"Be strong, put your everything into it. One day, all your efforts and sacrifices will never fail you, and someday you will be rewarded"
That's what my father said. I assume he was right. So i gave my all when i do something that will lead us to a better life.
But, no matter what efforts and hard work i made. It always wasn't enough, and no matter how good you are, failure will tap on your shoulder quite often.
There were always something im good at, but there were also something that i couldn't. In the end I'm just a fish in the sea, no matter what efforts i bring, failure will always follow.
But something good would at least happen in your life. It might be exciting or not, at least it's a chance send by heaven. One chance could make a small fish become the predator of the sea. But it really didn't matter when good things come to ends. Whatever it takes, protecting the weak is the duty of the strong, that was the word my master told me.
....
[ 3 years later, Earth, year 2070, the final city, Tarqia's fortress]
In a certain city in a form of a giant fortress with soldier desperately firing and constantly dying. Thunderous sounds of guns and the smell of blood and gunpowder in the air and a scattered remains of the bullets on the fortress. Smoke arises in the mids of the chaos and undying fires burning the lives of many.
Unknown giant monsters with dark-reddish eyes and it's blood was greyish dark and it keeps devouring the dead comrades of the final frontier. That was the only thing they know about this vile creatures while knowing its goal for destruction. It was a real struggle to defend the place and the sacrifice of the soldier who buy time just to evacuate everyone from the hell that befall on their motherland, the earth which has lost it's color and turn grey. A futile resistance and struggle to survive. There's no turning back.
The bugs had long since run amok to the world devouring it's color and life for almost 3 years since it started. And what left now is a lone city that had yet to fall but soon it's fate will be the same as the other city, already engulfed by the gluttonous bugs and what left of them was the ruin of the last civilization of humanity.
Cries and wails of people, reigniting their hope and wish to protect their beloved ones and in hope their sacrifices weren't in vain as they shouted their battlecry until the end. It's a massacre for both, it didn't matter for this endless tsunami of bugs but humans keeps dying, and couldn't defend themselves from it's dangerous attacks.
"die! You filthy bugs how dare you kill my brother" the man with tears leaking in his eyes fought valiantly while furiously triggers his gun, shooting anihiliting photon energy to the bugs who where spurting out grey blood, `skree!!!!` `skrill!!` bugs shrills as it died. In it's agonizing death, the unfortunate man died being stabbed in its heart of one of the spider-like bug talon and was devoured by it's sharp mouth.
"argh, s-save me!!" cried a young man who had his left arm cut off and was destined to die. He tried to ran away but it was to late as he was destined to be a bugs food.
"a dragon-type bug!! Incoming!!" a huge dragon had arrived, everyone seems wavering since a big threat arrived. It spit out dangerous flames that could burn normal people to dust. But the experienced soldiers didn't falter, they coordinated properly to take down the big lizard. Without intelligence, dragon like this was merely a huge lizards.
But this dragons body composition are strangely misaligned to what a dragon really is, it has sharp talons, green skin and breathe a incinerating blue flames.
Looking at that they already fought some before,they have manage to triumph, but unlucky sacrifices weren't small. Many died in the process.
But the strongest person in the group, their leader, william finished it off using the blade attached to his gun. The blade was quite specially made to cut down tough skins of gigantic ones, but the gun wasn't, but it was still known for it's durability. But the bullets of it was quite a special ones. He specially custom-made the weapon and called it Bel-phas.
"Everyone hang in there, till the evacuation ends please hold out for our beloved ones to survived and also for the sake of humanity to avoid extinction"
William, our protogonist shout in valor and determination while gritting his teeth, fighting the bugs with his Belphas that resembles more like a sword, cutting the endless bugs into pieces or blowing up bugs heads with the special bullets. He was one of the leaders of 15 final defense battalion, the 6th battalion final defense group. Originally there were 15 battalion but 7 out of 15 were wiped out at the very moment. In total of 17381 final suicidal soldiers against an endless numbers of unknown creatures in progress of devouring a planet.
The floors on the broken fortress has cracks and was bathed with blood red and grey, while carcasses of the dead littered around. The soldiers is fighting it out at their very end.
Fatigue build up on William as he slice and fire up his gun in endless fashion. He had quite a lot of scars in his well-built body and one on his handsome face.
His struggle won't matter as countless weird creatures with various shape and side but had the same dark eyes, grey blood, and its carnivorous trait towards the living. Rest is not an option.
He know there only purpose is to buy time until the spacecrafts launch he gritted his teeth while identifying the monster he encountered frequently.
There even some derived from a fantasy novels that he had read in the past like goblins, orcs, ogre, magical beasts and other many races, their were even demonic dragons that appears, but there is also weird creatures within their ranks.
But the only race besides human that didn't show up in the swarm was dwarves and elves and few other mythical creatures that appeares in many fictional fantasy stories.
The fortress had many gun turrets with different type of artillery weaponry attached to it. There were even blasting ballista that was quite effective at killing big ones. but most of them was already been destroyed by the bugs. Some range-type bugs, that looks like a big cannon and others who spit melting acids.
At the very moment the people had been evacuated to the gigantic spacecraft like mothership called Mothership Aria, housing a capacity of millions of people. Since human population reduced to only millions, the civilization that humans painstakingly built took a big leap back while the remaining scientist in the world piece there ideas to create the state of the art spacecrafts.
[captain's office, Mothership ARIA]
A commanding officer saluted to a middle aged man who had a rank of a general.
