Peter followed Mark outside, by the time they reached the door he already was seeing what was going on down staris through his enhancend Xray vision, the two individuals downstars where gunning down the tribe of Orcs, whitch where much more resilient than they suggested, not that they looked weak but reciving multiple shots from an AR-15 and a shotgun and keep walking towards the gun fire was commendable non the less.
After analizing the situation he realized that from the two cops one was heavily wonded, he was sitting on the floor against a wall, a torniquete around his leg that stoped the blood loss more or less yet he probably could not walk by himself. As he looked around his companions he decided to devise a plan.
"Me and Mark will charge the Orcs, if we find they overwhelmingly strong just keep them at bay with the shield and the club while that, Lisa and Anastasia I need you to help the downed cop up to our floor, the echoing of the gunshots is confusing the monsters, and they only konow a general direction in whitch its comming from, sooner or later they will find a way up, and we do not want to get caught in the middle of it all, in and out 30 seconds" he finished his explanaition as he saw the Female Cop toss aside her Rifle and take out her pistol.
They descendend the stairs as fast as posible while still being relatievely quiet, nobody dared to talk, as they aproached the exit to the next floor peter raised his hand with three fingers lifted marking a countdown, when the count reached zero he bolted through the door and in to the hallway leading to the masacre that just took place.
The Orcs where wounded and fighting them was relatively easy, so he let Mark get the last hits, maybe he would get a level that way, the floor was sliperry due to the fresh blood leaking from the corpses of the fallen Orcs, but it did not make it imposible to fend them off, by the time they where done with the last Orc Peter just turned around and sprinted back towards the stars the Female Cop was in shock and rasied her gun against him he just sighted at her stupidity and told her to get moving.
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They where all out of breath as they reached the Filming set, the two Cops collapsed on the floor as soon as they made it through the door, The female officer was still clinging to her gun as her life depended on it (because it did) while the male officer was being treated by Anastasia with the first aid kit. Suddenly The two officers and Mark all moaned and started shaking slightly. Peter observed as their status on top of their head changed, showing how they have leveled up.
Peter noticed that his shield somehow felt heavier, after a quick look he found out why, one of the Orc's axes that he blocked had gotten stuck in the wood of the shield, must have been from that last Orc they pinned down to a wall, he put his trusty hammer in his tool's belt and then dislodged the axe with some force, it had dented the metal plate too, the blow must have been substantial, but he did not noticed with all the comotion down stairs.
The axe was of crude making, a bit heavy on the front but it was to be expected with souch a thick pice of metal being the axe head, it was a one handed weapon mounted on something that resembled a bone, maybe some kind of tusk since the bottom end ended in a sharp tip, great for jabbing someone in close quarters, the handle was wrapped in some kind of hard brown leather that was overlapping reselbling a braid, probably to help with the grip. the head itself was thick, but it thinned out halfway through giving it relatively ling and curved edge, ont the oposite side of the edge there was a spike, so this weapon could be used to chop and pierce, great addition to his hammer and it's blunt damage, as he was still inspecting the axe something popped up in his vision.
Orcish One handed Axe (Common)
Made from unrefined Orcish black steel, this common weapon has been forged by an average balcksmith
This surprised Peter, he switched the axe for his hammer and inspected it
Carpenter's Hammer (Mass produced)
Average carpenter's hammer, this mass produced item has passed the quality controls on the factory and is been deemed fit for sale.
Then he inspected his shield
ReanimatorBot Sheild (Common)
This shield has been made with low quality wood and reinforced with metal plating retrived from an ReaniamtorBot to increase it's durability.
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Peter did not knew what the Qualities of the weapons meant, but there was no indication on the damage dealt or the durability of the weapon. After helping the Male officer up, they helped him limp to a near by meeting room they all sat down on a chair.
"how much time for the next wave?" Peter asked Mark
"around 30 muntes with change" Answered Mark after checking his watch
"wait, you mean there will be a third one?" Asked the female Officer wide eyed
"There is a saying in my country: if something happens once, then it will never happen again, but if something happens twice, then you can be damm sure it will happen again" Said Peter "sounds better in my languge though"
"dear god, we barely managed to make it out alive after the second one, i cant even imagine what a third wave will bring" Officer James said while rubbing his face with his hands
"what happened down there?" asked Lisa while her hands trembled under the table.
"we got good twenty minutes before we have to prepare, so enlighten us" Said Peter said invitingly with a wave of his hand
"When this whole clusterfuck started, we did not knew what was happening, for the first hour all electiricity and digital services went down" Peter glanced at Lisa for a second, remembering her outburst a few hours ago, but focused on what the Officer was saying " Only our short wave radios worked, our Cheiff send us to secure the streets in case riots started, we where about to go home, our day shift ended and the night shift was about to take over, but with this emergency we were still dispached, i already knew something smelled fishy, that is why i took my shotgun with me, Officer Lin followed my lead and got her rifle, at the beggening the orders where to secure the streets, but then all hell broke loose, i did not even understand what was going on, nether did dispatch. but soon a bunch of people rushed down the street running away from some monsters, they looked like humans, but had 4 arms and they where slashing at people, we put them down, after that we tried to reach dispatch, but the radio frequency was so saturated we could not get through, we and a few other officers decided to guide the people to some safe place so we chose the Madison Square Garden, big enough for all those people. after a while other officers had the same idea, and we managed to relay to dispatch that we where holding a defensive line inside the Garden trying to protect the civilians, more Cops and civilians came, we are talking that there where around 300 officers and 2000 civilians, random people keept running in trying to escape the madness of the streets outside and then." He paused for a moment.
