Rebirth: 100 Days Before Doomsday-Chapter 325: The Battle of Wastelands (III)

The beast lunged.

Its limbs that were an unnatural blend of muscle, claw, and tentacle, struck out like a storm of death.

Rune veered sharply to the left, his boots digging deep into the cracked earth as he avoided a sweeping claw. His daggers lit up with a silver glow as he channeled them with a spell right before darting in and slicing across one of the limbs before spinning away.

On the other hand, Davian didn't dodge. Instead, he met the beast head-on.

He hurled his blade into the creature's knee joint, then followed up with a shockwave of his power that exploded from his fist. The beast staggered, though only slightly, but it was enough.

Enough for Grace to jump.

She launched herself from the broken stone rock behind her with dual energy blades spinning in her hands as she moved like a streak of dark lightning.

"NOW!" she shouted.

The beast turned its head toward her and its six eyes locked on. A massive claw rose, prepared to intercept her mid-air.

But she was faster. She disappeared, vanishing into a cloud of shadow mist. And the claw missed its target.

She reappeared just above the creature's skull and drove both energy blades down, straight between its primary eyes. The impact unleashed a burst of energy that cracked the surrounding ground.

The beast let out a screech that rippled through space like thunder.

But it wasn't dead.

It reared back violently, shaking Grace off like a wild horse bucking its rider. She crashed into a boulder, but her armor took almost all of the impact, keeping her safe. With a swift jump, she was back on her feet with both blades ready.

But she wasn't the only one.

The creature's wounds healed as well. Its thick scales sealed shut in mere seconds. Then, it roared again and slammed one of its limbs down in a wide arc.

Rune took the hit protecting a squad of warriors, thrown back like a ragdoll. He groaned as pain washed through his body despite the armor taking most of the hit. But he too was back on his feet the very next moment.

Davian leapt onto the beast's back, stabbing his blade down again and again, aiming for pressure points, nerves, joints. The creature howled and flung him against the side of the cliff, where he landed hard.

"You kill it. Or it kills everything."

The dragon's familiar voice suddenly filled Grace's head, letting her know what she had already understood after witnessing the sheer strength of the Class 10 Shadow Beast.

So... she did exactly what she needed to.

Drawing on every last reserve of power, she activated her elemental powers. Water and fire fused in her veins. Steam rose from her skin. Her blades transformed, one wreathed in ice and the other one in flames.

She ran before launching into a jump, right into the chest of the monster. She landed her blade of flame right into its heart, and the bakde of ice into its spine before twisting both with her thought-creation power.

And this time, the scream that the beast was its final, fractured roar before its body convulsed. A pulse of shadow spread like a dying heartbeat… and then it collapsed.

Dead.

The moment it hit the ground, a deafening silence fell.

The battlefield paused for a heartbeat only for chaos to resume within seconds.

The death of the Class 10 Beast sent waves of disruption through the hive-like system of the infected and monsters. The coordination between them snapped like a broken web.

"Wave One!" Grace shouted, pulling the warriors' attention to her. "Take the infected!"

And the warriors immediately followed her order.

Three of Grace's Shadow Beasts - the Thunderclaw Leopard, the Flying Snow Lion, and the Five-Tailed Black Wolf, charged with them. Together, they swept through the swarms of infected, who were now mindless, shrieking, and easy to take down.

"Wave Two! Clean up the Shadow Beasts!"

Rune led the charge this time with his blades glowing with deadly spells. Four of Grace's Shadow Beasts joined him as well while the warriors supported from the rear, moving in waves and striking with precision.

They fought like a storm.

"Wave Three, with me!" Davian commanded as he aimed to take down the remaining Monster Beasts.

The remaining of Grace's Shadow Beasts followed after him along with the warriors to eliminate the remaining Class 7 and Class 8 monster Beasts.

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The battle was long, tiring, and ferocious. But the warriors didn't break. They endured and kept fighting.

And Grace? She didn't stop either. She faced the two remaining Class 9 Shadow Beasts. They both were intelligent, brutal, and far more dangerous without the coordination of their superior and... she was facing them alone.

The first came at her like a juggernaut, claws tearing through rocks. She rolled under its strike and summoned a blade of ice, slicing across its neck and then impaling its chest with deadly precision.

It roared and swiped, but she leapt atop its head using her air-enhanced speed, and drove her blade through its skull.

The end of the first beast barely registered, before the second Class 9 came at her. It had wings and it started launching attacks from the air.

Grace took the fight to the skies, leaping between floating debris and torn rocks. She hurled poisened daggers and tried to pull the beast down with wind pressure, and incinerated it from the inside with a stream of molten fire conjured directly into its mouth.

And then… silence.

Six long, blood-drenched hours later, the battlefield was finally still.

No infected remained.

No Shadow Beasts.

No Monster Beasts.

The wastelands that were once terrorized by thousands of infected and nearly a hundred Beasts, was now free from all.

"2025, scan the area for any remaining threat." Grace handed the task to the little creature while she moved to help the Vermillion Bird that was injured.

By the time she was done tending to its injuries and sent it back inside her space, 2025 was done with the scan.

There were a dozen or so infected and Beasts still left, but the system detected eggs of Shadow and Monster Beasts.

Grace handled the task of cleaning up the remaining threats to her Shadow Beasts while the warriors collected their rewards from the fallen beasts.

Once everyone was done, she cleared up the wastelands, leaving behind no bodies. No rot. No disease. No remnants.