The glowing text hung high above the broken city, and for a long moment, nobody made a single sound.
Even surviving hunters just stared up at the sky.
They forgot about their bleeding wounds and broken weapons as they read the massive floating words.
[450 Days since the Apocalypse.]
[50 days remain for the Final Rankings of Phase I.]
[The Official competition will begin immediately afterwards.]
[Earth and multiple surviving planets will participate in a game to see who gets to keep their world safe.]
[Congratulations on getting to Level 2.]
The blue boxes flickered and vanished into the dark red clouds.
Julien felt his stomach drop right down to his legs.
The entire nightmare they just lived through for the past year was nothing but a tutorial phase, while the real game had not even started yet.
The Association crews finally moved in to secure the area, and they started loading the injured hunters into transport trucks headed for District 1.
