After taking a quick look, Constantine turned around again and ran away into the distance at the fastest speed he was capable of. The time on his power up was running out and he would return to normal any moment now. When he did, Constantine would be in a weakened state for a while and he definitely didn't want to be around when that happened.With the onset of the clash between the five ten-meter tall dooms, the other dooms in the herd had mostly been vaporized and turned to dust flying in the air and mixing with the sands in the desert. But the few of them that managed to survive were the more powerful dooms. They were mostly five-meter tall dooms and a few four-meter tall dooms in the mix. You would think that these dooms, after surviving a crisis and running far away from the disaster area, would gather around together to watch the battle while waiting for the outcome... but that's not the case at all.Right now, the whole area had turned into pandemonium following the clash, and
"There's nothing for me to say. Everything that needs to be said has already been said, so I will reserve my snide and scathing remarks for next time." Ruger replied lazily."Alright, don't bother me anymore. I want to rest... oh right, don't die!" with those words, Ruger fell silent and no longer spoke."Humph!" Constantine snorted."You're suddenly no fun anymore. I was expecting a little more from you than that. Are you really not gonna say anything?"Seeing as Ruger did not respond, Constantine no longer bothered him. Instead, he focused on regulating his breathing so that he could recover faster.There were a lot of exercises in Ruger's memories that Constantine had access to. These exercises could not only help Constantine recover his energy quicker, but they could also help him contain his energy in his body so it wouldn't leak out and expose his location. Right now this was what Constantine needed the most to tide through his current period of weakness.Just like that, seconds
Constantine didn't stay long in that place. After roughly checking for any traces of the soldiers and not finding any, he quickly moved on.Constantine raised his head to the sky as he extended his senses outward to feel the magnetic fields in the air. With his own magnetic field amplifying his senses, Constantine managed to discover traces of the soldier's residual magnetic wave emissions.These traces had almost been completely wiped away due to the long time that had passed. Thankfully, they were not completely gone, so Constantine could still track the soldiers down. Having gotten a direction, Constantine picked himself up and set off.It was another long and bothersome trek for Constantine. there did not seem to be a concept of night and day in this world. Ever since Constantine had woken up here, the sun had always been high up in the sky, with no indications of it ever setting. It was like high noon every single hour of the day. This made it hard for Constantine to tell how lon
The more dooms Constantine met, the closer he was to his destination and the more cautious he became. Right now Constantine's progress was as slow as a snail's crawl. Before he could advance forward, he would have to spend minutes, and sometimes even hours, hiding from herds of dooms passing by.Most of the dooms that Constantine encountered were weak dooms that were only one meter or two meters tall. These two variants of dooms were the most populous in the entire world, as they could be found everywhere. They were mostly gathered in herds, but many lone dooms like this could be found everywhere too.The ultimate outcome for a one-meter or two-meter tall doom that was on their own was to either become food for other dooms or be assimilated into a herd.To be honest, these dooms were a tragic race. They were a race that was born from a world whose limit of energy was fixed without many ways to increase it and they were heavily reliant on this world. The dooms had to share the limited
Constantine was currently buried under a dune as he hid from the countless dooms in the area. With his head poking outside just slightly so that he could observe his surroundings, Constantine monitored the movement of the dooms lest he unknowingly be crushed underfoot.There were many dooms passing by Constantine's hideout, with most of them just standing in place and staring into the distance.From the perspective of a race, these dooms could be considered a low-level race. Compared to the more complex humans that possess a wide range of complicated and unpredictable emotions and thoughts, dooms were simple creatures that possessed only the most basic instinct for survival.They were akin to lions of the plains... creatures that possess no form of desire other than what their instincts dictate.For the first time, Constantine was witnessing dooms of all sizes gathered together in the same place without any conflict arising. There were none of the mad scrambles to devour the origins o
"Captain, how long are we going to wait? We are being overwhelmed here. There are just too many dooms and if we don't close the rift soon, we might not be able to hold this place anymore. We have to retreat and destroy the rift so these dooms will not be able to cross over to earth!"In front of the dark and looming hole in space, facing off against the constant harassment of the dooms as they attempted to invade earth, there was a squadron of soldiers desperately trying to prevent the dooms from succeeding.The leader of this squadron was none other than the captain of the previous soldiers that Constantine had saved.After being saved by Constantine, the captain had taken his squadron and retreated to the rift they had used to enter the doom world. There they had regrouped with another squad of soldiers tasked with guarding the rift.Usually, during operations to venture into the doom world, there would be multiple teams of soldiers sent into the doom world to carry out various task
