Inside the sandstorm, a brilliant flash of white light spread out for about two kilometers, forming a path of light that trailed into the distance. A massive explosion sounded off from the center of the path of light, carrying with its intense heat and powerful explosive force that blasted everything within a two-kilometer radius to dust. Shock waves traveled from the center of the explosion, which ended up pushing the sand and winds of the sandstorm away from the center of the explosion.Right in the center where the explosion had originated, the only figures that could be seen left standing after the explosion were those of Constantine and the fifty soldiers who were not far from each other. Right now, there was a small smile on Constantine's lips as well as a slightly exhausted look in his eyes. He still maintained the posture of him punching the ground, and a crater was formed at the place his fist came into contact with the ground.Surprisingly, the crater was not actually that l
"Hello, how are you all doing? Are you guys okay?"As Constantine approached the team of soldiers, he asked out of concern. Not wanting to spook the soldiers, Constantine called out loudly from afar as he slowly approached them.The team of soldiers was just about recovering when they heard Constantine's voice and they looked over and saw him closing in on them. Immediately, as if on reflex, the soldiers picked up their weapons and aimed them at Constantine and while the twenty with the shields hoisted the battered and cracked shields against their bodies as if preparing to defend against a great enemy."Stay back! Don't come any closer!""Don't move!""If you so much as move a single muscle or I swear to god I will blow brains all over the sand!"The soldiers screamed as they told Constantine not to get any closer.Seeing the reaction of the soldiers, Constantine hurriedly came to a stop and raised his hands in the air in a non-hostile manner to signify his friendliness. Just like th
The tension was high between Constantine and the soldiers as both of them stubbornly faced confronted each other.As soldiers, it was understandable that they would be rather rigid in their approach toward unknown entities in a hostile environment. No one could fault them for being cautious and expecting Constantine to meet their demands.Unfortunately, Constantine could be rather stubborn himself, too. As a teenager, Constantine was in that phase where his hormones raged and he became unruly and rebellious. Most of the time, he was well behaved due to this proper upbringing, so his stubbornness was not clear normally. But now that Constantine had come in contact with the extraordinary and he came to experience an incredible burst in strength, his unruly behavior was normally suppressed came to light at this moment.Facing the energy rifles of the soldiers, Constantine showed no signs of fear as he directly made his discontent known.After lowering his hand, Constantine made provocati
There was no time to waste. The commander had to come to a decision immediately...Seeing the sandstorm swarming towards them, the commander could only grit his teeth and say to his fellow soldiers."Everyone, lower your weapons now."At the commander's command, the soldiers could only reluctantly lower their shields and weapons. Although they were very reluctant, they understood that unless they cooperated with Constantine, they might not be able to survive at all. In that case, they could only take a gamble and trust Constantine for now.After the soldiers lowered their shields and weapons, the commander quickly turned to Constantine and said, "Alright, we've done as you said. Now what?""You said you have a way to get us out of here. How are you going to do that?"Constantine nodded his head after seeing that the soldiers were willing to cooperate. It would have been a real pity if they didn't want to do so. Constantine had been fully ready to leave them in the lurch if they insist
Did they have a better idea?The soldier commander could not reply because he admittedly didn't have a better idea to get out of this situation. If he did, he would have already done it and he wouldn't have to wait in despair to die like now. But now wasn't the time to think about this.As soon as the storm covered them once again, the commander quickly ordered his men to raise their rifles and shields and resume their defensive position. The dooms attacked swiftly without giving any chance for the soldiers to gather their thoughts.This time, Constantine did not help the soldiers to defeat the dooms. He didn't even lift a finger to defend himself as he simply erected a lightning barrier around his body that directly vaporized any doom that came close to him.It was not that Constantine didn't want to help them like before. It was not much of a problem for Constantine to casually throw another nuclear fist down on the ground to repel the dooms as he did before. Although the nuclear fi
As soon as the stronger dooms started attacking Constantine, the soldiers noticed this change immediately. The pressure on them had not lightened, but the soldiers subconsciously eased when they were no longer under the scrutiny of those dooms.It was very uncomfortable being looked at like prey. That was exactly the way the doom saw these soldiers, prey. And it was the duty of the weaker dooms to serve as cannon fodder to exhaust the strength of the soldiers so that the stronger dooms could swoop in and slaughter them like lambs.Now that the stronger dooms had seen a more delectable prey, they no longer watched the soldiers like hawks, which eased the psychological pressure they felt.Unlike the other soldiers, the commander frowned as he watched the dooms attack Constantine. he was wondering why Constantine was able to draw those stronger dooms away. logically, Constantine's treatment should not be any more special than theirs was. So what was it about Constantine that was differen
The commander was starting to understand why Constantine was more threatening to the dooms than his team combined. It probably had something to do with Constantine's extraordinary powers being more developed than theirs were.There was a study conducted by researchers on earth that tried to determine the behavioral patterns of dooms and how they picked their targets of attacks. After extensive research, the researchers were able to come up with a few results.The first conclusion the researchers arrived at was that the dooms picked the locations they would attack based on the density of human habitation. In other words, the dooms mainly attacked places where humans gathered on a large scale. For example, in cities and towns. These places were always the key locations for dooms to attack.Another finding saw that the doom determined their targets based on the overall strength of the individual humans in an area. In other words, they always targeted places where powerful, extraordinary
Why was Constantine considered strange by the soldiers? To understand this, we need to take a close look at Constantine's current physical appearance. Constantine was a handsome youth with curly black hair that rested on his head with slightly curly bangs covering his forehead. His eyes were black and his face was straight and perfectly chiseled, giving him a plain, handsome look without any exaggerated features. He was the kind of guy that would make a person feel pleasant just by seeing his face. Naturally, he also had his fair share of fervent admirers. That was how Constantine looked normally. but it wasn't how he looked now... currently, his looks were a bit different from usual. Actually, not much of Constantine's appearance had changed from how he normally looked. He still had the same chiseled face and brilliant smile that brought a smile to other people's faces. The only difference was that Constantine's faces appeared to be sharper than they originally were. The biggest di
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