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2024-10-29 19:42:56The hair on the back of Jed’s neck raised, telling him something was off.
He jumped forward, getting away from where he kneeled a second ago. From the corner of his eyes, he could see Max’s icy glare and his balled fist on the ground, right where he was before.
“Attacking me from the back?” Jed taunted, “Is that how you got the title as the strongest man in the Earth Allied Defense Force? How honourable.”
Max didn’t like his sarcasm. “You think I’d let you go?”
Figures.
“We took that creature down together, I’m not going to attack you.”
“Says the monster who infested the Earth for almost a century. Like I’d believe you.”
Jed sighed, “Please, I’m not your usual normal alien monster. I’m more than that.”
“Indeed. You killed your own species and ate their cores, that’s worse than the worst monster. Yo
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Bucket List of the Apocalypse: Devour System 30. Come Out and Play, Little Monster
Jed sprung away in alarm. He just saved himself from getting pummelled to the ground by a heavy box thrown at him.“Showing your face again, monster?” Ellie Hawkins pointed her standard rifle at him, grinning like a maniac. “I’ll get you for sure this time.”“Not again…”Ellie had set her eyes on him, firing to her heart’s content. “Die, you monster!”Jed swiftly jumped to the side, running in zigzag motions to get away from her accurate shots. He’d die on the spot if Mycelial Sense didn’t give him enough information of his surroundings and Aerial Grace didn’t let him move as freely on the air and dodged every energy bullet she shot at him.“Stay still and be a good little monster, why don’t you?!” Ellie shouted, following him with her own effective jumps and on point shots.“I’m not a monster!” Jed yelled back.Tha
Bucket List of the Apocalypse: Devour System 31. Facts Unveiled at the Hospital Room
‘After thorough eradication of the alien monsters in Meersyn Coast by the proud Earth Allied Defense Force with no causality, Emitton Province Government announced that they will continue the redeveloping plan left in the dust three years ago.’Jed opened his blurry eyes to a boring white ceiling. It didn’t look like his shared bedroom in the base. Where was he again?“Oh, look who’s awake!”He turned his head to the side, finding Ricky Mitchell grinning at him, while Ryan Tanner pouted by his side. “I was about to dump your body in the trash, you know?”“Huh?”“You slept on for three days after Mitchell here found you playing hide and seek with Hawkins. You just spent a good amount of citizen taxes for dumb reason.” Ryan elaborated, not liking this. “So tell us, how did you not hallucinate like the rest of us?”Jed grunted. “Wait, you said I was here f
Bucket List of the Apocalypse: Devour System 32. Party Up
Jed took a deep breath as he stepped out of the elevator and onto the base’s main floor. The familiar hum of machinery and the cool air-conditioned corridor made him at ease. It was good to be back.“You don’t have to hold my hand, Ricky. I’m not going to tumble here just because I got XFS. It'll be about seven months from now.”“Sorry,” the blond said, traces of his sobbing earlier still present in his face. He quickly let go of Jed’s arm and sheepishly rubbed the back of his neck.Waiting before the door to the common room, Ryan impatiently tapped his foot against the floor. “Chop, chop, Hunter.”As he walked there, he noticed that things seemed unusually quiet. Normally, the base was a hive of activity, with people bustling about and the sound of conversations echoing off the walls. Today, though, it was eerily silent.Just as he was beginning to wonder what was going on, the doors of t
Bucket List of the Apocalypse: Devour System 33. Fancy Steaks and Family Bonds
Jed and Ricky waited outside the steakhouse for the five younger siblings of the Mitchell family.He was a man of his words, so he’d take up on the promise to pay the blond back for the help back then. If not for Ricky, he doubts he’d survive getting shot by the bipolar girl on their first official mission.“How far is the family housing from here?”“Hmm?” Ricky tapped his chin with a finger, “About an hour by foot, I guess.”“You guess? Why don’t they ride the train or cab?”“No cab willing to take five medium-sized people in one go, and to order two would kill my wallet. Besides, the train station is pretty far from the housing.”Jed hummed. “You’re really peculiar with your money, huh?”“Well, I have to save up for my sister. She’d get married next month.”“Wh-what? How old is she?”“Twen
Bucket List of the Apocalypse: Devour System 34. Empty, Quiet Street
The evening sun made orange streaks across the sky as Jed strolled back home from school.He took a detour, wanting to see the location an alien monster destroyed last week five blocks away from his house. Doing that made him come home late for dinner. He wondered what his mother cooked, and got excited as he remembered his father would be back from his out of town office trip.Last time his father brought a popular tin-boxed fruit candy from the nineties. Alas, the factory was attacked by a horde of alien monsters before he was born and they tried so hard to recover from that, even if they declared bankruptcy five years later. Now, only a handful of old-time stores sell their remaining stocks.Humming at the thought, it took Jed a moment to notice that the neighbourhood seemed oddly quiet, more so than usual. There were no kids playing outside, no cars driving by, and no neighbours chatting on their porches. He noticed toys strewn across a lawn and an abandoned
Bucket List of the Apocalypse: Devour System 35. Search for Truth, Hide the Secret
