2024-12-08 10:09:12King Moon’s Council
The base’s council convened as soon as the scouts returned with confirmation of the tragic events. The raiding team sent out to recover fuel had been completely wiped out by a mutated monster. While such dangers weren’t entirely uncommon in this post-apocalyptic world, the council wasn’t ready to simply accept this outcome.
Richard, in particular, was deeply troubled—those men had been part of a squad under his command.
“We can’t just sit back and let this happen,” Richard argued, his voice tense with anger. “We need to act.”
Ordinarily, the civilian members of the council would have opposed such a notion, especially given the report of a three-headed snake—a creature too terrifying to confront head-on. But the idea of leaving such a monster unchecked, knowing it was so cl
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Crash! Gideon’s boot smashed through the door, splintering it as Michael, Deji, and Victor followed. The air was cool despite the oppressive heat outside, but sweat clung to Michael’s forehead. Deji’s knuckles were white around his spear, his tension palpable.The house was a dusty skeleton of its former self, its silence interrupted only by the heavy breathing of the intruders. On the other side of the building, another group burst in. The two factions converged in the dim living room, a charged atmosphere crackling between them.“James,” Michael growled, his voice a low rumble.James, flanked by Gbolahan, Lekan, and a hulking giant of a man, met his glare. The giant, a veritable mountain of muscle, loomed menacingly.“I see you brought backup,” Gideon said, a smirk pla
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Victor moved. Silently, without hesitation, he broke from the group, following the creature’s trail deeper into the forest. His heart thundered in his chest, not from fear but from anticipation. He could feel the power surging through him, threatening to break free. He had been restrained, always hiding what he was, but here, now, in the thick of the hunt—there was no need for restraint.In the clearing ahead, the serpent coiled around the base of a tree, licking its wounds. Its three heads darted and snapped at the air, but its movements were sluggish. Weakened.Victor struck.In a blur of motion, he tore through the underbrush, hands sinking into the rough hide of the closest head. The serpent barely had time to react before Victor ripped it clean from its body. Blood sprayed across the clearing
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Victor’s form vanished, he sped towards that direction. Running from building top to building top, anyone that was passing by would only see a momentary blur.The sound of the Revenant ripping through the wind as they ran grew louder in his ears. At this point, he picked up an unfamiliar scent. This was not Paul, which meant another Revenant was in the camp.Victor increased his speed, but it seemed like his target had realized that he was being followed. The Revenant picked up the pace as well, jumped over the south wall faster than the stationed guards could perceive. Two seconds after, Victor sped past them as well, leaving a gust of wind in his wake.One of the guards shivered as he pulled his sweater closer to himself, he cursed the wind for blowing harder for no reason.Victor sensed that his target was moving towards a tall office building ahead, from the words on the signboard, he knew this building was once the Federal Secretariat. As the Revenant was about to cross the four
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The glazed over eyes of the man, Ahmad, widened in surprise, “Son of a b*tch!” he cursed aloud.The two of them separated and Victor helped him to his feet.A bright smile spread across Ahmad’s face and he laughed, “Ahahahah, how are you still alive?! It seems the Heavens don't want me to live the rest of my life alone.”He laughed louder with his hands on his waist.Victor smiled, he had missed this guy’s jovial and happy-go-lucky attitude, “How are you not dead? And what happened to your eyes?”Ahmad finally stopped laughing, an amiable smile spread across his face.“Let’s go talk somewhere better”His body whooshed towards the Federal Secretariat, Victor followed in a blur.In less than two seconds, the two of them were standing on top of the 12 storey building, overlooking the entire area. Down the road from the Secretariat was a rundown mall, Victor could sense an oppressive presence there.“How did you survive? Did the others survive too?” Ahmad asked about the rest of their gro
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Gbolahan was entertaining the Viking envoy with food and dancing women. Some young girls were made to serve the envoy and pamper him. He was smiling lewdly to the young girls but he held back the urge to do more than stare at them ravenously, with a little petting every now and then. Gbolahan didn’t bother about this.Sitting at the table were James and the previously incarcerated Viking leaders, Amina and Drago but they refused to eat.“Why are you not eating?” Gbolahan asked with a genial smile. “Are the dishes not to your taste?”Drago shot him a sharp look, “I will only eat after the head of that monster is brought to me in a fucking box”Gbolahan replied, keeping his smile intact, “Captain Paul has gone out
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In the return trip, there was no need for Paul to cover the convoy with his killing intent like he did when they started the journey. All the monsters in the area had vanished in fear of the giant lion. Only zombies wandered in the road, and those were easy pickings for the raiders who turned them to target practice as their buses and trucks sped past.Michael, Lara and other team members tortured Victor with questions throughout the journey.“What did you say your mutation is called again?” Lara asked for the hundredth time.Victor rolled his eyes as he answered, “Revenant Mutation”, this was what he decided to call it, so they won’t burn him at stake for being a zombie or a monster. After all, there was no other way explain how he survived the giant lion and kill the Gar Alpha.
