It has been more than one hour and everyone was now healed by Sarah, at least the serious wounds were the rest would have to heal themself naturally or wait that they found a pharmacy to bandage those wounds.

" Heu you guys are going out already shouldn't it be better to stay here, it will be night in less than half an hour "

A guy in his late twenty came close to Clement and George asking them but only got a sigh from both of them while they shake their head looking at Lisa and John with Emily who was leaving the Store.

" Why don't you ask them yourself "

George said to the man not wanting to mess with this Powerful group.

Hearing his answer the man shrugged he didn't want to go near those people the air around was suffocating, it was strange that when they were fighting they didn't felt this pressure, he looked at them once again and went back sitting with the other people that were eating the small snacks they found.

" Hey you three be careful when searching for energy core and no more food we will do it tomorrow together with Edward and Emily and George and Clement group that could fight "

Fred said warning them, while looking at Emily and John then looking at Lisa who was starting to leave without them, the snake following her just after.

They both nodded knowing what he means before leaving too they wanted to go get some fresh air so it was ok for them, catching to Lisa and advanced together, the sun slowly bathing them with his last ray of the day, the showcases of the buildings and hotels reflecting its light, illuminating the disaster left after the passage of the beasts' horde, cars still on fire not sure if they will explode or not with blood trace in the streets leaving a strong smell of blood still intact in the air even one hour after they left.

With corpses of beasts leaning their lifeless with flies and birds in the sky forming small clouds that kept fighting for them, the area looked gloomy with only howls of beasts that could be heard in the distance and in the sky making feel the people still alive in the city the pressure of being at the bottom of the food chain.

But for John, Lisa, and Emily who were advancing in the street, it was now becoming a normal day for them having birds roaming in the sky following them, but them being enough strong to create a pressure that dissuaded the birds only some birds from time to time attacked them, and they were all at their level but Emily slowed them down shooting at them making them miss them while the snake protected them and attacked those too slow to escape his attack at the speed of light before they could go back in the sky, with John and Lisa finishing those that were too dumb to escape in time and when there was a huge pack of birds they just hide in a building in a good state waiting for them to leave.

They rarely met huge groups of beasts when they went down the route they took to go to the Ouest district only meeting small groups of rats of ten or so at levels four eating corpse that they quickly finished by now they were about to level up once again before they came back to the others it was already dark and they could feel that even at their levels staying outside at night was dangerous.

And just like that, they came back their bags full of energy core and some food they found in the building they went to when hiding.

" Lisa I don't know how you feel right now but I don't think Chris would like to see you in this state"

Emily said looking at Lisa next to her that was now almost like another person the cheerful girl she saw the last few days gone with her hairs soaked in blood and clothes torn apart that didn't help either, they weren't too far from the store so she let down a little her guard wanting to talk to Lisa she knows once they will come back she wouldn't talk to anyone.

she tried numerous times the last hours to talk to her but she only received a glance from her part, with a quick response so faint that she could barely hear words.

" Look I am ok I know you want to help but I am trying to calm my emotions, my bloodline want to go on a rampage so I need to stay calm and besides we need to think about what to do next"

Hearing her response she looked at her, still with the same cold face covered of blood but since she herself said that she was ok she couldn't do better than that as long that she doesn't want to kill herself it's the best she could do.

John seemed not wanting to go too deep into it, just advancing keeping an eye at the surroundings for them, letting them have their talk while he felt his bloodline too he could tell that after jumping to save Claire, his bloodline reacted to protect him and he gained an ability like Claire but this ability was pretty simple and only make his bone tougher at every level up that he learned from his bloodline like if his body knows instinctively how to make his bone stronger and now his body was like a tank flesh but still vulnerable to any that have sharp claws.

' I should, at least, ask Claire if she felt the same with her ability '

He thought while they entered the clothes store.

"uhhhh Lisa where is your snake.."

it's then that he noticed that at some point, the snake that was behind them disappeared his shadow that covered normally the destroyed entrance no longer visible it was strange for a beast of this size to disappear without he could even notice it.

And at his remark, Emily and the others looked at her.

