Walking alone on a cold winter night, I'm all alone with no one I know of is in sight. People are gathered in this big area outside the city and people like myself are trying not to freeze in this cold night.
As I walk along this rough path, surrounding me are people that have nowhere else to go. Tents are set up in every direction I look. The year is 2022, my 10th birthday just ended four days ago. Shouldn't this be a delightful time that I should be spending with my family but here I am not knowing if they are even still alive. My home is no more, nothing was left but broken glass, broken window, the roof has a big hole in it and the whole house collapsed. The city is the same as well, the large buildings I see whenever I go to school are going down one by one. The roads are full of cars that have smashed into one another. The streets are filled with people who have their homes destroyed as well. No one remained in their homes, every single one left hoping to go into safety. All I saw were dead people crushed by their very own homes and children who had their parents got eaten by those large dogs. I don't know what they call them, are they monsters? I think I'm the same as those kids, my family is nowhere to be found, even my friends, I don't know where they are now. I hear jets flying over me, are they here to save us? to save me? Who am I even trying to fool, why would they even save me? I don't amount to anything. They wouldn't bother giving the time just to save me. As the jets went past the area and headed to the clouds, a few seconds after that came a loud thunder. The jet exploded, what could have destroyed it? It burned and smoke came after it. A loud scream was then heard throughout the whole area. People started looking up. "What is that?" Someone said, A monster then flew past the smoke. "Monster!" People started screaming. Everyone started panicking after that. As I was looking up at the monster, people started running away. "It's heading straight to us!" they said. Oh, it seems luck has never been on my side. I wonder if this would stop all the pain that has been eating me away. The monster is flying straight to where the people are dense. A couple more fighter jets came. "Shoot!" "Shoot!" They baraged the whole monster with bullets and it screamed. The monster is starting to go down. "It's coming down straight to us!" With how big its body was, running away at this point would make no sense. The collision would still catch up to me even if I started running away. The monster slammed to the ground, with how big it's body was it still killed a lot of people with the way it was brought down. "How lucky I am, I thought I would get caught with it but I'm still saved with no scratch from it. I am supposed to be happy because of this?" With the monster lying down looking as if it was dead, I went closer and closer to it. And as I was within its mouth's reach, eyes opened up and looked straight at me. "I thought I would be saved but it turns out I still had no luck whatsoever." The monster got his head closer to me and its chest started glowing. It went brighter and brighter as if it was going to explode. And while I was stunned at that moment, I heard a voice in my head. "If you do not wish to die... live on... live on... Pulte!" The monster screamed and then tried to bite the young boy, Pulte Liwan, but Pulte was able to dodge his bite and get away from the monster. "That was close." The monster falls back to the ground. Pulte thought that it was already dead and dropped his guard. "Wooh..." *piercing sound "Huh, what was that?" The monster wasn't yet dead, it had little strength still left in it and Pulte wasn't capable of noticing it. It was already too late for him to notice it, a large needle was already struck to his upper chest. "What is this? I really thought that this is really different. I thought that my luck would have changed already. Luck really played me all day, I didn't know my end would be this sudden." Pulte frustratingly said as he was losing consciousness. And as the needle was being pulled out, the land military forces arrived and saw what had happened to him. They took the monster down quickly. "Hoh, what is this..." A young officer from the military notices Pulte and how his body is reacting to what the monster had just done to him. "This is interesting... Boy, it seems that you're still a bit lucky I'm the one who found you." The young officer said. Pulte then lost consciousness and was lying down on the ground as his life was slowly fading away. "Get an air lift ready, transport this kid and make it your top priority." "What did you say sir... priority? This kid?" a soldier asked."Didn't you hear what I just said? Get this kid back to the hospital and call Dr. Hayn immediately. And get going already, this kid won't hold much long." Ravitz angrily said. "...Yes, sir!" The helicopter arrived and lifted Pulte quickly away from the area and was rushed to where Dr. Hayn was.'Hurry!"That was when it all started, the moment my life changed completely and I was turned into a completely different person. This is a story of a time when the whole world almost collapsed and humanity almost went extinct. But that time had already passed by and the world was sent into this completely different world where humans are not the main occupying species of the planet, the monsters had taken over."Where am I? This place doesn't feel familiar, where have they taken me?" With the help of the military force, Pulte