Flashes of Storm Moon energy can be seen blazing and sparking around his body as he got out of the Storm Moon dimension, this move catches Elder Noskear in surprise as her body even tensed up in response.
It's true that Rex expected the fight against the Supernatural Elders to be a physical battle.
But it seems he was underestimating them too much, Elder Noskear could still use her ability to summon such deadly Undeads, and there's no way of winning this fight aside from taking down Montana or Elder Noskear.
Out of the two, he decided that aiming for Elder Noskear is way better.
"Don't think that this kind of tactic has never been used against me, Royal Black Prince. I've adapted, and the barrier around me is highly resistant to physical attack and energy. Why don't you try breaking it? I'd like to see you try" Elder Noskear mocked as she snapped out of her dazed state.
Even from the start, she already cast this barrier to protect herself.
Just as she said that, necrotic and ungodly greenish skeletons appeared around the barrier and wrapped themselves around Elder Noskear, creating an impenetrable fortress through her pure death energy.
It makes the barrier even stronger and gave Elder Noskear complete confidence in it.
Although that is the case, through the gaps of the skeletons, Elder Noskear could see a smirk blooming on Rex's face as the energy in his claws turned from harnessing the Storm Moon energy into something else entirely.
But that sudden change immediately dropped Elder Noskear's heart to her stomach.
Not only that but the Supernatural Elders that were watching from the side widened their eyes completely at the whiff of the energy in Rex's claws, the sense was familiar to them and brought them instant crisis.
"Can't be, is that Origin energy...? How?!" Elder Nolacula exclaimed.
Similarly, the other Elders also have the same question inside their heads.
If it was the ancient time then seeing the Royal Black Prince using Origin energy wouldn't be that much surprising for them, the Werewolf Princes are the ones capable of using the Origin energy but only with the permission of the Origin himself.
Currently, in this era, the Origin wasn't awake yet, so this shouldn't be possible.
Elder Tilrith then glanced at the Storm Prince that has his eyes completely wide, even his arms that were crossing in front of him slowly fell down as he was completely at a loss for words by this.
The Royal Black Prince could use the Storm Moon energy and even Origin energy.
Out of the Supernatural Elders that were standing here, he was the one that was shocked the most. It was almost as if the Royal Black Prince was given countless blessings, and he was the untalented child.
'I-I'm the true heir... he's only a newborn, so how could this happen?'
But then his thoughts were disturbed when Elder Tilrith asked him, "Aren't your Origin killed during the second war? If that's the case, how could the Royal Black Prince use the Origin energy?"
"NO! He's not dead! He's alive!" the Storm Prince rebutted angrily.
Although he said that with such conviction, Elder Tilrith was still doubtful about this matter.
Meanwhile, Varianus and Montana quickly leaped into action.
Noticing the surprise that Elder Noskear is feeling right now, the two of them charged straight in an attempt to save their summoner. The barrier is strong, but against Origin energy it's possible to break it.
Rex smiled when he saw this, he then thrust his claws right at the barrier strongly.
Just when his claws were about to connect and Elder Noskear prepared another spell when the barrier broke, the Origin energy in Rex's claws suddenly vanished and only sparks were created from his trying to break the barrier.
It catches Elder Noskear off guard, she thought for sure that the barrier was about to break.
Seeing that Rex wasn't able to keep the Origin energy long enough until he hits the barrier, Elder Noskear smile smugly as she intends to mock him for this. But then she suddenly heard a painful scream from the side.
Glancing to the side, she finds Montana screaming in pain and dropping her necrotic violin.
Upon seeing this sight, Elder Nosekar was perplexed as she couldn't find what causes Montana such pain, nothing happened to her, yet it was clear that she was in enormous pain. Nobody was near her proximity except for Varianus. Nevertheless, something then hauled her off the ground.
Varianus saw this happening and tries to swing his weapons at the space behind Montana.
But his sword didn't hit anything and landed on the ground with a loud crashing sound. In the next second, he could feel that something grabbed his head before his head was severed completely off of his body once again, killing him.
In reality, nothing happened to him, he only fell lifeless out of a sudden.
Elder Noskear was at a sense of loss, she doesn't understand what happened to the two. It only takes a moment before her two favorite summoned Undeads were dead without any real reason.
"Soul Inspection" Chanting a spell, Elder Noskear inspected Varianus and Montana's souls.
Despite being turned into Undead, their souls were trapped inside their bodies instead of fading away naturally. Then, their souls were corrupted by Elder Noskear's necrotic energy, turning them into unwilling servants to her command.
But as of right now, their souls were torn apart, they died because of that.
Almost as if there was a malicious soul entity that ripped their souls to shreds, leaving them as empty vessels. Suffering that kind of damage, both of their bodies burned and went back to the Netherworld once again.
Following that, the energy connecting her with both summoned Undeads was severed.
It was forcibly cut off due to their demise and sent a powerful backlash to Elder Noskear, knocking her out of the barrier strongly, breaking the skeletons in the process, and sending her crashing across the ground.
Crash!
Recovering from that attack, Elder Noskear quickly sat up in reflex.
