After spending more than 5 eventful months here, Rex was finally about to leave the Gundam Shelter to ply his trade elsewhere.
Though he had only spent his time in this chaotic shelter at one major part of it which was the Red Zone, he was still able to experience a lot with the Berserk Gang as they slowly rose to the peak of power in their territory.
Before leaving, he turned one last time to look at the shelter.
Alongside him was a mature Storm Kamaitachi and a Dark Mist Spider. Grey and Storm were as loyal to him as ever, and they followed him everywhere he went.
Ambition did the same but unlike the 2 transformed beasts, his only transformed warrior was special. Like the other 2, Ambition had its own eccentric personality, the warrior loved the life of an assassin more.
With the invisibility mystic ability, Ambition was able to follow Rex without needing to expose himself to any spying eye that may be watching.
Since he got the transformed warrior a few months ago, Ambition already grew to become Rex's trump card for the most dangerous situations.
With Ambition, he was literally unkillable through an ambush or assassination. The only way to kill him was the straightforward way and if the enemy was far stronger than him, more likely if he/she was a Super mystic warrior.
With how rare Super mystic warriors were though, Rex became somewhat of a god in his realm since no conventional Advanced mystic warrior could kill him.
This advantages that he had spearheaded the rise of the Berserk Gang.
Now, Rex was about to seek more opportunities out there to get stronger. These days, his system no longer gave him new missions like before, clearly, he was no longer receiving newbie bonuses.
He only triggered missions when the situation was truly serious or necessary.
Without missions, he had no choice but to keep on training personally. Even without his system though, Rex already recognized that he was a genius long ago and it showed as he continued improving.
The reason why he wanted to go to this inheritance ground now was that though his improvement speed was fast, it still felt too slow to his liking.
His enemies were not mere Advanced mystic warriors, Scorpion and the others were just the minions, his real enemy was a whole Ancient mystic family with Super mystic warriors and Legendary mystic warriors.
If one day, they decide to descend on him with their full strength, he would be like a fish that was scooped from the sea and left on the dry land.
Helpless, that was how he felt on thinking of these scenarios.
This was why Rex was determined not to rest on his rails, this was why he was determined to keep on working hard, this was why he was determined to keep on putting the grind, he was the last hope of the Vector family.
Until he got so strong that he became the undisputed god of swords and became capable of wiping out the Ancient Holmes family, Rex was not ready to rest, he would keep on striving till he got there.
The only thing that could stop him was death. If he didn't die, he would just keep on going without getting tired of it one bit.
After looking back at the Gundam Shelter and cutting off his sentiments, Rex finally turned back to leave through the nearest route.
As he left, he asked in a whisper. "How many are following me?"
Ambition's spooky voice came like a ghost. "28 mystic warriors so far. 4 Intermediate mystic warriors and 24 Basic mystic warriors, and they all have concealment and scouting mystic abilities".
"Good, secretly round them up for a clash in 5 minutes".
"Yes, master".
Ambition went to work very smoothly, one of this transformed warrior's greatest traits was efficiency. In his invisible state, he manipulated things from the dark and all the warriors were clustered in one location without them knowing.
5 minutes later, before the warriors could understand what was going on, 2 beasts descended on them and in mere seconds, they were devoured.
Storm and Grey savored the feeling of human blood on their lips as Rex finally came close to check the identity of these warriors that stalked him.
Though even in death they tried to hide their origins, as an experienced gang leader of a gang in the Gundam Shelter, Rex was not fooled.
Like he expected, they were all from gangs in the shelter.
He rounded them up and burnt them, leaving no evidence behind as he finally started his journey officially after confirming that no one else was stalking him. Even if there was, this act from him would intimidate and pursue them.
As he traveled on Storm, Rex referenced the map again.
On the map were marked 4 prominent places, with 2 of them with a green mark, one of them black, and the last of them all a bright golden color mark.
The 2 green-marked locations where the Great Forest of Elias and the Great Ape Forest. The black-marked location was the Great Dungeon Forest.
As for the last of them all that was located in the far South of the map, the bright golden-marked one was the Great Desert more commonly referred to as the Great River of gold.
Over the months as he stayed in the Gundam Shelter, Rex studied the Vampiric Armor more and already knew everything about the inheritance.
Rex already knew that apart from the main inheritance token that was attached to the Vampiric Armor, there were other inheritance tokens that were spread across the world that could allow access into the inheritance ground.
The difference between the main inheritance token and the others was that the main inheritance token could access the inheritance ground anytime, but the other tokens could only access it once every 4 years.
It was remaining less than a month till the next 4-year opening of the inheritance ground, Rex left now to have a head start over the others.
He could have gone for the inheritance since, but one reason that deterred Rex from going months ago was his lack of confidence in his personal strength.
Though he was an extremely abnormally gifted and endowed mystic warrior, Rex recognized the danger that was posed by the Great Desert.
Unlike the Great Forests and Dungeon, the Great Desert was more special. The concentration of pinnacle mystic beasts here was low, but the desert complemented this by spreading mystic energy more to the lower ranks.
Statistics showed that there were approximately 80% more Basic and Intermediate mystic beasts in the Great Desert than in the 2 Great Forests combined, and 30% more Advanced mystic beasts.
As for the number of deaths recorded, there were approximately 50% more mystic warrior deaths recorded here yearly.
Going to the Great Desert was like entering the belly of a beast. It was only after so many months of accumulation that Rex finally felt ready to go.
With his current personal strength, Grey, Storm, and the invisible Ambition, he believed that he could take care of most situations in this dangerous desert.
The journey to the Great Desert would be long, Rex expected to spend at least a week before he got there and this was if he had an uninterrupted journey.
The dream of an uninterrupted journey was unrealistic though. Just 3 days after he moved, he came under the attack of a marauding tribe.
Against a whole tribe that had an Advanced mystic warrior as their leader, he didn't have much chances of emerging victorious but he could escape.
After putting in a lot of effort and with Storm and Grey's interference, he escaped. The marauders did not rest though as they pursued him for a long distance, keen on capturing at least one of his transformed beasts.
This was a marauding tribe that was obsessed with beasts.
They were predominantly beast tamers, a mystic ability that was more common among desert men. And as their leader already had 3 mystic abilities, they gave Rex a hard time and Ambition had to bail him out again.
With this encounter, Rex wasted about 4 days escaping. More cautious in his approach now, he was able to escape more encounters like that but not entirely.
Throughout the journey, Rex kept on encountering marauding tribes or lone warriors who were attracted by their greed. Kamaitachis were ranked as some of the rarest beasts, mystic warriors loved rare things and were attracted to it.
Rex had to put up with all the ambush and attacks which succeeded in extending his journey from a week like he planned to almost 2 weeks.
After a stress-filled journey, Rex finally arrived at the Great Desert.
Without hesitation, he took a step on the Great River of gold.
...
Somewhere deep inside the desert, a pair of fiery red eyes suddenly blinked open after being attracted by a radar-like signal that passed through it.
Once the pair of fiery red eyes opened, light illuminated the cave, exposing the beast who had the body of a human and the tail of a snake.
This powerful Naga extended her longue tongue to lick her lips excitedly. "After months of tasting it, to think another Vampire would finally come to my territory, this leaves me so excited".
"This time, I will make this one my husband and slowly feed on his blood, savor and enjoy it till he dies, just like a female mantis does".
"If he pleases me, I can even give him my body, hehehe".
"Go and bring me the Vampire!"
"Yes, Queen Mother!" The beasts responded to their Queen's orders.
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