Chapter 48 - Hellish World
Walking into the room as they started to stir, I gave them a smile as they looked at me.
"No more of that...", Saya complained as she fell out of bed, "That was too much...hehe."
"For once I agree.", Saeko giggled.
"Jeez, you ladies need to learn to live a little. All of you sleep okay?", I asked with a smirk.
"Yes, but I feel a noticeable missing body warmth!", Rika and Shizuka pouted, "You didn't sleep in bed last night!"
"Some of us stayed up all night to train, and kept watch. Didn't want another Kraken to attack while we were asleep.", I lied.
Telling them to get dressed and get ready for breakfast, the women noticed the fresh sheets on the bed. Clearly remembering what happened last night, they were confused how I managed to pull that off without disturbing them. Thinking that they must have really been tired, they got dressed without a second thought. Joining the group as breakfast was being plated, we all ate our fill and got ready to mobilize. As the women were getting suited up, I presented them with a gift.
"What are these?", Mikoto asked holding the pistol, "They are heavier than they look."
"These are called the Judge, they shoot .410 shotgun shells. They will take the head of a zombie with a single shot as they are loaded with a Slug.", I told them.
"You mean there is a slug in here?", Shizuka inquired looking at the ammo in the chamber.
"A slug is a type of round Shizuka, he doesn't mean the bug.", Yuko laughed.
"Oh...I knew that.", Shizuka giggled.
"Where have you been hiding these?", Rei and Oriha asked.
"I found them in the bunker on Okinawa, there was enough all of you. Fortunately I have Ebony and Ivory so I don't need one.", I replied.
"You named your pistols?", Yuriko questioned.
"Typical, all the men I know named their guns something.", Yoko teased me.
Handing them a case of ammo, I told them to carry extra rounds on themselves. Wearing a serious expression as I gave them radios, I helped them get their protective gear on.
"I can't stress this enough, if you get overwhelmed you need to tell me. None of you are allowed to die on me till old age takes us.", I told them, "In case last night didn't give you the right idea, I love each of you very much. Don't you dare do anything to put yourselves in danger, more than needed anyways. Even if I have to tear my way through the horde, I will get to you if you need me."
"That is reassuring.", Maya stated kissing me on the lips.
"Have a little faith in your lovers, we know our limits better than anyone.", Renka and Rei said with a smile.
"So focus on what you need to do, and we will handle our jobs!", Sayo and Pucca laughed.
Nodding my head, I gave them each a kiss before going to put my armor on. While I was suiting up, Midna returned rubbing her butt with a teary eyed expression. Telling me that the kick really hurt, I asked her if she wanted me to kiss it and make it better. Rolling her eyes with a smirk, she told it was fine for now.
"Can I ask you to watch over my lovers?", I questioned.
"Just need me to watch, or do you want me to help?", she inquired.
"You can help?", I retorted.
"Well yeah, I can interact with the real world. It's just no one else can see, hear, or touch me aside from you.", she stated, "I can punch people, or throw stuff at others."
Walking over to her, I pinched her cheeks with an annoyed look. Telling her that was the sort of thing she needs to tell me, she apologized while pleading with me to stop pinching her cheeks. Letting her go, I told her to watch over them while I was busy with the horde.
"While I can't give you specifics...you will run into trouble out there.", she warned me.
"Huh?", I questioned looking at my HUD.
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Name: Victor
Race: High Human
Occupation: Reincarnated Person
Age: 17
Level: 98
Attack: 3300
Defense: 3150
Mental Strength: 1,500
Willpower: 3000
Points: 257,500
Skills:
Satou System
Skill Shop
Guide Pixie (Midna)
Lucky Looter - Rank 10
Ki Manipulation - Rank 10
Weapons Specialist - Rank 10
Medical Knowledge - Rank 10
Martial Artist Prodigy - Rank 10
Ogre Body - Rank 10
High Speed Movement - Rank 10
Business Man - Rank 5
Olympian - Rank 10
Spartan Rage - Rank 10
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World Phase 2 - 45%
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"The World Phase is aways off so you must mean there is an enemy that I need to be worried about.", I stated, "Alright I will keep an eye out, and have my weapons ready."
