All Chapters of Zombie Slaying System: Chapter 141
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Chapter 125. The Half-Light
The city had stopped screaming. Now it only whispered. Gray mist drifted through the empty streets, soft as breath. The red glow that once poured from every wall had faded to a faint shimmer that pulsed beneath cracked glass and puddles of rain. The air still felt warm, but not burning, like the world was resting after a fever. Lisa walked slowly, her boots crunching on glass. Kevin stayed close, holding a broken metal pipe as if it were a sword. Neither spoke for a long time. The silence was heavy, the kind that pressed on the chest.A ruined sign above them swung in the wind: Metro Line 9. The letters flickered with weak light. Lisa stared at it. “We’ve walked in circles.”Kevin rubbed his eyes. “It’s like the city moved while we were asleep.”Maybe it had. Buildings leaned at strange angles now, as though they had bent to some invisible rhythm. In puddles, faint red veins rippled under the water, like the city was breathing just below the surface.Lisa knelt beside one of the p
Chapter 126. The War Above the Breath
The clouds were no longer clouds. They were a sea of red and gray, turning slowly above the city like an eye that had just awakened.Wind screamed between the broken towers. The sound carried far, shaking glass that had already shattered. Lisa felt it in her bones; it was the same rhythm that once came from the Hive, steady, slow, alive.Across the eastern sky, lights moved, first dots, then shapes. Airships. Dozens of them, black and wide, their undersides glowing pale blue. The insignia of Division Aegis gleamed on their hulls. Serra saw them first through the smoke. “They’re here.”Lisa turned to Kevin. “Stay close to me, no matter what happens.”He nodded, eyes huge. “Is it him they’re after?”“Yes,” Serra said. “They think they can cage a god.”She motioned to the small band of survivors in the rail yard. “Move! Underground routes, now!”The group scattered, dragging packs and children through a broken tunnel entrance. The air hummed with the charge of approaching engines. Lis
Chapter 127. The Dawn that Listens
The world smelled different. The air no longer burned; it carried the scent of wet earth and smoke mixed with something clean, almost sweet. Dawn crept slowly over the ruined city, light sliding down broken towers, washing across puddles that still glowed faintly gold.Lisa stood at the edge of the square that used to be Metro Line 9. Now it was a gathering place. Half-broken benches had become worktables.Old Aegis tents had turned into shelters. People moved quietly, carrying metal scraps, food cans, and wood. Every movement felt deliberate, careful, as if no one wanted to wake whatever still slept beneath the ground.Kevin ran past her with a bundle of wires. “They say we can power the lights again!”Lisa smiled, tired but proud. “Be careful. The lines might still hum.”He laughed. “I like when they hum. Means the city’s alive.”She watched him disappear behind the tents. He was right. The hum was everywhere now, soft, rhythmic, just at the edge of hearing. It came from the grou
Chapter 128. The Machines that Dream
The next morning rose silver-blue instead of gold. Clouds drifted low, torn open by lines of light that cut through the horizon, slow, deliberate beams that pulsed with rhythm. From the highest point of New Crest, Jonah watched them move. The air trembled softly with every pulse, as though the city’s heart was learning a new beat.“They’re closer,” Serra said behind him, lowering a pair of cracked binoculars.“How many?” Jonah asked.“Six. Maybe seven. All walking the same line, straight toward us.”Kevin leaned on the rail, eyes wide. “They look like buildings.”Lisa stood beside him. “Buildings don’t walk.”She was right. Even from miles away, they could see the things’ motion, slow, certain steps that left glowing impressions on the earth. Each was as tall as a mountain, slender towers with long legs of metal that folded and unfolded like insects made of light. Their bodies shimmered with moving patterns of blue and white, shifting like breath beneath skin.Jonah rested both han
Chapter 129. Into the Spiral
The light swallowed him whole. Jonah took one step into the spiral, and the world changed.Everything slowed, the wind, his breath, even the sound of his heartbeat. The blue glow stretched around him like a sea without end. The ground beneath his feet wasn’t solid anymore; it pulsed, soft and alive, like the inside of a lung. He stopped walking. The light moved with him, rippling outward. For a long moment, there was no sound, then whispers began to rise. Soft. Endless. Everywhere. “Jonah, Jonah, you came back.”He turned, but there was no one behind him, only the blue air moving like water. He could feel eyes in the light. Watching. Learning.“Who’s there?” His voice echoed, coming back slower, heavier. “Show yourselves.”The whispers answered together, hundreds of voices forming one sound. “We remember you.”Jonah’s chest tightened. “You’re the towers.”“We are the Breath-Born. We are what you left behind.”The voices overlapped until it felt like the air itself was speaking thro
