Leon felt his eyes were heavy and he blinks, suddenly what he did not expect, a system window appeared in his front floating mid air.
ASSIMILATION 10%,20%,47%,79%,99%....COMPLETE SYNCRONIZATION 1%...100% COMPLETE.
CONGRATULATIONS YOU ARE SELECTED AS THE CAPTAIN OF CITY DEFENSE SYSTEM... WELCOME ABOARD AND MAY YOU HAVE A WONDERFUL TIME
too much shock, he couldn't comprehend what was happening, and he thought he is already to old to have this kind of things, he remembered his son William often reads things with a blue floating interface like this things, he thought he might be a chosen one and act ignorantly. But suddenly his gut feeling tells him that something's bad is going to happen.
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3 days later.
[Carmen-rosales airport, earth-year 2067, the beginning of the apocalypse]
Outside the airport terminal, the road was full of car and was in traffic, the place was bustling with people in and out of the building, a young man who wore a military camo outfit, he holding a gun case with a literal assault rifle inside it, he was also carrying a pack at his for back.
He breathe in heavily and out in relief let out a loud phraise.
"I AM BACK PHILIPPINES!! at last I'm finally back from that hellish experience" he then laugh energetically not knowing the atmosphere in his surrounding, and the people saw his act think he was crazy to overreact but they didn't let it out loud knowing William has a military badge decorated near his chest. Wearing a military uniform even in a residential place is just his style, it's not like it's restricted in today's age.
He came back to his senses and felt the atmosphere in his surrounding became awkward so he move on and pick up a taxi to go home in San Carlos city in pangasinan.
He sigh, and recall the bloody past he had when entering the military after just one year of military service, it was currently world war 3 and all nation in the world was affected.
'sigh... I only have mostly a month before going back to the army, I wonder how is my sister luna and my little brother jake doing? I hope jake already touch some grass outside, he always shut himself in his room stubborn to go out' he thought.
The taxi driver suddenly strikes a conversation with him.
"sir, did you just arrived lately from a foreign land, looking at your medal you seems an outstanding official in the Philippine army" William was quite surprise that this bald man despite being a civilian, knows something about the badge at a single glance, he must be a member of people who sold information, William assumed.
"how did you know? Are you an enemy spy?" spoke William warily.
But suddenly the taxi driver flustered and spoke
"hahaha good sir, relax, I'm only a taxi driver, I only knows that because I always watch news from tv"
"ohh, sorry for suspecting you, It was boring in the army, only wars and bloody fightings they even restrict using or bringing phones, only there's working TV in the stationed area can I see some news but even if I watched TV, I don't understand foreign languages"
"ahah, sir you sure had it rough, do u know that there's a disturbance currently happening in this region?" spoke the taxi driver who was speaking with his eyes focus on the road.
"a disturbance?" William replied with a puzzled look.
"yes, dead people keeps rising in this place that even the cemetery can't keep up with the number and a weird sightings of monster that was currently the famous talk in the town, it happened two days ago" while speaking the taxi driver sweat fell as he tell the rumors.
"if so then why are you still here? Aren't you afraid of it?" replied William waiting for his replies.
"sir, it's not like all people can afford a ticket and passports are hard to get by, this will be the last day I'll drive this car and buy a plane ticket for my daughter and i" earnest replies of the bald man.
"but... is there such a thing circulating around this place, it might be possible that rebels or spies spreading misinformation to ensure internal conflict..." spoke William while caressing his chin.
"no, I'm telling you I also saw the monster myself i~" but before he could continue suddenly a man's corpse flew directly to the car, and civilians in panic ran to the opposite direction.
"what the hell is happening here" William was stupefied by occurrence of an unknown entity continuously massacred the people who gets in there way.
It wasn't vivid since he was still on the car and the windshield has a blood splattered in it, the taxi driver tried to wake William back to reality.
"sir, snap out of it, we need to hurry and get out of here" but in hurry with overwhelming fear shrouding the bald man, he exited the car immediately and ran away leaving William on the car.
As soon as William was out from the car, he look at the direction of the chaos and saw an entity which was suppose to be in a fantasy world, it might be 3 years since he stopped watching anime and focus in his career as a soldier but he clearly knows the resemblance on it.
"a-an orc?! Why is it here and there's a lot of them holding a big cleaver knife"
There skin is slightly darker than the normal ones found in fantasy books and there eyes are deep red as if they were on a berserk-state.
"I see, so this is the era of the apocalypse, but I can't let this things run amok in this place" William pulled out the gun case and inside it was a gun and a few magazines.
"goddammit, I thought I could finally rest from fighting within this vacation, there's no way in hell I'm going to let you just destroyed my rest, die!! Stupid alien creature!!"
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