The next day,
Edward already went back from the Cluster Domain and meet Rex at his house, he told Rex that the spellbooks are save in the Cluster Domain.
But there’s one problem,
He also told Rex that he got attacked by someone from the Platchi Family just before he enters the Cluster Domain, but thankfully he got saved by Ugrok.
The problem is that one of them escapes, and he saw Ugrok in Emham Forest.
Hearing this, Rex massages his forehead in thought but he finally decided that as long as Ugrok didn’t come out then there’s no problem.
Rex already got many urgent matters he needs to attend to, he can’t waste any more time.
He also already explain to Edward about his plans.
With the both of them working together,
Rex and Edward already write the form to the UWO in case the Atkins Family does something reckless, all of them already have copies of the form.
If Atkins Family tries to do anything funny, they will instantly report their findings to the UWO.
No matter if Edward or Rex died because of the Atkins Family, any one of them that survived will bring the form to the UWO.
Including Adhara, Kyran, and even Ryze.
Ryze is the one holding the original form,
Nobody knows if Rex bought Ryze from the Fireband Market, so the task to give the form to the UWO is his main job.
After helping to secure the spellbooks and writing the form for the UWO, Edward was told by Rex to pick up his mom and her husband to put them in the Cluster Domain.
His mom knows who Edward is, so she will not be paranoid if Edward brought her to the Cluster Domain.
‘I hope mom can handle meeting Ugrok well’, Rex thought.
The Cluster Domain is the safest place Rex has that nobody except for him, Adhara, and Rosie knows. It’s a safe place that Rex got accidentally during the Dark Moon.
Knowing this, Rex doesn’t have any choice but to hide them there.
Even if his mom will be freaked out when meeting a Supernatural like Ugrok, that is the only way to make them safe.
All of the people dear to Rex and the others will be put inside the Cluster Domain with Ugrok until the situation calmed down, or at least until Rex can fend off the Atkins for good.
Rex and Adhara on the other hand will pick up Adhara’s father.
Because the situation escalating quickly, those who are dear to them will be targeted to become a bargaining chip.
The Atkins Family will not let this rest, they will attack back first before the meeting with Wesley.
Rex and Adhara realize that their biggest weakness lies in their parent, if their parents are caught then they will instantly lose all of their bargaining power.
Now, Rex and Adhara are at Ochyra University.
They will go to Adhara’s father by train, it’s the fastest transportation they got.
But when both of them are about to arrive at the train station, Rex suddenly saw a man wearing a brown trench coat talking to the principal.
Seeing this, Rex told Adhara to wait before he approaches them.
Rex put a good 15 meters distance between them, he follows the principal and the guy in a trench coat to a room.
There’s a couple of guards guarding the room making Rex stop.
After seeing guards in front of the room, Rex stop before he thought, ‘There’s a familiar scent from that guy, I swear I smelled it before’
The guy in a brown trench coat smells so familiar, Rex tried to recall the scent.
He then clicks his fingers as he realized that scent, ‘I smell that scent from Jane last night, it’s the same woody scent as before’, Rex thought.
The scent is the same as Jane from the Atkins last night.
Rex’s enhanced smelling catches that scent even from 15 meters away, he now realized that the guy in a trench coat has a connection with his problem.
‘Is that guy a detective? Is he working for the Atkins?’, Rex thought.
After seeing that there’s no way to eavesdrop on their conversation, Rex went back to Adhara who is waiting for him.
Adhara looks at Rex and asks, “What’s wrong?”
Rex is currently thinking with a troubled expression,
After deliberating with his mind for a while, Rex then said, “Adhara, you go on and pick up your father and bring him to the Cluster Domain. I need to do something”
Rex wanted to leave but got held by Adhara.
Adhara looks at Rex with a stubborn look and said, “What are you planning to do?”
Her stubborn eyes are glued on Rex,
Her hand clings onto Rex’s arms unwilling to let go, Rex sigh seeing Adhara’s stubborn look.
He drags Adhara to a quieter place,
After checking that there’s no one around, Rex then said, “If you saw that guy in a trench coat, I will follow him”
“Why?”, Adhara asks.
Rex then explained, “I smell the woman from last night’s scent on him, that means that he met that woman recently. If the spellbooks are not meant for the Atkins, then we need to know whose is it for and that guy may give me a clue”
Adhara nodded her head,
She understands that by knowing all of the parties involved in their case, they can create a plan to counter each one of them.
Knowledge is power, and she knows that.
After hearing Rex’s plan, Adhara then bid her goodbye to her father’s house.
Rex told Adhara to be careful because there might be people following them right now, he then sits on a seat nearby and waits for the guy in a trench coat.
An hour passed, and the guy hasn’t come out yet.
It’s only after about two hours before the guy finally came out, he wears his brown hat before he bids his goodbye to the principal.
The guy then walks out of Ochyra University with Rex following behind him.
Rex’s focus is glued on the guy as he stalks the guy from the back, his movement is not suspicious at all as he pretends to buy or talk to a stranger when the guy looks to his back.
He follows the guy going inside the bus and walks out at another sector.
The day turns into noon as Rex finally saw the guy walked inside an office, it’s the FAA office where a couple of police are strolling around.
‘He really might be a detective’, Rex thought.
There are no police or FAA members that are wearing that kind of clothing, it’s kind of obvious but Rex didn’t put the ultimatum that he’s certainly a detective.