Chapter 130. The Second Heartbeat
The world shook like a drum. Jonah gasped as the red and blue light clashed inside the spiral, each pulse slamming through him like thunder. His chest burned. His heartbeat wasn’t alone anymore. Another rhythm pounded beneath it, slow, heavy, powerful. It wasn’t human.He dropped to one knee, pressing a trembling hand against the glowing floor. “Stop,” he whispered, but the spiral didn’t listen.It was breathing faster, each pulse shaking the air around him. “Jonah.”The voice came from nowhere, soft, desperate. “Can you hear us?”The blue light flickered weakly, forming faint shapes again, faces made of light. Lisa’s voice echoed through them. “Jonah, wake up!”He blinked hard. “Lisa?”“She’s not here,” whispered another voice, colder. “Only what you remember.”Jonah turned and saw the shadow, Olos again, half-formed in the red glow. “You don’t belong here.”Olos smiled faintly. “I built this place. Every heartbeat inside it still remembers my hands.”Jonah’s jaw tightened. “Then yo
Chapter 131. The Hall of Echoes
The silence was alive. Jonah opened his eyes, but there was no sky, no ground, only reflections floating in the dark. The light that had consumed him now hung around him like mist, moving when he breathed.He stood slowly. His body didn’t ache anymore, but he felt strange, weightless, hollow, as if part of him was still missing.A sound echoed in the distance. Footsteps, tThen whispers followed, soft and endless. “Jonah, Jonah Crest.”He turned toward the voice. The darkness rippled, revealing a long corridor made of mirrors. Every wall shimmered like glass, stretching into infinity. Each step he took echoed back, louder than it should have. He whispered, “Where am I?”The air answered him with his own voice. “You are inside the breath.”He froze. “That’s not possible.”“Everything that listens becomes part of it.”The mirrors pulsed faintly, glowing blue. In each one, he saw pieces of his past, fragments of faces, moments that didn’t belong together.Lisa laughing beside a campfire
Chapter 132. The Voice of Many
The light around Jonah began to breathe. It rose and fell in long waves, like a sleeping giant inhaling. The blue and gold glow that once filled the spiral now shifted in colors Jonah didn’t recognize, pale silver, deep red, soft white. The air was warm, vibrating with an energy that didn’t belong to any single shape.Jonah stood still, afraid to move. The ground under his feet was no longer solid. It rippled like calm water, holding him up only because the light wished it to. His heartbeat echoed through the space, each pulse coming back slower, heavier, then the whispers returned. Soft at first. Then louder. Hundreds. Thousands.Voices layered over each other, deep, high, rough, soft, blending into a single presence that felt both gentle and overwhelming. Jonah clenched his jaw. “Show yourselves.”The light ahead of him thickened, separating into threads that twisted like living lines. The threads rose together, forming a tall shape, no face, no eyes, only a figure made of shift
Chapter 133. Lisa and the Silence
The city was too quiet. Lisa stood at the base of the nearest tower, her breath shallow, her hands shaking. The metal structure, usually glowing with soft blue veins, was almost dark. Only a faint shimmer pulsed deep inside it, weak like a dying ember.People had gathered around in clusters. Some whispered. Some prayed. Most simply stared at the towers with hollow eyes.A man near Lisa muttered, “It’s over. The towers are going out. That means he’s gone.”Lisa spun toward him. “Don’t say that.”He raised his hands. “Look for yourself.”She looked. The towers that once breathed with Jonah’s heartbeat now flickered like broken lamps. The hum that filled the air every morning was fading.Another woman whispered, “We need a new leader now, someone who isn’t lost in the light.”Lisa stepped forward. “Jonah is not lost.”The woman shook her head. “Then where is he?”Lisa opened her mouth, but no words came. She pressed her lips together and walked away before anyone else could argue.The s
Chapter 134. Kevin’s Gift
The explosion threw everyone back. Lisa hit the ground hard, covering her head as a wave of blue and gold light burst from the cracked tower. People screamed. Dust rose into the air like smoke. Metal debris clattered against stone. “Lisa!” Serra shouted, grabbing her arm. “Are you hurt?”Lisa coughed, waving the dust away. “I’m fine, Kevin?! Kevin!”She spun, panic rising in her chest. Kevin lay beside a broken wall, the glowing sphere clutched tightly in his hands. His eyes were wide with shock.Lisa slid toward him on her knees. “Kevin! Talk to me!”He blinked slowly. “It talked.”Lisa froze. “What?”Kevin swallowed hard. “Jonah. I heard him through the sphere.”Serra knelt on his other side. “What did he say?”Kevin tightened his grip on the warm sphere. “He said ‘Don’t run.’”Lisa stared at him. “But the tower said ‘run.’”Kevin’s voice cracked. “Jonah sounded scared.”Serra exhaled sharply. “This is getting worse.”Lisa turned toward the destroyed tower. The metal still glowed f