" He said he's going hunt for energy core at least it seemed something like energy core "

She said shrugging her shoulder, going at the back of the shop, not wanting to stay at the entrance door with the cold winds and howls that make it harder for her to focus on her bloodline trying to ease the death of her lover.

The simple fact to think about him make her heart beat so fast that she felt like if it might explode at any time, and her bloodline acted by instinct and tried to stop the source of the problem her emotions, but only got stopped by her, making her in this state where she barely could have the time to cry her lover death and had to protect herself from hurting herself.

The others didn't ask more about the snake and went to the employee room leaving Edward and john for the first shift, while they tried to at least sleep for one hour or two before it would be their turn.

The city slowly falling in darkness with the moon that was bigger than before but with the earth being bigger too it was hard to see the difference unless someone pay a close attention, enlightening what was left of the human society that was now almost covered by grass and trees that were growing faster than before the smallest reaching two-meter high, the roads gone with bodies of human and beasts filling the high road with abandoned cars that was the only way to know that there was a road there.

The howls of the beasts outside the clothing shop getting louder John and Edward doing their best to keep low lying on the intact walls at the entrance covering their bodies with the clothes scattered in the shops to change their destroyed clothes trying to pass the time by talking low but still do their best to not fall asleep.

" Darling what will we do we can't keep going on like that? "

Eillen with her son in her harm asked Philip that was leaning close to her wrapping his arm around her

" I don't know but look with the situation I still think it was our best idea to stay with the group we aren't sure what would have awaited us at the militaries camp and they always put our son at the safest place possible I may not be smart but I know when I see that it's good to be with people like that in this kind of period "

He said looking at their son in her arm, the kid didn't escape the fight and got his arm and legs wounded and kept crying all their way to this place it was a chance that he survived.

hearing his answers She didn't respond and just closed her eyes trying to rest covering herself and her son with clothes as a blanket.

In the room, everyone tried to find a place to sleep now that they had safe walls the sleep came quickly than they thought and in less than ten minutes everyone was sleeping except for Lisa half-asleep keeping her emotions in check.

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A few miles from the shop clothes a dog of two-meter was running with a human close to him with differents types of beasts attacking them.

' NOw I understand why I felt this dangerous feeling every night '

Chris thought inwardly while he turned and slashed at a giant bat cutting its wing to only get attacked by five more bats with rats that kept coming out of nowhere attacking him and his dog.

haaaaa!!

" Die already "

I kept slashing at anything that was too close to me with a killing intent but we were running out of time.

There is no more Sun only since thirty minutes and I thought that we might get to one of the hotels in the west district and sleep well but it seemed a wrong decision making us attract too much unwanted attention.

grooooooarr!!

I could hear the dog growling next to me and with energy perception I could tell that more rats and bats were coming like an endless river they were all at level two with some at level four and five but only a small part of them and i could feel that those at level five didn't try to attack me but instead attacked the dog letting the low level beasts overwhelm me.

" come here, follow me "

I yelled at the dog jumped from the rats encirclement and pierced and cut any bats that were blocking my way to the others parts of the streets to a building of ten or so floor.

The dog responded through their link but didn't get a response, but he still followed him clawing and bitting any bats or rats close to him killing them on the spot with only a few of them that were too speed for him to attack resulting in his legs being so wounded that when he reached the buildings he collapsed before even entering his body spasming, the beasts that were clinging to him started to bite his body wanting to him alive.

< AHHHH HELPPPPPPP>

When I heard this call for help in my head I turned to see the dog covered by a group of bats and rats that were chewing at him.

" The fuck are you doing let him go "

I thought what to do enter the building and let him die or save him.

But my body seemed to have decided at my place already closing the distance in one step, I didn't think twice and let out my bloodline pressure that directly froze them for a second, grabbing the bat on his neck I throw it to the rat on his legs making them lose them grips on him.

dragging him with the bats and some of the rats still on him all this in a split second before the frozen low levels beasts cam back to their sense and saw the human on the points to enter the buidling.

Tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk!!!!!!!