It’s just a guess, from the way he walks, acts, and the FAA office.
But when he’s about to go back, Rex suddenly felt someone is also stalking him.
Because of his focus on the guy in trench coat before, Rex is late to sense that a man wearing casual clothing is following him.
He can confirm the man is in fact stalking him as he stops by a store a couple of times.
Every time Rex went inside a store, the man will also stop and wait for Rex to come out of the store while pretending to look at his phone.
It’s kinda obvious, Rex is an expert to notice these things.
Rex then enters a mall while keeping an eye on the man following him, he then went to the movie theater.
He goes to a studio that is currently not used,
There’s a staff in front of the studio door but with just the use of Alpha Intimidation, the staff went pale in fear before she passed out.
Rex then enters the studio nonchalantly as if he didn’t do anything to the staff.
The man following Rex frowns upon seeing the staff passed out suddenly, but he still follows Rex inside the studio suspecting that Rex has a secluded meeting in it.
After entering the studio, the man found no one inside of it.
He looks around the place and to his surprise, he can’t sense Rex anywhere as if he disappeared like a ghost.
The man then realized he got played when suddenly,
ZOOM!!
The ground beneath him suddenly turns black, it’s blitzing with black lightning subtly as it completely engulfs the studio.
Seeing this, the man frowns.
He wanted to jump and not make direct contact with the black ground but he’s too late.
Four whips made of black lightning suddenly emerges from the black ground, it instantly locked onto the man and started to pursue him.
The man jumped left and right trying to avoid the black lightning whips.
He dodged a black lightning whip to the left when to his surprise, the black lightning bend and zapped his left arm.
“Kkhh!”, the man grunt in pain.
He can feel his arm got zapped by the black lightning whip as this electric current travels through his body, it makes his body numb.
Just when he’s about to run away, Rex appeared in front of him.
There’s a devious smirk on Rex’s face as he whispers slowly, “Mystic Shock”
DEG!
Right after Rex chanted those words,
The man’s heart suddenly thumped as his body got stunned by the black lightning leftovers inside his body, his body got paralyzed instantly as he falls to his knee.
Rex waves his hand as the four whips of black lightning gripped the man.
The whips gripped each of the man’s limbs making him unable to move, he even got electrocuted every time he tries to activate his mana.
Seeing the man under Rex’s mercy, a smile crept on his face.
The spell he used to turn the ground black is his new spell Black Field Orko, it will envelop an area creating some kind of field that will distort any mana channeling inside of it.
This will make Awakened with poor mana control to be unable to use spells.
Rex also uses Lightning Salvo spell alongside his new Black Field Orko spell, this will create black lightning whips that can pursue anyone inside the field like a heat-seeking missile.
The difference is that the Lightning Salvo can target anyone Rex wants that is inside the field.
Couple with his Mystic Shock skills that will stun a target that got hit by Lightning Salvo, he manages to create a powerful field of black lightning.
Even a mid-rank four like the man in front of him got handled easily by the field.
Rex approaches the man that is still stunned and pinned down by his spell, he then squats in front of the man before he ripped the man’s clothes.
On the man’s chest, there is the Atkins family crest tattoo.
It is a bird with green eyes that are spreading its wings to the side mightily, the same bird that Rex saw from Jane’s spirit energy last night.
“Would you look at this, a stalker from the Atkins Family”, Rex said playfully.
He straightens his back up before he rubs his chin cheekily, “Does the Atkins thinks that I’m playing? Sending people to stalk me”
Hearing this, the man looks up with a struggle, “Release me if you know I’m from the Atkins Family, you cannot mess with the great Atkins Family”, he said proudly.
Rex got amused, he even chuckles a bit hearing the man’s words.
“Oh really? a stalker from the great Atkins Family is threatening me. I’m so scared”, Rex mocked.
This makes the man gritted his teeth in anger, he usually can manage to intimidate anyone that captures him with the Atkins Family’s name.
But Rex didn’t get intimidated, he even though it is funny.
For all Rex knows,
Between him and the Atkins Family, he still got the upper hand and he will keep it that way.
For a lowly nobody from the Atkins Family to threaten him, Rex can’t shrug off how much of a clown the man inf front of him looks.
Rex’s expression then turns fierce, “Tell your boss, the next time they send people like you to follow me then he’ll never see his precious spellbooks again”
“Don’t think that I’m joking, you’ll regret it”, Rex added.
Hearing this, the man instantly shuts his mouth as he can feel Rex’s threatening aura.
Feeling Rex’s aura, the man knows that if Rex wanted he can kill him right at this moment without batting an eye.
Rex’s cold eyes then stare straight at the man’s eyes before he said slowly, “Tell them I’m not that patient”
After saying that, Rex lets the man free.
The man then finally regain his strength back, he wanted to leave but Rex’s word stopped him.
“Oh yeah, you’ll be an example. Punishment for a stalker is an eye!”, Rex said brutally.
A devious smile appeared on Rex’s face before his hand imbued with black lightning strikes the man’s left eye, it caught the man off guard as his left eye got pierced.
SPLURT!!
“ARGHH!”, the man shouted in pain.
Rex pulls the man’s left eye out as he throws the eye to the side, he then kicks the man who is still crying in pain, “Go back to your place now, tell them I’m waiting”