Chapter 278: One Guardian Down!

Swoosh!

The Sand Elemental stands towering in front of them like a giant, its four arms are bulging with muscles and it increases the energy that is coming out of the Sand Elemental.

Because of this sudden appearance, Kyran, Delta, and Adhara stopped their fights.

The half-beat big cats also step back from the fight while they're distracted by the changes on the Sand Elemental.

One might think that they need to finish off their prey lest it bite them from the back.

But the Sand Elemental that is glaring towards them is like a magnet that attracts their attention, but the attraction comes from their danger sense.

Rex scans the Sand Elemental before he gritted his teeth.

'Its stats have increased dramatically, especially its strength that reaches 900!', Rex thought as he lightly pull Adhara to his back in worry.

The situation might just get out of hand.

Now that he reached the sixth rank, Rex thought that his power can easily beat the guardians of the Carabidis Temple since he can even beat the raven before who almost reached the mid realm.

But turns out the Sand Elemental in front of him is way stronger than he thought.

'It's not night, I need to transform', Rex thought as he looks at the Sand Elemental.

He then glance at Kyran and Delta before he shouted, "Stay close! This one is going to be a hard one to take down"

Hearing this, Kyran and Delta wanted to get close but then,

The Sand Elemental suddenly raises all of its arms up as the sand around this place got pulled to them, Rex can feel the amount of energy that the Sand Elemental gathered.

"SPLIT!", Rex shouted completely retracting his words back.

Just after he shouted that the Sand Elemental swings all of its arms down as the four of them jumped away to dodge it.

KABOOM!!!

With the added strength, the Sand Elemental created a huge crater on the ground.

The shockwave is so astonishing that Rex and the others got shot away unable to withstand it, even the mutated animals around got hit and sent crashing away.

After they recovered, Rex and the others widened their eyes in shock.

Because of the slam from the Sand Elemental, the huge crater spans throughout the Carabidis Temple except for the places around the temple that is covered with an energy barrier.

Aside from that, all of the places got cracked as the walls rumble.

"We're going to fight that? Its strength is terrifying", Adhara commented from the side.

Getting hit by one of the Sand Elemental attacks will definitely crush their bodies and result in death, even their Werewolf hardened body and bones can't withstand that.

Rex gritted his teeth before his body makes a cracking sound.

Crack!

The three of them saw Rex's body transform into a full-fledged Werewolf, his aura shot to the sky as his transformation completed.

Horns that stick out of his head and his fangs made him look vicious.

After turning into his Werewolf form, the others started to feel some sort of aura that makes them hard to look at Rex with their eyes.

It appears out of nowhere, and they can't describe the feeling they had now with words.

When they look at Rex, it's like they're looking at a Mythical being and they're afraid that looking at him with their eyes will soil Rex's presence.

This happened to Kyran and Delta, not Adhara though who have no trouble looking at Rex.

Rex in his Werewolf Form glance at the Sand Elemental with his dagger eyes making the Sand Elemental flinch, it's the presence that startled the Sand Elemental.

ROAR!!

With a loud roar that reverberated to the surrounding, Rex then dashes towards the Sand Elemental like a beast.

His razor-sharp claws glisten as he activated his Claw of Tormentor skill.

Looking at this, the Sand Elemental didn't sit still as a huge shield made of sand materialized before it used the shield to counter Rex's attack.

CLANG!!

Their clash makes a clanging sound as Rex felt his claw tremble upon impact.

Using his skill also can impact the Sand Elemental,

It's clear that the strength still goes to the Sand Elemental, but the Sand Elemental didn't come out of it unscathed as the shield it makes got destroyed by one swing.

After testing the waters, Rex kept attacking like a maniac.

The pain that stacked on his claws got ignored as he keep swinging his arms, he even added a Sky Rupture spell in the midst of his fight to overwhelm the Sand Elemental.

Many sparks were created because of their slash,

Rex's movements are fast while the Sand Elemental stays on its spot while blocking and counter-attacking with its four arms.

