Chapter 279: What the Hell Is Happening (1/2)
”Just don't do that again”, Rex said with Kyran lying in front of him.
Somehow Kyran manage to help them beat the Sand Elemental by spotting its core, then he got stuck inside the Sand Elemental almost got ripped to shreds by the condensed light.
What Kyran did was a mad move,
If Rex was not there in the nick of time, he will die alongside the Sand Elemental.
But aside from his reckless behavior, Rex can't deny that Kyran's sense is very useful in such a situation, and without it, the fight will get longer.
They might even lose if the only thing that can kill the Sand Elemental is by destroying its core.
Kyran smiles widely upon seeing Rex's mouth quirked up, the blood that is oozing out of his body should kill any Awakened but he's not just a human.
After saving Kyran, Rex's body turns normal as he looks at the destroyed surrounding.
He's trying to find Adhara and Delta that should also be pushed back by the shockwave, Adhara is further away from the explosion but Delta is very close since she's the one that brought Kyran closer to the Sand Elemental.
On his right, Rex saw Adhara coughing as the sand got inside her mouth.
From the looks of it, she's probably fine because as soon as she saw Rex she gets up and runs towards him.
”Rex! Kyran!”, Adhara shouted while running towards them.
Although she's further away from the explosion, her left arm is tilted in the wrong direction that making Rex frown in concern.
He then asks, ”What happened?”
Hearing what Rex said, Adhara looks at her left arm before she smiles wryly, ”My left arm hit the tree behind me pretty hard, I think it's broken”, she said after feeling that her left arm is numb.
Rex sigh before he looks around in worry, ”Where's Delta?”
Their surroundings are filled with sand, trees, and mutated animals.
But now, many of the trees got flattened by the explosion while the sand around them becomes more abundant for some reason.
'It's probably because of the Sand Elemental', Rex thought.
After that, Rex and Adhara helped Kyran lean on a tilted tree before they started to look around.
Because of the air consisting of a little bit of sand, Rex and Adhara's smelling sense is not quite as good as the usual place as they struggle to search for Delta.
They went left and right around the sandy place with no sign of Delta.
But Rex notice something weird from the surrounding too, 'Where did the mutated animals go? Some should survive the explosion', Rex thought with a frown.
The mutated animals are many here, it's weird to see this place very empty of life.
Rex then glance at the temple's entrance and saw a glimpse of a mutated camel going inside, it seems all of the mutated animals runs inside of the temple.
”REX! I FOUND DELTA!”, Adhara suddenly shouted.
Hearing this, Rex immediately went in Adhara's direction.
Arriving beside her, Rex looks down and saw the third quarter of Delta's body is covered by sand creating a mound, only her tails can be seen from this view.
Without waiting any longer, Rex and Adhara dig the sand in worry.
The sand is not quite deep and when they manage to dig Delta out, they sucked in a cold breath as they both stepped back in disbelief.
In front of them, Delta lies weakly with an human-sized tree fragment stabbing her belly.
The tree fragment penetrate her belly cleanly until it burst out from her back.
Looking at this, Adhara's body froze not knowing what to do but then Rex then notice a slight movement on Delta's body, ”She's breathing!”, he shouted in joy.
For a second there, Rex thought that Delta is dead.
But thankfully, she's still alive and if treated she will recover since her body is way stronger.
Rex falls to his knee before he caressed Delta's head,
Feeling the gentle touch on her head, Delta's eyes opened slightly but weakly and saw Rex looking at her in worry.
A small whimper came out of Delta's mouth as if she's saying that she's fine.
”Let's bring her to the city first, we will get back here later”, Rex said before he glance at the temple in front of him with slight hesitation.
The first guardian they met is this strong, and the others should be as strong as this one.
Rex dare not to think like this but there's a chance that the other guardians might be stronger than the Sand Elemental, it's hard to say by looking at the temple's entrance that gives off a mysterious aura.
After looking at the temple's entrance for a moment, Rex signals the other to leave.
The climb up is harder than climbing down,
Because of carrying Delta's body, it's simply not possible for Rex to carry such a huge beast while climbing the cliff wall with his human body.
So he needs to turn into his Werewolf form so he can move freely.
Adhara is tasked to carry Kyran while Rex is carrying Delta, they're still haven't started their climb yet since the wood fragment is still there and Adhara's left arm is broken.
Delta will bleed out if the wood fragment is pulled, and she will die then.
Rex was wrecking his brain to climb the cliff, he can't find an alternative since he's the only one that can still move freely.
Almost all of his injuries are minor and not threatening, and it's healing too.
The problem that Rex just realized is that Adhara's hand is broken, and now he's thinking twice to let Adhara carry Kyran up with her condition.
He thought of leaving Adhara down here while he brings the two up.
But he can't really do that since Kyran is still weak, and he can't possibly hold onto Delta's body that will also apply more pressure to Delta's wound.
Adhara will also not be safe here, it's too risky.
Looking at Rex who is in a dilemma, Adhara then said, ”Just bring Delta back first”
”I can't do that, What happened if something happened while I was gone here?”, Rex replied with a frown, the temple is mysterious and there's no guarantee that Kyran and Adhara will be safe here.
Before he becomes conflicted, Rex immediately asks the system.
At first, Rex thought that he can just transport back to Wedron City with the others.
Turns out, all transportation items cannot be used here because of some sort of energy that blocked any transportation.
It surprised Rex and now the situation becomes problematic.
Although he can just buy healing elixirs from the shop, he's not that rich anymore.
Spending gold needlessly if they're not urgent will just pummel his gold down, and he still needs many things that he needed to save the gold for.