Chapter 181: Alpha Bearing and Qrila City (1/2)
Rex touches his forehead feeling something hit his forehead,
It happened so fast that even with his enhanced senses, he can't see or even react to something that hit him on the forehead.
'Did that Supernatural did this?', Rex thought.
He can't think of anything else besides the Northern Black Heads' doings.
Their brief exchange completely shocked Rex as it can flee under Rex's nose, it completely baffled him knowing that such a creature exists.
Rex scans the surrounding area, he then thought, 'That Northern Black Head is taking the black leaves, what are they going to do with it?'
After thinking for a while, Rex suddenly remembered.
'Oh yeah! I think the quest reward gave me black leaves', Rex thought.
He then takes the black leaves he got from the inventory, two black leaves appeared on his hand that look completely the same as normal leaves.
Aside from its color, pure black.
Rex then scans the black leaves with the system,
<Lightless Leaf>
A leaf that grows from a Dark Pixy Tree that can only be found in an environment devoid of sunlight, it is also known as the Water Poison. Upon touching a water surface, it will turn into a black substance that can kill a rank four creature easily and hurt a higher rank creature. Continous exposal to this black leaf will kill any creature if enough lightless leaves are used.
Reading this, Rex frowns.
The explanation of the Lightless Leaves makes him even more confused, 'What do they want with poisonous leaves? Is that their food or something?', Rex thought.
After shaking his head, Rex then went back to Liliya.
Liliya is currently tending to her wounds, she's using a green elixir to rub the wound on her stomach from the Dark Monkey before.
She then heard someone approaching before Rex pops from the darkness.
”I cleared out the area, there should be no more disturbance this night”, Rex said as an excuse, he only left Liliya to catch that snitching Dark Monkey before.
Hearing this, Liliya nodded her head before she lies on the tree trunk.
Although she's injured, the thing that makes her weak is the skill she used before that put her in this state.
”What's that skill you use before? It's like a barrier of red mark”, Rex asks.
Liliya close her eyes before she replied, ”I develop the skill a while ago, it's a defensive skill that can spawn invisible red marks that will detonate upon touching it”
”That's convenient, it will be useful for fighting a group of creatures”, Rex nodded his head in affirmation.
He then sits on the tree trunks beside Liliya before he checks the system,
Rex looks at the skill tree and taps the Alpha Intimidation skill, his eyes then widened in the realization of his blunder.
'Wait, I thought the Alpha Bearing skill need 30 Skill Upgrade. Turns out it only needs 20 Skill Upgrade', Rex thought.
He currently has 20 Skill Upgrade added with the quest reward he got from before.
Rex already upgrades his Force Manipulation skill to level two for 15 Skill Upgrade, with the remaining Skill Upgrade he can also upgrade his Alpha Intimidation skill.
He clicks on the upgrade button before the Alpha Intimidation skill turned into Alpha Bearing.
It is a more powerful version of Alpha Intimidation that will reduce anyone's stats that looks at him, anyone with a lower mental stat of course.
This will make him more efficient in fighting groups of enemies.
With the barrier created by Liliya and his Alpha Bearing skill, Rex can't wait to use it to fight a group of creatures.
Rex then closes his eyes intending to meditate but then,
RAWR!!
Growls of creatures can be heard from the darkness,
From the sound of it, Rex can tell that there are many of them, just like the Dark Monkey from before that lives in a group.
Rex opened his eyes with a smile,
He saw many white eyes looking at him from the darkness, they are cat-like creatures the size of lions.
They have a brown muscular body with a spotted pattern on it, two sharp fangs from their upper mouth, and hunchback bodies like hyenas.
Rex nudge Liliya's body to wake her up,
Feeling the nudge, Liliya open her eyes with a frown, ”What are you-”, her words stopped when she saw they're surrounded again.
It's even worse now because this is the second time they got to attack,
”I think we're not going to get much sleep in this place”, Rex said, but his mouth quirk up to a smile as if it's a good thing.
Liliya looks around with a sigh, her body is still strained by the fight before, ”They're weaker than the Dark Monkey, you handle it I want to sleep”
After saying that, Liliya mark Rex with her Enhancing Mark and go back to sleep.
This makes Rex's smile even wider, 'I'm not going to deny this running exp, sleep tight Liliya', he thought before he activates his new skill.
”Alpha Bearing”
SWOSH!!
A red shockwave exploded subtly from Rex's body,
It doesn't bring that much effect but the fierce look of the cat-like creatures turns into shock, they can feel their power leaving them as Rex's bearing becomes unimaginably oppressing.
They can see Rex's dark red aura that take a shape of a big red Werewolf,
All of the cat-like creatures that got hit by the subtle red shockwave got weaker by 30%, all of them becomes scared by Rex's aura.
Added with Rex's superior bloodline, these creatures don't stand a chance.
But Rex will not let them get away, ”DON'T YOU RUN NOW LITTLE KITTIES!”
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Somewhere outside of Ratmawati City, there is a level four city that is surrounded by lakes.
The streets in this city are all crowded with people,
Merchants that sold many things, families bonding together while playing street games and even guards that kept the laws in the city can be seen walking around idly.
No crime has occurred in this city for quite a while, it can be seen through the guard's faces.
They are more like friendly city guards than actual guards, the weapons on their hands are even of an old model.
Aside from the lively city, there're people with black crow tattoos roaming the street.
If Rex was to see their tattoos, he will instantly recognize it as the tattoo of a member of the Stygian Crow Organization.