Rebirth: 100 Days Before Doomsday - Chapter 204

Chapter 204: Mystery of Spirit Stone (I)
Grace didn’t have time to dwell on the red glowing stone that just got a name through the system’s scanning.

The streets were still swarming with the infected and if she stopped to ask 2025 for answers now, she was going to be torn apart in seconds.

She let 2025 take care of the stone while she turned her full attention back to the fight.

It was at that very moment when a low, guttural growl came from behind her. She immediately spun around just in time to see two Beasts charging at her from opposite sides.

One was a wolf Beast. Its fur had burned away, revealing grotesque sinewy muscle underneath. The other was a monstrous stag with jagged antlers that were twisted like sharpened bones. And both creatures were moving fast.

Grace acted on instinct. She dropped to the ground as the wolf Beast made its way to her first. She slid between it’s legs, narrowly avoiding its massive, snapping jaws. As she moved, she twisted her body and fired three precise rounds into its underbelly.

The bullets ripped through its exposed flesh, but the damn thing was still moving, making her realize that the bullets she just fired were not enough to take the thing down.

She whipped the dagger out, and flipped it in her grip before plunging it straight into the beast’s neck. A strangled howl left its throat before it collapsed.

But she had no time to celebrate as the stag was nearly on her.

She barely had a second to react before it swung its massive antlers at her. Its jagged points aimed straight for her ribs. She immediately summoned an energy shield and threw it up between herself and the fierce attack.

The impact sent her skidding backward, her boots digging into the cracked pavement.

But the stag was already charging at her again.

This time, she didn’t bother dodging. Instead, she leaped onto its back while gripping the ridges of its mutated spine for support.

It bucked wildly as it tried to throw her off, but she had already created her next weapon. This time it was a sword of energy. With one powerful swing, she severed the stag’s head from its body.

The monster crashed to the ground. Its lifeless form twitched for a few moments before going still.

Grace’s breathing was slightly ragged as she pulled herself upright. After all, taking down these Beasts was not same like taking down the zombies or even Fast Movers.

Thinking of something, she quickly checked, but realized that this time – there were no glowing red stones coming out of the dead Beasts.

Her brows furrowed slightly. So the first Beast was the only one that dropped a Spirit Stone? She didn’t have time to think about it further as more infected were closing in.

For the next ten minutes, the streets of the city were nothing but a bloodbath.

Grace moved like a phantom as her gun continued to spit precise and deadly shots. Her blades also carved through the infected with ruthless efficiency.

She was switching between weapons seamlessly – daggers, guns, riffles, her thought-formed weapons.

She left neither the zombies nor the remaining Fast Mover. As for the last Beast, it was an Infected panther. It lunged at her from a rooftop, its claws aimed for her throat.

Grace didn’t flinch. Instead, shd raised her gun and fired a single shot right through its skull.

Unlike the wolf, the panther crashed to the ground, unmoving. The silver bullet did the job the lead ones couldn’t.

Grace exhaled, and tried to shake off the tension. She then checked its corpse, but found no sign of a Spirit Stone.

Her mind was racing with questions. Why had only one of them left behind the stone?

Before she could have begun to try and figure it out, a portal tore open in the middle of the street.

A spiraling vortex of dark blue energy flickered in the air, making the very fabric of reality bending at its edges. And then… Davian stepped through it. He was there to take her back since she was done cleaning the city.

His dark green eyes flicked over the destruction around him, taking in the corpses that were littering the ground while black blood soaking the snow covered pavement.

A slow smirk tugged at his lips as he spoke. “You have been busy.”

Grace rolled her shoulders as she let her weapons disappear from her hands. “Took you long enough.”

He chuckled while stepping aside to let her pass. “I opened the first portal to bring you here. Now I’m taking you back.”

She took one last look at the ruined city, and then stepped into the portal. The world shifted around her, and in the blink of an eye, she was back.

The moment she arrived back in the living room of her apartment at Greenstone, she barely exchanged words with anyone and stepped immediately inside her space while her body still hummed with the adrenaline from battle.

Inside her villa, she finally allowed herself a moment of silence. The battle had been long, and kind of exhausting.

She undressed, and stepped under the hot water, letting it wash away the blood, the ash, and the grime. And for a few brief minutes, she wasn’t a warrior, wasn’t a leader – just a woman standing under the spray, letting herself breathe.

Within twenty minutes opas per the clock of Infinte Realm, she was done showering, getting dressed, and dropping her clothes in the washing machine on her way out.

When she finally stepped out of her space and returned to the apartment, Davian was still in the living room.

Rune was also lounging on the couch with his usual lazy smirk, just like she left him moments ago. She walked over to the duo while pulling the Spirit Stone from the space.

The moment that red stone appeared, both men’s attention immediately snapped to it.

Rune sat up straighter. “What is that?”

“That,” Grace said, pointing at the glowing red stone that was levitating in the mid air, “is what I found after killing a bear Beast in the city.”

Davian’s eyes narrowed. “I have never seen anything like it.” He confessed as Rune leaned in with a curious expression on his face. “What does 2025 say about it?”

Grace arched her eyebrows at his unexpected question. “Alright, 2025,” she said. “Tell me exactly what this Spirit Stone is.”