The heavy metal gate surrounding the remaining survivors, who are known as the Ashvor, slowly creaked open.
Olivia saw a creature dragging a bodied body deep into the woods.
The squad were all hesitant.
Tinya took a deep breath before taking the lead, soon others joined her.
Olivia could feel her legs trembling, with a promise of not supporting her, before she could buckle to her knees.
Anna held her shoulder " Are you okay?" her eyes worried as she asked.
" i..I am fine," she stammered.
" Let's catch up with them, it will be bad for us to be separated from them" she urged Olivia to walk.
They both walked towards their squad.
The metal gate began to close again, shutting them out from safety. Now it was time for the teenagers to depend on themselves, to survive the terrific horror of the outside world.
Olivia, green eyes, carefully observed her surroundings as they walked deeper into the woods.
" Everyone, follow my lead," Tinya's voice commanded.
" Stop acting as if you are the leader" The boy with the gold brown hair scoffed.
" Shut your trap Roy" Tinya shot back at him.
" You shut yours"
The atmosphere grew heavy with tension.
" You want to fight it out," Tinya teased.
" Guys stop" Anna stood between them " This is not the time for a fight, we are in the domain of the monsters, we can get attacked anytime" she paused, gauging their reaction " We need to stay united" she added.
Olivia unknowingly nodded her head in agreement.
" We are already in this together, we shouldn't fight because we are going to need it later" Olivia's voice echoed, before standing next to Anna.
" Oh please spare us the lecture, we don't need it from someone like you, a section 27 b**ch" Tinya snapped at her.
" Stop it Tinya" Anna's voice grew heavy, her nerves strained, ready to fight.
"AAARGH"
A scream suddenly broke the tension.
Their heads turned towards the source of the scream, but there was nothing but a trail of….blood.
Panic surged in the air.
" We are all going to get killed" the chubby boy cried, he suddenly dashed back, heading towards the fortress.
slash.
a pincer hand pierced through his chest.
His eyes opened wide in surprise, before he gave up the ghost. His body was dragged away under the cover of the night.
" Everyone stay calm" Anna's voice woke everyone from the traumatic experience that had assaulted their mind.
" It is the Craghoul monsters, they are level 4 Creatures" Anna informed as she took out her sword.
Everyone brought out their weapons. Olivia hands slightly trembling around her twin blades.
The Craghoul are monsters, with pincer hands, long legs with four toes, black coloured skin but thin enough to see the structure of their bones. A long spine like tail and a head with two black eyes and two sharp teeth protruding out of their mouth.
Everyone's eyes darted around, searching for the creatures, silence ensued.
Soon chaos followed as the Craghoul monsters began to attack. Olivia knew that, if you are weak, you will be the stepping stone to the strong.
She knew she can´t fight these monsters.
she needed to hide.
Her eyes searched for a hiding place.
She found a place. A hole in a tree, a good spot to hide.
She ran towards her target, but she.. stopped abruptly. Luckily avoiding a snarky attack from one of the Craghoul.
Her soul nearly limped out of her chest. The monster swung at her again, but she managed to dodge it.
Her movement was becoming slurpy, she won't consider herself as a level 1 soldier. Her system has not awakened yet.
She was extremely weak against the monster. Her blades flew in different directions. Her eyes widened, as she was powerless against the monster.
She tried to run, the monster's tail cut the skin on her back.
She falls to the ground, wincing in pain.
She saw the monster heading towards her from the corner of her eyes.
" No… I won't give up, even when I am down on my last breath" she muttered, her hand reached for her gun.
The monster reached out for its final strike.
Shot. shot. Shot.
Rain of gunshot followed after, her green eyes shone with anger. Black blood splattered over her body. The monster fell on her. Dead.
She pushed the monster away, she crawled towards the hole. Her eyes looked at Anna who was effortlessly kicking the ass of the monster.
She finally managed to reach the safety of the tree.
A groan of pain escaped her lips. She will wait for the battle to end, before coming out.
In a short while, the battle ended.
" We made it, " Tinya said, as she cleaned the black blood off her blade.
There were four of them now . Anna's eyes searched for Olivia.
" Olivia" she called out.
" Anna, i am here" Olivia weak force answered, she is losing blood.
" The trash from section 27 is the aliv…." A monster springs out of the ground swallowing her and her words.
Anna, who was already walking towards Olivia, turned around, and blood drained from her face.
" the wormhole king" she muttered as she stumbled back. A wormhole king is a level-18 monster, ranked as a S level beast.
His long steel-like body stood over 200 metre high, sharp jagged teeth surrounding its mouth, his black eyes shone with wisdom.
" We weren't supposed to encounter a S level beast" Roy felt his pants wet.
Before the blink of an eye, Roy and the other boy were brutally swallowed by the worm king.
Anna froze. The wormhole king's soulless eyes bore into her, sealing her fate.
Anna knew there was no outrunning this beast, she raced towards the beast.
" i'd rather die in a battle, than die like a coward" she yelled, as she flew up, aiming her sword at his eye.
" Noooo!!" Olivia screamed, as she tried to crawl out of the hole.
Her eyes locked with Annas, who smiled bitterly at her.
"Noooo….Nooo!!" she screamed, as she watched her friend being swallowed by the beast.
She wailed, crawling out of the hole.
Paused.
The Wormhole eyes locked on her. He swiftly turned towards her.
"This is it?" her green eyes closed, tears flowing down her cheeks.
Everything turned dark.