Chapter 533 Accept Your Weakness

It's still very hard to win, not with the four Alphas still standing strong.

Ruston and Ian are the ones that are suppressed more by Adhara's presence, they both neither have the sufficient strength or bloodline to resist the Proxy of the White Omicron. But even so, beating the two of them will still need a tremendous amount of effort.

Despite loathing himself for saying this, there's not one picture of the others winning.

No matter if it's Adhara, Devo, or even Kyran, they can't win against their opponent. Their strength is only able to keep them occupied for as long as possible, it's close to impossible for them to win against their paired opponent and change the tide of the fight.

Each one of the opposing sides is an eighth rank Werewolves, all of them are Alphas.

Standing in the vicinity of Adhara's presence weakens them but that was it, they have become sluggish and hurting but they're very much still can fight. It's more because Adhara hasn't reached their equal yet, or much more complex than that.

Adhara might not be able to fully exert the dominance of the White Omicron.

But nevertheless, her presence here is very much needed for the others to hold on to an equal stand against the Alphas. Kyran specifically needed this very much as he's having the most trouble fighting Ian who being near him alone feels like a chilling cold stabbing Kyran's bones.

It was just a fraction of a second, but Rex has completely analyzed the battlefield.

The system helped with the scanning of his side to gauge their rough approximate time before getting overwhelmed, and it's not long. Aside from him, Evelyn is also watching the fight from the side and finds the same conclusion as Rex.

Not one of their side can even have a decent hope of changing the tide of the fight.

'Everything is on my back, I need to do something before it's too late. And it seems I miscalculated because of rage, I need to kill Zegrath first to change the tide of the battle to my side...'

p Upon confirming his decision, Rex activates his Absolute Predominance Fangs.

Growl!

Ruston was forced back from getting his shoulder bitten by Rex, the dark energy infiltrates his insides and it even manages to make him dazed a little bit. But a subtle glow of a rune can be seen on his back that is covered by furs, it was a rune carved directly by Arnulf.

It's the rune to help resist the suppression of a Prince, and it seems it worked on Rex's skill too.

But when he raised his gaze to keep on pressuring Rex, he saw Rex already sprinted away with his eyes fixated on Zegrath that is completely occupied with fighting Devo and his relentless amount of sky-black lightning spells.

Aooouuu!!

With a brief reverberating howl, Ruston rushes to catch up to Rex.

Responding to Ruston's howl of help, Ian and Arnulf also saw Rex heading towards Zegrath like a hungry beast. Not stopping at that, his speed suddenly becomes even faster as a red crescent moon symbol appeared on his forehead.

Arnulf realized that skill instantly, he knows of it as the trait skill of the Teinar Family.

Berserker's Curse...

It pushes the caster's power to the utmost bodily limit but has the downside of negating a Werewolf's regenerating ability. But regenerating ability is not important right now, Rex is attacking Zegrath like a beast with the intent to kill.

While looking at this, Arnulf is still dodging Adhara's relentless attack.

Despite having an era longer experience than the other Werewolves, fighting while analyzing the situation is still the hardest task on the battlefield. Anyone will find it close to impossible, but not for Arnulf the Special.

Smearing blood on his claws, Arnulf dodges Adhara's swipe before carving a rune in the void.

The blood-red claws that are completely covered with his own blood dance in the air creating a rune that is circle-shaped and stacked with the symbol of a cross and an infinity at the same time. From afar, Arnulf manages to create a red blood barrier in the nick of time before Rex's deadly claws reach Zegrath.

Like a spark of red lightning, the barrier blitzes around and absorbs as much moonlight energy.

Rex saw this all happening right before his claws reaches Zegrath, he gritted his teeth knowing that destroying the barrier would be tremendously hard even with his current strength. Gritting his teeth so hard that he started to bleed, and coupled with his eyes turning bloodshot he pushes his claws stronger.

Feeling the call from Rex, Devo ceased his spells and instantly went back to Rex's shadow.

"I'll be taking your life first, fake Dark Prince!"

CLANG!!

KABOOM!!

Devastating resonating shockwaves kept blasting to the surroundings as Rex's claws connected with the red barrier made by Arnulf in the nick of time. Slowly his arms started to bulge with spirit energy so massive that it created a mist, Rex pour all of his strength into that final slash.

It's a huge risk that he's taking, but if he succeeds then the battle will definitely be over.

KABOOM!

Ruston who is about to reach for Rex got blown away before stepping on the ground powerfully, he looks up at the clash before tightening the muscles all over his body. If anyone touches his body then they will feel as if they were touching a rock.

With a slow pace, he takes one step at a time fighting through the huge pressure.

