The Toll of a Kirkstoic

Days later...

I can feel my body becoming very sluggish... I can't look straight anymore even though I have given myself enough sleep. Is this... What do they call the Toll of a Kirkstoic? I stayed up until midnight to see what I can do since I have some stuff to do. As I sat down on my chair and bit-by-bit the exhaustion is slowly making me more sleepy even though I just woke up. Luckily Tom saw me

and stayed with me. "Miss Hailey are you sure you're okay?" I replied. "You can say that but physically I'm fine... It's more on mentally tired from work... I think I'm slowly losing it, Tom. I need you to follow my instructions okay if it happens..."

Meanwhile on the surface...

"Great work out there Lieutenant... We've found more transcode locations and it seems that Miss Hailey isn't the only target they're aiming at. I can't tell you some of the details since you only need what you need right? And that's the location of the mastermind. Sadly we haven't had any clues or possible locations yet but we did found some locations of their small army camps if you will. I'll give you the location it's in Poland. The target there is a guy named Draco Kosovich we've got info about him being one of the people behind these attacks on important medical practitioners. We've also found out that he used to be a pharmaceutical head of a Russian research facility and internal spies say that they are planning to cause a secret nuclear war. It is not confirmed yet if there are nuclear weapons in the vicinity of the base, but expect a lot of enemies of course. Any weapon requests?" A secret nuclear war huh... Guess they're crazier than I expected. "Sure, do you guys have the MSG90? I may need a sniper for this one. And an 870 MCS and two sets of dragon's breath and three sets of 12 gauge 00 buck ok? And some 9MM for my M93R." He replied. "Sure thing anything else?" I replied. "A silencer for the MSG90 and that's it." He replied. "Okay, now that's that let's bring you to Poland shall we?"

Back in Britain...

"Miss Hailey... I mean didn't expect that you can do that. I-I-mean that I really haven't seen this side of you, Ma'am. Do you really think that it's the only way?" I never saw Tom this nervous and anxious... That said I can't turn back anymore. It's either my heart fails first before I perfect this cure... I don't have much time I've been exposing my body to extreme levels of stress and it can't handle it anymore I can't measure it how much time left before my body just straight up shut down but since I told Tom my plan I can rest easy for that. But now that I've been hearing Mr. Porter's reports from my Brother that's also good news. Well, surprisingly the rest of my assistants wakes up really early... "Ma'am we've prepared the test subject for testing now, and also we've received the latest reports from the other doctors, it seems that each time they test different results show and each time they timed it, it seems that each failure took longer than expected," I replied. "I can tell we are nearing zero losses in testing. But don't let us get distracted these results might be just the early stages of our collaboratory research. We can't just stop now we need to continue working into this." I really hope that we'd finish this before I fall. I can feel the toll of working... It's near I can tell... This is where my APEX soon will be finally be inserted. I'll expect from my theory is this will add another 100 or more years in my lifespan... That's still in theory but I'll soon get there if I will get there.

Back in Poland...

"Hmm... As expected, I'm fighting young soldiers... I'm fucking pissed let's see what we can snipe out from here..." God, that kid is good as dead bastard stabbed him in the knee. Let's follow that bastard, shall we? Yes, yes walk that direction then Boom! One down, it's weird that if I start the alarm I'll be fighting these youngsters and probably get them killed... I hate these kinds of advantages but I can't turn down these kinds of openings though so I fired up shot after shot... One-by-one each of the

soldiers that are guiding these children to their deaths is getting killed themselves by me... And surprisingly the alarm hasn't been tripped yet. Just how ignorant are they? So I stood up and cleaned up my spot and headed there head first and guns blazing. My shotgun is pumped with dragon's breath shells, finally, the alarm started and people are pilling up now so I grabbed a rifle from a dead soldier since my shotgun can only go so far. Some fight and some don't as they fear the helmet I was wearing since they can't see my face because I activated the one-way mode of the visor for protection of my identity of course. I mow down every one of them down to the point of them being afraid of me...

Meanwhile somewhere in an artificial island...

"Sir, you called?" "Yes, I've heard that one of our European bases got destroyed by one man... Do you know him?" "Yes, Sir I know him. He's my previous squad leader of our disbanded squad back in America." "Hmm... I guess he was the guy we forced to find our objective to kill that Angel of theirs. And he's back for revenge I guess, that's expected but since you have a deep grudge on this man why not fight him since you're now at similar strength as him. But let's not get hasty I'll let you fight him as much as you want for now we have to finish preparing our weapons for our all-out attack." "Of course Sir. Ah, let me light that cigar now Sir." "Thank you, Advance Power Experience System huh... What will little Miss Hailey would do this time? Don't disappoint me you've got a huge reputation to handle." If you know what's good for you is that your Great-great-grandfather should have ended it while he has the time and now it's my time to finish what my Great-great-grandmother should have done in the first place...