definitely not evil. In that case, he didn't think Vera would face any issues from him. In that case…

"Well, as long as you're inside the Inn, you don't need to fear anything, so why not meet him here? More importantly, Vera, as much as I'd like to help you out right now, I have my own problems that need solving."

Vera sighed, and shook her head.

"Fine, follow me. I'll take you to another reliable oracle."n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om