"SO, tell me everything you know about that artifact your family was trying to protect," Argent said immediately, going straight to the point.
With Argent's question, Clay couldn't help but wonder what's with this sudden interest with the artifact? Clay wasn't stupid to not notice that Argent was giving a particular high level of importance to this matter. If not, he wouldn't be offering to help him and even fund his cause. But he clearly remembered when he first inadvertently told them about the artifact, Argent only showed a tiny bit of interest.
So what changed? The only reason he could think of was that in the last five months since they last met, they discovered something related to the artifact. Maybe once he told them all the information he had, they could also shed some light on the reason why the most powerful religious group in the world didn't hesitate to massacre an ordinary family just for an old relic. What exactly could this artifact do?