The Invincible Full-Moon System-Chapter 1252: Brink of Death

Rex was expecting to learn more about the Angel race, he didn't expect anything like this.

He didn't expect his hunt to lead him to bump into a fierce confrontation.

Ignoring the Desert Orc village was not an option as Chaos Phantoms needed to be closed in order to stave off the creatures from the realm of Chaos. Rex did exactly that, and the Chaos Spawns were thankfully easy to kill.

But his string of reasoning broke the moment he saw the creature beyond the new portal.

At the glimpse of the creature, Rex's body froze.

Every muscle in his body tensed in and instant as his heart pounded, pumping a wave of the surging wrath through his blood vessels—unbidden and all-consuming. It was as if his entire being responded purely on instinct, a primal urge to destroy the creature before him.

Rex's vision tunneled, focusing solely on the hated visage of the monstrous creature.

Despite the warning notifications, flooding his vision, he ignored them all.

His vision was beginning to be dyed in red, the likeness of his fury.

Naturally, the world around him, the shocked Orc warriors around him faded, leaving only the burning desire to rip the creature within the portal apart. Both his hands clenched into fists— as his breath came in ragged, savage bursts.

At that moment, his senses were dulled, driven by an insatiable need for revenge.

"YOU!!"

Charging ahead—he instantly transformed into his Werewolf form, and activated every ounce of power within him. His arcane mana, spirit energy, red force—and kingly energy glowed in a spectacular display of power.

Swoosh!

Out of pure rage, the King Mark on his forehead glowed intensely.

It charges with a devastating amount of kingly energy.

Reacting to the burning wrath inside of him, the darkness of his King Mark was devoured by the crimson light—the prominent force driving his King Mark changed from dual to one—the Blood Moon King Mark was taking over.

Gritting his teeth hard, the kingly energy within him burst forth.

Instantly, it traversed through his form, widening the crimson lining across his body.

His eyes locked murderously on the creature's eye beyond the portal, as his legs moved with lightning-fast speed. As he got close, the crimson energy encased his body like liquid, it was concentrated in his right arm.

Responding to the overpowering energy, the red linings on his right arm bulged.

Rex was preparing to use one of his most powerful skills, the Moon Ability: Brutal Impulse.

Kill... Kill... Kill! I'm going to kill you!

Boring immense hatred towards this particular creature, his mind was filled with the intention to kill, nothing else. Capitalizing on the System—that was still sending him warning notices in a series of red panels, Rex scanned the creature.

Splash!

Almost instantly as he did that, the blood vessels in his eyes bulged and exploded.

Blood began to drizzle down from his eyes like tears.

...

<???? - Dominator of Dark Chaos>

Threat: 96 (Impossible to beat)

Race: ????

Power: ????

Status: Feeling disdainful and amused.

Mental: ????

Strength: ????

Agility: ????

Endurance: ????

Intelligence: ????

Danger Zone: ∞

...

Swoosh!

Rex was only able to take a glimpse of the creature's stats before a powerful force hit him.

Upon being hit by this force, more blood squirted out from his eyes as he went blind.

He could tell from its aura alone that it was extremely strong.

Even its presence alone could squash the Desert Orcs and pin them on the ground.

But he didn't expect the gap between them to be this wide, to the point that he couldn't scan its stats with the System. It has been quite some time since a being—was this much stronger than him.

Just attempting to scan it alone made him blind, his eyes were damaged too much.

Such a result showed clearly that he was completely outclassed.

Boom!

Out of nowhere, Rex was struck by a shockwave of chaos, pushing him back from his charge.

His body was blown back, forcing him to take a backward step.

It got stronger from the last time we met... No, I don't think that was the case.

Back then Rex was being helped by the Countess to sustain this creature's powerful aura.

Now, he was going against it directly full force without any help.

Glaring ahead once again—Rex circulated his moonlight energy so hard until his regenerative ability was able to heal his eyes enough, and give back his vision. He made eye contact, with the creature who was clearly mocking him for his futile attempt.

Even its status showed that it viewed Rex as nothing but a bug.

Finding that he was being underestimated, Rex gritted his teeth hard in unbridled anger.

Just like back then, the creature treated him as a clown.

He gritted his teeth so hard, that his mouth began to bleed—and planting his foot firmly, Rex endured the gush of chaos energy—and pushed ahead. Every inch of his body was drowned in excruciating pain as his wounds were opened and closed rapidly in a struggle.

"I promised you that I'll kill you for what you did to him, and believe me I will," Rex roared in a hoarse voice, overwhelmed by the hellfire anger inside of him. "Believe me that I will, do you hear me monster?! I definitely will kill you!"

Upon hearing this, the creature's eye began to glow with a purple glow.

Rumble!

Rex halted in his advance and looked around when the ground began to shake once again.

Just then, a voice seeped into his ears, "Survive this first..."

"Hmm...?!" Rex glanced back at the creature before his eyes widened completely.

Meanwhile, Evelyn and Mavenna appeared from the side of the village.

Both of them could hardly walk from the extreme pressure, weighing them down—but slowly, the two managed to exit the village towards the destructive commotion. It was only then that they sucked in a cold breath seeing Rex facing a Chaos Phantom, with an eye of a creature in it, the source of this overwhelming pressure in the air.

"It's the creature from last time, the serpent in the realm of Chaos!" Mavenna exclaimed.

Evelyn's eyes widened in realization.

