Rebirth: 100 Days Before Doomsday - Chapter 268

Chapter 268: The War That Changed Everything
[Mission Completed]

The system’s mechanical voice speaking in Grace’s head, confirming the success of the fusion of all ten spirit stones, had her releasing a deep breath.

[Veil’s Current Stability: 88.83%. An increase of 28.50% after fusing the stones]

The system continued to update her on the situation of the Veil while Rune and Davian took down the last two monster beasts they found at the location of the last crack.

She would have loved to listen more from the system, or to share a moment of success with her men, but it all seemed impossible for her to do at the moment. And since she knew that the Veil was back in place, and her mission had succeeded, she didn’t fight the darkness that had been trying to take over her since forever.

Her legs gave out.

“Grace!”

Strong arms caught her before she hit the ground.

Her mind was slipping, but she felt the warmth of Davian’s hold, and heard the low rumble of Rune’s voice, though the words were muffled.

She had done it.

And with that final thought, everything faded to black.

* * *

It actually took five long weeks of immense planning, constant failures, and more strategies… to take down the last of the monsters that invaded Earth out of nowhere.

The final hours of battle were full of desperate struggle.

In Country S, the military’s last line of defense was reduced to a single underground bunker, where the world’s most brilliant minds and military strategists watched the battle unfold on satellite feeds.

The last of the invading monsters, a creature so large it dwarfed the ruined skyscrapers around it, rampaged through the remnants of the city.

Bullets were doing nothing. Missiles barely scratched its armored hide. And just when the world thought they were beyong saving, the military finally thought of something.

The Omega-7 Initiative, an experimental military project once deemed too dangerous, was finally activated to take down the monsters.

From underground launch sites, an arsenal of plasma-infused ballistic missiles was fired in rapid succession. Each warhead was designed using data collected from previous battles, engineered to penetrate the monsters’ biological armor and detonate inside their bodies.

The first three missiles hit their target.

The fourth ripped through the monster’s head.

The fifth turned its massive torso into a fireball of burning flesh and bone. And the last two hit their marks not long after.

With a final, earth-shaking roar, the last monster collapsed, its body crashing into the ruins of the presidential house, sending a massive shockwave across the area.

And with that, the battle was finally over.

The monsters were gone. And for the first time since the apocalypse had begun, it felt like humanity won.

But the world fell silent after this. The victory was met with a deadly silence. Not because the world was at peace, but because no one knew what would happen next.

Across the globe, soldiers and survivors stared at the devastation around them. There was no cheering, no celebration… only the harsh reality of survival.

Though they did win, but at what cost?

Countless cities had vanished. Governments had collapsed. Those in power were nothing but helpless against real terrors of what had yet to make proper appearances.

Entire nations fell, and the death toll reached the hundreds of millions. Yet, despite the overwhelming destruction, humanity still succeeded in emerging victorious… but only because no more of those monsters appeared after the last of the seven was taken down.

No one found out about the dozens of extra monsters that were killed by three specific people within twenty-four hours while the rest of the world was struggling to kill just seven of them… all because Rune and 2025 efficiently removed any of their traces from the locations they visited, including the corpses of the monster beasts.

These five weeks were enough for the creatures to leave the planet with nothing but loss.

The monsters that had once terrorized the world now lay dead, their massive corpses scattered across battlefields like fallen gods.

The world they had once known was now a graveyard of history. And worst of all, there was no guarantee that the monsters wouldn’t return.

– – –

In the days that followed, the surviving leaders of Earth met in secret.

Representatives from what remained of Starship Country, Country A, Country C, Country R, and Country S, gathered in the last properly functioning underground military base.

The topic of discussion? – Ensuring that humanity would never be weak again.

For three years, the world was at the mercy of infected and Shadow Beasts, and then since past five weeks, the world was at the mercy of the Monster Beasts.

These were the kinds of creatures humans did not understand and could not fight… and that’s exactly what they needed to change.

The military leaders of the world made a decision… if humans wanted to survive the world of apocalypse, then the humanity needed to evolve.

Immediately, these five countries formed an alliance, launching into several new projects that were necessary to survive.

Scientists around the world were gathered in the labs of thesefore countries to study the infected, shadow beasts, and the monster beasts. And soon enough, the world got to know about the secrets of these creatures.

They realized that the dead bodies of these beasts were filled with treasures – ones that could help humanity in its mission of survival and evolution.

The purpose was simple – humans would take the monsters’ strength and make it their own. And if the monster beasts ever returned, they would not find a world of helpless prey.

But the alliance also realized that the soldiers and their weapons were not able to take down any of the beasts. The world was no longer in a place where it needed soldiers.

Hence, the alliance came up with a new mission – to create or train such people who could take down beasts as powerful as the ones the world recently faced. It was time for the emergence of…Hunters.