"Confirmed contact with dark entity, fire!"
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The suppressed shots weren't completely quiet; the bursts hit that four-legged monster, making it roar in pain.
"We need the silver grenades!"
"Watch out for friendly fire!"
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Three chained explosions were heard, destroying everything in their path. From an elevated position, Jonathan fired, aiming at the creature's head.
A few minutes later, there was no trace of that beast. Jonathan signaled for his soldiers to stop; his gaze cut through the smoke, but he couldn't see anything either.
Jonathan jumped down from the tree, pointed his modified rifle, and walked toward the left side to open the path.
"Zz… Everyone stay alert!"
The surroundings were filled with a thick smoke that blocked everyone's vision.
"Where are you?" Jonathan stopped as he felt a presence—he wasn't sure where that unease was coming from.
Crack!
In that moment, Jonathan, who heard the crunch of leaves behind him, quickly turned around, dropping his modified rifle, and within seconds he pulled out his pistol with his left hand.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The loud and harsh sounds of the gunshots alerted all the soldiers near Jonathan.
Arghhh!!!
Jonathan was surprised to see a human wearing a deer mask; he had tried to stab him, but Jonathan's special gloves had stopped the blade without him getting hurt.
"A human, that's not possible…"
"You will not escape the great creator, all of you will be killed by the beasts of calamity." The deer's voice made Jonathan smile slightly.
Killing wasn't the hard part in this world; the complicated thing was getting others to value his work.
"May God light your path." After saying these words, Jonathan held his knife in his left hand and stabbed the man in the forehead—he was very likely one of the involved.
Jonathan crouched, removed the mask, and saw a symbol similar to the sect Monica had gotten involved with.
"Zz… The beast has fled."
"Zz… It's getting dark, that creature is probably trying to eliminate us at night."
"Zz… Prepare the night-vision goggles!"
"Zz… Understood."
Jonathan was looking over all the information this person had given him by coming here.
"Wouldn't it have been better to keep him alive for interrogation?" Wednesday approached Jonathan.
"It doesn't work that way…"
"People with faith are the hardest to penetrate…" Wednesday thought about this, surprised.
Boom!
"Zz… It appeared again, it tore my partner's arm off."
Jonathan didn't stand around doing nothing; he quickly grabbed the weapon he had dropped and regrouped with the others to hunt the creature.
…
At a location not far from where Jonathan's group was, Luke was with his friends sheltered in their camping tents.
"What the hell was that thing?" Hulch couldn't believe their friend Tom had been besieged just hours earlier.
"We didn't know where they were coming from…"
Paul, who was the quietest of the group because he had taken a vow of silence for a year, broke his silence and said, "We need to run."
"What have we been trying to do for the last three hours?"
"We're just going in circles and can't find the exit."
Luke was about to say something when suddenly they heard gunfire.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
"Everyone on the ground!" Luke and the others waited a moment until the gunfire stopped.
"Are those hunters?"
"Hunters can't use those weapons."
"Are they the people we tried to contact?"
"Whatever they are, we need to run." Luke stood up to run, but when he looked at his friends, he saw they were all silent, staring at him with pale faces.
Luke asked, surprised, "What happened?"
"Behind you, Luke…"
Luke turned around only to see a dozen figures pointing automatic rifles at him, all of them wearing night-vision goggles.
"You are…"
Wednesday, who belonged to the advanced group, pointed her pistol at Luke and said, "You will be placed under arrest. If you resist, you will die."