Adriel can't help but feel some slight bit of comfort as he find himself looking still at the group chats belonging to all the remaining survivors who fought the last monster alongside him.
With everyone using a voting pool to see how many people had sucessfully regressed with a simple question of.
'Did you regress?' 'Yes 193' 'No 0'
It seems like what the last monster had said was true, 'This is too boring let's start over shall we?' The eye looking over them up above said to them and thus all of the remaining forces of humanity was instantly wiped out without much of a struggle like candle snuffed out with a snap.
-Let's blind that motherfucker next time
-We should minimize and raise our own allies and fight alongside each other once more
Adriel quickly remove the notification pop out for the group chat as he scanned his weapons and proceed to make himself a new account at social media which he use to post and boost to warned for the upcoming rift, he make it seem like a chain message of a game add so people would share it more and after he log out and begun sorting thru his weapons.
Thankfully his kampilan had been on his inventory ready for him even his stats had been the same.
"How cocky" He grinded his teeth remembering the last monster 'End' That person didn't even try to reset their stats and give them their weapons too that must have mean that he wasn't even threatened by them.
"I'm going out!!" Adriel shouted towards Racine who only shouted back, "Buy me some food too"
Adriel rolled his eyes at Racine's attitude still tightening his rubber shoe's lace he firmly steeled his resolve and went off outside.
Seeing the bright sun and blue skies indeed make Adriel's heart well up, event he noisy neighbors, the cars of the annoying traffic and the simplicity of his country make Adriel really feel the regression that he experienced.
as he moved on the streets he indeed can already tell that the news had already been spreading from people to people with all the regressor's coming together.
'It was exactly at six pm. The skies was dyed red and multiple people begun to see status windows. Use your stats, save everyone you could save. Hide, Run and Survive. Send this to all those who wish to party up with' That's what Adriel posted and when indeed at six pm the skies had turned red.
Everyone thought caught off guard was a little decently ready and not as panic filled as before.
...
Racine snapped his head towards the sound on his window, his eyes had been glued on his screen for a long time that he didn't notice the time.
'Bang' 'Bang' 'Bang' Something constantly bang itself in his window and Racine can't help but raise an eyebrow to the sound.
He should most definitely check the sound but Racine you see was used to playing horror games and one rule of survival written down after thousands of death was.
'Never fucking investigate'
Thus Racine decided to ignore the sound but he wasn't as dumb as to stay at his room so he decided to go outside and open all the lights.
He checked the surroundings remembering Adriel's instruction to close the door and windows which Racine didn't do.
So Racine now peers over every window checking if it's locked while still maintaining his distance and then he creeped thru the doors before completely checking if they are locked.
Surprisingly all of them was locked which means his brother had predicted his dumb ass wouldn't listened and lock the doors and windows that's why adriel locked them himself before leaving.
Racine was planning to go back to his room maybe whatever the thing banging itself on his window was gone but who would have expected when he slightly opened his room door for him to be met with a squirming fleshy thing straight out of a horror game.
Without even being able to let out a scream his muscle memory kicked in and he slammed the sliding door closed beheading the flesh that begun to squelch and jump around after.
Racine rushed downstairs straight to the kitchen grabbing himself a knife and when he finally after all his scrambling grab one, the lights turned off.
Racine swallowed he jumped straight towards the counter making sure he got the high ground then he bent down and turn on the gas, then the stove to provide himself with light.
He listened to any sounds and he even hears a few people outside talking about something even a few screams and then chattering.
Sounds then proceed to mix and he could hear, people talking, screaming, loud movements, crashing of something and whatever he wants to call out to someone outside noticing that people had already lights in their houses probably some candles with how often black out happens.
But Racine felt that making sounds at times like this wasn't a good idea whatever that thing was came outside and pulling whatever's outsides attention towards here wasn't a very bright thing to do.
Racine opened his phone he felt a slight relief seeing the data bar on his phone in which he used to dial Adriel's phone number.
-Hey
Hearing Adriel's lax attitude Racine figured he was in somewhere safe.
"Something tried to get inside.." Racine whispered towards the phone making sure to lower the volume a bit, "Adriel where are you?"
Racine then begun to see what seems like a mixture of hands molded together wiggle its way towards the kitchen and without hesitation he tossed his knife towards it, he then pulled on the drawer where they keep multiple knives in and keep it close to him.
-Nowhere important i be coming home soon
"I don't think it's safe to go back you should stay wherever you are now" Racine whispered his eyes now on the hands that despite having knife sticking out on it had continued to wiggle and move.
Racine grabbed a pan pouring some oil into it as the line went silent and rang again.
-little root you good?
"Everythings shit. I don't know what's happening" Racine watches as the oil sizzle on the pun before he grab it and hurl it towards the hands that begun to move violently as he poured over it.
as all the oil was poured out and the hands moved Racine grew even more desperate using the pan to pummel the hands to the ground pushing the knife more deeper. it indeed make a loud clanging noise which sends a panic to racine thus he begun to move to the other side of the kitchen counter.
Still on the area where there is light but a little further to where the remains of the hands was the drawer still on his arms.
The call with Jetstar long ended.
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On the other side Adriel had multiple guns pointed at him which he ignored as he stood tall over the carcases of multiple ranges of monsters as the rift above his head poured yet another series of monsters this time a wave of large dogs the size of a motorcycle with heads that split in three sections.
Adriel raised his hands grabbing himself two in each hands before slamming them together into a bloody mess, he heard multiple gunshots around him taking on the few that slip from his massacre as he grab more of the dogs that whimpered at his hold as they met their deaths against his hands.
As more and more monsters pour out and despite the help of police a few still managed to slip out and Adriel can't do anything about it as he had to keep his focus on the still pouring out monsters making sure to grab the bigger ones first.
And after the wave is over once Adriel pummeled the boss a dog the size of truck he begun to move towards the few that slip off him that could be dangerous to keep.
The rest that was much more smaller he let the others handle it as his feet dug the ground when he dashes back home.
Racine would be fine, after all that brother of his despite being unathletic had a bit of a survival instinct to survive. He was after all the one chosen to represent and supposed to be the candidates to represent them along with the 196 people.