“WATCH OUT!!”
Dave was shocked, his body is not listening to him as Rex warned him.
Rex with his incredible reflex grabs Dave’s collar and pulls him out of the way, a black object rushes past Dave grazing his right cheek.
Kaboom!!
The trees they sat on collapses instantly, it cannot defend one attack from the black object.
Dave snapped out of his daze, he uses his telekinesis ability to shield Liliya who is sleeping before Rex takes her out of the way.
Liliya opened her eyes abruptly, she was confused about what’s happening.
Rex gazes towards his front and saw a pale man standing just a couple of meters away from him.
Without a moment of doubt, the man in front of him is definitely a vampire.
The vampire has long brown hair with a dash of black, his gaze is sharp like a refined sword, he shows a stoic expression, and his hazel eyes are glowing under the shade.
Silence covered the place,
A black sword zipped past them from the back and comes back to the vampire, the sword emits a red blood aura that is twirling around it.
The vampire doesn’t emit any kind of unique aura but all of Rex’s senses are telling him to run!
Then suddenly,
Swoosh!!
Black wings grow behind the vampire, the wing is furless and it spread ten meters wide blocking the sun behind the vampire.
It majestically flaps as the vampire started to levitate from the ground while staring at Rex’s team.
The vampire stretches out his hand as he says slowly, “Hand over the princess mortal”
Hearing this, Liliya becomes agitated, “Who are you?!”
Without even answering Liliya’s question, the vampire said, “I’m not going to repeat again, hand over the princess”
The vampire’s expression is still stoic, his eyes are calm as water as if Liliya is nothing but an ant in front of him.
Liliya is still looking down at the vampire, she’s confident because she thought that the green messenger is still watching them.
Rex’s eyes glisten as he sees the vampire’s stat,
<seth></seth>
Race: Pure Vampire – Adult Rook
Power: ???
Mental: ???
Strength: ???
Agility: ???
Endurance: ???
Intelligence: ???
‘We can’t beat that, it’s at least as strong as Brutal Grey. He must be one of the Royal Vampire tasked to guard Calidora, the Haltija’s from before is only to bee low profile’, Rex thought.
High-rank vampires can be detected by the Humans, because of that they don’t send Seth to guard Calidora but they sent the Haltijas.
Although the power of the vampire in front of him is strong, that’s not what worries Rex the most.
The main problem is that Rex’s supernatural senses still ringing madly from all directions, based on his estimation there are at least 5 more vampires surrounding them.
There are more vampires like the vampire in front of him around hiding, ‘We’re surrounded, we can’t fight back against it. We don’t even know if the Green Messenger is still watching us’, Rex thought, he pokes Liliya’s elbow and shakes his head.
Liliya is still stubborn, “No way! We can’t go back empty-handed! We must…”
Before Liliya can even finish,
BOOM!!
The vampire lifts his finger and fires red blood energy that grazed Liliya’s cheek, it is so fast and powerful that none of them can react to its trajectory.
Then suddenly, “Enough!”, Calidora shouted, stopping the vampire.
The vampire looks at Calidora, he turned into a blur before suddenly Calidora is already in his hand.
Rex, Dave, and Liliya are helpless against it, it is simply too strong!
Rex and Calidora’s eyes meet, he shakes his head trying to convince Calidora to not let the unknown Vampire attack, ‘I give you my blood, at least let us go’, he said in his thought.
Calidora notice Rex and thought that it is a warning for her, she then whispers to the unknown vampire’s ear,
The vampire widened his eyes for a little bit before going back to normal, his eyes then landed on Rex’s.
‘What did that girl said? Why is he looking at me?’, Rex thought, the unknown vampire’s gaze is like a gun pointing at him. He feels that he might die at any second.
The atmosphere becomes intense, although it is silent the silence brought more tension to them.
After a moment, the unknown vampire scoffs before turning his back, “Consider this mercy”, he said before he started to fly away.
The unknown vampire’s eyes glisten, he grabs Liliya’s red mark on Calidora and instantly destroys crushed it.
Calidora that is being carried by the unknown vampire waved her hand, “We’ll meet again”, she said to Rex.
Rex notices this but for Dave and Liliya, it seems like a threat.
Soon enough, they fly away disappearing through the dense swamp.
Liliya on the side grinds her teeth in anger, the veins on her head bulged, “DAMN!!”, she hits the tree beside her.
BAM!!
A part of the tree got destroyed by Liliya’s might, her expression is that of a madwoman, she doesn’t look and acts like before.
“It’s okay, it’s our first mission and it is too difficult. We must be thankful that we’re even alive right now”, Dave said trying to calm Liliya down.
The image Liliya shows when she’s in front of a Supernatural and in front of humans is very different, she is weak and silent in the bar but becomes easily agitated and fierce during situations like this.
‘What’s with her?’, Rex thought weirdly.
The three of them curses themselves for resting,
If they just keep going and not stopping to rest, Calidora might’ve still been here right now.
They left the swamp with a dejected expression, they can only manage to find out Calidora’s standing in the Vampire Kingdom and find the Dark Mooncress. Although Rex didn’t exactly hold Brutal Grey there, he at least got the Dark Mooncress.
In Dave and Liliya’s head, they have failed but in Rex’s, it’s still a form of success, ‘Just wait until I get stronger’, Rex thought, looking at the Dark Mooncress in his inventory.
Meanwhile, on the other side of Zrolis City.
