The Invincible Full-Moon System

Chapter 390: Lesson One - Rough Situation

”This is just about right, thereʼs no way no mutated animals are attracted to these fruits”

Rex looks at the surroundings as the mutated gorillas surround them, they are filled with hostility as the bigger ones puffed out their chest while glaring at Rex and the others.

While the smaller ones are hanging on the silk cotton treeʼs branches making weird noises.

Gistella is already readying her spells in case the gorillas wanted to test them, sheʼs already in her battle mode and so do Evelyn and Dray who already unsheathed their swords.

But Rex is calm while looking at the gorillas,

ʼThe strongest ones are an early sixth rank, itʼs nothing muchʼ, Rex thought.

Roar!

One of the mutated gorillas, the biggest one pounds its chest intimidatingly as it roars angrily showing that itʼs the leader of this pack of mutated gorillas.

Its body burns with fire brighter as it kept pounding its chest,

Looking at this, Rex smiles as he glances at Delta.

Just from the meaningful look on Rexʼs face, Delta smirks exposing her fangs as she looks at the biggest mutated gorillas menacingly before she suddenly opens her mouth.

ROAR!

Deltaʼs roar was louder that make the heart trembles,

Itʼs very deafening and domineering as her roar engulfs the leader of the mutated gorillas.

She bares her sharp fangs and even exposes her white lightning while glaring at the mutated gorillas, the powerful roar and the aura she emitted are very domineering.

Hearing this, the biggest mutated gorilla went silent immediately.

Just from Deltaʼs aura alone, it can feel that Delta is way more powerful than itself, and with just that one display the biggest mutated gorilla roar meekly before it leaves followed by the others.

”You donʼt need to be that loud”, Rex mutters as he shakes his head.

Delta can only growl lightly before Dray said, ”I really envy you for being a Zeragon, itʼs freaking cool to have a mount like this gorgeous creature right here”

”You should get one”, Rex replied nonchalantly as he looks to his right.

But this makes Dray slightly looks at him in annoyance, ”You said it like itʼs easy...”

Rex told the others to wait here for a bit as he wanted to get the Fire Tongue Fruit to lure the Fire Serpent Spirit, he came back not long after with red fruit in his hand.

The fruit is about the same size as an eggplant but it curves like red pepper,

Itʼs a pretty high rank mutated fruit, itʼs in the sixth rank and has a hint of spirit energy in it.

Both Evelyn and Dray watched from the side as Rex approaches the cotton silk tree, then they saw a slight change in the surroundings as they can feel a hint of spirit energy coming from the tree which started to raise the temperature of the surroundings.

”I know you want it, so why donʼt you just come out?”, Rex mutters lightly.

Hearing this, the spirit energy becomes even more intense before an astral red serpent materializes wrapping its body on the tree while hissing at Rex.

It surprises Dray so much just from the spirit energy emitted by the red serpent spirit.

The fire spiritʼs body can even wrap the entire cotton silk tree which even surprises Rex, its body is covered with thick red scales and the snakeʼs spine is poking out of its back blazing with fire.

Even the snakeʼs tongue is made by a bright fire, it hisses as the snake looks at the fruit.

Upon looking at the red serpent spirit, Rex finds that there are a couple of things different than the vision from the spirit tree that he saw before.

This snakeʼs skin is not molten like before, and its aura is not as strong.

But one thing that catches Rex off guard is the size of the spirit which is enormous,

The fact that the spirit got smaller since it loses a fight against the wind deer spirit and still has this enormous size shows that the previous original body is humongous.

”Itʼs quite weak though, maybe thatʼs why I need to bring it back to the tree”, Rex mumbles.

Rexʼs mumbles were light but Dray heard the first part which makes his eyes dart to Rex in shock, he then looks back at the fire serpent spirit and thought to himself, ʼThis is weak?ʼ

If Dray knows that this fire serpent spirit should be stronger then he might just pass out.

Only Evelyn seems to only surprise a bit, her spirit just like Devo said is at least around the four thousand years mark and the fire serpent spiritʼs power got weakened since its loss.

The fire serpent spiritʼs energy is at least half the original.

ʼSystem, How do I trap this spirit into the Spirit Soulstone?ʼ, Rex asks.

Reading this, Rex then thought, ʼAdhara was the one who was supposed to tame thisʼ

ʼIʼll just weaken this spirit and bring it to Adhara, she should be able to tame this herselfʼ, Rex thought before he glance at the fire serpent spirit who is eyeing him curiously.

The others are looking at Rexʼs back,

Dray and Evelyn are the most curious about how Rex will capture the spirit, but then suddenly,

BOOM!

BLITZ!

Rexʼs body suddenly exploded with black lightning as Devo materializes on his back, Devoʼs pressuring presence is still surreal for Evelyn and Dray who have already seen Devo a couple of times blasting both of them a couple of steps back.

Even Devoʼs energy shockwave makes the fire serpent spiritʼs astral body fainter,

Itʼs almost as if Devoʼs energy shockwave alone almost dematerializes the fire serpent spirit from the material world, that just shows how powerful Devo really is.

