The Invincible Full-Moon System

Chapter 1372: Undeadʼs Tricks

As the Alpha of the Silverstar Pack, Rex held complete authority—over the bond connecting him to his pack members. With a mere thought—he could greatly undermine the connection one-sidedly, leaving them unable to sense his emotions or discern his location.

It was not possible before but he could do it now.

He couldnʼt remember when exactly but he reckoned it was after the coronation.

Now that he knew, he constantly used it to not worry the others.

Only the connection to Flunra was intact, he didnʼt undermine their connection.

Since he was the oldest and, therefore, the wisest—he would not make a fuss whenever Rex was feeling in a typical way. Other than that—keeping the connection with Flunra would also be a method of communication in case of an emergency.

Rexʼs clone willed his connection with Gistella back to normal.

He closed his eyes to focus solely on the connection.

Immediately after he did that, he could feel an invisible string knotting their minds together.

The Demon Moon was influencing Gistella hard right now, she wouldnʼt be able to control her body and restrained herself from doing something rash. Because of that, Rexʼs clone thought that she was having a fiercer nightmare right now.

But he was wrong, that wasnʼt even remotely the case.

ʼStrong beings... hiddenʼ

Rexʼs clone frowned, listening to the voice inside of Gistellaʼs head.

ʼA lot of them... Forgiveness is in sight!ʼ

ʼI can smell them... I can sense them... Death energy! Iʼll kill them all!ʼ

Upon hearing her last thoughts, Rexʼs cloneʼs eyelids yanked open suddenly.

Shock could be seen plastered on his face.

”Death energy...? Not death mana?” He mused in puzzlement, the entire forest—should reek, with death mana that was slowly dissipating. But it was only then that he came to realize the insight behind Gistellaʼs mind. ”When?! Since when they are here?!”

Gritting his teeth, Rex rushed to where Gistella was heading.

”Mavok! Gather your forces and follow my trail!”

”Your Highness, whatʼs wrong?!”

”Undead!! Itʼs the Undead!”

...

Several miles from where Rexʼs clone was, on a secluded section of the Verdantveil Forest.

A house-size tombstone taking the shape of a pointy black spire could be seen, glowing with greenish energy of the dead, pulsating with subtle rings that seemed to be an energy station that reached a couple hundred meters.

Surrounding this tombstone was an army of elite and powerful Undead.

An army of the demand that eerily stood motionlessly, they were completely still like statues, capable of tricking—even if there were a spectator. Their ranks are a scary mosaic of morbid soldiers, skeletal beasts, and ghostly apparitions.

Each one of them radiated with combat power and pure death energy.

Judging from the ancient air around them, these Undeads were without a doubt, very old.

Undead of the early generations.

Compared to the latter generations, these Undeads were all Death Knights.

All of them were able to draw power from the Netherworld—that could extinguish the light of the Nirvanaworld. At the center of this army were three high-ranking Undeads—one of them, a massive armored skeleton with a horned skull head had its hand piercing the ground.

Upon closer inspection, its hands werenʼt piercing the ground but a portal instead.

It controlled a massive amount of pure death energy to create this portal.

Several meters behind this Undead was another portal, and coming out of this portal—was a stream of sparkling, black marbles. One by one, they floated out of the portal, and went over to the tombstone, and merged into it.

Judging from the intense death mana radiating from these marbles, they were order stones.

To be exact, they were the Death Order Stones across the entire Verdantveil Forest.

”How much longer, ZalʼKarn?”

”We have no time. Shadow has been handled. They are coming soon”

”Minutes... I need more minutes... My children, they are late...”

Zalʼkarn continued to focus on the portal, making the tombstone behind him taller and taller with each Death Order Stone—he managed to seize. He was making great progress, almost the entire forest had been exhausted of its Death Order Stones.

Only a handful was left before he finished exhausting the forest of its resources.

Just then, the Undead on his right—an ethereal green ghost glanced in a direction.

It seemed to sense something.

”Screeching beads. Scream. Mvask, they are coming.” She said.

Even though the other Undead couldnʼt hear anything, this green ghost could hear screams, and wails, coming from the direction she was looking. All of these high-pitched noises came from the Screeching Beads she scattered earlier, to warn her of unwanted company.

Nodding his head, the other Undead in confirmation.

Unlike Zalʼkarn, this Undead, Mvask didnʼt entirely don a skeletal appearance.

Most of his body was covered in black skin—other than his face, which was only a skull with fangs, donning a crown with five tall spikes that also covered his eye sockets. Turning to the side, a small circular shape mark glowed on its forehead.

”Go, buy us time...” He commanded, pointing his dagger long, greenish dagger ahead.

As opposed to the army moving, several massive and heavy Undeads stepped forward.

Stomp!

Stomp!

Each step these Undeads took shook the ground, their massive bellies wiggled as they made their way to the very front. All ten of them stepped forward, and instead of going on ahead, a weird sight unfolded.

All of them bent down and went to their knees slowly.

Once in position, their cavernous belly convulsed in rhythmic spasms.

Every grotesque ripple in its swollen form seemed to echo with something trapped within.

Just then, with a deep, wet retch, the creatureʼs maw opened unnaturally wide, and from its depths emerged a stream of gaunt, pale-skinned Orcs. From their ashen flesh alone, shining with dark ichor as they spilled out one after another—it was clear that they were already far from alive.

