"I guess the time has come..." Rex flashed a smile before jumping off the edge, by now he was used to it since he did this every time he wanted to hunt for food or was doing quests.
Woash
Rex straighten up accelerating his fall and as he was getting closer to the ground he smirked pulling out the return banner and disappearing just as he was about to hit the ground.
In a flash, he reappeared on a small hill overlooking a horde of dinosaurs that were eating what little grass grew on the ground.
As he observed the dinosaurs, he noticed that the majority of them were camptosaurus, totaling a little over 2,000.
In addition, there were several hundred triceratops and stegosaurus mixed in.
His eyes swept through them looking for a specific target, one that was not healthy or old.
He decided to face an opponent that was easier to kill and fight against as he was not sure of his odds against any of them.
"There!" Suddenly his eyes found a target that was moving slowly.
The target was big but it seemed old and injured somewhere due to how it moved compared to the others.
Finding his target he slowly treaded toward it in caution making sure the others didn't take him as danger.
Slowly walking through the horde of dinosaurs he was sweating but had reluctant eyes.
In between and there he received several looks but all seemed to ignore him thinking no threat of him.
That wasn't the only reason though because these dinosaurs may look like prey to the big predators but on this land, there was no hunter to them thus enjoying their meal.
As for Rex, he knew that animals have a sense that allows them to detect when theirs is the intent to harm them, and because of that, his heart was empty only wanting to try and see how he fairs against them before starting the slaughter mission given by the system.
Arriving a distance of 20 feet away from his target he started to act like a real predator observing and aware of his surroundings at all times.
Steadily breathing he watched as the target moved and turned to sides observing what kind of injury it had.
'That's odd where is the injury?' He asked himself in his mind seeing nothing on its body.
For a minute he thought his hunch that it was injured was just a misunderstanding before seeing a closed wound on its left thigh that made it hard for it to move.
'There I know what I must do now!'
He smiled preparing himself to move remaining composed and cautious while engaging in a potentially risky battle.
His aunt always advised him to do things by avoiding any impulsive actions that could lead to failure when about to do an important task.
And now about to do an important task related to his future, this was a must...
After getting closer to his target the other who was aware of his approach glanced toward him scanning him and after two looks at him it turned around minding its business.
The creature assessed the man's appearance to determine if he posed a threat.
However, since the other creatures he encountered did not attack or run away, it seemed unnecessary to worry.
Additionally, the creature's spiked back and powerful tail, capable of taking down a T-rex, made the man seem insignificant in its eyes.
Rex watched as the creature assessed him and when it turned around his chance came.
He immediately launched himself retrieving a sharp bone from the system storage and in that moment of attack, the other party looked up in surprise.
Rex held the sharp bone with both hands, using it as a spear to aim for the head and the flustered stegosaurus moved its heavy slow body sideways wanting to strike back with its tail.
When Rex moved to strike, it was already too late as the deadly tail was late to strike as the timing played a crucial role in the outcome.
The stegosaurus was several seconds late as by the time it wanted to hit with its tail a sharp bone was already thrust deep into its neck.
Rex smiled pushing the bone deeper with all his strength as a shriek of pained scream entered his ears making him push even harder.
Hearing the cry of a fella dinosaur all the surrounding stegosaurus looked with shocked eyes some decided to disperse thinking it was dangerous to stay there.
Hearing no end to the beast's cry Rex retrieved another bone this time stabbing the eye.
But to his surprise, it wasn't dead yet making him retreat as the creature struggled to live while trying to shake off the bones stabbed to it.
While Rex was close to it, it couldn't strike him due to being near it and because its length was wide allowing Rex to be out of striking range.
After some time of struggle, the creature finally succumbed to its fate slumping to the ground.
"Is't dead yet... No!" Rex answered himself seeing the eyes of the stegosaurus.
"I see you want to live but I'm sorry to live I must end you and many of you at that so please allow me this!" Saying that Rex pulled out another bone this time repeatedly
striking at one point, its head to no end until the creature gave away dying.
[Ding]
[+10 Dino Essence Aquared]
[+100 DNA Coins Aquared]
[+10 Dino Essence Aquared]
[+100 DNA Coins Aquared]
[+10 Dino Essence Aquared]
[+100 DNA Coins Aquared]
"Huh?"
"What's this A-T?" Confused at what appeared in his head Rex asked his assistant what was up.
