THE UNDEAD VIRTUAL WOLF MAN- IN A SURVIVAL DEATH GAME

Chapter 3: The Undead

The guild masters nodded as they walked out to the door in a hurry.

Across all 210 sectors,  massive tanks rumbled forward. Helicopters lifted into the sky like swarms of steel insects. Thousands—no, millions—of soldiers marched in unison, all dressed in robotic iron suits.

 Live drones record the famous S-ranking heroes marching alongside soldiers and citizens stood in large numbers to greet their idol hunters 

Guild banners were unfurled, fluttering crimson under the false red moon. Magic hunters, armored hybrids, cybernetic wolves, and colossal siege mechs are prepared for deployment. The war horns of mankind blared, echoing across the sectors.

For the first time since the apocalypse began, all of humanity marched together as one. The giant black iron gates of the wall groaned and creaked open with Authority. The convoys moved out, flying drones escorting them like watchful hawks. Danny walked out among other cadets. 

[Visual focus Skills>Eyes of a Hunter: Activated]

Danny's eyes shifted from blue to red, with his gaze zooming in from a distant direction. His hand trembled, and his feet shook as he stood on the edge of a high-rise building, looking at numerous heavy military helicopters with powerful machine guns hovering in the wind above, whipping through his white hair as he looked at the digital screen.

A live camera from the helicopter adjusted its focus properly, broadcasting live a major global event that has changed the fate of the world outside the walled city.

 This event was unfolding before the eyes of everyone through various streaming devices. Some streamed from trains, cars, offices, and homes.. The sky was the gunshot that began the third wave of the three years of darkness.

The sky was not the sky of man anymore. The clouds burned red, painted as if soaked in blood. Above, the moon turned crimson, like a bleeding wound across the heavens.

Lightning tore through the storm, glowing purple and violet, tangled within a dark, oppressive, gloomy cloud that spread across the earth like a curse. From within those storms came massive, giant flying shapes that should not exist.

Flying Creatures, Dragons of bone and shadow, and their wings blotting out the stars, these creatures were no longer alive but flying corpses, dead things reanimated, screaming as they tore across the red skies.

The seas turned black and red. Out of the depths rose the massive, undead red sea serpent dragons with blue burning flames in their eyes, with the size of towering skyscrapers.  They coiled through the oceans, devouring ships whole, painting the waves crimson. The whole world was watching this very moment, tainted in great fear.

Every surviving broadcast drone turned toward a rising horizon stage, a demonic altar in the distance with the red moon flickering its light on them.

Standing atop were nine giant, massive figures, three times the size of a man, and one was the leader. They were in decayed skeleton armor, as if they had clawed their way out of graves.

They were like bony medieval knights with crowns of thorns and spikes in demonic full black armor, armored to the teeth, holding nine different outstanding weapons. Their flesh was pale, stretched over bone. And in their eyes burned blue flames, fire without warmth, fire that devoured hope.

At the center of them stood one taller, darker, and heavier than the rest with red flaming eyes. He raised his gaze, and the red moon hung behind him like a crown of blood; his silhouette burned into every phone screen and TV on earth watching.

And he declared in a demonic, husky, coarse voice of a thousand witches.

“And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. And he opened the pit, and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace… and there came out of the smoke a demon of locusts upon the earth.

And they had a king over them, who is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue he has his name.

He stared with his horrifying red flaming eyes, and he thundered his name like a curse.

"My name is Apollyon. The King of the Abyss. The Angel of the Bottomless Pit." His words echoed as he stared at a group of human soldiers below.

Rows of tanks, armored vehicles, and flying robots aimed their barrels upward. Helicopters whirred with cameras locked at this spectacular event. Machine guns clicked, aimed, and S to A down to D ranking hunters, ready weapons for swift action

Yet before them, spreading across the plains stretched an army of endless humans turned zombies, storming out of every corner. Their rotting bodies shambled and screamed, jaws unhinging with hunger.

The two forces stood locked—man’s weapons of steel and fire against the abyss of the dead. And then Apollyon spoke. His voice was thundering. His eyes glowed like molten suns. His laughter shook the mountains.

“Mortals!

Your world and the parallel virtual world of the undead necrophiliacs merged the curse of the dead when your hydrocollider of humanity turned on, shifting your reality from time to an alternate augmented reality of my creation. 

Your Hydro Collider tore apart the veil; you opened the bottomless pit. With great thanks to your inventor, Dr. Marcus Kael," he stretched his hand to Danny’s father. 

The camera drone zooms in as a black shadow of death substances envelops doctor Marcus' body and begins to transform him. Danny falls on his knee, shocked. That forgotten face had triggered a memory.

"You unsealed me, and you have unleashed a biblical prophecy of the angel of death sent to kill one-third of humanity. And for making it possible for me to be free, I thank you and shall reward you by making you my 8th Demon lord general- Valley of Death."