After exposing Devo to the fire serpent spirit,

Rex then leaped towards it and takes out the Spirit Soulstone from the inventory, he touches the fire serpentʼs spirit body using spirit energy before the Spirit Soulstone absorb the fire serpent.

Roar!

The fire serpent wails but it canʼt do anything under Devoʼs pressure,

It didnʼt take long before the fire serpent spirit got engulfed completely by the Spirit Soulstone, even the cotton silk tree got sucked out of its fire mana as the fruits withered from their red color.

Even the red colors on the surroundings got sucked alongside the fire serpent spirit,

What once a beautiful scenery that even Rex finds pleasing becomes dark and withered in a blink of an eye, the night engulfs the place again with darkness.

Rex puts the Spirit Soulstone into the inventory as he turns to his back,

Dray and Evelyn are looking at him with a surprised expression as Rex looks to just absorbed the spirit easily, they didnʼt see the Spirit Soulstone from the back.

”Is that it? Weʼre going to go back after this?”, Dray asks.

Hearing this, Rex shrugs his shoulders, ”Yep thatʼs it, I just want to get this spirit for Adhara to assimilate with. Sheʼs stuck at the fifth rank for too long now”

”I told you that it will not take long”, he added while shrugging his shoulders.

Evelyn looks at Dray wryly as she too a bit disappointed from walking all the way here without anything happening, even the mutated gorillas before got shrugged off easily.

But then she frown when Rex sat under the withered cotton silk tree,

”If weʼre done here, letʼs go back”, Evelyn said.

Her movement then stops when she saw Rex is sitting under the withered silk-cotton tree, she was confused as to why Rex is sitting when theyʼre supposed to get back.

Dray is also confused, ”Arenʼt we going back?”

Delta also approaches Rex before she lies beside Rex while whimpering lightly as Rex strokes her head gently, and this makes Evelyn and Dray even more confused, ”I wanted to say that we can go back right now, but thereʼs a slight problem with that”

Growl!

Roar!

Out of the darkness of the night, the sound of footsteps approaching can be heard.

The growls and roars coming from the thing that is approaching them are starting to get closer, it makes Evelyn and Dray frown as they can feel an ominous feeling from the darkness.

Rex gives Gistella a look before she went to Rexʼs side,

”You see, the roar Delta did before is very loud...”, Rex mutters.

He then looks at Evelyn and Dray before he said, ”I think thereʼs a Supernatural race that really likes to hunt mutated animals, preferably predator mutated animals. They have quite low intelligence so they didnʼt classify as a high-rank Supernatural but theyʼre quite there”

Thud!

About six pairs of red eyes suddenly appear from the darkness of the night,

The red eyes are stalking Rex and the others as they emit killing intent, the scene makes Dray and Evelynʼs skin crawl as they hold the hilt of their swords tighter.

One of the pair of red eyes comes out of the darkness exposing its hulking figure,

Evelyn and Dray slowly raise their gazes to meet with the hulking figure that is at least three times their height, its arms are very long, and have a black furry muscular body that blended with the night perfectly as if it has a camouflage ability.

Upon looking at this, even Rex quirked up a smile in delight.

”Oh! You guys are in luck, I havenʼt even met this Supernatural! Theyʼre quite rare”, Rex said excitedly as he looks at the hulking figure.

Hearing this doesnʼt make Evelyn and Dray excited at all,

But one of the reasons is that the hulking figure in front of them is in the sixth rank realm,

The thick tails and furs almost make this Supernatural often mistaken as a Werewolf, but its huge frame and hideous face with oversized fangs make them look similar to an Ogre instead.

Rex has met one before in the swamp beside Zrolis City.

Although the Supernatural in front of them right now is quite different from the one that Rex met, aside from its power this one also has black steel-like skin that almost looks like its skin is covered with armor.

But this is its actual skin, a very hard and sturdy skin.

Race: Nightmare Grendel - Elder

Power: Sixth Rank (Mid)

Mental: 311

Strength: 620

Agility: 509

Endurance: 810 (+110)

Intelligence: 0

Reading the Grendelʼs stats makes Rexʼs smirk wider, itʼs not only this Grendel is rare but also a literal nightmare to fight for Evelyn and Dray who is inexperienced in fighting Supernaturals.

He already read the information about this Grendel from the system,

The systemʼs description makes Rex smile as he looks at both Dray and Evelyn, ʼThis is going to be good for their trainingʼ, he thought.

While leaning on the withered tree calmly, Rex then said, ”Fend them off”

”If I were to give you guys a hint on fighting this Supernatural, Iʼm going to say that you need to work together because a powerful spell alone will not make you defeat that guy”, he added.

Hearing this, Evelyn frowns, ”Isnʼt fighting this many a little bit too much?”

”Youʼre asking many questions Evelyn”, Rex replied with an amused smile.

This made Evelyn grit her teeth as she turns her head away, ”Are you nervous since this is the Supernatural territory? but you begged me to bring you earlier”, Rex said teasingly.

