'This energy... it's the same energy that black snake have!', Rex shouted in his head while dashing towards the source madly.
He remembers this energy well, it's the first energy that makes him feel fear.
Back when he's still in the swamp beside Zrolis City, he remembers that he and Devan meet a cursed creature that manages to bypass his senses.
If the Green Messenger hasn't intervened, then he will probably die without knowing why.
It was a terrifying moment, even remembering it gives him goosebumps.
Rex arrives in the north wall, he saw the wall barricade already got breached. He instantly deduces that it's the Orcs doing.
The ground is black, 'Adhara is on this site, did she fail to defend this side?', Rex thought in surprise.
Adhara is the second strongest in Rex's eyes, she manages to reach rank four power and even have the Peak Great Element Purple Fire.
So knowing that Adhara fails, Rex is surprised.
He then went inside Wedron City and not long saw Kyran and the others, they're all looking at the red sinister energy that exploded out of nowhere.
"What happened to her?", Rex said surprising Troy.
Kyran looks at Rex that comes out of nowhere and said, "She exhausts herself fighting against the Orc, she then suddenly passed out"
Hearing this, Rex looks to the side and saw a big burnt carcass, 'That Orc is stronger than the guard in front of the Warchief's hut, no wonder Adhara fail this side'
After checking on Adhara, "Isn't that the church's direction?"
"Yes, something must've happened there", Troy said with a frown, he doesn't understand what happened there.
Rex tells Troy to bring Adhara back to rest before he signals Kyran to follow him.
Both of them dashes towards the church direction,
Rex already knew what he's dealing with when he saw a notification from the system.
Curse of Love. Love can make someone good but it can also be a double-edged sword. The beautiful blind woman conducts a forbidden love, the forbidden partner saw her gets cheated and killed by a man's jealousy. The Prince of Green smiles, he then cursed the woman's partner to avenge the death of the woman. If successful, he will become an immortal creature feasting on hatred.
Stop this from happening, only by the hand of the cloudy eyes can the Curse of Love be broken.
Quest Reward: Cursed Sense, 15 Skill Upgrade, 1,000,000 Exp, and Gem of Love
From reading the system's sudden quest, Rex already got a gist of what he's dealing with here.
'So if I fail this, a very powerful cursed creature will be born', Rex thought.
The sudden quest tells him to prevent this forbidden partner from killing the woman's killer, but he's still confused about how to break the curse.
Both of them then arrive at the scene, they saw a creature standing in the middle of the destroyed church.
The creature is bigger than Rex but not by much, its body is filled with red sinister energy and his eyes are pure red. The energy is making creepy sounds as it hovers around the creature's body, it sent a danger signal to Rex.
Rex knits his eyes, 'That's the cursed creature, it seems like he's an Orc'
The Orc that has now been cursed is kneeling in front of a cross, Rex saw a woman hanged on the cross that is already dead.
'That must be the dead blind woman, so how can we break the curse', Rex thought with a frown.
"Rex, what should we do now. What is that thing?", Kyran asks from the side, he never encounters such a creature that emits horrifying energy.
Rex scans the cursed Orc and saw that he's only a mid-rank four in power.
He then saw a couple of people that survive around the corner before he said, "Kyran, I'll distract the Orc. You go and ask the people there what happened here"
"Why don't we just kill it? It should be possible", he said while clenching the ax in his hand.
Hearing this, Rex explained, "That's a cursed creature, you may not see one before but they can't just be killed. We need to find what triggers the curse, we have to break the curse to kill it"
Kyran nodded his head before he looks at the people on the side.
But just when they wanted to commence their plan, five Orcs suddenly arrives at the scene.
From just a glance, Rex already knows that the Orc in front is the Warchief and the other is the guards that he saw before.
"Xoruk! My son, what happened to you", the Warchief called out sadly.
His eyes are teary as he saw his son turns into such a horrifying creature, "Snap out of it Xoruk! Come home with me", the Warchief continues as he steps closer.
The other guards held the Warchief back, "Warchief, it's not safe! That's not Xoruk"
All of them are trying to persuade the Warchief to leave the place, they know that Xoruk already turned into something else. It's not even an exaggeration if Xoruk can't remember the Warchief.
"LET GO! I WON'T ABANDON MY SON!", the Warchief cried as he flicks the other guards pushing them back.