A female soldier dressed in a lab coat knocked on a closed door. She only opened it when the person inside gave her permission. A tall man with medium-length hair was expecting her.“Sir, this is the report you ask.”Taking the offered tablet, the man got up from his desk and walked to the large window in his private office. The evening sun casted a glow on his eyes as he read what was displayed on the screen.___Subject: Jed HunterService ID: EADF-2079-13JHDate of Birth: August 10, 1999Place of Birth: Crestwood, Emmiton, AveriaCurrent Rank: PrivateDivision: 8 – Ground Assault and Defense (GAD)___Personal BackgroundParents: William Hunter (missing), June Hunter (missing)Siblings: NoneEducation: Crestwood High School (Class of 2015)Military Training: EADF Basic Training, Advance Zero Gravity Battle Training, Alien Threat Response Cou
Bucket List of the Apocalypse: Devour System 36. Nevaksha Base Raid
[Extraterrestrial cores detected.][Consume extraterrestrial core to activate Ultimate Skill – Devour.]Jed looked up at the sky where nine creatures of storm raided the base with lightning and thunder, heavy rain that came out of nowhere drenched him in seconds.He saw them. All nine of them.Large reptile body covered in reflective scales. Massive manta ray-like wings with undulating membranous texture that stretched wide, and long flexible tail with a series of electric discharge nodes along its length.One of them, the nearest monster, flailed its tail and electricity gathered around it. In three seconds, a streak of thunder crackled from it, strucking a tower somewhere in the base. The monster opened its hooked beak widely, and Jed felt something worse was about to come.His instinct told him to close his ear as the monster emitted a powerful roar. It generated shockwaves that shattered all glass windows and damaged some nearby bu
Bucket List of the Apocalypse: Devour System 37. Get the Weapon Ready
The heavy rain still pounded against the damaged buildings and the open ground of the Nevaksha Base. Lightning flashed across the sky as thunder followed a few seconds later. The manta ray reptile monsters teamed up to bring their advantage of storm to raid the base, how clever.Eyes sharp, the strongest captain of the EADF tried to locate where the invisible humanoid boss was. But, the manta ray reptile monsters attacked first. Their electric tails crackle with energy, sending precise thunder to strike him.Max dodged to the side, rolling to avoid the thunder. He came up firing, trying to hit one of the manta ray reptiles, but the monster was more agile than it looked. Despite their manta ray-like wings, their movement speed beat Max’s standard rifle’s firing speed.Slash!The humanoid monster suddenly turned visible as it lashed out with blades that came from its four arms. Max barely managed to block the attack with the butt of his ri
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53. Unknown Potential
Ricky groaned as he slowly regained consciousness. The dim lighting of the infirmary comes into blurry focus. His body ached, a dull reminder of the events he vaguely remembered from the previous day.He sat up, wincing, and looked around the room. Several of his younger siblings were there, along with a few base personnel, all of whom seemed to be grinning at him.“Hey, sleeping beauty,” his brother Michael said, smirking, “Decided to join us again?”Ricky rubbed his eyes, confusion etched across his face. “What… what happened?”“You don’t remember?” his sister, Lily, asked, her eyes wide with excitement. “Your teammate said you took down two flying aliens. By yourself.”Rikcy blinked, his heart skipping a beat. “What? No, that can’t be right. I don’t even remember half of yesterday's attack.”“Believe it, bro,” Michael said, crossin
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52. The Sniper’s Prey
“…what the hell?”As he was busy trying to figure out the control panels, Jed almost missed the moment the humanoid alien and his Draquilonis were blasted from behind. Precisely, from the ground where the base was located behind the spaceship.Like lightning, the sniper took down the humanoid alien in one shot. Something Jed dreamed he was capable of doing, sadly, he couldn’t.Seeing as the humanoid alien was killed, he thought it was safe to land the spaceship now. The large viewport in front of him showed more city lights below. He had to turn the ship towards the west, where a desolated rocky plain with no building or civilian housing was located. Nothing was there, making it a safe place to land.Jed gritted his teeth as he pulled on the controller bracelets. The spaceship thrusters roared against the planet’s gravity as he tried to redirect the ship.However, he heard a sharp crack echoed through the alien spaces
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51. Alien Spaceship
[Active Skill – Molten Pierce]Jed grinned as he activated his skill.Molten Pierce took less than a second to form in his right hand. The jagged material of his Threxian Exosuit morphed into a drill with a fiery orange edge. He punched the alien’s chest with it, enhanced by a penetrating force that sent the alien through the metallic airlock.The slender humanoid alien was thrown out of the spaceship, but Jed was sure it’d still be alive. Moreover, with one Dracuilonis flew past the broken airlock to save its master. At least, this gave them enough time to do something about the nuclear bomb aboard in this ship.“Max–“Jed stopped himself, realising that he called the captain’s name. But, Max ignored him as he was busy trying to speak through his earpiece and connect to the base. “Control room, can you hear me?”He doubted it would work. The last thing Jed heard was that craz
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50. Dual Blades and Warhammer
