Mid M - Early Summer : tral Virginia
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- Corporal, Diana Hale ~
-Fuck, Fuck, Fuck, Fuck, Fuck...- Curses rang through my mind as I held down WEP [1] and zipped through the sky, but little did my adrenaline-logged brain know, I had long since run out of fuel.
Ever since I saw 'it', it was as if I couldn't fun properly; everything other than my instincts had practically shut down, and all my instincts told me to do was run.
'That thing' was a mohe likes of humans were never meant to face, a mohat could only be dealt with using orbital ons, just like the Great Wyvern of Japan. -But even that ridionster couldn't simply ignore nukes...-
Just a few minutes prior, I was ordered to use a Grade 3 nuclear missile with a 50-megaton explosive yield and 40-kilometer kill radius to try and nd a hit on the back of the monster's head.
And just as instructed, I perfectly, a detonation just a few meters off the creature's skin, but the high I felt from pulling it off and hearing the cheers of the people in the and room only made me fall harder.
The moment the monster simply dashed out of the smoke after a few seds, pletely unscathed, my mi bnk, and the voices of and simply turo static.
Sihen, all I could do was hold the throttle with a death grip and pray it didn't look in my dire like it did Eli.
However, after a few mihat felt like an unbearable eternity, my instinct finally eased enough for me to shakily look over my shoulder. -Is it.. leaving me alone?-
Being nearly 25 kilometers in the air, and with most of the clouds cleared out by the bst, I had an incredible view of ground zero, left as a field of ash and fire; however, no matter where I looked, I couldn't see anything moving, even though a massive creature should have stood out like a sore thumb.
Starting to break into a panic, I looked straight to the ground below to see if it was following me, but the more I looked, and the less I found, the more my fear grehere is it?!-
Before I k, my mind was starting to erode itself, crumbling uress and fear.
But before my mind finally colpsed uhe chaos, a transparent blue panel appeared in front of my face.
*Beep*
My tense body instantaneously rexed aened arted to ease before my mind finally began to calm. "Hooh..." In a single breath, an immense amount of weight was lifted off me. -The System is finally baline...-
With the adrenaliill pumping, my senses were heighteo an insane degree, but with my sciousness stabilizing, I could finally make sense of it.
*Beep* "No Fuel Remaining. Please find a pce to nd." *Beep* "No Fuel Remaining. Please find a pce to nd."
Finally hearing my Cardinal's emergency protocol, I let out another quick breath and looked over the ground in a much calmer manner. "Hooh... Okay..." It only took me a moment to find enough ndmarks to learn where I was. -That must be Rid...- "System, ect me to Rid ATC." -I should have the altitude to make it there...-
"Attempting e to Locale: Rid Air Traffitrol." *Beep* "System unications Artifaot funing properly: Recalibrating. . ." There was a short moment of silence before the System made a sequence of beeps and tinued. "Calibration plete: e established."
*Beep* I spoke up instantly. "Rid ATC, this is Corporal Diana Hale. I am out of fuel just south of Petersburg ao have a runway cleared ASAP."
But I heard nothing but a loud crag and hum. *Crackle-Vmmmm* -What the...- It was a sound I had never heard before.
"Hello, this is Corporal Diana Hale. Is ah-"
*Beep* The System promptly cut me off. "System Artifact at locale has been damaged. Please stand by."
There was a quient of sileer the System stopped speaking before the hum disappeared.
*Crackle* "Y-yes, this is Rid ATC! Is this the military?"
Hearing his panic, I spoke with a bit of hesitancy. "This is Corporal Diana Hale. I am out of fuel just south of Petersburg and need a clear runway."
An immediate silence filled the s.
-Shit, I don't have time for this...- "We are aware of the situation, but nearly all our jets are disabled. It will take some time for help to arrive. For now, I need a runway cleared!"
There was another pause before the young man finally spoke. "W-what vehicle are you in?"
