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Chapter 432
Jonah hung on the massive, rusted steel cross. His right arm was free. The thick iron spike was gone from his right hand. But he was still trapped. His left hand and both of his heavy boots were still nailed tight to the solid metal beams. He did not feel the terrible, burning pain anymore.The new System skill, Undying Will, was active. Because his son, Kevin, and his friend, Lisa, were in terrible danger fifty miles away, Jonah could not die. He could not feel weakness. He was an immortal guardian, powered by pure, unbreakable human love.Jonah turned his head. His eyes were solid pools of freezing, glowing silver light. He looked at his left hand. The thick iron spike was driven deep through his flesh and into the hard steel behind him. Dark, dried blood covered his skin.Jonah reached over with his right hand. He grabbed the head of the thick iron spike. He did not pull it carefully. He did not try to save his hand. He pulled violently.SCREEECH! CRUNCH! The sound was horrifying.
Chapter 431
VMMMMMMMM. It sounded like a massive generator powering up under the ground.General Silas took a step forward on the balcony. He grabbed the stone rail. His single pale blue eye went completely wide."Prophet," Silas said. His hypnotic voice was suddenly filled with true, deep terror. "Look at the cross."Prophet Cain stopped laughing. He looked down at the courtyard.Jonah’s dead, gray body was no longer gray. A blinding, terrifying aura of pure white and cold silver light had erupted from his skin.The light did not burn like fire. It did not give off heat. It was absolute, freezing, systemic energy. The thick iron scars on Jonah’s stomach, neck, and arms turned from dark metal into glowing silver lines.The blood pooling on the dirt below his feet began to float upward. The drops of red blood hung suspended in the air, caught in a massive anti-gravity field generated by the aura."He is dead!" Cain screamed. Panic finally broke his smooth, charismatic face. "I saw him die! Shoot
Chapter 430
Jonah’s mind was totally empty. He did not feel pain anymore. The terrible burning in his stomach was gone. The cold iron spikes in his hands were gone. He was dead. He floated in an endless, quiet, peaceful black ocean.“It is over,” Jonah thought to himself. “I can finally sleep.”He let himself sink deeper into the dark. It felt so soft. It felt so comfortable. He had carried the weight of the entire world for so long. He had fought warlords, monsters, and machines. He had tried so hard to be a good father.Now, he did not have to try anymore. He waited for the light. He waited to see Sarah. He waited for his wife to take his hand and lead him into heaven. But Sarah did not come.Instead of a beautiful light, Jonah heard a sound. It was a very faint sound, like a radio playing far away. KSSSSSHHHHHH. Static filled the dark void of his mind. Then, a voice broke through the static. “I am not leaving him alone in the dark.” It was Kevin.Jonah’s floating mind suddenly stopped sinki
Chapter 429
Jonah stood on the bloody dirt. His left arm hung free. He had just done the impossible. He had used his bare, human hands to rip a thick iron spike completely out of solid steel.The guard in the white mask dropped his rifle. He backed away in absolute terror. He thought the giant was a demon. He thought the giant was going to kill him.Jonah looked at the guard. Jonah opened his cracked, bloody lips. He wanted to tell the guard to run. He wanted to tell everyone that his family was coming, and he was going to protect them. But no words came out.Suddenly, a strange, terrible silence filled Jonah’s giant chest. The loud, heavy drum of his heart stopped. Ba-thump. Then... nothing.Jonah’s dark brown eyes went wide. The anger and the fierce, protective fire in his face vanished.The massive effort of pulling the spike had been too much. He had bled for forty-eight hours. He had absorbed hundreds of bullets. He had fought a mechanical army. He had been bitten by mutated zombies. His b
Chapter 428
“Kevin,” Lisa said. Her voice was quiet now. It was full of heavy, painful emotion. “We need to talk about this. You saw the broadcast yesterday. You saw him on the cross. Prophet Cain has thousands of men in that city. He has hundreds of Elite Zombies. If we walk down that mountain... it is a suicide mission.”Jonah’s heart slammed against his ribs. “No,” Jonah thought wildly. “No, no, no! Do not come here! Stay in the blue light!”He tried to yell. He opened his cracked lips, but his throat was too dry. Only a dry croak came out. "Nnnngh..."The guard looked up. "What did you say, dead man?" the guard laughed.Jonah ignored the guard. He focused all his remaining strength on the voices in his head.“I know it is a suicide mission, Lisa,” Kevin’s voice said.Kevin sounded like a man. He sounded exactly like Jonah used to sound before the world broke. He sounded full of absolute, unbreakable resolve.“But I do not care about the math,” Kevin continued. “I do not care if there are a mi
Chapter 427
Yesterday, the System had used the Adaptive Reward Conversion to turn his pain into power. It had welded thick, dark iron scars over his bleeding wounds. It had protected his body from the zombie bites. But now, the fuel tank was completely, absolutely empty. There was no energy left to keep the magic scars strong.Jonah looked down at his stomach.The thick, glowing iron scar tissue that had sealed the massive scythe wound was beginning to crack.Crackle. Snap. Small, jagged lines appeared in the dark metal skin. It was not red blood that leaked out of the cracks. It was a thick, sick, black slime.The System flashed a new warning. The letters turned from blue to a terrifying, flashing red.[WARNING! VIRAL CONTAINMENT FAILED.][ZOMBIE PATHOGEN DETECTED IN BRAIN STEM.][NEUROLOGICAL CORRUPTION IN PROGRESS.]Jonah’s eyes went completely wide in terror.When the starving "Blessed Ones" had bitten Jonah yesterday, their sick black saliva had entered his blood. The System had used its ma
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