Equipping Captain America's shield, my War Axe, Sword, Heavy Machine Gun, Ebony and Ivory, and Grenades I walked out on to the deck. Seeing the groups prepare for combat, I saw South Korea come into view as Kyoko brought us in closer. Swiveling the massive guns on the ship towards the battlefield, the places was already ablaze. Having done what I thought they would, the citizens had hastily built walls with all the materials they had on hand. Having filled shipping containers with dirt to weigh them down, they stacked them seven containers tall and three deep around the downtown area.
Watching the soldiers on the walls fire down on the massive sea of undead and demons, I could see why they wanted help. The shipping containers were barely holding them back, and in some places it was starting to show the wall was caving in. Seeing our ship coming towards them, the people shouted and waved at us. Waving an American Flag, I tried not to laugh.
'Why am I not seeing anyone coming from Seoul in this direction? We gave them a timeframe for our arrival...I expected to see choppers or jets heading this way, but there is nothing.', I thought.
"Appear they think we are all American.", Souichiro stated with a sigh, "Why they automatically assuming that? Is it because we showed up to help..?"
"Well it is an American warship.", Hayato and Guile reminded him, "We are flying a US flag, it says USS on the side, and our leader is American?"
"Shit...that's right.", Souichiro stated.
"Souichiro please keep your head in the game...don't blank out.", Aya pleaded.
"I...I am sorry.", he muttered.
Giving him a warm smile, Aya was going to say something before Oriha cut her off.
"I am going to commence bombardment!!", Oriha laughed over the PA.
Unloading a barrage of cannon fire on the horde, each impact caused a geyser of blood to spray into the air. Getting their attention, the horde started to back off the wall and start to head towards the shoreline.
"We have confirmation that their leadership is ready for us to dock. You are good to go!", Astrid told me, "Please be careful!"
"Roger that, all of you come back alive or I will beat your dead asses into the pavement!!", I shouted at the group before launching myself off the ship.
Knowing that I wasn't going to make the jump in a single bound, I started launching myself off the water surface as I approached the horde earning me the Water Walking Skill. Pulling my War Axe and shield off my back, I launched myself into the oncoming horde as they reached out to attack me. Crashing into a Tyrant, I used it's body to crush all the grunts behind it before swiftly beheading it. Activate my titles, the remnants of the horde on the wall peeled off to rush me.
'Damn so it works like a fucking magnet!! You fuckers are going to earn me a lot of damn points!!', I thought chucking the Tyrant's head like a boulder into the horde, "BRING IT ON YOU FUCKERS!!!"
Activating Spartan Rage, I roared loud enough that the people on the ship could hear me. Swing my axe like a demigod, whole swaths of dead were torn apart by steel and air pressure. Punching another Tyrant's head out it's own ass and through several Baron of Hells, I charged forward and used the Explosion Release fist to obliterate the grunts as much as possible.
---3rd Person POV---
Watching from the ship through a pair of binoculars, Souichiro felt his stomach turn as he watch Victor massacre the dead. He was absolutely obliterating them, but no matter how many he killed more enemies just replaced them. The realization of what they agreed to do sank in, as it did with the others on the ship.
"This is some crazy shit we are about to do.", Bob stated.
"Got that right...", Kensei agreed, "This is going to be a tough fight, but we can't give up just yet."
"Apa!!", Apachai said cracking his knuckles.
"Yeah...how many do you think he is killing with each swing?", Souichiro asked.
"Looks to be between 100 to 300 hundred.", Cammy answered, "That's very impressive for someone his age."
"Agreed, his martial art strikes are even more deadly.", Chun-Li added.
"That's the Spirit boy!!", Ryu said with an approving nod.
Pulling up to the dock while the horde ignored them, everyone disembarked in a hurry. Scrambling to get medical tents up, the elite fighting team rushed towards the walls. Driving past people cheering for them as the flew past, as soon as they got there the saw the stragglers still fighting the soldiers to get into the city. Knowing that if one slipped by it might reattract the horde, they ran over to assist.
