Radiel felt his breath was stuck in his throat at the sight before him.
Upon raising his gaze to see the situation, he was instead greeted by Rex who was standing toweringly, looking down at him mightily, as he had thwarted Radiel's attempt easily. But the sight that shocked Radiel was not Rex, but the two creatures beside him.
Grr...
Appearing out of nowhere, Radiel saw two wolf-like creatures poised beside Rex.
Like loyal pets, these two creatures waited patiently for Rex's orders.
Both have their crimson eyes, like rubies forged from the world's malice combined, fixed onto him, growling in a low but heavy tone. These creatures were massive in size, even larger than the mutated scorpions earlier, their enormous forms rippling with menace.
Moonlight energy, the pure essence from the moon crafted their bodies.
Due to the energy's nature and influence, these creatures looked like silver shadows, making them look otherworldly and terrifying. Long tongues dropped from their panting mouths as if savoring Radiel's taste from the air.
From their appearance alone, Radiel felt a shiver run down his spine.
He couldn't be compared to these wolf creatures.
On the other hand, Rex was also marveling at the two wolf creatures inside.
It was his new skill gained from devouring the mutated falcon, the Echo of Night Spirits skill.
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<Echo of Night Spirits>
Rank: Legendary (Tenth-rank)
Mastery: Low
Description: An area skill that allows the user to make a summoning ritual to summon beasts from the Silver Deity Penitentiary through a vicious roar. All offerings after the roar would be calculated, and the Silver Deity Penitentiary would respond by sending an appropriate beast depending on, the offerings. There are three levels, of the Silver Deity Penitentiary.
Having a high mastery would increase the number of summoned beasts and unlock their powers.
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Initially, the skill the System favored from the mutated falcon was the Echo of the Sky skill.
An area skill, unleashing an enhanced roar that could dull the senses.
Since the mutated falcon likes to attack from above with its extreme speed in flight—it was a perfect skill for it in order to prohibit its target from dodging its dive. But Rex was not entirely satisfied with that kind of skill thus he used his remaining Skill Upgrades to upgrade it.
Now, that Echo of the Sky skill has evolved into the Echo of Night Spirits skill.
An area skill that scaled depending on his intelligence stat—having the same exact effect as the Echo of the Sky skill but has an additional utility of summoning powerful beasts from the Silver Deity Penitentiary.
Rex was eager to try this skill out, and the skill didn't disappoint.
It was extremely strong.
<Offering calculation has been completed: First Seal!>
<The Silver Deity Penitentiary was pleased and responded to the user's call!>
<Summoned prisoner: the Eclipse Terrors>
Using the killed mutated scorpions as sacrifices, the accumulated offerings amounted to the Silver Divine Penitentiary to summon the Eclipse Terror, which were these two wolf creatures beside Rex right now.
Glancing over to them, Rex scanned their stats.
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<Amberis>
Race: Eclipse Demi-Goddess
Power: Pseudo Tenth-rank Realm - Prisoner of the Storm
Status: Restricted (Low-mastery)
Mental: -
Strength: 644,000
Agility: 891,000
Endurance: 217,000
Intelligence: -
Danger Zone: ∞
<Nimborn>
Race: Eclipse Demi-God
Power: Pseudo Tenth-rank Realm - Prisoner of the Harvest
Despite the distance from the hole, the energy coming from it was enough as a telltale.
Rex realized that the hole was a Chaos Phantom.
"Chaos spawns... How and why are they here?" He mused inwardly, frowning at the sight.
Upon hearing this Evelyn also frowned, she and Rex had talked about the problems that were happening that might be a threat to the empire throughout their journey, after making up—so she was also aware of what these Chaos spawns were.
"Desert Orcs were near the area, some of them might be corrupted," She said.
Just like the Orc in Dargena City, there might be other corrupted beings outside.
Rex nodded as that made sense, he had already anticipated other Chaos Phantoms outside.
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<Sudden Quest!>
Objective: Eliminate all Chaos spawns and close the Chaos Phantom!
Description: Several hostile Chaos spawns have spotted the user—and bore killing intent for the user, eliminate all Chaos spawns, and close the Chaos Phantom to prevent the spread of Pure Chaos Energy from corrupting and thinning the fabric of the moral world's dimension!
Chaos spawns eliminated: 0/6
Rewards: 2x Minor Chaos Embryos, 1x instant level ticket, and Chaos Rune Fragment.
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Sensing the incoming Chaos Spawns, a sudden quest was triggered.
I was already planning on doing that.
Gazing sharply at the Chaos Spawns, careful as they possessed Pure Chaos Energy that was able to corrupt, even the likes of the Countess of the Dark Lunirich—he prepared to eliminate all Chaos Spawns without being touched by them.
He also needs to take care of this quickly.
If the Chaos Spawns were not taken care of immediately, their corruption would spread.
"Evelyn, Mavenna, bring them away and don't get close," Rex commanded.
Upon hearing this—Evelyn wanted to say something but she refrained from doing so, seeing Rex's serious expression. Compared to the battle against Radiel, this one, was more serious, and that was reflected clearly on his face.
Not refuting his words, Evelyn pivoted and headed back to the castle.
She would be watching the battle from afar.
Mavenna also did the same, she was going to bring Radiel and Catherine away from here.
Listening to what they were talking about—Radiel, who had been released free and was now being supported by Catherine asked in a mixture of confusion—and also fear, "Wh- What are those creatures? I've never seen something like them before"
Despite being quite old, Radiel has never seen monsters such as these ones.
Additionally, he could also see the amount of evil within them, which was extremely choking.
It was as if their aura of evilness was tangible, able to choke him directly.
All of these creatures seemed to be the product of a nightmare.
No living beings should look like that and emanate that much violence.
As opposed to answering his question, Mavenna grabbed them both and flew away.
She could also feel the seriousness, in Rex's words—and she knew when to play around, and when she shouldn't—and now it was clear that she shouldn't play around. Energy-wise these Chaos Spawns were not that strong.
But there was something about them that made it normal to avoid them entirely.
Upon the others leaving the scene as commanded, Rex focused on the Chaos Spawns, he was trying to assess, which one of them was the most dangerous, with both Amberis, and Nimborn growling and ready for battle at his side.
Boom!
In the next instant, one of the Chaos Spawns opened its mouth and fired bullets.
From the energy these bullets emitted, they were charged with Pure Chaos Energy, and they were aiming at Mavenna, who was carrying Catherine and Radiel, heading back to the castle for shelter.
Not needing to be commanded manually, Nimborn quickly moved.
Trails of silver shadows were left behind him as he intercepted the chaos bullets.
Like earlier, he uses his own body to absorb the chaos bullets' impact.
Simultaneously, knowing that this could get dangerous quickly, Rex didn't hesitate to shift his body into his Werewolf form, and darted ahead. He activated his powers to the peak, holding nothing back.
Keeping up with him on the side was Amberis, she was also galloping straight ahead.
Rex leaped and mounted her as his King Mark glowed brightly.
"Come on, Amberis, this is the first time I summoned you so you have to leave a mark!"
Roar!!
Swoosh!