"Captain, the dooms are putting too much pressure on the defense and we are slowly being pushed back." A soldier reported to the captain of the team Constantine saved."We won't be able to hold on for much longer captain... we need to retreat."The captain in question was frowning, deep in thought. To be honest, he too knew that their situation was not optimistic. It had been a very long time since they had returned, but still, Constantine had not arrived yet. Even the captain dint hold on too much hope that he would arrive now after all this time.But the captain was very reluctant to leave now. It was not because he didn't want to fail his mission. But because he would feel terrible if he were to leave now after Constantine had saved them. The irony of the situation where he had been saved by the person he was meant to save caused the captain to feel ashamed.Now the captain regretted that he had not informed Constantine about who he was and their goal for being there, nor had he le
If the ten-meter tall dooms were the top combat power of the doom world, then the twenty-meter tall doom could be considered the ceiling of power in the entire world. It was unknown if there were any dooms more powerful than the twenty-meter tall doom. But at this point, that wasn't any of Earth's concern.They had yet to handle the trouble of the ten-meter-tall dooms. If humans knew of the existence of an even more powerful doom, they might fall into despair and give up all hope of resistance.Of course, it is still yet to be seen how Earth would handle such a threat.In any case, the twenty-meter-tall doom was usually in hibernation throughout the years. Hence why it had yet to be discovered by earth all this time. But something had woken the twenty-meter-tall doom from its slumber.That thing was Constantine... or more accurately, Ruger!When Ruger had first arrived at the doom world, he had done so using a special technique to track Vader and locate him. It was like throwing an an
With his forehead covered in a nervous sweat, the leader watched as the rift turned into a black dot in space before finally closing completely. As soon as the rift closed, the leader’s shoulders dropped heavily as he breathed a deep sigh of relief. He suddenly felt weak at this moment as the pressure he was feeling in his heart was liberated, making him feel like he would suddenly collapse on the floor. But his training prevented him from doing so. Without the heavy weight of the rift hanging over his head, the leader could finally relax and breathe easily. Taking a moment to regain his composure, the leader turned to captain Keith and reported. “Sir, the rift had finally been closed.”“Good,” captain Keith responded. He continued, “Station a few men to keep watch here and report anything that happens. We don’t want the rift being opened again from the other side. In a while, this place will be turned into a quarantined zone as we wait for the tech guys to arrive and give this p
The leader hurried to close the rift, which consisted of detonating a set of small special grenades in the small room.On opposite sides of the rift, there were two tall pillar-like objects emitting pulsing light that shine on the dark rift. These two objects were spatial anchors... a kind of stabilizer that was used to maintain an open rift to prevent it from closed prematurely. Like I said before, natural rifts were more stable and could remain open for a very long time without closing. Instead of worrying about keeping a natural rift open, one would worry instead about getting it too close. On the other hand, an artificial rift was difficult to maintain, so stabilizers were needed to keep it open. Human research on space was very slow, and they hadn’t reached the point where they could open and close rifts in other worlds easily. The spatial anchors were a product of genius that had accidentally blossomed to fruition. It was with this anchor technology that the humans were confid
With one last look at Constantine, the leader finally stepped through the rift. In as much as he was reluctant to leave, the leader knew that staying would not help at all. Instead, it would bring more trouble to Constantine.Who told him to be weak and that he couldn’t lend his strength to Constantine?For that matter, whose fault was it that Earth was too weak to fight against the doom? There was nobody to blame, and they could only blame themselves. In any case, it wasn’t like the leader’s troubles were over. Waiting on the other side of the rift was a whole other set of problems that the leader would have to deal with...As soon as the leader came face to face with his superior. This was a man with the body of a giant. Standing at more than two meters tall, with large burly arms like the barrel of a tank, shoulders as broad as vinyl, and a hulking frame that towered over everybody else, dwarfing them in his shadow. This person was the superior officer in charge of the rescue miss
