Novel Full Chapter 101: Fifth Wave Begin
Chapter 101: Fifth Wave Begin
After the fourth wave was cleared, Isha glanced at the time. It was 8:55 PM, only five minutes remained before the next battle began.
Her expression hardened again, the calm in her eyes disappearing completely.
“Everyone returns to the wall and recovers completely. This is the final wave. Once we clear it, we will go home to rest.”
For a brief moment, no one spoke. Then everyone answered together, their voices steady despite their exhaustion.
“Yes, Captain.”
Even though their bodies were tired, no one slowed down. They quickly moved back to the wall and took their positions. Within moments, the team was ready again, standing firm as they prepared for the final wave.
This time, Sana stepped forward without hesitation.
A soft glow spread from her hands as she moved from one person to another. Wherever the light touched, wounds began to close, pain eased, and fatigue slowly faded. The tension in their bodies loosened, and their breathing became steady again.
As she worked, she glanced at Kavya, a faint smug smile appearing on her face.
“Tch.”
Kavya clicked her tongue, clearly annoyed, but said nothing. Instead, she focused on her own task. Energy spread out from her, flowing through the team, restoring their stamina, sharpening their senses, and bringing back their fighting strength.
They stood side by side, working together. But not really. There was an unspoken rivalry between them.
Isha noticed it.
For a brief moment, she wondered if they were always like this… or if something had changed today.
Her eyes shifted slightly toward Vikram. And then she understood. They weren’t just helping the team. They were trying to outdo each other.
A faint smile appeared on her face, but it disappeared just as quickly.
This wasn’t the time to dwell on such things. Her gaze turned forward again, locking onto the portals.
The Necrotic Fog grew thicker, swirling more heavily than before. The gates pulsed with dark energy as they slowly stabilized, their eerie glow becoming stronger with each passing second.
The final wave was about to begin.
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As the clock struck 9:00 PM, the portals began to stabilize, revealing their true size. One of them stood out immediately, larger, and darker than the rest.
The Necrotic Fog churned like a storm, and the moment the portals stabilized, Isha moved without hesitation. Her wings formed instantly, and in the next moment. She landed near the portals.
Her eyes moved across the battlefield quickly, noticing everything. Zombies started coming out faster than before, and in greater numbers. As she counted, her expression began to change, first shock, then disbelief, then something more serious.
“…This…”
She counted again carefully, making sure she wasn’t mistaken. But she wasn’t.
There were nearly 2000 normal zombies, a massive increase. But that wasn’t the real problem.
Her gaze shifted to the elites, and for the first time, there were 500 elite zombies, five times more than the previous wave.
She counted them down, Berserker Zombies, around 120, Armored Zombies, around 80, Leaper Zombies, around 150, Screamer Zombies, around 50, and Rot Spreader Zombies, around 100.
This was no longer a manageable battlefield.
And then came the Apex. Four of them stood among the horde like rulers of destruction, the familiar Hulking Zombie, the decaying Plague Bringer, and then two new horrors.
The first was a towering giant, even larger than the Hulking, the Armored Colossus. Its entire body was covered in thick, layered plates resembling fused metal and bone. Each step it took cracked the ground beneath it. Its massive arms ended in hammer-like fists, and its chest was reinforced with overlapping armor that looked nearly impenetrable. Faint red cracks glowed between the plates, as if something molten burned inside.
The second was something entirely different, the Shadow Lurker. At first, it was hard to even see. Its body blended into the darkness itself, thin and unnaturally long, with limbs that stretched in disturbing ways. Its movements were silent, almost flickering, as if it wasn’t fully present in reality. Its eyes, if they were eyes, glowed faintly in the dark, shifting unpredictably. It slipped through the shadows.
Isha’s expression hardened completely.
A strange sound suddenly echoed across the battlefield, unlike anything before. It wasn’t a roar, and it wasn’t a scream, something far worse.
“Kh… khh… khrrrr… HA… HA… HA—!”
A twisted, broken laugh came from the largest portal. It sounded wrong, like a creature trying to imitate human laughter without understanding it, rough, cracked, and unnatural.
The sound spread across the battlefield, sending a chill through everyone, and even Isha felt it.
Her eyes instantly snapped toward the largest portal.
And in the next moment, something stepped out, massive.
