Chapter 180: Dark Monkeys and the Black Leaves (1/2)
Rex opens his eyes after an hour of meditation,
He looks up to the sky and found that he can't look at the sky, he even lost sense of time because of the thick fog covering the sky.
Notification from the system is the only thing making Rex keep track of time.
'This fog, are they always been there?', Rex thought, he frowns as he somewhat remembers that the sky before is not covered with this thick fog before.
But then,
Swish Swish...
The sound of something jumping from tree to tree can be heard,
Its rustling sound becomes evident as the thing got closer, Rex already stands up to prepare.
From the end of his vision, he saw red eyes glaring in his direction.
Rex wanted to see what this creature is but the darkness covers its body, he can't see it even with his night vision ability.
He already takes out the Black Devil Gloves expecting a fight,
AKH AKH AKH!!
The creature makes a strange noise that makes Rex alert, from the sound of the strange noise the creature is certainly calling for others.
Without wasting a single second,
”FLASH!”
BLITZ!
Rex disappears from his spot as he jumps from tree to tree towards the red eyes creature, he leaves a black streak of lightning wherever he goes.
The creature saw this as it jumped to the side avoiding Rex attacks,
BOOM!
The tree where the creature was before got destroyed by Rex's punch, it collapse to the side before Rex jump to another tree.
He then look at his front and saw the creature he's dealing with,
<Dark Monkey>
Race: Mutated Primates
Power: Rank Four(Peak)
Mental: 60
Strength: 83
Agility: 138
Endurance: 47
Intelligence: 0
Looking at this, Rex's body glows with a yellow hue.
He activates his yellow force as his movement is slower compared to the Dark Monkeys, and with the help of Liliya's mark, Rex becomes even faster.
SWOSHH!
The Dark Monkey widened its red eyes as he saw Rex bolting towards it,
It stretches its long black furry hands as it jumped to a nearby tree and grabs the tree trunk, it started running away from Rex.
Rex studies the Dark Monkey as he tries to close their gap,
The Dark Monkey jumped to the right tree with its nimble moves but Rex already anticipated this.
SLASH!
He slashes the Dark Monkey cutting its right arm cleanly,
ROAR!!
The Dark Monkey roared in pain as it landed on another tree trunk, it saw that his arm got cut off before he glares at Rex.
Rex looks at the Dark Monkey mockingly,
But then, he saw the Dark Monkey also sent a mocking look to him.
'Why is it smiling like that? Its hand just got cut off', Rex thought.
But then, he remembers something, 'Shit! I unconsciously got separated from Liliya!'
BLITZ!
Rex run back towards Liliya like a madman,
Chasing the Dark Monkey unconsciously brought Rex far away from Liliya, he didn't expect the Dark Monkey to have this sort of intelligence.
<The user's stats has been decreased by 20
Reading the system notification, 'Liliya is in trouble, she just retracts her mark', Rex thought.
BOOM!
BOOM!
A loud explosion can be heard as Rex got closer to Liliya, he picks up his pace fearing that Liliya got ambushed by the Dark Monkeys.
Arriving at the scene,
Rex saw Liliya battling countess Dark Monkeys that came out of nowhere,
The Dark Monkeys leaped towards her but got blocked by a red symbol that appears every time they got close, the red symbol then emits sinister energy before it exploded.
KABOOM!
Many of the Dark Monkeys got blown away by the explosion,
It is a very effective skill to fight multiple opponents, but Rex can see that it takes quite a toll on Liliya's body to use it repeatedly.
FLASH!
Rex appear mid-air beside the countless Dark Monkeys before he started to massacre them.
The Dark Monkeys are fast-mutated animals but when caught off guard, they are no more than chickens especially with such low Endurance stat.
SLASH!
BLITZ!
SLASH!
With Rex's speed and the momentum from the black lightning, Rex jumps from tree to tree as if there's glue on his shoes.
Dozens of Black Monkeys were killed by Rex, they're caught in surprise.
”Are you okay?”, Rex said as he appear beside Liliya while still looking cautiously at the Dark Monkeys around them.
They all have burly bodies with grey fur around their necks,
Razor-sharp fangs can be seen sticking out of their mouths as they pound their chest in aggression, they seem to want to battle still.
Liliya and Rex put their backs against each other before she said, ”Where were you? I got attacked when I'm sleeping”
Rex looks at her and found an injury on her stomach, she got clawed by the Dark Monkeys.
”Try to reserve your energy, I can fight them all as long as you stay safe”, Rex said before his body started to sizzle with Black Lightning.
But then,
CRANK!
A big monkey suddenly appear amongst the Dark Monkeys,
And after the sudden appearance of the big monkey, all of the other Dark Monkeys started to pound their chest in excitement.
ROAR!!
The big Dark Monkey roared as it spread its bloodlust,
Rex saw the Dark Monkey that got slashed by him before beside the big monkey, and it seems to whisper to the big monkey before its red blazing eyes fall onto Rex.
'That little snitch, bringing the big guy eh', Rex thought in contempt.
But then,
<Sudden Quest>
Dark Monkeys
The user just got surrounded by Dark Monkeys that inhabit the Lightless Mash, their numbers are countless and they will not stop until the user is dead! Kill the leader of the Dark Monkey to break their spirit and send them away!
Quest Reward: Lightless Leaves, 5,000,000 Exp, and 5 Skill Upgrade.
Reading this, Rex's fighting spirit boiled.
As the system said, if the big Dark Monkey hasn't come then he will have to fight an unending battle with the Dark Monkey.
So by the arrival of the big Dark Monkey, it is more like a blessing than a curse.
He looks at the snitching Dark Monkey before he swipes his thumb on his neck, signaling to the snitching Dark Monkey that he will definitely kill it.