Rebirth: 100 Days Before Doomsday-Chapter 213: Creating Barrier

It was the sound of constant alerts on her phone that pulled Grace out of the depths of her sleep. She blinked against the dim light that was filling the room, feeling momentarily disoriented.

But as seconds passed and her focus adjusted to her surroundings, the memories of the previous night started settling in. She recalled Davian’s strong arms around her, Kian’s gentle touch, and Rune’s usual teasing remarks that accompanied the night before until she ended up falling asleep. Their warmth was still lingering in the air, but there was no sign of any of the three.

She picked up her phone and noticed that it was already ten past eight in the morning, and the alerts she heard moments ago belonged to the notifications of recent breaking news.

It turned out two more countries just encountered the unusual rains - Country S saw Shadow Rain about two hours ago, while Country N was reported to be now filled with zombies after the Blood Rain that happened there about five hours ago.

A sigh escaped her lips while she made mental notes - to stay away from Country N and also to visit Country S within next two weeks to search for mutated plants and animals.

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Silently slipping out of bed, she dressed in her usual combat attire - fitted black pants, a long-sleeved shirt reinforced with light armor, and her favorite boots. As she tied her hair into a high ponytail, her eyes landed on the nightstand where a small container of energy supplements was sitting. It was a silent reminder from Dr. Kian.

With a little shake of her head, she popped one into her mouth and swallowed it dry before strapping on some of her weapons - a gun, and two daggers.

She found Rune waiting for her in the living room. Dr. Kian had already returned to base in Hilton City, and Davian went along with him to check on the security of the base and surrounding areas.

Because of the location of the base, which was in the depths of the mountains, no zombies or humans had ventured in that area so far. Not only that, but there was another military station nearby who were keeping the area safe.

But while humans and their infected forms were staying away from the mountains, the infected animals were an entirely different story. To keep these beasts away from the base, Davian had set up several traps around the mountain peak where the base was located. And fortunately, no beast had been able to enter the area of the base.

Talking about the base, Professor Neil and his team had spread their areas of research during the past few months. While they began working with the research subject of mutated animals, plants, and infected, they had started researching on farming possibilities, new medicines and poisons derived from the mutated plants and animals, and even the possibility of creating weapons.

To support these new areas of research, Grace had been looking for new additions to the research team, and had been able to find only two such experts who ended up accepting her offer and joined the research team.

The current research team had Dr. Kian and Professor Neil as the chief researchers, and a total of twenty-five experts working under them. While the team and its size sounded good, it was far from enough to help Grace accomplish her big plan.

"Let’s head to Unit 2203. Some of the other team members are waiting there for us to have breakfast together." Rune informed her and the two headed upstairs to grab breakfast with the team.

These days, Grace had been going out with her team to fight with zombies. So once they finished breakfast, she headed out of Greenstone with a team of twelve of her members. This time, they headed to a town that was located twenty-eight kilometers south to Greenstone.

Without Davian’s portal, it took them over two hours to reach the town and that too with several encounters with the infected on their way.

These usual missions of theirs was not only for eliminating zombies and searching for Spirit Stones, instead, they were using these chances to guide the survivors to the nearest military bases and small fractions that had established themselves over the course of past one year.

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As soon as they arrived at their destination, Grace left the team to continue with their hunt while she headed on her separate way. Since she knew that her team could handle themselves, she didn’t have to worry about their safety.

She moved through the abandoned streets with practiced ease. Her footsteps were light against the snow-covered pavement. She was aware of the infected that were lurking in the shadows.

With her heightened eyesight, she could could see how their grotesque forms twitched at the scent of the living. But she didn’t hesitate. And neither did they as they immediately stepped out to take her down.

All it took was a silent command in her head and a sharp, glowing dagger materialized in her palm. All these weapons she had been using were the ones she had stocked up before, but she had learned to fuse her energy in them to make the extra powerful.

With the weapon in her hand, she lunged forward, slashing through the nearest infected. Its body disintegrated into ash before it could even react.

Another came at her from the side, but a swift pivot and a strike to the head sent it crumbling to the ground.

She worked through them methodically. Her movements were precise and calculated. Fighting the infected had become second nature to her after doing it for countless times over the past several months.

By the time midday arrived, she was done clearing half of the town and securing two new Spirit Stones - one red, and one yellow. While neither of the two were above level three, they were still valuable.

After the constant failure at finding a Spirit Stone of Level higher than Four, she had really started wondering if the system was wrong about its prediction of the existence of Spirit Stones of Level Five and higher.

But despite her failures, she knew better than to really start suspecting 2025 and her system. Hence, she finished cleaning up the rest of the town with her team and contacted Captain Harlow to inform him about the seventeen survivors they found in the town.

From there on, it was Captain Harlow’s duty to inform the other military stations about these survivors and help them relocate to a safe place.

With the mission completed, Grace left behind some food and water with the survivors that was enough to fill their empty stomach for the moment, and headed back to Greenstone with her team.

Once back at her apartment, she immediately headed inside her space to shower. Once she was done cleaning up, she got dressed and had a late lunch before heading out to spent the next few hours of the outside world working in her space.

She spent the time harvesting crops, sorting supplies, and storing everything in secured warehouses.

Meat, eggs, and dairy were processed and packed. Herbs and medicinal plants were carefully categorized. The energy reserves were replenished, and she even mined some more metals.

It wasn’t until the day in the outside world came to an end, did she finally stepped out of her space and once again headed to the rooftop of building K12. While her plan from the previous didn’t end up well, it made her understand exactly what she was facing.

She had answers now - she could indeed create a protective ward around Greenstone to secure it from the attacks of infected, humans, and even the monster beasts that were yet to make their appearance.

All she needed to do was to take a step at a time and not deplete her energy.

She took a deep breath before stretching out her hands and feeling the power hum beneath her skin.

The moment she summoned her power and felt it responding instantly, the air around her also crackled as it sensed the energy within her.

With one more deep breath, she focused her thoughts and power at the task of creating the barrier. It was at that point she realized the portion of the barrier she created the previous afternoon was still present in the air above Greenstone... silent, invisible, and waiting.

It came to life the moment it sensed her power. Though it seemed weak and very thin, it was still a great progress.

With her each attempt, the structure of the barrier started growing a little more stable, a little more real.

She focused, pushing past the fatigue, forcing her energy outward.

The thin, transparent layer flickered, covering another small portion of the area before fading.

She continued trying for what seemed like next twenty minutes before she finally started feeling that familiar pull of darkness due to energy loss. With one final push of her power, she ended the work there for the day.

[Barrier creation progress: 12%]

It wasn’t much, it still was enough to give her hope to continue next evening.