The Message of Gratitude

It didn't take them long to reach the city of Eldrazi, Szlanor in their flying vehicle, landing comfortably within the airstrip that Lex had managed to reach the first time he had approached the floating utopia. Once he landed onto the ground, he would take off his aviator hat and then glance behind him at Minerva before speaking. "This will only take me a brief moment, I'll be right back so don't go anywhere." he said gently before jumping out of the cockpit in one leap, landing quickly on his feet. Most likely one of Nozomi's guards would be there to greet him, and if not, he would make his way through the city borders so he could look for an official. Minerva probably didn't understand, but he had to thank Nozomi for giving him the opportunity to get his artifact without any interruptions or any unfair terms, since she had no obligation to do so and didn't need to give him anything.

Once he found any official within the area, he would try to make his point brief, knowing that people in such line of work probably got a lot of citizens approaching them and taking up their time on many occasions. "Here, take this to Nozomi, this is a message explaining what I did within the temple, what I managed to find, and thanking her for giving me the opportunity to get it. Good day." he would say swiftly while handing the appropriate official a metal cube. Within this cube was a mechanism that could show holograms from its position. Once it reached Nozomi, she would get a more detailed message of Lex explaining that the sword he had been looking for had been located and successfully dug up and acquired and that now he was on his way out of her territory so that way he would not be any trouble within the city. He would not wait around to watch if the guard would bring it to her or to see her response in case she did, simply turning away from the official and making his way back to his plane.

With a quick leap, Lex made his way back into the cockpit of the plane and glanced behind him to see if Minerva was still in her seat. Seeing that she was, he was about to start the plane before abruptly stopping himself and then glancing up into the air and looking around in various directions. Not seeing any clones of the mischievous woman, he finally continued with starting up the aircraft and made it come to life, the propellers spinning rapidly before he glanced back at Minerva again. "Alright, the message has been sent and now that the thanks is out of the way, let's get to our next destination." he said with a tone of excitement. He was rather happy that they had another goal to reach for. He had no doubt that eventually they would run into some problems along the way during his collection of equipment and artifacts, but for now, everything seemed to be going quite well for the start of it.

Even though he probably didn't mean to, Lex's request to stay on the plane sounded more like a command. It wouldn't hurt to be polite. She decided to let this one slide as he had a lot on his mind and surely didn't intend to come off as rude. Lex, like always it seemed, went through the motions like a well oiled machine, knowing how to handle the task in the quickest, most efficient way possible.

This attitude was displayed right then and there, because Lex had returned to the plane almost as quick as he left it. Just like he said, it would only take a moment. Presumably the message was delivered just as he said it would. The robotic stoicism indicated that maybe he was more than ready to move on to the next location. Was it because he didn't like Eldrazi or perhaps he was impatient and excited to move on to find the next item, Minerva thought to herself. It seemed by his voice that it was the later, but you could never be to sure about things like this.

Either way, Minerva kicked back and relax and teleported a book on Alchemy to read, thinking it may be a while until see saw something interesting to distract her.


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