Oliver struggle to open his eyes when he finally did, he woke up and was in the position he was before he was sent to the shadow space for training. He used his hand to massage his eyes and his forehead gently.
"Er, my head hurts" Oliver massage his head, he felt a little headache, he quickly understood that he was sent to the shadow space through his Dao sense, and the mental stress he had gone through in the shadow space was why he was feeling some light headache. He was there with only his Dao sense creating a mental form of him so all he was doing was the action, of his thought, and after thinking it through he will have to carry it out also with his mental form.
After Oliver massages his head and eyes for some minutes he opened his eyes fully and was looking around, to see if any change happened since he was not aware of anything that was going on as he was sent to shadow space
"Hope I didn't spend too much time in the shadow space". As Oliver was looking around and wondering about how long he spent in the shadow space he saw White Lotus looking at him with eyes filled with brightness and awe like he met someone more awesome and wonderful than it.
"Why is White Lotus looking at me like that". Oliver could not help but murmur lightly he wipe his face lightly like there was something on his face.
"White Lotus is there something on my face why the mysterious look". Oliver asked out of curiosity he was confused about how the calm and calculative White Lotus that acts like nothing will get into its mind easily be looking at him with awe in his eyes.
"Boss" White Lotus stated out but before it could continue it was stopped by Oliver.
"Boss! Oliver exclaimed he felt his ears were deceiving him and he did not hear what White Lotus just said. Oliver looked at White Lotus with awe and with brightness in his eyes like that of White Lotus from earlier. He was confused and did not understand what was happening, he knew a little about the character of White Lotus from the little time he had spent with it that it does not easily put people in high regard unless you played a major role in its life that was why White Lotus was close to him because he saves its life and also risks his life to protect it even when they were not close just meeting for the first time.
"Who are you calling boss me? Oliver could not help but ask, he felt he need to know the reason behind all that was happening.
"You are the boss, who else can take the position from you". White Lotus stood up as he answered Oliver and was walking slowly toward him. This time Oliver was short of words to say he did not cut White Lotus but just sat there and allow White Lotus to continue with its words.
"I thought I was good at sleeping but seeing you do what I thought I was good at and you did it better than me, why won't I give the position of leadership to you". White Lotus said plainly to Oliver when he was speaking Oliver could feel how true its words were and how it was filled with gaining from Oliver relating sleeping longer.
Oliver was baffled he felt things were not right "Just because of sleeping White Lotus is behaving like this and I thought I did something magnificent while I was sleeping".
"You are giving me the leadership, how wonderful, just because I slept for some few hours? Oliver could not help but question he was unable to keep track of time in the shadow space but to him he felt he only spend a few hours there so it won't be enough for White Lotus to be behaving the way it was acting towards him.
"Boss, boss just a few hours, en?
"You are just making the leadership position of yours more concrete"
"If what you did can be called a few hours". White Lotus could not help but comment when it heard what Oliver said with glowing eyes like it was looking at some monster.
"You have been sleeping for eight days and some few hours"
"All together make it your few hours, am I right". White Lotus said with light laughter as it looked at Oliver to see his expression
"What" When Oliver heard what White Lotus said he could not help but shouted he could not believe what he heard but he knew that White Lotus won't waste its time lying to him since there was nothing to gain from it.
"I've been asleep for eight days and some hours meaning once this day ends it will make it nine days that have been in this position," Oliver said lightly and what followed was a shout
"The thousand battle tournament is starting tomorrow".
"Boss you are going to a battle tournament and you slept for eight days and some hours almost making it nine days, you are too much of a monster than I thought". White Lotus said seriously.
"Are you trying to mock me or what". Oliver could not help but ask and continue
"I was just carried away so I slept off".
"Boss I hope you don't get carried away in the battle arena so we can teach some people some little lesson". White Lotus said jokily but it saw that Oliver was smiling when he heard the statement
"Don't worry I won't be carried away, I made some gain this time from sleeping I think I will be sleeping a lot now". Oliver said with a burst of joyful laughter accompanying his words.
White Lotus could not but take a serious look at Oliver to know if it was someone else that was standing there. "I thought I was the only one among the two of us that gain benefit when sleeping here he is saying he gained benefit from his long sleep, a monster in flesh" White Lotus murmur lightly like it was grumbling.
When Oliver heard it he could not help but shake his head he signal for White to seat by his side and start rubbing its head to sheer it up.