For a few seconds, he heard nothing only the wind around him moving making him wonder what was up.
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"Ugh..." Rex was suddenly overcome by something shooting something out of his mouth.
He vomited after the kill, but he was unaware of the cause as he assumed.
'What the hell!'
Without his knowledge, his body underwent changes as a green substance from the stegosaurus infiltrated his system, strengthening his internal organs and bones.
Following this, he experienced a refreshing sensation as though a cool spring had flowed through his entire body.
[Ding]
[Hidden Quest First Kill Completed. Congratulations, host you have obtained x1 Slave Collar.]
[Slave Collar: An item that enslaves all dinosaur species when put on them forcefully evolves them and makes them hostile to the host after its effect is over.]
[Time of Effect 754 Days]
Regaining himself Rex gasped in shock surprised and happy at the same time forgetting that he just vomiting not too long ago.
*
5 days later
By now Rex was able to kill a dinosaur easily because of after sneakily killing more than a hundred his body has changed tremendously allowing him to exert a huge amount of strength.
This was due to his internals and bones toughing up and becoming more sturdier than the dinosaur that weighed 30,000 pounds.
He didn't necessarily weigh the same, but he was able to exhibit a lot of strength like lifting or punching them to death of course it was a finishing blow.
As a result, the days that followed became less challenging and Rex started to act recklessly, becoming increasingly arrogant.
He grew stronger and began to act like a predator, causing the others to move together like a herd.
During these days, he had to feed his pets who had also transformed and grown to the same size as the wild dinosaurs.
He allowed them to eat the grass while he fed R-3 with the prey that he had hunted.
It's worth noting that although his pets were not trained for combat, they were classified as mutants and possessed abilities beyond those of typical triceratops, camptosaurus, or coelophysis.
Wherever Rex went was turned into a bloodbath forming a trail of blood.
17 days later the land that was once somewhat full of life became desolate.
In this barren wasteland, littered with lifeless bodies, a group of hunters found a bountiful feast.
Among them were seven velociraptors and one coelophysis.
Rex had already had an encounter with these dinosaurs and of the encounters they all tried to eat him.
But something intriguing was that Rex stole something from his encounter with the coelophysis, that is right this female coelophysis is R-3's mother.
This female hunter is no bigger than Rex yet at their encounter he could not even fight back despite it being 3 ft tall.
Currently, Rex was sitting on a hill with his pets who have undergone a drastic transformation in just one week looking incredibly menacing.
The first one was R-1 who was by now bigger than any triceratops being at a height of 18.7 ft, weighing 70,000 lbs, and a length of 59 with three big horns.
On the right side of his front leg was a red tattoo that had a horn piercing through a shield and another tattoo on his back facing upwards this one was a bull that had smoke coming from his nose.
These red tattoos were masteries forged in the forge one was called Shield Breaker giving a permanent boost to his horn which means his sturdy horns are deadlier than before and can break things it was never able to like going through metal walls and stones.
To test this Rex made him go through hills leaving the land devastated.
And the bull mastery was more amazing than the first one allowing R-1 the ability to go berserk and within this state, R-1's strength is doubled but will lack reason rampaging like a mad bull.
Those masteries were of the offense tree and since R-1 has the potential of three-star growth, he can get more of the defense and support masteries to further enhance his capability.
The second one was R-2 who was at a height of 14.3 ft, weighing more than 10,000 lbs, and a length of 40 ft she looked menacing but more gentle if one looked at her eyes.
On her forehead was a blue tattoo that was a mouth spewing water, this mastery is called Healing Saliva.
She only had that one tattoo because of her one-star potential.
The third one looked unlike any of its kind he was supposed to be small but here he was at a height of 8 ft, weighing 86 lbs, and a length of 20.7 ft he was nimble having a long neck and a tail twice as long as his body.
On his left eye was a red fang making his worldview red and of course, this was a mastery that allowed him a ruthless strike bite.
This mastery is called Ruthless Ambush and its effect makes the small sharp teeth more sharper and stronger.
And as Rex set there they were vigilant closely looking around to make sure no danger come to their father figure/master.
He pondered deeply because as he slayed the dinosaurs over these past days he expected the quest to end but there was no such notification indicating he finished it so he asked himself what was missing does the system want more...
But then at the beginning, it said all you can slay which meant he hasn't reached the limits yet.
