Rebirth: 100 Days Before Doomsday - Chapter 288

Chapter 288: The Cracks in the Veil
The apocalypse had lasted five years now. These were five long years of death, despair, loss, and struggle.

And now, as humanity started believing that it had found a way to survive, the world delivered its cruelest blow yet.

The continuous natural disasters that had been going on recently – earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, wildfires, and storms – they all led to one big consequence. They disturbed the Veil, weakening its ancient magic and the power of Spirit Stones Grace had fused in the previous cracks.

This time, the first crack appeared in the wastelands of what was once a prominent country in Eastern Continent. It was like a scar in the thin air, a distortion in reality that pulsed with a sinister energy.

And from it stepped through a Monster Beast. It was a hulking, four-legged creature with obsidian-black skin, green eyes, and jagged horns. It sniffed the air before releasing a deep growl that sent shockwaves through the land.

Merely two hours later, another crack formed in what was once the capital city of Country B.

Then another in the old ruins of Country A.

One by one, the numbers of the cracks kept increasing. And barely within a week, the number of Monster Beasts roaming Earth grew to nearly a hundred.

These weren’t normal Beasts, they were apex predators of their kinds. Bigger, stronger, and more terrifying than anything humanity had faced before.

Their mere presence corrupted the land around them, turning once-barren wastelands into death zones where nothing could live.

If humanity had still been scattered across the world, if people had still been living in isolated underground bunkers or unprotected settlements… this would have been the end.

But they weren’t unprotected anymore. The safe zones had barriers that Grace had spent past several months reinforcing with high-level Spirit Stones.

Yet, it didn’t mean the Monster Beasts weren’t going to try to breach them once they would come across. And it happened soon enough.

It was a beast, almost the size of a mountain. It rammed into Country C’s barrier, its horns glowing with destructive energy.

The barrier flared as golden runes pulsed, coming to life instantly and absorbing the impact.

The beast stumbled back in a daze. It roared in fury, trying again only for the barrier to retaliate, sending out a wave of Spirit energy that blasted the creature away.

It couldn’t get in. None of them could as the barriers were holding strong.

But outside… it was hell on Earth.

With no way to enter the safe zones, the Monster Beasts turned their fury on the rest of the world.

They flattened mountains with a single step. They turned forests into wastelands with their corrupted auras. They hunted and devoured anything still living outside the barriers – including the infected who stood no chance against them.

Even the Shadow Beasts, once feared by all, were now prey of the Monster Beasts’ wratg.

The world outside the safe zones became a battlefield between Monster Beasts and Shadow Beasts. These two apex predators were fighting for dominance.

And humanity could only watch from behind their barriers, knowing that if those barriers ever failed, they would be next.

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Since Grace knew this day would come, she kept insisting on continuously strengthening the barriers.

Fortunately, they got about five months to strengthen the barriers before the Monster Beasts arrived.

The Great Alliance had worked tirelessly to collect more, knowing that these barriers were the only thing standing between them and total extinction.

And now, all that effort was paying off.

But Grace wasn’t satisfied. She knew this was only the beginning.

The cracks in the Veil were still growing. If they didn’t find a way to seal them, then no matter how strong the barriers were, eventually, they would fail.

And when that happened… humanity wouldn’t survive.

At the same time, they couldn’t stay hiding within the safe zones and allow the Monsters to take over the outside world. That would be equally bad for them.

This led to another meeting of the Great Alliance. However, there was an issue of how the leaders were going to appear at the same location when they couldn’t step out of their safe zones.

Hence, Grace finally decided to use Davian’s portal power. He opened portals for each countries’ leaders, leading them all to the Hilton Base where the meeting was going to take place.

To say that everyone in the Great Alliance, except for Grace obviously, was stunned to their very core would be an understatement. They were too shocked to even talk about what they just experienced.

From the data collected by 2025, it turned out that Davian was so far the only human on Earth with the power of opening portals. Similarly, Grace was also the only human on the planet with the power of Thought-creation.

Because of this, Grace had been keeping her and Davian’s powers a secret from the Alliance. After all, she had equal level of trust issues with the Aliiance as they had with her.

Even if they were working together, both parties still saw each other as a threat.

Fortunately, despite their differences, the Alliance always listened to Grace when it came to serious matters.

The meeting finally began, with Grace taking the lead as she was the one who had called this meeting in the first place.

Her gaze was sharp as she took her time to scan the faces sitting around the meeting room. There were the leaders of the five countries, the military heads, and other important figures – all looking at her in silence.

With a deep inhale, she finally began.

“I’m sure you all know that the barriers are only a temporary solution,” she said. “If the Veil continues to crack, more and more Monster Beasts will appear. And when there are thousands of them? Tens of thousands? What do you think will happen?”

The room was silent.

They all knew the answer.

The barriers would eventually fall, and when that happened, there would be no stopping the slaughter.