The Invincible Full-Moon System

Chapter 1368 High-Speed Pursuit

In the heart of the Verdantveil Forest, the cutthroat battle continued.

Nobody expected the battle to be easy and they were completely right.

Merging the feral and brutal style of the Werewolves along with the tactical and precise style of the Elves was surprisingly effective—the different styles allowed them to fill different roles and created a harmony of deadly combinations.

Physically, the Werewolves overpowered the slaves and allowed none of them to go through.

From range, the Elves shoot arrows to assist the outnumbered Werewolves.

Becoming the slaves of Shadow made the fallen Elves stronger than ever.

All of them became extremely resilient, and could even survive a fatal blow that could kill any living being for certain. Other than having to decapacitate—or outright crush their heads, the slaves could stand back up and stab them from the back.

However, under their compatible chemistry, the slaves' numbers were thinned quickly.

It didn't take long for the Werewolves and the Elves to focus on Shadow.

But unlike the battle with the slaves, Shadow obliterated them.

Valkis commanded them to swarm Shadow when its death mana sky-rocketed significantly.

"What is happening?!" Mavok approached.

He was using his kingly energy to sustain the stream of death mana coming from Shadow.

As much as he wanted to answer that question, Valkis was unsure, "I am not sure," He said, he needed to speak up—because of the blowing stream. "but it might be transforming—we need to end this before it could transform completely!"

"Transform? It's not a Lord class yet, how could it transform?!" Mavok frowned.

Naturally, the power paths of Humans and mutated animals were similar.

Both harnessed the mystic elements to become stronger and even employed the same core.

Once an Awakened reached their bodily limits, they would form a spirit core—harnessing the power of the spirits to reach a higher-level of power. Similarly—mutated animals would sleep and cultivate their elemental affinity using mana to reach their maximum capability.

Upon reaching the ceiling, they would form Elemental Order to continue becoming stronger.

Reaching a certain level of power, an Awakened gained access to the Gladiator Form.

On the other hand, mutated animals also gained a form called Tribulation.

Basically, the said mutated animal became a living natural disaster of their elemental affinity.

Valkis has seen it back in ancient times but only Lord-class Order Beast could do that.

So Shadow transforming shouldn't be possible.

"It's not a Tribulation but a makeshift of it," Valkis added, squinted his eyes.

Shadow who was defending itself violently from the Werewolves, and Elves was soaring with a death aura. Its tail turned into hard, impenetrable bone—and branches of bones, protruded out from the left side of said bone, and these branches climbed upwards.

If seen from the front, Shadow's tail would make it look like a peacock with partial plumage.

And this partial plumage wasn't only for show.

Crash!

Boom!

Brutally, the Werewolves that lunged at Shadow were impaled.

Other than making it more menacing, the branches of bones could elongate at will.

It has ten branches and each could impale one.

Additionally, it doesn't only inflict fatal wounds but also sucked the life essence of the victim rapidly, draining even a Werewolf in the eighth-rank realm to nothing but withered skin—and bone in five seconds.

As if that wasn't enough of a threat, the life essence empowered the branches of bones.

Each kill feeds them, making them thicker and stronger.

Realizing the gravity of the situation, the Alpha Primes were about to leap into action again— but Flunra landed in front of them and stopped them, "Changes of plan—the Alpha found out that it was protecting a powerful artifact that naturally exudes death mana. Killing it wouldn't be possible, the longer we fight, the worse we'll get, and the stronger it becomes"

"So we're going to lure it away instead," He added, giving them the new instructions.

Gistella and Adhara wounded Shadow but the wounds were already healed.

It would regenerate non-stop with each kill and the death mana coming from the artifact.

Killing a near Lord-class Order Beast is still out of their hands.

"Lure it to where? We need to ask the Elves" Mavok said, pivoting towards the Elves.

