Jake, who had previously remained relatively unmoved, showed strong excitement for the first time. He was eager to find out what kind of rewards the Ancient Designer could offer, but it certainly wouldn't be too shabby.
Since they were in a lab and Jake had become accustomed to the Oracle System interface, he expected either a special material reward or a list of options to choose from a catalog, but the reality turned out to be slightly different from his predictions.
Xion Zolvhur simply beckoned him to follow him to another section of his lab, which contained several weird machines, including a miniaturized version of the platform where the old man had produced some Silver Liquid Alloy before their very eyes.
NB: For the discord members, you got your mechanical hydra ;)
For non priv readers:
Happy New Year! :)
The releases will now resume their normal schedule, i.e. one chapter per day. I'll try to make up for the chapters I missed over Christmas, but I can't promise anything.