Jed’s dual swords, Noxblades, glinted under the flickering lights of the narrow corridor. His breath came in measured intervals, each one syncing with the hum of the ship’s bio-engines. Standing across, a slender humanoid alien mirrored his stance, its own dual blades that came from its long limbs shimmering with an eerie, otherworldly glow. With a sudden movement, both of them lunged. Blades clashed against blades, sparks flying as they exchanged rapid, fluid strikes. Jed’s muscles burned as he parried and struck, his eyes locked onto the alien’s unblinking human-like gaze. The alien’s movements were almost dance-like, its agility matching Jed’s Hyperreflexia, a passive skill that granted him superhuman reaction times for dodging and countering attacks swiftly. Not stopping, Jed recalled the skills that came with these dual blades. ‘Crosscut!’[Active Skill – Crosscut][CD: 59 minutes 59 seconds][Core: -500]As if his arms were moving on their own, Jed gave a crisscrossing attack
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49. Stealth and Speed, He Said
Jed managed to find a small opening to the alien spaceship and cautiously stepped through the airlock.The spaceship was a massive, imposing vessel with an eerie otherworldly design. Its walls were composed of a dark, metallic material that seems to absorb light rather than reflect it. The corridor was lined with sharp, angular edges and adorned with pulsating crimson energy conduits that gave off a dim, menacing glow.The air was thick with mechanical hum, and the occasional flicker of blue and purple energy fields added to the foreboding atmosphere. It seemed that everything here felt almost organic in nature.“Alright, my awesome self, just stick to the plan.” Jed muttered to himself. “Find Max, get out. It’s all about stealth and speed. You got this.”He had less than five minutes to do that. Awesome, he said.Jed moved forward, his Sky Dominator boots didn’t make any echo as he thread inside, thanks to his n
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48. Sky Dominator
[Item – Frogsbane Coil was drawn.]Jed swung the dull pink whip, snapping his wrist to make the end curl around the tailless manta ray reptile. It screeched in anger, but Jed didn’t let go. He gave a thug on his Frogsbane Coil, making him and the manta ray reptile to jerk each other.He managed to get on its back despite the flying monster’s useless roar of shockwave and struggles. Once he got a good grip on the manta ray reptile, Jed drew his right arm and shot it quickly to its thin back.The flying monster roared and roared in pain, but Jed didn’t let go. He curled his fingers on the small core located in the middle of its chest and wrenched it out. The manta ray reptile gave a final roar and its struggle ended. It dropped dead from the sky, along with Jed who couldn’t stop grinning.“Well, there’s no better time to eat a snack than now, hmm?”And so he did.[Ultimate Skill – Devour was activated.]“Damn right!” Jed laughed as he was free falling from the sky. “I better get the bes
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47. Headshot
“Do you think this is enough to defeat me?”The slender monster said as its cracked face reconstructed in a matter of seconds. Its twig-like hand reached out for Jed, the four fingers spread right in front of Jed’s face. From its narrow palm, a crack formed and opened, showing a small hole.Jed barely had time to react before the slender monster shot him dead in the head.[Active Skill – Fungal Shield][CD: 59 minutes 59 seconds][Core: -100]Bang!Agony exploded through his head, and he fell to the ground and screamed in pain. His vision went dark, and for a moment, he was sure he was dead.[Alert!][Alert!][Alert!][HP: 7/100]Through the haze of pain, Jed desperately tried to call for a skill in his repertoire.[Active Skill – Regenerative Spores][CD: 359 minutes 59 seconds][Core: -400]Miniscule spores were released from the small gaps
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46. Shadow Cloak
The air brushed fiercely all around Jed’s body as he tried to make sense of the monster’s strength. He had to do something before it greeted him in the sky and kicked him down to the earth.“Shadow Cloak!”[Item – Shadow Cloak was drawn.][You may activate its invisible feature at will.][However, attack initiation will deactivate its feature immediately.]A dark cloak shrouded around Jed’s body, and he disappeared into thin air.Invisible.“So I was right.” The semi-translucent humanoid monster remarked. Its slender face looked like a piece of chopped wood with a pair of slanted eyes and wide mouth, looking around it in wonder. “You absorb creatures to get their strength too. Just like me. I wonder if you can fly, too.”Jed couldn’t. It’d be cool if he could, though.The semi-translucent monster looked up at the sky, couldn’t
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45. Curious Monster
[Ultimate Skill – Devour was activated.]Boooom![You have devoured Velociphron.]Something fell from the sky. A tall humanoid figure with an ominous presence that sent Jed reeling.[You received rewards as follows.]He ignored the blue and white panel that only he could see. It told him the rewards he got from devouring the humanoid monster just now. How could he, when a more menacing creature dropped from the sky, like a bad omen for a curse after he ate another alien core.Jed cautiously observed the new alien.It stood taller than Velociphron, with a semi-translucent, shimmering skin that shifted colours every few seconds. It had elongated limbs and fluid movement, like a walking serpent as colourful as a disco ball.“What are you?” It asked curiously, staring at Jed with unblinking six eyes on its face.When he locked eyes with the colourful slender creature, he felt an eeri
