‘Team members? What do they mean by team members?’, Rex thought in confusion, he squinted his eyes trying to remember if he ever met these two figures before but his head comes up with nothing.
Then suddenly, Devan opened his clothes revealing a black crow tattoo on his chest.
Rex then comes to a realization, ‘Black crow tattoo? So they’re from the SCO’
He then checks both of their stats,
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Power: Peak Rank Four – Telekinesis
Mental: 130
Strength: 65
Agility: 90
Endurance: 88
Intelligence: 0
Rex didn’t expect Devan wearing all white have a telekinesis ability, it is contrasting with his lean and muscular figure. Rex thought Devan will be a melee fighter.
The weird part about him is that he uses a white beanie that looks uncomfortable in this heat,
He then glances at Liliya beside Devan,
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Power: Early Rank Five – ???
Mental: 93
Strength: 127
Agility: 185
Endurance: 115
Intelligence: 0
Looking at Liliya’s stats, Rex frowns.
Her stats are higher even comparing to Rex’s Werewolf form, the troubling part is that he can’t see any hints of her abilities which never happened before.
After scanning them, Rex said, “Do you guys perhaps saw a group of black uniform Awakened?”
Devan raises his brows before suddenly a couple of people floating comes out of nowhere, “You mean these guys?”
Rex nodded his head, “We encounter them and they are noisy so Liliya and I knocked them all out. But one got away I suppose, he’s a quick one”, Devan said before putting the unconscious people on the ground.
Rex frowns, ‘They’re from the black tiger guild, they’re probably sent here to search for me’
After brief thinking, Rex glances back and said, “So, Devan and Liliya, Why are you here looking for me?”
Hearing Rex, Liliya, and Devan were surprised for a bit, “How did you know our name? We haven’t told you our name yet”, Devan replies in shock.
Rex was stunned, ‘Shit, I forgot they haven’t introduced themselves yet’
He then coughs before saying, “The Green Messenger told me, stop getting off-topic”
The frowns on Liliya’s and Devan’s forehead disappear, Rex heaved a sigh of relief, “We got our first mission, We need to go right now. I’ll tell you about the mission along the way”, Liliya said before turning her back.
Rex hesitated for a moment, ‘Adhara and Rosie are still in the Cluster Domain, I think Liliya and Devan don’t sense anything from the hole behind me. Let’s keep it that way’, Rex then apologizes to Rosie and Adhara in his heart before following them.
After Rex left for a couple of minutes,
Zong! Zong!
Adhara and Rosie comes out of the Cluster Domain after packing their stuff,
Adhara looks funny because of her clothes that look like a Tarzan, Rex proposedly choose them so she will not suspicious of him.
If Rex takes out a beautiful modern dress from the system then, of course, Adhara will be suspicious of where did the clothes come from. Ugrok can’t possibly make that kind of clothes so he settles with Tarzan-like clothes.
“Where’s Rex?”, Rosie asks looking around the place.
They thought something bad happened to Rex and the group of Awakened but suddenly,
Ting!
Rosie opened her phone and saw Rex texts,
‘I got something urgent, don’t go look for me. Go back to the university safely, I will see you in a couple of days probably’
Rosie then replied, ‘Don’t forget the Faraday University Tournament will be held three days from now. If you’re late, you’re dead!’
Rex only replies with a thumb emoji that makes Rosie cursed him in her heart,
She then looks at Adhara, “Rex got something urgent to do, let’s go back first”
Meanwhile,
Rex was following Liliya and Archie, they are like a shadow zipping through the forest.
Not long after, they got out of the forest and immediately went to a black sports car that is parked outside the Emham Forest.
“Get in”, Devan said as he sits in the driver seat.
The sports car looks manly, it is pretty low just about Rex’s shoulder height. It has four seats, the spoiler is long and thin decorating its back, and the car’s roaring engine is monstrous.
Vroom!!
Devan hit the pedal and drive off of the Emham Forest,
Everyone is silent inside the car,
Rex didn’t want to open a conversation with two strangers but if they’re his team then this awkward vibe is not comfortable.
“What’s the mission exactly?”, Rex said breaking the silence.
Devan then opens his mouth and explains, “You must’ve heard of Zrolis City right?”
Rex nodded his head and signal to continue, “Based on SCO, the Supernatural’s movement is weird. It’s been days since the siege in Zrolis City, the clear objective is the high-grade Elemental Stone but to mine them is not supposed to be this long”
‘Supernatural has enhanced physique and also magic, it is indeed weird they haven’t retreated from Zrolis City’, Rex thought agreeing with the SCO’s conclusion.
Liliya who is silent all this while suddenly added, “There must be something keeping them there, our first objective is to find out and if possible prolong their stay”
‘Is the same mission as I used to do, scouting mission’, Rex thought.
Just as he wanted to say something, Devan intervenes, “The second objective is…”
“Wait, there are two objectives?”, Rex said in surprise.
