BROTHERS TOGETHER: US AGAINST DOOM

Consumed With Horror

As Constantine was hesitating whether or not to take the risk to let Ruger use the dormant powers in his body, he suddenly heard the rumbling behind him caused by the countless number of dooms charging towards him.

At that moment, Constantine's expression changed and he no longer had the time to consider things anymore.

For a moment, Constantine had forgotten where he was and that he was currently in danger... how could he have the luxury of time to start, considering if Ruger was scheming against him now?

Even if it turns out that there was indeed a scheme afoot, Constantine had no choice but to bite the bullet and take Ruger up on his offer. That was the only way he could possibly escape here with his life intact.

At this moment, Constantine forced out the strength to continue running while turning his head back to see how close the dooms were to him. The scene he greeted him when Constantine turned his head around almost caused his heart to stop.

Right now, there was actually a doom that was currently right behind Constantine, baring its fangs at him and attempting to take a bite out of his back.

The doom was so close to Constantine that he could smell the putrid stink of its horrible breath. Just by opening its mouth and stretching its tongue, the doom could almost reach Constantine's nape and rancid saliva landed on Constantine's back, drenching him in a foul smell.

Constantine was so afraid that he miraculously managed to dig up some strength, some god knows where, and added a spurt of speed to his already exhausted legs, gradually widening the distance between himself and the doom.

"Damn it!"

"It's a good thing these dooms are stupid and didn't use any extraordinary powers. If not, I would be done by now!"

Constantine cursed softly under his breath after managing to pull some distance away from the doom. He was really glad that the doom didn't think to use any extraordinary powers to attack him after being so close to him.

Actually, it wasn't that the doom didn't think to use extraordinary power to attack him; it was just that it couldn't. For dooms, there was a strict hierarchy of power that was governed solely based on how large they were. When it came to the dooms, the larger they were, the more powerful they were. Only when a doom reached a certain size would they be able to gradually grasp extraordinary powers to use?

Dooms that were one meter tall were the weakest, and they couldn't use any extraordinary powers whatsoever. They could only rely on their powerful physiques to fight, as well as certain innate racial traits.

For example, the doom that had attacked Constantine in the hospital when he was still in a coma was only one meter tall and it could flatten itself to blend into dark corners and shadowy areas. This is not an extraordinary power but an innate trait that dooms as it had from birth. It was also evidenced by the fact that when it attacked Constantine; it had only relied on its powerful body to shoot towards him at the speed of a bullet.

Even for dooms that were two meters in height, they couldn't awaken any extraordinary powers. It is only when a doom reached the height of five meters that it could start using some extraordinary powers to battle. Any doom below five meters in height that looked like it could use extraordinary powers was simply making use of their innate characteristics to pass off as powers.

It is because humans still lack an understanding of the dooms that they usually made this mistake.

In some cases, the humans were really lucky...

When the space rifts had first appeared and the dooms started invading earth, the rift had only been small enough to allow dooms that were only one meter and two meters tall to pass through. This made it so that with the technology on earth, it was possible to resist their invasion and come up with countermeasures to fight against the dooms so that when more powerful dooms eventually came through the rift, they could put up an effective resistance.

Constantine did not have the time to consider all of this as he was still shaken by the close shave with the doom. But the thing about that school Constantine so much was not the fact that he had almost become doom chowder... it was what he had seen behind the small dooms chasing after him that terrified him greatly.

Following behind the crowd of small dooms was a smaller crowd of larger dooms that were five meters tall and above. These dooms were very massive and their size was simply daunting. Watching those dooms coming after him was like witnessing a whole building complex grow legs and start to run.

The thought of it even was enough to blow somebody's mind!

It was only now that Constantine knew the sandstorm was actually caused as a result of all these dooms crowding together and moving. As their large feet stepped on the sandy ground, it whipped up a storm of sand and dust that covered the ground.

To be honest, Constantine was terribly frightened!

Dooms that were one meter and two meters tall were already too much for Constantine to handle, but seeing those behind them caused him to go into despair.

On earth, one-meter and two-meter dooms were the most commonly seen. After one year of bitter resistance, the humans were already strong enough to completely deal with any doom of this size whenever they showed up with minimal damage sustained to life and property.

Dooms that were three meters large might be difficult but not impossible, but at five meters, that was when things became hard and it would take a bitter struggle to fight them off with great amounts of damage being done to the surrounding areas. Anything larger than that was simply a disaster waiting to happen. Fortunately, not many dooms of this size had appeared. The largest doom to have ever appeared was a ten-meter doom that only managed to squeeze out of the space rift and come to earth.

This was the only doom to have reached ten meters in height to appear on earth and when it did, the devastation it had wrought was impossible to believe.

A whole city had almost been completely leveled, and it had taken the efforts of the meta humans that had recently appeared on earth to finally defeat the doom. But even at that, the earth had won a pyrrhic victory at most and there was nothing worth celebrating.

Right now, these dooms that were so difficult to find on earth were actually following behind Constantine at a leisurely pace. There were hundreds of five-meter tall dooms and tens of dooms that ranged from six meters to eight meters in height. Constantine could also count three ten-meter dooms in the crowd. And this was not the most frightening...

At the very back of the crowd of doom was a monster that exceeded ten meters by Constantine's estimate.

Constantine could only see a faint outline of the creature, so he could be sure if it was actually a doom or a small hill. The creature was stationary and didn't move along with the rest. But despite that, Constantine could feel a suffocating pressure emanating from that creature just from looking at it. If not for his sufficiently powerful soul that had been strengthened after fusing with Ruger's soul, Constantine might have simply lost his soul from that one look.

That creature... whatever it was... gave Constantine too much of a fright and his back was soaked in sweat. Right now, he could be bothered to care if Ruger was scheming against him or not, and he was willing to take the risk just to get out of here. The only reason he had lasted until now even is that his body had been strengthened greatly after inheriting Ruger's powers.

Even if Constantine couldn't use those powers, his body had already been reborn and could no longer be measured by the standards of normal humans.

With his mind made up, Constantine quickly shouted to Ruger to help him.

"Alright, old man, you win! Now quickly get me out of here before that creature horrible creature behind us decides it wants to have a snack!"

Hearing this, Ruger finally responded.

"Hahaha!" Ruger laughed loudly inside Constantine's head as he said in excitement.

"you said it, kid, don't regret it later. Now let go of your body and let me take over. Also, you'd better steel yourself and be prepared cause things are about to get rough."

With that said, Ruger quickly took over Constantine's body and lightning started to flash all over his body as a terrible and all-encompassing aura gradually spread from within.

It was like a terrible beast was gradually being awakened from the depths of Constantine's body.