章節 17: Running Into Danger

The only person who didn't look like she was interested in the fight at all was Arit! Arit was the only person on her feet, and she was frantically looking around for Mark ever since she came into the bunker!

"Mark! Mark, where are you!? Has anyone seen Mark? I can't find him anywhere! Teacher, I haven't seen Mark anywhere!"

Arit ran up to one of the male teachers that were standing at the side, and she shouted that she still hadn't seen Mark, but the teacher just rubbed the back of his neck in slight irritation as a new tremor shook the ground under their feet! Even though he was a teacher, he was still a normal human being, and he didn't want to leave the bunker either just because there was a single student who could still be out there! He wasn't going to risk his life like that!

"I'm sure he is fine. Don't worry about it too much. Just sit down; you're bothering the other students that are trying to watch the news."

The teacher said this to Arit, and Arit felt a great surge of anger fill her heart as she glared at the teacher and turned away from him! She should have known that the teacher wouldn't be any help at all! He was just a damn coward!

Arit continued to shout Mark's name while asking everyone if they had seen her friend, but no one was able to help her because they hadn't seen Mark yet, and no one wanted to go out of the bunker just to try and look for him! Arit kept on shouting for Mark, and some of the students started telling her to keep quiet and sit down because she was preventing them from seeing what was playing on the television properly! Mark was probably somewhere else, and he couldn't hear her, so she should just keep quiet!

Arit ignored all those people, and she kept on looking around frantically for Mark! A lot of fear came into her heart as images of Mark's dead or injured body were playing in her head! What if Mark was out there in the school, and he was trapped under a rock that fell? There have been a lot of tremors recently, and the tremors might have made something fall on him! There were still some students coming into the bunker, and Arit ran towards the entrance to look around to see if Mark was a part of them!

But as the students entering the bunker started to reduce, Arit's fears began to increase as she realized that Mark was not part of them! There is no way! Mark wouldn't miss the bunker without a good reason! Mark knows how dangerous it is out there! That could only mean that Mark was in trouble, and he couldn't come because of something big! He was in danger!

The teacher in charge of controlling the bunker door made sure that there were no more students coming in, and he nodded as he pressed the button to close the bunker door! The bunker door was automatic, so once it closed, it wasn't going to open anymore until the school was certain that the danger had passed. There was food and drinks in the bunker along with enough ventilation pipes to make sure that the students could stay there for more than a week if they needed to!

"Hey! What do you think you're doing!? The doors are already closing! Get back here right now!"

The teacher suddenly shouted this as he saw Arit run out of the door right before it closed completely! What the hell was she doing!? Couldn't she tell what sort of situation this was!? She could die out there if the fighting gets to this area!

Many of the male teachers quickly tried to see if they could hold the door open, and one of the female teachers tried to press the button to make sure it stayed open, but no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't keep it open, and it shut and locked them in while locking Arit outside!

"She's going to die out there! What in the world was she thinking!?"

One of the female teachers shouted like this as she started to make a call to the authorities so that the police could come and get Arit out of the school! No one can leave the bunker until the danger passes, so the only thing that they can do is hope that the authorities can help her!

[The fight between GHOST and the calamity class has now crossed into the eastern side of the city! GHOST is trying his best to hold his own against this unbelievable monster, but from the looks of things, he is not faring very well! It will not be long now before things go from bad to worse if reinforcements do not arrive soon!]

The reporter on the news channel shouted this, and the teachers and students all looked up at the television in shock! Their school was located on the eastern side of the city! That meant that there was a very high chance that the fight would reach their school very soon!

The teacher who called the authorities turned off her phone with a sigh after she got another automatic message from the answering machine telling her to try again later!

There was no chance that the authorities would come here anymore since the fight was already reaching this side of the city! Even if they answered her, then it would take hours for them to send their people to rescue survivors! The only thing that the teachers could do was hope that Arit managed to stay alive long enough for someone to come and save her!

…

"What the hell is your fucking problem with me!!?"

BOOM!!

Mark sent a left hook straight at the ant-headed anima, and he had to bite his inner lip in pain as his wrist almost broke from how fucking hard the ant-headed anima's skull was! Is this shit made out of fucking metal? There was no visible effect on the anima, and it grabbed Mark by the head and spun around before tossing him down through ten floors of a skyscraper!

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

Mark shouted in pain as his back burned from the intense force, but he didn't allow the pain to stop him! Once he landed, he quickly grabbed a metal pole that was lying at the side and aimed it at the ceiling while waiting for just the right moment!

Boom!

"Raargh!!"

Throw!

At the exact moment that the ant-headed anima burst through the ceiling, Mark threw the pole like a javelin straight for it! Mark knew that his throwing strength was nothing to scoff at! Mark could throw a javelin with enough force to make it travel for more than three kilometers easily! If all that force is put into one throw, then Mark knew that he could impale a block of solid metal with his javelin throw! But Mark's eyes widened in shock as the metal pole that he threw with all his strength bent and crumpled as it couldn't even pass through the ant-headed anima's skin!

Slam!

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I started working out yesterday. They told me there'd be a lot of pain, but I didn't pay it any mind. Pain? I eat pain for breakfast!

But I was wrong. So wrong. I want to die.

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章節 18: Hello, Mark Vanitas

Slam!