He then approaches Xoruk who is already staring at him with his red eyes.
The Warchief hands stretch out trying to reach Xoruk, his eyes are teary seeing Xoruk in this condition.
As a father, his heart breaks seeing his son in this state.
Rex and Kyran are watching this from the side, they decided to see what this cursed creature will do when it got approached.
Just as the Warchief's hand touch Xoruk's shoulder,
Xoruk cried out a deafening roar that creates a heavy shockwave to the surrounding, his body is shaking uncontrollably before suddenly.
The Warchief's neck got bitten by Xoruk, it gushed blood instantly like a fountain.
The guards that are watching this immediately dashes to help, but all of them got flung away just by the roar of Xoruk.
"My son, It's my fault. It's okay now", The Warchief said while caressing Xoruk's hair.
Not long after, Xoruk bites off the Warchief's throat killing him instantly.
Seeing their Warchief's died, the other guards roared in anger and attacks Xoruk but all of them died instantly.
The red sinister energy makes Xoruk stronger than all of them.
Xoruk roared once again, he stands up and glares in a direction when suddenly, "Force Beam!"
Xoruk got punched crashing through many walls before stopping.
Rex punched Xoruk after activating his Pure Brace of Moonlight Skill and his force, it becomes more powerful because of the Black Devil Gloves he got from the system.
"Kyran go now! I'll keep him busy", Rex said.
Kyran immediately went to the people and started asking questions.
Rex saw that Xoruk already get back on his feet,
But instead of charging towards him, the creature suddenly dashes to the left leaving the place making Rex widened his eyes in surprise.
'Why did he dash there?', Rex thought.
He recalled the system's explanation before he widened his eyes in realization, 'A man's jealousy! We must stop him from killing someone!'
Realizing this, Rex immediately uses his Flash skill and went after Xoruk.
Rex saw that Xoruk is heading towards the city hall where the people is sheltering, 'That someone is in there, I must stop him!'
He immediately picks up his pace and tackles Xoruk.
Xoruk and Rex got flung to the side, they're right in front of the City Hall. There are many people outside the city hall that got pushed out of the City Hall.
They look at Rex and Xoruk in horror.
Rex got kicked on the stomach sending him crashing to the city hall's wall.
Without even pausing, Xoruk jumped towards Rex wanting to smash him through the wall but Rex saw this coming.
Rex caught Xoruk's fists, his eyes glister as he punches Xoruk's face.
He punches Xoruk using Force Beam but Xoruk's head only gets tilted to the side, it then growls menacingly before he slammed Rex to the city hall's wall.
The City Hall's wall got destroyed sending Rex inside, many people were shocked as they scream hysterically.
'He's getting stronger?!', Rex thought as blood flow on his mouth sides.
Xoruk jumped inside the City Hall as his red eyes scan the crowd, his eyes then landed on the pastor that hides amongst the crowd.
Seeing this, "Lightning Salvo!"
Xoruk got electrocuted by Rex's spell,
He ignores Rex's spell as he dashes towards the pastor but Rex already saw it coming.
Xoruk's body suddenly got zapped again by black lightning, it makes his body went stiff as the black lightning wraps around his body.
It's Rex's new spell, Mystic Shock.
The spell requires the user to use Lightning Salvo before Mystic Shock.
If successful, Mystic Shock will electrocute the target from the insides using the remaining lightning mana left on the target.
In simper term, Lightning Salvo will mark a target before Mystic Shock stuns them.
Xoruk roared menacingly, his power is getting stronger and stronger as he tries to break free from the Mystic Shock.
Not long, Kyran arrives in the city hall.
"Rex!! It's the pastor! He's the key to end the curse!", Kyran shouted.
Hearing this, Rex then activates his Alpha Intimidation and punches Xoruk blasting him outside of the City Hall.
"Kyran! Kill the pastor! It will end the curse!", Rex shouted.
Rex realizes that in order to stop this cursed Orc, they need to kill the pastor themselves.
As long as the pastor lives, this cursed Orc will never stop.
He then dashes towards Xoruk before both of them began wrestling, Rex is trying to pin Xoruk's down but the strength Xoruk has rivals, Rex.
Rex checks Xoruk's stats again and to his surprise, he already enters early rank five!
Kyran is in a predicament, he already found the pastor amongst the crowd but he can't bring himself to kill the pastor.
