Just one week... all it took was a week for fewer than a dozen monsters to create chaos around the globe. They took down cities, killed millions, and left the powerful at a complete loss.
And all these changes were felt in the very air.
Grace let out a deep sigh before stepping into the portal, entering the void that pushed her out on the other side within seconds. One mont she was standing in the living room of her apartnt, and the very next, she was in a familiar city... one that was now nothing more than ruins.
Rune appeared behind her the very next mont, followed by Davian who imdiately closed the portal.
"This place is barely recognizable," Rune muttered, his icy-blue eyes scanning their surroundings.
The once-great Floren City was now a graveyard of collapsed buildings and skeletal remains of civilization. A thick, eerie fog clung to the streets, carrying the distant howls of infected lurking in the dark.
"We should move quickly," Davian said, his voice low and urgent. "The longer we stay, the more attention we’ll draw."
This city was close to Greenstone, located about fifteen kiloters away. In the early months of the apocalypse, Grace and her team had visited this place several tis to collect supplies and battle against the infected.
And this was also where a crack in the Veil had appeared... the only one in Starship Country at the mont.
"2025, can you lead us to the exact location of the crack?" Grace asked the little creature, not wanting Rune to waste his energy to locate it and lead hee there when he might need his energy to fight against threats during their mission.
[On it.]
In less than fifteen seconds, 2025 projected a digital screen in front of her, highlighting the exact location of the crack.
The display even marked areas where infected and Shadow Beasts were hiding.
That’s right. The very creatures that had been running rampant and striking fear into humans for nearly three years were now cowering in terror. And the reason was clear... a monster beast was nearby.
Grace and her n wasted no ti, making their way through a safe route to the location of the crack which turned out deep within the ruins of an ancient cathedral, one of the oldest structures in the city.
A crack had ford beneath its crumbling altar, a place where energy had once been strong, where faith had once held aning.
Its appearance here didn’t an the Veil itself was inside the cathedral. Rather, it indicated that a core point of the Veil was located there. And since it was now fractured, it had allowed enough of a gap for monsters to enter Earth.
All this new information about the Veil had co directly from her system. After three long years, the system had finally found a breach in the Veil, establishing a connection and extracting critical information. This had only beco possible recently, as the Veil was now at its weakest since its formation millenniums ago.
Because of this connection, the system could now track the cracks forming in the Veil and the monsters entering Earth through them.
The plan to use Green Spirit Stones to strengthen the Veil had also co from the system after 2025 conducted a deep analysis at Grace’s command.
She had a total of ten Level Eight Green Spirit Stones. While far from enough to restore the Veil’s original strength, they could at least stabilize it for a while, perhaps a year or two if nothing catastrophic happened.
As they stepped inside the cathedral, the temperature dropped sharply. The air was thick with decay, and the walls bore deep claw marks, as if sothing had tried to tear its way through.
Grace’s pulse quickened.
"The crack is here," she murmured, closing her eyes. She could feel it... a deep wound in reality, pulsing with unnatural energy.
Rune unsheathed his daggers, stepping ahead of her. "Let’s get this over with." He could sense the creature’s presence, sothing the system also alerted Grace about the very mont Rune took out his daggers.
Her gaze shifted to the n, and Davian gave her a reassuring nod. "Go ahead. Do what you need to do, and we’ll take care of the beast."
She nodded back and imdiately moved deeper into the cathedral. Energy crackled in the air, and as soon as she channeled her energy into the air, it showed her the breaking point in the Veil.
Taking out one of the Level Eight Green Spirit Stones, she held it in her palm. Closing her eyes, she channeled her energy, guiding the stone toward the crack and using her power of thought-creation to infuse the stone’s power into the wound.
The mont she did, the air trembled, and a monstrous screech echoed through the cathedral, followed by the sound of sothing crawling. It was coming there way... fast.
From the shadows, a creature erged.
It was a horrid, twisted thing, similar to the one they had fought recently. A humanoid figure with elongated limbs, hollow glowing eyes, and a mouth that split open into a gaping maw, revealing rows of jagged teeth dripping with black sludge.
Without hesitation, Rune lunged with his daggers. The creature shrieked as he slashed its throat, but instead of falling, it twisted unnaturally, its body bending in ways no living thing should.
"This damn thing won’t die," he snarled.
Grace gritted her teeth. The stone had not fused yet, which ant she had to hold on.
Davian took a step forward with a rifle in his hands. He fired once. Twice. The bullets ripped through the creature’s skull, but it barely faltered.
Grace’s hands trembled as she poured more energy into the stone. Almost there.
The monster lunged at her, but Rune was faster. He drove his dagger into its eye, twisting brutally. The creature let out a strangled wail before finally collapsing into black sludge.
And at that mont... the stone fused into the Veil.
A wave of green energy spread outward, sealing the crack and restoring balance.
She sagged in relief. "One down."
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