Its body looked like a walking siege engine, nearly fifteen feet tall, each step sinking deep into the ground with crushing weight. Thick layers of bone plates covered its entire body, mixed unnaturally with jagged pieces of scrap metal, forming armor that looked both alive and forged.
Its torso was wide and heavily protected, with ribs spreading outward like shields. Dark necrotic energy leaked from the gaps in its armor, drifting around it like smoke.
Its head was even more disturbing. A cracked military helmet had fused into its skull, half buried into rotting flesh and bone. Beneath it, two glowing red eyes burned with strange awareness, scanning the battlefield like a commander watching a war.
But the most terrifying part was its arm.
Its right arm was no longer human. Flesh, bone, and metal had merged into a huge, unnatural structure, a launcher. A living weapon. The barrel stretched outward, faintly glowing with dark energy.
Veins moved across it as if it were alive, while pieces of metal were embedded into the flesh, forming a crude but deadly rocket launcher fused into its arm.
Its left arm remained massive and armored, ending in a crushing hand that could easily break stone and bone. Chains dragged behind it as it walked, scraping loudly against the ground.
“Khrr… khh… HA… HA… HA…!!”
The same broken, animal-like laugh echoed again, low but enough to make even experienced fighters tense.
The creature slowly lifted its head, and its glowing eyes locked onto the wall, the gate, and the defenders.
Its weapon arm twitched.
A faint glow began to gather inside the barrel, and the necrotic energy around it grew stronger.
Even without attacking, its presence started affecting the battlefield. Nearby zombies moved faster and more aggressively. Their roars grew louder, their bodies more active, as if they were being controlled.
Isha’s expression turned completely serious.
“Captain… what is this…?”
Voices overlapped as several people spoke at once. Even the calmest among them couldn’t hide the tension in their voices. For the first time, fear was clearly visible on their faces.
Because what stood before them wasn’t just another zombie.
Isha remained silent for a moment, her eyes fixed on the towering figure.
Memories flashed through her mind. A few months ago, she went to Singapore City. The waves there had been much larger because of the population, and she had seen it once before.
“This… is a Wall Breaker.” Her voice was low and heavy.
“It’s not a normal zombie. It has the power to destroy an entire town.”
“But… why is it here?” she murmured, her eyes narrowing. “This shouldn’t be possible…”
Her mind raced. This kind of creature was never supposed to appear here, not in a town like this, not in this wave.
Something was wrong. Very wrong. But there was no time to think and question. Because the Wall Breaker moved.
“THUD… THUD… THUD…”
Each step shook the ground as it advanced. Its weapon arm began to glow, dark energy gathering inside it, building pressure with every second.
Isha’s expression snapped back to the present. She didn’t waste another second thinking about why it had appeared.
“Deepak, take out everything. All advanced weapons. Everything we saved for later.”
Her voice was sharp and steady, without even a hint of hesitation.
“We don’t have a future if we lose this.”
“Yes, Captain!” Deepak responded immediately.
He turned and gave the order. Within moments, containers were opened, and weapons, gear, and armor were brought out one after another.
This wasn’t their standard equipment. This was their reserved arsenal.
Rohit equipped sleek black tactical armor with faint glowing sensor lines. His perception ability was enhanced, allowing him to track movements across the battlefield like a living radar.
Ayesha received a lightweight auditory amplifier set, thin earpieces connected to spinal armor. Every sound, every movement, even the slightest change in air became clear to her.
Sana wore radiant white-green healing armor with embedded energy nodes, boosting her recovery speed and allowing her to heal multiple allies at once from a distance.
Kavya equipped a stamina-core harness glowing softly around her waist and shoulders, letting her support multiple teammates continuously without getting exhausted.
Deepak stepped forward in heavy reinforcement armor, layered with thick metallic plates and glowing red circuits. His ability strengthened further, making every weapon he handled far more powerful.
James calmly adjusted his stance as a new weapon was brought to him.
The upgraded sniper, Anaconda-X. A terrifying upgrade. Its scope activated, locking onto two targets at once. The system calculated trajectories instantly, even predicting enemy movement.
One bullet was enough to pierce even Armored Zombies. And when it hit, it didn’t just go through, it exploded inside the target, tearing it apart from within.
He also equipped advanced combat sunglasses synced with the rifle, calculating trajectory, wind, and movement in real time.
James smirked slightly. “Now this… is better.”