Chapter 90: Exterminating Pests (1/2)

Chapter 90: Exter Pests

Aldrich walked outside of the Red Circle, and surprisingly, despite the heavy appearance of his armor, he did not make much noise at all

As he approached the blown apart neosteel door leading into and out of the club, he could hear raging, whistling winds outside along with the roar of heavy rain and the occasional crackle of lightning

Aldrich's newly raised undead co of the swordfish variant, a few dead aquatic variants, andinto an entourage of zombies

Outside, Aldrich saw a truly apocalyptic scene unfolding before him The clouds above had formed a thick veil of dark stored doards There was enough rain that it had flooded the roads, overloading the city's drainage systems

The water reached to Aldrich's knees, and considering how tall he noas, that was h for cars, phones, papers, and countless miscellaneous city objects to float about

Everything was dark, nearly pitch black

Haven City's usual collection of brightly lit billboards, holo-, and building lights had sputtered out as if under a blackout, with only the occasional e

The air felt heavy And not siht to it that was unnaturally dense, and any human that needed to breathe would likely find the here

It was probable that this air also affected technology, disrupting it greatly

It was to the point where there were few, if any news drones or hovercraft in the sky And even if there were, they would not have survived

Several large flying manta rays hovered above the city, the skin on their white bellies rotund and stretched out When they opened their gaping round troops

On top of this, there were floating sea serpents and flying fish variants that hovered in the air, raining down spines The constant rattle of gunfire and explosions rumbled in the distance, and bullets and shells in the for down variants

Huh the air, engaging in a losing battle as they got swarmed by sheer nu wail that echoed through the whole city, ordering enated Panopticon Bunkers

This was an absolute warzone

An attack of this scale was a horrific disaster, perhaps one of the worst known in a decade At the very least, the worst attacklike this warranted a S-rank hero's response, or at the very least, several dozen A rankers But the fact that this disaster continued meant that either the heroes were late, already dead, or not co

Either way, Haven was left to fend for itself

Especially the poorer Southside district where the Red Circle and Dud ghettos were

When Aldrich tried using his [Death Sense] passive, its range greatly enhanced by his Lich status, to see if there were freshly dead or near dead istered that everyone in the nearest street blocks were all dead

Most of the corpses were those that had been torn apart in their apart spots by variants, and they had died o Most likely, variants had swarmed in from the eastern coast and now funneled down south, towards the Projects where the Duds were defenseless in their ghettoes

At best, the Projects had just one functional Panopticon bunker, and maybe two hundred people could be crah, there were over five thousand Duds living in the Projects - all of them soon to be casualties

Aldrich sensed stares zoned in on hi walls, perched on roofs, on the streets, anywhere they could find purchase, they did All of theleamed yellow or red

Most of the variants, Aldrich noted, were bipedal fishmen type monstrosities with four ar colors, some red, some blue, some white, it did not matter - all of them eak

The quadrupedal types that Aldrich had seen in the Red Circle were larger and sees for these fishe hu frames meant that they could easily rip the normal human limb from limb with no effort

Several fishmen, those nearest to Aldrich on the streets, hissed as they sprinted at hi appearance

"So inconceivably stupid," said Aldrich "Can you not sense , in a way"

Aldrich punched one fishman in the head and literally blew its head off like he had fired a shotgun point blank at it Then, using the decapitated corpse as a club, he violently brutalized all other fishmen that neared hiled mess of flesh strips attached to a cracked and twisted spine