Bertolf and Zegrath stopped a few kilometers away from Zrolis City.
Zegrath is still burning with anger, he looks at the faraway Zrolis City as Rex’s face past his mind making his breathing heavy again.
Bertolf on the side notices this, “Don’t worry, you will get your revenge soon”, he looks at Zegrath’s hand and continues, “Do you get the Dark Mooncress?”
Hearing this, Zegrath holds out his hand revealing three petals of Dark Mooncress.
“That damn human manage to stole it?”, Bertolf sighs before he continues, “It’s regretful to not get all of it but we’ll make do, I will help you reach rank five with this”, Bertolf said confidently.
Before Zegrath can answer, “But you need to become my subordinates, only then I will help you”
Zegrath didn’t think long before he nodded his head, all he can think of is to get stronger and kill the humans as much as possible.
Bertolf grins,
Just as Bertolf wanted to resume back to the Werewolf Kingdom, Zegrath asks, “Did you manage to kill Jarvald?”
“No, he escaped just before I can finish him”, Bertolf said, he still curses himself for not finishing Jarvald as he knows Jarvald will come and take revenge in the future.
The both of them then dashes and resume their way.
~
One day has passed,
After going back from Zrolis City, he immediately reports his finding to the SCO.
They didn’t manage to finish their mission but because it is their first mission, they got off easily and not get punished.
Rex immediately went back to Ochyra University after that,
During this past day, he got bombarded by Rosie and Adhara questioning about where did he go but he shrugs it off and tells them he went to his mom which makes Adhara and Rosie mad.
Rex’s lie can’t be more obvious than that so they finally stopped bothering him,
He mostly spent his time relaxing and resting because of his fatigue, he didn’t even go to class these couple of days because of that.
Regarding the preparation for fighting Kevin Luc, he already prepares all he can and he is confident in being a match for the ace of Faraday University, Kevin Luc.
Rosie also didn’t ask much about that matter, she usually asks Rex to accompany her to eat but always got intercepted by Adhara.
At this moment, Rex is in a cafe drinking coffee with the girls.
As always, Adhara and Rosie are arguing about which food to eat later.
The both of them are like a cat and a mouse, they never get along when they meet each other.
Rex is enjoying the scenery,
The girls notice this when suddenly they remember something, “Rex…”, Adhara calls, she seems to hesitate to say about something.
Rosie on the side also wore a worried expression which makes Rex frown in confusion.
“It’s about when you’re gone, did you perhaps in danger? I can’t sleep that night”, Adhara said meekly, her eyes show signs of worry just like Rosie’s.
Rex is thinking, ‘How did she know?’, he looks at Rosie and found her nodding her head too.
But suddenly, a notification appears.
<adhara has=”” a=”” special=”” bond=”” with=”” the=”” user,=”” she=”” will=”” know=”” every=”” emotion=”” you=”” felt=””></adhara>
Reading this, Rex nodded his head in understanding because it makes sense for Adhara a pack member of his felt his emotion but Rosie on the other hand…
‘How the hell did she felt it too?’, Rex thought.
He coughs a little before explaining, “Well, I met danger a couple of days ago”
Hearing this, Adhara and Rosie perked up their ears listening to Rex’s story that they have been dying to know.
Looking at the curious girls, he then chuckles before he continues, “Yesterday, I was in someplace that is a secret from you both. There, I met a really strong Cursed Creature”
Adhara and Rosie got annoyed for a little bit, “The creature is so silent that I can’t feel its presence, it suddenly appears behind my back looking at me like a predator looking at its prey. It surprised me and I felt weak in its presence, so that might be when you both felt I’m in danger”
Adhara and Rosie nodded their heads with a surprised look, ‘If even Rex felt weak, what will I feel in its presence?’, they both thought inside their heads.
Then Rex continues, “Thankfully, someone that is a secret from both of you came and hold the creature back. That’s why I can come back here alive”
Rex chuckles thinking back to that moment, he still feels his scalps tingles then suddenly,
“REX!!”
‘Hmm?’, Rex mumble when suddenly he saw the girls jumped on him.
BAK!!
He fell from the chair with Adhara and Rosie on top of him, they are both weeping like a baby.
“What the hell are you both doing? People are starting to watch us, get up!”, he said in shock, he didn’t expect the girls to suddenly jump on him.
“Don’t do that again!! Who will become my shield if you die!!’, Rosie cried, her pitiful cry makes Rex annoyed for some reason.
On the other side, Adhara is also weeping, “Please don’t be in that kind of situation again…”
Seeing both girls cry for him, a gentle smile appears on his face, “Alright, alright, I won’t do that again. Don’t worry, I will not die at least not now”, he said reassuringly.
Adhara notice Rex’s weird answer but she decided to shrug it off,
After calming themselves down, the three of them went out of the cafe under everyone’s weird gazes and headed to a restaurant.
They both chatted leisurely but suddenly, “YOU THERE!!”
Rex and the girls continue their walk ignoring the shout, they think it must be someone else.
“STOP!! REX SILVERSTAR!!”, a boy shouted from afar, he wears expensive-looking equipment with blazing red hair.
Hearing this, Rex hesitated for a moment before turning to his back.
Rex saw a guy a foot shorter than him,
The guy runs towards him before stopping right in front of him with heavy breaths, he calmed his breathing for a moment before declaring, “I CHALLENGE YOU TO A DUEL!!”