Zombie went pale and asked, "Sir...you mean that plan?"
"Yes. Exactly that plan. The plan that we have been planning for many years. The plan that will take down Raven" Mr. Crow said with a slight smirk.
"I understand. I will assemble the team right away" Zombie said, leaving the room in a hurry.
Within a couple of minutes, ten members of the organization were gathered in Mr. Crow's room. All of them were special grades, except for one. Which was no other than Blake.
The team consisted of Vivian, Zombie, Elvis, petro, Cilia, Blake, Luke, Barrett and two unknown special grades.
"Sir...is it time to carry out the mission?" Luke asked, a blonde haired man that had an simple hairstyle and looked like an average teenager. However, his aura said a completely different story. It was an extremely powerful and menacing aura. It proved that he deserved the rank of special grade.
Not only that but the entire room was filled with the same menacing aura. It would have felt suffocating for a normal person. However, the two unknown special grades had a much bigger aura than the rest and had potential to be a monarch grade, which was the highest grade in the organization.
"Yes" Mr. Crow said, clearly impressed by the suffocating atmosphere of the room. "Go to the rotting peninsula and defeat Raven and help Alex find a cure" Mr. Crow ordered.
"It shall be done" Luka said, bowing slightly.
Suddenly, all of the ten members teleported and the hunt for Raven began.
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A strange creature was watching the three of them from afar. It had the shape of gigantic dido but had the feathers of a parrot. It was surprisingly colorful despite the harsh environment and the pale colors of the rotting peninsula.
The creature was at least twelve feet tall and was slowly approaching the three of them, who were peacefully sleeping. Except Alex, who was asleep but still prepared for any attack; he had trained for this exact scenario.
The dino finally got close enough and attacked Alex with it's beak, moving it downwards and towards Alex. And just when it was only a few inches away from Alex's stomach, Alex instinctively grabbed his nearby sword and blocked the attack with his sword, causing the strange creature to stagger backwards.
He then woke up and saw the strange creature right in front of him. For a split second, Alex simply stared at it due to it's abnormal features but then focused on defending himself.
He stood up and calmly said, "Wake up, you two."
As the two of them were still rubbing their eyelids, Alex observed the strange creature and noticed a bruise that had formed on it's beak. "Did I hit it while I was asleep? I guess my training worked." He thought.
"Alex, what's gotten into you? It hasn't been that long and you are already telling us to walk?" Ken sat up straight and mumbled, still half-asleep.
"That's not-!" Before Alex could explain what was going, the creature charged straight at Alex, it's beak aimed right at him, it was an attack similar to what a rhino would do.
And before Alex could dodge or block, the creature launched him into a boulder, breaking a few of his bones.
Finally, Ken and Ronx realized what was going on and instantly took up a stance, staying close to Alex. "What's going on here?" Ronx asked.
"This thing attacked us in our sleep. Be careful, it's at least god-tier" Alex said, his face completely serious, slightly sweating in fact.
"God tier?! Isn't that like the strongest tier a creature can have?!" Ronx yelled, taking a few steps back. "But how can you tell?! It looks like the same level as the phoenix and minotaur?"
"By It's appearance. The more weird or abnormal a creature looks, the stronger it is. For example, the headless man is much more powerful than the phoenix and minotaur, which is why it looked so...menacing" Alex explained.
"I...see but how are we going to defeat this thing?!" Ronx asked, sweating like crazy.
"By working together. The three of us" Alex said, looking at Ken, who was trembling once again, sitting in the same cowardly pose. "I hope Ken can do whatever he did yesterday because we will need his help."
Before they could talk further, the dido-like creature attacked once again, this time, stomping it's ostrich-like feet. As soon as it did, an earthquake occurred.
The earthquake made Ronx slightly lose his balance, which the creature took advantage of by slashing him with a diagonal motion of it's beak. Alex immediately rushed over to help, teleporting on top of the creature, stabbing his sword into the creature's leg.
Alex then extended the sword using his metal manipulation powers, trying to pierce the creature's head. Within a few seconds, the sword kept extending and eventually came out of the other side. "This thing should be dead now that I pierced it's brain" Alex thought.
"Great job, you did-" Ronx celebration was cut short by the roar of the creature. It started to move aggressively, trying to get Alex off itself.
"Fuck, how did it not kill it?" Alex thought. "It must have some sort of a weak spot."
Suddenly, a tentacle emerged out of the creature's head and grabbed Alex's leg. "What the hell?!"
Alex slashed the tentacle and was about to get off but just then several more tentacles emerged from the creature's body, seizing him completely.
But before the dido-like creature could do anything else to Alex, Ronx summoned his sword, which had became his favorite.
Ronx ran towards the creature and did a wide vertical slash, trying to split the strange creature in half but the slash didn't damage the creature whatsoever, not even a scratch. "How strong is this thing?!"
Suddenly, thousands of tentacles of all kinds of sizes and lengths emerged from it's body, filling the area with waves of long, pink tentacles.
Ronx kept blocking the tentacles but it was too much, especially since he was also protecting Ken, who was trembling and screaming like crazy because of the tentacles.
Meanwhile, the body of the dido-like creature was filled with pink tentacles, only a few spots of the colorful feathers being visible on it's body. Other than that was nothing but tentacles that extended till hundreds of meters.
A couple of the thick and long tentacles attacked Alex by grabbing him tightly. Within a few seconds, so many tentacles was stuck onto Alex that he couldn't see any light anymore and was slowly suffocating.
"Its...too strong...we won't be able to do anything" Ken said, giving up completely, tears running down his face and his eyes wide open as if accepting death. But this made the blessing activate and he started to feel a large burst of energy coming into his body.
He felt amazing as soon as the energy went into his body, he felt the same emotion as someone who had won a jackpot, except a hundreds times over. It was the greatest feeling a human being could feel and it made him feel invincible.
"It's the same feeling! Oh! Wow!" Ken said, destroying hundreds of tentacles with a single punch. "This creature doesn't feel that scary anymore!"
Within a matter of seconds, all of the tentacles were completely destroyed, apart from the tentacles that had captured and were suffocating Alex.
In the blink of an eye, Ken appeared in front of the dido-like creature and smashed it's beak like nothing. And what followed after the impact was a shockwave so powerful that it could be felt several miles away.
But suddenly, the creature activated it's realm.