The leader’s face paled terribly when he saw the twenty-meter-tall doom still standing after taking that powerful lightning ball and coming out unfazed.He thought, ‘This is the end!’When the leader thought that he would be flattened, not meat paste in the next moment, his eyes opened wide in fear as he supported Constantine with his body.The leader's eyes were looking forward in a daze as he awaited his inevitable end. But after waiting for a few seconds, nothing happened. Shocked, the leader looked at the twenty-meter-tall doom in the distance, only to see that it was standing still without moving at all. Puzzled, the leader paid attention to it. That was when he noticed something he hadn’t done before. As the twenty-meter-tall doom stood silently in place, its dune-like body seemed to be loosening as sand flowed down to the desert continuously. Seeing this state, a single thought entered the leader’s mind...“It’s injured!”Once this thought entered his mind, the leader was ecs
The twenty-meter-tall doom finally revealed itself from underneath the sand. This was the first time the leader was seeing it and it was as shocking as he expected it to be. Figure-wise, the twenty-meter-tall doom was no different from the rest of the dooms. It still had the same dull red skin color that was like rust or dried blood and it possessed the same bloated body. All of these were common features of the creatures known as dooms. Still, compared to the other dooms, there were a few differences between them, the most obvious of which was the twenty-meter height that this menace stood. Another different feature was that, unlike the other dooms that possessed a perfect physical structure, the twenty-meter-tall doom seemed more like a mass of sand packed together in a single cluster. Its body was made up entirely of grains of sand that flowed constantly. The twenty-meter-tall doom was like a giant walking dune, with no fixed physical form except for the overall structure that
Bzzt! Bzzt!A powerful ball of lightning floated inches above Constantine’s head, giving off buzzing sounds of electricity as it hung suspended in the air. A layer of sweat covered Constantine’s face as exhaustion threatened to send him to his knees. Constantine’s arms were like lead, heavy, and it took all of his willpower to keep them upright to support the lightning ball. Hu!Resisting the urge to wipe the sweat from his eyes, Constantine stared dead ahead at the threat coming his way. The lightning ball above him had a diameter of five meters and it had taken almost all his power to condense it. Its power was naturally great, and it carried a shocking mite that was enough to scare a ten-meter-tall doom into retreating. But despite this, Constantine was clear that his lightning ball was not enough to stop the menace that was targeting him. A twenty-meter-tall doom!This should be the strongest doom that any human had ever encountered. Nothing was known about this doom. Probably
Run? The soldiers didn’t need Constantine to tell them before they did so. The sheer commotion from what was coming was greater than anything they had ever seen before. Rich experience from exploring the doom world for a year had thought these hardened soldiers that when faced with the unknown... the best decision was always to run. Just as Constantine’s voice fell, the leader ordered his men, “All soldiers fall back to the rift immediately. Abandon everything else and fall back!”Following the leader’s orders, the soldiers quickly turned their backs on the dooms they were confronting and ran back to the rift as fast as possible. Immediately, it was chaos all over the desert. Not only were the soldiers trying to escape, but the dooms were also in a mess as their formation completely collapsed and they ran all over the place in a panic. The soldiers were surprised to see that the dooms seemed to be more panicked than they were. Normally in situations where people abandoned all resis
After breaking through the blockade of the ten-meter-tall dooms, Constantine continued speeding his way towards the rift. Along the way, he also encountered more fierce resistance. But it wasn't anything he couldn't handle.Dooms below four meters in height could not stop Constantine at all and while it was tough to deal with four-meter and five-meter-tall dooms, it wasn't as hard as passing through a blockade of ten-meter-tall dooms so it was a piece of cake for Constantine.There were a few ten-meter-tall dooms that tried to stop him. But they did not form a blockade like the previous dooms. then the blockade was formed by not less than five ten-meter-tall dooms gathered together in a line. Due to their large size and the fact that Constantine didn't want to waste time by going around them, those dooms were able to block Constantine's way forward.Thankfully, apart from them, the other ten-meter tall dooms Constantine encountered was only in teams of two or three... nothing Constant
Ooouuu!Following a loud bellow, the ten-meter-tall dooms attacked. One of them shot its large hand forward like a boulder and slapped at Constantine, intending to crush him to bits.Bang!The blow came fast and suddenly and landed on the ground, causing a large explosion to erupt, blowing large clumps of sand everywhere like pellets of stray bullets.Although the dooms with their large and cumbersome bodies were not agile, they were able to instantaneously erupt with overwhelmingly crushing force in the blink of an eye. If one was not prepared, then they would be crushed to meat patty before they even knew it.Fortunately, Constantine was prepared. Before the doom could even land a hit on him, Constantine had already jumped out of harm's way, letting the doom's huge fist to land harmlessly on the ground.Constantine watched as the desert sand was split by the punch and a huge crater formed where he had previously been standing just a moment ago.Constantine's body chilled as he thoug