"Royal Black Prince! What did-"
Just before she could say another word, her mouth stopped when she saw Rex's claws were right in front of her eyes, burning vigorously with the sinking sensation of her death if she moved even a little.
Under such sight, Elder Noskear stopped her words and stay completely still.
Despite the anger inside of her right now, the situation has turned out of hand and into her enemy's favor. She needs not to evoke any more anger from Rex, or else he might kill her for real. She tried to kill him first, and that alone increases the chance of him finishing her right here.
Of course, she wouldn't actually die here even if Rex tried.
The other Supernatural Elders watching this fight will intervene in an instant and help if Rex tries to kill her, but that wouldn't look good to their legions. Essentially, the Supernatural Elders would blame her for making them humiliate themselves like that.
A duel is the only way, and attacking Rex at the same time is dirt to their names.
"Since I am righteous and kind-hearted, I'll let you go even though you tried to kill me," Rex said with a light smirk, he has no intention of killing Elder Noskear as he didn't want to make war against the Supernatural Elders.
Rex has been in enough wars, he only needs to focus on the Executor right now.
Furthermore, his battle with Elder Noskear was the perfect opportunity to try out the new Damned Specter skill. Its description made him think that it would be quite potent, but it seemed to work even better than expected.
But seeing it firsthand completely convinced him, the skill is very lethal and effective.
Knowing that to win the battle is to either take down Montana or Elder Noskear, he cast the Damned Specter skill and summoned a copy of his soul inside the curse dimension to try and attack Montana with it.
It was then he realized that Montana seemed to sense it, her head movement shows that.
Due to that, Rex decided to pretend to aim for Elder Noskear earlier to evoke a reckless move from her summoned Undeads that innate wanted to protect their summoner. A trap that he made on the spot.
Unholy Claws of the Reaper skill is the perfect skill to ignite a strong reaction from them.
Just like what he realized earlier, he couldn't use the Unholy Claws of the Reaper, it's too heavy on kingly energy which makes it simply impossible to properly use under the suppression of the First Breath.
If he tries to attack with it, then it will simply not be effective at the very least.
Although that being the case, he could cast it as bait for Varianus and Montana to leap at him recklessly. A sliver of Origin energy would probably be enough to force them to react like that, and he was right.
Like a crazed monster, Varianus and Montana leaped into action to defend Elder Noskear.
Rex got them right where he wants them to be, and that momentary crisis was enough for him to control the Damned Specter to attack Montana first. When its hand reaches Montana's soul, it was basically done.
"Hmph! Lucky, this night heavily favors you, or else you'll be dead" Elder Noskear scoffed.
But this makes Rex chuckle, he didn't need to answer that.
'Of course, this night heavily relies on me. The First Breath, and the Storm Moon. If it's not, then why would I even risk myself being here?' Rex thought to himself, he didn't feel wrong to take advantage of the situation at the very least.
Timing is also a part of the battle, and Elder Noskear simply lost to that.
Now that the battle against Elder Noskear was over as she flew back to the other Supernatural Elders, Rex grunted heavily and hold his chest, the pain from his wounds was burning his skin.
<Fatal Hymn has been lifted! The user's wounds started to heal again>
'Hmm... good, I still need to at least fight one of them more to be acknowledged. But I wished it wouldn't be the Storm Prince, he's a Werewolf under the Storm Moon, fighting him right now would be risky' Rex thought as he shifted his eyes over to the Supernatural Elders once again.
Just as he shifted his eyes over, the ground suddenly begin to shake.
<Warning! A massive amount of energy is concentrated on the user!>
Widening his eyes at the sight of the notification from the System, Rex's eyes fixed on the Storm Prince that started to be enveloped entirely with his Storm Moon's kingly energy. It was massive, and even trembling on the ground.
At the sight of this, Rex gritted his teeth, 'System, how is this possible? The First Breath!'
But before the system could answer, the white sphere in the sky that was caused by the First Breath suddenly shone brightly and strikes down a beam of suppressing energy right at the Storm Prince.
Kaboom!
A powerful shockwave blasted when the suppressing energy hits the Storm Prince.
Even though that is the case, the Storm Prince kept his standing and even his kingly energy was still stubbornly resisting the suppressing energy. In a moment, he raises his gaze and glares at Rex with his deep blue eyes.
Looking at this, Rex gritted his teeth, 'Shit! The Storm Moon is helping him!'
Crack!
BOOM!!
"Storm Prince! You'll be hurt badly if you keep this up! the First Breath is unforgiving!" Elder Nolacula exclaimed. But he saw that the Storm Prince didn't seem to have any intention to stop, he was focusing solely on one person.
Gritting his teeth until it makes a boney sound, the Storm Prince exploded his energy again.
More and more kingly energy oozes out of his body, he was resisting the First Breath suppression and his power slowly reaches the ninth-rank realm out of anger at the sight of Rex that seemed to have everything.
It was not a matter of pride anymore, the Storm Prince changed his mind.
"No, he must die today!!"
BOOM!
This 𝓬ontent is taken from f(r)eeweb(n)ovel.𝒄𝒐𝙢