A wound for a wound.
Rex was prevented from participating due to the Pack Quest issued by the System.
Since Flunra and Gistella were wounded badly, the System encouraged him to let the two of them reclaim their honor by wounding Shadow. Although Adhara helped—as long as Rex did not help, the Pack Quest would be honored.
Knowing the System's subtle tricks, he expected the Pack Quest to be purposeful.
It didn't seem to be the case but Rex's clone couldn't be certain.
He needs to be skeptical that there is more than ets the eye or the System will lead him to fall into a hole full of troubles like he did when he entered the Carabidis Temple. Now that the Pack Quest has been completed, he could now help.
However, due to his skepticism, he noticed Shadow's reaction was odd.
Being a Knight-class Order Beast nearing a breakthrough to the Lord-class—Shadow is more or less as smart as people. It wasn't stupid, as even its minions were capable of inducing fear and unrest, terrorizing the Elven people before massacring them.
Recognizing—and gauging fear and having restraint reflects exceptional intelligence.
So Rex's clone didn't understand why it chose to stay here where it was surrounded.
If I were in its position, I would've made a path to break this encirclent. Unless I couldn't.
Once he realized that, Rex's clone's eyes darted ahead.
He ca from behind so the only place he hadn't explored was ahead.
Exercising the System's heightened capabilities—Rex scanned the area ahead—his eyes saw blue light perating from his position like a scanner and expanded ahead rapidly. It took the blue light seconds to reach miles and miles away.
Almost as if he has a highly advanced radar built inside of his retina.
Rex's clone saw hundreds of open windows across his vision.
As expected, the System scanned literally everything in his vision ahead, starting from the hiding mutated animals, mutated trees, magical ingredients, everything. Seeing this, Rex's clone narrowed his gaze, "Get rid of mutated animals stats window"
In a fraction of a second, dozens of stats windows disappeared, leaving so behind.
"Don't show anything that doesn't relate to death mana"
Once again, the stats windows narrowed even more, leaving a handful behind.
"Now—get rid of all the death order stones and only show those at ninth rank or above"
Just as he said that the stats windows narrowed into a single one.
Seeing this, Rex's clone motioned to pull the last window close—and realized that it wasn't a stat window, but an item window instead. And with only a few seconds, he found the reason why Shadow stayed behind.
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Item Rank: Legendary (Tenth-rank)
Elental Affinity: Death
Durability: 5/100
Description: A skull, that once belonged to the Rider of Dissolution, cursed by the Council of Darkness to roam the land between life and death for slaughtering Demi-Gods. He was slain and purified, leaving behind this skull, that still contained what little power he had. It has the ability to turn any energy into death mana and give three riders his power—allowing them to turn others into slaves and harvest death mana with each kill.
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From the description alone, Rex's clone now began to understand the situation more.
He found it weird that the minions were able to turn Elves into slaves of this caliber, there are dozens of ninth-rank realm slaves, which should be impossible. An ability, that could turn the living into stronger slaves, reaching even the ninth-rank realm is too powerful.
If a Ruler-class or even a Lord-class Order Beast has it then it wouldn't be as surprising.
For a Knight-class Order Beast, however, it was too powerful of an ability.
None of these fallen Elves were remotely as strong as this when they were alive.
As it turns out, the minions didn't have that ability, it was borrowed.
Shadow appointed them as 'riders' of the black skull and the minions gained this ability—and based on the description, Shadow would beco stronger with more slaves under him. Such a powerful item would cost countless lives.
It was the reason why Shadow stayed here and fight, to protect the black skull.
Realizing this, Rex's clone tilted his head down, facing Flunra on the battlefield.
Sensing the gaze, Flunra hacked the slaves around him away and glanced over his shoulder.
eting Rex's clone's gaze, a telepathy seeped into his mind.
A powerful artifact taking the shape of a black skull resides ahead, Shadow is protecting it—Go and find it, tell the Alpha Pris, and leave the Werewolves and Elves behind.
'I understand, Alpha'
Once Flunra heard the command, he made a dash to the Alpha Pris to alert them.
Just as Rex was about to move on ahead to see if he could go past Shadow without it finding what he was up to—he reached his left hand to the side to hold on when a violent roar shook the entire place hard.
Focusing back on Shadow, he saw that Adhara, Gistella, and Valkis were doing a great job.
All three were able to wound Shadow severely, the scratches across its body were evident.
But none of them were severe, and Rex could fix that.
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