jin and the brother sister duo were standing in front of what could only be described as a 40-meter-long wall of lava blocking their path to the cabinet of the head doctor's room. It has already been some hours since jin and his group started to pillage the hospital of all the good things while avoiding the harmful lava around them which was Coming at them in waves.
All this time, there was not a single moment where the group had left each other's side. It was only when jin told them to take a break and scatter randomly to find somewhere to rest or may be pillage some more stuff. In this little expedition of theirs, tina and Janam's abilities were proving their worth. While tina was able to push the lava back to create a way for her brother and her master to walk through, and Janam pulled anything he could get his senses locked on. Jin was quite happy for the decision that he had made of saving them. It might have taken him ages to do all the work by himself.
Along the way, due to Jin's bad luck, or the curse of the Squag or may be both, everything in the hospital was destroyed. Except for one thing or rather, a room. It was the same room of the head doctor. But blocking it was a wall of lava which had blocked his path to advance into the room and pillaging the needles and the other stuff for which he came here.
Jin was in thought's after seeing the wall in front of him. He must cross it no matter what! The option of retreat never existed in the first place. The pathway backwards was also gone, it was annihilated by the waves of lava which were after a long time of spuing destruction, calming down at last.
He had no option than to veight for some time for any changes in the wall. "maybe it will automatically disappear like the previous lava was disappearing?" jin assumed and with this assumption being the core of his thinking, he motioned to Janam and tina to lie down on the hospital floor and rest up a bit to recover their energy.
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Jin's base. Half an hour since jin left.
Lily was in her room, training with some training dummies which she had taken from the former training ground of the heaven's university when suddenly, her room door swung open and someone entered the room without even asking for her permission.
As she was going to reprimand the person who entered, she saw his face and stopped herself. It was Hardik, Jin's very first student.
"why have you entered my room?" lily asked Hardik with raised eyebrows. Has this person gone insane? Or the little power jin gave him was enough for him to think that he had surpassed everyone and he was the strongest? Lily questioned in her mind.
May be sensing what she was thinking, Hardik's face turned red from embarrassment and shame. He quietly explained himself to clear his thoughts to the woman he thought his master desired.
"it is not as what you may think; mis lily. I am here sent by Vicky to inform you that the base is under attack from an unknown person. he had killed 10 of our people and continuing to kill some more." Hardik explained. "Vicky had told me to inform you to go quickly and call my master, jin from the hospital. We would not be able to survive the attack because the man is very strong for us to fight even if we all fight together." Hardik added.
"will jin be able to fight him? Are you sure about that?" lily asked in uncertainty.
Hardik looked at her with a mocking gaze which contained the following words---"are you stooped to think that jin will not be able to fight such a man? That man, may be stronger than us, but what are we compared to jin? That man is nothing against the king of the heavens!" with that said, he once again reminded lily to go call jin and then he left her room to assist Vicky and Himanshu against the man.
Hardik was about to go to the place which was regarded as the battlefield where the fight was ongoing, but his path was blocked forward by not an enemy, but his master's own people, the survivors! Some of them even ganged-up on him and tried to beet him. But it was apparent who was the ruler. Even with the advantage in numbers, they weren't simply a match against Hardik. With each punch he through at them, one fell until slowly, only two of the persons remained.
The two of them frightened as they saw what they have done. They tried to escape, but there was no hope for them to do so. Without waiting for even a second to pass Hardik arrived in front of them and pulled out a thick rope from his pocket, with which, he started bind them. But soon though, they realized that there was more than just binding present in the rope. It was when one of them started to not feel anything. Well, it was a good thing not to feel in a situation where they were about to be bound because that will spell that they were free to go. But they were not able to enjoy this thought because they soon realized that they were not able to feel because they were becoming one with the rope itself! Their body parts were turning into light particles and entering the rope one by one and all of this took only 5 seconds to happen, this fact was more than enough to let them believe that they have no hope left now. "we are doomed!." This was final thought which entered their mind before it was also turned into light particles as well or at least, that was what they supposed will happen but when nothing happened, they looked around in confusion to see where the enemy was, but they saw no one, not even a shadow of the man who was just about to give them to his rope as food.
Somewhere else in the base:
Himanshu, jins newest apprentice, was fighting against a strange creature unlike Hardik who was fighting against human beings. This creature was very difficult to deal with at his current level. But it was when he was alone, but now, he wasn't alone.
Vicky was keeping an eye on him from range. As Vicky was an archer, it wasn't very good to get in close range with the enemy. Archers usually fight with range and distance, and Vicky was not an acception to this role.
The monster both were fighting was a wolf which had perhaps mutated due to the Apocalypses effects. The mutation caused him to grow his claw's sharpness to a whole new level. It could now cut into stone like butter, and his tail was elongated and was also sharp like its claws. Being a wolf it was very agile even before the Apocalypse, but now, that previous agile Ness was nothing but a scratch on his current agility stat. its fur was dark green, like a deadly poison. It was now able to fire poisonous arrows from its mouth which were causing Himanshu the trouble of hell even without him dying.
His condition was not good. He was fighting but he did not dare to thought that he will last very long in this battle without Vicky's support aiding him from the shadows.
But the good thing in all of this was that it also had many wounds and blood was continuing to pore down on the ground, turning it black from which putrid stench was also Coming out as well.
Himanshu was attacking these same wounds, deepening them further and his attacks were able to damage his internal body structure, which was fragile, unlike his outer body which was as hard as rock.
The creature was now on its last legs. It could only fight for may be two-three minutes more before falling into oblivion forever. A flaming arrow suddenly pierced a place where a wound was already present, instantly killing the beast. After the beast was killed, it's body suddenly disappeared and left a shining white marble like stone on the ground.
Himanshu and Vicky sighed in relief and quietly sat on the ground to rest for some minutes for they were exhausted from the fight. "we have not even started the final fight and we are this much exhausted already. What would be the real fight like?" Vicky imagined in his head and told Himanshu about it. Upon realizing what Vicky meant, his face turned pale white like Vicky. He said, --"mis lily should call master jin sooner or else we'll all die. I hope Hardik had done his duty." He replied as they continue again from where they could sense the aura of the very powerful man.
After walking a km forward, both were now standing in front of a small hut built near the university. Before the Apocalypse this hut was owned by an old man who was always kind to the university and granted kids money although only a little because he was also poor, but the university's students and teachers both liked him and they sometimes even gave him food when they saw that he was going hungry. Seeing the same hut of someone they knew, filled their hearts with complex emotions. Had the old man betrayed them? Was he just someone who was helping them all this time because he wanted to take over the university one day and now when the opportunity presented itself, he took it without realizing that the lives of more than 500 were at stake? They were not able to shake off these two questions from their heads when suddenly, a terrible possibility struck them like a lightning bolt from the heavens. "what if someone killed him and took over his hut?" no one realized who questioned, but after hearing this, their faces turned deep crimson from anger and hatred towards that person.
"wait! Who questioned?" Himanshu suddenly realized and pulled out his sword, ready to strike and strike he did! The sword swung in the air with a sound like it was penetrating wind. Seeing this Vicky sighed—" if I would be on the receiving end of this sword's attack, I would have instantly perished without even being able to defend against it at all! That's how dangerous this sword is!" Vicky realized.
Clank! A sound of metal wringing against metal struck the air and the sword was thrown back towards Himanshu. They only had enough time to see the figure of a woman who was wielding a sword in her right hand before they were not able to see her because of her superfast speed which could even be compared to jin!
In a second, the woman arrived behind them and!?
Chapter end.