Apocalypse Online #3 by Conor Malachi

Author:Conor Malachi [Malachi, Conor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Keep Evolving Studios
Published: 2024-07-30T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter

Twenty-One

BRAD

It was the dead of night when they arrived at the Gaming Center. Before Brad and his guild met the gnomes and learned about portable construction units, it was little more than a few buildings and a chain-link fence around only one of them. Since then their territory had expanded a great deal.

From the Gaming Center, Invictus expanded out east to claim the Hub, north to the community park, then farther east to claim the RV park for additional housing. All of this land was walled off thanks to the mass production of portable construction units with all the resources Invictus earned from kicking out the elves from Kamloops and further reinforced by lines of laser turrets. Brad had even invested in anti-air guns in case the elves ever came knocking on their door.

Brad drove the transport through the southern gate. Both the Gaming Center and the Hub had been further reinforced with alien materials. New structures had been deployed for crafting and housing, but there wasn’t a single soul in sight. One glance at the map told him where they were.

The walls.

Brad brought the transport to a halt and got out. “Alright people, I want you on those walls, and keep a lookout for anything coming our way. The sensors picked up a large force coming from the north, but they may know some tricks to sneak past them.”

The raid party spread out to each of the walls except for Jason’s group and Lewis. They were with Jake when they secured Armstrong earlier.

“What’s up, guys?” Brad asked.

Jason stepped up first. “I need to go check up on Daisy before anything happens, if that’s alright with you. We were on the road for a long time, and this fighting’s going to spook the poor girl if I’m not around.”

Brad couldn’t imagine a single positive scenario that involved a spooked razorprey matriarch. The murder chicken, as Tim liked to call her, was taller than any human, taller even than some horses Brad had seen. With those sharp claws of hers and her beak, she could easily kill anyone unfortunate enough to get on her bad side. “Alright, Jason. Go do what you have to. I don’t want Daisy turning on us if the fighting gets out of hand.”

“She won’t, I promise,” Jason said, and ran off with Cory and Kurtis.

Brad turned to Lewis. “And I’m guessing you want to stay with your twins.”

Lewis shook his head. “No, sir. I mean, I do, but cowering with the girls in the upgrade center won’t matter if those aliens break down our walls. I just want to check in on them. I know you class users were hit pretty hard by the aether bloom, but it wasn’t anything at all like we cultivators had to deal with.”

Brad furrowed his brow. “How bad was it for you guys?”

Lewis tugged at the collar of his black undershirt. “This shirt was white before the aether bloom hit. The amount of toxins we had to shove out of our bodies to deal with the excess aether almost killed us.

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