I woke up with pain all over my body as I looked at the ceiling. I was so bandaged I couldn't move, not that I wanted to move with all the pain.
I suddenly recalled the fight as blood rushed to me. It was too delightful; I haven't felt that good since the day when I was getting bullied in school. The excitement and the feeling of rage, it was exhilarating! I want to get beaten up more!
"Ah! My back!" I shouted out as I tried moving.
I thought about the little bastard snake and wanted to go dissect it. It was a new kind of Deviant and It was an aquatic beast Deviant which I haven't killed yet. I wondered, if I ate one, would it make me stronger as if a normal Deviant ate a human? There were so many things to find out.
While I was contemplating Sunlight rushed into my room. She saw me trying to speak and got worried, "Dad don't force yourself. You are very badly mangled and it's a miracle you're still alive."
Ah, it was so painful to try and move and then it was even more painful to shout. I was wondering if I should curse at Archi or at the Deviant.
Sunlight heard me say something quietly as she got her ear closer to my mouth. She was nervous thinking I'm about to say my last words.
In order for it not to be painful, I talked as slowly and quietly as possible.
"D-did the D-deviant have a crystal inside?" I asked with my eyes full of excitement and hope.
"Eh!" Sunlight shouted as she stood up.
"Dad why do you only ever think about the bloody monsters! Do you even care about us!?"
I started whispering quietly again and Sunlight breathed out heavily. She couldn't do anything about it so she put her ear to my mouth again.
"I need to pee."
Sunlight's face reddened as she raised her arm and was about to hit me. I closed my eyes, but the hit didn't come.
Right after everyone rushed into the room asking if I was alright or not.
Telos seemed completely fine as I let out a breath of relief. Archi seemed just fine as well, from what I remember she probably fainted from exhausting every speck of her power.
Everyone started asking questions if I was alright and Archi kept bragging about how she was stronger than me.
Jason took out a crystal and put it in my mouth. I felt better right away as some of my energy returned to my body. I thought I would feel better, but instead, I felt worse. I just needed to pee really badly.
After having to awkwardly tell my daughter again, I finally relieved myself. Everyone came into the room again.
I recovered the energy and had relieved myself so felt a lot better. Still all broken though, but now I could speak louder.
"All of you seem fine now, then let's get to business. Did you get the crystal from inside the snake?"
Everyone went quiet. Huh is this bad news then?
"We found it, with a little bit of effort..." Telos sighed as his face went pale.
"Then what's the problem?" I asked confused looking at their faces.
They looked at each other and kept shaking their heads at each other that the other should explain.
"Well, we found it, but Jason accidentally swallowed it." When Sunlight suddenly said that I didn't know whether to cry or to laugh.
"What happened, exactly?" I wanted to cough out blood. I fought it with my life on the line and Jason ate it...
"Well when the head exploded, I was the one to notice the red crystal on the ground, again. Only this one was really huge the size of a whole finger."
When Jason said that, my complexion got even darker. I could only imagine how tasty it was!
Jason continued, "I was so shocked when I picked it up that I slipped on the snakes' blood. I was about to catch it but then a bird appeared out of nowhere and caught it in the air.
I was so furious I used my telekinesis and somehow exploded the bird from the inside.
Because the crystal was red and then it was raining with blood I couldn't see where it was. Then a drop of blood hit my eye as I had opened my mouth the crystal went right in..." Jason said with a weird expression.
What the fuck, I wanted to curse so badly. How does that even!? Why some people even exist, seriously? World needs need an epidemic to wipe out the fools. Oh, wait it's already here. Damn it.
"Don't worry, we benefited greatly from this. While you've been in a coma for a day and being healed by Sunlight. I reached another level in my practice of telekinesis. I can now lift things up to 100kg and my control had reached another level.
I've had an epiphany, you know how you have all those tools if you ever want to make anything?
I thought I could use a metal cutting disk as a weapon. After a lot of practising, I manage to control it well enough and now I am able to slice through zombie's heads with my telekinesis."
Incredible... At least the crystal didn't go to waste. Their powers are finally starting to show results as well.
I nodded with my head in understanding. Now in my family, I've got Archi who can do a BTEC version of Kamehameha and Jason who can do a lame version of 'Destructo Disc'. What's next, Sunlight doing 'Solar flare'? Wait now that I think about it, it was kind of plausible. Later I'll try and make her do it, and see if it's possible.