From the looks of it, Rex is having a hard time penetrating its defense especially with the four arms that has quite a bit of reflex.

While this is all happening, Kyran's mouth is wide open as he saw the fight.

It's the first time he saw the full transformation of Rex, and the power within him that is threatening to erupt makes him completely in awe.

But Adhara on his side snapped out of her daze as her eyes blazed with purple fire.

Although the Sand Elemental is way stronger than her, it's not that she's completely helpless in front of the Sand Elemental since its movement is rather slow.

Swoosh!

Fire comes out of Adara's palm as she started to fly towards the Sand Elemental.

Purple Fire Mana gathers on her body as she chanted heavily while blazing with purple fire, the ground beneath the Sand Elemental started to burn ablaze, "Great Spell! Fire Maelstorm!"

BOOM!

The ground exploded with endless purple fire that engulfs the Sand Elemental entirely.

"RAARGHH!", Adhara shouted as she pours all of the mana she can gather in this attack, the Fire Rune also glowed brightly that it even burns Adhara because of how much mana she tried to gather mana.

But as expected, her fire didn't do much damage aside from distracting the Sand Elemental.

Rex saw this is all happening before he stopped and channels the Black Lightning in his body, the amount of mana that he gathers completely exceeds any of his previous attacks.

The sword that he used to fight the raven cracked under his immense mana.

This time, Rex will try to use his entire body as a vessel to contain the mana that even a fourth rank weapon can't handle.

'Devo, help me out!', Rex said while gritting his teeth.

Hearing this, Devo was amused at how much mana that Rex is currently gathering thanks to Adhara's distraction, [All this mana to kill a Sand Elemental, Fine I'll help]

Right after Devo said that,

BOOM!

Rex's body explodes with black lighting as Devo imbued Spirit Energy to his black lightning.

It's like Rex's black lightning just got injected with steroid as it becomes thicker and more powerful, even the Sand Elemental feel the wind as it turns to Rex while getting blazed with Adhara's purple fire.

After amassing the maximum output of mana that he can gather, Rex raises his arms to the sky as he chanted, "Great Spell! Sky Rupture!!"

CRACKK!

BOOM!s

BOOM!!

Multiple Lightnin Bolts rain down from the sky hitting the Sand Elemental repeatedly.

ROAR!!

The Sand Elemental roared in pain as the lightning bolt destroyed its shield that it just made shattering it into a million pieces, and even its two additional arms got charred by the Black Lightning while trying to block it.

Added with Adhara's spell, the destructiveness was increased by a mile.

BOOM!!

BOOM!!

It didn't take long before Rex's Sky Rupture Spell engulfs the wailing Sand Elemental.

While Rex kept channeling the Sky Rupture Spell to rain down to the Sand Elemental, Adhara suddenly notice the sand get lifted from the ground and started to swirl around.

It didn't take long before a sandstorm appear swirling around them.

This makes Rex and Adhara struggle to keep their focus to maintain their spells, the sandstorm started to pull their feet off the ground.

But then suddenly, 

Roar!

Delta ran towards the wailing Sand Elemental with Kyran on her back.

"I see it! Bring me closer to it!", Kyran shouted as Delta gallop towards the Sand Elemental even amidst the sandstorm that tries to push them away.

Unlike Rex and Adhara who is channeling, both of them can focus on the sandstorm.

Thud Thud Thud!

Delta arrives near the Sand Elemental as the sandstorm near it becomes even stronger, but the white force around Delta's body helped them get through although struggling.

The sand and debris start to cut their bodies as they stride near the Sand Elemental.

With the force of the sandstorm that amounts to a ridiculous level, even the smallest grain of sand turns into shrapnel that can pierce the skin.

After they manage to arrive in front of the Sand Elemental that is still got blasted by Sky Rupture spells repeatedly, Kyran's eyes flash as he saw an orb in the middle of the Sand Elemental's body that is brown in color.

It's really hard to see this brown orb that blended with the whirling sandstorm.

