“Meow!”“Yes, I know it is spreading!”Jason stared into the night sky as he spoke with Nyx. “Meow!”“What do you mean, I am changing? You are still the same size after twenty years.”“Meow!”“No! I am improving.”“Meow!”“It is not a skin rash!”…He looked at the changes happening to his left arm, and he knew this had something to do with the overconsumption of monster meat.The skin on his left arm felt smooth, but it wasn’t fragile. He didn’t know why there were patches of light that looked like stars. He did not know where they came from or what they were, but these patches brought him the name; star sage. ‘Sigh.’Jason phased back to his room, leaving behind Nyx to her thoughts.He touched the painting he started for the tenth time. It was Hanna and Amelia, waiting for him at the village gate.He knew he wasn’t a great artist, but he wanted to draw it as perfectly as possible. ‘I guess this one won’t do.’He ripped off the drawing paper in dissatisfaction, but he didn’t damag
“Damn! That was difficult!”Jason sat on the massive body of his enemy as his skin reattached itself, closing the wounds and burns. He felt the bones repairing themselves as he rested his tired body. His black blood seeped out like tar onto the ground and solidified the moment it touched the ground.‘How can this arm be so strong?’He knew it was his fault that he was in this state. He underestimated the enemy, thinking it was just another prey. ‘Did my thinking change with the mutation?’Jason fell into thought as he looked at the massive broken sword. Of course, he knew his thinking had changed with the mutation, but he thought he had control of most of his emotions and thoughts after this long. Still, it seemed to be not the case, and he behaved like a predator who was hungry for power like this. Jason knew he could maintain his rational thinking at the time, but bloody battles seemed to bring out the monster within him.This battle reminded him he had to take control of his emot
“We are thirty kilometres away. Hold on.”Amber held onto the railing as she looked at the map. It was difficult with the rocky ride they had. ‘Please, Norbert. Don’t crash.’She prayed after yelling at Ricardo and Esmerelda. Amber saw how scared they looked, and she couldn’t blame them. This was one of the most crucial missions, and they already lost six members during their journey. ‘This is what we signed up for.’The people their government selected for this mission were those who didn’t have any family or significant other to mourn for their loss. The reason was simple; no one knew if this mission would succeed or if they could survive.According to their captain, this was the most dangerous mission and one of the most crucial missions for their Camp El-mond. About two years back, they found traces of human activities around City Z.About ten years back, their people successfully made connections with their old satellites, but they never detected another group of humans until
“Mhm!”Amber moaned when felt the light entering her eyelids. She wanted to rest a bit more in this comfortable place.“I think she is waking up.”‘Huh?’Amber realised the voice she heard didn’t belong to anyone she knew.“Where… Where am I?”She slowly pushed her heavy eyelids open, and she saw a kind-looking older woman looking down at her. There were a few other women in the room, but they backed away when she woke up.“You are in the central treatment centre of City Z.”“City Z….”It took her another moment to digest those words, and then her eyes widened when she remembered all the events that happened to them. All the deaths, pain, and misery flooded her mind, and her eyes became red.“Others… Where are the others?”Amber shot up from her bed, but the pain assaulted her side.“Argh!”She whimpered in pain.“Take it easy. There are a few fractures in your ribs. The others are okay. Your driver has a concussion, but the other two are in better condition. They are waiting outside.
“What do you guys have?”Amber got comfortable in her seat as she ate her breakfast.They found no signs of the people of City Z spying on them, and they became more comfortable after a week of staying in this place. City Z was returning to the condition before their world became a target of an alien invasion. These people planted crops and reared livestock inside the city. They had some production facilities to produce daily necessities for the people, but some of these products made Amber puzzled. One of the most popular items in the city was cold weapons, and swords had astronomical values. She knew people in this city used cold weapons, but she had no idea why they would be so valuable compared to their advanced weapons.‘Is it because they are not available for sale?’She thought of a possibility, but there was another problem. Why did these people want weapons, anyway? There were no threats in the surrounding area, and there were ample guards.“The claw marks are real. They ar
“How far is that thing?”“It is in no rush, chief! Maybe another ten minutes.”Presley answered his father formally. After all these years, it felt natural to him. The sensor units they placed within a hundred-kilometre radius of their city did an amazing job of finding any movements in the area. That was how they found the people who came looking for them, and they even detected this demon coming toward them. ‘But… Our teacher… How powerful is he?’Perley eyed the figure sitting cross-legged on the ground with the massive white tiger at his side. They were growling at each other as if they were talking to each other, and he knew they were communicating, but none of them ever understood what they said to each other. Their teacher, Star Sage, detected the demon shortly after their sensors sent warning signals. He came out of his home and sat on the top of the building at the edge of the city, facing the direction where the demon was coming from. Star Sage changed his appearance a b
“Well… That is all… And you can’t stay there.”Jason glanced at his shoulder, where Nyx lay in a relaxing manner. “Meow?”“No. You can’t hold on when I move at my full speed. Here!”Jason nudged Nyx toward his palm, where he could hold her while they moved. After consuming the second demon, his strength increased a lot, and new patches of starry skin appeared on his body. Nyx could no longer keep up with his speed, and she wasn’t strong enough to hold on to him while he travelled at his full speed. After thinking for a while, he decided to look for demons actively. That was, after learning the new group of human survivors had a way to track the demons. ‘I guess they will survive on their own.’Jason wasn’t keen on moving somewhere else after building this place for so long, but he needed to explore and hunt the demons. The people he trained were strong enough to defeat a hoard of hunters, and zombies and mutated beasts were nothing to them.As for demons, Jason planned to hunt the
“What is he doing?”“Nothing much. He is still sitting there.”Norma didn’t know if she should be happy or sad about the entire thing. Her teacher, the person, or the monster she admired the most, left City Z fifteen years ago.His goal was to hunt all the demons left in their world, and he travelled across their entire planet within the first ten years of his journey. Not only that, her teacher even found other humans and sent their locations to them. In the first ten years, they frequently kept up their conversation, and she even asked her teacher’s advice when she had a hard time with her training. However, five years back, her teacher sent a message saying he was about to go into hibernation. Then they lost contact with him for five years. They had the location of his contact equipment, but she and Lana voted against their people going to find him. If their teacher wanted them to come looking for him, he would have told them. Besides, the location was two continents away; almos