The orb manipulated some of the lights in the room, and turned them into projectors, displaying a hologram of a black flower right in front of Lex. At first, when Lex saw the flower, he just accepted that Regix wanted something related to the flower. Yet the more he focused on the flower, the more he realized that there was something inexplicably wrong with it.

From the stem, to the petal, to its color, and everything else... it just felt wrong somehow, yet he could not identify the exact issue.

"What you are seeing is called the Double Yin Death Metal Rose," Regix said. "It is one of a pair, with its other half being called the Double Yang Disaster Rose. I already have the Yang variant, and now require the Double Yin Death Metal Rose. However, to call it extremely rare is the understatement of this Age. In this entire universe, as far as I know, there exists only one. What I need you to do is go get that for me.

"Of course, harvesting and transporting the flower are extremely delicate and dangerous tasks, but that accounts for less than 1% of the difficulty of this task. The actual issue is that the location of the only known Double Yin Death Metal Rose is in a place that no one in the history of the universe has been able to return from at least as far as I know. I've been locked in here for a while, so a lot might have happened during that time. Like for example, is Eclipse still married to Eternix? I have a feeling that they don't really suit each other - what with Eternix already liking someone else and all."

Lex looked at the orb, and blinked. He was trying. He could swear a Dao oath that he was trying to take Regix seriously, but the orb was making it really hard. Who suddenly transitioned from very important, suspenseful information about the mission to unnecessary gossip right in the middle of the briefing? And what the hell was up with the names of those flowers? They sounded like the names of some... forbidden movies from the deep web.

"Where exactly is the Rose?" Lex asked, ignoring all the other questions Regix asked. "Moreover, if no one has ever been able to return from there, how can you know that the rose exists there?"

The orb pulsed with light for a moment before answering.

"According to my calculations, if I share too many details with you, you will attract unnecessary attention and be killed. So, for your own sake, I won't go into the details. All you need to know that I can confirm, with full certainty, that a Double Yin Death Metal Rose exists within the Nether. However, that's not exactly the most tourist friendly place, if you catch my drift."

Lex resisted the urge to sigh- or to rub his eyes. Instead, he looked at the orb oddly.

"If it's in the Nether, and no one can get in, and you don't have a way to do it either, then what's the whole point of this?" Lex asked, feeling like this was one big joke.

The orb pulsed with light angrily... if that was possible.

"Why do you think I made the requirements to meet me so tough? I need someone who can do impossible things," Regex said, emphasising the requirements to activate Code Regix. "Only someone who is powerful and influential enough to affect the whole universe could have the power and ingenuity to go and bring me the flower. Figuring out how to overcome the impossible is the hard part of this quest. If I knew how to do it, would I have needed to wait for someone else to come and do it for me?"

Lex paused. Even though Regix sounded like a kid complaining about a difficult school project, he tried to take him seriously. He made a good point.

"Would someone who can do all that really even need whatever information you have to offer?" Lex couldn't help but ask. "I feel like at that power level, your target wouldn't even need systems anymore."

Regex snorted.

"What do you know? The power of one system compared to the power of all the systems is something far beyond your comprehension. But even ignoring that, do you think that's the extent of my knowledge, or what I can offer? The only reason you can only think of such things is because that's the limit of your imagination - not the limit of my knowledge. I have something I can offer even someone at that level of power."

Lex was sceptical of his claims, but there was no way he could disprove it either. He turned to look at the rose, and could not help but feel like this was a dead end.

"So now what? Since there's no way in hell I'm going to the Nether any time in the foreseeable future, is our interaction over? Can I go back now?"

Regix pulsed as the orb floated around the now clean and tidy room, as if he was pacing.

"No, I'll still teach you about the characteristics of the flower. Who knows? Maybe you might stumble onto an as of yet undetected flower somewhere in the universe," Regix said, sounding hopeful.

Thus, Regix began to send a data stream of information related to the flower into Lex's mind, while Lex himself felt like he was somewhat being scammed. How had completing the tea party quest - one of the most difficult and nerve wracking quests he'd ever faced - end with him sitting inside this weird room talking to an orb about a flower in the Nether?

He wasn't sure he had an answer to that question. More importantly, Regix did not have the aura or demeanor of a powerful expert at all, yet the information he had sent about the Dao Body earlier was incredibly valuable, so it was hard to doubt him.

"Can you tell me why you need the flower at least?" Lex asked. "The flower has a very ominous name. I don't want to facilitate in genocide of half the universe or something like that."