Two monstrous figures were currently wrestling with each other.
BAAMMM!!CLANK!! BAAMMM!!
The Stage Two Stone Golem fighting against the Stage Two Zombie. The huge golem is only about half the size of the black zombie, it's looking like a David versus Goliath situation. But the golem seemed to be able to firmly hold on against it's opponent's monstrous body.
Meanwhile, after Alex injected the serum into Winter, a moment later he passed out. Alex gave him a quick bandage and told James and his remaining bodyguards to take Winter out of the building. As for the boxes of stuff collected by the two teams, Alex quickly stored them in his storage rings. Red decided to stay, as he held the laser weapon, he hoped to stay behind to help.
ROOAAARRR!!!
The huge zombie's shoulder has finally fully regenerated. It's now able to use both of its arms. The monster held the golem's body tightly and rammed it into the wall.
BAAAAAMMMMM!!!
The golem got blown over to the room behind the wall. The black zombie decided to turn around and redirect its attention to the guy who stabbed its shoulder.
the ferocious monster rushed straight to Alex.
Zzzziiiinggg... Phhhiuww!!
Another yellow sharp light beam came from the weapon held by Red shooting at the black zombie, but this time it was able to dodge it.
The black zombies were at the second stage evolution of the zombie. Within a few months, this type will become the zombie hordes' powerhouses. Monstrous strength, bulletproof skin, and high regenerative power. None of the Mortal Realm fighters will be strong enough to fight this zombie type personally. Even the peak stage Earth Realm fighters will have trouble fighting them without proper skills and equipment. In his previous life, Alex had killed thousands of black zombies, but it was when he had already reached the Sky Realm.
Right now he was only a Mortal Realm fighter. From his experience, the most dangerous thing about this black zombie compared to other zombies or mutated beasts was its intelligence.
"With my current strength, I would not be able to blindly defeat this monster... I need to outsmart it."
This monster was a real predator, Alex didn't dare to underestimate it. He took a deep breath, instantly performed breathing techniques and the second stage of the Hexagram Steps. His speed increased substantially.
Alex threw two smoke grenades to the ground.
BSSSHHHHH!!!!BSSHHHHH!!!!
White smoke instantly covered about 10 meters around the area Alex was standing in. Like a ghost in the mist, Alex gradually was missing from its view. The black zombie jumped forward only to end up hitting empty smoke.
SWISH!! SWISH!!
This creature was still depending on its eyesight and hearings to search for its prey, it could hear its prey was near but was still unable to land a hit. Instead, it constantly received multiple hits to its legs.
PAA!! PAA!! PAA!!
GROAARRRRRR!!
When the smoke cleared everyone else could see what Alex did. Instead of taking a distance against the black monster, Alex did the opposite. Using the hexagram steps, he managed to stick close and continuously stayed at the monster back. Armed with the snake tooth spear, Alex landed multiple stabs at the opponent's legs. Although the stabs were unable to disable it, somehow it was enough to reduce the black zombie mobility.
The creature finally realized what Alex has been doing, but Alex already gathered all his strength, he jumped and dealt a critical thrust to the monster head.
PPAAAAA!!!
Alex miscalculated his strength, the spear only managed to pierce the head halfway through the monster's jaw. The creature screamed loudly but was still able to do a counter attack.
The monster raised both of his hand and swung its monstrous arms at him, and this time Alex was unable to dodge it.
BAAAMMMM!!
The hit from above crushed Alex to the ground. Alex lay on the floor and coughed up blood. If he's not wearing the protective low-grade armor, he would already be unconscious or worst.
The monster quickly followed the attack, this time using the pointy sharp end of the arm, this attack would surely kill him, but...
BAAAAMMM!!!
The Golem has returned and tackled the monster, it dragged the fight away from Alex and both of them started to wrestle again.
The twins and Red rushed to Alex to help him, but other than losing his face in front of his men, he's fine. Alex started calculating different tactics and scenarios to help the golem kill the monster together. He planned to arm the twins with the extra snake tooth spear from his storage ring, but he decided it was too risky... One wrong move and the two spirit enhancers could die. In a one on one fight situation between stage two golem and stage two zombie, Alex knew the golem would thrive, so he decided to just watch the fight.
Probably because the black zombie had already been hurt by the laser weapon and the multiple stabs by Alex, the fight ended a minute later. The golem was finally able to pin down its opponent to the ground and launched multiple explosive punches to the black zombie's head.
BAAAM!!BAAAM!! BAAAM!! CRACK!! CRACK!! SPLAATT!!
