Rex's eyes dilated, seeing a black hooded figure shooting straight at him.
It didn't take long for him to recognize the energy coursing around the black hooded figure's body, the malice and sense of damnation that the energy emits can only point at one thing, cursed energy.
Sensing the cursed malice, the Circling Sentinel shot at the hooded creature as it got close.
Swoosh!
Upon seeing this, the hooded cursed creature garner more power and imbued it into the scythe it was holding. A concentration of energy happened, it was so precise and dense that the cursed energy is only a millimeter thick.
Boom!
A clash happened, the Circling Sentinel stopped it for a second but it was no use.
Showing no sign of stopping, the hooded cursed creature burst through the barrier protecting Dargena City and also the Castle. It didn't breaks them, the hooded cursed creature only phased through them unnaturally.
Rex's eyes widened when he saw this, two protective prevention was passed just like that.
None of them were able to obstruct the hooded cursed creature's momentum for long. In an instant, Rex quickly turns into his Werewolf form without any hesitation before the attack arrives.
'It must be here for Gistella, I can't afford a slip-up' Rex thought sternly.
Like a torrent of destructive cursed energy, the black hooded creature slipped into the room.
Powering the scythe once more with its cursed energy, the hooded cursed creature swung it right at Rex with immense killing intent. It was powerful enough to alert Rex's senses about the danger it hides.
<Warning! Unrestrained essence of cursed energy has been detected in the surrounding>
Clenching his jaw tightly, Rex raises both of his arms to block it while simultaneously activating his powers, including his black lightning to protect himself from being touched by the deadly scythe.
Swish!
Crash!
Rex was flung onto the wall on his back strongly, creating a crack in the wall.
'What in the...? How can it pushes me back, it only has eighth-rank realm power!' Rex exclaimed inside his head, he was confused about how does this hooded cursed creature is able to knock him off his stand.
Seeing the hooded cursed creature heads to Gistella, Rex instantly stands up.
But he was once again surprised when he saw another creature, a steely insectoid creature phase through the wall and landed a whipping attack using its body and send Rex bursting out of Gistella's room.
Recovering quickly, Rex looks at the room and saw something outrageous.
The hooded cursed creature with its destructive hand on Gistella levitates her. Gistella can feel an unnatural force attempting to drain energy from her, the curse inside of her was being extracted and it brings about great pain beyond measure.
In a moment, Rex's hearing was nulled as Gistella's scream was the only thing he hears.
Just as he was about to burst into absolute anger, thinking that two mere cursed creatures barges inside his home and touch his woman puts his wrath to the boiling point as his King Mark slowly started to appear on his forehead.
But at that moment, he suddenly felt something drizzling down from his nose.
Rex touches his nose and finds that he was nosebleeding, and this put a frown on his face as this shouldn't be possible, 'Did they actually manage to hurt me? No, there's no way. It can't be it...'
As he thought of that, he sensed a figure jumping into the room from outside.
'Wait, what is that lunatic doing here?!'
~
"We should be getting close..."
"Yes, the Dark Elves told us they are at the center of the Humming Damned Forest"
Somewhere in a rocky and dry reddish terrain was a convoy of about 13 exquisite wagons, each pulled by two majestic greenish-white deers that has their horns branching like a tree, adding divinity to their appearances.
Many elite warriors surrounded the 13 wagons with weapons at ready on their side.
Each possesses sixth-rank realm or above powers.
From the intricate and unique armor these elite warriors are wearing, there seem to be two types of them. One is wearing thick dark green armor and has a bigger build than the rest, standing at the outer area of the formation with a great sword in their hands.
On the inner side of the formation is another type, clad in thinner and light green armor.
Instead of the great sword, these elite warriors are holding a long bow, an arrow is already tucked in, gleaming with fascinating yet sharp nature energy. And their eyes glowing bright green, sharply scanning the area.
A green banner with a white tree logo at the center makes them easily recognized.
Supernaturals would immediately recognize these two types of elite warriors as the Dauntless Cerion Order of the Elves, the Royal Elite Guards of the Elven Kingdom that is known for their tight formation and daunting spirit.
In the center of it all was a bigger wagon where the queen herself resides.
"D-Do I look presentable enough?" Queen Shanaela, beautiful as she is, adored in her green and golden dress with white trim asks with a light tone. It's only a matter of time minutes before they reach the Silverstar Pack resting place.
Despite her calmness, Hastios can hear the nervousness in her tone.
Chuckling lightly seeing that her Queen was this nervous, Hastion shook his head and replied, "You look lovely, my Queen. I believe you're more than presentable. Maybe our power declines over time, but our people have never paled in presentation to others"
Upon hearing this, Queen Shanaela nodded her head and tries to calm herself down.
Although they are going to meet with an entity that was called by many the Traitor of the New Era, the Supernatural Killer, or even the Harbringer of Calamity, Hastios doesn't feel in any way threatened.
But that's because of the fact that the entity spared his Queen which he's forever thankful.
Even right now, he has a feeling that their meetings will go fine.
"Look, we're entering the Humming Damned Forest" Hastios pointed out of the window, seeing the Dauntless Cerion Order organizing a barrier to protect the convoy from the supposed mutated animals and cursed creatures.
Queen Shanaela also looks out, she lets out a sigh to calm herself down.
While the convoy is entering the Humming Damned Forest, Calidora, sitting inside with them that has been meditating throughout the journey jolted her eyes open suddenly, drawing Queen Shanaela and Hastios' attentions to her.
