50 Mactan Island (1/2)

On top of the wall blocking the entrance of the bridge towards Mactan island.

”This is probably one of the few fight events where I'm glad I don't have a front seat.” A man wearing a Kevlar vest was shaking his head while looking at the rat tournament right below them.

Just as he was watching this spectacle, a man dressed in mutant beast fur and leather came to join them.

Seeing this man, the man equipped with a Kevlar vest greeted him. ”Cilapu, have you come to watch the show?”

”I wish I could be as carefree as you, Carlos.” The man named Cilapu knitted his eyebrows the moment he looked down at the rats.

Carlos shrugged his shoulders as he replied. ”Not much else to do. Escaping through boat is suicide. Ferdinand has already walled off the bridge to Bohol on the other side, so I hope you memorized a few prayers. That's about the only thing we can do right now.”

”The guys is complete garbage for a fighter, but I have to admit he made a good decision in retreating to Bohol.”

”Unfortunately, yes.” Carlos could only agree. There was no way for them to know that Ferdinand was also being surrounded by the Tarsiers. Should Mactan island fall to the rats, Ferdinand and his nation would be next.

***

Sura received the news from Maxene that she was only a few minutes away, so she decided to head back to Luna's location.

As soon as she got back.

”Mother!” A small figure dove towards her direction with arms wide open. This was obviously Maxene.

Sura caught her and smiled warmly towards her. ”I'm glad you got here safe, Max.”

”Of course I did, the regular flying beasts seem to be afraid of Angry Bakunawa, so we didn't meet any resistance on our way here. I did notice something on our way here which might not be good news.”

Hearing this, Sura couldn't help but furrow her eyebrows as she looked towards Luna before kneeling on one knee, getting down to Max's height. ”What did you see, Max?”

”Uhm. It looked like giant cockroaches, but they were weird, there was so many of them, but it looked like they were eating each other.”

”Things just got even worse.” Luna said as he could feel a huge headache coming.

”What do you mean?” Ricardo asked.

”Of course.” Astrid seemed to come to a realization of what was happening.

”What do we do to get stronger?”

Alfred quickly answered. ”Kill zombies and mutant beasts?”

”Exactly.”

Their eyes grew wider as their jaws dropped once they realized what was happening. Cockroaches were extremely abundant, even if they ate their brethren, they could always give birth to more.

The same with the rats and any other species that could multiply at a rapid rate.

Luna interrupted their internal struggle. ”That's not the biggest issue. The Tarsiers don't have that capability, even then they've become formidable. If those rats get to whatever it is the Tarsiers have, or worse, the cockroaches, with their ability to fly, get to it first. We're in a huge amount of trouble.”

”Let's get to it then.” Sura nodded in his direction as they all ran towards Angry Bakunawa's pocket dimension.