'What is that lousy Prince trying to do? Is he insane?! Draining his energy like this will make him quicker to be out of strength, there must be something he's trying to do!'

Glaring at Rex's back, Ruston clenches his jaw before pushing on.

Although he doesn't know what Rex is planning by attacking Zegrath, he doesn't want Rex to succeed. The lineup of his pack alone is already devastatingly terrifying, so anything more than that will spill their doom.

Even with all sorts of energy imbued into his claws, Rex realized that he can't pierce through.

Zegrath is already come back to his senses and also contributes his energy greatly to the red barrier, it makes the red barrier even stronger than even Rex can't really penetrate with all his strength.

'Amanir!! Lend me your strength, and I'll give you the Light Ego!'

[Hmph! You're asking my help after suppressing me?]

[It's an item that can give 3000 years' worth of spirit energy, you don't want it?]

[What...? You're lying]

[Then how can you explain my dense spirit energy? Do you really think I'm that strong?]

Under the persuasion of Devo, Amanir fell silent for a moment. It was a couple of seconds that feels like an eternity for Rex that kept drilling the red barrier, he needs every ounce of his strength to make this happen.

Everything that he can muster, he needs all of it to pierce through this red barrier.

[Fine, I'll never talk to you or help you again if you lied!]

After Amanir is finally convinced of helping Rex despite a transactional relationship, a surge of new spirit energy crawls on Rex's arm before strengthening his claws. The friction of light spirit energy can be seen and it increased the penetration of his claws.

KABOOM!!

On the other side of the battlefield, Adhara kept harassing Arnulf without stopping.

Seeing that Ruston is inching closer to Rex step by step, she can't let Arnulf even try to approach Rex since he might be able to reach Rex even faster than Ruston. In fact, Adhara knows that Arnulf will reach Rex faster if she lifts the pressure off of him.

Even the red barrier alone helps Zegrath immensely, so she can't let Arnulf near.

On Kyran's side of the battlefield, he's also holding back Ian that is trying to find a way to help Zegrath but got blocked by Kyran. Grinding his teeth in anger, Ian feels the urgency to help Ruston as the power coming from Rex's claws is climbing higher and higher.

But not just Ian that is in a crisis, Kyran saw the look on Evelyn's face.

Getting a glance in Rex's direction he finds that Rex is struggling to break the red barrier, it will need more than himself to shatter that red barrier. Evelyn glances at Kyran asking through her eyes if he can help with literally anything.

Kyran wrecked his brain and finds one thing that can help, his Pneuma Spell Piercing Black.

With his eyes burning with determination, he went into the shadow before reappearing just below Ian who has his attention fixed on Rex and Zegrath. Because of that, Kyran manages to land an uppercut slash that left a nasty scar crossing Ian's left eye.

It angers Ian even more as he was caught off guard by a disgrace Werewolf like Kyran.

Although at a glance Kyran is only trying to catch Ian by surprise, he has another motive in mind. Upon clawing Ian with an uppercut slash, Kyran positioned his spear with the aim of the red barrier blocking Rex's way.

Making use of his very sensitive senses, Kyran's eyes fixated on the point of contact.

"Shurbaa, pour everything we have in this one strike... we're going to throw the deadliest attack we've ever thrown before!"

Upon saying that, a weird cackle can be heard inside Kyran's voice.

But as if Shurbaa resonates with the desire Kyran is feeling right now, the desire to help Rex, the tip of his black spear started swirling with dark mana that is getting heavier by the second. Kyran and Shurbaa pour everything into the tip of the spear with a bulging arm.

"Pneuma Spell! Piercing Black!!"

SWOOSH!!

Like an arrow straight from the darkness, the black spear spins in the air destructively.

Even while the black spear spins in the air with swirling dark spirit energy that twirls around the black spear like a snake, more and more dark energy gathered on the black spear turning the tip into a very sharp point filled with dark spirit energy.

It heads and travels like a black jet heading towards Rex and Zegrath.

Rex saw the incoming black spear and use some of his energy to reduce the pressure generated from the clash of his claws and the red barrier. With his help, the black spear stabs onto the point of contact of the red barrier helping Rex to tear through the barrier.

If it weren't for her unable to fight, Evelyn would've jumped down too and helped.

The same goes for Adhara that is stalling Arnulf that is getting angrier by the second from being blocked by Adhara, she's doing very well in blocking Arnulf's movement to the point that he's focusing on attacking Adhara again.

Saying that this clash is the most powerful struggle he has ever experienced is an understatement.

'System, do you have anything that can help in this?!'

<Calculating options...>

<Completed!>

<There was nothing that can help the user in this scenario>

Upon receiving the dull answer coming from the system, Rex gritted his teeth as he can feel that if he can just pour a little bit more power then the red barrier would've broken. Even now he can feel the red barrier bending inwards.