"Hiya!!", Chun-Li shouted delivering a series of lethal kicks to the dead, "Are all of you okay?!"
"Thank you ma'am!", they replied firing on the dead, "You must be the group from the ship!"
"Yep that's us!!", Nathan answered shooting the dead in the head, "Where is your commander, and how many other entrances do you have?"
"This is the only one. We had to seal the others, and focus on just this one.", the soldiers told him.
"Good, well lets not leave Victor alone out there too long!!", Ryu and Ken said vaporizing zombies with their fists.
"Agreed, let's clean this up!", Sayo laughed as her battle mode took over her.
Leaping past them, she went for a group of Imps. Attacking them with brute strength, she slammed her fist into one but it only stumbled back slightly injured. A sudden sense of doubt came over her, a full powered blow wasn't enough to kill a demon which made her understand the difference between her and Victor. Victor's strength was monstrous if he made them pop like bubble wrap.
"I am not going to fall behind!!", she snarled in frustration throwing her full weight in the next punch.
This time the bones in the Imp's head caved in killing it instantly. The fact she couldn't mimic Victor's actions infuriated her, being modified humans made her feel a strong connection to him. In her mind, them being similar made the group more comfortable around him as there was someone else like him. If she fell behind this much, the people on the ship might start to fear him more than the real enemies.
'I can't let him be isolated!!', she thought ripping the head off another Imp.
Seeing Sayo struggle to kill the Imps put the others on guard much more. Most of them knew how strong she was, and the fact she had to put everything she had with each blow worried them. It made them understand how hard Victor had it being the one to take the brunt of the fighting for them.
"These fuckers don't take the hint!!", Souichiro shouted punching a zombie's head off.
"You don't say!", Guile replied shooting an Imp in the face with a shotgun.
As further backup arrived to secure the gate, Sayo fell back so they could barricade the entrance. Once the doors were sealed, the martial artists stood on standby while those that could use firearms rushed to the top of the wall. Positioning mortars, machine guns, and snipers on the wall the team and soldiers started firing on the horde.
"Focus your fire on the ones on the outer edge!", Itami ordered, "We have a better chance of taking more than one out!!"
While they were busy with fighting, the medical team finished their station setup. Helping look at the injured, Black Label quickly got the serum against the Devil Woms injected into people as a precautionary measure. Treating those they could, and assisting with managing the injuries of others Yuko and Shizuka understood how much of a daunting task this would be. There were several thousand injured people here, and the staff that was living here was nearly exhausted from working hard to save as many people as they could. Some of them were showing mental trauma from having to kill some of their patients when they turned.
"This is terrible.", Shizuka said changing the bandages on a man who lost his leg, "I didn't think they would be this bad off. Where is the military?"
"They are mostly stationed in Seoul, the troops here are only those that lived in the area that stayed behind.", one of the nurses informed them.
"How many people are still living here?", Yuko asked replacing an IV bag, "And what do you mean!? Isn't the military coming to back us up?"
"Several hundred thousand still, mainly those that were too afraid to make the journey to Seoul. Rumor has it there are several breaches along the border, and there are undead and demons everywhere.", the nurse stated, "The military is condensing-"
"Couldn't the military airlift you out?", one of the Black Label nurses asked.
"Unfortunately no...it's clear the government has left us here to draw the dead to this one place.", the nurse started to cry, "We aren't more than bait to them!"
"Please don't talk like that.", Yoko stated, "You have all done quite a good job staying alive."
"Pardon her, we are all under a lot of stress.", a man said walking over with a young woman to the Black Label team, "I am Ji-Hun the Director of Incheon General Hospital."
"I am Ji-u, the leader of Incheon...or what is left anyways.", the woman told them.
"You must be quite talented to lead such a large city.", Yuko stated.
"I don't see myself as such...there was a lot more I could have done to prepare for this.", Ji-u admitted, "Our defenses are barely holding, if not for your help we would have likely fallen in the next few days. Once they breach our walls...Seoul has already said they will begin carpet bombing the city."
