Eradication

After defeating yet another Crawler, Stanley's confidence in himself improved tremendously.

'I can do it,' he thought to himself with a wide smile on his face. 'I can kill all the crawlers.'

Thinking so, he ran to the other crawlers that he could see in the distance.

The young man named Johan, who was laying on the ground next to a rock, tired, saw everything from where he sat. He saw Stanley fighting after taking his spot. He saw him handle the Crawler as if it was no big deal.

He saw the other men die and wanted to go back to help, but then he saw Stanley himself take down the Crawler without needing any help from anyone.

How did he do that? The young man had no clue. Was Stanley's power not supposed to be the same as his? Why were the two of them so different?

On top of that, Stanley was only a Trainee, not even a full Defender. How did he fight so well?