Danny's eyes flash with anger. His eyes reddened, and he gritted his teeth in pain and tears as he and the whole earth watched  Dr. Marcus transform from a white lab coat in his average human size into a giant hooded cloak magician of death standing close to Apollyon. Death assumes his face and maintains body posture in its giant form.

"More than one billion souls of the reanimated demons in human skin against the armies of humanity.  Humanity shall know no peace. They shall not die quickly. No… You will pay with your lives for the seven deadly sins you have committed.”

His words stabbed into every living soul, every device, and every broadcast.

“Seven stages of virtual augmented reality await you—seven, the number of perfection and the seven deadly sins man must pay for, then death and the grave.

 You shall face my army, my games, and my seven deadly demon lords representing each sin, the Demon Lords of the Pits of hell, one by one. Each stage will demand your blood and your sacrifice, and I must enjoy your sorrows and despair. When you clear a Death trial stage, your world returns to normal until the next stage, when the augmented reality distorts time and shifts into your reality.

Should you conquer them all seven and reach the  Dooms of the eight demon lord Dr. Marcus Death… you may have the right to challenge me for the fate of the world. Your strongest champion of humanity versus the champion of augmented reality, and if you win.

The moon orb of the Collider will shatter this virtual augmented reality forever and return to the life and world you once knew, and this curse shall stop.”

His grin split wide, teeth like blades.

“But if you fail…HAHAHAHA”

The eight demonic generals flanking him raised their iconic eight weapons, each one exhaling a different aura of the deadly sins—greed, sloth, envy, pride, lust, gluttony, wrath, and then Death. The zombies roared as if answering their king. The mountains trembled from the billions of the endless zombie army.

“…then the augmented reality shall be your reality forever, and every soul of humanity who is bitten by my army will be reanimated by demons as the undead and will be dragged every one of you into the abyss of the bottomless pit, where you will become part of the legions of the dead, claiming your body and soul, and you shall burn with me in the pit where Satan himself lives for all eternity!”

His laughter shattered the silence.

He stretched forth his hand, and the earth shook and rumbled with an earthquake. The ground cracked and tore open, and a massive, towering maze-like structure, a dungeon labyrinth, arose.

 Massive grey and decay-green vines towering from the bottomless pit of hell stretched to heaven several distances away and stretched across the vast horizon.

“HAHAHAHAHAHA! Now, humanity has three years to complete the eight stages and defeat me and clear the augmented death survival trial, or be dragged to hell. Your first death survival trial starts now with the labyrinth of the deadly sin of Greed. Let the death trials of Revelation begin."

Rachel, watching, couldn't take it. She collapsed to the ground.

Danny couldn't hold his anger. He screams.

Kkkkkkkkkkkkyyyyyyyaaaaaaaaaahhh

Till his voice roared like a massive beast. A helicopter whipped through his white hair, and the camera adjusted its focus on him. Bright light shines down on him on his knees, drawing the attention of people around to look at him.

"Reporting live, news reaching us that Rachel Kael has collapsed from the trauma." Danny saw his mother taken in an ambulance to the hospital as the news continued..

"In another shocking turn of events!! Dr. Marcus's supposedly dead son has been spotted alive. It seems he somehow survived the apocalypse because live footage appears that Apollyon had killed or turned him into an undead zombie. How is he alive?" A trending video of Danny turned to zombie was aired across all media platforms... "Here is another shocker. The orb of revelation reveals his magic affinity to be the power of the undead. What does this mean for Sector Forty-Seven and the rest of the world?. With all the evidence pointing at him. The big question is...is Danny Kael a Human or an undead? Sarah reporting more updates on CCN News," Danny's face and kneeling position flashed on every news field.

" Mother" Danny rose up and ran out of the building. He hid his face in his hood and booked a taxi to the medical complex .  

.......

The blood moon filters its light on Anna Sinclair, with her face hidden inside her dark hooded jacket tracksuit, walking close to a restaurant. The environment was empty as citizens had run from fear. She looked at the message.

"It's just 11 AM and the world has gone crazy." She pops a drink and gulps some down and turns to look at a digital screen. News flash with Danny's face. Her blue eyes widened in shock and disbelief.

"Danny! So he is really alive?. What Damian said was true." The drink in her hand falls to the ground. Tears trace the delicate path of her face.

In the shadows behind her, two figures hidden in the shadow appeared. One transforms into a tiger beast, and the other lifts a finger, melting like candle wax, and the tip of the finger ignites a flame. 

At the same time, four major news events rock the media airspace. Danny's father was upgraded to death, as one of the demon lords that humanity must fight. 

