Rex

Biodata

Appearance

Rex is a burly man nearly two meters tall, with a broad, fleshy face and a steady, fierce presence 35.

• He carries an enormous tower shield and speaks in a booming voice 35.
• While recovering from his rift injuries, he is pale and needs a wooden stick or crutch to walk 44 45.

Personality

Rex is swift and decisive, moving his squad directly into coordination practice after meeting Su Ran. He is also protective and attentive: he blocks corrosive acid from reaching Su Ran and silently comforts him after he learns of his former teammates’ deaths 35 38 39.

Su Ran considers Rex a dependable captain despite his fiery temper. Rex openly praises his teammates’ contributions, including Su Ran’s crowd control against the murlocs and his role in defeating Corpse Mountain 37 44.

Abilities & Skills

Greatshield combat

Rex anchors his squad’s front line, absorbing attacks and disrupting enemies with his tower shield 35 37.

• Blocks charging enemies and can sweep his shield sideways to knock them off balance 37.
• Uses an unnamed defensive skill that covers his shield in earthy yellow light 37.
• Protected Su Ran from a Poison Sac Murloc’s corrosive acid 39.

Charge

Rex uses a Charge Skill to close on an enemy. Against Corpse Mountain, he charged its suspected core through two tentacle strikes and attacked with his mace 42.

Squad leadership

Rex organizes formations, assigns targets and coordinates his teammates’ abilities 35 36.

• During the tidal-flat ambush, he assigned Xiaoguang to protect the front line, Alina and Karl to attack an elite, and Su Ran to control four ordinary murlocs 36.
• Before the mission, he checked retreat routes, allied positions and communication frequencies with the command-post clerk 36.

Equipment

• Tower shield — His primary defensive equipment. It accumulated scratches and corrosion during the Linhai Town fighting and was completely warped in Corpse Mountain’s explosion 35 38 42.
• Heavy mace — Used alongside his shield to strike murlocs and attack Corpse Mountain’s suspected core 37 42.
• Breastplate — Shattered when Corpse Mountain exploded 42.

Relationships

• Su Ran — Temporary Mage assigned to Rex’s squad. Rex protects and encourages him, and the two combine attacks to destroy Corpse Mountain 35 39 42 44.
• Alina — The squad’s Gale Archer; she scouts targets and provides ranged attacks 35 36.
• Karl — The squad’s frost-specializing Elementalist, who supports its attacks with ice magic 35 37.
• Xiaoguang — The squad’s Cleric Apprentice, who shields and heals its members. He stabilizes Rex after the Corpse Mountain battle 35 37 42.

Story Role

Linhai Town

After Su Ran joins his five-person squad, Rex leads its coordination practice and takes it to the forward camp outside Linhai Town 35. On their first assignment, Rex leads an ambush against twelve Deep-Dweller Murlocs on the tidal flats. The squad defeats them, collects materials and withdraws rather than approach a battle involving a Lv.10 Tidecaller 36 37.

Over the following three days, the squad fights six battles against murlocs and more dangerous variants. Its missions include clearing monster gathering points and helping strengthen defensive lines 38 39.

Otherworldly Rift

Rex’s squad joins a 25-person cleanup force in a stabilized Otherworldly Rift and collects energy fragments from an abandoned node. There, fungal threads bind murloc corpses into Corpse Mountain, which attacks the squad 40 41.

Following Su Ran’s identification of a suspected core, Rex charges and strikes it with his mace as Su Ran casts Arcane Explosion. Their combined attack destroys the monster, but the resulting blast leaves Rex unconscious with a crushed breastbone, internal injuries and corrosive burns. Xiaoguang stabilizes him, and the squad retreats 42.

Rex receives treatment after the survivors leave the rift and later regains consciousness. Still recovering, he is not assigned an immediate guild assessment task and tells his teammates to be careful while he remains behind 43 44 45.