The black zombie's head was cracked and turned into paste, Alex walked to the headless body and found a piece of the yellow spirit stone and put it in his storage ring. The group then quickly headed out from the building and joined the team outside.
The situation outside has also turned chaotic, Zee with his Gold Team took a defensive stance outside of the office building. Thousands of normal zombies and hundreds of the red zombies already swarmed the area.
Tratatatattatata, Tratattatatatatata
The team poured all the ammunition they had at the incoming zombies. This team of experienced peak stage fighters was able to effectively do headshots even with assault rifles.Zee, on the other hand, used the huge M134 Minigun.
Dzzziiinggg... Dratatatatatattaattaatt
Hundreds of zombies died each second at the hands of the small group, but the zombie hordes still came in thousands.
BANG!! BANG!! BANG!! BANG!!
On top of the building, Aria and Flea fired their sniper rifles to headshot the incoming zombies. As they were located on the high ground they could see an endless number of zombies coming to the area.
"More incoming... We need to head out soon."
"Hold on. I spotted something."
"Incoming from the north!"
BAAAMMM!!BAAAMMM!!
A huge steel object moved in fast heading to the group from the north while crashing at the zombie hordes, It's James' armored RV. The vehicle stopped meters away from the group, the RV's door opened up and a man with eyeglasses using a Pickaxe on both his arms start piercing zombies around the vicinity.
"Are you guys coming?"
The glasses guy was Theo and the one driving was Cindy, Alex ordered them both to go take the RV knowing the hordes will come.
Aria and Flea jumped down from the four-story building and started to move inside, all fourteen survivors were packed inside the luxurious RV.
"Ok everyone's already in. Let's go!!"
The vehicle started to drive quickly and headed back north to the shore, there were thousands of zombies trying to stop the moving RV but the golem was protecting it while running side by side with the vehicles.
It was the first time James' bodyguards saw the golem, they were amazed by it. Seeing it also made Alex wonder, without the golem he might not have been able to defeat the black zombie.He wondered if it's normal to encounter this zombie type only one month after the doomsday. In his previous life, he was in the Bali mountains at that time, so he would not know. He never heard anyone ever saying that they saw one this early as well. But then, if anyone ever saw this type so early, none of them would be alive to tell the tale.
Alex suddenly had a scary thought in his mind,
"Will the doomsday turn out differently with his reincarnation?"
"Humanity was annihilated in only a few years during the previous life... If the monsters got stronger how bad would it be this time?"
Alex's wild thought suddenly got distracted by the sound.
BAAAMMM!!!BAAAMMM!!
"Cindy drive carefully!!! You're gonna wreck the RV, this is not a tank! Let Zee drive the car!", James worriedly said.
"Move away!! It's dangerous to distract the driver!!"
Cindy chuckled... In her mind:
"Not a chance, this is so much fun..."
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DDay +31
Three days have passed since the Battle of Surabaya. The four hour battle between 10,000 men against millions of zombies had ended with a tactical retreat.
Farell moves the 10 battalions back to the south across the paddy fields which slow down the incoming hordes and then crossing the small river. The 10 battalions finally retreat by the brigs type ship through the river back to the Madura island.
The four hours battle had a death toll that reached almost a thousand fighters, one-third of it come from the convict fighters who were fighting on the front line. But within the short battle, the Star Army was able to kill approximately a million normal zombies and more than thirty thousand red zombies.
By the end of the battle, there were 12 convict fighters who were able to finish their targeted 20 red zombies bounties. Most of them have been collecting their kills for a couple of days. These 12 men were given the choice to either go free or join the Star Army as a full-fledged citizen. Surprisingly, all 12 men chose to rejoin the Star Army.In the end, all 12 were assigned as the unit leaders of the convicted fighters.
Not only they were awarded as full-fledged citizens, but they were also assigned as unit leaders as there were none of it at the moment. Thus, their status in the Star Army is also now comparable to the elite soldiers. Unlike the other convicted fighters who only receive one food vouchers, these 12 men receive three vouchers per day.
Due to the way the Star Army treated these 12 men, it made the rest of the thousand convicts more motivated to try harder on the next upcoming battles. Later on the more convicts fighters turned into regular fighters, the more competitive it is to become unit leaders, therefore more quality fighters and leader will emerge.
The Star Army spends the last few days resting. Theo organized simple funeral services for all of those who died during the battle, including James Randal's six bodyguards.
Looking at the bodies burning and thinking about those that they have left on the battlefield, Alex wondered as the commander in chief if his decision was right. One thousand men died for items that may or may not be useful for the upcoming battles.
