The Invincible Full-Moon System

'Hang in there, Rex...'

Adhara, Flunra, and Kyran's thoughts echoed like a somber requiem that can reach beyond their realities. Each of them filled their emotions into their thoughts, hoping that the person that made them reach this far can get through the huge obstacle that blocked his way.

Despite all the odds, despite the unlikelihood of his success, they put their trust in him.

None of the Werewolves' predecessors has ever been in this level of championship, the sixth level of championship should be non-existent. But despite the impossible, they believed that out of any Werewolf that has gone through the first ascension trial, he might be the best one capable of surviving the horrendous sixth level.

Like an echoing sirene, Rex can hear their thoughts calling onto him.

Slowly his eyelids trembled due to the voices of the others that reaches him, their strong emotions gave his body strength before he finally jolted his eyes awake. Gaining back his consciousness, Rex instantly frowns, "Huh?! Where am I...?", he exclaimed out loud.

Feeling the gushing air blowing on his back, Rex realized that he was free-falling like a meteor.

Rex looks around and finds that he was falling while being surrounded by red swirling clouds that spiraled down and get narrower the lower he gets, he remembered that he was pulled by something inside the red gate portal.

'I should be inside the trial. Damn it, I haven't even prepared anything for this'

Since he got pulled into the red gate portal of his own volition, Rex is going in blindly. If everything went according to plan, he should be able to ask Flunra what to expect inside and utilize the system to create a solid plan.

But he wasn't able to do that, he was pulled inside before he could do that.

'System! A little help here!'

<Ice and Snow Full Moon effect has been temporarily blocked due to the user being inside the Blood Moon Lunirich Dominion, the effect would be reinstated once the user has gotten out after finishing the trial>

<Sudden Quest!>

From reaching level 60, the user has been allowed to go through the first ascension trial. Kaiser of the Scarlet Garland will send three obstacles that needed to be overcome in order to succeed in the trial, each will be harder than the previous one. Complete the trial and reach the first ascension of the user's Blood Moon King Mark!

Quest Reward: 300 billion exp, Oracle of Moon Ability, Herald Mark, and Brutal Impulse

Quest Penalty: Painful death!

Upon seeing the notifications that appears in front of him, Rex clicked his tongue in displeasure.

'I said a little help! Why are you giving me a sudden quest!'

Turning his body around to see where he was falling to, Rex finds it futile as his vision can't reach further than 50 meters, beyond that point he can only see swirling red clouds as if he was inside a mighty tornado.

But soon enough, the system provides him with yet another useless answer.

<Rewards from completing the trial would cease to exist if the user uses any kind of help from the system, does the user wants to continue and be given hints and pointers by the system?>

'If you say it like that, then hold that until I really need it!'

Swoosh!

A powerful force suddenly hits him from the side right after he said that to the system inside his head. Rex started to spin and his mind started to feel dizzy, he can feel his velocity downwards becomes even faster due to him spinning.

Feeling that he was about to hit something, Rex covers his head with both of his arms.

Splash!

Expecting to fall on flat ground which would be quite hurtful due to the speed of his falling down, Rex hits water instead. He got plunged hundreds of meters in depth. If it weren't for him resisting the fall, he'll probably reach the bottom due to how fast he was falling.

Rex opens his eyes and finds that his surrounding is dark, only the surface is glowing red.

'I hate water...', he thought before he started swimming up.

Due to some unknown force swimming back up is quite a chore for him despite his immense strength, it takes him more than a minute to finally emerge from the surface of the water, and takes a deep breath.

Upon reaching the surface, Rex looks around and finds that he was in an unknown place.

Water surrounded him for miles as if he was in the middle of the sea, but the water is red just like the spiraling red tornado in the sky alongside the bright Blood Full Moon. There was no doubt that this place should be the trial for the Blood Moon's first ascension.

Glancing to the side, Rex finds a majestic mountain with a symbol of a crescent moon at the peak.

Although this was his first time experiencing this kind of trial by one of the Lunirich Gods, Rex knows that the mountain is where he was supposed to go. Just as he was about to use his power to go there, he realized something.

'Hmm...? It's solid?', Rex thought with a frown as the surface of the water is actually solid.

Rex puts both of his palms on the surface before pushing him out of the water, he was surprised once again to find out that it actually worked, he's now standing at the surface of the water as if it was solid.

Looking at his back, he finds there's a hole where he has fallen earlier.

It seems the water surface in this realm is solid but he broke through it due to the fall earlier, it doesn't make sense but then again he's not inside the real realm. If Rex were to guess, this should be the realm made by the Kaiser of the Scarlet Garland.

Nodding his head, Rex finally heads over to the mountain with slow and steady steps.

Even though he can just jump there and reaches the mountain immediately, he's in a foreign place, and being in a hurry would definitely be his doom, especially since he can actually die here just like in the real world.

About twenty minutes later, Rex finally reaches the foot of the mountain.

