Chapter 308 | 100x —> 1000x Multiplier

Chapter 308: 308 | 100x —> 1000x Multiplier

"Bulwark, you have the entrance," Cole said. "Gridlock, tou cover the windows and Blitz, bring in anyone you can reach. Dexter, with me."

The commands were almost the same as the training calls but this situation was way more serious.

No one hesitated as they moved.

Gridlock grunted slightly as he raised a barrier across the shattered window.

In that split second, a wind blade struck the barrier.

"Boom!"

The entire surface shuddered but didn’t break.

Bulwark then dragged an overturned counter into the entrance and planted himself beside it.

Bullet Spear Man thrust through the gap, his weapon stabbing into the chest of a wolf trying to leap the obstruction.

The creature yipped and fell back. Almost immediately, Cole blasted another before it reached the doorway.

Dexter moved towards the courtyard and he saw a young trainee crouched behind the broken fountain, one hand pressed against his bleeding leg, as a large wolf circled him.

"Boom!"

The wind exploded as Dexter surged like a missle, famed flashing beneath his feet.

The wolf heard the shriek and immediately turned but it was too late.

"Whoosh!"

Dexter’s saber cut through its neck, and the body hit the ground beside the fountain.

A system chime sounded in his mind. Then another but Dexter did not look. He caught the trainee beneath one arm.

"Can you stand?"

The boy stared at him.

"Can you stand?" Dexter repeated.

A frightened nod.

"Then move with me."

A shriek tore through the air and immediately Dexter looked up. Three Wind-thorn Bats dived toward them.

He immediately pushed the trainee behind the fountain’s remaining wall.

But suddenly, a dark line shot over Dexter’s shoulder, and one bat folded around the spear strike.

Cole’s plasma destroyed the second. The third changed direction, and Blitz appeared on a bench beneath it, struck upward, and vanished before its thorned tail could reach him.

"Bang!"

The creature crashed against the paving stones.

Dexter pulled the trainee to his feet and moved.

"No need to pursue it."

Dexter spoke and then modded

Behind them, Gridlock opened a narrow gap in the barrier, and they passed through. It closed immediately.

The same movement they had practiced against holographic wyverns, now was keeping them alive.

Within minutes, the service corridor held more than twenty people—restaurant staff, trainees, two injured guards, and an older man with a badly wounded shoulder who kept trying to stand because his daughter was still somewhere near the western hall.

Blitz found her during his next run and he returned with the young woman clinging to his back and a cut running along his cheek.

Her father reached for her, and Blitz set her down and immediately turned toward the entrance again.

Cole caught his arm. "Breathe."

"There are more out there."

"I know but rest a bit."

Blitz took one ragged breath. Only then did Cole release him.

Dexter stood near the shattered window, watching the sky. The cracks remained open, and monsters continued pouring through.

But they were too many.

The initial wave had already spread across most of the visible courtyard, and fresh shapes were still emerging behind it. The facility had strong heroes he could feel powerful attacks erupting near the main arena but the monsters were not all gathering in one place where those heroes could finish them.

They were spreading. Attacking every building. Forcing defenders to choose. And the barrier overhead remained unbroken.

Gridlock looked at Dexter. "We can hold this room for a while."

Dexter heard the unspoken part. *Not forever.*

"BOOOOOM!!!"

A heavy impact shook the restaurant’s side wall, and dust fell from the ceiling.

Everyone turned. Another impact followed, and a blade punched through the plaster.

Green scales appeared behind it as a massive lizardman tore the opening wider with both hands, its yellow eyes settling on the frightened people behind the kitchen doorway.

Its mouth opened, and a harsh, barking call escaped, other voices answered.

Cole’s face hardened. "They found the shelter."

Bullet Spear Man withdrew his weapon from a dying wolf and stepped back. "Then they’ll come together."

Bulwark moved away from the entrance, and Dexter raised one hand. "Stay there. If you leave, the wolves get in."

The tank looked toward the broken wall, then at Dexter and then nodded.

Dexter drew his saber back.

The lizardman forced one shoulder through the opening, and a red pattern flashed across its scales.

Its aura swelled and it was stronger than the wolves, stronger than the first lizardmen that had entered the courtyard.

The pressure rolled across the room, making several of the trainees cry out as they instablyn pressed to the ground.

The creature’s gaze settled on Dexter, and for a moment, its lips drew back from its teeth. Almost a smile.

Dexter’s own expression went still. Behind him, someone began to pray and Outside, the three cracks continued widening, and beneath the blackened sky,

Dexter stepped forward to meet the creature before it could reach the people at his back.

...

The Green Lizardman pushed through the broken wall, plaster falling from its shoulders as its scaled chest scraped against the exposed reinforcement bars and bent them outward like branches.

"Ahhhh!"

Behind Dexter, someone screamed. The creature heard it, its yellow eyes shifting toward the kitchen doorway where the restaurant staff and injured trainees had gathered, and its mouth opened in a hideous grin.

Dexter stepped into its line of sight. "Look at me."

The lizardman’s gaze returned to him, and a red pattern flickered across its green scales. It swung. The black blade tore through the air with enough force to split the floor beneath them before it even struck. Dexter moved diagonally forward, letting the blade pass beside his shoulder, and his Void Star Saber flashed upward.

The impact rang through the restaurant. The lizardman staggered back half a step, and Dexter’s eyes narrowed.

It’s wrist was bent awkwardly beneath the force of his strike.

"Roooooor!!!"

Dexter did not allow it. He drove his shoulder into its chest, and the lizardman crashed backward through the hole it had made, bricks and dust bursting into the courtyard.

"Keep them inside!" Dexter shouted.

Cole was already moving, plasma striking a wolf trying to climb through the shattered window while Gridlock reinforced the barrier behind it and Bulwark held the entrance.

Dexter followed the lizardman outside. Its tail swept toward his knees, and he jumped over it, landed beside its injured arm, and cut. The saber passed through the gap beneath its jaw, and the creature’s roar stopped as its enormous body collapsed against the ruined wall.

For a moment, Dexter stood over it, breathing steadily. Then the notifications he had ignored forced their way into his awareness.

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