The Invincible Full-Moon System

Chapter 1347: Appetizing!

Along the way, even before Kyran had gone berserk, Rex already had a change of plan.

He would need to meet with Iris to continue with their attempt to coax the Tabaxi race to in a way, refuse the Angels from passing through their bridge. Due to that, he separated from the group, leaving behind his clone with Agatha and the Feral Phantomclaw Pack.

By now, all of them shouldʼve been in Dargena City already.

Rex was within the Dark Elfʼs territory when the notification from the System, notifying him of Kyranʼs berserk appeared. Before doing what he initially came here to do—Rex went to check on Kyran and what made him go berserk.

As he cuts through the wood, he deliberately lets out his aura to notify the Dark Elves.

Because of that, Iris intercepted him in the middle.

Making an abrupt stop, Rex turned to the side.

Iris came from behind a tree, she was already donned in dark blue light battle armor with a thin chainmail that hugged her athletic curves. She has a beautiful dark blue bow strapped behind her, its string was humming with moonlight energy.

”Your Majesty...” She greeted, making a curtsy gesture as a sign of respect.

Rex crossed his arms with an eyebrow raised, ”Whatʼs with the armor? Expecting a fight?”

”I will be escorting you to the location—Iʼm sure youʼre here to find Lord Kyran, correct?” She assumed, drawing her bow from behind. ”Iʼm afraid because of the Knights in the area, some mutated animals would still attack you so Iʼm sent here to escort you”

Upon hearing this, Rex nodded his head.

He knew from Queen Shanaelaʼs map that there were Order Beasts in the Dark Elfʼs territory.

Most of them are still Knights, not as powerful as Shadow who is nearing the Lord-rank.

”Do you think I need protecting?” Rex mused in hubris.

”Of course, not,” Iris giggled, covering her mouth demurely. ”but Your Majesty couldnʼt really expect us to let you, an Emperor—go through unguarded, right? Itʼs our territory, and even if you donʼt need to be escorted, this is natural”

Rex nodded, it was silly of him to ask that.

But then again, his time as Emperor is an infant at best.

”Oh,” He suddenly recalled something. ”How do you know Iʼm here for Kyran?”

”Iʼm in charge of the sentries, and I was reported that Lord Kyran went berserk because Lady Naela was hurt,” Iris explained—recounting the report she gained moments ago. ”Come, I will lead the way”

Both of them cuts through the forest with relative ease.

As she explained, there were a lot of mutated animals in the area attempting to attack them.

Casting his Alpha Bearing skill would probably be enough to scare these mutated animals but Rex didnʼt need to lift a finger, as Iris dealt with them all with ease. She was a master in using a bow, the arrows that she fired were akin to guided missiles, splitting and hitting their marks with ease.

Rex bore witness as Iris made acrobatic maneuvers nimbly as she took down the animals.

Her body twisted and stretched with deliberate intentions.

Coupled with her sculpted feminine body, it was hard not to watch her battle.

...

Race: Moonlight Dark Elf

Status: Nervous, Happy, Excited (...)

Power: Ninth-rank (Peak) - Perennial Moon Arcana (3)

Mental: 25,250 (+10,000)

Strength: 270,000 (+30,000)

Agility: 915,000 (+90,000)

Endurance: 250,000 (+50,000)

Intelligence: 400,000 (+400,000)

...

Scanning Irisʼ stats from behind, Rex sucked in a cold breath, ”Sheʼs... strong?”

Even though he knew that Iris was a Marchioness of the Dark Elf Kingdom and also an elder who had awakened recently, he did not know that she was this strong. Heck, he was inches away from her and he didnʼt sense any abnormal energy coming from her.

Iris kept her power at bay and had it not for the System, Rex wouldnʼt realize it.

She was abnormally strong.

It was obvious that King Jorik was able to utilize the item he gained from Rex—and establish his strength in the Dark Elf Kingdom, so he might also be at the peak of the ninth-rank realm but Iris? He has no clue.

Whatʼs up with her intelligence stat?

Rex checked his intelligence stat and found that it was resting at 343,000 points.

As the Second Breath settled, his intelligence stat now began coming back to him, and his Awakened power is slowly returning to its original strength. But even then, Irisʼ intelligence was still very high, it was still above his original intelligence stat at 390ish thousand.

Not to mention, the equipment she wore doubled her intelligence stat.

Since she seemed harmless during their initial encounter, Rex didnʼt check her stats.

He didnʼt expect that he would be working with her but now that he had checked her stats, it was clear that there was more to Iris, than meets the eye.

Naela said her origin was doubtful, and now I know her last name is Thalendra so sheʼs not a Khuurtid. Hmm... interesting.

”Is there something wrong, Your Majesty?” Iris glanced over her shoulder and asked.

She cleared the mutated animals already but Rex was slowing down.

Snapping out of his trance Rex shook his head and smiled, ”Nothing, I was only praising your archery inside. It was my first time seeing someone of your level, with a bow—have you tried a gun? I can see you have success with guns”

”You flatter me, Your Majesty,” Iris gracefully accepted the praise. ”I will try it if you say so”

Eventually, the pair reached a stream with a short waterfall at one end.

”Is this it?”

”It is said to be where Naela was found severely wounded, someone attacked her”

”Someone did? One person? Who?”

”Weʼre still figuring it out”

”Itʼs your territory, so the attacker must be yours. Who else would be here?”

Rex turned towards Iris, his expression sharp and calculating.

Upon seeing this, Iris swiftly waved both of her hands and shook her head.