Devan only looks at Rex from the middle mirror and continues, “The scout from SCO has reported a sighting of five figures that enter Zrolis City late, the weird behavior may relate to the five figures somehow. Four of the figures are from the Haltija race, Haltija is a Supernatural born to guard something or someone which leads us to the last conclusion”
Rex opens his ears and listens closely to Devan’s explanation, he then continues, “The fifth figure must be an important Supernatural, our second objective is to find out the fifth figure and catch it if possible”
Hearing this, Rex nodded his head, ‘It’s going to be a hard couple of days’
After explaining, Devan and Rex talked with each other with light topics and they got closer at least not a stranger anymore.
Just as Rex was looking outside the window, seeing the streets that are passing before he can even see it, his phone rings.
Ting!
He looks at it and found Edward suddenly texted him,
‘Yo Rex, how have you been?’
Rex then replied, ‘I’m good, a little busy right now. How’re you?
‘Also doing well here, okay let’s get straight to the point. I wanted to pay Kyle’s family a visit if you want to you can come’
Reading this, the day when Kyle sacrifice himself for them seeped through his mind, ‘When?’
‘Just tell me when you can, I have free time so just let me know when you’re available’
‘Okay’
After chatting with Edward for a bit, Rex’s eyes become hazy.
He looks at the window feeling sleepy, after blinking a couple of times his eyelids become too heavy before he then falls asleep.
Inside the Black Tiger Guild office,
A man that has his uniform tattered enters the guild office, the crowd looks at him weirdly but he ignored it.
He then walks inside the lift and press the 35th floor signing as the president’s floor,
Arriving on the 35th floor, he immediately greeted by a huge door.
The huge door is dark brown in color, it looks majestic and gives off an invisible pressure around it.
Besides the huge door, a working table is placed neatly with a beautiful blonde woman sitting on it.
The man approaches the woman, “I’d like to meet the president, it is urgent. I’m from the team that is sent to Emham Forest”, he said politely.
The secretary glances at the man before she takes the telephone and said, “Mr. Duncan, there’s a man wanting to see you”
Bzztt~
“He said he’s from the Emham Forest team”
Bzztt~
The secretary puts down the telephone and said, “You can go inside, don’t forget to knock”
After getting the permission, the man smiled politely before he went to the door and knock on it.
Duncan is sitting on his chair leisurely with a cigarette in his hand, he looks at the man who just entered the room and frowns.
“What happened?”, he said with an authoritative tone.
The man bowed a bit before replying, “I’m sorry Mr. President, our team are wiped out by an unknown third party”
Hearing this, Duncan’s face is red as anger started to boil inside him, “Do you see what they look like?”, he asks calmly.
The calm tone instead brings a heavier vibe more than if he just becomes angry, the man has chills crawling on his spine as he answered stutteringly, “All…All I know is that they…they don’t use any mana and…and is probably Unawakened people”
“Are you certain of that?”, Duncan looks at the man intensely.
The man felt like he’s naked in front of Duncan’s gaze, he felt any secret can be seen easily by him, “Yes! I assure you!”
“Are you certain that Rex, Rosie, and Adhara are there? Have you checked?”, Duncan asks again.
The man instantly answered fearing he will displease Duncan, “Yes! I already ask their classmates and confirms it with others testimony”
Hearing this, Duncan waves his hands before the man immediately bowed and left the room.
He takes a big whiff of smoke and thought, ‘So they’re related to that organization, I’m starting to become more certain that one of them is the one who killed my son’, Hatred flashes inside his eyes before he flicks his fingers making the cigarette burns brightly.
After hours of driving, they finally got out of Ratmawati City.
For some reason, Devan doesn’t want to go by train although it will be faster to get there.
He insisted to use his car and is really stubborn about it, Liliya and Rex finally give up and let Devan drive them to Zrolis City.
Zrolis City is a level three city and it is pretty far, they need to get through a couple of level two cities before arriving at Zrolis City.
The car then stops when they arrive at Nerphia City, a level two city just after they got out of Ratmawati City.
Liliya and Rex gives Devan a questioning gaze, “I got business to take care of a bit, I’ll be back in an hour or two”
“Wait, we can’t be this late. The guild is already attacking today, we need to be present to get the best time to sneak in”, Rex rebutted.
Devan looks at him and said, “Just a bit okay, I’ll be back as soon as possible. Go to that bar over there, I will meet you guys there”
Rex face-palm his face, ‘Well he’s a rich guy, he’s probably busy but I hope he will prioritize our mission first. No, based on his serious expression before he does prioritize this mission so why is he still going there first?’
He then shakes his head not wanting to think about it before he goes to the driving seat, Rex looks at the insides and felt dizzy.
‘As expected of a sports car, even the insides are nowhere near any normal cars’, Rex thought but thankfully he manages to drive the car safely to the bar.
“You coming?”, Rex ask Liliya.
Liliya hesitated for a bit, she looks nervous for some reason, “I don’t bring cash”
“Don’t worry, I’ll pay for you”, Rex said before they both got out of the car and went inside the bar.