Rex never knew where it came from, but he hated to be inside water.
It was probably due to the fact that his element was on land, not in the deep water.
Gasping for breath, his chest heaving as he fought off the lingering dread from almost being drowned by the Time Draugars, he looked around anticipating more attacks coming his way, but thankfully there was no Time Draugars anywhere.
He sucked in the frigid air into his lungs, but relief turns out to be fleeting.
His danger sense prickled an instinctual alarm that sent a jolt through his weary body.
Looking down, his eyes widened in horror at the sight below.
A gaping maw of a monstrous creature, lurked just beneath him—sending rapid tingles to his feet. Its many teeth, glinting ominously beneath the water's surface. In the next, instant—the water monster surged upwards, its massive form cleaving through the water with speed.
Under the sheer impact, Rex was propelled skywards along the creature's momentum.
He managed to avoid being swallowed by holding onto the creature's sharp teeth.
Before him was the creature's long, serpentine body that unfurled.
It was adorned with scales that shimmer with an eerie luminescence in the low visibility of the area—displaying that it was nothing less, than an ancient—ferocious beast. Rex would guess that it's a leviathan of this water.
A mutated eel of some sort, disturbed by the fight between him and the Time Draugars.
Despite its horrifying appearance, what was more horrifying was its stats.
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<Albino Elder Eel>
Race: Mutated Chordata - Elder Eel
Power: Tenth-Rank (Early) - Gravity Alteration (2)
Mental: 71,250 (+30,000)
Strength: 3,775,500 (+400,000)
Agility: 650,100 (+105,000)
Endurance: 4,320,198 (+580,000)
Intelligence: 310,000
Danger Zone: Mouth and Tail.
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It's an established tenth-rank realm! Its endurance is too high, I can't win!
Seeing the mutated eel's stats, Rex gulped harshly as it was way higher than his stats.
He couldn't be compared to this mutated eel, the gap in strength was too much. One and the only redeeming thing he has, compared to the mutated eel, is his speed—which is a lot faster than the mutated eel.
Aside from that, he was completely outclassed.
As Rex was hurled into the air, his mind raced, desperately calculating his next move.
Fortunately, he had managed to transform into his Werewolf form and become big enough to keep himself, outside of the mutated eel's mouth. If he hadn't done that, he would have been inside the mutated eel's stomach right now.
Locking gaze with the mutated eel's cold and unblinking eyes, its intent clear and deadly.
"Kahkk!" Rex's body arced through the air.
For a heart-stopping moment, he hung suspended between the sky and the abyssal water.
But at that moment when time slowed down, Rex realized that he was out of the water.
I can dash to the land right now!
Charging his kingly energy and red force energy to his feet, he prepared to make a leap back to the safety of the land—but when he was about to do that—a frown crossed his face as he came to realize something.
Gazing back at the mutated eel, he realized that the pulling force was coming from it.
It was not the water that clung onto him, but this thing's power instead!
Rex was surprised to see that he lost his ability to feel anger.
Since it was the key factor of a Werewolf, he was not expecting that becoming the Banished Dark Moon Persona would erase his ability to become angry like that. Moreover, he also gain two other things that he didn't understand, a skill and a banishing effect.
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<Banish Lock>
Rank: Fractional Divine (Twelfth-rank)
Mastery: Low
Description: A godly skill that allows the user to go through any living being and locking them in place for a period of time, depending on the user's mastery and the gap in strength. Under the stun effect, the next attack dealt to the target would be amplified by 300%. It can only be used once for a singular use of the Banished Dark Moon Order skill—and there is no limiter to the skill.
<Notice: In the Banished Dark Moon Persona form, the user's attack would be empowered by a banishing effect that puts a counter above the target's head that could only be seen by the user. The counter act as an indication of how many banishing shields, that the user could use against the target>
<Reaching five counters will evoke a banished field that nullifies all of the target's abilities>
<Important note: The counter will be reset depending on the mastery and gap in power>
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Just from a glance, Rex could already tell that the effects were ridiculously strong.
He couldn't believe that the Banished Dark Moon could be this strong.
Compared to the Blood Moon Order skill effects, these effects were versatile, complimenting both defense and offense styles of fighting. It is good to know, he now had a feeling that the Banished Dark Moon Order skill would be his favorite one.
Focusing back on the situation, Rex could see the mutated eels were not done with him.
Despite being freed, he decided to test out his new skills.
Since he already paid 3 Divine Upgrades for activating the Banished Dark Moon Order skill, he was not going to waste it. At the very least he would try and see what the effects would feel like firsthand.
From the description, the phasing ability I did before should be the Banish Lock skill.
I could only use that one time, so there's no trying it out again.
Based on the description and what had happened earlier—knowing full well that the mutated eel's endurance was way above his league, Rex was quite sure that the Banish Lock skill was used at that time.
Only when his strength was enhanced three times could he do something like that.
Now, he decided to try out the banishing effect.
Roar!!
Like two intertwining snakes—both mutated eels exploded from the water, and opened their massive maws. Not even backing down, Rex's eyes gleamed in a deadly manner as he dived right toward the two massive creatures.
Using his kingly energy, he glides in the air as if he were surfing the wind.
In a frantic manner, he unleashed a mighty roar back before a powerful shockwave exploded.
Boom!!
Just like that, Rex began to wrestle with the two mutated eels.
On the other hand, the assault team including Flunra and Gistella were completely stunned.
Even though the distance between them, and the mutated eels were quite far away—about a kilometer or so, they could feel the devastating aura emitted from both monsters. It was easy to tell that both were way stronger than even the Werepanther from before.
However, despite that fact, Rex decided to fight them instead of running away from them.
"It's like last time, but now his Banished Dark Moon King Mark was taking over..." Flunra said.
Upon hearing this, Gistella shook her head in utter disbelief.
She couldn't see Rex's situation clearly from this distance, but she couldn't mistake the sheer amount of exhilaration—that she was feeling the emotion Rex was feeling, right now. Pivoting around, she looked at the others, "Alright, let's continue mapping the place,"
"We'll leave the Emperor to his fun," She added, surprising the others with her words.
Naturally, the others were confused as to what Gistella meant by that.
Liliya was the only one who voiced out her mind, "Is it really okay to leave the Emperor?"
"Yes," Gistella nodded. "In fact, he would be really annoyed if we joined and blocked his fun"