The Invincible Full-Moon System

Just from this alone, Rex now has a new way of gaining gold.

Knowing that back then Devo can sense lightning elemental stones even if they were inside the ground or well-hidden, he instantly knows that he can make use of Devo\'s senses and possibly also Amanir\'s senses to search for an immense amount of mana stones.

Rex remembered how easily Devo managed to do that, so he was quite hopeful.

[What do you need our help for?]

[I\'m not going to help if I don\'t gain anything in return]

Upon hearing the two different reactions coming from both Devo and Amanir, Rex was quite annoyed by Amanir\'s response but he had already expected as much. Both he and Amanir is not actually on good terms with each other.

Sighing to himself he then replied, \'I\'m going to need your help searching for elemental stones\'

[Not a problem for me, but I want something in return if you want to help me. Amanir is right, we need at least something in return for helping], Devo replied which caught Rex off-guard, but remembering how he treated them it\'s not that surprising for them to say something like this.

Rex nodded his head, agreeing as long as they don\'t go overboard with their demands.

[In exchange for helping you find the elemental stones, I want freedom. Let me be in my physical form, we\'re linked together so there\'s no need to worry that I can detach away from you. I\'ll come back when you needed me], Devo demanded.

Although it\'s quite a big demand, Rex decided to comply with Devo\'s demand.

Even though he seems to be complying out of his own good will, he\'s not. Rex already asked the system just now if Devo can do anything that can harm him and the answer is a straight no. On top of that, the system also stated that complying with them will be beneficial to him and his power.

\'It\'s going to help me reach the eighth-rank realm, huh...\', Rex thought with a pondering look.

Since Devo can hear his own thoughts, he replied directly to his rambling thought, [Yes, it\'ll help our unification to reach the eight-rank realm. There\'s no loss for you in this deal, if we agree then I\'ll help]

[Me too! I want to have freedom too!], Amanir suddenly intervenes, wanting to join in on the deal.

But Rex can only frown upon hearing that Amanir joins in out of nowhere, \'We\'re not even in the seventh-rank realm yet, you don\'t have a physical body. How are you going to ask for freedom like Devo?\'

[Then get strong faster! I want my physical body right now!]

Although he was trying to be patient in regard to everything that had happened to him, the vein on Rex\'s forehead bulged finding that dealing with Amanir is the same as dealing with a kid. Stubborn and doesn\'t really try to help and just demands things that it hears.

Rex can feel the urge of suppressing Amanir\'s climbing, but he decided to forget about it.

\'Fine, if you want to have your freedom too then help me search for light elemental stones. I will give you the same freedom as Devo if you do that\', Rex finally concede and said, it\'s no use arguing with a kid.

Not that he expected much for a spirit thief, of course.

With that, they finally come to a mutual agreement in helping Rex gather the elemental stones.

Just as he was about to stand up and heads over to Adhara and Flunra that are bathing under the moonlight to speed up their recovery process and tell them to resume their journey, Rex, Kyran, and Gistella turn their head to the side upon hearing a scream.

"Adhara?!", Rex frown as he immediately dashes towards the scream direction.

Kyran and Gistella also follow him from behind expecting that Adhara is in danger, her scream dictates that she was definitely in danger. It\'s a new forest for them, and that alone makes them quite wary of the place.

Upon dashing for ten seconds, they arrived at the place and saw Adhara in front of a creature.

Quickly approaches her and lands beside her, Rex and the others gaze at the creature in front of them that is definitely not Supernatural or a human, "What\'s wrong, did it attack you?", Rex asked from the side.

"No, I-I was just surprised...", Adhara mutters whisperingly.

Rex looks at the creature in front of him that is severely misshapen and hard to look at, it\'s definitely humanoid and its body dictates that the creature should be a woman. It\'s wearing a white gown that of a princess but is already torn and dirty.

But what makes the four of them frown was because of the creature\'s face that is haunting.

Its entire face is filled with the evident wrinkle that was brought on by old age, the skin of its face is loose and falls down and is also covered by an oily substance. An inward bump can be seen on its head, one of its eyes is missing, and its mouth is crooked.

Overall, there\'s only one word to describe this hideous creature.

"This forest is filled with cursed creatures, right? This one is probably one of them", Kyran said.

Contrary to Kyran that has only seen one cursed creature in his life which is the same as Adhara back then in Wedron City, Rex knows clearly that this creature in front of him is a cursed creature due to the Curse Sense he received from beating the Curse of Love.

Rex frown as his eyes glisten, scanning the creature with the system.

<Cursed Undead>

Power: Curse of Ugliness - 3rd Epiphany

Race: Lesser Undead

Mental: 0

Strength: 65

Agility: 40

Endurance: 20

Intelligence: 0

Upon reading the stats of the creature in front of him, Rex finds that it\'s pretty weak, only equivalent to about the third-rank realm. But his eyes then landed on the power section, this creature has the Curse of Ugliness that is in the 3rd Epiphany.

Due to his meeting with Rurvi, he knows that Epiphany is a curse rank.