Since this is the first time Evelyn steps into the Supernatural territory,

Anyone will be very nervous since this is the territory of humanityʼs biggest enemy, and anything could happen here which probably makes her nervous like this.

”But still, I donʼt think we can handle this”, Dray added from the side.

Just from a glance, he recognizes that the Nightmare Grendel is very terrifying,

By just standing there, the Nightmare Grendel emits a terrorizing battle intent which shows that this Nightmare Grendel is adapted to fighting physically unlike the Undead which relies mostly on spells.

Hearing this, Rex smiles, ”Iʼm going to teach you guys a lesson”

”Lesson one in the Supernatural territory, getting surrounded is a common occurrence so defeat them without my help. Youʼll have to learn to squeeze through this situation kind of situation if you want to become stronger”, Rex said cheekily.

Dray was about to say something more but then suddenly,

ROAR!!

SWOOSH!

The nightmare Grendel already dashes towards them with bloodlust, this caught Dray off guard as the other Grendels also waste no time and follows after the nightmare Grendel.

Evelyn clashed with the nightmare Grendel before she backflipped,

Just from their clash alone, she canʼt fight the nightmare Grendel head-on as its momentum and bloodlust are much stronger than hers, her sword then burns with fire as she slashes down.

”Blazing Destroyer!”

SWOOSH!

A beautiful dark red fire arc was created following Evelynʼs swordʼs trajectory, but when her sword connected with the nightmare Grendel,

Clang!

The sword vibrates as it hits the nightmare Grendelsʼ hard skin,

ʼWhat the?! Itʼs freaking hard!ʼ, Evelyn exclaimed in her head, the Grendel then punch with its long arms sending Evelyn crashing away and landing beside Rex.

Looking at her, Rex then said, ”Do you need another hint?”

”Shut up and just watch”, Evelyn replied irritatedly as she dashes back into the battle.

Dray and Evelyn were locked in the fight with the Grendels as Rex watches from the side with Gistella and Delta, theyʼre enjoying the show while Gistella is stressing out.

She fears that one of them got injured and Rex will blame her,

Imbuing his entire body with wind mana, Dray fends off the other Grendels that are attacking from all angles relentlessly like a united hunting pack.

The Grendels proof that they have very high chemistry with each other,

Their reach is even further than the reach of Drayʼs sword, and their black fur that blended with the darkness of the night makes it hard for Dray to fight them.

Itʼs a complete disadvantage fighting the Grendels at the night,

Because of their weirdly fast long arms, the Grendels can attack Dray but he canʼt counter attacked back since theyʼre just not on his sword reach.

Amongst them also lies two early sixth rank, so itʼs not that easy for him.

Some of the Grendelsʼ attacks manage to reach Dray, their claws scratch Drayʼs cheek, and other parts of his body as blood flows out.

While Dray is keeping the other Grendels at bay,

One of the Grendels is also attacking Evelyn alongside the nightmare Grendel which puts her in defense, itʼs not looking good for them.

”Evelyn! We canʼt win if weʼre on the defensive!”, Dray shouted while defending himself.

Hearing this, Evelyn then glance at the weaker Grendels before she shouted, ”Letʼs aim for the weaker ones first, leave the strongest for the last!”

After shouting that, Evelyn and Dray started changing their battleplans.

Knowing that even Rex gave them a hint that the stronger Grendel needs to be fought two on one to win, they decided to ignore the strongest Grendel and focus on the weaker ones.

Both of them are faster than the nightmare Grendel, so itʼs doable.

Just from the changes alone, they manage to take down the weaker Grendels.

”Theyʼre doing quite good actually, they might really take down the nightmare Grendel”, Rex thought as he watch the fight, but he frowns when he spotted something.

Slash!

Evelyn and Dray dash past each other as they dealt the Grendels on their backs,

Their sword stabs the Grendel right on their heart before each of their swords blasted them with fire and wind respectively, they manage to take down the last weaker Grendels.

Only three Grendels are left,

Two of them are sixth rank Grendels while the last one is the Nightmare Grendel.

Swish!

Blood splattered to the ground as they swings their swords,

They got hit a couple of times by the weaker Grendels resulting in a few light injuries, but they manage to take them down leaving the three Grendels for the last.

Grrr....!

A low baritone growls can be heard escaping the nightmare Grendelsʼ mouth,

It looks around and finds the other Grendels are taken down by Evelyn and Dray, the bloodlust in its eyes increases as the nightmare Grendel got pissed.

With a swift movement of theirs,

Dray and Evelyn dash towards the nightmare Grendel and slash it with their swords imbued with mana, but both of their attacks got stopped simultaneously.

The nightmare Grendel manages to catch both of their swords easily,

It then cracked a huge nasty grin as Evelyn and Dray widen their eyes in shock,

Out of nowhere, the Nightmare Grendelʼs aura becomes violent as the killing intent coming from it mounted even more making Dray and Evelynsʼ hearts beat faster.

The both of them felt a cold chill grasping their hearts as their senses scream danger,

”It finally decided to get serious, letʼs see what the two of them fair against this”, Rex mumbles as he saw the nightmare Grendelʼs aura becomes even more powerful.