Rex looks at the green messenger that is spreading his arms to the side, without even seeing his face Rex can sense that he’s smiling under that mask.
The three seats in the middle are black in color, and there’re straps all over them.
‘Plebe Trial? Is that the trial for new recruits like us have to pass?’, Rex thought, he doesn’t understand what it is but he got a bad feeling about this.
Both Devan and Liliya also started to sweat, they’re also nervous about this trial.
After welcoming the three of them, the green messenger signals the three of them to seat on their designated seats.
There’s a different thing on each seat, Rex looks at it with a frown.
‘What is the meaning of this?’, Rex thought.
There is blood, gold coin, and pills on each seat that makes no sense for Rex and the others.
Seeing their confusion, the green messenger then said, “Rex sit on the blood seat, Liliya sit on the gold coin seat, and Devan sit on the pill seat”
After hearing that, Rex and Liliya immediately sit in their seats.
They uncomfortable sit on the chair when suddenly they saw Devan froze on his spot, he’s looking at the pill and the green messenger back and forth.
His expression is that of disbelief, “Where did you…”, he said as cold sweat appears on his forehead.
Devan becomes more panicked, he wanted to say something but then suddenly.
The green messenger appears behind Devan like a ghost, he materializes from the green gas behind Devan that fills the place.
TAP!
He then karate-chopped Devan’s neck sending him unconscious.
Rex and Liliya frown, they both look at the green messenger weirdly before he said, “Don’t worry about him, carry on!”
Just after he said that both Rex and Liliya also fall unconscious.
Both of them didn’t understand how they fall unconscious, but it just happened.
After a while, Rex blinked his eyes a couple of times.
He’s finally awake and saw that the place he’s currently in has changed, it’s not the SCO’s hideout castle anymore but a room.
The inside of the room is made of wood, there are five people in the room.
Rex looks at the people in front of him before his eyes widened in shock, he wanted to dash towards them but he finds out that he’s being tied.
His eyes bulge in anger, he can’t believe what he’s seeing.
In front of him are his mom, Edward, and Adhara that is tied and taped while looking at Rex with teary eyes.
Two masked people beside them, one holding a hammer, and one holding a gun.
Rex struggles to break free seeing his mom’s teary eyes, he becomes crazed but he soon finds out that he can’t break free no matter how hard he tried.
He even activates his black lightning but he still can’t break free.
After using all of his options to no avail, Rex wanted to turn his nails into claws but to his surprise, he can’t do it.
He can’t use any of his Werewolf abilities, as if he’s blocked from it.
“Rex Silverstar, You finally woke up”, a masked guy on the right said while playing with a hammer in his hand.
The guy walks towards Rex leisurely,
He then squats in front of Rex before he opened his mask revealing that he’s Duncan Platchi, he’s smiling cheekily while looking at Rex.
Duncan paces around the room in triumph, “You’re one hard kid to catch”, he said.
Rex can only listen to him because he just can’t break free, he watches desperately as Duncan approaches Edward with a hammer.
“Tell me everything you know, or your dear ones here will die”, Duncan said cheekily.
Hearing this, “Don’t you dare! I’LL FUCKING KILL YOU!!”, Rex shouted desperately.
Duncan points the hammer at Edward’s legs intending to smash it, this makes Rex, even more, crazy. He struggles even more trying his best to break free.
Rex’s hand even started bleeding because of his struggle, it’s a hard scene to watch.
“Woah Woah, Easy there tiger”, Duncan said jokingly.
He then continues, “If you don’t tell me everything you know, I’ll start by smashing his legs, and believe me I’ll do it”
Seeing that Rex is not answering,
Duncan lifts the hammer up before he slams it to Edward’s shinbone,
CRACK!!
“Kkkkhh!”, Edward groans as he held the pain in, his right leg got smashed in breaking his shinbone instantly.
“DAMN YOU!! I SWEAR I WILL GET YOU BACK A THOUSAND TIMES MORE PAINFUL THAN THIS”, Rex shouted crazily, seeing his friend got injured because of him greatly hurt him.
Rex looks at Edward with sorry eyes, he doesn’t know how did this happen.
He played all the cards against the Platchi carefully, he even makes the Sullivan fight them so they will be busy dealing with the Sullivan.
But now, he woke up with Duncan in front of him.
Adhara and his mom look at Edward’s legs in horror, his legs turn into meat paste as they shiver to know their turn will come.
“What do you want to know?! I’ll tell you everything!!”, Rex shouted.
Hearing Rex pleading Duncan become even confident, “I know you will tell me everything, but let me do this first”
Duncan walks towards Rex’s mom with the hammer,
“No…Don’t you dare!! IF YOU HURT MY MOTHER! I’LL KILL YOU AND SLICE YOU TO PIECES!”, Rex threatened, he can’t do anything in this situation and he felt helpless.
The scene when he saw his parents got killed by the Supernatural crosses his mind.
He always felt that he can’t forget that scene, so he wanted to be strong to not let that happened again.
But now, it’s currently happening again!
Duncan positioned the hammer as if he’s playing gold, he looks at Rex with a nasty grin.
Rex’s mom, Mrs. Greene looks at Rex reassuringly.
She looks at Rex with a gentle smile telling him that it’s fine,
Without waiting for another second,
Duncan swings his hammer but this time he aims it at Mrs. Greene’s head crushing it completely, it completely shocks Rex to his core.
