The Invincible Full-Moon System

No wonder the morale of the soldiers and also the people was very low.

It was because of this.

Hastios explained that this had happened before, and the first victim was the village chief's daughter, who was killed in cold blood. At midnight, the village chief's wife came upstairs in order to sleep with her daughter.

She had done this whenever she couldn't fall asleep no matter how much she tried.

Insomnia in human terms, and her daughter's scent cured it.

But when she opened the door, she couldn't find her daughter on the bed.

Naturally, she searched for her before a knocking came on her door.

Soon she was told that her daughter was at the square, dead.

Due to the anomaly of her corpse's condition—the people deduced that she was kidnapped and the perpetrator had done this to her. It was sudden because sentries were active within a mile radius of the village.

If anyone came through, the sentries would've told them but the sentries didn't.

Nothing happened that night, not even a mutated animal disturbed the night.

Because of that, people of the village began blaming each other—suspecting the killer to be among them. Only when Queen Shanaela came and learned about the situation did they halt their escalating accusations.

Fear gripped them and they overstep the fact that the corpse's condition was odd.

It was as if the daughter had her life force sucked out of her.

No Elves can do that, not even those who adopted the cruel way of nature.

However, the second tragedy caused tension once again.

A male Elf with glowing blue eyes stepped forward.

"See?! I told you, there's a killer among us! Are you all blind?!"

"Her Highness said that this was the work of the mutated animal, calm yourself"

"Calm myself...? Huh?! Our sentries were essentially tripled with Her Highness' forces, there are also the guardians amongst them. If it is really the mutated animal, how can this happen again? Are you saying that Her Highness' forces are incompetent?!"

Upon hearing this, the onlookers avoid eye contact.

None of them had an answer to that.

"I vote for the sentries to be pulled back, and focus their attention on our village. We need to focus on protecting ourselves rather than letting the sentries cover our entire forest—for the sake of other villages!"

"Second to that!'

"Third to that!"

Feeling that there might be a possibility of what the Elf said being true, the other Elves were beginning to shift their decision, in the blue eyes Elf's favor. But then, the silence—gradually silenced when a figure arrived.

Queen Shanaela came when she heard the commotion.

Her golden eyes were calm, observing the situation.

Knowing that the people were stressed, Queen Shanaela sighed, it's not looking good.

She turned to Hastios, telling him something through her eyes.

Nodding his head, Hastios stepped forward and declared, "Her Highness' stand remained the same, this is not the work of a killer—but the wanted mutated animal instead. We understand that this is a dark time, and we fully understand that you're afraid. But fear not, the esteemed Silverstar Pack is here to help"

Hastios gestured towards Flunra and Gistella, presenting them to the people.

"Go back to your homes and stay inside, trust us, we will handle this!" He added assuringly.

All attention was centered on Gistella and Flunra.

Despite the reluctance of the people, they dispersed when the Silverstar Pack was brought.

As the crowd dispersed, the only ones left were the village chief and his wife.

Both of them are still weeping, holding their son's corpse with their trembling hands.

Queen Shanalea walked over to them with a queen-like grace, her golden hair seemed to be floating as she made her way. She glanced over to the corpse and couldn't help but imagine if this was her son.

"What was born of the earth must return to it, for even in loss, Mother will find him rest..."

Upon giving her condolences, the guards helped the couple to leave the premises.

Both of them retaliated but they were weak from the loss.

A minute later, it was only the queen, Hastios, Flunra—and Gistella remained.

It was only then did Gistella stepped forward to inspect the corpse.

She gathered her death energy and touched the corpse.

"It's the same, death energy. It's definitely the minion's doings" Gistella said.

Hastios and Queen Shanaela couldn't help but frown, both already anticipated this but they now had the confirmation, from Gistella—and they did not know why the minion, was doing something like this.

Despite the question, Gistella and Flunra also didn't know the reason.

Both of them were still learning about the situation.

"You said the minion could turn others into their slaves—is it possible for this to be done by one of its slaves? Could the slaves be blending amongst the people?" Flunra asked, piecing the information together.

"No," Hastios shook his head. "the slaves were mindless, they were incapable of doing that"

From this, the answer became certain.

It was the minion of the Order Beast.

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"I didn't sense it coming..."

"We already deduced that the minions were auraless, and it didn't leave much trace either"

"No, that's not what I meant. I've placed another layer of barrier with my runic power, I should be able to sense if anything trespassed. When I set the barrier—it also scanned the area so it definitely came from outside the barrier. But even then, it was still able to get here"

A mutated animal like this was rather rare.

Then again, mutated animals that have death affinity are already rare and this one was able to successfully create an Elemental Order for itself. Just then—Gistella tied her hair and put her hands, on the corpse, "The death energy is still fresh, let me see if I can track it down. It must've not expected a part Undead like me to be here"

Gistella closed her eyes and began her work.

On the other hand, Flunra turned to Hastios, letting Gistella try her method.

"Is the other corpse still around?"

"Yes, I expected you to ask for it so I haven't buried it yet,"

"Let me see it"

Both of them went to a warehouse nearby and the corpse was placed there on a table.

Just like the corpse earlier, this one was the same.

Its flesh from the neck down was completely erased, leaving only her face intact.

