Chapter 540 I Can Finally Avenge Your Deaths

Rex instantly bolted upon finishing taking care of Arnulf, he didn't idle knowing that despite his increase in strength he doesn't really know how much stronger he actually got. It's also his first time activating his King Mark, there might be a limit.

Despite the escaping Ruston and Ian are hurt badly, but they are still Alphas.

Comparing them to normal Werewolves would've become the greatest understatement, their speed is quick enough to cover a mile or maybe more from one leap. From the conversation he needed to have with Giana alongside taking down Arnulf, it's unclear how far they get during that time.

While dashing through with incredible speed surpassing his imagination, Rex opened his stats.

<Rex Silverstar (King Mark)>

Pack: Silverstar (5/5)

Level: 51 (46,373,500,000/54,000,000,000)

Race: Exalted Royal Black Werewolf

Full-Moon: 23 Days - Ice and Snow Moon

Berserk: 71%

Sanity: 40%

Mental: 6235(+357)

Strength: 245,330(+61,506)

Agility: 252,780(+63,345)

Endurance: 203,122(+51,196)

Intelligence: 4473 (+120)

? Even though it was his own stats Rex can't help but widen his eyes in sheer shock, he can't believe that his stats have reached a very terrifying degree. His bodily prowess looks completely different compared to the last time he look at his stats.

It's like seeing the stats of some very mythical being, but that mythical being is himself.

There's no doubt that with these stats he has already reached the ninth-rank realm, it's simply hard to imagine that he's not in the ninth-rank realm with this kind of stats. But then again he did reach the highest honor a Werewolf can achieve.

No wonder every Werewolf pays their respects to the one accepted by the full moon.

With this kind of strength that was shown on his stats, Rex is still in disbelief as he hasn't even used any of his enhancements yet. His stats will become even more frightening when he used his other enhancement skills that can scale well alongside his power.

Most of his enhancement skills use percentage increase, so they all scale very well.

'Although everyone knows that a ninth-rank can only be killed by another ninth-rank, now I know the reason why that term becomes public knowledge. It's a devastatingly huge leap from the eighth rank realm into the ninth rank realm'

Rex shakes his head finding that it's hard to believe to see such changes that happened instantly.

Now his intelligence stat has become extremely minuscule compared to his physical prowess, fighting other ninth-rank realms must be done using his Werewolf power alone. His Awakened power will be useless against them.

Still, in disbelief, Rex sucked in a cold breath remembering the attack he received with the others.

Back when they were in front of the demon stronghold and gets attacked by the blue demon, it becomes even scarier now knowing the stats possessed by a ninth-rank realm. Before this Rex has never seen a ninth-rank beings stats.

Even eighth-rank beings, he only saw a couple of them so he's unclear of the power behind them.

'I can't believe that I managed to survive that despite the energy having been mostly dispersed...', Rex thought feeling that he got lucky that time or the blue demon is not that serious in aiming at him and more of wanting to say what it said to him.

With that out of the way, Rex focuses back on the matters at hand.

Since Ruston has just triggered the Super Berserk quest which is technically the first time as the one for Calidora was terminated, Rex needs to kill him as soon as possible. There's not a time limit, but that makes the quest even more urgent.

The consequence he will face in failing that quest is death, Rex will die if he failed to kill Ruston.

But with the black shockwave he cast earlier, he already marked Ruston's location and now is heading towards his location with incredible speed. Arnulf and Ruston run in the opposite direction of each other, but Rex managed to cover that ground easily.

Although he used that skill, Rex doesn't know where that skill came from.

Rex just follows the instinct that told him to activate his King Mark, his body moved on its own as if it already know what to do before the black shockwave exploded. It's like an innate instinct from receiving the Dark King Mark.

Upon the black shockwave touching the target, it immediately marked them.

It's not an exact mark that tells Rex directly where they are right now, but the mark sent a signal that can help Rex narrow down the area that he needed to search. And following that signal, Rex finds himself standing on a grassland.

Rex stopped in the middle of the grassland and saw a village in front of him.

Without needing to check deeper he already knows that the village is in chaos with the scream of terror already disturbing his ears way before he arrives here, 'This is going to be bad, I need to take him away from here'

Knowing exactly the thing that makes the village in Chaos, he immediately dashed in.

