I stood on the bridge leaving off the island, it wasn't the biggest bridge just one around 30m in length.
I looked around and I could see a girl in a pink dress dancing among the Deviants. She had deep blue resplendence to her black hair. With every swing of her bat, a zombie's head would explode and the force would send all the blood away. Not even a drop of the purple blood would drip on her.
Further to the right, I saw a buff looking youngster with short black hair that had brown resplendence. He wore jeans, a black t-shirt and a leather jacket, he had brown shoes as well. He was quite fashionable, but the way he wielded his sword was quite exquisite and powerful. All of his strikes seemed precise and robotic as if he practised it a thousand times.
Zing
A disc flew past me to its owner. The person was stout with chiselled features. He had short black hair and a little bit of a scrub on his face. He wore a black business suit that looked very expensive. With every wave of his hand, he would control a flying disc as it went around cutting through Deviant necks.
To his side stood a beautiful lady with big eyes. Her face looked really soft and doll-like; her long black hair shined in the sun with a golden hue. She wore heels, tights, a short black skirt together with blacktop and a jacket. It seemed that she went with the look that suited her husbands. She held a sword in her hands and would fiercely cut off any Deviants heads if they came close.
I looked at my family and I knew that I had made it. My late wife and my mother would be proud, I could finally relax and let the kids do the work. Unfortunately, soon I got bored as my fists started itching.
I threw myself at the zombies with a big Warhammer in my hands. My sword broke so I decided to use the Warhammer. To be honest I only got it for fun and Jason was the one who got it for my Birthday. I wondered what normal in-laws get for their birthdays.
The big hammer was made for art or collection but was totally usable. It was made way bigger than normal ones and weighed 160 pounds. Apparently, Jason said it was made from Titanium Alloy. Which was the most expensive metal, not that it matters. Different kind of materials have different kinds of uses, price didn't matter at all. Jason had told me before that the guy who made it was a total fanatic. He only made collectable weapons that were actually usable by superhuman. I never believed him though. I was very wrong and I had admitted my mistake.
Only after becoming extremely strong was I actually able to use it properly. Otherwise, it would be a waste of energy to use it just to crush Deviant heads when I could just cut them off with my sword. I could've used a baseball bat for that. Now though I was so strong it didn't consume much stamina.
The whole hammer was black in colour and had extremely big square like head as for it's handle it was one and a half meters long. It even looked heavy and yet I was waving it around as if It was a regular hammer used for nails.
Boom
I bashed a Deviant on the chest and it splattered in all directions, the limbs were the only ones left in piece. Of course, it died immediately. The only problem is that now I will have to look where the crystal flew away. That's why I preferred to just crush the heads.
We were slowly but surely moving forward through the Deviants. Thank God the Deviants would eat each other so over time there would actually be less and less of them. Of course, they were also becoming way stronger and then more deviants of other kind had been appearing. So, in fact, their amount wasn't really decreasing.
Fortunately, we were getting stronger a lot faster than these Deviants and so we were able to deal with them. Actually, I would prefer if there fewer Deviants who were strong than more Deviants who were weak. This is because our own skills in combat were pretty amazing so we would even be able to fight Deviants stronger than ourselves. The only problem is that the world is never fair and there was an insane amount of Deviants on the road.
Before the Apocalypse, it was the rush hour and so most roads in the Capital, especially in the centre of the city, were stuck in traffic. Frighteningly, there were no bones to be seen anywhere or any kind human remains in fact. All of them got absorbed by the Blood Ghosts, just thinking about their current power gave me chills. They must be hunted and destroyed as soon as possible.
We moved along the road as skyscrapers started to surround us from all directions. When I looked around I could see everything starting to be covered in greenery.
The vines and grass had already disintegrated the cement or have grown through the cracked ground. Most of the second floors of the buildings had already been covered in vines and moss. Some buildings seemed to have things growing through the windows. They were probably plants that were grown inside before. It was an amazing sight where nature started taking back the world from humans.
Now if a huge earthquake happened and destroyed all the buildings the humans would never be able to recover. Although at this point I didn't think humans can ever recover.
As we fought through Deviants and walked further and further the amount of them kept increasing. There were too many of them and we were getting tired. We merely moved 200 meters and we had to retreat. We fought off the last of the Deviants that actually rushed at us at walked off.
We went to a skyscraper to our side and entered it. We needed to think of a proper strategy.
We all sat down after clearing the few Deviants that were inside the reception of whatever companies building it was.
"Grandpa, we should walk roads that has fewer cars." Telos said as he took out a packed lunch.
"There is a simple reason why we are walking through the main road.
