For the first week, every government dispatched their military. Due to the existence of the creatures, no repairs were done. It was only the lucky places that were not affected that had electric power.
This was the second expedition. All the soldiers of the first squad did not survive. The second squad was given advanced weapons but rather than killing, the bullets appeared like rubber bullets just causing the creatures pain.
As for the bombs, they did little to no damage. There was only one option left if this expedition failed. This was the largest squad sent to counter the creatures. Scientists were doing their best to study them but they got nothing.
The expedition failed terribly. The creatures ate even the bullets. The fighter jets and tanks were all destroyed. The military was greatly impacted leaving only around ten thousand soldiers with no weapons.
It was time to try using plan B which was what had been used the second world war. Very funny that it was humanities last line of defense. The counties with nuclear weapons decided to sacrifice a ten countries that were heavily infested.
Hundreds of nuclear bombs were fired to the countries but there was no damage at all. Instead, it became that these creatures fed on these nuclear material. They realized their mistakes as the creatures all scrambled for the nuclear plants and nested there.
With no other means of survival, it was like humanity had now given up. Humans found survival means and ways to stay away from the creatures. It was not long before someone accidentally discovered there was changes in their bodies.
He was a master of one of the temples that taught ancient martial arts. He found out that he could successfully open his meridians. He spent weeks and months working on it and soon, he was able to open his first meridians.
Nature always had its way of rewarding those who were dedicated to it. As the first person to open his meridians, he was able to have them all filled with energy. But it was not that he opened all his meridians. It was that he opened 50 meridians which was a testament.
As the first expert, he decided to test his skills and he hit a tree. It was unexpected. He managed to send it flying meters away. With this discovery, he decided to test his skills. Excitedly, he fought the first creature saving a girl.
She became his disciple and she was taught the methods of cultivation. When people heard of this power, they did not hesitate and they all flocked into the temple and that was how the first true martial arts was established.
Word spread and the old man was summoned by the authorities. The government which had been desperate found a light but things became difficult. It was found out that not everyone could cultivate.
But that was not the problem. the problem was the portals. Portals were opening up from every place every now and then as more demons poured in to earth. Things got worse when humanoid demons started crossing the portals.
The experts who were sent to try to fight these demons never came back as humans were driven back into a corner. It became that the number of demons reached that of humans and even twice them in six months.
What had been realized was that after one cultivated, they would become younger. There was also boost in strength, speed, agility and other factors that improved them from their previous selves.
For example, after cultivating, one could see the people become more beautiful and changed as one cultivated even more. But since they were all cultivating blindly, they were bound to reach bottlenecks.
Unless they discovered their own techniques, there was no way they were going to pass the bottle necks. That was not all. Those who managed to form their own techniques, they either did not share them or they just sold them at high prices.
As things stood, a demon had a core. The demon cores were red and they carried some energy in them. They became the means of trade. Some people used them for cultivation and they found out that they had increase in strength as they cultivated the energy from the demons.
But they realized that after cultivating for long, they hit a bottleneck they could never cross no matter how much cores they absorbed energy from. It became common knowledge that one should not use the core for cultivation.
Those who had done so had reached their peak which could only be classified as the early stages of cultivation. A year later, the normal human life had resumed but they were still not able to get back to how life was.
This was because they did not have the energy to split their attention in rebuilding and also fighting the enemy. More time was spent on science. Combining science and cultivation led to powerful weapon being created.
But all this went to naught when advanced demons came from the portals. It became a situation where they took a leap forward but they would be sent flying backwards further than they had started.
The demons did not seize killing humans. Before an advanced demon died, it would have taken down almost 100 people. This impacted the already reduced population. The human population was now at a staggering two million.
From a population of more than fifty billion, it had been reduced to two million. Humanity was at risk of extinction. The hope they had created in the past one year was shattered. They even gave up such that they were just waiting for their death.
But the period of sixteen years had been reached. The prominent families which had been in hiding for the past year or so they thought, made their appearance. They came as a wave.
They called themselves noble families. They declared that they came from a lineage of noble from an ancient empire. They stated that they were going to unite all the countries together and form an empire.
They were met with resistance which did not last one week. Everyone who opposed was taken down. The noble families proved their strength and also gave cultivation techniques.
the Noble families came together and separated the planet into regions. They each took a region and the central region was taken by the Byron Family. This family was a royal family of the past. The Patriarch of the Byron family declared himself emperor and the Noble families declared their loyalty to the empire.
The changes were fast and the speed in which things took place was unprecedented. But changes were about to be seen. It did not take long before order was returned. The noble families sent their geniuses out there to clear regions.
In one year, life had changed. the geniuses of the families were the most famous of them all. The Empire which called itself The Martial Union proved itself. The roads which had been destroyed were remade after the regions were cleared.
They created schools where they taught the cultivation techniques and way of the martial world. It was then the normal way was restored. They were able to successfully restart the satellites and internet was restored.
As things stood, there were two types of regions in the empire . The safe regions and the dangerous regions. As the names suggested, safe regions were those where humans could live freely and there were no dangerous creatures.
As for the danger zones, these were the countries where the previous government had bombed in hopes of taking down the creatures with nuclear bombs but had failed. These areas had the highest influx of demons and the demonic creatures. The regions with nuclear plants in the past were where the portals appeared frequently.
These regions were restricted and not everyone was allowed to go to these regions. They classified cultivation into six stages. Only those who had reached the fourth stage were given access to these regions.
Also, the Empire had proven just how powerful it could be. It was not only demons who could invade the planet. Humans could too invade the demon realm. Gates now appeared randomly and they were classified into various stages ranking the lowest being the D gates.
The D gates were invaded by those who had just entered the first stage. There were the C gates which only those who had reached the second stage were allowed into the gates. then there were the B gates.
B gates were for those who reached the third stage. then the A gates were for those who had reached the fourth stages. This was to mean that the threat in the danger zones were probably of the A grade.
The gates were random and they would sometimes go unnoticed and the demons would get into the planet. When one entered a gate and they were late to leave, they would get lost in the demon realm.
Time in the demon realm flowed differently. A minute on earth was a day in the demon realm. A portal was rated to stay alive for only one minute. This was to mean that one was supposed to leave before a day ended.
This was also one of the reasons why portals went unnoticed. A minute was very little time to gather experts. This was why people usually travelled in groups in search for portals.
The group leader had a Portometer which had the ability to read the strength of a portal.