It kept going and the massive Undeadʼs bellies deflated and showed their natural form.

All of them were slender but the Undead Orcs inside them made them way bigger.

Upon escaping from the darkness, the Undead Orcs stood up.

Following that, Mvask pointed his dagger at them and miraculously, their skin returned to its original color when it was alive, deep brown. Once that was done—the Orc Undeads, moved and sprinted ahead.

Disappearing into the distance.

Once they were gone, Mvask turned to the green ghost.

”Itʼs time, we should start our hunt”

”Yes.”

In the next second, the two high-ranking Undead seeped into the ground and disappeared.

Zalʼkarn was the only one left behind, continuing to gather the Death Order Stones.

Meanwhile, Rexʼs clone galloped ahead, eating up land with each step.

Along the way, he glanced to his right, and saw numerous portals appearing, and coming out of them was a skeletal hand that grabbed the Death Order Stones scattered around. It was a clear indication that he was dealing with the Undead.

How did they get here? How did they get past the Elven sentries? When?!

Countless questions appeared inside his mind.

Now that he knew the Undead was the one responsible for taking the Death Order Stones, he also understood—how they were able to do that. Since they were dealing with Shadow, their attention was focused on it.

On top of that, the death mana in the forest masked their presence perfectly.

It was a strategy so potent that it could bypass the senses of the Werewolves in the forest.

Rexʼs clone, Flunra, Gistella, Adhara, and even the Alpha Primes didnʼt sense anything.

Using the short time it took for Rexʼs clone, and the others to lure Shadow to the valley—the Undead made their move and took the entire Death Order Stones for themselves. Of course, Queen Shanaelaʼs forces that encircled the forest should detect them.

But once the location of Shadow was identified, the encirclement broke.

Most of the Elves went to see Rexʼs clone and the others took down Shadow for good.

A perfect chance for the Undead to sweep the forestʼs resources in one go.

They got us... I wouldnʼt be able to expect this.

No, I shouldʼve. If thereʼs a Lightning Order Beast around, Iʼll take it down or at least infiltrate its dominion to take Lightning Order Stones. So why wouldnʼt the Undead come here to take the resources they need and want?

Damn it, I thought my mind was clear but the Demon Moon still made it foggy.

Rexʼs clone shook his head in annoyance, it was fortunate that Gistella was here with them.

Since Shadow was out of the way, Gistellaʼs senses rang the first.

The Demon Moon drew her to her next strongest opponent and with the forest losing the quantity of its death mana—with Shadow not being here anymore, she was finally able to sense the Undeads that were hiding.

Had it not for that, Rexʼs clone and the others wouldnʼt know what happened.

So the big question was since when the Undead camped here?

A moment later, Rexʼs clone neared Gistella and saw a battle going on ahead.

He dashed closer and saw an Orc fighting another Orc.

”Stop! What is going on here?!” Rexʼs clone thundered—his voice boomed with authority.

Upon hearing this, one Orc stopped moving and went stiff but the other kept going.

Seeing this, Rexʼs clone closed in the gap, grabbed the Orc by the neck, and threw him away.

”Your Majesty...”

”What is wrong with him? What makes him this feral?”

”I donʼt know, Your Majesty. I was following Lady Gistella and I encountered more of us ahead—so I approached them to regroup. But once I got close—I was attacked, I almost lost my life because of that”

Rexʼs clone in reflex—scanned the struggling Orc meters away from him.

Soon, he read the entire stats window and found it was normal until he landed on a section.

He saw the status section showing something odd.

”Dead...?” Rexʼs clone frowned at this.

Concluding that this Orc might be a corpse—that was influenced by the Undeadʼs power—he scanned the Orc with the System once again, this time searching for abnormalities. But Rexʼs clone caught the Orc first as it tried to attack again before scanning.

A second later, a notification appeared.

Once that notification appeared, Rexʼs clone gasped when the race section melted.

It stated that the Orcʼs race was a War Desert Orc but that melted visibly—as if the System was experiencing a glitch, turning into something else, entirely, ʼUndead Revenantʼ. Nothing like this has ever happened before.

System, what is the meaning of this? Are you glitching?

Outstanding... so Iʼm facing Elders of the Undead.

From the Systemʼs response alone, Rexʼs clone understands that he was fooled because the Systemʼs scan feature used his senses—to determine the targetʼs race, power, and all of the sections if he scanned the target from a distance.

He would have a true scan if he touched the target—like right now.

Other than using his senses, the direct contact scan used the Systemʼs full potential.

It would always provide the true information.

Rex has never had this problem before as his senses are very sharp, nobody could bypass it and show him deceit. Not even the Fifthborn. But now, with the Elders, awakening, there are going to be gimmicky tricks that would bypass his senses.

Knowing that this Orc was not one of them, Rex wasted no time and ripped it in half.

Splash!

Seeing this, the Orc behind him was startled.

He didnʼt expect Rexʼs clone to rip the feral Orc like that.

”It was already dead, thereʼs not even blood,” Rexʼs clone said—giving assurance to the Orc. ”Itʼs the Undeadʼs doings, they are using dead Orcs and camouflaging them to attack us. Go and inform the others”

Upon hearing this, the Orc nodded and went away to inform his friends what was happening.

Meanwhile, Rexʼs clone fixed his gaze ahead again.

”You sneaked here successfully, Undead...” He mused raspingly. ”But donʼt think you can flee successfully”