Wave 1: Ends / Wave 2: Begins

'Shit!'

Seeing strangers enter his compound…

Theo slightly lost it.

Even though it wasn't even that realistically long since the start of his exile, he grew so used to only ever worrying about monsters, that the sight of actual people…

It was too much for him to process.

Coupled with his system bugging out—all for the very first time—while struggling to decide what to make out of those people's presence…

But if there was anything that worked properly, it was the timer of the invasion.

[25]

[24]

[23]

Precious seconds passed.

In less than half a minute, this place would swarm with monsters, only for Theo's guns to hopefully respond to all the threats.

And judging from what he saw on the floating live feed from some sort of system magic camera, those people could somehow tell.

'Whoever the hell they are, I can't just… let them stroll into my place, can I?'