Rachel Kael was admitted to the hospital, and the most trending was Danny becoming famous as an undead or human in a negative way, Danny gets to the medical complex and numerous reporters with flashlights and cameras blocking the Entrance. He sniffed the air of his mother's scent and found out where she was. Claws jolt out of his hands. Danny climbed the walls by the side of the medical complex and entered the hospital. 

People who knew him either talk good of him or badly about him. Debates rock the media space.

With the tank shot in the air and the magical defense in a barrier line of the human defense. The dead zombie with combinations of giants, dwarves, dragons, demons, and many more launched a full-scale attack and the long war began.

"Fiiiire," a military commander screamed as the zombie army moved.

The first tank roared, spitting fire. Rockets tore through the crimson sky. Helicopters and jets released a storm of bullets, tracer rounds streaking into the red night like falling stars. But the zombies were not the sluggish horrors like Hollywood painted them to be.

They ran and leapt fast.

They climbed over one another like beasts, shrieking with unholy hunger as bullets ripped their bodies. They sprinted faster like cheetahs, tearing across the bloodstained battlefield, their hollow eyes locked on human flesh.

The dragons flew descending from the sky. Its massive wings blotted out the red moon, and lightning crackled around their scales. Their mouths opened, spewing torrents of black flame that melted tanks like wax. Helicopters veered, but their rotors were ripped apart by claws sharper than steel.

“Commander! Ishida, they’re overwhelming the frontline!” Commander Ishida slammed his fist down, his voice cutting through the chaos.

“It takes a devil… to kill monsters, as Dr. Rachel Kael will say and this is why we have created our own monsters. Send out the scout Corps!” The command echoed through the comms.

A formation of black helicopters swerved into position; their doors slid open midair. Inside, rows of soldiers stood clad in simple black fiber exo suits similar to swimming suits. Their eyes glowing faintly with bestial power. They stepped out, jumping into the air, and the dragons surged upward to meet them. The soldiers howled.

Their bodies twisted mid-air, armor snapping open as muscles bulged, bones cracked, and fur sprouted. Masks split into snarling muzzles. Eyes burned gold and crimson. Claws burst through gloves like blades forged from night into massive, giant werewolves thrice the size of man.

Lightning thunder strikes the sky as the first collided with a dragon head-on with a powerful claw swing. Claws pierced the scale, ripping deep into the neck of the dragon as the beast screamed.

 Another wolf slammed into its wing, shredding through sinew and bone until the monster spun, crashing down into the battlefield below.

kaboom

Bullets and rockets continue to be fired into the swarm of zombies; artillery thunders against the dragons above, and as the war rages on. 

At sector fifteen, the young youth with golden hair shaved on the side stood on the rooftop looking at Danny on his knees on the digital screen. His face flashed with anger, and his blue eyes gleamed with lightning.

Lightning crackled beneath his skin. His eyes burned blue-white. The image of Danny on the screen made his jaw harden.

“Danny,” he hissed. His voice shook with power. “Whatever allowed you to be alive made the right decision, so I can kill you by myself for the sins you and your father have committed against me. You can’t be alive while my mother is dead, all because she was trying to protect you. You abandoned her, and for that, I will make you pay. Violent electricity sparkled out of his body.

Electricity danced from his fingers. It hummed in the air and began to spread down the street like a living thing. Lamps flickered. Cars on the road lost their power and crashed into nearby buildings. City streets went dark as the light power bled away. A city block was in total darkness. A young, short, dark-skinned youth with big, round, dark eyes matching his curly hair, dressed in a black suit, holding an iPad, cuts in behind him.  

" master Damian Schmidt. I have found details about Danny. He is registered for the virtual showdown battle Royale as a recruit cadet. How do we process further? He has to win the second phase for him to be able to participate in the Royal battle but with this news of his. He may be discouraged from attending."

"Oh, he is going to win the second round after I send him some motivation, Dexter. All i need is to capture his heart and everything falls apart. I know him too well because he was my best friend and I am going to take away the most precious thing he loves just as he did to me before his eyes." Damian plugged his virtual ear gear and spoke through it. 

'' Let me guess, Anna Sinclair, I presume." Dexter adjusted his glasses. Damian turned and said.

" Yes! You are right. You must have seen me use Danny's photo to bait her to the meeting point."

Damian then spoke through the ear gear.

"Are you guys done?" Two figures walked out from the darkness into a lamp post. They stared at Anna, looking at the news of Danny close to the restaurant shop. A female began to transform. Her hand shifted into claws, and her body shifted into a partial transformation of a tiger. 

