The Invincible Full-Moon System

Chapter 1393 Setting out for the Werewolves

as soon as the gunshot echoed, iris was thrown out.

iris was launched out of the trench—slamming onto the hard ground.

cold sweat drenched her shaking body as she bolted upright, clutching her heart. her chest heaved up and down rapidly, her breaths came in desperate gulps—as she fought to steady herself from what she had seen.

she was already outside but the pain from pulling the trigger was still there.

mavenna quickly rushed to check on her.

"come on, talk to me, where are you hurt?" mavenna asked, preparing to heal her.

but iris shook her head in response, "it's alright... you couldn't heal it anyway"

"what do you mean?"

"i mean the wound is not tangible so you can't heal it"

upon hearing this, mavenna frowned but she quickly understood what iris meant.

'i don't know her position in the dark elf kingdom, but i am assuming she's a noble,' mavenna thought as her frown deepened, she didn't expect iris to be this shaken up. 'a noble has their fair share of troubles, iris is not exactly innocent. to think rex's trauma shaken her this much—what could it be?'

mavenna was curious but she knew that it wasn't her position.

on the other side, elder tilrith leered at iris, "i warned you—you won't be able to handle it"

in her eyes, it was obvious that iris wouldn't be able to handle rex's past.

her achievement and race show it and elder tilrith was right.

as she made that remark, she shifted her gaze away to check rex's soul projection.

her eyes squinted—the flame that was engulfing rex's soul projection, swayed a bit—until it became weaker. seeing this, elder tilrith nodded, "reckless as you are, that worked. but we still have a long way to go..."

glancing to the side, there were still a lot more trenches that would need to be visited.

before going through with it, elder tilrith checked on rex.

"it wasn't that hard, now, is it?" she commented, crossing her arms.

rex's face was still covered—nobody could see the kind of expression he was wearing right now, nobody could guess what he was feeling. but then—he turned his head towards iris on the side.

seeing this, iris became nervous.

not being able to see rex's expression made it way worse.

"what do you see?" he asked in a low tone, he was demanding an answer rather than asking.

upon hearing this, iris paused for a second before she steeled her resolve to answer.

"i saw when you were instructed by lieutenant beard t-"

"okay, i know enough"

iris wasn't given the time to finish her sentence but she understood.

bringing up past trauma is definitely hard for rex.

moreover, he had only gone through his biggest hurdle moments ago.

not only iris but mavenna—and elder tilrith, also knew, that rex's biggest hurdle was that he didn't let anyone inside, he rather suffer on his own than share his burdens with others. all of his feelings were buried inside, it was the kind of person he was.

shaped by his past.

now, iris came to understand better why rex was the way he is right now.

'having to swallow his own feelings—must have made him hopeless. not to mention, his past and desire were used by that lieutenant to control him, so that he would obey,' iris pondered, sighing heavily. 'no wonder he was keeping it all inside, he trusted no one'

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elder tilrith clapped her hands, becoming the center of attention once again.

"come on. get up and let's keep going, we don't have much time" she said, looking at iris.

upon hearing this, iris gulped and sweated—it was clear that elder tilrith was playing her.

"it's a big deal, of course, we're nervous" adhara replied, leaning her head back.

she tried sleeping it out until they arrived but she couldn't sleep.

"and you, gistella?" evelyn turned to gistella, her face was cold with seriousness.

realizing that evelyn was looking at her, gistella blinked her eyes and smiled, "sorry?"

"sigh..." evelyn shook her head, it was obvious that gistella's mind—was somewhere else. "are you still hung up on the undead? even rex can't predict it, there is no need for you to blame yourself for it. not to mention, there's the demon moon"

"but still, i should be able to sense them because i'm previously an undead" gistella mused.

losing the death order stones as well as shadow was a huge blow not that it would have a direct impact—but the undead would be able to grow stronger than ever. gistella had been calculating the amount of resources the undead had obtained.

and her calculation made her worry, the balance of power could tilt to the undead.

"focus, gistella," evelyn cleared her throat and warned. "we can't fail this..."

upon hearing this, gistella nodded firmly—she needed to focus on the moment more.

"so, is there anything i need to do in particular?" adhara asked questioningly—she could feel that they were nearing an encounter with the werewolves, they were about to enter the core territory. "should i act a certain way? or will it be better for me to act as i normally would?"

"i'll do all the talking but yes, i need you to act a certain way" evelyn nodded.

she paused for a second, pondering about what lies ahead.

knowing that there will be an opposition, that doesn't want the scarlet banes kingdom to fall to the clarentium empire, she needed to play this right, especially since there was only rex's clone with them.

rex already told her the information she would need to tackle the werewolves.

all she needs to do is play her cards right.

"i have learned everything about the werewolves from flunra," evelyn started before shifting her focus back to the others. "adhara, you're the female alpha so you should act right. make sure to never smile and pick a fight with someone the moment you step in"

"okay... i could do that' adhara nodded.

she takes pride in her position in the pack so she gladly accepted evelyn's instruction.

evelyn then turned to gistella, "everyone knew that you infiltrated the fifthborn's side, you're perceived as a snake—and dangerous, especially since you're once an undead. make sure to always have a light smile when we're there. use only your eyes to smile"

"my eyes...?" gistella was confused but nodded anyway. "i will try my very best"

now that they know what to do, the tension in the air lessened greatly.

it seemed that not knowing what to do made them nervous and evelyn handled that.

"are you sure placing rex's clone there is the right move?" adhara asked—peeking out of the window. rex's clone was outside, he was riding delta and was leading the convoy despite he was the emperor.

upon hearing this, evelyn nodded, "yes, his impending visit is known already. so it's fine"

just then, the convoy finally encountered the first representation from the werewolf forces.

but it was a friendly force, one that adhara and gistella recognized.

it was valkis.

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valkis greeted rex's clone before he was told to go to the caravan.

he nodded in understanding and was escorted to the caravan.

soon—the door to the caravan was opened—and valkis knelt down on one knee in respect to the individuals sitting inside. adhara was the first one to speak, "evelyn, this is valkis, he was a great help during the night of the demon moon"

"valkis," she then turned to valkis. "this is the empress and also the luna, evelyn"

"it's a pleasure to be near your grace,"

"as do i..."

"do you want to go straight to the capital? prince alaric is already prepared"

"no, we're making a detour first before meeting the alpha primes"

"detour to where?"

"i'd like to meet with princess selene first, arrange it for me"