was brought to a nearby hospital where he was rushed to the emergency room and was operated as quickly as possible. Pulte lost so much blood after the monster pulled off its tail. "Dr. Hayn, take a look at this!" Dr. Munda said surprisedly. Dr. Hayn quickly went to take a look. "This is... Impossible..." As they were trying to save my life, performing an emergency surgery on me, Dr. Hayn found something on me that shocked her. "Just what happened to this boy?! His chest, which was supposed to have a large whole in it, is getting smaller and smaller." "Doctor, what is this?" Everyone couldn't believe what they were seeing, Pulte's wound is regenerating on its own at an incredible and impossible rate. It seems like it's rebuilding what was lost in Pulte's body. The doctor and everyone inside weren't able to grasp anything that was happening and was just left ther
"Hurry! We're almost near the wall! We just need to get to the entrance and we'll all be safe." "Wait, wait, wait... There are people missing. Where is Betty!?" "Betty?... Wait, isn't she just right behind you Lianne?" "Huh!" Everybody looked behind and found out there were only ten of them remaining. "Wait... wait... She's not the only one missing! Where are the two kids?! Aren't you with them a while ago, Abdaal?!" "Huh? I thought you were-" Everybody seemed more frightened. The day had already passed. The night had already taken over. With hours of traveling across the forest and the glades, everyone was already exhausted. They need to keep moving even though they are already exhausted and struggling in the dark and scary forest. If they even try to stop just to rest, who knows what lies inside the forest that will pounce at them at any given moment. "What's that sound?! Shhh..." "What is it? Do you see something?" Wandering in the open wild with nothing to protect thems
While the wall guards are setting up a perimeter outside as they wait for the clean up crew to arrive, Captain Vines called the people who were at the scene from the beginning. "Officer Cecil and Officer Mali, both of you have been here since the start, is that correct?" Captain Vines asked. "Yes, we were informed by the patrol guards who were on top of the wall." Mali answered. "They radioed us about a group of people outside the gate and told us to look and see if it's true. After confirming that there are people outside, we quickly contacted the headquarters for permission to open the gate and called reinforcements, that is all." Cecil added. Shortly after, people from the support unit started to arrive at the scene. "Is anyone hurt?" Silvia of the support unit said."No one was injured from the guards, please check these people if they are in need of assistance." Vines said. After receiving the report of the other guards, Captain Vines quickly returned to the headquarters of
"Commander, their numbers are gradually increasing." "They're numbers are growing in the northwest wall. Most are category 2 Wamilos behind the walls but the ones above the city are category 3." "What should we do, commander?" The headquarters of the defense department just became busy with the sudden increase of Wamilos activity around the area. Units from each sector are already heading out and going into their positions. "Have the unit captains in each sector suit up and ready. Activate the alarm and make an announcement." The commander said. "Yes sir." ... Just moments after, the citizens were all advised of what was going on and had them remain indoors and go into their bunkers. The alarms were set off and the defense department had the whole city under alert level 3. "Wait, wait, why is the alarm going off? Are there any monster attacks? We never had an alert level 3 in the past even when monsters attacked the city." "Quiet, stay calm. The alert said it's in level 3, w
As each and everyone was shocked at how the monster was dealt with, Pulte couldn't hide his expression with the disbelief of how the forces of the defense department are this weak."What the fuck are they all looking like as if I did something big... This monster is not even that strong; Are you telling me that a squad of this many people can't even deal with this level of monster?"Pulte got down the pile of rubble and went walking past them as nothing happened."Oh god, should I have not helped them? If I didn't do anything, would they even defeat that thing?... The defense department really needs to train these guys to the extreme."While Pulte was walking away, one of the officers tried and called him out."Um, excuse me, are you part of the defense department?"With how crazy it looked to them, a normal citizen suddenly showing up and killing a monster easily, none of them would accept that in t
The city is in a bad condition, the whole place is in a mess. There are sectors that are completely destroyed by the monsters and some sectors have minimal damage to them. With how late the disaster alert went off, the number of people who weren't lucky was awfully large. Even Pulte can't do anything about that. With him not exercising his powers for a long time may have dull his senses when it comes to sensing danger. "Ugh...Even though I have this many abilities, all of them weren't able to save all those people. I wasn't able to reach them."After having cleared the other area around the city, the only one that was left was the multiple monsters that were battling against the defense troops."These guys are the only ones left ,huh." As they were fighting the monsters, Pulte was looking from above and seeing the status of the city."They really did a large amount of damage to the city. Even though the defense troops came as fast as they could, they weren't able to minimize the d
