Two days later, Astra and the rest of the survivors have been waiting patiently in the bunker, observing the live feed from the cameras hidden on the steel bunker, the crawlers have been pretty much inactive the last three days, on the first day that they entered, they filled the underground space where the bunker is in, scratching at it with their claws and trying to get it open. However, as it becomes apparent that there is no way to get the people hiding inside, like a tiger chasing a monkey that just climbed a thin tall tree, which the tiger cannot climb. The crawlers lose interest in the bunker and after three days with no human to attack; they stop moving, forming small clusters of five crawlers each and hibernate. On the fifth day, early morning, they all woke up to the sound of an explosion that had happened shook the entire bunker. Followed by a series of sounds that resemble mortar shell bombardment and intense gun fire sounds. Astra watched on the live feed screen that th

Astra swallowed her hard and faced the man holding her weapons, “How did you know I fought the crawlers with the HELL blades and what is the with the sudden mood change once Jada’s name was mentioned? Does my mother have anything to do with the government that I have not heard of yet?” she asked. Carter walked close to her and lowered the glow of the swords by reducing the power that the battery supply to them. He eventually switched them off and put them right back on the table. “The Jada that we know is surely different from your mother. She must have changed beyond recognition when she quit working for the government and got herself a new identity. Who would have thought that she will still keep her name?” Carter said while unstrapping the pod for the HELL blades. “do you eve know how the HELL blade’s work? They use an ultra-rare element called Runite that we have spent all of our resources trying to find, but can’t. The only person who knows how to and where to find it is Jada,

Carter’s secretary came running into his office, located beside his laboratory. She is holding the official working tablet in her hand as if there is something she wants him to see immediately. “you need to see this, sir. You told me to monitor the new intakes via the surveillance system and report any unusual behavior I found, right? Well, here is one. This girl here seems to have been ganged up on by a few seniors in the training room and she just knocked the lights out of one of them that approached and grabbed her provocatively, now the rest of them want a fight and she is not backing off. He collected the tablet and saw Astra standing in front of a man twice her size, with another passed out on the floor and three others waiting with obvious intention to join in and beat her up. “Should I send in someone to stop it, sir?” the secretary asked Carter. “No! call their dorm officers and tell them that I forbid anyone from interfering in the fight. Also, channel this stream to my c

“Aren’t we supposed to be graduating into full-fledged soldiers at the end of the week? This is what we were told, right? I want a little space to shine too during the passing out parade.” Jamie said. There was a brief moment of silence in the room before Rhoda broke the silence with laughter, throwing the entire team into a frenzy of laughter that spread amongst them quickly. Hardly catching a breath, Rhoda walked to Jamie and smacked him lightly in the head. “The world is literally ending and you still have the mind to think about your popularity and social standing!” she lets out a sigh of relief. And said, “that is a pure-blooded Chromewell heir for you. Politics and greed flows in their veins instead of blood.” This further throws the rest of the team into laughter, including Jamie, who they are making fun of. “I am happy that we are able to make jokes even at times like these. But to be frank with you, I am a little scared that our lives may never return to normal. We have lo

Before Astra could reach the where she kept her HELL-blades, the entire camp had woken up as sirens were blaring loudly. The soldiers have mounted heavy machine guns and grenade launchers on the wall. As soon as Astra picked her blades, the alpha and beta team gathered and moved together to the upper parts of the steel barricades around the base. “prepare for an all out bombardment and brace for impact!” the commander said over public address system, which reverberated all over the base. From the far distance, the ship sitting on the bank of the sea started to fire its cannons and missiles into the air in a valley headed for the island. With a thundering impact, the entirety of the island goes up in flames, shaking the very island itself. She pulls out her binocular and switched on infrared vision. She put it over her face and quickly dropped the telescope from her hands. She immediately turns on her hell blades and the other ones, which Rhoda is holding at the moment. “Get ready