Chapter 268: Fighting the Angry Raven (1/2)
”Great...”
ROAR!!
Rex looks at the roaring winged creature and finds that the creature is what he's looking for, its hulking body, and its red skin matches the mayor's description.
But upon meeting it in real life, the raven has many thorns around its body.
The raven spread its wings menacingly that almost as wide as the cave's width completely intimidating the Awakened that saw this scene.
Roar!!
Delta also roared back without any sign of fear even under the raven's pressure.
While holding onto Delta's back, Rex scans the raven as the system shows that the raven in front of him is a sixth rank mutated animal.
<Crimson Thorn Raven>
Race: Mutated Corvidae
Power: Sixth Rank (Early)
Mental: 200
Strength: 343
Agility: 429
Endurance: 671
Intelligence: 0
'Although it's only an early sixth rank mutated animal, its stats almost comparable to that of a mid-sixth rank', Rex thought as he glance at the liquid that hurt Delta.
It was completely unexpected, Rex didn't expect the liquid to be corrosive.
The liquid is red in color almost peach color, and when Rex looks around he noticed something.
There are several spots of this red liquid scattered on the cave wall, but the weird thing is that Rex can't find where this liquid came from.
For such a corrosive liquid to appear, there must be a source.
Caves don't usually have corrosive substances in them, in fact, Rex never knew any cave have one and Rex can only conclude that it's from the raven.
Before the raven can make its first move, Rex decided to attack it first to test the raven.
”Delta let's jump!”, Rex whispers as Delta's body glows with a white hue.
With her powerful hind legs, Delta jumps up to reach the roaring mutated raven as Rex takes out his sword from his waist.
The sword started to blitz with black lightning as Rex imbued his element to it.
After the momentum subsided as Delta's body started to fall, Rex uses Delta's back to jump towards the raven because he's not quite there yet.
Everyone on the ground saw this as they marvel at Rex's power.
One can feel that Rex's element makes their own element feel weak, it's simply overbearing.
The raven saw Rex leaped towards it,
Feeling the intense black lightning coming from the sword, the raven closed its wings that are full of thorns and wrapped them around its body to block Rex's attack that felt threatening.
Using Delta as a stepping stone,
Rex manages to reach the gap level and saw a glimpse behind the raven's back.
Behind the raven turns out to be its nest with a set of eggs on it, the eggs are red in color, and the Armadillo that the raven caught is on the nest dead.
It seems the raven just makes this cave its home and feeds on the Armadillos.
'Some of them are already hatched', Rex thought as he saw some shells leftovers around the nest that proves his point.
Rex's arms muscles bulge as he swings the sword with everything he got.
SWOOSH!
The sword creates a spark of black electricity, an arc of black lightning is created as Rex swings his sword down with all his might.
By the enormous mana that is gathered on the sword, it's clear that Rex is not playing around.
CLANG!!
A loud vibrating sound was created as Rex's sword vibrates.
Instead of slashing through the raven's wings, Rex's sword got stopped and vibrates uncontrollably instead upon connecting with the raven's wings.
”What?!”, Rex gritted his teeth as the vibration makes his arm go numb.
The skin of the raven shocked him very much,
Although the sword that he used is only a fourth rank sword, it's still very sharp.
For the raven to block this sword that Rex swing powerfully is a shocking deed, the red skin of the raven is as tough as steel.
'I can penetrate it', Rex thought as he try to stop the sword's vibration.
After blocking Rex's attack, the raven peeks from behind its wings as its yellow eyes glisten before it flapped its wings creating a powerful wind that pushes Rex away.
SWOOSH!
Rex started falling down because of the wind, but then suddenly his eyes widened.
He saw the bird's mouth dripped with red saliva, the same red liquid that corrodes Delta's paw on the wall before.
'That red liquid is the raven's saliva?! Did it purposefully put its saliva around to defend its nest?!', Rex thought in surprise before Delta catch him falling and went down to the others.
”FIRE!”
POW!
BAM!
The others started firing at the raven with their weapons.
Colorful bullets that are imbued with different kinds of mana rains down upon the raven, they all hit the raven cleanly proving these Awakened to be trained Awakened.
Adhara and Kyran also fire their gun towards the raven, but theirs are not as good as the others.
ROAR!!
The raven roars once again as the bullets bounce off of its body like a toy bullet, its furs and skin are as hard as steel and the bullets can only hurt it a little.
Even Rex's attack before got blocked, but Rex can see a slight cut on its wing.
'Firing at its eyes are too hard in this distance, let's aim at that cut', Rex thought.
Rex takes the sniper rifle before he aims for the slight cut on its wing, he exhales lightly before the black lightning imbued the bullet before he pulls the trigger.
BAM!
ROAR!
Bullseye, the slight cut on the raven's wing got shot directly by Rex making it ripped wider.
After getting the raven's attention, the Awakened started marching forward while keep emptying the bullets in their gun.
”What should we do?”, Adhara asks hurriedly.
Hearing this, Rex thought for a moment before he wanted to try something.
But then suddenly,
SWOOSH!
The raven flew down like an aerial jet aiming towards the group of Awakened.
Its hulking body certainly weighs more than a few tons, and getting hit by the raven will certainly kill Slila's City Awakened.
Without wasting any time, the ground suddenly turns black.
Rex activates his Black Field Orko spell before the black lightning tentacle grabs the Awakened and flung them to the side avoiding the raven's crash.
BOOM!!
The ground cracked as debris flew around like bullets.
Because of Rex's quick decision, the Awakened survived the raven's crash.
While they are all recovering from the crash,
KAAW!
KAAW!!
A couple of cawing sounds can be heard, Rex looks up and saw fledglings flying weirdly.
Not long after the cawing sound, ”Arrghh!”
BAM! BAM!
”Get this thing away from me!”
Wails and screams of the Awakened can be heard as little versions of the raven that they fought appear, it's the fledgling that just hatched.
They look similar to the mother raven except for their size.
All of them can already fly on their own, and they started pecking and biting the Awakened.
More than a dozen of fledglings appear out of nowhere and started pecking the Awakened, but one shot from the Awakened killed these fledglings.
Realizing that its fledglings are getting killed, the raven roared angrily.
ROAR!!!
After the loud roar, the raven glare at the group of Awakened as it flaps its wings towards the Awakened with murderous intent.