But then again, as much as it hurt to see the people's sacrifice, with the million zombies they have exterminated, the fighting experience of the Star Army has rose along with the tens of thousands of spirit stones they had collected, in the end, he's sure he did the right thing.
Alex makes sure that all of the fighters that participated in the battle will receive their rightful spirit stone rewards. He then started to recount their numbers.
With the addition of new fighters and new survivors, the population of Bangkalan city had grown even more.
Bangkalan Base>
Area: 65 hectares
Total Survivors: 271,722
Defense Team:
Colonel Dion's 5 Battalion: 4,822 men
Dario's 5 Battalions: 4,673 men
Ruslan's Madura Fighters : 1,876 men
Farell's Division: 7,655 men
Donnie's Tiger Units: 50 men
That's almost three hundred thousand people living in the Bangkalan Base, these numbers are quite huge compared to the other survival bases in Alex's previous life. Although, other than the army, most of these people have no fighting experience. They have been too relaxed for the past four weeks. This will be problematic in the future as Alex needed more fighters.
After hours of strategic meeting with Farell, Donnie, Cahya, James, Dario, and Ruslan. the next planned finally drafted.
Alex first priority is always to save more people, second is to prepare the base and strengthened the survivors, therefore Alex assigned each the leaders with task
Farell and Dario all ten thousands more fighters will go separately heading down south of the Surabaya city all the way to the south coast to search and rescue more survivors. The convict fighters also being divided into these two groups, these people eager to go battle and finish their bounty as soon as possible.
Alex gave Farell one main objective, near the city of Malang on the south coast there is one particular important place. It's the location of PT Pindad factory.Indonesian main defense industry company and exporters.Farell division objective is obviously to collect as many weapons, bullets, armed vehicles and also artillery.
Next task is to increase the fighters numbers out of the 270.000 survivors.At that day, 50.000 selected to be trained as fighters.All able-bodied man, age 17 to 50 preferably without family to take care off.
Donnie tiger platoon will be in charge of training. This will be the same basic training as the one thought in StarBase. Basic hand to hand fighting movement technique, weapon combat, formation training, and survival training. Alex left 5000 spirit stone as a reward for the top 10% talented fighters from this batch.
Colonel Dion 5 battalion army of 5000 was disbanded and merged into the 50.000 new recruits. the colonel itself was removed from his rank. The last few days Alex has the chance to know more of this Dion, he got into his position trough connection channel, he is not really a fighter,but Alex finds him trustworthy. He is apparently a very good administrator, therefore Alex gave him the army administrator position. He would probably become one of the busiest people onwards, especially with the army is expand.
The other plan is to start packing up and move all the rest of 200.000 men. These people will be moved by sea using the Brig ships into theStar Base in Bali.Cahya the ex-governor will be in charge of this task, moving 200.000 plus men, supplies, equipment using the limited brig ships are not an easy task.
Considering the number of ships and the size of transports, Cahya approximates the back and forth trips from Surabaya and Bali would take about three to four weeks to finish.Therefore Alex set the new recruits training by Donnie and the mission to the south by Dario and Farell will need to be wrapped up with the same schedule.In four weeks all civilians will already be moved to Bali and there will only be armed fighters ready for the next phase.
Alex asked James and his team to move to Bali as well, but he refused.James wanted to be in the center of it all. Although he was a businessman, like himself this James has a lot of fighting spirit in him. Therefore Alex agrees to take him and the rest of his bodyguards.
Alex then gave the laser weapon research and equipment to Cahya to be given right away to Doctor Rachel research team in Bali starbase. The priority is not the weapon itself, but the technology to convert spirit stone into an energy source. Although Alex has a laboratory and scientist prepared at the base, Alex unsure if there would be much success with the project, he can only hope for the best.
Thinking about Bali, make Alex think about his family, Alex write down a letter to be given to his wife Devita and also note for his daughters. He predicts he won't be home for another month and maybe more.
Lastly Alex gathered up Ruslan and his 2000 fighters to come along with him. Alex added another 3000 Madurese locals especiaĺly the one who has experienced with the mutated cattle. Alex has big plans for these hundred of elephant size cattle. Alex took 300 of these mutated cattle, the rest will be sent to Bali base with Cahya.
Alex team, James and his bodyguards plus the Madurese fighters all 5000 plus 300 mutated cattle carrying supplies prepared by James, heading for a journey to the west into the central Java.
"Time to meet up with Rico."