You might have already realised that the normal crystals are starting to have less and less effect on our strength. The blood crystals of normally evolved Deviants had started decreasing in effectiveness. Which mean we need to kill stronger Deviants in order to keep improving.
Although it might be ten times slower to move through this road, but we will gain more then we lose. We aren't just clearing the road for our selves it's also for other people. Three birds with one stone." I said as I clenched my fist the power I felt in it was quite amazing. I wondered if anyone from humans had reached the power my family had.
"Ah, you are right. That's why we are travelling on the main road as that's where the strongest Deviants are at." Telos nodded with his head in realisation.
"Grandpa, actually there is a place I need to go to." Telos said firmly as he looked at me with determination.
"hm? What is it don't worry, if it's not too far we can definitely go there." I said as I asked curiously.
"I need to get sand. A lot of sand. My powers have been useless so far as I kept practising with soil." I nodded with my head as it made sense. That wasn't a problem at all, actually, I thought it was a genius idea.
Telos continued, "The other night I had a dream. Ever since then I wanted to accomplish it.
Grandpa, remember how you introduced me to Naruto before? I had remembered a character called Garu and I thought that his powers were very useful. Then I realised that I could potentially replicate it with my earth powers." Telos spoke with excitement.
Honestly, I was becoming jealous of all the powers my family has. Why am I the one with super strength? I definitely needed to find a way to execute my strength more efficiently.
"Yooo! That would be awesome, I will be Goku and you will be Garu! Together we will be Gokugaru! Holy moly!" Archi shouted in excitement when she heard Telos thoughts.
I was as shocked as them myself. I couldn't believe it, I had made my grandchildren into weebs... Thank God my wife had helped me raise Sunlight. Otherwise...
Jason and Sunlight started laughing when they saw Archi and Telos grab each other and shout, "Fusion! Gokugaru!"
1 minute later, "I guess we can't fuse just yet..." Archi sighted in depression.
"Don't worry sis. One day... one day..." Telos said as he embraced Archi with one arm and stood next to her. He looked in the distance and imagined himself shooting lasers from his eyes and fire from his fists.
As we were having lunch I started hearing weird noises coming from deeper within the building.
"It must be a Blood ghost!" Jason shouted as he heard it as well.
"Someone is probably being attacked by one. Let's go check it out." I said and grabbed my hammer. All of us left our stuff there and started walking towards a wooden double door.
I kicked it open and saw a horrifying sight of two people being absorbed by a gigantic four metal tall Blood Ghost. That was not good!
I instantly took action in the big hall. I sprinted towards the Blood Ghost and threw a handful of salt on it. I had hoped the Ghost would drop the two people so I can smash its face in. But it seemed that although the Ghost felt pain it wasn't anywhere enough for the huge thing.
"Quickly throw salt on it!" I shouted as I kept throwing salt.
Archi and all of them didn't hesitate any more and got closer. We started showering the bastard with salt as it screamed uncontrollably.
Soon it couldn't take it anymore and let go of the two people inside.
I didn't wait to see who they were as I instantly span my hammer and used my full force to strike it. The head of my hammer connected with the Blood Ghost as in slow motion I could see the Blood Ghost become solid. It had become solid because of the incredible force that was used to strike it. The Ghost literally exploded and died instantly. That's when I realised that blunt attacks and salt were its weak points.
I heard a thud sound and a big red crystal the size of a finger knocked on the wall on the other side of the hall.
I was instantly excited about it, I didn't even notice two pretty ladies in front of me who were half-naked.
Sunlight screamed, "Telos cover your eyes! Jason you too!"
She grabbed the two and covered their eyes.
"Mom, I am not a kid anymore." I looked at Telos who had a perverted expression on his face while he said that.
"Relax." Jason said as he moved Sunlights hand away and went to see if the girls were alright.
I as well touched their necks to see if they still had a pulse.
One of the girls was ginger and quite skinny. On her clothes, there were a lot of holes as they had disintegrated inside the Blood Ghost.
The other girl was blond with bushy eyebrows and was quite busty. She was exactly my type God damn it. Don't look! Don't look! Wait, I forgot I am not ten years old.
The girls were clearly breathing and alive. It's only that their energy got absorbed by the Blood Ghost.
I and Jason covered them in our jackets and fed them a crystal each.
Their pale faces started to recover as we sat them up against the wall.
While we waited I went and grabbed the crystal. This time it was mine. I popped it in my mouth right away.
This is exactly what I needed as my Strength had almost stopped growing from the normal crystals. I would have to eat twenty of them for a little bit of improvement.
I could feel my muscles ripping apart again and my youthfulness recovering even more. I felt alive again, it was like I was a drug addict.
My senses had increased again as I felt the two college-age girls were about to wake up.