"You make a wrong move, Royal Black Prince. After this ended, you're the one that's going to die!"

"Accept your weakness, Royal Black Prince..."

From the inside of the red barrier, Zegrath commented seeing that Rex has run out of power and options to kill just from his expression alone. It's a gamble that he was doing right now, and it seems Rex took the wrong gamble.

Despite the frustration as Zegrath is so near yet so far at the same time, Rex gritted his teeth.

Even though he has tried to pour out everything, he can't really do anything more than this. Deep down he knew that he can't pierce this red barrier, he has made a huge mistake for trying to kill Zegrath first knowing that Arnulf is here.

'A-Am I going to die...?!'

A flash of his very dark and bleak life crosses his eyes as he realized that he's at his peak.

Nothing can top the peak he's on right now as he's fighting against the Werewolf race that he's so dearly hated. This is the peak of his life, not one experience he had can topple this one over. But as his life kept blinking through his eyes, he finds himself in complete darkness.

It's a familiar place, Rex looks around and instantly realized where he's in right now.

Rex remembered this place as a moment before he lost control of his entire body, the steering wheel of his consciousness is right in his hand. He's sitting in the spotlight but unlike before, there's someone sitting in front of him.

Without needing another look, he recognized the one sitting in front of him as his little self.

"Are you going to take control again?"

A soft mutter escapes Rex's mouth as he knows that he has put in his all.

But even if this other self of him switched with him and takes control, Rex doubts that his other self can do anything in the situation he's in. Even the system can't propose a solution, much less his other self who is only filled with hatred.

"No, I'm not..."

Surprisingly, his other self replied contrary to Rex's expectation.

"Then is it the end of my life? Are you going to take me to hell?"

"I'm here to remind you..."

Rex raises one of his eyebrows in confusion before his little self pointed to the darkness on his right. Turning his gaze to the darkness, he saw two figures coming out of the darkness that can't help but makes his eyes watery.

Yes, watery. Filled an endless amount of emotions that can only be explained through tears.

It was his real parents, they both are holding each other looking at him with such bright smiles. Rex looks at them dearly, but in the next second, a towering dark figure that can't be mistaken as other than a Werewolf stands behind them.

"Look at him..."

"He's right in front of you, standing proudly. Arrogant despite what he's done"

"We are powerless back then but not right now, we are gifted with unimaginable power. There are no excuses right now, it's either we take him out or..."

"That thing will rob the bright smiles from you again"

Rex's world started spinning as he clenched his fists tightly, the sound echoed in his ears.

"Search inside you, there's more into your power. We are a Werewolf, our strength lies within our anger"

"Don't repeat the same mistake again..."

"Don't let him off trampling again..."

"Don't let your parents down again..."

"More importantly...Don't be weak!"

Upon hearing the last echoing words coming from his little self, something inside of him started erupting endlessly. It was his buried anger that he kept all this while, Rex opens his eyes with newfound anger that is like a bottomless pit.

Even Zegrath can feel the changes in Rex's bearing almost instantly. It's like he becomes a completely different person than before.

"Rrrgghh!!"

"RAARGHH!!!"

Rex's power started climbing higher and higher like a rocket taking off into the sky, he pushes his claws forward bending the red barrier inwardly even deeper as his blood started pumping and boiling to a whole new level.

Completely breaking his power limit, his eyes started bleeding and so is his mouth.

"I-Impossible..."

"H-How did you get this kind of power?! You're not this strong!!"

Zegrath roared as his body slowly let out a pale aura showing the fear that he was currently experiencing, he can't believe that the exhausted Rex suddenly burst with power completely out of nowhere.

"RAARGHH!! I AM NOT WEAK!!"

CRASH!!

BLITZ!!

It happened in a fraction of a second, and every other Alpha that witnessed this widened their eyes.

Rex's claws fueled with the bottomless anger that he has sealed away for all these years tear through the red barrier and pierce through everything it landed, fresh blood soaked his entire body as he can feel the restraint in his claws is gone.

With the heart destroyed, Rex raises Zegrath's weak body and held it into the sky.

Every inch of his body is bleeding profusely but Rex still standing strong with his arm raised to the sky, it awed the others watching this but then suddenly a phenomenon happened in the sky. A burst of dark energy that covered the entire sky exploded from Zegrath's body before a figure appeared.

It was a phantom equipped with a black tiara and a glowing white half-crescent moon symbol.

Something, a beautiful entity that is the embodiment of darkness itself. Something that puts terror into Arnulf's face upon laying his eyes on the black phantom floating in the sky like in water.

<Banished Dark Moon Quest - Final>

<Kill the Dark Prince: 1/1>