Strongest Superhuman System - Chapter 491

Chapter 491: This Is The Best We’ve Got
[The regions around City G, I, and K are all lost causes. You don’t need to pay any attention to them anymore. City S is the safest city, and if we want to protect the citizens, we need to find a way to move them into that city. Send out a missive to the guilds and tell them to start migrating citizens to City S and make the available guilds move outwards from City S, defeating Anima as they move. That way, you’ll have the least number of casualties. Focus your forces around Alec Ben; he is the only one available right now who can handle more than ten calamities at the same time. Your point guard guilds are going to be the Moonlight and Wisteria guilds since they are the only S-ranks in the region, with the Hornet and Force guilds acting as backups in case of an emergency. Every other guild should focus on keeping the Anima away from the civilians as they move. They shouldn’t try to attack pointlessly, or they will die.]

General Raj frowned as he considered all of this. It was a good plan, and if they were to go ahead with it, he could see that it was very possible that it would work. But he didn’t know how he felt about putting his trust in some boy he didn’t even know. What if this boy was only trying to draw them into a trap?

The general went silent as he started to think, and the voice on the other end of the screen clicked his tongue before speaking up again.

[General, my name is Patrick Grey. I am the brother of Jeanne Grey, the MIRACLE healer, and I attend UA University in City D. You can look me up later and make sure I’m not trying to fool you. Please, you have to trust me.]

The general sucked in a shocked breath. Once Patrick said his name, the general immediately knew who he was. The army always made it a priority to keep intelligent people on their radar in case they ever needed to recruit them for difficult jobs. Patrick Grey was someone they had been watching for a long time now.

The general ran through the plan again in his head and frowned.

“Your plan is going to end up leaving the cities on the outskirts to the mercy of the Anima.”

[They are a lost cause.]

“There are civilians there. They will die.”

[Fifteen million people.]

The general frowned when Patrick said this, and Patrick continued after taking a deep breath.

[From my estimates, in the next two days, fifteen million people will die on the outskirts due to the lack of proper support. But if we don’t follow this plan and allow the guilds to continue working randomly the way they are doing now, then I estimate one hundred and fifty million deaths in less than two days. We are running out of options, General. We are not GHOST. We don’t have the ability to save everyone. We are only human, and we can only do what we can.]

“You’re insane…”

The general was about to curse at Patrick, but he stopped and shook his head. He couldn’t think like that. He was already thinking of doing the same things before Patrick called. This is the best option for everyone. The general grit his teeth and bowed his head for a few seconds as he thought about it, and when he raised his head again, there was a fire burning within him that showed he had made his decision.

General Raj turned to the woman beside him and spoke.

“Quarantine City S, and form a superhuman barricade around it. Focus superhuman activities on the cities that still stand a chance of survival. Follow Patrick’s orders and make the superhumans begin their attack from City S as a focal point. Make sure you contact Alec Ben, as well as the Moonlight and Wisteria guilds, and send out enough superhumans to clear a path for them to move forward. The further he goes, the more of the city we can save. But forget about the outskirts.”

The woman standing beside General Raj looked up at him with wide, disbelieving eyes as she couldn’t believe what he just said. Was he really leaving those people to die?

“Sir—”

“Just do it!”

General Raj shouted at her angrily, and she snapped into attention before she bent to start talking into her comm. Everyone in the room immediately rushed into action once they saw how angry the General was, and they also started to send out the memo to the guilds around City S.

“All available guilds, rendezvous at the central districts of City S! Alec Ben is currently engaged in combat against multiple animas, and you are to serve as the support force to aid him in moving forward! All available guilds, come in!”

The woman started to talk through her comms to all the guilds that were available in the region around Alec Ben, and General Raj grit his teeth as he watched another city getting ravaged by three calamity-class monsters. The room they were in was the military base overseeing the activities of the Superhuman Alliance during times of emergencies. Whenever there was an emergency that no one guild could handle on their own, the NSA would normally take charge of the issue and start sending out orders to the guilds to make them work as efficiently as possible, but since the NSA was currently disbanded, the Superhuman Alliance had to take charge.

“Patrick Grey, that was your name, right? Do you know the location of GHOST?”

Patrick had mentioned GHOST when he was trying to convince the General, and the General latched onto it to see if he could get GHOST’s location. With how things were now, General Raj didn’t even care that GHOST was seen as a criminal by the government—they needed him. Patrick just gave him a dry response.

[No, I don’t know where he is. I haven’t heard from him since the government declared him a criminal.]

“Patrick, this is serious. If you know where he is, then please try to reach out to him and tell him that the Superhuman Alliance is more than ready to grant him a pardon so long as he comes to our aid. We need him. America needs him.”

[America should have thought of that before they hunted him down like a criminal. I have to go, but I’ll keep my ears open for anything new on that front. I’ll keep you updated on any possible routes for the superhumans to take while attacking, and I’ll tap into some of the guild frequencies and send them towards the areas that need them the most. But in the meantime, good luck, General.]

The contact clicked off, and General Raj frowned for a second before he sighed. He felt conflicted about GHOST, but he did not allow that to affect him. Right now, America needed GHOST, and it didn’t matter if GHOST was a criminal or not. If GHOST showed up to save people, then General Raj knew that no one would dare to touch him.

The images on the screen showed the cities being cleared out by the superhumans, as well as the cities on the outskirts that were being ravaged without the proper support. All of this reminded him too much of what had happened to them four years ago, when humans were first given their blessings by the gods. That large Armageddon that appeared and made the entire country fall to its knees had given him many sleepless nights.

But things were different now. Now, they not only had powers, but they had people as strong as Alec Ben, who could handle Calamities and even eldritch monsters with some ease. They weren’t going to fall, no matter what.

But a small part of the general still reached out and pleaded with any god out there for a savior.

‘We need KING.’