The male snapped his fingers and melted into candle wax with flames on its tip

"But Anna is powerful," Dexter announced. "She has sound magic known as the voice of the moon goddess. One scream will make them lose their abilities for a while, plus she is the daughter of the famous head of state consul general Cunt Sinclair of the 47 sector. How do you plan to capture a famous S ranking personality like that?" Damian walked towering over Dexter. He looked at him and said,

"It's quite simple. The son of the famous Laxus Craig, the great game creator, and her old high school friend called to see her secretly because I had information about the one she loved most, Danny Kael. The old photos and his current pictures I captured of him this morning were convincing. Curiosity always kills the cat, you know. When she came and took the drink I bought for her while she waited to see me. She trusted me. Now, let me tell you how the script plays on. She is going to feel really dizzy from the drug."

Anna, looking at the news field, felt a sharp banging headache. She staggered, unable to concentrate on the TV anymore. She collapsed, holding the table closest to her, then fell to the floor.

 "What is wrong with me?" She questioned, trying to shake it off. Then two figures approached her. The candle man lifts his hand and melts his candle wax on her, and it solidifies, covering her mouth down to her body.

"Who are these people?" Anna asked before she dozed off and the tiger grabbed her and they walked into the darkness.

" Now that I have captured her. For Danny to lose his mind and come running to me. All I have to do is let Danny see this." Damian pressed a button and swiped his fingers. The message disappeared into the air.

" So you knew Danny was alive before now. What if they find out you are the one behind the kidnapping? How do you resolve damage control with your father?" Dexter asked.

"About that, I need to hack into my father's game master control rights to the virtual battle royale showdown. This is where Danny's nightmare shall begin."

Damian pressed the ear gear button, and a virtual door of lightning appeared, and a costume of a black giant Samurai with a scary demonic mask and a Japanese saber lightning sword was revealed to Dexter.

"This is what I will make use of to mask my disguise" he pressed a button on his hologram, and the AI announced. 

[Virtual text sent to Danny Kael]

The fourth major news to rock the sector news field that alarmed sector 47 into a state of emergency was Anna Sinclair's disappearance. 

At the same time. Danny sat beside his unconscious mother in the medical center when he received a blinking text video on his arcade device. He clicks, and a virtual hologram appears, and Anna is seated on a chair made of candle wax strapped around with metal cuffs, soundly asleep.

The same text video of Anna disappearance circled around sector 47 on every device, laptops and hologram visuals of every citizen.

........

Hours later

Adam Barry steps out, standing on top of a high-rise building looking at the medical complex Rachael Kael was admitted to . The wind was lipping his coat. The bright giant hologram neon light of Anna flashed on him.

Every digital cyber screen has floating text with sentences of-[State of Emergency ] then an image of Anna's disappearance displayed below the text displayed on buildings, trains, airports, schools, and anyplace with digital or hologram installation available.

Families watch from the TVs and holograms at home because all activity in sector 47 has been halted. No schools, no work, train lines empty, and drones, hunters, police men in exo suits, accompanied by police robots in full Alert, moving to and fro searching houses and abandoned factories while fighting against an army of lurking vampire creatures moving in the city hunting people. 

Two kids hid themselves in a locked room. The continuous monstrous beast roaring scared them.

"If Anna does not save us. Adam Barry our hero will come save us " A little girl comforted his small  brother in her arms. 

Behind the wall of the building was a giant hybrid monster sniffing the neighbour.

Adam Barry lifted his right hand with a small, round red black magic orb in it and announced proudly. 

"HAHAHAHA! Anna's disappearance is an act of heaven's providence to me. This is the perfect time for a dungeon breakout to occupy the city police and military.  This is such a perfect time to invade the medical complex and obtain the genetic sequence capable of perfecting hybridization between species without rejections and exact my vengeance. An opportunity to kill vice Rachel kael and take over the monster corps has finally presented itself. If I control the two guilds. I can create an army of monsters to kill Cunt Sinclair " The magic orb in his hand glowed, illuminating a bright red light.

Suddenly, multiple buildings at different places swirl with a giant red gate portal.  Police men and hunters in the city occupied by monsters break out.

The medical complex was almost empty and silent with few nurses and a doctor remaining. Danny is seated beside his mother looking at the video of Anna when his system flashes before his eyes.

[Murderous intent: There are enemies near you who seek the life of you and your mother. Follow co ordinate out the complex and eliminate target ]

Danny rose up and walked out from the medical building roaming his eyes outside. Nothing usual. He turned to walk into the building when the entrance crackled with lightning and red energy. 

A red portal opens, and numerous hybrid monsters appear before him. Danny's eyes widened as one creature swift and fast like a lizard crawled out climbing the walls to the window where his mother laid. 

[Dash skill:Activated]

Danny zoomed in the air and his claws jolted out of his fingers and he struck into the head of the creature dragging it down to the ground blocking the Entrance.

Boom

 " Dungeon break," Danny posed for an attack on top of the creative's back.  

Danny’s vision flickered, his System screen glowed across his face.

[Quest Initiated: Hunt the hostile  vampire hybrids (envolve)].

[Objective: Eliminate Targets.]