"Is the method the same?"

"Yes, it's the same. She was found by the people in a sitting position and in this state"

Flunra approached the corpse and observed it from top to bottom.

He was particularly interested in why the minion left its victim's face intact.

"It's almost as if..."

As he pondered about this further, Flunra's eyes widened as he came to a realization.

"Fear... It's trying to scare the people"

"Scare the people? For what? It's an animal, how can it think to do that?"

"It's not only an animal, it's a product of an Order Beast. Tell me, out of the villages that were raided by these minions, how many were able to withstand the raid long enough—until some or even all the reinforcements arrived?"

"None, most of the attacked villages are unprotected. All of them fall easily"

"Now what would happen if the minions came across strong forces?"

"They... fled?"

Just as he muttered that Hastios also had his eyes widened.

He understood what Flunra had realized.

"They used fear tactics to weaken us before their raid!"

"Yes. From what I've heard and inspected, Shadow is a Lesser Order Beast that is most likely nearing the greater realm. I learned from the Emperor that the Lesser Order Beasts are afraid of the Greater Orders Beasts, making them mostly docile"

"So Shadow didn't want to attract attention and adopted this method"

"Exactly... It needed death energy to breakthrough but it couldn't be too rowdy"

From the start, Flunra and Gistella knew that one of the differences between the Lesser and Greater Order Beasts lies within their demeanor. Because of that, Flunar was able to deduce the reason behind this Order Beast, scaring people like this.

Ensuing Chaos onto the villages before attacking is a sure-fire way to weaken the defenses.

It would be easy-picking if the chaos grew big.

Not only would they not attract attention but they also could conserve their power.

Any risk that might end up with them being wounded would be avoided.

Flunra and Hastios exchanged a look, nodding firmly.

Now that they were able to crack the reason, changes would be made.

Stepping out of the warehouse, the two went back to Queen Shanaela and Gistella.

Along the way, however, Flunra was still a little bit uneasy.

'Even though we knew its reason, I still did not know, how it was able to get here—and place the corpse right under our nose. It must have a unique stealth ability, but even so, to be able to bypass my senses and barrier is freakish' He pondered uneasily.

Making a turn, Flunra then conversed about the change of tactic.

"Is it possible to draw back all of your sentries and gather them to the village?"

"No, the sentries were also scattered to keep an eye on the minion's movement. Other than this village, there are seven other villages nearby and they would need an early heads-up if the minion decided to change target"

"Make sense. Me and Gistella would be the lure then"

Out of nowhere, Flunra suddenly stopped in his tracks.

Hastios also stopped—looked over at him with a raised brow, "Is there something wrong?"

"Wait... If the minion was scaring the people, how did it gauge the chaos?" He muttered.

Flunra suddenly got hit by this question, which caused him to stop.

If the minion was scaring the people then it must be gauging the chaos through some ways.

Swish!

But then, his ears perked up when he heard leaves rustling.

Upon hearing this, Flunra turned and looked up at the branches and leaves above him.

For some reason, his eyes couldn't pierce the darkness above him.

A weird thing considering that he was a Werewolf—with extremely powerful eyesight.

It was only then did Gistella and Queen Shanaea emerged from the end of the street.

Gistella's face was that of panic, and the same goes for Queen Shanaela.

"Flunra! Shadow is still somewhere here!"

"Wait, what...? I can't believe I'm this slow, that's it up there!"

...

Countless miles away from the Elven forests.

A half-mile-wide valley spanned almost the entire continent, covering the entire

It was a desolate rocky place with white petal flowers decorating the ground.

Oblivious mutated birds were flying above freely, taking pleasure in the breeze of the wind.

But as soon as they reached the valley, plunging deep below, a powerful force, suddenly got to them, pulling them down hard. They chirped in alarm, frantically flapping their wings but it was in vain.

The valley's depths swallowed them whole, dragging them through the thick mist below.

Nothing seemed to be able to pass this valley.

However, there was a massive bridge connecting the two lands of the valley.

Calling it massive was still an understatement as the bridge was extremely wide and big, and on each end of it, there was a fortress, that guarded the bridge's entrance. Lining up to enter these fortresses were Supernaturals of all kinds, lower and mid-rank Supernaturals.

Most of them are traders with carts full of items.

Everyone knows what this new bridge was, the Saltura Bridge.

A commotion happened at one of the fortresses, the queuing Supernaturals were surprised by the arrival of a couple of figures from the sky—figures with majestic crimson wings. One look was enough to tell that these figures were Angels.

"Angels...? Since when did they survive?"

"I've heard of them—they weren't Anges anymore but Dark Angels instead. Many kingdoms were destroyed by them"

"Really? Angels destroyed other kingdoms?"

Coming through the crowd from the fortress was an emissary with cat-like ears and tail.

She was escorted by two muscular guards behind her.

"Is there anything we could help you gentlemen with?"

"We're here to talk with the ruler of this place"

"Great, she is also already expecting all of you inside. Please, follow me"

Upon hearing this, the Angels followed right behind the emissary.

But then, the emissary stopped and looked over towards them.

"Oh, and also... Welcome to the Rath'zir Kingdom, the kingdom of the Tabaxis"