Peter knew what was about to come when he saw the 1000 yard stare that the man had, he took a bottle of water from one of the shelves that the Meeting room had stacked up and passed it to the man, after drinking it and recolecting himself he sighted.
"and then the blue boxes came, at the begginging people where confused but as the clock started to tick down mass panic ensured... the second wave started and it was a slaughter house, we were unable to stop it as the monsters started to pour in from every direction. we tried to contact dispatch and get some reinforcements, but nobody answered, and by the time we realized what was going on we just made a push through one of the doors, followed by panicking civilians, i dont even know how many had been trampled to death. the moment we got out, this huge ass fucking birds started to pick up the people and carry them somewhere, looked like giant ass hawks or something, they shrugged off the bullets like if it was a mosquito bite. we ran, im not proud to say it, but we ran..." the room was silent
After a while Anastasia asked a question in a low voice
"so what happened to all those people?" James just shook his head indicating that they did not make it.
"fuck me" Said Mark "you said that countless monsters apeared during the second wave right? many more than when you where on the street"
"yes?" James answered
"there was only 4 of us in this floor when the first wave happened, level 1 and 2 monsters, but it was 4 of them, then a single reanimator bot for the second one, i think that we could have managed them all easily if we where to organize and fight them all together, not that it mattered in the end" he looked at peter with a half smile.
" I think it has to do with the population density of the area, the more people the more monsters, and the dificulty increases the more waves come" he finished saying
"that is madness, you are saying as its someone doing this on pourpuse" Said Lin
"well he does have a point" Peter interject "this rather seems something very methodical and organized, one wave every hour, more people means more monsters, their scaling level, and the rewards for killing them, its almost as if something or someone is trying to encourage us to fight this things"
"what rewards are you talking about?" James asked as he tested the movment range of his leg under the table, it seemed to be healing much faster than he anticipated.
"well when i got my first level after killing the ReanimatorBot i got a message saying that i was human number 6000 something to achive level 2 and then i was in the top 100 to reach level 3, and i killed the robot fairly quickly, in the first ten minutes of the wave, plus all the ratkin before that, i wager you are close to reach level 3" he pointed at James and Lin.
"point is i got this message saying that i was an 'early promisse' whitch added to me +3 to all atributes, what ever that means, and then for the level 3 i got a 'skill'" he said as he finally took of his helmet and showed his eyes making officer Lin jump up of her seat
"he is not human!" she screamed as she reached for her gun, James just leaned over and put his hand on her shoulder to calm her down
"save those bullets for the real monsters that are about to come" Said peter non challantly, still ready to raise his shield in front of him at any given second was she to unholster her pistol.
after a few seconds of everyone on edge she calmed down a little bit, she sat down again but keept her hand on her weapon, seeing that Peter was not a threat.
"I also got a message when i reached level 2, it said i was in the 100.000.s though, and it only gave me +1 to all atributes" Said Mark
"I dont think the first wave was meant for anybody to reach level 2, i mean some people surly did, but to be honest, i killed all those ratkin by myself, if each of us got one of them then its even less experience" Peter said
"What are you suggesting?" asked Lisa
"I think the first wave was some kind of test or culling, no countdown, just monsters spawning. then the second one you already knew that it was comming, i just wonder how many more before something changes again"
You have survived the second Hour.
World Shift *initiated*
Third Wave starts in 5:00
Third Wave starts in 4:59
"you had to jinx it man!" Screamed Mark as he held down to the table
everything around them was bouncing as if there was an earthquake, strong winds rocked the windows, suddenly there was light as the sun apeared over the horizon, they looked outside the window, ether the building they where in was moving very fast throught the landscape or they where stationary and everything else was.
They noticed the landscape slowing down and finally the building came to a stop in the base of a mountain, to the left they could see a stretch of mountain systems that covered as far as the eye could see, to the right there was a forest, they could not discern anything else, while looking down Peter only could say one thing
"holy fucking shit"
They snapped out of it as the clock ticked down, they deicided to do the same tactic as before, and went to the back of the office, to the bottleneck, while walking to the back of the building they confirmed that their buidliding was not the only one that got transported this way, more or less the entiere block got there with them, there was a tall skyscraper of almost 50 stories high next to them, a buch of other buidlings got caught on the transfer also, now that it was day outside agian, Peter looked outside the window.
"Guys" Petter said, looking outside the window that was behind them while his companions still stared towards the hallway they came from ready for the next wave
"GUYS!" he screamed this time
they turned arund and looked outside the window with him. there was a second sun coming up over the horizon.