Hearing more screams coming from the sky not too far from the direction of the city center entrance I knew I had to hurry up, tightening my grip on his fur, I propulsed us as far as I could near the entrance with my remaining strengths dragging his body letting huge footprints to the ground at each step, closing behind me just after I entered the rats outside slammed on it making it shake threatening to give up at any time, looking through the window the bats were going higher slamming on the higher fo the balcony of the apartment.

Bamm BAaam!!

tsk tsk!!!

Stopping thinking about the beasts outside I went to the still stunned rats and bats, they let go of the dog and turned their gaze toward me, before howling at me and charged at me the bats barely able to fly in the hall were an easy target.

Taking my stance I waited that they were close to me before moving and slashed vertically, the rats being the only level four were taken care of by a simple strike to their head of side killing them in the spots the rest thrown to the side from the strength in my swing.

Blood and howls filling the hall as I kept advancing among them, the bats were the only problem since they blocked my view trying to make it impossible to move easily but I used energy perception using it to repair their position precisely, I jumped reaching the ceil and swung at the bats in my range after I sensed were I could deal the more damage killing them on the spot or at least rending them unable to fight, the remaining bats and rats were taken care off in a mere second.

The sound of the door being destroyed intensified, I didn't think twice I could still feel that the dog was alive even with his body with a hole from the bite of the bats and rats, I took out as much energy core I could from the rats and bats putting it in my bag.

< Human you won't abandon me?>

I then heard a question in my head, looked at the dog that was trying to stand, " why would i do that ".

< because you could easily escape those groups of foe outside and I am a burden >

" No it's not like they are stronger than me it's just their number that is too much "

saying that I took one energy and gave it to the dog that seemed revigorate after seeing it and swallowed it directly.

< thank!>

I could tell that those words were sincere through our link, we took the remaining energy cores before leaving the hall it seemed that although the energy cores didn't heal him like me, the blood loss stopped at least, the wounds would have to heal on their own though.

A minute after they left the hall going into the building but didn't go upstairs the body of the dog being too big and instead find a room on the ground floor, the beasts entered inside the building but only saw the corpse of their kin, and the bats that they ate without thinking twice before leaving searching for others prey.

The bats that entered the building by the balconies windows also came out no long after no sensing any sound coming from downstairs.

I sensed one last time the ground floor making sure most of the beasts were gone before lying on the floor near the door closing my eyes relaxing, the room wasn't that big but enough to let me and the dog enter.

" ahhh finally really a long day "

I appreciated the calm of the room, with howls and growls in the background like a lullaby.

" tomorrow We should find them, how far do you think they are "

I asked the dog that was leaning

< Not too far >

Hearing that I relaxed and summoned my status screen it was time to level up.

Name: Chris Specie: Human Talent: In process... Bloodline: Warlord - stage 2/10 [Medium]

Path: [ leader - 20% ]

Energy point: 8005 Level 6 - [ 0/6000] Abilities: Natural Regeneration, Mind Fortitude ( Will to go overcome its own limits ) Trax: 1000

I started to level up allocating my Energy points, by now the number of energy point wasn't a problem anymore but it was my bloodline I wasn't sure how to unlock the prerequisite to upgrade my bloodline, I wasn't sure if it was better to use Energy core or the prerequisite but at least so far with a prerequisite I can gain more abilities which is a huge help.

Since even if I didn't receive a prompt for my new ability I somehow knew I had one after I passed the prerequisite to suffer a mental break.

I wasn't sure how it worked but so far the name means what it can do, maybe there was more to it but I still didn't find it.

I felt the surge of energy entering my body compared to before when It felt like ants biting all over my body, this time since I didn't focus on this sensation but what it did, I felt that My energy perception getting stronger, it didn't become larger but instead clearer and easier to receive information without taking too much of my focus and instead, it became more passive but only near my body.

Congratulations your servant is now a level five Dog.

When I saw this prompt, I looked at the fog it seemed to be fine lying on the floor letting out small whimpers and from our link I didn't felt anything so I let him like that.

And closed my eyes thinking about tomorrow and what to do once we found the others and before I knew I was already sleeping .