Although his current speed is faster than a human's or even most Awakened's eyes perception when Rex stopped some of the farmers saw him before their expression becomes paler. Why wouldn't they? It's a natural reaction when they saw another Werewolf stepping inside their beloved village.

One caused catastrophic damage, they can't imagine fighting two Werewolves.

But unknown to the Rex in his Werewolf form covered with his kingly energy swept his gaze around before landing on a particular house. The house has its front door destroyed, and through that, his expression stiffens in anger.

Rex's eyes instantly turn murderous seeing what the Werewolf he's searching for is doing.

Without wasting even a fraction of a second, a loud roar escaped Rex's mouth as he dashed at Ruston pulling back nothing in reserve, "RUSTON!!!"

SWOOSH!

The hatred-filled voice reverberated to the surroundings swiftly and instantly picked up by Ruston's ears, Rex saw that Ruston was about to do the same thing as Ruston did to him another kid. If he let that happen, he wouldn't be able to forgive himself.

It's very hard to forget the day of his parent's death, even impossible in his opinion.

Letting another kid experience the torture and agony he's feeling every day from watching the death of his parents directly, Rex wouldn't let that happen. Not in a million years, it's not something a kid should experience.

Catching Ruston off guard, Rex bashed his shoulder powerfully to save the mother and son duo.

Because of that shoulder bash, Ruston was sent crashing away spurting blood from his mouth, the disparity between their strength has become evident as that light touch alone broke every bone on Ruston's body.

Despite fighting shoulder to shoulder, Arnulf is way stronger than Ruston.

Ruston is only an early eighth-rank Alpha Werewolf, while Arnulf despite being stated to be a peak sixth-rank Werewolf has total stats exceeding that of Ruston's stats. Both are a terrifying presence, but not for the current Rex.

Upon hearing the sound of a flesh collision, the mother shrieked while hugging her son.

Shifting his gaze towards the mother and son duo, Rex can't help but feels satisfaction overflowing his insides. If humanity knows about the Supernatural Emergence earlier then someone might've done what he did and saved his parents.

But now is not the time to qualm in regret, he thanked himself for saving these two.

Although it's unintended, the corner of Rex's mouth quirks up into a genuine smile. Knowing that his presence shocked the villagers earlier, Rex decided to revert back into his human form. It's just to not make the villagers panic seeing another Werewolf barge into their humble village.

Glancing back at where Ruston got blasted into, Rex's body disappeared from the place unable to be traced by the eyes. It was brief, but the kid saw the smirk on Rex's face.

On the other side, the mother started crying when she saw that Rex saved them.

Despite her telling her son that everything is going to be alright, she knows that she can't do anything in the face of the absolute power of a high-ranking Supernatural. She's nothing but an ordinary mortal, less than an ant for the true power of the current world.

It sapped her out of the hope that lingers within, but that hope was saved by Rex.

Crying profusely while embracing the kid's body under her arms, the mother let out all the tears of joy with her trembling body. But the kid on the other side is looking at the hole created by Ruston being thrown away.

Widening his eyes in awe, the kid points at the hole with sparkling eyes.

"Mother, is that the Awakened you always told me about?"

"Yes... my precious little boy, he must be an Awakened that was sent by God to save us. Thank you, dear God, thank you..."

Meanwhile, a mile away outside of the village.

"Huaakkhh!"

Ruston knelt on the ground on all four, his body was hit by the feeling that indicate the bones inside his body broke from receiving that one attack. Blood kept pouring out while his body tries to regenerate, but his body is obviously exhausted.

It's clearly shown from how slow the regeneration has become to heal the broken bones.

Even a normal Werewolf would have a faster regeneration compared to the current Ruston, the fight has exhausted all of his power and now he's left helpless without any hope of surviving. Rex simply has become too strong.

The moment Rex gain his King Mark was the moment his death was sealed.

Out of nowhere, a subtle tapping sound can be heard as Rex appeared a couple of steps in front of Ruston. He still wore the murderous eyes as the resentment he had for Ruston can only grow watching the bad deeds done by Ruston.

Just when he thought that his resentment and hatred have reached the limit, Ruston finds ways to break through it. Something that needed to be commended, he just has a very rotten personality.

