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KABOOOMM!!

On the top floor of Randall's office building, Alex and his group together with James just finished gathering all the research material. The explosion also surprised the group.

James quickly tried to contact his teams:

"White Team, come in!"

"..."

"Winter!! Anyone!!"

"This is Zee Gold team, White Team is heading to the basement, currently uncontactable."

"Ok Zee, what's the status outside."

"This is Flea, I scouted and the hordes are coming, ETA 7 minutes."

Alex tried to calculate any possible scenario. Inside a building, a group of trained peak stage Mortal Realms will not be troubled by normal zombie hordes. This must be something else. It's either a strong mutated beast or... it's... an image came to Alex's mind, and he turned worried.

He thought:

"It cant be. It's too early."

Alex quickly prepared for the worst.

He gave Aria, Cindy, and Theo a different task and he brought James and the twins quickly to the basement.

As peak Mortal Realm fighters, not only could they run fast, the group even headed down to the ground floor by jumping out of the windows.

Hopp!!

When they reached the ground, the group quickly went separately. Alex was followed by the twins rushing back into the building and headed to the stairs down to the basement.

KABOOM!! KABOOM!!

There, two explosions just went off from the basement just up ahead.

"That's a blow from an RPG, I think. Winter Team is probably in danger..."

James turned more worried.

"Alex... What do think they are facing right now?"

"..."

"I'm not sure."

James knew pretty well that Alex has vast knowledge about the doomsday, therefore he was curious. Alex's silence somehow made him more worried.

Less than a minute later, Alex finally reached the destination, Alex could hear gunfire on the other side of the door. He quickly rushed and broke through the door.

BAAMMM!!

It's a hallway as big as a basketball court. Alex arrived on the other side. There he saw in the center a monstrous pitch black abomination currently facing what's left of Winter Team, three gruesome corpses, and five men still standing.

Finally, Alex saw it, and he recognized the monstrous figure standing in the center of the hall.The Doomsday Pillars identified it as the second stage zombie. It's the second evolution of the roaming undead hordes. These advanced zombies were the reason all survivors around the world were unable to resist the zombie hordes. Even highly secured fortresses with advanced firearms will not able to stop them.

These black mutated zombies will start to show up a few months after the arrival of the Doomsday Pillars. Six months after doomsday it will become common to find a few of this type within the zombie hordes.

"Mike don't!!!"

Winter screamed, trying to prevent Mike from running to the exit door on the other side of the room... But this action got the monster's attention. The monster's black huge hand suddenly changed its form into a big sharp blade and it quickly dashed towards Mike's back... Winter rushed trying to help Mike, but...

SWISSHHH!!!... SPLAAT!!

Mike got sliced in two, dead... And now Winter was standing less than 5 meters next to the monster. It turned around facing Winter... It's next prey...

Alex was just about to come to help him but he suddenly stopped when he saw the navy seal veteran's face. He still looked fully spirited wanting to fight the monster next to him.

Winter gave a simple sign to Red at the back... A simple sign and his old teammate quickly understood what he meant.

The monster started its advance... Winter drew two handguns from his side holsters. His two arms reached out to the front and shot.

BANG!! BANG!! BANG!! BANG!!

Thunderous heavy shots sounds came out from the two handguns. And it was actually able to make the monster stop its advance.

The guns Winter used were the Desert Eagles. They're loaded with the .44 Magnum bullets.

As the name says, the pistol's visual design resembles an eagle, the handgun still could be considered a "final kill". Originated from the United States and Israel, the Desert Eagle consists of a triangular barrel with a huge muzzle. It is a semi-automatic gun with very immediate recoiling speed, however, one bullet is equivalent to a kill shot. This handgun can be considered as the most powerful handgun.

A normal person needs to use both hands to shot this gun and it's rarely used as a dual handed pistol, with for a peak stage Mortal Realm's strength it's possible

BANG!! BANG!! BANG!! BANG!!

Multiple hits from the strongest handgun in the world, but it seemed to only bother the monster.The bullets were still unable to pierce its pitch black skin.

RROOOOAAAAARRRRR!!!

The monster turned mad and quickly advanced... Winter's experience and reaction speed made him able to dodge the attack just a breath away.

BAAAMMMM!!!

The black zombie hit an empty spot on the ground. It quickly got up and was just about to jump and chase Winter when it saw two small objects flying to its face.

KABOOMM!! KABOOMM!!

It's not an explosion from a normal grenade but its a flash grenade. The blow somehow blinded the monster for a few seconds. Winter kept a distance further while still shooting his magnum bullets

BANG!! BANG!! BANG!! BANG!!

Winter quickly moved, the decisive and creative tactic gave quite an impression to Alex. Alex predicted Winter could possibly be a spirit enhancer.

The black zombie was finally able to see clearly and turned even madder chasing Winter. With just a breath away, it's able to move 10 meters and swung its large blade shaped arms... But he didn't realize Red standing next to the creature approaching closer holding a huge object on his arm. It's the laser weapon.

Zzzziiiinggg... Phhhiuww!!

A yellow sharp light beam hit the monster in the shoulder...

KABOOOMM!!!

The blade-shaped arm got blown apart and dropped to the ground... The monster got down on its knees and seemed really hurting.

ROAAAARRRRR!!!!

Alex was really impressed with the action. But Winter's next action made him panicked.

Winter kept shooting his Magnum bullets while moving closer to the abomination.

BANG!! BANG!! BANG!! BANG!!

All 8 bullets have already been used, the gun is now empty. Winter was disappointed his high caliber bullets seemed to not have much effect on the monster. He's only two meters away from the monster now. When he noticed something unusual

From the blown up shoulder, black root-shaped liquid flowed like water and was reshaping back the arm. At incredible speed.

"!!!"

ROAAARRRRR!!!!

The black monster used the other hand and quickly grabbed Winter's body... The other hand formed back to the blade shape although not fully formed, it was big enough to quickly thrust directly to the middle of his stomach!!

STABB!!!

Blood spilled from Winter's chest and mouth... James standing on the sideline was shocked with the scenes. From the other side, all of Winter's comrades tried to help. But they were not close enough.

The monster rose the blade shape arm and was just about to give its finishing move... A swing to decapitate his head.

SWISSHHH!!!

CLANK!!

"!!!"

The blade didn't hit Winter's neck instead it was stopped by a hard rock shaped object. The rock object grabbed the arm while another figure dropped down to the monster's shoulder and stabbed a sharp ivory horn-shaped steel spear.

Pa!!

GGGRROOOAAAAARR!!

It's Alex jumping and stabbing using the spear made of stage two mutated snake. The spear thrust deep into its shoulder and it quickly let go its grasp of Winter.

Alex pulled the spear and quickly grabbed Winter's body, and jumped out away from the black monster. The rock golem held the monster's body and made it unable to chase Alex.

In the corner, Winter was currently dying next to James Randal. He's about to give his last breath.

"I am sorry... I am better than this... Better than this."

Alex saw high potential in this Winter, he decided to take out one of the two panacea serums and injected it into Winter's arm.