“No…NO!NO!NO!!”, Rex shouted crazily as he saw Mrs. Greene fall to the ground.
Tears started to fall from Rex’s eyes, he saw his mother killed right in front of his eyes again and he can’t do anything about it.
Seeing Rex breaking down, Duncan approaches him with steady steps.
He grabs Rex’s face that is filled with tears before he said, “TELL ME ABOUT THE STYGIAN CROW ORGANIZATION!!”
Duncan slammed Rex’s head to the side angrily.
Rex’s head hit the wall behind him but instead of crying, even more, his cry stopped as he just realizes something, ‘This? This is not real!!’
Hearing Duncan asking him about the SCO rather than if he killed his son, Rex becomes skeptical.
He doesn’t even know if Duncan knows about the SCO, and his main objective is capturing Rex because Rex killed Lucas his son.
‘Is this a test? I’m still unconscious?’, Rex thought.
After realizing what this situation is, Rex immediately wiped his tears.
He then looks at Duncan coldly before he said, “I won’t tell you anything, not in a million years!”
Duncan becomes angry, “Oh yeah!! Then say your goodbye to them!”
He swings his hammer killing Adhara instantly, but now Rex didn’t bat an eye because he’s one hundred percent sure that this is not real.
Duncan killed Edward too but Rex still didn’t say anything.
Looking at Rex who looks lifeless, Duncan breaks the room in anger.
He completely trashed the room’s furniture, before he started torturing Rex using all kinds of tools that can’t be described.
Rex held the pain in, he’s once trained in torture in the USR so he has higher pain tolerance than other people.
This happens for quite some time before finally the scenery fade.
“Ahh!!”, Rex held his chest as he woke up from the dream.
Although he finally realizes that it’s a test, Rex can still see the death of his mother, Edward, and Adhara making his heart pained.
It’s hard for him to see that, it really scarred him but he knows it’s the SCO’s plan in using that.
Rex looks at his front and saw the green messenger in front of him.
The green messenger is looking and Rex and Rex can feel that he’s smiling, the vibe around him is different than usual.
“Is that a test?!”, Rex said pretending to be shocked.
The green messenger nodded his head, he then signals Rex to drink a glass of white substance on his hand.
Rex accepts the glass before he drinks it, he already checked the glass with the system.
After Rex drinks it, the green messenger then said, “Congratulation in passing the Plebe Trial, you and Liliya will then undergo the Secret Promise and the Swear of Loyalty right in front of the SCO’s master”
Hearing this, Rex’s interest got piqued but then he realizes something.
“What about Devan? He didn’t pass?”, Rex asks.
Just after Devan’s name is brought up, the vibe becomes deadly silent.
Rex got confused, he doesn’t expect this kind of situation, ‘Did he fail big time? Why does it suddenly become intense?’
“Devan turns out to be, an Elf…”, the green messenger said heavily.
He then continues, “When we tested him, he suddenly turns into an Elf. It seems that he’s suppressing it by some unknown methods”
Hearing this, Rex widened his eyes in shock.
He didn’t expect that Devan who is always beside him cheerfully is an Elf, it’s very bizarre to think that he’s friendly with an Elf.
‘Didn’t I see his stat tab before? I swear he’s a human’, Rex thought.
He’s still unsure about it because it’s been quite some time, the last time Rex look at his stat is when they first meet.
But then, Rex realizes something, ‘Wait, How come he can turn into an Elf but I can’t?’
In the dream before, Rex already tried to turn his nails into claws.
That is one of his Werewolf abilities, if Devan can do it then he’s sure can do it too but when he tried he can feel his Werewolf power got blocked.
He also tries to ask the system for help but he can’t say the word ‘System’.
‘Is the system the one blocking me?’, Rex thought, it’s a logical guess based on what happened in the dream.
“What will happen to him?”, Rex asks curiously.
For a Supernatural like Devan that manage to live amongst humans, a quick death will not be his fate.
Rex knows that the SCO will not be that kind.
Without even answering Rex, the green messenger then said, “Go line with the others outside, Liliya is waiting for you”
Knowing that the green messenger is reluctant to explain, he then leaves.
Outside Rex found many other recruits from the other doors lined up, he also saw Liliya standing alone wearing a green robe.
Rex greets Liliya before they were all guided by someone called the black messenger.
From the name of the person, Rex deduces that this black messenger has the same standing as the green messenger.
They’re lead to a spacious room, it looks like a throne.
There’s a pressuring person in front of Rex sitting on a throne with the other messengers on his side, they’re all looking at the new recruits intently.
Rex scans the pressuring person sitting on a throne but then suddenly,
SHIIING!!
“Akh!! What happened?”, Rex groans as he felt his head ringing.
<The user tries to scan a person with power far exceeded the user, it’s advised to not do it again>
The notification from the system makes Rex’s eyes widened, he looks back at the person sitting on a throne with a disbelieving look.
He can’t believe that there’s someone that strong, ‘He must be earl rank eight or above!’
“Welcome dear recruits!”, the black messenger said.
He then spreads his arms to the side welcoming the recruits before he said, “After this meeting, you will be an official member of the organization”
“This person to my left is the head of the SCO, and from now on he will be your King!”