My Wonder System

Outrunning The Horde

 The people kept moving without looking back but Frank was lingering at the back of the whole group as he would constantly look back at the soldiers who were now dealing with beast hawks' situation.

'Hawks, and there are six of them.' Frank thought as he finally came to a halt leaving the rest of the people to carry on moving.

The rest of the people had continued moving but two people had noticed his absence and had immediately came back once they couldn't find him.

"Why did you stop?" Christiana asked as she approached him.

"Yeah, do you want to die?" Carl asked.

Frank shook his head as he kept his gaze on the fight which was taking place ahead.

All the soldiers were off the ground now and were doing their best to shoot down the hawks, so far none of the Hawks was down and the horde of beasts was getting closer.

"Down!" Lieutenant Roger would scream whenever any of the hawks swooshed in for the attack but they would immediately get up and start shooting after the hawk had flown up.

Roger kept shooting with his assault rifle but still, he wasn't getting any luck that was the same with Lieutenant Devon and the rest of the soldiers.

"This is frustrating!" Lieutenant Roger yelled as he threw his assault rifle on the floor and pulled out two silver colored pistols.

"Don't aim directly at them, aim for where you know they are going to fly next."

This was the tactic Roger had used to shoot down the hawk that had attacked them the other day but it seemed like his shot wasn't the most accurate with an assault rifle.

Right now he had a plan to bring down the hawks as fast as possible.

The others continued shooting implementing what he had just told them but still, it was yielding no fruit.

Lieutenant Roger lifted both of his pistols aiming for the sky, there weren't any hawks within his range yet but once he pulled both triggers two hawks came dropping to the ground.

It didn't take long for Lieutenant Devon to follow suit as he shot down one of the hawks, now the remaining three had become disorganized and panicked making it easier for two more to get shot down.

Now there was only one hawk in the sky and out of desperation and as a form of last stand it came flying towards one of the soldiers who seemed to be a little away from the group.

He was too late to react as the hawk was already very close to him, the others couldn't shoot because they knew they would shoot the soldier. But before the hawk could take off the soldier's head a shot was heard and the hawk dropped dead on the floor.

All of them turned to see Frank standing by the side with his hands which had the Ruger Sr4c in it stretched, but he wasn't alone.

'This boy never ceases to amaze me.' Lieutenant Roger thought with a smile.

"How did you get that?" Carl and Christian asked at the same time, surprised to see the weapon in their friend's hands.

Frank had kept moving toward the soldiers even after his friends had tried to convince him to keep moving with the others, but he had insisted on going where he was going stating that he needed to find something which may have fallen on the floor.

It was at the right time when he had seen the soldier who was about to lose his head to the hawk that he had stepped forward and without thinking twice pulled out his pistol and shot down the bird.

[ Common grade beast killed ]

[ +20 exp received ]

[ +1 stat point added to Dexterity ]

'That was just a common grade beast?' Frank was stunned, stunned by how easily a hawk that was just in the common grade could easily take off the heads of people with its feet.

"No time for questions, we have to move! Move move!" Lieutenant Roger screamed as he looked back to see that the horde was closing up on them really fast.

[ Scan successful ]

[ Mutated Cooper's hawk ]

[ Grade: Common ]

[ Trait: Razor sharp claws that act like grappling hooks ]

Frank managed to get the information on the hawk and now he knew why the bird could take off heads with ease and that just created fear in him. If a common grade hawk could do this, then what about a hawk of a higher grade.

'I just hope there isn't any way for these beasts to level up.' Frank thought as he ran alongside his friends.

'When did he become so courageous?' Christiana thought as she would keep glancing towards Frank as they ran.

'Frank has a gun? I wonder if he'll let me have it for a while.' Carl thought.

No matter how fast they seemed to be running, the beasts were closing up on them really fast, fighting off those hawks had really slowed them down, if not they would have been far ahead with the others by now but the higher ones ran through it and continued running

"Grenade!" Lieutenant Devon screamed.

Three of the soldiers quickly halted, turned, and pulled out one of the grenades hanging on the belts around their bodies, they threw them at the horde of beasts.

Some of the beasts managed to run past the grenades but those that followed after them got blasted by the grenades, the smaller beasts and those who were of lower grade were killed by the explosions but those of higher grades ran through the explosions and continued running like nothing ever happened.

'I don't understand these beasts. Why are they so keen on killing humans?' Frank thought on seeing how the beasts had not slowed down one bit, but the grenades had at least reduced their number of about a hundred beasts to around eighty now.

"More grenades!" Lieutenant Devon screamed.

The soldiers didn't stop or turn back now as the beasts were catching up to them, they kept running as they uncorked the grenades and threw them behind them. 

There was a mix of growls, groans, and screeches as the grenades dealt with some of the beasts.

"Keep running kids!" Lieutenant Roger said as he along with the other soldiers quickly turned and started to shoot at the beasts, not allowing any of them to get close.

Frank had once again stopped after running a little distance away from the soldiers.

"Why are you stopping again?" Christiana said with mixed emotions of annoyance and fear. "Didn't you hear him, he said we should keep running."

"Oh, my God!" Frank exclaimed, still looking ahead.

This had caused his two friends to turn their attention to where he was looking at.

The soldiers had shot down all the other beasts, but slowly approaching them now even with the bullets hitting it, was a cheetah that appeared larger than the normal cheetah.

Frank didn't exclaim because of the size of the beast, rather he had done so because of what he had seen about the beast.

[ Scan successful ]

[ Beast info ]

[ Mutated cheetah ]

[ Grade: Rare ]

[ Trait: extremely fast ]

The soldiers were surprised by how resilient the beast was against their bullets but before they could think of anything, the cheetah had sped to one of Lieutenant Devon's men and tore him apart.

They didn't even see the beast move towards the soldier and now they knew things had just gotten a lot tougher.

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