Afterwards, because I was bedridden, I couldn't do much. For the next couple of days, it was only Telos, Archi and Jason who were hunting. Although their hunting speed hadn't actually decreased because of Jason's power-up. This made me glad, as now they were supplying two people with Crystals while having more than enough for themselves as well.
The house that got struck by lightning seemed to be the house where we wanted to go look for the person. This meant that if that guy was still in there and alive, then now he was dead for sure.
We also started cooking up the snake. Since the head had exploded and that's where the poison most likely was, it wasn't dangerous. Another shocking thing is that the meat wasn't going bad even after 3 days. As for its taste, it was. Heavenly.
There was definitely something special about meat. It made us recover strength and I was healing at an even more astonishing rate than expected.
Unfortunately, what we've been scared of the most started happening. Aquatic beings had been coming out off the river, they had evolved beyond measurement. Although, they weren't as strong as the snake, and we've been constantly getting stronger.
The normal Deviants had almost been exhausted on the road on the other side of the bridge, as there seemed to be coming less and less of them every day.
Their hunting speed had also been increasing so the appearance of the Aquatic Deviants wasn't too bad. It was just a new source of blood crystal supply.
Finally, on the fourth day since being injured I had finally recovered. I've done three months of recovery in just four days. It was incredible. At the same time, I was eating crystals and getting stronger as I recovered. Not to mention the time where I ate around 20 crystals at the same time. That one was the real resistance training using blood crystals.
Not only I had recovered I had become stronger as well. What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. Well unless it was cancer and you lose a leg or an arm. Nevertheless, it worked in this scenario.
My family sat in the kitchen eating breakfast as I looked through the window.
I could see a Deviant Rat, a Deviant Frog and a Deviant Human fighting. It was truly an apocalypse. I wanted to shout the "The signs are there!" once again, but I had impeccable self-control.
Electricity and water had been gone for almost a week now, but we still lived a carefree life. Unfortunately, it couldn't go on any longer and we couldn't stay in this place anymore. Living next to the water was getting more and more dangerous. We decided we had to at least move more towards the centre of the city. The humans who were still alive will probably do the same.
Most of those humans probably won't be weak either. If there is a camp there, we will come back to get out resources. If not, we will have to look for another place.
After breakfast we got packing. Inside the backpacks, we only put the highest calorie and nutritional army food. It tasted awful, but that was required for survival. We also each carried 25 litter gallon of water. With our superhuman strength, it was more than easy at this point. Of course, we also had medicine and our weapons.
It was time to leave. Archi and Telos were especially excited to move out. They were getting really bored in the place, they wanted to go fight stronger Deviants. They wanted to go on an adventure.
Nonetheless, none of them were more excited than me. I couldn't wait to see more types of deviants and other stuff as well. Like pretty girls who had survived the apocalypse. I have to admit my late wife wouldn't have wanted me to be a loner forever.
Not to mention, I have regained my youthful vitality recently, if you know what I mean.
Archi and them all seemed to be growing and nearing the perfect age of 25. The peak of human performance. Especially Archi she was getting more and more mature and busty. If any unworthy slug ever touches my Granddaughter I'll send him flying to the moon.
I also don't know the reason, but everyone's hair has started having this kind of different colour or reflection. I think it depended on their power, the colour made it quite obvious actually. Archi deep dark blue, Telos earthen brownish yellow, Sunlight bright golden. As for Jasons' and mine they didn't seem to have different resplendence at all.
In any case, both of our appearances started to change in other ways like Jason was becoming more ripped and slender. While I was becoming in general bigger and more ripped and I grew around 6 cm. Although, I think I just regained my previous height plus an extra centimetre or two. That was because after age 25 people start to get shorter. The older the faster. At age 65 I was 5cm shorter than when I was at my peak at height 170cm.
Sunlight's control and strength of her power actually had increased the most in the last 4 days. It was probably because she exhausted herself fully and used all her power every day. that was, of course, because I wanted to heal as fast as possible and pushed her to her limit. Thus, her hair had the biggest golden resplendence.
Finally, we left the house and looked at it from outside. Well after we killed the Deviants that is. Then we looked at our house sadly. I almost started tearing up. All the preparations for nothing...
Although, I was very glad it wasn't just some simple zombie Apocalypse. Also in the future, this place might become our strategic location.
At that moment how would I know that destiny had great plans for the Panary Dwarf. The island that stood almost in the middle of Grandon the Capital of United Nations of Handlue.