Upon raising his gaze to look at the peak, he finds that the peak just below the crescent moon symbol is flat which further reassures him that it's where he is supposed to go. For all he knows, Kaiser of the Scarlet Garland is probably already waiting for him there.

'I'm really going in blindly, I don't like this but I have no choice...'

Rex ponders for a moment before he takes one step into the land, and he feels everything changed.

Not that the entire place has changed completely but the silent and serene feeling changed into a heart-pacing one, he can feel the air coming from the mountain change for the worst instantly. It feels like he's stepping into a forbidden land.

Deciding to not mind what he was feeling, Rex keeps on going to get closer to the mountain.

With each step his heart started to beat faster and faster, it feels like he was running a marathon. But then his steps stopped when he realized that he was not alone, Rex looks to either side and finds many creatures started waking up.

Each of them let out a heavy growl as their red eyes opened and stared at Rex.

Standing on four with canine teeth that are longer and sharper than anything he has ever seen, these creatures are a menace of their own. Rex squinted his eyes and finds that they were mutated wolves, but they were not like any mutated wolves he has ever seen.

If Delta were here, she would definitely look the most friendly out of all of them.

Rex marvels at these creatures that are humongous in size, they are at least the size of a two-story building. Dense muscles covered their entire bodies, thick bloodlust can be portrayed clearly by their eyes, and their skulls were exposed giving them a terrifying appearance.

Getting into his battle stance, Rex thought that this is the first trial that he needed to go through.

But it seems they were not his first trial as these wolves that he scanned to only have question marks all over their stats only watches him from the sides, there was no sign of them intending to initiate a fight.

With that Rex keeps on walking further toward the foot of the mountain.

Just as he was about to get near the foot of the mountain, the same thing happened again. Creatures started waking up and bare their fangs on him, but the creatures he met now are not mutated wolves, they are Werewolves instead.

Upon seeing these Werewolves that are waking up, Rex frown, 'This level of bloodthirst is insane...'

Each of the Werewolves emanates a terrifying amount of bloodthirst that can even make breathing quite hard, the amount of creatures that these Werewolves have killed probably matches that of Rex. It was very surprising.

As Rex was looking at them warily, he realized something, 'Are they the fallen Werewolves...?'

Since he's inside the trial for the Blood Moon's first ascension and the fact that these Werewolves crawl out of the ground, he has a wild thought inside his head. What if these Werewolves are the Werewolves that failed the first ascension?

Looking around to try and confirm his suspicion, Rex finds that he's likely to be right.

Every Werewolf that is inching closer to him has traits of their own that differentiate them from the others, some are smaller while some are bigger, some are full of scars while some have one gruesome scar, they were like actual Werewolves that were once alive.

If they were just spawned creatures, they should be identical but they are not.

'They have a terrifying amount of bloodlust, they all should be quite skillful in combat but they all failed the trial...?', Rex thought with a frown, he was starting to get a real grasp of how hard the trial that he was about to do.

While he was dwelling in his thoughts, he realized that these Werewolves are getting too close.

Rex gets into his battle stance with both of his hands raised one closer to his face than the other, his eyes darting left and right trying to size up the first Werewolf that's about to lunge at him and start the fight.

From the looks of it, these Werewolves are going to be the first obstacle he needed to go through.

Roar!

One of the Werewolves on his right lunged forward swiftly with its claws glowing bright red, the speed it was exerting should put him around the seventh-rank realm which is quite easy for Rex to deal with. With a fluid motion, Rex dodges the Werewolf and sliced its head right off.

Slash!

No notification from the system appears, he gains nothing by killing that Werewolf.

Following the first Werewolf that attacked him, seven more pounced at him fiercely but Rex's reflexes were too fast for them. Utilizing his very sensitive battle instinct, he blocks and returns a counter-attack to each of them.

It was so fast that the Werewolves weren't able to react before they got killed instantly.

But that wasn't the end of the fight as many more joins in, encircling Rex in the wheel of death. Many Werewolves got sent flying as they approaches Rex, they slammed to the ground, flew to the sky, or even simply explode with blood.

The combination of his battle instinct and his close-quarter combat proves to be deadly.

None of the Werewolves manage to touch him as he already attacked their way before they realized, he was like a meat grinder slashing and decapitating Werewolf after Werewolf. 'If this is their actual battle prowess then no wonder they failed the trial', Rex thought mockingly.

Just as he thought of that, a Werewolf managed to close in and stabs him from the back.

Splash!

"Rarghh! How the hell...?!", Rex groaned in pain, the side of his body was stabbed from the back spraying his own blood to the ground. Even though he was fully alert, he was surprised to find one of them managed to sneak in.

But then his eyes peer at the other Werewolves to only find their movement is getting faster.

On top of their increasing speed, their chemistry with one another also increases which made four to six attacks come at the same time from different directions. Rex is fast but this clearly caught him off guard.

Slash!

Slash!

Roar!

Rex got wounded all over before he coughs a mouthful of blood, he gritted his teeth while looking at his body. 'What happened... how come they suddenly got way stronger?!'