However, before the plumage was about to hit, Valkis and Mavok arrived and stopped right in front of Flunra. Both crossed their arms—and took the hit. Although they had planted both of their feet firmly and even already prepared to block the attack, both were pushed back.

Driven back by the staggering force, their feet dug into the earth, leaving deep craters.

Both were hurled backward and crashed into another inverted tree.

Even then, the two Alpha Primes bought enough time for Rex's clone and Flunra to move.

Boom!

Fenrik came out of nowhere and unleashed a devastating roar at Shadow.

He bought a few seconds, disorienting Shadow from the ringing and sickening soundwave.

Valkis and Mavok also came back, pushing Shadow back.

On the other hand, Rex's clone sprinted as fast as he could, his legs were moving like a blur, with Flunra sticking close to him. Eventually, they saw a ruin up ahead, a building in the past that was now reduced to rubble.

Stopping on ruin, Flunra sensed concentrated death mana coming from underground.

Seeing this, he poised to blast the ground but Rex's clone stopped him.

"It's a decoy, the artifact underground was a decoy," Rex's clone said, he already consulted with the System, and knew exactly what to do. "Once you destroy the ground and grab the artifact down there, the real artifact will be teleported elsewhere"

"Shadow thought of that...?" Flunra muttered in shock.

An Order Beast with this level of intelligence is quite rare even among the Lords.

Pivoting towards a broken pillar, Rex stood in front of him before he stabbed his hand into it.

Once he did that, the entire black pillar crumbled into pieces.

Rex's clone watched the pillar pieces and waited.

However, Flunra was becoming impatient, the sound of the Alpha Primes—and Shadow was nearing them, with each passing second. He knew that Rex's clone wouldn't wait if he didn't need to so he also waited.

But ten seconds in, his legs were already moving up and down.

Roar!!

Just then, Flunra snapped his head to the right and saw Shadow galloping in hot.

Valkis was wrapping his arms around its neck, trying to choke it and perhaps even stop it.

Fenrik kept firing soundwaves at Shadow's legs, trying to trip it down.

Lastly, Mavok was right behind, he was holding onto the plumage and trying to stop Shadow.

All three of them had blood covering their entire bodies but they stayed steadfast and filled their designated roles—to stop Shadow from reaching Rex's clone. Once they neared, Rex's clone's eyes lit up.

In a magical way, reacting to Shadow's roar, the pillar pieces hummed with death mana.

Each one of them gathered into a single piece, forming a black beast skull.

Seeing this, Rex's clone grabbed it and sprinted to the valley, "Got it! Let's move!"

Swoosh!

A high-speed pursuit commenced as they headed to the valley as planned.

Rex's clone ate up ground while holding the black skull close to him.

I can't put it in the inventory or else it wouldn't be distracted, and instead attacked the Alpha Primes and Flunra instead of chasing after me, but what is this aura? It's climbing higher and higher without any sign of stopping!

As he thought of that, Shadow zig-zagged and reached him in the blink of an eye.

Seeing this, Rex's clone lifted up his hand before Valkis, the fastest out of them all held onto a root, grabbed him, lifted him up, and kicked him away to the other side, effectively helping Rex's clone dodge Shadow's attack.

Dashing from behind, Fenrik caught Rex's clone, "Use me, Your Highness!"

Upon hearing this, Rex's clone nodded.

He planted his feet onto Fenrik's chest before blasting ahead, fleeing out of Shadow's reach.

In complete and utter anger—Shadow pierced its plumage into the ground, summoning a full garden of bones in order to stop Rex's clone in his tracks. It wanted to make a second strike, but Mavok and Flunra were persistent, keeping Shadow's feet planted on the ground.

Every time Shadow tried to leap, they would bar its way and push it back to the ground.

Rex's clone climbed the bones and continued on ahead.

He didn't forget to cast a mocking look at Shadow, "Come on then, catch me if you can!"

"Or else you should bid farewell to this thing," He lifted the black skull tauntingly.