Although he\'s not quite sure if the 3rd Epiphany is exactly equivalent to a third-rank realm, the stats indicate that it\'s the same. Rex was deciphering the cursed creature\'s stats but then he snapped back from his thoughts when he hears the cursed creature talk.

It uses a haunting echoing voice that can instill fear, "A-Am I ugly...?"

Rex and the others paused for a second as they were caught off guard by this question, but inside their heads, they instinctively answered yes. Nothing can be uglier than this cursed creature, it simply has a haunting level of ugliness.

Even though none of them answered, the cursed creature started crying.

Knowing that he doesn\'t need to waste any time here, Rex acted and closed in the distance swiftly.

Not wanting to touch the cursed creature\'s oily face which is very disgusting to look at, Rex sent a perfect roundhouse kick straight to its face. That one kick sent its head flying with not much difficulty.

"We\'ll continue our way to the center, where\'s Flunra?", Rex asked as he looks at the others.

But just as he said that a voice that sent a shiver down his spine resounded which completely caught him off guard, "Ugly is relative, right...? *Hiks*, I don\'t want to be ugly...", the same haunting voice penetrates Rex\'s ears.

Upon realizing that the cursed creature didn\'t die, Rex immediately leaped away in reflex.

Everybody here saw the cursed creature\'s head was sent flying from that roundhouse kick Rex did earlier, but now the cursed creature\'s head appears once again, gathered from dark broken red smokey energy.

Just this sight alone makes the others wary, they aren\'t adept at fighting cursed creatures.

"A-Am I ugly...? I\'m not ugly, but am I ugly?"

Slowly the cursed creature advances forward with both of its arms reaching out, wanting to grab them. Its movement is devastatingly slow as it takes one step at a time, and tears started falling out of one of its eyes.

Rex was about to ask the system about this, but Flunra suddenly appears out of nowhere.

Standing right behind the cursed creature with his calm eyes, the cursed creature noticed this rather quickly despite its devastating difference in speed and turns to look at him and asked, "A-Am I ugly...?"

"No, you\'re not", Flunra replied before smashing the cursed creature\'s head with a clap.

Bam!

Under the power of that clap the cursed creature\'s head exploded instantly as the same energy gushes out once again, Flunra already stepped over the cursed creature\'s corpse and approaches the others.

Expecting the same thing as before, Rex and the others wanted to warn Flunra that it won\'t die.

Weirdly enough the gushing energy started to slowly dissipate and the cursed creature\'s corpse stayed dead, it didn\'t revive like earlier, "How did you do that? It revived very quickly when Rex kicked its head earlier", Adhara asked curiously.

"Killing cursed creatures is not like killing other living creatures as they are different in the essence"

Pointing back at the cursed creature\'s corpse, Flunra then explains, "Cursed creatures have a certain requirement in order to kill it. This one, for example, this cursed creature has the Curse of Ugliness. In order to kill it, you either don\'t reply to its question or answer yes and then kill it"

"But nobody answered that cursed creature\'s question earlier", Kyran added with a frown.

Each one of them was too surprised to answer the question thus nobody actually answered it, so technically they should be able to kill that cursed creature based on what Flunra is saying. But Rex isn\'t able to kill it.

"Answering in your mind also counts, that\'s just how curses work", Flunra replied with a shrug.

Upon hearing this the others were surprised as this is simply astonishing to know, it\'s surprising that the curse can also read their minds. On top of the fact that the cursed creature is really ugly, there\'s also some force that ignites them to say yes which should be the curse playing its power.

But then another question popped up, it\'s a new concept for them after all.

"If that\'s the case then how can we kill it we already answered yes. Does the curse has a reset time?", Kyran asked, it\'s a logical question. If there\'s no Flunra then each one of them has already answered yes.

Flunra paused for a bit before he finally replied, "No, one mistake then you can\'t kill it at all..."

Just that answer alone makes the others gasp in surprise, Rex already has already expected that answer due to him having an Eternal Curse with Calidora, but hearing this directly from Flunra still surprises him.

\'Now that I remember, I need to know more about these curses. Flunra must know more about this\'

Although Rex can just buy the information from the system, he\'s saving his gold for the making of his new home. Since there are cursed creatures everywhere in this forest, he might need to buy a defensive item from the system\'s shop and he doesn\'t know how much it will cost him.

Knowing that he needs to be smart about his gold. Asking Flunra would be the best route.

"Flunra, we\'re going to have a talk later. But now let\'s just continue, we can talk more when we find a suitable place for our new home", Rex replied before the others nodded their heads and finally resume their search again.

When the night reaches its peak, Rex and the others emerge from the forest.

From the map, they should be arriving at the center of the Humming Damned Forest. But with the big hill lying in front of them under the moonlight, a height taller than the forest surrounding the place, Rex is certain that they already arrived at the place.

It was this place that he intends to go to when he checked the map earlier.

\'Clear path for the moonlight, surrounded by half a mile open place, and also near to a water source. Maybe this is the perfect place, this place might just be the best place for our new home...\', Rex thought with a smile.