The Innkeeper
chapter-1153

The houses of Midnight started out as an idea that Z had. When Harry changed his last name to Midnight, Z got the idea to take up a last name all the workers could take up, since not everyone might feel like they could do justice to such a name.

So he took on the name Starcloak. The name was meant to represent the vast, night sky that could encompass countless stars, and was therefore meant for the masses to follow along. To a small degree, that is what happened.

But largely, all the Inn workers who had strange abilities which could not be categorized easily joined this family. One stellar example of this family was that guy whose ability it was to be forgotten. Although no one knew his first name, at least now they knew his last name. There was also Alfonso, who had weird powers that would change all the time, save for the ability to always have food in his pocket. Countless others had joined the Starcloak family, and took pride in how odd, or versatile depending on who you asked, their abilities were.

Inspired by Z, Gerard also founded a family by the name of Umbraguard. They were the protectors of the Inn, the fighters, the warriors, the soldiers. Naturally, most of the security team and the Midnight Battalion joined this family.

Velma decided that none of those suited her, so she formed the Nyxheart family. It was supposed to be filled with romantics and gossip lovers, but it grew into something so much more. The most secretive, detailed and expansive information network was effortlessly conjured up by the Nyxheart family, able to dig out even the deepest of secrets that no one wished to share.

During the last fifteen years, Lex had even tested this out by having them try to gather information from the various countries on Menara, and boy were they good.

Last but not least was Luthor, who formed the Nightshade family. This was the smallest family, but it was also the most lethal, even more than the Umbragard. The Nightshade family was not protectors, but killers. They were assassins, they were conspirators, they were the ones who would face the enemies of the Inn and eliminate them.

Their numbers were small, but that did not make them any less significant than the other houses. In fact, even John had decided to join the Nightshade house. Although he had left his assassin days behind him, his instincts were very much honed in on the profession, and the guidance he provided was without equal.

Now, for the first time, Lex wanted to use the houses as they were intended when they were made.

He'd had many days to think, and had come to a few conclusions. Moon had said that her protection was specifically created by their grandfather, so its failure could also be attributed to him.

His action of tying Moon up to the planet, of experimenting on her for years, of drawing blood and tissue samples, and lord only knew what else, did not seem as straightforward as he made them seem.

Maybe Moon believed what he had to say because she had limited experiences, or maybe she believed him because she literally had no other choice. But Lex saw something more.

He saw the intricacies behind each action that perhaps even Moon herself did not notice.

When his grandfather saw that two of his grandchildren, namely Bella and Liz, both had unique physiques, did he really not have any ulterior motives? The man who was easily able to take kids away from their parents really showed no other intentions towards his son and daughter-in-law, who were not only weaker than him, but had also given birth to two kids with physiques.

Since his own father apparently had a special physique, his grandfather should have known how difficult it was for one to occur naturally.

Then, on top of that, when he got his hands on Moon, who was the most special of them all, he still didn't target his son and daughter-in-law?

Even assuming that his dad was capable of unleashing a very powerful attack, since he'd lost all his cultivation, how powerful could it be?

Then there were his parents. They just had children with special physiques and decided to keep on having them until trouble came? Instead of letting the kids be born, and then hiding them the way they did with Lex, until they were strong enough… why couldn't they wait to have kids until they were strong enough to protect them in the first place?

Even stupid people knew about using protection to avoid having unwanted children, so his parents who were cultivators and were capable of achieving something no one else could, somehow lacked this bit of common sense?

No, there was much more to this story than it appeared, and Lex would get to the bottom of it.

Lex looked at everyone in the room, then began his explanation.

"Someone targeted my little sister, kidnapping her and then using her for their personal experiments," Lex said, skipping over the meat of the story. "Although I have now resuced my sister, she is far from safe. In fact, she can't even come to the Inn yet. There are still a few things I need to do before I can safely bring her to the Inn, but while I do that, I need a bit of your help.

"I want to find the man responsible. But more importantly, I want to find everyone involved in this. Whether they were simple employees working for him, or some organization backing him from the shadows. I want to find them all."

Recalling the immortals that had come and surrounded Yildrim, Lex did not think his grandfather's background was as simple as he made it out to be.

"When I go to mete out the punishment for this, I want every single person involved to feel it. Every single one."

Silence filled the room after Lex spoke, as everyone absorbed the information Lex had just given.