35 New Developments (1/2)
It had been seven days and the <Sovereign Nation> was still busy strengthening their members and bolstering their numbers even further while new developments were happening around the world as well.
In America, <Nations> were starting to pop up everywhere. The <Nation of Texas> was currently the largest, followed by the <Nation of California>, and then the <Tri-State Nation> formed by New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. Each one, while still working towards clearing up their own states, had plans on creeping towards the middle of the nation for more territory. While Central America was struggling as well. Not to mention that prisons were now a stronghold for criminals.
In China, the Government had turned from having evacuation areas, to evacuation fortresses, similar to the <Sovereign Nation>. University students that managed to survive also occupied their respective universities and expanded from there. With everybody struggling to survive since the beginning, even the world's governments didn't have any means to stop people from creating their own factions. Especially with <Titans> guarding every City and zombies spawning in areas that haven't been challenged yet no matter how many of them you kill, there was no means for anybody to expand fast enough this early on.
Similar situations were happening all around the world. Perhaps, this was exactly what the Gods wanted. Previous powers meant very little, only the ones with the most potential can emerge.
The problem with the bigger countries was that their huge population was now more of a liability than an advantage. Meanwhile, the Philippines as an island nation, was only connected through bridges. Which made the threat of an over 1 million-sized horde, almost impossible. Even if they did, as long as it was detected and they were fought on the bridges, it wouldn't be too much of an issue, especially with Luna's plan of building walls and a gate to secure the area further.
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Meanwhile, in the Southern Philippines, Mindanao, in the small island of Basilan.
”Commander, we've finished rounding up the remaining survivors here.”
”Good. What about that damned woman, Josie Rizal?”
”She... got away, sir.”
BANG! The man was instantly shot dead.
”Incompetent! You can't even catch ONE woman! Send the trackers to hunt her down! She CANNOT relay the information about us to the <Sovereign Nation>!”
”Yes, Commander!”
This was Omar Maute, the only surviving leader of the Maute terrorist group now known as the <Maute Nation>, after the new world. After being beat back by the Philippine military, they managed to fight back after taking advantage of the chaos on the onset of the apocalypse. Right now they were gathering survivors and their families, conscripting the men, and placing their loved ones in concentration camps so they don't run away.
The woman they mentioned earlier, was a level 30 survivor. They all knew of the <Sovereign Nation> and Omar did not want anybody to leak information regarding his group's occupancy, at least not until they gained a much better foothold. More specifically the bridge connecting Mindanao and the Negros Island.
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The domes surrounding the landmasses that appeared on the onset of the new world was slowly but surely dimming by the day.