”No, it canʼt be us Dark Elves. I can assure you, Your Majesty”

”How could you be so sure? Kyran came and punished your kingdom on my behalf and I am sure someone wanted revenge”

”You overestimate our bravery, Your Majesty. We wouldnʼt dare do this after that incident”

Despite Rexʼs path of thinking was logical, he was still unsure.

And as Iris said, with how vicious Kyran was to them, it was unlikely to be the Dark Elves.

Averting his gaze away, Rex scanned the area with his senses.

He could tell that fresh blood drenched the ground—not too long ago—the scent of iron still lingered in the air. On top of that, there were traces of Kyranʼs energy here but there was no trace of the other person.

”No corpses either, only their blood remains here” Iris added.

Rexʼs eyebrows dropped into a frown when he heard this.

If there were no corpses then it could only mean one thing,

Did Kyran devour them...?

Ever since the battle at the Bloodstone Crater, Rex knew that he had broken his fasting and was inclined more to his beast side. He wouldʼve felt a lot better if he was alone but he was not, the others were there watching him.

Kyran was there and he might be following his lead.

I was about to test what eating raw meat would do to me but Kyran beat me to it.

His purpose of telling Kyran to hunt was exactly that and now Kyran might be ahead of him.

Just as he was inspecting the area, he sensed a surge of energy from the side.

Rex saw Iris was casting a spell, her entire body gleamed, with moonlight—swaying her dark blue hair. Soon, the moonlight energy left behind by Kyran was pulled towards her and in the next second, a figure made entirely of moonlight appeared.

”What is this spell?”

”A spell to recreate the incident by gathering traces of moonlight energy”

As Iris said that, the moonlight figure moved, throttled back, and lay on the ground.

But instead of making contact with the ground, it levitated as if it was lying on a platform.

It re-acted how Kyran was dealing with the sight of Naela at deathʼs door, and ended with him climbing the short waterfall—and rushing to the distance. Rex watched the moonlight figure attentively, he wasnʼt worried about Kyran being hurt.

Since if Kyran did, the System wouldʼve notified him.

Despite watching this over and over again, Rex couldnʼt tell who attacked Naela.

He simply couldnʼt make a guess with the small evidence he had.

”Should we move on? Last report mentioned Lord Kyran attacking a human colony but Iʼm not quite sure,” Iris continued, dispersing the moonlight figure. ”Lord Zyrkan—Lady Naelaʼs father would explain to us in detail as he witnessed the whole thing”

Upon hearing this, Rex couldnʼt help but frown even further.

He didnʼt expect this but he nodded and let Iris lead him to Kyran.

Human colony...? President Sebrof didnʼt tell me anything about a human colony.

Rex was completely caught off guard by this.

Despite not wanting Kyran to become feral in his pursuit of power, sinking his fangs left and right like an animal, he wasnʼt really worried as the attacker deserved it. But eating Humans—on the other hand, is an entirely different matter.

Especially when the Human colony was innocent and was only unfortunate to cross Kyran.

Picking up their pace, Rex met up with the Dark Elf called Zyrkan, Naelaʼs father.

He was sitting against a tree with a mutated black panther beside him, both were wounded.

”Where is he? Whereʼs Kyran?” Rex instantly asked, his face etched with worry.

Realizing that it was the Emperor, Zyrkan wanted to stand but Rex raised his hand, telling him to not bother doing that. He sat back down, and answered, ”He should be several miles north from us. I tried my best to save the Human colony but I couldnʼt, I was intercepted”

Not wasting a single second, Rex dashed ahead.

He only wanted to make sure.

At this moment, he couldnʼt smell Kyranʼs scent but he could smell the scent of blood.

And from Zyrkanʼs words, it seemed the scent of blood was where Kyran was.

On the other hand—Iris stayed behind and knelt beside Zyrkan who was really suffering from a brutal slash to his stomach, and also his severed left arm. She could see that if the slash on his stomach was half an inch deeper, he wouldʼve been disemboweled.

Putting a hand on Zyrkanʼs shoulder, Iris asked, ”Who intercepted you?”

”I donʼt know,” He answered, breathing hard. ”She has wings like an Angel but I donʼt know...”

”What do you mean you donʼt know? If she has wings then she is an Angel”

”Itʼs the way she fights, I tried to force her to show her power, but she didnʼt. I was about to succeed but more came—and attacked me from behind. I lost because of luck, the scent of Human blood distracted me and I survived only because they were called back”

Iris frowned, she could understand why Zyrkan was skeptical.

Not a trace of Angels were here so an Angel popping out of nowhere is quite suspicious.

”Can you go back on your own?”

”Yes. Donʼt worry about me, I can hold my own”

Nodding her head, Iris dashed away, catching up to Rex ahead.

Meanwhile, Rex arrived at the scene and was greeted by a horrendous scene of gore.

He saw mangled dead bodies scattered everywhere—all of them were Humans, and they were here in military vehicles, and trucks. Just from this alone, he was now certain, these Humans werenʼt from his empire.

All of them seemed to be from the Human side.

”Sebrof needs some explaining to do...” Rex muttered with a frown.

Just then, he heard the disturbing sound of flesh from the side.

He approached the source of the sound, behind a truck that was knocked down.

Upon reaching there—Rexʼs frown deepened as he saw Kyran crouching while devouring the leg of a person. Sensing that he was being watched—he turned and met Rexʼs gaze. Despite his berserk condition, he recognized Rex.

Even through thick bloodlust, the Alphaʼs presence was still clear in his eyes.

Smilling with blood and torn flesh dripping from his mouth, Kyran extended his hand.

He offered the Human leg towards Rex.

”Itʼs good that we stopped fasting, the taste of flesh is, how could I put it... appetizing!”