A/N: Welcome to the second arc of SBA! The first arc introduced the characters and set up the plot. Now, we're diving into the main storyline. Thank you for your support; let's embark on this adventure together!
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It didn't take long before the rest of the team accepted. They could see the profits that came with following Zayden and joining his team. For one, they could have a month of peace to steadily increase their strength and strengthen their foundations.
With the decisions made, they decided to tell the rest of the gym. Zayden explained everything to them while focusing on the abilities of the faction token and the shelter.
"Then why don't you make the shelter here?"
One of the boys asked.
Zayden turned to look at him, his face devoid of any emotion.
"Because the token belongs to me, it's my faction, and I don't want my shelter to be built here"
Zayden answered simply. They had to remember that Zayden had no obligation to help them; he just didn't want all the humans on planet Earth to die, but if they weren't willing to follow instructions and keep making demands, then the death of a few wouldn't be remembered.
Most of the people were surprised, and there was silence in the hall, but none of that mattered to Zayden. He just continued talking.
"We'll be heading out tomorrow. The faster we reach the shelter location, the faster we can start setting up our foundations"
With that, Zayden was already walking away, with Amara following behind him.
"Take down the names of everyone ready to come with us. Those that are not ready, there's no need to force them"
Amara nodded and got to work.
The crescent moon and the twinkling stars in the night sky shone their light on the gym building. It was already nighttime, and time for them to sleep.
Amara quickly brought the information to Zayden.
It turns out that everyone was ready to follow Zayden, even with the rules that he set in place.
It was unsurprising, after all, if they didn't follow Zayden, with the strength of the nulls at the moment, meeting one would kill them, even a level ten evolved would have some trouble facing one of the mainstream nulls.
So if they didn't follow Zayden, their death was certain, because there would be no one to protect or power level them.
A slight smile crept onto the face of Zayden as all these thoughts entered his mind.
"Good, thank you very much, Amara"
Zayden thanked her before lying inside his tent. Amara nodded and walked away.
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The night went by in a flash, and Zayden was awake very early the next morning.
As soon as he woke up, he called Darian, Tyrel and Aiden.
"Gather up all the evolved males, we are going to the parking lot to get some cars"
The three boys nodded their heads and went out. About twenty minutes later, there were thirty-nine boys in front of Zayden.
"Let's go"
With Zayden leading them, they headed out of the gym. The main parking lot of the college was located near the college entrance, which was where they were headed.
The college was quiet, no sounds could be heard in the surrounding, but none of this mattered to Zayden. If possible, he wanted to get there today.
It took them about thirty minutes, thanks to the low-lying ones weighing them down, but they finally reached the parking lot.
Here, he could see about fifteen buses and a whole lot of other cars. These buses were very big, big enough to carry about forty people, exactly what Zayden needed.
"Check out the buses and see if they are still working, and if they are, get the people to drive them"
It turned out that all the cars were working, which was a good thing, and to make things better, they were filled up with gasoline. These were the buses the college used for field trips.
They were more than enough to carry everyone in the gym.
"Let's take them back, we are leaving the college right now"
With that, they all got onto the buses and drove to the gym. Immediately, they came back, with yellow coaster buses lined up, and the people in the gym knew that it was time.
Zayden jumped down from the bus and into the Gym. he called Amara and Isara and gave them some instructions.
"Get everyone into the buses, the first bus and the last bus should only have people who are evolved or above level two, while those under level two should be in the middle buses"
They both nodded their heads and got to work.
Everybody was arranged in a line, and systematically, they entered the buses. With Amara and Isara at the helm, it didn't take much time before things were done.
Zayden, Valeria, Isara and Dare stayed on the first bus in front, along with some boys above level ten.
This was because it was Zayden who knew the direction of the place they were going to, and they needed to stop any attack from the nulls in front.
On the final bus were the rest of the team, to protect the backline, and kill any nulls that escaped. In the middle of buses full of people, there were some other evolved, there to kill some stray nulls.
"Let's head out"
Zayden's voice boomed as he gave the command, and the buses started moving. Zayden sat on top of the bus, not inside, so he could react quickly to any unexpected situation.
And with that, they moved.
The large amount of moving life energy would attract a lot of nulls, but with Zayden at the helm and the rest of the team doing their work, it posed no problem to them.
Any null that came near was shot down like a fly, unable to get even a hundred meters from the line of buses. And those that do manage to rarely evade Zayden's senses were dealt with by the rest of the team.
Before long, the line of buses was already in front of the large gates that led out of the college.
From his memories, Zayden could remember that only a small group of people managed to reach here last time, but this time, with his help, about five hundred people managed to reach the exit of the college, and at least there was no force field.
But this time, there was a different problem.
The strong life aura from the line of buses attracted nulls, and in front of the gates were a whole lot of nulls. There were no fewer than three hundred nulls here
But the good thing was that none of the nulls had levels above ten.
Zayden smiled.
No matter how pressed for time he was, he was never too busy to increase his strength. So he called out the people ready to level up and had them fight the nulls, with him protecting them
About two hundred and fifty people left the buses and charged at the nulls, with Zayden watching over them, and saving them in time; the nulls were cleared within a few minutes.
And now, the number of people above level two in the group is. And without any obstructions, the lines of buses were finally out of the college, exactly one week after the start of the apocalypse.