The Invincible Full-Moon System

But now that both of them show that they were not pushovers, the Shapeshifter turns serious.

Since it was trying to mimic a black hand to catch Gistella and Evelyn off guard, it didn't use its full power yet but now that the plan has failed the Shapeshifter lets his transformation slide away because of the ringing shadow sound.

Now their eyes bear witness to the monstrous original form of the Shapeshifter.

The appearance of the black-hand man slowly fades because of the shadow sound which is an attack from an eighth-rank weapon and also amplified by Evelyn. Unnaturally, its body moved like a wave in the sea while slowly reverting back to its original form.

Its growl now becomes endearing and strikes the heart directly with eerieness.

Out of their very sharp senses, Evelyn and Gistella frowns when they saw the Shapeshifter's arm turns into a whip and strike the void in front of it. But both of them realized that it was actually an attack heading toward them.

With their enhanced reflexes, they feel a cold wind brushes their cheeks just barely an inch away.

SWOOSH!

CRASH!!

After the cold wind brushes them an inch away, a loud crashing sound can be heard which sounded like trees breaking, ground splintering, and the rainfall splashing away before ending with a booming sound.

Evelyn and Gistella's bodies were stunned briefly, they realized that their cheeks are bleeding.

Touching their cheeks that turn out to sustain more than a scratch, both of them then unconsciously slowly glance at their backs because of the loud crashing noises they heard before.

Gasp!

Upon witnessing the scene on their backs, the two of them sucked in a cold breath finding the forest in a straight line from them was absolutely destroyed. It filled the sight for a couple of miles with nothing but scarred ground and trees.

Much more than that, they didn't even know what the Shapeshifter did.

It was too fast for them to see, both of them only saw the Shapeshifter whipping its arm before this suddenly happened. But one thing is for sure, their heads would've exploded upon getting hit by that.

Gistella didn't sit idle and instantly holds her shield in front before creating a protective barrier.

Knowing that one attack from the Shapeshifter can possibly injure them badly or even kill them, she decided to keep the protective barrier active all the time. One hit might just sign their death warranty.

"Humans... you should've just gone down without a fight"

An endearing voice resounded once again forcing a careful frown on Evelyn and Gistella's faces.

Knitting their eyebrows together they saw the Shapeshifter finished reverting back to its original form, its form is humanoid but has pale ashy skin that is almost like a dark elf but darker. Its face is still featureless with nothing but black eyes. Each of its limbs is long but the full extent can't be seen due to its natural hunchback posture.

Despite their experience with Supernaturals, only one word can describe this Shapeshifter.

Terrifying.

Just like the regulating stigma of the Shapeshifter race, they are by far the scariest-looking Supernatural out there in the whole world. Even the Undead can't be compared to them, something about their featureless faces are unsettlingly terrifying.

Evelyn clenched her sword tightly before she instantly lets out her full power in an instant.

But her vigorous dark red fire alongside the occasional rings of soundwave from her second element was nothing but a spark of fireworks for the Shapeshifter, it tilted its head to the side a little in response to this aggression.

As if it was mocking Evelyn, the Shapeshifter lifts up its sharp fingers to the front.

Slowly a spark of dark red fire alongside the rings of soundwave also covered its devil-like hands which absolutely surprised Evelyn to her core, "My name is Syn, bow yourselves to the supreme being. That is if you don't want to die here..."

While watching Syn carefully, Evelyn and Gistella become even more alert.

"Supreme being? Are you referring to that the Shapeshifter race is more supreme than the Human race?", Evelyn snorted condescendingly, she can already tell that Syn is full of itself from just the sentence it said.

Upon hearing this, Syn waves its hand dispersing the dark red fire and soundwave.

"How long did it take? 2 years? 5 years...? I can copy anything you do with the simplest touch, shouldn't that indicate that we're superior to your pathetic kind?", Syn replied again, but now there was a mocking tone in its endearing voice.

Evelyn frown upon hearing this, 'So this Shapeshifter can mimic me from a touch? So strong...'

'But too bad that its intelligence is not as superior as it thought, they are back now...', she added exposing a smile sensing two figures approaching them at a very fast pace. Even Syn felt the incoming figures.

Swoosh!

A sharp ear-piercing sound irritates the ears suddenly appeared.

Bam!

Syn raised both of its devilish hands to block the incoming figure that is cloaked with steaming red energy and wearing a murderous look on its face, a powerful shockwave was created that decimated the entire place around them.

It was none other than the illusion of Rex.

Without pausing, Syn gathers strength and pushes the illusion back before slashing with its claws.

Even though Syn slashed the void just like it did before that almost hit Evelyn and Gistella, the illusion's purple eyes can't see anything but his senses are pretty clear in showing that something is coming.

Following his instincts, the illusion landed on the ground before his hands started to move.

Cloaked with the same red force, the illusion deflected the incoming invisible attack perfectly fueled by nothing but instincts alone. Evelyn, Gistella, and Adhara that has just arrived were protected from the attacks.

Upon looking at this, Syn went into its battle stance with its claws spread beside its body.

Growl!

Although Syn doesn't have any features on its face, Evelyn and the others knew that it became serious with the arrival of the illusion. It's clear to them that Syn tries to lure the illusion away to take out Evelyn and Gistella first.

Even though it was nothing but a Lunar Dust Illusion, it still has eighth-rank realm power.

"Are you guys okay?", Adhara asks in concern.

With a nod from their heads and a touch to their cheeks, Evelyn then replied, "We're fine..."

Since they were grazed by the invisible attack from Syn before, their cheeks still have bloodstains but it's already healing at a visible rate. It's an attack from an eighth-rank Shapeshifter so it's natural for the wound to heal slowly.

If it were any other lower-rank Shapeshifter then it will be healed instantly.

