Chapter 97: Manticore Weakness (2/2)
The others squinted their eyes and saw the Manticore flinch to the side as it attacks the boulder with its tail.
”But based on the record, the Manticore's tail gives them earth resistance”, Tony said while scrolling through the description, he was still doubting.
Rex stands up as he enlarges the footage even more, he then zooms in to the Manticore's tail, ”Pay close attention to this scene”
The footage shows the Manticore's tail movement, it was fast so it is blurry.
But when Rex slowed the footage and zoomed in to the tail, the other saw something astonishing.
”That's...That's Lightning Element!”
”What? How could this be? The UWO manual will never make this kind of mistake”
Rex then continues, ”There is only a few Manticore so the UWO probably didn't pay close attention to this one. The Manticore's tail is imbued with Lightning Element. Their skin is not very tough and Earth Element is weak against Lightning, that's why it evaded the boulder from hitting its body”
After realizing this, they all were utterly amazed by Rex's perception.
The tail moves lightning-fast and it didn't even emit any kinds of Lightning Mana, but when one pays attention closely they can see a faint spark of lightning coming from the Manticore's tail.
”The Manticore doesn't have multiple resistance, it's just specific parts of their body that have different resistance. Using its fast movement, it can adjust the elemental attack to its respective body parts to avoid injury”, Rex explained.
The others nodded their heads in realization, even Brock's eyes started to glow in admiration.
But then, Rosie follows, ”If that's the case, it becomes harder to fight it knowing that your attack can be negated by its tail”
”That's true”
”Now who can damage it? Ivy is the only Water Elementalist, and there is only two Earth Elementalist on our team”
Rex raises his hand to stop the others ranting and said, ”Don't worry, the Manticore we will face tomorrow is only a peak rank four. It can't block my attack”
'I can even kill it using my brute strength', Rex thought silently.
Supernatural resistance becomes stronger the stronger they get, it is a commonly known fact.
For example, rank four Manticore can resist a fire attack from a rank four Awakened but if the Awakened have Mid Great Element, then they can't resist it. But as soon as the Manticore reach rank five, then they can resist the Mid Great Element but cannot resist Peak Great Element.
Using this logic, Rex's Black Lightning is a Peak Great Element which means it can only be resisted by a rank six Manticore.
”So what's the plan for tomorrow? Should we divide each student by their element and give them the Manticore's body part they have to target?”, Tony asks Rex.
Rex leans both of his hands on the table, ”Yes but with a little bit of twist”
The others listened attentively, they subconsciously already accepted Rex as their leader because of this.
”The Manticore has a weakness, we will aim for its tail first. There is an orb on its tail, crush it then the Manticore will be greatly weakened”, Rex explains briefly.
Hera and Tony look at each other, 'Are the military more adept than the UWO?”
They started to doubt the UWO competence compared to the military, they thought Rex knows all of this from the military archives but little do they know Rex have the system with him.
”So here's our plan-”
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”Sir, please I'm sorry. I don't know that it will end like this, I swear!”
In a room inside of the Faraday University, Manuel is shivering after getting cornered by a group of people.
If Rex was here, he will certainly know these people are from the Platchi Family.
Duncan was among them, ”You said that you tested Rex, how can the White Assassins you sent killed Chris!”, he said while showing Manuel the photo that was given by the Sullivan.
”Truthfully, the White Assassins never came back. We suspected Rex massacre them all”, Manuel said with a shivering tone.
He looks left and right that is filled with Awakened from the Black Tiger Guild but they all are not wearing the Black Tiger uniform, they seem to come here in secret.
But one thing they have in common, they all emit a horrifying aura.
BAM!!
Duncan punches the wall beside Manuel creating a hole in it, ”DAMN!!”
He scrunched his face in frustration before he approaches Manuel again, ”Because of you, the UWO and the FAA will find out about this”
Manuel was so scared about the situation,
Although he is a Vice-Principal of the university, if known that he helped Duncan, he will be blacklisted from the university and will be exiled.
Duncan paces around the room with clear anger, ”I WILL KILL THAT BRAT!!”
”Sir, calm yourself. The scandal makes the FAA monitor us, and now that it escalated like this, we can't afford to be reckless”, a guy said from the side.
”I KNOW GOD DAMN IT!”, Duncan shouted in frustration.
He then inhales a deep breath trying to calm himself down, after reducing his anger for a bit he said, ”We can't be here for long, and we can't have any witnesses. Kill him”
Hearing this, Manuel's face drains from all colors.
”SIR PLEASE SPARE ME! I'LL FIX THIS!”, he said desperately, he can feel his time is about to come.
Manuel grabbed Duncan's leg, he's pleading for his life.
Duncan glances at him coldly, ”The FAA will question you, it will damage our reputation if this got leaked out. So, you will die either way. Just blame yourself for creating this shit”, he kicks Manuel making him stumbles to the ground.
He then gets a white crystal from his pocket before he teleported away.
The people around the room glance at Manuel murderously, his back is drenched with sweats as his spine grew cold.
One guy walks up to him while cracking his knuckle.
He squatted down in front of Manuel as his body started to emit a powerful aura, ”Goodbye!”
CRACK!!
He punched Manuel in the face bursting his head into meat paste, he then licked the blood on his hand before he signals the other to leave.