The Anima ignored the useless iron pole and grabbed Mark by the shirt, slamming him into the ground. It brought him up and turned around before throwing Mark through the wall of the skyscraper!

Crash!!

They were on the twentieth floor, so Mark was sent flying into the air without any place to land! Mark floated in the air, wondering what he could do about a monster like this. Why in the world was it attacking him alone? There were more than twenty superhumans here, and the ant-headed monster was ignoring all of them and going straight for him. In fact, it was even ignoring all the people they saw. Mark thought that he would have to be protecting people as they fought, but there was no need because the only person that the ant-headed Anima was interested in was Mark!

Mark turned to the side and saw a streak of lightning running across buildings and coming towards his location at an insane speed! He immediately knew that it was Lightning Rider and Yellow Phantom coming to help him! If he could just hold on for a few more seconds, then they could reach him and get this bastard off his back! Mark didn't know why the ant-headed anima was so focused on killing him, but he knew that if the three of them worked together, they could hold it off until reinforcements arrived!

[Mark! Focus!]

A voice shouted from Mark's ear, and Mark was brought back to the fight as a shadow fell over him! Mark's eyes widened as he looked into the sky and saw that the ant-headed anima was holding onto a large section that it had broken off from the skyscraper! This bastard was trying to throw a house at him! Mark looked around in desperation and tried to see if there was anything that he could use to defend himself, but there was no place for him to use as leverage to get out of the way! He was literally a sitting duck as he fell from the sky!

SCRREECHH!

Woosh!!

The building was thrown at Mark with a loud screech, and Mark could only cross his hand in front of his face and hope for the best!

Slam!

BOOM!!!

The building slammed into Mark with intense force, and a great tremor passed through the entire city as both Mark and the building crashed into the ground! There were miniature earthquakes generated by the impact, and this caused some of the buildings in the area to begin crumbling and falling!

SCRREECH!!

The ant landed on top of the building with Mark under it and screeched loudly as it released even more of its power! A large wave of energy spread across the city, freezing all the humans in place and making all the superhumans shiver from the oppressiveness of the power! This was the strength of a Calamity class monster! This was something that could not be handled by mere A ranks! This was a true monster!

All the people in the world who were watching the news were silent as they saw the extraordinary display of strength that the Calamity class just showed them! It was something that they couldn't even comment on! Even the reporter who was in charge of providing commentary on the news was completely silent as she just watched the Calamity class screeching in victory!

There was a dread that filled all of them as they didn't see GHOST moving anymore! It was finally sinking in for them that what they were watching was something that they could not even fathom! GHOST has always won against any monster he faced, and even though he was very elusive and didn't give any interviews or join any guilds, he was still loved by many because he was always protecting them! But there was no way GHOST would be able to survive against a monster like this! He was no longer even moving, so they were sure he was dead!

Under the rubble, Mark was no longer moving as the weight of the building on top of him threatened to crush him! He could only think that he was going to die here because there was no way he could win against something like this! Mark's life slowly began to flash before his eyes, and there was only one thought that constantly played over and over in his head.

'I wish I kissed Arit when I had the chance this morning.'

If Mark knew that he was going to be fighting against a monster that was hell-bent on killing him by any means necessary, then Mark would have just bit the bullet and kissed Arit! How the fuck can he die without even kissing her once!?

Ping! Ping! Ping!

Mark blinked in surprise as he heard a pinging coming from somewhere inside his head. That sound! Mark knew that sound! He hadn't heard that sound in almost four years, but he could still remember the pinging sound that could only come from his system! Mark's heart was beating at a mile a minute as he quickly opened the tab that he closed earlier today and saw all the different messages that he missed!

[System functions Recovering…]

[Time Elapsed: 4 years: 1 day: 10 hours: 32 minutes: 15 seconds…]

[Time remaining: 0]

[Cannot awaken system. System Functions are being recalibrated. System functions are being recalibrated.]

[System Awakening… Awakening Complete.]

[Does the user wish to activate the system? Yes/No…]

[If no choice is picked, system functions cannot resume functions. The system will move into standby mode until an option is picked.]

[Standby mode activated]

After these messages passed some new messages started to come up below them!

[User has suffered major physical damage. Estimated probability of winning the battle in the current state: 1.2%]

[System has concluded that this is an unattainable task.]

[Due to the gravity of the situation, standby mode has been automatically deactivated.]

[System Functions Restarting… System Function Restarting… System Functions Restarting.]

[Superhero System Restarted Successfully.]

Mark felt a massive surge of energy fill him as the system finally came back online, and Mark couldn't stop the mad grin that spread across his face as each cell in his body radiated extreme power! Mark felt like he could take on the entire world in his current state! And he would win!

[Parsing Constitution. No residual damage found.]

"Hello once again, Mark Vanitas. Has it already been four years?"

"!"

Mark blinked in surprise and looked down in shock as he saw that he was no longer under the building. He looked around him, and he saw that he was standing in a bright blue area in the sky! There was no ground under him, but when he stomped his feet, he could feel solid ground under it!

"You don't want to do that! You could fall from there and head straight back down! I don't know about you, but I think a fall like that will definitely end with your death!"

Mark stopped stomping immediately when he heard this, and he looked up to see a boy floating in front of him. The boy was wearing blue shorts and a red shirt, and he had a cap over his white hair! This was Sozin! The god of Games!