"We're going through the direction the black hand pointed at, but then we heard the loud crashing noise. I assume the black hand from earlier turned out to be the Shapeshifter all along, am I correct?", Adhara asked.

Despite trusting the black-hand man earlier, she's a little bit dubious about him.

One of the facts that made him a little bit dubious is because of the communication crystal and also the fact that the black-hand man told her that Liliya managed to injure the Shapeshifter which is very unlikely.

Even when they met before, Liliya agree that if her team meets the Shapeshifter they will tell.

Liliya is a seventh-rank black hand which makes it very unlikely for her to injure a powerful Shapeshifter like Syn, the others can injure Syn due to the weapons Rex gave and their Werewolf sides if cornered.

But her doing that? Not possible, at least that is what Adhara thought.

Evelyn nodded her head in affirmation, "Yes, we managed to find the weirdness in the way it talks. Gistella then tries to use the rune to check, and turns out it takes effect on the black-hand man and now it turns out like this"

After briefly catching up, their eyes then fixated on their front.

The three of them then walk forward before stopping just beside the illusion that is on a staredown with Syn, Adhara then said while activating her powers, "Well, let's flush the frustration we had with the Shapeshifter shall we?"

"Completely agreed, I'm itching to beat someone up", Evelyn added while readying her sword.

But contrary to their expectations, the illusion suddenly smiled before it added, "Yes... let's do that"

~

Meanwhile, inside an abandoned city filled with nothing but shadows and ghosts.

A pack of mutated wolves that are the size of a lion with dark furs and razor-sharp teeth is sniffing around trying to find prey for this night's hunt. But it's very hard for them to find something due to the rain. From a glance, there should be around 20 of them in total.

Even though they were hunting, some of the wolves are carrying corpses in their mouths.

Some are carrying a mutated rabbit the size of a dog while another is gnawing on a mutated animal that is already hard to identify due to its flesh already mostly gone leaving small chunks and bones.

Just like any other pack of wolves, the Alpha ate first before the rest.

Since this particular wolf is eating what's left of the mutated animal then it should be the Omega of the pack, it's pretty frail compared to the other wolves here but it didn't complain as all it can think of was simple. Staying alive.

While the Alpha, the biggest of them all are searching for other prey. Its nose catches something.

Only the sound of its splashing claws under the heavy rain can be heard as the Alpha follows the scent, and soon enough it stops just in front of the entrance of an alley. Its piercing yellow eyes gaze into the alley and find something in the alley.

Just like the Alpha, the figure inside the alley also lifted its head and glanced at the entrance.

Upon seeing a mutated wolf staring at it from the distance, the figure that turns out to be entrapped by purple chains starts to struggle making the chains clashes against each other.

But all of that did nothing but make steely sounds that ring in the alley.

Contrary to what the figure is trying to do the Alpha in turn approaches curiously, it was attracted to the blood beneath the figure from having its limbs stabbed by the chains. Even though the blood is cleansed away by the rain, fresh blood immediately replaced it.

In a simple wolf's mind, blood means weak prey.

Growl!

Even with a menacing baritone growl, the Alpha didn't feel threatened at all.

"Stay away! Don't come near you damned animal!", the figure roared angrily, but its appearance alone doesn't scare the Alpha as it strode and stopped just below the figure that doesn't even stand on the ground from the purple chains holding the figure up.

Looking angrily at the Alpha, the figure gritted its sharp teeth helplessly.

"What are these chains?! I've never felt this weak and even sensed weak by a measly animal!"

Upon hearing this, the Alpha growls in aggression despite not understanding what the figure is saying. But the vibe from the figure can be felt by the Alpha, and it shows that the figure is looking down on it.

Aoouuu!

The Alpha's howls spread to the entire ghost city, echoing through every crevice of the city.

Not long after the figure glances back at the entrance of the alley and finds the other mutated wolves gathering there, their numbers are increasing as they all stride toward the Alpha obediently.

Glancing back at the Alpha, the figure finds it actually smirking condescendingly.

Many of the mutated wolves started to crowd beneath the figure and sniff the blood dripping from it, and upon smelling the blood they all started to become aggressive. The Alpha stands proudly amongst its pack while looking straight at the figure.

Just a moment later, the mutated wolves started to leap and bite the figure.

Since these mutated wolves are at least fourth-rank mutated animals, they are pretty strong and possibly one of the prominent forces around this place. The figure starts to flinch and groan in pain from having its flesh bitten bit by bit by these wolves.

It was a feeding frenzy, and more blood starting to pour down to the ground.

Even though the figure tries to save itself from this humiliation, the purple chains kept it in place. Mutated wolves savor the figure's blood as wounds upon wounds are inflicted by them repeatedly. But the Alpha then picks up another scent.

But unlike the figure that doesn't scare him, this one instills fear in its heart.

Glancing to the side hurriedly, the Alpha saw another figure emerging from the darkness. Upon seeing this figure, the Alpha growls whimperingly before it started to run away leaving the alley.

With their Alpha escaping, the other mutated wolves also ran away in fear.

The figure that is being chained looks to the side and finds a man standing there under the heavy rain with his entire clothes drenched, he's wearing a solemn look as if he just got the news of his family killed.

From a glance, the figure recognizes that man instantly. It was Rex.

Rex arrived back in Dupok City which turns out to also be raining, he slowly raises his eyes to meet with Ruston that is being chained just in front of his parent's tombs to repent for what he did to them that night.

Bringing his hands to his front, Rex them trembling while being poured down by the rain.

After clenching both of his hands strongly he then slowly walks towards Ruston, and the look on his face shows the resoluteness that he mustered for the last couple of days. It's clear that Rex has come here to finish the nightmare once and for all.