She remembered the incident that happened right after Edward was taken by Chaos.

Rex was shouting—and cursing at a creature within the Chaos Phantom, that was controlling the other Chaos Spawns to torture, Edward, within its realm. It was the same creature as the one Rex was facing right now.

Just from Rex's berserk expression right now, it was definitely the same creature.

But compared to last time, the creature's presence was now more destructive.

Rumble!

Evelyn clung to a nearby totem, as the ground trembled violently beneath her feet. Her eyes darted left and right to see what was going on but widened as an abrupt—strong realization struck her mind like a lightning strike.

"Before the body—the Goddess of Death would take one's soul first and if she was near, the soul becomes cold..."

"Madam Qonvale is saying that the Emperor is nearing his death..."

Naela's words rang and echoed inside her mind as her eyes slowly turned to the creature.

Seeing the unfathomable power the creature possessed to shake the very ground itself, she felt her throat parched, and her heart clench painfully. Evelyn looked at Rex—exerting all his might against the monstrous creature before him, pushing forward step by step.

Fear gripped her tightly, more suffocating than the prospect of death.

"No, Rex... Stop, don't fight it!" Evelyn muttered whisperingly.

At that moment, time seemed to slow, and she viewed the world in agonizingly slow motion.

Soon, the creature's eye glowed with a sinister purple light—followed by an eerie silence that seemed to stretch, into eternity. Almost instinctively—driven by the fear of Madam Qonvale's warning coming true, Evelyn reached out her hand, desperate to grasp Rex.

But he was beyond her reach, she was too far and far too slow to reach him.

Swish!

Evelyn watched in horror as the creature's eye unleashed a torrential purple beam—the size of a three-story building. It sliced through the air faster than a bullet, bringing about a sharp whistling sound as it struck Rex with devastating precision.

His entire form was consumed entirely by the beam.

At one second, he was standing there but in the next, he disappeared without a trace.

KABOOM!!

Out of nowhere, a purple nuke-like explosion erupted, the blast soaring sky-high.

Realizing what had happened, Evelyn looked to her right and saw the mushroom-like smoke in the sky—and the shockwave that followed the explosion, flattened the entire Orc's village and propelled Eveyn and Mavenna through the air, unable to resist the force.

Several painful grunts were forced out of Evelyn's mouth as she crossed miles of land.

Her body was hurled extremely hard across the ground.

Everything was a chaotic blur of destruction and dismay, the devastating shockwave carried her away from the epicenter of devastation. "Kaahhkk!" She coughed a mouthful of blood as she screeched across the sand.

Despite the pain across her body, she forced herself to sit and looked at the explosion.

"REX!!" She screamed at the top of her lungs, tears pouring out of her eyes.

Her tears created a pathway down on each of her eyes like a river.

As the last residue of the shockwave dissipated, Evelyn wasted not a single second to sprint back toward the epicenter of the explosion. Her breaths came in ragged gasps and her heart was pounding hard with concern and fear for what she might find.

'Don't die on me,' Evelyn pondered, running with all her might. 'Please, survive!'

Upon drawing closer, she passed a glassy crater emitting an unnatural violet glow.

Purple flames flickered along the jagged edges, casting eerie shadows upon the area. Miles from the center, the scorching heat had twisted dunes, into charred sculptures, staining the air with a sickly purple haze.

All life within the blast radius had been obliterated or grotesquely altered.

Only a few Desert Orcs had survived the shockwave.

Blackened skeletal remains lay scattered, especially prominent when Evelyn went past where the Desert Orc's village should be, haunting silhouettes of the once-living. Reaching near the center, the ground pulsed with a dark, corrupted vitality, and strange flora with glowing violet tendrils sprouted amidst the devastation.

It took only one attack to turn the once-golden desert into a scar upon the world.

Such power shouldn't exist in the world of mortals.

Evelyn stopped at the edge when the crater before her turned into a steep drop, and in this area, the purple haze, was the thickest. In the center lay a figure—and at the sight of it, she covered her mouth, and more tears streamed down her eyes.

Sobbing profusely, she slid down the crater and rushed to the figure.

It was Rex.

His body had already reverted to his Huan form, scorched and blackened.

But a slight wave of relief washed over Evelyn when she realized he was still alive.

Despite the unfathomably powerful beam hitting him directly, his eyes, though filled with the evident pain, still brimming with life as he gasped for breath, choking on his lifeblood. Evelyn knelt beside him, her tears falling onto his charred skin.

Her heart aching with sorrow, however, she quickly snapped out of her trance.

"Stay with me, don't you dare close your eyes," Evelyn uttered.

Upon saying that she transformed into her Luna form, weaker than before and began healing Rex with her Luna energy. She thought that Rex would be fine now that the Fifthborn was no more, but she was wrong.

Evelyn was still doubting Madam Qonvale's words earlier as Rex was too strong to be killed.

But she was wrong, there were still entities out there that could kill him.

'He still could get hurt, I can't believe it...' She pondered, crying as she looked at Rex.

As she used her Luna energy to infiltrate Rex's body, and tend his wounds, both of her hands were trembling uncontrollably—she was still unsure whether Rex would be fine or not. Such a powerful attack would obliterate anything in its path.

It was a miracle that Rex could even survive that attack and not instantly die.

Seeing Rex's eyes shift to look to the sky blankly, Evelyn sobbed, "Please, don't die..."