"Calidora, what's wrong?" Queen Shanaela asked in concern.
Ignoring her question, Calidora stands up on the wagon and looks up to the window on the roof of the wagon, seemingly looking at the sky. "I don't know, but something is approaching... I can feel it"
"Are you sure, Princess Calidora? I don't sense anything" Hastios asked back to be certain.
Out of nowhere, Calidora's vampiric energy seeped out of her body, and even her Eyes of Terror are activated, causing her eyes to turn from purple to ruby red and black patterns to appear. "Only I can feel it, these creatures cause a distortion in the cursed energy around us"
Not intending to idle around, Calidora burst out of the wagon in an instant.
Gazing up at the far distance of the sky, her pupils dilated seeing a silhouette emitting extreme distortion of cursed energy cutting through the broken sky, disregarding that the sun is blazing above them.
Calidora's eyes bulged and she bared fangs when she sensed malice within the silhouette.
"It's not directed to me..." She utters, seemingly confused. But then, enormous anger started to overflow inside of her, "Does it bares malice towards him?! How dare you! I'm the only one who can hurt him!!"
CRACK!
BOOM!!
The Dauntless Cerion Order was surprised when a shockwave exploded from Calidora.
Disregarding anything around her, blood energy mixing with cursed energy swirls around her, shooting her power to a higher degree before she leaped powerfully, bursting out of the barrier that the Dauntless Cerion Order has made to protect the convoy.
Like a crimson brush piercing to the sky, Calidora makes her way towards the silhouette.
Caldiora's speed surpassed the limit as she managed to get close to the silhouette in about ten seconds despite the distance between them, her wings flapped one more time and turns her into an aerial jet of concentrated energy.
Upon seeing this, the silhouette was taken aback but recovered pretty quickly.
Gripping the scythe brimming with cursed energy to the absolute core, the silhouette that turns out to be a hooded skull-face creature swung powerfully, the cursed energy that imbued the scythe sends a rippling cry of people as it strikes at Calidora.
Clang!
Kaboom!!
Both of them collided, their energies were flying everywhere unrestrained.
Amidst the powerful clash that made the sky darker for a moment, the hooded cursed creature catches sight of the cursed energy within Caldiora's claws, it was very powerful and somewhat controlled.
"Vampire, don't get in our way," the hooded cursed creature said raspingly.
Instead of backing down, Calidora flaps her wings stronger with a crazed look on her expression, bulging eyes and veins expose the anger maniacal anger burning inside of her. "If you ever touch him, if you ever lay your hands on him! I swear... I'll find a way to give you a fleshy body just so I can drain the blood out of you!"
Upon hearing this, the hooded cursed creature realized who is Calidora referring to.
"Nothing will stand in our way to help, Mother. Even your bloodlust will not be able to stop me, Vampire..." the hooded cursed creature replied before the two of them push each other back, propelling themselves away.
Calidora, outraged by the hooded cursed creature's answer points both hands to the sky.
"Cursed Blood Magic, Utopia of Carnage Festival!"
SWOOSH!
Out of nowhere, the hooded cursed creature looks around as hundreds if not thousands of blood droplets appeared from thin air. Slowly, cursed energy was infused into each one of them, turning the blood droplets into a bat-like form.
It takes only a second for that to happen before the blood bats started swarming at it.
Sensing the cursed energy contained inside each blood bat, the hooded cursed creature entrapped itself inside a cursed cubical object, trying to protect itself from the dangerous blood bats.
But to its surprise, the blood bats can inflict heavy damage on the cubical object.
Each of the blood bats hammered itself into the cursed cubical object, turning into an arm-size needle and leaving a crack on the surface. While looking at this, Calidora grins nastily, "Don't think that you're the only one that can use cursed energy, I also can use it"
Crash!
Crash!
Under the barrage of attacks, the cursed cubical object eventually surrendered.
It shattered into a million pieces before the hooded cursed creature was directly attacked by them. More and more cursed wounds appeared around its body, the situation is not looking good for the hooded cursed creature.
Just then, a glint appeared in its hollow eyes as a shockwave exploded from its body.
Surprisingly enough, the shockwave managed to completely obliterate the entire blood bats. Following that, the hooded cursed creature then vanishes and reappeared right behind Calidora.
Calidora has the time to turn around, but she was too late to defend herself.
Fueled with eerie and cold cursed energy, the hooded cursed creature pierced Calidora right on her abdomen, causing blood to gush out of her mouth. Yet horror inflicts not Caldiora's heart, but the hooded cursed creature's instead.
Even though she was stabbed, the grin on her face never left.
Pain has never been a bane for her, she can ignore it completely before she grabs the hooded cursed creature by its head with both hands tightly. With her Eyes of Terror brimming with power, she stares into the creaseless eye sockets of the hooded cursed creature.
Upon seeing Calidora's eyes, a powerful sensation infiltrates the mind.
It feels like the entire world is shaking alongside the hooded cursed creature's mind, the sensation is overwhelming, and stunning in its place as Calidora gets more and more excited when a painful cry left its mouth.
But as she was doing this, she didn't realize that something is heading towards her.
Calidora glanced at her side when she finds a steely limb heading towards her, and due to her not focusing on her surroundings, she was hit perfectly and got sent crashing to the ground like a meteor.
Screech!
Snapping out of its daze, the hooded cursed creature recovered.
Not even intending to check whether Calidora is going to be still after them or not, the two cursed creatures make a break for it and resumed their destination, which is the castle at the center of the Humming Damned Forest.
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