Chapter 154: Chapter 153: Cultural Miscommunications

With the issue of the minerals taken care of, I made my way back to my room, and pulled up the market once again. Without any hesitation, I spent five hundred points on the blueprint for the Fairy Gate, bringing my total back down to just over twelve hundred. Of course, I haven’t collected the funds from technology advancement in a while, so my real balance is probably higher than that.

As I watched the familiar blue sphere taking shape in front of me, the information globe containing the purchased recipe, I sent a message to Tubrock mentally. I’ve got a new project ready for you. A gateway that connects worlds. The blueprint for it is in my room, and we should have all the materials we need for it. Take a look at it, and let me know if there is anything else we’re missing.

After sending out that message, I decided to do a bit of advertising… Pulling up the Keeper forums, I saw that there were several unread messages waiting for me. Unsurprisingly, all of them were from Alkahest. The first couple were just updates, telling me that another Keeper meeting was about to begin. Looked like I missed three of those while I was gone… Counting the one that I went to, and the other that I missed, I’ve actually been a Keeper for nearly one standard year now.

After the updates, his tone became more concerned, asking if I was doing okay, and why I hadn’t responded. In his last message, he even outright asked me if I was still alive. No doubt, the thought had crossed his mind that I had perished while descended like the previous Keepers had done. Shaking my head, I opened up the message window to send a brief reply.

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