Constantine was on the run... having completed his objective and succeeded in catching the three ten-meter doom's attention. The next step was to lure them away. In that case, there was no point staying there anymore, so he had run away without hesitation. As Constantine disappeared over the horizon of towering dunes, he heard the loud roars of the enraged dooms. This was a signal that they were really pissed and would definitely not let him go. In that case, Constantine was relieved. Constantine was not afraid that the ten-meter dooms would annihilate the soldiers first before moving to deal with him. From his understanding of the dooms so far, behavior like that was beneath them and they instinctively shunned making a move against beings lesser than themselves unless such a being perhaps possessed certain special qualities. In any case, Constantine was assured of the soldier's safety in the ten-meter doom hands. he reckoned that the three dooms would probably just step over the so
The chase was on...Constantine was leading the three ten-meter dooms away from the soldiers. Meanwhile, soon after the ten-meter dooms were a far distance away from the soldiers, the huge pit that was caused by Constantine's nuclear fist erupted like a volcano, spewing countless dooms from its depths that rushed to besiege the soldiers once again.The charging dooms were like a tide of massive red and bloated bodies surging forward, bringing with it a tense feeling of pressure and intimidation.The soldiers were ready. They weren't intimidated by the sight of the hoard of dooms charging toward them, intent on devouring them. Compared to the previous situation where they were surrounded on all sides with the pressure of the ten-meter dooms bearing down on them and causing them to doubt their chances of survival, the current scale of dooms attacking them was much less.The hopeless despair that could be felt when in a helpless situation was no longer present. First of all, the number o
Swoosh!Bang, bang!Boom!Explosions went off and the low hum of energy rifles shooting hot beams of light at the dooms dominated the battlefield. The soldiers were putting up a fierce resistance against the assault of the dooms as they made an unrelenting effort to clear every obstacle in their path.In the middle of the soldier's formation, while wielding his rifle and firing constantly, the commander's gaze swept throughout the battlefield, capturing every detail of the attack and giving out commands to his fellow soldiers.Through the explosions and low humming of their weapons as well as the frenzied roars of the dooms, the commander's calm voice still resonated clearly in the ears of the soldiers through the internal comms of their helmets as she gave out one order after the other."Group A hold firm. Raise your shields steadily and focus on your footing. Don't forget to unload the strength of the attacks you face. A4, A5, your concentration is slipping. Perk up... don't falter
Roar!!The five-meter doom was suffused with a deep black glow and it gave off a sinister aura that suffocated the soldiers, causing them to choke up and their movements to become stiff.With a powerful roar, the doom charged at the soldiers in front of it like a raging bull, and its massive head slammed against the shield of the soldiers.Bang!Upon impact, the soldiers were sent retreating a few steps. With that single attack, the formation was almost on the verge of collapsing. Faint lights that gave off a runic glow could be seen flickering on the shields of the soldiers as they tried to unload the power from the impact onto the ground and prevent themselves from being sent flying.Thanks to the joint effect of all twenty shields that shared the impact of any attack equally between all the shields, the power of the dooms' attack was not enough to break through the soldiers' combined defense. But the soldiers still had to suffer the brunt of the impact of the powerful attack person
What were the soldiers relying on to defeat the dooms and escape their current predicament with their lives?Was it the multitude of bombs and powerful energy rifles designed specifically to target the dooms? Or do they rely on their powerful defense to withstand the doom's frenzied attacks while hoping for a chance to breakthrough...The answer was neither. The soldiers relied not on their varied assortments of gadgets of the powerful defense of their shields. There was not some incredibly powerful bomb with the might of a small nuclear warhead hidden in their bag, and there certainly wasn't some miraculous artifact that could be used to instakill the dooms. If there were, believe it, the soldiers would have already set off such an artifact and gotten out of this hellhole.Compared to the hoard of dooms attacking the soldiers, while their powerful rifles and targeted bombs could play a significant role in keeping the soldiers alive, they were still lacking if the soldiers wanted to c
The Elemental Particle Destabilizer was almost completely assembled... there were just a few more components to set up before it would be ready to use.as the crowning technological invention created by the human race to face the doom's invasion, the Elemental Particle Destabilizer that was being assembled currently was naturally only a miniature version of it that was made for small-scale exploration into the doom world.Every team of soldiers that ventured into the doom world for exploration was equipped with a single set of this miniature version and it was only meant to be used in dire situations where the soldiers see no way of survival. Thankfully, due to various mutations on earth, countless new materials and resources were being discovered constantly, and it was not difficult to produce this piece of technology. That is what made it so great.Unfortunately, due to the short time of development, humans had yet to perfect this technology. There were too many complicated componen
In a solemn and excited voice, the commander gave an order."Start up the generator!"Immediately, the soldiers that assembled the Elemental Particle Destabilizer placed their hands on a depression that was located on top of the device. Pushing forward, his hand sunk into the surface of the device. In the next moment, there was a low hum and a white light appeared on the top of the device and spread along its entire surface.Buzz!Following a loud buzz, the white light suddenly shot into the air, illuminating the hazy sky, which was blocked by layers of thick dust.The light attracted the gaze of everybody in the area, including the dooms. Suddenly, all of them paused and looked up at the light in the sky. When the soldiers saw this light, they were incredibly excited, and their originally gloomy and serious faces lit up into bright smiles. Relief could be seen in the eyes of every soldier. They naturally understood what the light signified...To the soldiers, this white light signifi
With the activation of the elemental particle destabilizer, the hoard of dooms fell into disarray. Slowly, as the effects of the device became increasingly more potent, the dooms gradually lost the ability to attack or resist.Even the doom that posed the greatest threat to the soldiers was not spared from the effects of the elemental particle destabilizer, although it seemed that it was more resistant to it than the other dooms.The physically enhanced doom was suffused with a sinister black light and for a while that black light seemed to provide a protective cover for the doom's body, thus reducing the effects of the elemental particle destabilizer.It would seem that along with the increase in its strength, the physical enhancement ability of this doom also really increased its defense and resistance. That is why it was able to stand for a long while and still be able to attack.Still, it was not a serious problem now that the elemental particle destabilizer had been activated. Al
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