[Days after the monster attack]"Oh, you're here! Thank god you're safe. I haven't heard anything from you ever since the incident, good thing it only took less than a day for the wall guards to resolve everything."This is the coworker that I left at the bunker during the monster attack, he and the others from the office were all safe. No one from the office got into any dangerous situation, but it is unfortunate for most of the other people, what happened to them was the opposite. "Oh sorry about that, I was so busy hiding during that time." Pulte thought of an excuse.It has been days since the monster attack, the city is still far from recovering to its former state. Most jobs are at pause at the time since the city recovery is prioritized. "I forgot… I have something important to tell you… something the boss is relaying to everyone, I got distracted with all these catching up." "What is it?" Pulte asked."Since there is no work for us until the office is fixed, the boss said t
( the entrance exam for the recruitment )"I can't believe I'm back here again. It's been so long since I left, did they change anything after I left?"It's the first day of the recruitment exam, many people from various sectors around the city have come to do their best to pass the test to become one of the wall guards. A couple of days ago when Pulte had just quit his job, and opened his old weapons room again, he remembered the times when he was still part of the defense unit. He cleaned the room all night long and barely finished before dawn. After all the work he had done, he called Liam."...Pick up, pick up." "Oh hey, I just finished cleaning up some old stuff and I forgot to ask, how am I going to get back to the defense department again? I forgot to ask yesterday." After all that had passed days ago, here we are today where Pulte is set to try and pass the recruitment exam."I can't believe this, why is there a recruitment exam? They didn't do this before." Someone was ne
"Okay, our main priority for this mission is this large cave. As you've been told before we left the base, we are only here to scout and find if there are traces of the material we've been tasked to extract. Everyone should avoid unnecessary fights against the monsters. If you ever come across one, inform the whole unit and avoid it." The unit captain said before we venture inside. "Is that understood?!" he deeply implied.Everyone in the unit understood. As the area is unknown to us, we took our time exploring inside slowly and safely. "Hey, what's that?" someone curiously said.Everyone quickly looked. The whole unit stopped and everyone took defensive position. They were all alert. "What is it?" One squad took a closer look to see what it was and thankfully it was just rocks stacked in a unique formation. "Eh, they're just a bunch of rocks." one of the officer said as he turned and looked back to the unit. "You got us all worked up for nothing." he frustratedly said.Everyon
The training and selection went on, Pulte was able to enter the defense force after completing the initial selection. After the first few parts of the selection, Pulte focused on getting accepted into the force without showing his full capabilities. With that, he slowly distanced himself away from other participants as well as Timothy Black. And with that, six months have already passed. "Ugh, I got in the force but why am I here of all places…" Pulte was assigned to the scout unit. They are composed of a few high level high humans that scout the areas near the fortress city. "Why are you even whining? You should be honored to be part of this unit. We're the elite of the defense force who go beyond the wall and tackle the wild glades of wamilos." Pulte was quickly annoyed. It showed on his face for a short moment before replying back."Oh sure, sure. It sure is nice to be out here in this dangerous place outside the fortress where it's safer…"He sarcastically said."Oh, see. I
Going through the first phase of the selection, Pulte went and thought about not bringing his full powers out. He did not want to make himself stand out. He decided to atleast get in the top 10 individuals of the whole selection. "Even if I don't take this test seriously, I can still end up one of the top 10, right?" he asked himself.While he was busy talking to himself, the person who went ahead of him scored highly."He got 400… That's not bad. For someone who looks like that stays inside their room all day, his score is quite surprising." Pulte murmured.Timothy Black from the other group scored the highest in the whole selection which is 700.After seeing the scoreboard on the screen, Pulte thought of something. With that score, he placed fourth in the rankings in their group. "I'll get my score slightly higher but not so high that it will become the highest in the group." When it was his turn to be measured, he controlled the amount of power his body releases. "Hmm…This shou
