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2025-01-11 07:00:53When Victor woke up, the sun had already set. He found that his right arm had fully regenerated, he flexed his hand a bit, feeling the strength surging within it. Under his pillow was a bottle of blood, well kept to avoid being detected by others. He knew it must have been placed there by Paul while he slept.
Although he had drunk his fill from the lion monster, he needed real human blood to make up for his lost vitality. The bottle was empty in no time, allowing him to finally feel vigorous once more. He couldn’t even remember how much his body ached just a few hours prior.
After confirming that all his injuries were gone, he came out of the tent he was placed in to rest.
The camp was having a campfire, and a man he couldn’t recognize was singing songs with a sonorous voice and his local guitar, s
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Unknown Location, Secret Facility. Lights flickered from shattered lamps, casting eerie shadows across the lab. Computers whirred as an alarm blared in the background. Locke staggered through the chaos, his once-pristine lab coat now stained crimson. Blood poured from the gaping wound in his chest, each step leaving a gruesome trail of red. He groaned, the pain blurring his vision and sapping his strength. Reaching his laptop with trembling hands, Locke's fingers fumbled over the keys before pressing a button. A dial tone rang out, and soon a man in a military uniform appeared on the screen. His eyes widened in horror at Locke's ashen face and the blood-soaked coat. “Professor?!” Panic edged the man's voice. “It failed…” Locke's voice was a rasping whisper. “...the carriers have escaped. All…dead, all…de…” His words faltered, and he collapsed, the exhaustion pulling him into darkness. “Professor! Locke!” The military man’s shouts faded as Locke’s consciousness slipped away. The no
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The Council was a group of important figures within King Moon. They were the base's Management. Their meeting hall had a table, with Uche sitting at the head of the table. Paul, Solomon and Richard sat one after the other on the left side. On his right was Mrs. Titi, she was still in her apron, beside her was a man with dark fingernails, he was the leading mechanic Femi. A few more people sat at the table, each of them was a leading figure.The hall was rowdy, apart from Paul and Uche who watched as the council members argued on the pros and cons of a large population, the others were engaged in the discussion.“We don't even have enough to keep ourselves afloat. You want to bring in more people?! What will we eat then? Huh? Huh?!” A chubby man in his fifties argued with spittle flying everywhere. “You will prefer to pump yourself with food rather than save more lives. Mojeed, are you not ashamed of yourself? We need the workforce”“Basit is right, more workforce means more mouths
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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
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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
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Chapter 55: Above Alpha Level
Victor had never seen a monster like this before. Even the three-headed snake that was about 30 meters long, was still inferior to this.The lion stood at about fifty meters, long curved spikes trailing its spine down to the tail, with a tuft of sharp gleaming spikes on the tip of the tail. Definitely capable of cutting a man in half.The muscles on the lion’s body were well-defined, like it was hitting the gym every day and not missing legwork. It’s mane moved like it was underwater.Everyone was stunned to see the creature, it wa majestic and terrifying at the same time. This was definitely something above the Alpha-level.“Everyone in the trucks, now!” Paul commanded.His voice broke them out of their shock and they immedi
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Chapter 54: The University
“Get off me! Get off me you bastard!”The shrill, yet enticing voice could be heard even before the door was pushed open.The door was opened with a bang, revealing two strong men dragging in Lewa who was still in her kitchen work clothes.James sat close to the window. This building was used once as a hiding spot during the Viking Invasion. The Viking leaders that snuck into the base were captured in this same compound.The room was spacious with a luxurious bed and it looked more like it would fit in an hotel better.“Leave her”, James commanded in a relaxed tone.The men released her and left the room, closing the door shut behind them. The Revenant Mutation
Chapter 53: A Fluke Incident?
Paul sat in silence for hours, although he lost track of time, so he couldn’t tell the difference.On the fifth hour, he heard the sound of flesh moving, his eyes shifted a bit.‘An illusion’He thought he must have imagined it.But the sound came again, this time, it lasted longer, and then it came again.Paul sped to Victor’s side, staring down at the younger man’s face.The blood around the hole in his head had dried, but he could hear movement within the corpse’s skull. Gray matter was shifting and reforming.Paul stood there, both in confusion and hope, for ten minutes. In ten minutes, the injured in the brain he