"general, the people had been successfully evacuated. We need to recall the troops to minimize further casualties"
"hmm, is it done? good, ok sound the retreat immediately and also tell the scientists to start the planetary migration." spoke the man on his early-thirties while looking at the map of the city and the charted coordinates of space leading to a certain planet.
"Yes, sir!" the officer exited the scene.
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[tarqia fortress]
As soon as william heard the sound of the retreat alarm that was loud enough to reach the outside of the fortress, william shouted to his team for a retreat when his surviving superior shouted his command. They slowly retreated to the spaceship while fending off the bugs slowly, some died in the process while many perseveres.
But because of the obstacle that keeps blocking their way. Only 3 defense battalion worth of troops had manage to survived and enter the spacecraft. 1 battalion of soldier had manage to aboard the ship safely while the last surviving batch of soldiers, the 6th battalion troops which was originally 1000 men but they were reduced up until there were only 110 left.
While on there way to the deck running while holding their life on line, the vice leader who was just beside william got pinned down by wolf - like bug.
William helped him and killed the bug but william was hit by a big spider, he tried to block it resulting his Bel-phas to suddenly broke. His precious weapon broke not knowing it had finally reached the end of it's durability.
And the blade it attached to flew away precisely hitting and killing a range-type bug that was about to shot plasma in his direction. The sudden lost of weapon creates an opportunity for the spider to injured william's left abdomen and he flew off to the opposite wall.
"im-im.. Im sorry!"
Scared, the vice leader ran away without helping william with is tears falling and his feet was shaking.
On the run, the vice leader was being chased by a dozens of bugs, he ran until he couldn't see him anymore. Unbeknownst for william.
The vice leader will still die in the end.
He had already been abandoned by him. He cursed.
"cowardly bastard. At the start of defensive warfare you said you were ready to die? You even shouted banzai... Well i guess no one really wanted to die. And it takes a lot of courage to say it. 'cough'"
But it didn't falter his will to live and his younger step-brother and step-sister was already aboard the spaceship. He had to keep his promise to luna to return, that's what fuel his will.
Because his only weapon was destroyed and the bugs had surrounded him, came rushing at him. Until He luckily found a unique looking dagger just beside him. The knife had a peculiar magic stone that the bugs usually had inside their corpse and yet he had not know what magic stone was really residing near it's hilt and the pattern was golden and it was sharp. He doubt he had seen this before but he know he needed it to survive, he grabbed it before the bugs jump at him and he used his military martial arts that was learned 2 years ago and embued it with mana. A technique That was discovered after the discovery of the mana sword that was used to effectively fend of the bugs.
He slashed up bugs after bugs, ignoring the pain of his injury, adding up the new injury on his left shoulder. He ran quickly towards the spaceship before it launches off.
[inside the mothership, Main control room]
"general, almost most of the surviving troops have arrived, we should probably leave now before the outer shell enhancing shield's energy deplete!" a certain scientist said.
"hmm, carter!"
The commanding officer came in while saluting.
"yes, general evangel"
"hmm, casualties report?"
"we presumed 12851 death amongs the soldier, a whole 6 regiment, and 304 for the civilians, sir"
"too many had died this time, we can't lose furthermore. good, let us depart then. Close the deck and don't let the immigrant out of their cabin. Sergeant Carter maintain and stabilize the situation"
"yes, sir!" quickly as the two excluding the general left. And There is no time to mourn the dead.
.....
"huff- huff i gonna make it, i will"
Until william saw the spacecraft that was about to launch off. Bugs was surrounding it. the last remnants of the defense force was fending them back off the spacecraft's deck. Some even use space fighters to kill. Because of the special energy coated at the spaceship. The bugs couldn't damage it. William ran while killing off the bugs that blocks his path but continuously sustaining injuries but his persiverance didn't let him incapacitated. The spacecraft was setting off. William tried to climb the spacecraft, he tried to stab the outer shell of mothership aria.
"!!! " but even the dagger couldn't penetrate it. He forgot that the only weapon that could break the energy wrapping the outer shell of the spacecraft, was his blade that was attached into his gun broke so sudden. Somehow, there were no hope as the deck had already closed down. he failed miserably and was falling down when the spacecraft reached 150ft up. Even the space fighters didn't help him and all of them landed at the docking station already.
While falling down he murmured.
"am i going to die?" he saw the bugs, reaching out for him down, except for the bugs, all of the earth's color turned grey regardless of what it is.
"if i really die, then i won't let the bug eat me alive, im sure jake will take care of his older sister... Fairwell luna, even if i fought here till the end i will still die anyway"
So he stabbed himself using the unique dagger, bursting his own heart, committing suicide as he don't want to die, painfully being devoured by the bugs alive. Possibly due to his pride.
He died just as he was about to reach the surface, the magic stone inside the dagger of which he stab himself shone brightly the moment he died, he only saw a glimpse of the light before he lose consciousness. His body landed and the bugs tore his corpse apart, devouring his body. But it is unknown to why the dagger dissappeared without a trace.
Extra info:
World devouring worm: a mysterious extraterrestrial monster the masterfully uses it's power to open up wormholes and send it's creations to devour the worlds, it is a giant monster that produce many different types of creatures it devours and makes them eat the targeted world continuesly until it turns into a grey planet temporary and then suddenly devours the planet whole leaving nothing into nothingness. The planets still has a chance to recover as long as it's not completely devoured. Appearance:[intergalactic arch]