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The Bait and the Beast
The greatest joke of the apocalypse is that the guilty always expect mercy.At my feet, in the freezing snow, stood a woman, her hands gripping the rim of my armored jacket, Elena knelt. Dirt and frozen tears smeared her face. She looked pathetic. The haughty, vicious woman who laughed behind a locked door while I shivered through the night was completely gone.Elena sobbed, and forced a beautiful, tragic smile onto her frozen face, "I knew you wouldn't leave me. "Kaelen, I was so wrong. Marcus... Marcus forced me to lock you out! He threatened me! If I have not been able to live I would only have been able to do so because of you. Take me to your bunker, I'll be a good wife. I swear!"I didn't blink. I didn't get angry. I merely glanced at her, my eyes like the dead city around us.“You threw a child to the monsters just to jump a fence,” I said, my voice barely audible off the icy brick walls. You put an old man outside to rob his heater, you are a parasite, Elena, and parasites do
The Blood-Binding
Power in the apocalypse is never given freely. It is always paid for in blood.I glanced at her rolled-up sleeve and then up at her eyes. Only hours ago she was a scared college student shivering in the snow. She stood in the warm light of the command center and was asking me to make her a monster."Maya, you need to understand," I warned her, my voice heavy. The Blood-Binding ritual is no magic trick, the System will inject my mutated DNA into your veins and your cells will revolt; if your body isn't strong enough, your heart will freeze and shatter.Maya's voice was perfectly even, "I don't care. She didn't flinch at all. I saw a monster eat a boy alive today. I saw you fight a horde to keep me safe. If I remain weak then I am just a burden to you. Do it, Kaelen.I could see a smile playing at the corners of my mouth. She was a real Vance!I gave the command, "Hold out your arm. I said, "Hold out your arm.I placed my right hand up. With my sharp, bone-plated thumbnail, I cut a deep
The Price of Treachery
Bullets are nothing more than fast-moving rocks to a predator, and I was entirely tired of having pebbles thrown at my throne.Commander Graves screamed "Fire! Kill that freak!" while his voice broke under the weight of his extreme fear.Twenty elite mercenaries pulled their triggers at the exact same time. The freezing night lit up with the bright yellow flashes of muzzle fire. Hundreds of military-grade armor-piercing bullets tore through the howling wind to hit my head and chest.A single bullet would have ended my existence during my previous life. The bullets today failed to make me react.The heavy rounds slammed into my chest. Clink. Clank. Ping. The projectiles struck my bone-plated skin, which produced a bright spark before they dropped harmlessly into the blood-soaked snow. I remained in place without moving back from the position I took above the dead Tier-3 Dominator while the Vance Family's finest soldiers fired their weapons at my unbreakable body.Graves yelled "Reload!
The Throne of Ice
The Dominator's enormous, sharp-edged claws moved toward my face as they sent an icy gust that brought death with its presence.I didn't blink. I didn't step back. I used my full Titan Power to pull the core, which pulsed with cold from its chest as I held it at its center.I used my body to pull my arms backward while I heard my flesh tear apart and my bones snap. I pulled a massive glowing blue crystal out of the beast's chest cavity while black blood sprayed across my face.The Dominator became motionless. Its claws stopped just one inch from my eyes. Its body, which measured fifteen feet tall, fell to the ground after it exhaled a faint gurgling breath.The System appeared in front of my vision as an immediate bright light.The system identified and deleted the target who belonged to the Dominator's Tier-3 classification.The system detected an Extremely Rare Genetic Core.You can choose to Splice right now, which will cause your cells to suffer extreme damage during active combat
The Apex of the Frost
A vast number of claws will defeat all steel door defenses. The defense walls will protect you until the horde reaches full strength, which will result in the obstructions blocking all air circulation, the exhaust pipes freezing, and you being buried under a mound of dead bodies and ice.I observed the red radar screen which illuminated Shelter 04's command center. The bio-signature cluster located less than one mile from us was moving at a fast pace. The horde's dark black dot at its center pulsed with a dark rhythm. A Tier-3 Dominator.Maya insisted through her appeal which she made while standing behind me that "Kaelen we have titanium walls." "Just lock the primary doors! They can't get in! "My surface territory belonged to them if I remained inside the building I stated while turning away from the screens. I walked toward the armory area where my boots produced loud sounds on the steel structure. Maya, the apocalypse revolves around territory. If I allow them to take control of
The Weight of Survival
The harsh clack-clack of a shotgun being pumped echoed through the freezing industrial district.The three thugs were in front of my huge steel garage doors, their breath puffing in thick white clouds. The leader was an enormous man with a scar across his nose, and his weapon was pointed directly at my windshield.Get out of the heavy rig! he shouted, and his voice broke with the minus thirty-degree wind. Give the keys, give whatever you have in the back, and start walking! Do it, or I'll blow your face off!Maya caught me by the arm, her eyes panicked in the warm cabin of the SUV. "Kaelen, they have guns."Guns, I said under my breath, and my voice was quite dead of feeling.I swung the armored door, which was heavy, open, and went out into the howling blue snow. I did not reach my crossbow. I didn't pull my hunting knife. I was simply standing there, in a tattered tactical jacket, over my simple black shirt.The thugs laughed. I was to them like a dumb, unarmed boy who had blundered
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