He's Here!

In a room that was filled with beautiful pieces of classical music playing, a girl's eyes snapped open as her body jerked forward.

She was caught by an assistant that had been assigned to her, steadying her.

The girl had milky white eyes, but that didn't take away from the mysteriousness that she exuded. She had an aura about her, like she could see through everything even though she was blind.

"He's here. The saviour of the world is here," the seer gasped, tears filling her eyes.

Though she could not see, that didn't mean that she didn't know.

The world screamed at her. It was dying, withering away before her very eyes.

The worst thing was that this calamity had been produced by humans themselves.

The seer grasped the assistant's hands emotionally. "Quick, inform them that they are not to touch him no matter what he does."

The assistant quickly left the room at her behest, going to fetch their superior.

Something major had happened!

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Alec leaned back, staring at his entire group.

How had he expected that they would choose anything other than the [Hell] difficulty mode?

He honestly should have known better by now. After all, even Alec had chosen the [Hell] difficulty, so was it any surprise that his subordinates had chosen the same? They lived for a challenge, after all.

He didn't know whether it was because it was something that was shared by Sins in general, or if it was just their personality, but they were never one to take the easy road.

Still, what surprised him was that they were in the same stage. He'd originally thought that the unknown System would put them all in their own generated worlds to fight it out themselves, but it was a happy occurrence that they weren't.

It made things easier for them, sure, but suddenly it felt like the mission was going to get that much harder.

The five others of his party had arrived at differing times, finding each other upon arrival.

Yuki shared a bit about what he'd already learnt from being the first one here.

"From what I gather, the first appearance of the zombies was because of a red haze that was spread throughout the planet for roughly five minutes. Then, the first appearance of what we call zombies emerged.

As we know, zombies pass around the virus through contact. Biting, scratching, etc. As long as you have an open wound and the zombie touches you, you're infected. Then, you turn into a zombie yourself. Unless, of course, you have magic. Like us. And a few other selected people out there.

I've been scouring for information since I got here, and from what I can gather, the most important and shocking thing was that about a month before the appearance of zombies, a meteorite struck the planet near J City, annihilating the entire city from the shockwaves that occurred when it hit."

The room digested the information that Yuki had on hand. It was the most comprehensive way that summed up their experience.

Their mission was all the same. They basically had to save the planet.

"So, we're heading for the J City then." Rosabel furrowed her brows. "What a strange city name. But hey, that's not too far, so we're lucky."

Indeed, J City wasn't too far from H base. Rather, with their augmented running speed, they should be able to make it there relatively quickly.

Alec had a feeling that the cause of the zombie's appearance in the world was indeed because of the meteorite, but he didn't think that it was still there.

Right now, Alec was actually rather concerned about Fenrir and Bunbun.

He hadn't before this because he assumed that they weren't here, but since he could feel the bond between that jeep and himself, as well as the bond between the Spectre marks, that meant that only Bunbun and Fenrir were not in the [Hell] difficulty mode.

However, would his bloodthirsty bunny and his equally as bloodthirsty wolf choose not to do the [Hell] difficulty? He didn't think so!

So, just where the hell were Bunbun and Fenrir?!

Yuki stared at the map in front of them. "It should take roughly a week for us to get there."

"Was there only a single meteorite that struck the planet?"

The party turned their eyes to Alec, who looked contemplative.

"I don't think it's that simple." Alec thought about it and decided on their course of action. "Let's split into three groups. We should cover all our bases in case we miss anything."

Since Dominique didn't have any intention of leaving his boss, Hayden paired off with Vivian, while Rosabel and Yuki were another team.

"Yuki and Rosabel, you should stay within the base and look out for more information. Vivian and Hayden will head for J City while Dominique and I will be going around to visit various research labs."

There was a lull of silence in the room as they each thought about the things they had to prepare. There was a bit of unease that tinged the atmosphere in the room, and Alec had a feeling that he knew what the problem was.

"As you've already noticed, this world… doesn't have Societypes, and neither do they have Magitypes. In fact, this place doesn't have magic at all. I'm sure that it's rather disturbing to all of you, so our best bet is to adhere to the standards of this world."

Now that he'd addressed the pink elephant in the room, they appeared more at ease.

The existence of Magitypes and Societypes was very ingrained into life in Incantix and appearing in a world where both of those things didn't exist must have been an eye-opener to them.

Alec was only able to be so casual because he had already lived a life where he didn't have either.

The thought that people weren't constrained by prejudice and Societypes or Magitypes… it was likely a novel experience, and probably just a bit terrifying since they wouldn't know how the person would potentially react in a situation.

After delegating, Alec took Dominique with him out of the room, intending to procure a few things within the base if they had it, and perhaps check up on the Roberts twins and Karen.

He was wondering was why the military guards hadn't come after them yet.

There had been an entire crowd that saw how that confrontation with that idiot went down previously, and the moron was obviously missing his eyes, so why hadn't the guards come to make an example of them yet?

There was no way that they should have been left alone, and Alec had been prepared to make a show of himself and the rest of his party's strength so that they would obtain some privileges, but that obviously hadn't happened yet.

With the newly formed base, there was no way that crime rates weren't on the rise.

By all accounts, the military should have moved in to make an example out of the neo-humans in order to maintain the security and order of the place, yet they were left alone?

It made no sense.

A few blocks down, he was flagged down by a guard, but he obviously wasn't here to reprimand or bring them in.

"Are you the captain of the Spectres, Alec?" the guard tried to look serious, but he appeared more like he was trying to hide his grin instead.

"I am."

The guard grabbed Alec's comparatively smaller hand and vigorously pumped it up and down.

"I'd just like to say. It's nice to meet you! Don't worry about having to face consequences. Since Ian Sutcliff had been trying to lay his hands on a party member, it was his own fault. As long as you don't go overboard, my superiors would like to say that they won't treat you unfairly."

Ah, that made more sense.

Alec had likely shown more strength than anyone else who was already in the base, and the higherups were definitely trying to keep him in H base.

Fine.

However, there had to be something more going on here. He didn't think that his little show of strength had much to do with anything. What he shown was barely anything, and his raw strength shouldn't even have registered on the military's radar.

Dominique looked like he was this close to killing the poor guard just from shaking his hand, so Alec sent the guard away with much difficulty.

He dragged Dominique away before he went overboard immediately after the guard told them *not* to.

"Mini, stop."

Amazingly, the Sin really did stop glaring after the guard that was scurrying away, but his eyes also didn't move from Alec's form after that.

Alec shrugged.