"Well it's time I finish this let's go my champs we'll hunt down every last of them!" Getting up he said to his pets as they gleamed happily because they were finally gonna test real battle as they were sick of the Arena Ring construction Rex bought when he was forging them the masteries.
Rex now looked different so did his babies now looking like adults but were at adolescent age their future looking promising.
2 days later Rex riding on R-2 while R-1 and R-3 walked beside them they arrived at a location where seven small hunters scavenged and in the mouth of one of these velociraptors was a dead coelophysis R-3's mom.
Woash
As momentarily they arrived something overtook R-3 as he bolstered leaving a trail of blood in the air and a piece of flesh in his mouth.
Splash Splash
Blood spewed up as seven heads dropped to the ground with widened eyes not sure of how they died.
"Marvaless R-3 you truly are fast... And those teeth of yours really sharp to cut through seven necks in seconds without their notice!" Rex marveled at the display of his pet not caring that he killed them all.
R-3 just stared before swallowing the meat in his mouth he then proceeded to eat the remains including his mom then did his mind became clear.
This all happened as a reaction to seeing his dead mom but that all cleared up after killing the seven velociraptors.
[Ding]
Finally, Rex smiled as the long-awaited notification came.
[Quest Mask of Fusion Completed. Congratulations, host you have obtained Fragments of the Fusion Mask.]
[Hidden Quest Two Thousand Three Hundred Kills Completed. Congratulations, host you have obtained Slayers Aura.]
[Hidden Quest 200 Stealthy Kill Completed. Congratulations, host you have obtained Shadow Assassin.]
"What the!..."
looking through the panel on what this fragment of the fusion mask was Rex suddenly remembered he had an assistant that explains things for him.
"Hey A-T is this it for the quest or is there something I'm supposed to do?"
[Yes, to create the Mask of Fusion host must be at the Pasture Island.]
"Oh, I get it now then guys let's head back home..." Upon retrieving his return banner, he and his pets were transported back to the island.
Rex then talked with A-T about what this Fusion Mask was.
He didn't receive much about it but it was said it is a unique mask that would make him stronger.
With that, he followed the instructions told to him going closer to the edge his eyes closed, and biting his finger as a drop of blood descended.
Meanwhile, on the ground, a massive thick fog swept through all areas where corpses lay leaving the land clean in its pass.
Below the island, fog gathered from all sides forming a large pile of corps.
And with one drop of red condensed liquid looking like a skull came down engulfing the piles of corps.
Compared to the corpses the condensed skull blood was just a droplet but as soon as it came into contact with them it swallowed them whole.
All the flesh and bones were put against each other forcefully becoming a droplet of blood just like the blood that came down from above.
Rex though was not able to witness this as his eyes were closed...
But then a crackle of a sort came from below making him want to open his eyes but A-T surmised against it.
The blood skull floated up becoming bigger and thinner as it attached itself to Rex's face but that wasn't the end as a mask appeared out of nowhere also going to Rex's face.
With two masks on his face, one made of blood and looked like a skull while the other was a bone mask also looking like a skull Rex opened his eyes feeling like he was going through a door of water.
Moments later the mask came off dropping to the ground.
Seeing this Rex went close to it picking it up to see how it look.
It was a plain skull mask however on the side where it touches his face it was red.
Holding it in his hands A-T disclosed its information.
[Mask of Fusion: While wearing this mask, the wearer can merge with their pets for a duration of ten minutes, resulting in a hybrid form that combines human and dinosaur features.]
"Ahahahahahaha, this is what will make me powerful?"
Not sure of what else to feel he just put the mask away.
And next, he looked over other the things he's gotten.
Shadow Assassin and Slayers Aura.
First, the Slayer's Aura is basically something he exudes naturally he can conceal it but those with keen senses can sense him knowing his a killer, also whenever he kills this aura increases another effect it has is scaring off beasts and wild animals.
And second Shadow Assassin this an interesting one his shadow has become an independent being though it can't leave him it can communicate and sense dangers while also allowing him to use the skills of his shadow assassin.
There was even a backstory to him.
[Shadow Assassin: An assassin who formally created many techniques out of this world was plotted against and trapped in the body of a child but is now a shadow of his former self acting as the shadow of his new master.]
For some reason, Rex felt like he has been together with this shadow assassin his entire life but couldn't grasp how that was possible because he only got the system not too long ago.
Inside Rex, A-T was in her self-made room having tears on her face as she was waving goodbye to a friend.
[Goodbye S-A!]
Fin