"A Cardinal. I need a mid-size runway er." As I slowly bao the side, I used my cameras to zoom in ohe runways were and immediately saw two things the size of buildings. -Shit...-
"Th-that will be difficult! er runways are occupied by airships. One from Europe just nded. It will take at least twenty mio clear-"
"Make it five. I'm out of fuel; I 't stay airborhat long."
"T-that will be diffi-"
*BEEP* The young man was immediately cut off by a deafening beep from the System as a blood-red panel appeared in my face.
Regional Quest Created
An Unknowy has ehe Region
Entity Ranking: Unkimated Ranking: Leviathan Css
Objective: Kill the EntityReward: 1 [Divine Wish] | +300 Levels-Huh? Red?- It anel color I had never seen before, but that fusion turo shock the moment I saw the reward. -W..what?- I couldn't even believe my eyes.
However, everything has a price.
Just seeing the reward, I was excited...
But the moment I read the rest of it, that excitement vanished... -W..what kind of bullshit is this...-
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- Bentley Horne ~
A quick flight from the Western Union to Charlotte, North Carolina, on a ission to clear an overdeveloped dungeon. That's all that trip was supposed to be. -So, what the hell is this...- *muffled arm*
Just a few minutes ago, we crossed the eastern coast of the Uates, but rather than tinuing south, we were forced to make an emergending in Rid, Virginia. Acc to the staff, all unications had been pletely cut off, and as per iional protocol, we o nd.
Everyone on board found it extremely odd at first, as losing tact with the ground was believed to be impossible ever sinunications devices started utilizing 'System Artifacts', but not long after that, we all finally noticed the state of our own Systems, and the panic started to set in.
But things didn't improve when we he chaos withiy was nothing short of apocalyptic. Looking out the window, we could see locals spitting blood on the edge of the runway and tless others struggling to stand up or even walk.
Out of fear that there could have been a mohat used poison in the area, I ordered my guildmates to stay put while the staff and less cautious meraries went to check out the situation.
But before a single one of them could return, we were all presented with a dark crimson panel, leaving us staring into the air with wide eyes.
The first to break the silence was one of my guildmates. "Uh.. is anyone else seeing this?"
It was a regional quest with pletely unfathomable rewards. -An item believed to be a myth end, or enough levels to instantly make a normal System Merary a ranker...-
The e was like the devil's whisper, but no matter how entig of a reward it was, nothing could have made us ighe objective.
"L..Leviathan css..." One of my guildmates spoke up with a shaky voice. "I thought that css was reserved fates..."
-Y..yeah...- "S..so did I..."
It was the highest cssification the System had ever been known to give, believed to be reserved fates that were the size of small tries, and were only known to open in deep space or on other ps.
But noere suddenly fronted with reality.
-We 't stay here...- Immediately hopping up, I darted out of the Hall and pushed past the airship's attendants to get to the trol room.
*tap-k-CREAAAK* Swinging open the heavy metal door, I came into the cockpit and noticed the captains staring into the air in front of them with pale faces.
They were clearly looking at System panels. -But now isn't the time to be in a daze!- *pat* "WE O GET OFF THE GROUND, NOW!"
Finally snapping out of it, they jolted back to their senses and immediately started tapping through panels before tapping the rge blue artifact between them.
It was the unications to all the passengers via our Systems. "Everyone, please return to the airship!" He sounded as if he eaking right into my ear. "If you do not return in five minutes, we will leave without you!"
The moment he closed the transmission, he moved to a transparent panel in front of him and promptly restarted the engines. *hmmMMM* The deep hum of the reactors instantly started to ramp up.
-Five minutes... We just need five minutes...-
With my heart rag, I returo the main Hall and gathered my guildmates to form a pn in case things went south.
But after just a few minutes, we felt the airship start moving. -What?! It's too early!- Not even a quarter of the people who went outside were back yet.
Darting back to the trol room, I went to see what was going on, but only found the captains with their hands off the trols. -H..huh?-
The you of the captains spoke up the moment I came ihe ATC is pulling us off the runway." He spoke as if he had lost hope. "A military jet o make an emergending... We won't be able to take off for at least twenty minutes..."