Kyran then prepares himself as Delta almost arrived, the black lightning started to zap their surroundings adding the obstacle towards the Sand Elemental.

And when his chance comes, Kyran's body got cloaked with Dark Mana as he jumped.

Delta's white force also lingers on Kyran's body helping him immensely.

Because of the constant Black Lightning Bolts that Rex rains to the Sand Elemental, there is a hole in the middle of the Sand Elemental's chest and the Sand Elemental is having a hard time healing the hole.

Rex saw this happening while his eyes are blitzing with black lightning.

'What is he doing? Is he mad?', Rex thought in surprise, he can't believe that he saw Kyran get very close to the Sand Elemental and his Sky Rupture spell.

Then, Rex saw as Kyran got inside the Sand Elemental's body and grabbed something.

His skin started to get teared by the force of the sandstorm, blood leaked around his body painting his entire body in red.

It's almost too much to look at, but Kyran didn't stop.

His expression is full of resolution as he reaches for the brown orb, his mind is perfectly clear trying to ignore the enormous amount of pain that he's currently experiencing.

This is easily the most pain he received in his life,

But Rex's words slipped past him that somehow helped him go through the pain.

Feeling that Kyran is inside its body trying to reach for the brown orb, the Sand Elemental becomes even crazier as the sand storm becomes even stronger.

After reaching out for the brown orb, Kyran pulls it and sticks out his bloodied hand up.

Rex and Adhara saw the brown orb in Kyran's hand.

Looking at the brown orb, Adhara and Rex realized what Kyran is trying to do as they gather mana one more time to conjure another spell.

Kyran saw that Rex and Adhara notice what he's trying to do before he threw the orb away.

The orb got tossed outside of the Sand Elemental's body as it tries to reach for the orb, it's clear that the orb is a vital part of the Sand Elemental.

But with its slow movement, it can't outrun Rex and Adhara's spell.

"Ring of Fire!"

"Sky Rupture!"

BLITZ!!

SWOOSH!!

Purple fire erupted from the ground engulfing the brown orb, thick lightning bolts struck down to the brown orb from the sky at the same time.

Crack!

ROAR!

A visible crack appeared on the brown Orbs' surface as the Sand Elemental roared in pain.

Under the two spells powerful pressure, the brown orb can't withstand it for long before the crack started to spread until suddenly,

Splash!

The brown orb shatters into a million pieces.

Right after the brown orb shatters, the sandstorm started to become chaotic as the Sand Elemental rocks its body left and right in pain.

Its center body starts to glow with a brown light and it gets brighter by the second.

By the second, the glow started to condense on the Sand Elemental's chest.

The Sand Elemental screamed with its astral voice that is filled with pain, and looking at this, Rex's body turns into a streak of black lightning while activating his buff.

He flashes steps towards Kyran who got stuck inside the Sand Elemental.

The force started to rip him apart as Kyan shouted in agony, it's clear that the situation he's in is not good and Rex had to step in.

SWOOSH!

With body cracked with black lightning, Rex penetrates the Sand Elemental's body and snatches Kyran inside before bursting through the back.

He got there just in time before the Sand Elemental exploded with energy alongside the sandstorm.

BOOM!

Another even more powerful shockwave blasted from the condensed light in the Sand Elemental's chest that not only pushes them but also scorch anything that touches it.

But Kyran's body already got engulfed by Rex's yellow barrier, and it block most of it.

SWOOSH!

The shockwave makes them roll on the ground a couple of times like a rolling ball, they didn't stop until they got pushed for more than a thousand feet away.

After the shockwave resided, Rex recovers with many cuts around his body.

He then looks at Kyran who is coughing blood but still a smile is plastered on his face, "I think I can tolerate more pain than before"

"Don't be that careless again", Rex replied with slight anger.

But upon hearing this, the smile on Kyran's face didn't fade.

Looking at Kyran's smile, Rex shakes his head in disbelief, "Just don't do that again", he said but there's a hint of a smile on his face.

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