( the entrance exam for the recruitment )"I can't believe I'm back here again. It's been so long since I left, did they change anything after I left?"It's the first day of the recruitment exam, many people from various sectors around the city have come to do their best to pass the test to become one of the wall guards. A couple of days ago when Pulte had just quit his job, and opened his old weapons room again, he remembered the times when he was still part of the defense unit. He cleaned the room all night long and barely finished before dawn. After all the work he had done, he called Liam."...Pick up, pick up." "Oh hey, I just finished cleaning up some old stuff and I forgot to ask, how am I going to get back to the defense department again? I forgot to ask yesterday." After all that had passed days ago, here we are today where Pulte is set to try and pass the recruitment exam."I can't believe this, why is there a recruitment exam? They didn't do this before." Someone was ne
[Days after the monster attack]"Oh, you're here! Thank god you're safe. I haven't heard anything from you ever since the incident, good thing it only took less than a day for the wall guards to resolve everything."This is the coworker that I left at the bunker during the monster attack, he and the others from the office were all safe. No one from the office got into any dangerous situation, but it is unfortunate for most of the other people, what happened to them was the opposite. "Oh sorry about that, I was so busy hiding during that time." Pulte thought of an excuse.It has been days since the monster attack, the city is still far from recovering to its former state. Most jobs are at pause at the time since the city recovery is prioritized. "I forgot… I have something important to tell you… something the boss is relaying to everyone, I got distracted with all these catching up." "What is it?" Pulte asked."Since there is no work for us until the office is fixed, the boss said t
The city is in a bad condition, the whole place is in a mess. There are sectors that are completely destroyed by the monsters and some sectors have minimal damage to them. With how late the disaster alert went off, the number of people who weren't lucky was awfully large. Even Pulte can't do anything about that. With him not exercising his powers for a long time may have dull his senses when it comes to sensing danger. "Ugh...Even though I have this many abilities, all of them weren't able to save all those people. I wasn't able to reach them."After having cleared the other area around the city, the only one that was left was the multiple monsters that were battling against the defense troops."These guys are the only ones left ,huh." As they were fighting the monsters, Pulte was looking from above and seeing the status of the city."They really did a large amount of damage to the city. Even though the defense troops came as fast as they could, they weren't able to minimize the d
As each and everyone was shocked at how the monster was dealt with, Pulte couldn't hide his expression with the disbelief of how the forces of the defense department are this weak."What the fuck are they all looking like as if I did something big... This monster is not even that strong; Are you telling me that a squad of this many people can't even deal with this level of monster?"Pulte got down the pile of rubble and went walking past them as nothing happened."Oh god, should I have not helped them? If I didn't do anything, would they even defeat that thing?... The defense department really needs to train these guys to the extreme."While Pulte was walking away, one of the officers tried and called him out."Um, excuse me, are you part of the defense department?"With how crazy it looked to them, a normal citizen suddenly showing up and killing a monster easily, none of them would accept that in t
"Commander, their numbers are gradually increasing." "They're numbers are growing in the northwest wall. Most are category 2 Wamilos behind the walls but the ones above the city are category 3." "What should we do, commander?" The headquarters of the defense department just became busy with the sudden increase of Wamilos activity around the area. Units from each sector are already heading out and going into their positions. "Have the unit captains in each sector suit up and ready. Activate the alarm and make an announcement." The commander said. "Yes sir." ... Just moments after, the citizens were all advised of what was going on and had them remain indoors and go into their bunkers. The alarms were set off and the defense department had the whole city under alert level 3. "Wait, wait, why is the alarm going off? Are there any monster attacks? We never had an alert level 3 in the past even when monsters attacked the city." "Quiet, stay calm. The alert said it's in level 3, w
While the wall guards are setting up a perimeter outside as they wait for the clean up crew to arrive, Captain Vines called the people who were at the scene from the beginning. "Officer Cecil and Officer Mali, both of you have been here since the start, is that correct?" Captain Vines asked. "Yes, we were informed by the patrol guards who were on top of the wall." Mali answered. "They radioed us about a group of people outside the gate and told us to look and see if it's true. After confirming that there are people outside, we quickly contacted the headquarters for permission to open the gate and called reinforcements, that is all." Cecil added. Shortly after, people from the support unit started to arrive at the scene. "Is anyone hurt?" Silvia of the support unit said."No one was injured from the guards, please check these people if they are in need of assistance." Vines said. After receiving the report of the other guards, Captain Vines quickly returned to the headquarters of