"Why put on such a look? I didn't do anything that extreme, did I?"

While still gushing blood out of his mouth, Ruston still has the audacity to initiate a talk.

It's even pretty disturbing to see him talking with half of his body scorched and disfigured. Something many would find disgusting and grotesque, but Rex kept his calm eyes right on Ruston that has already accepted his death.

"What are you trying to achieve by doing that?"

A simple question seeped out of Rex's mouth asking in puzzlement.

Although Rex's tone is calm and collected despite the raging anger inside of him and also the hatred that he bore for more than a dozen years for the creature in front of him, there's a clear coldness that hides the nasty fate that lies in front of Ruston.

But as if he finds what Rex said funny, Ruston raises his gaze with a smirk.

"Instead of being angry with me, you should've thanked me instead. In a way, you came out like this because I killed your worthless parents. Their demise has served humans more than the Supernaturals"

The corner of Rex's mouth twitched upon hearing this, and in the next second.

KABOOM!!

Rex punched the ground using almost all of his might cracking the entire ground around him, even the cracks spread further and split the village's wall into two. It was like a powerful earthquake where everything shook from that one punch.

Since he's now already in the ninth-rank realm, the destructiveness he can bring needs to be watched.

But knowing that he's in his human form which immensely weakens him, the destructiveness is not as big as it would be if he decided to punch the ground with his King Mark activated. Maybe he will create a mile-deep pit if he does that.

Upon seeing Rex's fist land beside his head, Ruston slowly glances back with blank eyes.

"Go on, kill me... I've already had enough of this world"

With a grim dark expression hearing the words that came out of Ruston's mouth, Rex straightens his back before he stares at Ruston with a blank expression. In the next moment, he turns his hands into claws before slashing the void beside him.

From that slash alone, the dimension cracked as if it was nothing.

"If I were to kill you, I need to do it properly"

Bam! Bam! Bam!

"AHHKK!!"

Ruston groans in pain finding that each of his limbs got crippled without him even seeing Rex doing it, pain he's feeling right now is the only witness of what Rex did to his entire body from that fraction of a second.

With that out of the way, Rex immediately grabbed Ruston by the nape.

Dragging Ruston by the nape, both of them went into the black portal. Ruston's mind was left wondering what fate will lie in front of him. But having lived in this world for a long time, he's not easily frightened.

In another place that is devoid of people, a portal appeared.

Rex came out from the portal before throwing Ruston to the ground in front of him, they both arrived at what seemed to be an abandoned city with ruined buildings. But upon reaching this place, Ruston can sense the familiarity of this place.

But to his surprise, Rex's indifferent expression shed a tear of sadness.

Following the direction of where Rex is seeing, Ruston finds two tombstones which he instantly recognized without needing Rex's explanation. These two tombstones should be Rex's parents, humans do this to honor the dead.

"Mom, Dad... I finally caught the killer that killed both of you"

Upon hearing this, Ruston was about to say something but he finds that he can't. Ruston looks down and realized that his throat and the lower muzzle were destroyed before him even realizing it.

"I can finally avenge your deaths..."

It's a complicated feeling that he's currently feeling right now, but relief is definitely in the mix.

Rex caresses both of the tombstones of his parents with great care ignoring the wailing Ruston behind him, but the gloomy expression turns stiff again. Standing up once more, Rex looks at the two tombstones for a moment.

Although it feels long, only a bit over a minute has passed.

"But I'm sorry mom, dad... I'll have both of you wait a bit more before I sacrifice this wicked thing in your name. Just a bit, it will not take long. This bastard doesn't deserve a swift death, I need to make him suffer"

After saying that, Rex's diabolical eyes fixated on the helpless Ruston.

Slowly approaching with steady steps, Rex grabbed Ruston's head forcing him to look at his eyes. The expression he's wearing right now is the maniacal one as he whispered evilly right to Ruston's face, "Death awaits you, but there's no hurry..."

Hearing this, Ruston feels an ominous feeling as he tries to read Rex's expression but fails.

"Before I send you to the grasp of death in the most painful manner, I will have you experience what I did. You're going to watch powerlessly as I kill your pack members, and your family in front of you"

"Go beg forgiveness from my parents' tombstone, who knows maybe you'll need it..."