The Innkeeper Chapter 1154 He is goading me

Velma cleared her throat, finally breaking the silence, before she asked a question.

"What can you tell about this person? And anyone he might be working with. The more we know, the easier it'll be to find out exactly who or what we're looking for."

Lex smiled.

"The man is my grandfather. His na, I believe, is Damien. I have so information, but I am about to get more in a short while. If you have any questions, think of them now. It'll help find out exactly what I need to ask. In the anti, let give you the little information I have, and so of my own theories."

Lex did not particularly want the details of his life being spread around, but in a matter directly related to his life it would be hard to avoid details. Even so, Lex stuck to the basics. He ntioned how his sister was taken away at a young age, kept away from everyone, and bonded to a planet to keep her trapped there, surviving only due to her unique ability that Lex strongly suspected his grandfather was coveting.

He then ntioned the nurous assassins Moon faced, and how Lex suspected that they also worked for or with his grandfather. At this point, it was not just Lex who was angry. Every single person in the room was fuming.

To say that over the past fifteen years they had not beco close would be a lie. Although they had managed to avoid any major conflicts, spending ti together in peace was also a good way to get to know a person, especially since they had seen what he was like in a pinch.

More than once had Lex faced danger head on for them. Now, to learn that this entire ti he had a sister who had been suffering… If it were up to Velma, they would have all left imdiately.

But they didn't. There was a reason why Lex called them even before he got all the details he wanted. It was so that they could summon their family mbers and begin planning out how they would deploy them.

While they made these preparations, Lex would have a eting with William. The last ti Lex t him, William had tried to bring up the topic of his family. The fact that he had tried was the only reason Lex was even willing to et with him again. William had claid that he had so misunderstanding with his family, but at that ti Lex had been too bitter and too angry to listen. Now though, things were different.

He also wanted to know how complicit William had been during this entire process of kidnapping his siblings, though he highly suspected that this ancestor of his had no information of it when it was happening. He also wanted to learn about Liz and Belle. Moon did not know much, but William probably would.

Lex had actually requested a eting days ago, long before he even went to Dunya. But William had been busy. It was only now that he had sent word that he would be able to co. Considering their original agreent for Lex to help a few of their people undergo enhancents, and the latest happenings, there was much for them to talk about.

A few hours later, William finally arrived, though this ti he was alone. Not only had Jotun not shown up, but William also looked pale, and as if he was recovering from so injury. Much more importantly, he wore an expression that told Lex the man was in his Flow state. He knew it all too well.

"I take it you have cleared up so of the issues between you and your siblings," William said, his tone completely neutral.

Now that Lex had aged a bit, their appearances resembled a lot, though Lex did notice that this ti around, as his body grew, his features were slightly different.

"That's one way of putting it," said Lex. "I thought I was the one being kept in the dark, but as it turns out, my siblings were no better than I."

"Not just you and your siblings," William said, and then exited his Flow state. His exhaustion was a lot more apparent without it, which might have been the point.

"I have sothing to show you. Why don't we have our discussion after you see it. I take it that you're more anable to listening to this ti around."

"Well, I'm definitely listening, though what cos after this is unknown."

William nodded, and placed a small black bead on the table in front of Lex. The black bead began to glow, and then projected a scene midair in front of Lex.

Lex could see a hint of a resemblance between himself and the man in the image.

"Damien," he said in a low tone, his voice filled with controlled emotion.

"Indeed. This is not a ssage or recording. This is a playback of a real interaction Damien had that Jotun was able to pull out of thin air using Ti reversal, a technique that allows him to view the events that happened in an area in the past."

Lex nodded, and played the projection. Damien seed upset at sothing, and then a monster appeared in front of him, out of nowhere.

At first he did not react, but as they continued to have their conversation, Lex realized that this must have happened only a few days ago. In fact, it must have happened exactly on the day he rescued Moon.

He thought nothing of the na Jeffery, right up until Damien ntioned rescuing the monster from Earth, and then things began to click in his mind.

Was Earth a political prison, or a convenient way for Damien to hide secrets? Jeffery was the man who had orchestrated many wars and conflicts on earth, just for his entertainnt, and what he had been doing since his departure from earth had not gone unnoticed.

He was near the very top on the list of wanted beings in the Origin realm, and why wouldn't he be? As the foremost terrorist in the entire realm, targeting the entire realm itself, he was an enemy of the entire Henali, and it seed that he was one of his grandfather's partners.

The scene ended right after Damien gave Jeffery permission to hunt down his family, and disappeared through a portal, but Lex kept gazing at the place where the projection ended.

"It was not just you and your family he had been tricking. It was all of us. The damage he's done since leaving… he almost single handedly destroyed the entire Williams family, and that's nothing compared to the damage he's done to the Jotun empire."

"He ant for you to find this," Lex said simply. "You're acting like a pawn in his hands. He wanted this found, and the reason he specifically ntioned is because he anticipated you'd show it to . He's goading ."

William seed surprised at Lex's deduction, but Lex did not seem goaded, or angered, or even irritated. He seed perfectly calm.

Lex finally looked away from the projection, and towards William.

"What can you tell about my other sisters?" he asked. Lex's mind was completely still. The more dire the situation was, the more comfortable he was. He was all too used to thriving in chaos, so by now, he no longer let his anger cloud his judgnt. His priorities were straight.

First he would rescue his sisters, and then he would kill.