The Innkeeper
chapter-1267

Sekhmet, daughter of Ra. The identity of the mysterious being behind Sanguis Pluvia had been revealed, which should not have been as simple as it was. If it were so simple, that one only needed to peer upon the eyes and recognise the familial traits the eyes bore, then there were many who should have recognised her long before Lex.

As a being of Dao, Sekhmet had naturally taken precautions to protect her identity from being discovered. Let alone recognizing her from her eyes, even if she stood in full view of everyone, no one should have been able to peer into her identity. This was further exacerbated by the fact that when the Innkeeper attacked Ra, all information about and related to him was wiped from existence, at least on lower levels. That meant very few beings in existence even recalled Ra's children - at least, they did not recall them as children of Ra.

The fact that, of everyone here, Lex was the one who overcame these minor obstacles as well as the powers of Dao, made everyone pay even more attention to him.

More and more, they began to truly suspect that the mysterious and enigmatic Innkeeper had taken Lex as an heir. There was no other explanation for what was going on.

Lilith, who was also observing, wondered momentarily why Lex would be affected by the oppression of the aura of Dao, if he was unaffected by other aspects of it. But she didn't think about it for long. Who was she to question how a Dao Lord did things? Maybe that was just the Innkeepers way of keeping Lex from becoming complacent.

Much more importantly, Lex had now ruined the plans of a Dao level beings twice, on various levels. It was as if his very existence was expressly pushing the boundary of what was, and wasn't impossible.

Lex himself, however, was focused on Sekhmet. It seemed that, for whatever reason, he and his family were intimately tied to Ra and his progeny. Once or twice might be a coincidence, but so many times made him think that something deeper was at play.

The very first guest he had at the Inn was Bastet, while the first great enemy the Inn had was Ra. Furthermore, this entire time, his family had been indirectly suffering due to the machinations of another of Ra's daughters, with his sister even being targeted to become a vessel for her. Who knew what the truth of the plans Damian had for Belle and Liz were?

All in all, the connections they had with each other were so many that Lex began to suspect that there were secrets to this situation he didn't know. Once again, Lex felt the feeling of some mysterious hand guiding and controlling his life.

He once suspected that the system might be guiding the direction of his life for its own purposes, but now he began to think that it might be someone else. What the reasons were, he did not know yet. But within his heart, he had become vigilant.

"Lex, Velma has sent word. Our cooperation with the Henali is in full effect. They've peered through the secrets of Sanguis Pluvia, and are attacking their bases across the Origin realm. They want to prevent Sanguis Pluvia from initiating their contingency protocols, so they're requesting we begin as well."

Within the Midnight Inn, Velma had set up a base of operations from wherein she exchanged live information from her own network with that belonging to the Henali. The purpose was to coordinate their actions and to supervise the movements of Sanguis Pluvia.

The Midnight Games were targeting planets that were being attacked by insects, but so far, none of the enemy bases had directly been attacked. There were hundreds of planets that the Inn workers had discovered and marked as having enemy hideouts or bases. But they had only infiltrated them to extract information and done nothing else.

The plan had always been to attack them realm wide at the same time when the great battle occurred so that they had no time to react, or reinforce other battlefields. It would be easier to wipe out their forces in one massive attack, than to do it one at a time, although organizing such an attack was easier said than done.

Lex had discovered countless bases through Velma's vast and unusual information network. So far, the Henali had been unable to discover any bases at all, but as soon as they understood what was blocking them from discovering those bases, they were able to work around it.

The moment Sekhmet's identity was discovered, all the precautions she had taken to hide from the Henali Dao Lords failed.

"Do it. Attack. Take no prisoners."

Within the Midnight Inn, the guests finally saw movement on the window with the Midnight Battalion. They teleported to a new world, and without hesitation joined together to form the Midnight Mech, before attacking a massive, walled city in front.

So far, all the battles in the Midnight Games had been against insects. This was the first conflict against other forces.

"Wait, wait, is that the Mechanical Hydra?" a guest suddenly gasped in astonishment as he spotted something in the window. The Mechanical Hydra was an incredibly famous A.I. warrior, which was considered immortal and unkillable.

"That's Harmin, the Angel of Death!" someone else exclaimed!

"Am I seeing things? Is that Princess Mia of the Marzu Empire?"

One after another, the guests saw some of the most powerful and renown warriors of the Origin realm attack the city alongside the Midnight Battalion, laying siege against an unknown foe.

On other planets, outside the view of the guests in the Midnight Inn, armies seemed to appear out of thin air, attacking without warning.

Fleets of pirate ships descended from the skies. Swarms of demons emerged from the darkest depths. Monsters from the pits of Garvitz rained from the skies. Angels flew out of the sunlight. Aslan Deathsworn, the Celestial Blight, made his presence known. Unfortunately, whoever learned of his presence died shortly after.