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She unloaded a bolt, reloaded with a quick pump action, and fired again, and again.The crossbow bolts found their way into the Gar’s body, one of which poked a hole in its left wing.‘She’s good’, Victor praised her inwardly.He ran and leapt up into the air while the Alpha Gar was still reeling from the attack. He landed on the Alpha Gar’s back, the monster tried to shake him off, but Victor held onto its shoulder and in one smooth move, he pulled, snapping the bone and causing the Gar to fall to the ground in the middle of the camp.With the ground under them, Victor punched the back of the monster’s head, his psychic force infiltrated the Gar’s head before exploding within its skull, turning its brain into mush, a
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Victor felt some of his strength returning so he pulled the trunk out of his body, leaving a gaping bloody hole. The wood fell to the side with a thud.Victor began to crawl towards Paul. If not for the immense pain threshold that he had, he would have blacked out from the multiple injuries. In fact, the only reason he had to crawl was because his legs had been crushed from the waist down and were still healing. He couldn’t walk, so he had no choice but to crawl with his only remaining arm.After several laborous crawling, he finally reached Paul.“Cap?!” He called out, his voice lacked any strength. He prodded Paul, but the man only groaned in return.Seeing that the man was still alive, he pushed himself into a sitting positon and leaned against the lion’s
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The monster groaned and pushed itself to its feet, slowly. Half its face was bloodied, and there was a hole where its right eye was. Victor could see most of its brain in that part had turned to mush. There were a deep crater in its chest as well, and some parts of the chest was mangled, probably from broken ribs. Blood poured out of its mouth like a river, and it was not breathing steadily anymore.‘The fuck?! Is this thing immortal?! Can’t you just die already?’“The vitality of a monster of this level is truly terrifying, I am sure parts of its heart was crushed from my attack. It was my strongest attack yet, and it is still standing. We are no match for it.” Paul lamented.It was now that Victor realized that Paul’s face was ashen, he was tired too.‘My attack also d
Chapter 57: Advancement
Victor felt surreal by this, like he was experiencing everything from outside his body.For the first time in his mind, his senses weren’t just limited to his ears, eyes, nose, and skin. His mind could feel everything around him, and he could see himself from every angle like it was a movie.‘Is this the advancement Paul was talking about?’Bam!Paul hit the lion from the side again, sending it flying. He quickly crouched beside Victor to check if he was still alive.Victor gasped to life like he had just broken through the surface of water.He was looking into Paul’s dark eyes and he could see the smile on his Master’s face.“You’re a
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Victor rolled like a grub on the floor, narrowly dodging a stomp from the lion. After rejoining the fight, he and Paul had coordinated their attacks. But the lion’s skin was too tough, and its muscles were resilient. They couldn’t land much damage, and they still had to avoid the lion’s almost unavoidable attacks.The lion took a chance, moving like a ghost, it hit Victor from above, and tried to stomp him to death, but missed.Paul tried to help, but he was hit aside by the lion’s tail. Victor got into a crouch, only to see the lion was already upon him. It was too fast.‘Shit!’Before he could act, the lion pressed him against the ground.One of its large, sharp claws pierced through Victor’s right chest, pinning him
