Chapter 1198 A little tough

Chapter 1198 A little tough

"Is he usually like that? Is he really so strong?" Moon asked as she looked up at the screen and ate a burrito. Much like the two had watched Lex in Lover's Island, they were watching him partake in the tournament, although Moon had to admit that the impression he gave off was vastly different this time around.

The way he stood there, high up in the air, looking down upon a burning world like a sovereign, Lex was almost completely unrecognizable. She could hardly believe this was the same Lex she knew. After all, during their childhood, Lex was not much of a fighter.

"Don't let him fool you," Z said with a knowing tone that only an employee could have towards their boss. "He's actually probably much stronger. He just likes to look cool while he does anything. One moment you'll think he'll be at the end of his rope, fighting to barely hold on, yet if a stronger enemy would show up he would still defeat them, and somehow make it look just as difficult, as if he was truly at the end of his rope this time. I've never actually seen him lose a fight. I'm completely convinced that he's secretly a much higher cultivation realm and just pretending to be weak."

Moon marveled as she looked up at her brother, and her understanding of him changed once more. *****

"You do not need to worry at all," Lex said very calmly to the figures sitting in front of him. "The very reason we had this meeting inside the Inn was because of the security and protection it affords. Nobody can divine our meeting. Nobody will know of our agreement until it is too late."

"Very well. That is reassuring to hear. Just so that I know, at the critical time, will the Innkeeper be making a move as well?"

Lex's expression did not change, nor did he suffer any fluctuations when asked this question. It was one he had answered many times already by now.

He himself had only visited it once, but the benefits it offered were genuine. More importantly, apparently emperor Jotun himself had once gained a great harvest from such a tower.

There was too much of a theme going on for it to be a coincidence, yet Lex had no idea what the truth behind this could be. It might really just end up being a genuine coincidence, considering a tower was not exactly an abstract shape, and perfectly fit the requisite of having many levels.

He didn't say anything, and just walked through the door that brought him to a jungle. He looked around and found nothing similar to a maze, so he momentarily considered that this might be a different kind of maze using some kind of esoteric laws or techniques. But almost immediately he noticed the anomaly. He rose up into the sky and saw, many thousands of miles away on two of his sides walls that seemed to rise beyond his ability to see or comprehend.

Moreover, there was no space up above him. The sky seemed to extend for eternity, alongside the walls.

Lex spread his spirit sense apart to its absolute limit, but was not even able to touch the walls. Moreover, when he looked down the corridor on both sides, he could not see where they led.

The size of this maze was... Lex tried not to think about it. He tried using his spatial laws, and was relieved to discover that they worked. At least he'd be able to traverse large distances easily. The only problem was that the space here felt oddly different, as if he was no longer inside the Origin realm.

Moreover, there were clearly defined borders to what he could sense.

He began teleporting towards the wall, which wasn't too hard. The problem arose when he came close to the wall. Not only could he not teleport beyond the wall, as it blocked his ability to sense or control space, he almost couldn't use his powers near it at all. The closer he came to the wall, the more he was deprived of energy until all that was left was the physical power in his body.

Lex sighed. It was going to be a little tough to speed through this one.