"Please, don't kill me! I'm not responsible for that thing!", the pastor pleaded.
His plead makes Kyran, even more, hesitant. He looks at the pastor and the ax in his hands in thought.
"KYRAN! NOW! I CAN'T HOLD HIM MUCH LONGER!", Rex shouted.
Rex can feel that Xoruk is getting on the verge of breaking free from him, his power kept rising by the seconds.
"IF YOU DON'T KILL THE PASTOR! EVERYONE THERE WILL DIE!", Rex added, he knows Kyran is hesitant because he never killed a human before.
He wanted to save everyone but it's naive thinking.
Hearing this, Kyran gripped the ax in his hands before he whispers, "I'm sorry!"
The pastor's head got cleave in half, many people around turn their heads away in fright.
Kids started to cry, the scene in front of them are too gruesome.
Seeing this, Rex looks at Xoruk but his eyes widened in surprise, 'It didn't work?! But I'm sure if we kill the pastor then this guy won't be able to kill the pastor'
Xoruk still struggling madly, the death of the pastor didn't even faze him even a little bit.
Kyran also saw this and he becomes confused, 'What happened?', he thought.
He then suddenly saw the pastor's head regenerate,
The cleaved pastor's head suddenly emerges again, it healed at a fast rate that in just a few seconds the pastor is alive again.
"What happened? How am I alive?", the pastor said confusedly.
Rex and Kyran is shocked, 'How can we stop this now?!'
Xoruk began struggling madly,
"AARGH!", Rex groans in pain, his arms got bitten by Xoruk making them bleed.
His arms began to tire, Xoruk is on the verge of breaking free from Rex's grip.
In the heat of the moment, Rex summons the system's description again as he read it, 'Only by the cloudy eyes? does it mean blind?
Realizing this, Rex immediately shouted, "KYRAN! Bring that pastor to the church and kill him using the woman corpse's hand!"
Hearing Rex, Kyran immediately grabs the pastor and went to the church.
The pastor didn't have the strength to break free, he's only a normal human.
Kyran doesn't question Rex's command anymore, the life of thousands of people lies on their hands and he doesn't want to ruin it.
Just as Kyran dashes, Xoruk breaks free from Rex's grip.
Rex got pushed crashing a couple of meters away.
Xoruk instantly went after Kyran who's bringing the pastor on his shoulder, his steps filled with red sinister energy make the ground crack.
'Shit!', Rex cursed before he ran after Xoruk,
Kyran is running with all he got, he can feel Xoruk is not far from him.
From the edge of his vision, he can see the destroyed church before and saw a cross with a woman's corpse hanged on it.
'That must be it!', Kyran thought but then,
He got hit by Xoruk that already reached him, he was sent flinging to the side while the pastor got thrown to the other side.
Kyran glance at the pastor and he saw Xoruk is getting up while glaring at the pastor.
Rex arrives on the scene and immediately tackles Xoruk, he's already using his all because Xoruk is already nearing mid-rank five.
If he manages to reach mid-rank five, Rex won't be his match anymore.
Xoruk elbowed Rex repeatedly,
Rex grows his claw, he imbued his claw with Force Beam and sliced Xoruk's right arm cleanly.
Xoruk roared feeling his arm got chopped off,
The red sinister energy suddenly gathers on Xoruk's arm before his arm grew back, this makes Rex widened his eyes in shock.
Xoruk then elbowed Rex sending him crashing to the wall, he already enters mid-rank five.
Without wasting a single second, Kyran pulled off the woman's arm.
He saw a knife on the floor, he instinctively takes the knife and gripped it by clenching the woman's hand.
Kyran shouted as he dashes towards the pastor and stabs him right on the neck.
The knife pierced through the pastor's neck in the nick of time and killing him instantly.
It was a close call because Xoruk's hand is already right beside the pastor, if Kyran got delayed by a single second then Xoruk will get the pastor first.
Xoruk suddenly stopped, his hand suddenly turns into ash bit by bit.
He growled madly as the red sinister energy started to attack himself, and not long after his body turned into ash.
The ash falls to the ground, it creates a grey pile in front of the cross.
The cross makes a creaking sound before it falls right on the pile of ash, a tear suddenly falls from the woman corpse's eyes.
It then also turns into ash before it got blew away by the wind...