Chapter 54: Dark Moon Arrives (1/2)
Three days have passed,
Today is the day the Dark Moon arrives, Rex can already feel his body becomes weird.
It is still morning but Rex can feel the anger within him bubbling up slowly, the anger is like an eruption of volcanoes that will burst during the night.
During these three days, Rex didn't forget to do his daily quest and his meditation routine fearing that his sanity will get decreased somehow.
He is now close to leveling up, he reckoned that today will be the day he will actually jump a couple of levels to get into level 20 where his next evolution will occur.
Rex is weirdly calm about the Dark Moon but as soon as the day the Dark Moon arrives, nervousness started to swallow him whole.
'What if I can't control myself again like before?'
'What would I do if both me and Adhara can't control ourselves and go berserk'
'Is my stats enough to handle the blessing of Dark Moon?'
These thoughts filled Rex's mind since he woke up, he just can't seem to calm his mind down.
He attended class, as usual, he walks with both Rosie and Adhara.
Rex glances at Adhara, he saw Adhara's hands are shivering for unknown reasons and her expression looks as if she's holding something in.
Rex was thinking hard, he must find a way to avoid direct moonlight and a place where there is no crowd of people.
The only place he could think of is the Emham Forest where he first transforms or Clinnia Mountain located on the border of Ratmawati City and the seas in the north.
The problem was Clinnia Mountain is pretty far, although Ochyra University is located in the middle of Ratmawati City it still takes about three hours more or less by train to reach Clinnia Mountain.
The only choice Rex has is the Emham Forest,
But he read that the Emham Forest is under FAA inspection because of the Cyclops that reside there, the Cyclop is still not found.
'I have no other choice', Rex thought before he enters the class.
Not long after Rex and the girls enter the class,
Mr. Joseph arrive, he wanted to start the class but Rex raises his hand and asks to talk with him.
Mr. Joseph nodded his head and follow Rex,
”What do you want to talk about? I got the news that they accepted you”, Mr. Joseph said after they both got out of the class.
Rex thinks for a brief moment, 'It's not like I have a choice from the start anyway', he thought.
”It's not about that, me, and Adhara want to take a day off. We wanted to train to prepare for the sparring tournament”, Rex asks lying to Mr. Joseph's face.
Hearing this, Mr. Joseph raises his brows, ”Are you really training? I heard the rumors of you and Adhara you know”, he said with a suspicious look.
Rex was confused, ”What rumor?”
”They said a student saw you, *Ekhm*, choking Adhara sexually”, Mr. Jospeh said while trying hard not to judge Rex.
”WHO SPREAD THAT RUMOR!!”, Rex suddenly shouted in anger.
Mr. Joseph was surprised, ”No need to get so worked up, It's just student's rumor”, he looks at Rex weirdly.
Rex realizes what did he just do, ”I'm sorry for shouting Mr. Joseph!”, he apologizes while slightly bowing.
”Hmm, no worries. Just focus on your training okay”, Mr. Joseph said as he cast one last complicated look before going back to the class.
Rex sighs, 'Holding the anger is harder than I thought'
After getting permission from Mr. Joseph, Rex waves at Adhara signaling her to get out of class but suddenly Rosie already wait for them in front of the class.
”What are you doing?”, Rex asks Rosie after they got out of the class.
”I'm coming with you guys too, your problem is also my problem”, Rosie said innocently, she has a stubborn look on her face.
Hearing this, Rex was horror-stricken, ”Rosie, go back! It's too dangerous. I don't even know if I can control it”
Rosie still maintains her stubborn look and replied, ”Don't worry, I can protect myself”
Rex grabbed Rosie's shoulders feeling frustrated and said, ”You don't understand! My power will raise because of that, I'm saying this for your own good”
Because of Rosie, he really needs to calm himself to not explode.
”No! I'm coming with you, whether you like it or not!”, Rosie still didn't back down.
Rex calms himself, he then surrenders and lets Rosie follow him after she suddenly takes out a rank-four protection rune that is given by her parents.
During all this time, Adhara is silent with trembling hands.
Her expression is still troubled, ”Adhara what's happening? Talk to me”, Rex asks feeling worried.
After struggling to open her mouth for a while, she then suddenly screamed, ”STOP TALKING!!”, Adhara's eyes turned bright yellow.
The students passing by all glance at Adhara,
Adhara's scream is so loud that makes her the center of attention, Rex immediately brought her away fearing someone will become more suspicious of them.
Rex takes the girls to his cars,
Without a second of waiting, the car bolted out of the University heading towards Emham Forest.
Emham forest is not that far from Ochyra University, if there's no traffic then they should arrive in 20 minutes or so.
Inside the car, Adhara is holding her head in pain.
Rex takes a quick glance at Adhara while driving, 'System, it's not night yet. Why is Adhara becoming like that?'
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Reading this, Rex frowns, 'My willpower is probably strengthened because of the war. Adhara is abused by her father, this is probably the cause she is lacking in willpower'
Rex stepped on the gas, he wanted to get out of the crowd as soon as possible.
Rex really wanted to increase his pack members because they can grant him exp and also they will be his reinforcement in future problems, but if he can't control Adhara then he won't add another member until Adhara is better.
The car sweep past the street swiftly, Rex is driving like a madman inviting people to honk at him in anger.
”Is Adhara going to be okay?”, Rosie asks worriedly, although Adhara sometimes is cold and harsh Rosie knows that she is like that because of the Dark Moon.
Rex glance at Rosie through the rearview middle mirror and replied, ”To be honest, I don't know. This is the first time I turned someone into a half-Werewolf”
”You should've prepared something like this better, stupid!”, Rosie said harshly.
Rex can only scratch his head feeling bad about the current situation they are in,
After 25 minutes of crazy driving, they arrive at the Emham Forest.
The Emham Forest is a forest that is maintained by UWO of Ratmawati City, this forest is the place for new Awakened to hone their skills by battling mutated animals.