I simply froze. "Isn't there the other runway?"
He shook his head immediately. "That airship's systems are down. There arently a mana wave that destroyed most of their devices, including the reactors, and made them uo disehe emergency break.. even during nding..."
-You're fug kidding...- *WHAM* Smming my fist into the thick metal door, I hung my head ahe thoughts and ideas flow like a river. -e on... I have to think of something!-
But, little did we know time was never on our side.
*BEEP*
Immense PreseectedActivating Passive Skill: Sensory Overload-| User's Senses have been Dulled |-Source: Uo Determiy out e-----
- Evren ~
*tap-tap-tap-tap-tap* *Ding!* "Hm?" Hearing the system ping, I gnced over at the panel.
Update and Repair pleteYour System has Updated successfully. All remainiris have been removed.
Redistributing System Resources. . .-Ah.. it was still updating?- Reading that it removed more restris, I ched my fist to see if anything ged, but there wasn't anything of note. -Hm... Maybe it was reted to my mana...- While I didn't feel any differen my maher, I didly know what to look out for. -But.. it's probably fine...-
Looking back up at the horizon, I shifted my focus back to running but quickly noticed that the surrounding trees and foliage had started to thin out along the tracks before pletely stopping on the horizon.
The only thing it could have been was a clearing. -Is that the edge of the city? I should be getting pretty close...-
Speeding up siderably, the opening irees started to widen, and the shreen grass on the ground started ing into view.
But while it was out of pce, after a few more seds, the top of a colossal grey structure with all sorts of things mounted on it started to crest the horizon. -That must be it!-
Speeding up even more, the structure quickly began to stretch higher and higher over the horizon, revealing more and more on installments coating its exterior.
But as the faint sound of arms started filling the air, the bottom of the structure finally came into view, leavio look upon it in awe. -Woaah...-
It was a wall stretg almost 250 meters into the air and absolutely yered in onry with only a single small metal area around where the rails met the wall. -That must be the gate...-
Finally entering the clearing of shrass, I could finally see that the colossal wall was circur, but the area it enpassed was so massive that a majority of it was still hidden behind the horizons to my left and right.
Even with my insanely ed sense of scale from fighting monsters multiple kilometers tall, it was nothing short of awe-inspiring. -Wow... Humanity really did adapt...-
However, humanity wasn't only known for its adaptability.
My expression of awe vanished instantaneously. -Huh?-
*ZIP-CRRRRACK-BAANG* Barely managing to rea time, I narrowly dodged what looked like a dart from one of the on installments right above the gate. -Holy shit, what was that?!-
Instantly fog on where it came from, I found what could only be described as four plex metal beams stig out of the wall aiming right at me. -What is that thing?-
But before even a sed passed, it began to glow again, f me to brace myself before instantly reag to another dart.
*ZIP-CRRRRACK-BAANG* Ane plume of crete was blown into the air behihe moment I ducked u, but with that, I had the on dialed in.
With a bit of bloodlust beginning to flow, I focused on the glowing gun with dited pupils before finally...
*ZIP-PAT* Instantly snatg it out of the air, the dart started to glow red hot, but before it could start melting, I pnted my foot on the ground aur to whe came.
*ZIP-CRRRACK* As the shockwave met my ears, the dart bsted straight through the metal exterior of the installment, violently g in and splintering the metal before tinuing deeper into the wall
But by the time the shockwave of the impact or its wave of heat would have reached me, I was in the air. *FWOOOSH* With a single massive leap, I darted straight to the top of the wall, clipping aroying the edge of it to slow down before finally ing to a stop.
However, although the wall was dozens of meters thick, preventing me from seeing the ground all the way to the horizon, it didn't matter. -W..woah...-
Stretg far above the inside edge of the wall was a on resembling what I destroyed, but with only two rails and upscaled to the point that each rail was nearly a kilometer long, and with rge text on the side of it.
It read, "FX-8620 Tomahawk -|- Eversor pany Orbital Railgun"
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