"If they have that level of strength still, why aren't they using it now?", Yoko asked.
"Unfortunately our position along the North Korean border puts us in a hairy situation. North Korean defenses are still active, if they try to intercept the horde they will likely trigger a nuclear response. Seoul doesn't want to risk it, and made their line in the sand at our city.", Ji-Hun told her.
"Shit...", the team replied.
"Where is your leader? I would like to thank him for accepting my request for help.", Ji-u inquired.
"He's the one fighting on the other side of the wall...", Yuriko said narrowing her eyes, "I think there is some problems with what you told us on the radio, and what you are saying now. Are you telling us that the military isn't backing you?"
"I...", Ji-u stuttered.
"You also reported your defenses were down, if the military wasn't here begin with what defenses were you referring too?", Yuriko pressed her.
"The automatic turrets and missile launchers we took from the border. None of them are operational yet, and we-"
"What do you mean yet?", Saya hissed, "You said they were disabled by Umbrella!"
"They are disabled, but someone is working to unlock them.", Ji-u reassured her.
"So once they are unlocked, you can use them?", the pair demanded.
"Well...maybe..?", Ji-u said in a low voice, "Please understand I had no intention of lying to you!! We are in desperate need of-"
"We were told you needed military support, as in the military wasn't going to hold the city. Now you are saying they never intended to hold the city.", Saya shouted, "You realize our leader, my husband, is on the other side of that wall fighting a fight that shouldn't have happened!! All of you should have evacuated to Seoul for safety!! Why would you put yourself in this situation knowing full well the danger?!"
"This is our home!", Ji-u cried, "We can't just abandoned the place where we were born and raised so easily. I am sorry I misled you, but we needed help!!"
"Come on, we are here now so let's focus on what we can do.", Shizuka said breaking the argument up, "That said...I am in agreement with Victor now, after we are done we leave. We can't support you, you have to do that."
Wanting to plead for them to stay, Ji-u was stopped by the Director. Saying that it was there fault for lying to their allies, they had no right to ask more of them. Lowering her head, she decided to put her faith in the young man working to reactivate the defense systems.
---Incheon Radio Station---
Sitting in the tech room of the radio station, a young man was busily working through two different tasks to save the city. Knowing that one of his few good friends was fighting a horde almost completely alone, thanks to drone footage, he was trying to speed up his hacking.
"Jeong, how much longer do you think this will take?", his companions asked with a worried tone.
"I should have the defenses up in five minutes, as for the Umbrella Control System probably the same amount of time.", he answered, "How is he holding up?"
"Your friend is doing fine...where did you meet him?", they asked watching the man rip giant Demon's heads off their shoulders and use them as wrecking balls.
"Haha, we met on a video game a few years ago...I griefed his Minecraft base, and killed him...a few times.", he replied trying not to laugh.
"I certainly hope he doesn't hold a grudge.", one of the women laughed.
"Nah we are past that.", he responded.
"How much fucking longer Jeong!!", Victor shouted over the radio, "The numbers aren't going down, more of them them are incoming!!"
"You can't rush perfection, I have too-"
"I am rushing you!!", he spat, "The people on the wall are attracting the outskirts of the horde towards the wall again."
"I am hurrying, I have to get the defense systems online before I activate the broadcast.", Jeong stated.
A few minutes later, Jeong managed to get the defenses back online. Targeting the undead and demon horde, the defenses started chipping away at their numbers. Once he was satisfied they were all back online, he turned his attention to the broadcast signal. Giving his companions the signal to plug the drone into the equipment, he sent a mass broadcast out to everyone on the radio.
"I am beginning the transmission now!!", Jeong shouted sending the code he wrote out.
Noticing a change in the hordes movements moments later, Jeong started to think that this would work. Before he could report the success though Victor came over the radio.
"TURN IT OFF!!! IT'S NOT WORKING!!!", he shouted, "THEY ARE GOING INTO A FRENZY STATE!!!"