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Chapter 3 - Chapter 2: Present Day

The new world wasn't like a typical futuristic place but in a kind of middle age setting.

After the death of the black robbed man, the world started noticing that these creatures didn't just form by themselves, they noticed that the zombies and vampires where humans infected through bites , so each country built high rising walls surrounding all human habitat keeping the outside world away from the inside only to go out when necessary

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The year 2050...present

" No, I won't die here, not today! God, please help me!" A young boy who looks to be 18 years of age was seen running in the desert, he was been chased by what looked to be 3 desert beetles.

They had all the features of a normal beetle, but what differentiated them from normal beetles was that these beasts like beetles don't fly, and they are orange in color. 

These are some of the weakest kinds of beasts which are primitive beasts. The young boy was still running knowing that if he stopped his life will be over, he was carrying a big bag that was hung on his shoulders. 

He was running towards a huge rock, the beast was only 20 feet away from catching up to him when two shadowy figures sprang up from behind the rock one holding a giant ax and the other a bow with an arrow aiming towards one of the beasts.

The one with the giant ax swung it at the closest beetle, and it cut open its protective shell, but the beetle didn't die it just whined in pain a little and then charged furiously at the one who had caused him pain.

The man seeing the beast coming towards him at an alarming rate swung his ax again at the initial wound he inflicted on the beast. This time the ax cut through the beast and it died instantly.

The other shadowy figure who looked to be a girl shot her arrow and it hit straight into the eyes of one of the beetle beasts. Without wasting much time she brought out another arrow and shot it at the remaining eye of the beast making it go blind.

The beetle beast whined in pain making screeching noises, the girl brought out another arrow and fired it at the head of the beetle beast and it went fast and shot straight at the center of the beetle beast's head, killing it instantly.

The remaining beetle beast seeing that his two comrades were easily killed by these foreign entities quickly change its course of direction and started running back to where it came from.

The man and woman didn't bother to chase after it because they looked to be extremely exhausted and they both began extracting the cores of the dead beetle beasts.

" And this is the 20th kill, am exhausted Maggie, though I won't say this hunt was effortless because this has been the biggest kill we have ever done!" the man said walking towards the lady who was called Maggie.

He looks to be in his mid-twenties, with brown short hair and a broadened build, his chest and abs were showing through his clothes which looks like they were about to tear because of the man's big stature.

" It was a fruitful journey Jace, too bad our bait and scout couldn't run fast if not we would have killed the three beasts and wouldn't bother chasing after the last one" Maggie replied with a smirk on her face. She was an average-sized woman who also looked to be in her mid-twenties with long blue hair.

" hehe! He is too weak and silly Maggie, don't blame the poor useless piece of trash" Jace replied.

" You can come out now Neon, you disgust me, you couldn't even run past a weak rank 1 Primitive beast, you are so weak" Jace shouted at the boy who was hiding behind the rock.

" Am sorry sir, but you know this bag is really big and heavy and it's hard for me to run with it!" Neon responded with his head bowed.

" Sorry for yourself dumbass, and you better not misplace anything in that bag Neon!" Maggie shouted with a disgusted look.

" Let's head back to camp, it's already getting late, we don't want to be eaten by a higher rank beast," Jace said. They immediately started heading back to camp after making sure Neon had collected and secured the beast crystal.

Jace and Maggie were part of the rank 1 hunter association, they took a mission to hunt these rank 1 Primitive beetle beasts. Neon was a no-rank human who was very unfortunate in life.

His parents died of the zombie virus, he was only six years old when his parents where taken away from him to be killed before the virus erupts. He was left alone in this cruel world with nobody to fend for him, they kept him in isolation and quarantine him making sure he didn't have the virus before letting him go.

When he got out he vowed to make the people who took his parents away from him pay. He resulted in begging and stealing to feed himself, he has been living that way till he became 16 years and then he set out to look for minor jobs.

Humans with no potential or abilities were set aside to suffer and fend for themselves. Neon had worked in many places like a restaurant as a sweeper, an errand boy, and even as a scout or bait.

He got fed up when he became 17 years of age and decided to join the hunters association as a scout and helper. His life didn't matter to him because he was nothing and he didn't have any impending future except eradicating the people who caused him pain.

So he was better off used as bait most times by hunters to lure their prey towards them and also as a scout in search for prey.

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