Entering Apocalypse in Easy-Mode-Chapter 561: Set Out

Night returned quietly.One by one, they woke from their little sleep.

At first it was just Clyde. His eyes snapping open as a long wavering howl slid through the walls. Then another more howl answered it. Then several more, rising from different directions, overlapping until the sound wrapped around the house.

Mina sat up immediately with daggers already in her hands.

John stirred next, followed by Ren and Yuri. The three of them froze as the howls grew louder, closer than the night before.

James woke Regina, who clutched his arm without a word. Emi rubbed her eyes. Her confusion turned into fear the moment she heard the sound.

The house creaked softly as something moved outside.

Clyde raised a hand, signaling for them to keep quiet. When the howls faded into distant echoes, he sighed slowly.

"We need to eat first to keep our strength up," he said quietly.

They gathered what food remained and shared it carefully. No one spoke above a whisper. Even chewing felt too loud. Every scrape of a can and every swallow made their nerves tighten.

When they finished, Clyde leaned forward, resting his forearms on his knees.

"We can’t stay hiding and reacting like this," he said. "Tonight’s different."

The mood changed. Mina glanced at him, then at the others.

"The howls are not random like before. Something’s calling the spawns and it made them more agitated," she said softly.

Clyde nodded. "Yes. It must be the Lunar Beast. If we don’t deal with it, the spawns will keep coming."

Fear spread across their faces.

John swallowed hard. "You’re saying that we need to hunt it now?"

"Yes," Clyde answered.

Yuri hugged herself tighter. Ren stared at the floor. Regina shook her head slightly, lips trembling.

Emi looked like she wanted to argue but no words came out.

"I know you’re scared," Clyde continued. His voice stayed low and steady. "You should be. Anyone who isn’t is lying or already dead."

Clyde of course wasn’t talking about himself. He wasn’t scared. He had faced gods before so things like this weren’t really intimidating for him.

Mina creeps closer to them, meeting their eyes one by one.

"You all survived the first night. That matters. You fought and didn’t run and you were getting stronger." Mina said.

James clenched his jaw. "We barely made it."

"Barely is enough," Mina said. "It means you can do it again."

Silence hung heavy after those words.

"There’s no rescue coming. The only way forward is through this," Clyde said.

The truth settled in slowly and painfully.

The three family members held each other. The three teenagers exchanged glances. Their fear definitely didn’t disappear, but something else rose beneath it. A hard, bitter acceptance.

Ren nodded first. "If we don’t fight... we die anyway."

Yuri wiped her face and nodded too. Emi took a shaky breath, fists clenching at her sides.

James squeezed Regina’s hand. "We’ll do it," he said quietly. "Together."

Clyde nodded approvingly. Mina allowed herself a small, grim smile.

"Good," Clyde said. "Let’s go prepare ourselves. When the time comes, you cannot hesitate."

Outside, the howls continued. They sounded like they were circling around them.

They moved quietly after that. No one wasted time with unnecessary words. Fear lingered in their heart but it was pushed down, buried under the simple need to act.

Mina checked everyone’s weapons, tightening grips, adjusting posture.

Their weapins were now consisted of chair legs reinforced with nails, bent pipes, crowbar, etc. Crude tools, but they were all they had.

Clyde knelt among them and spoke again with low and controlled voice.

"Use your stat points now," he said.

One by one, faint system flickers appeared before their eyes. They allocated what they could, feeling subtle changes ripple through their bodies.

When they stood again, they were still frightened. But theor bodies were no longer fragile.

Clyde took his silver spear from where it leaned against the wall. Mina took her her daggers, testing their weight, then held them low and ready.

"Let’s move together just like the night before," Clyde said.

They slipped out into the night.

The moon shone bright and unobstructed, casting bright light over the bloodied and ruined streets.

Above them, the crack in the sky stretched wider than before, glowing like a wound.

They advanced down the road in a tight formation, Clyde and Mina at the front like usual.

The first howl came close.

Then a shape burst came out from between two abandoned cars, fast and low. It was once a dog. Now its body was swollen with muscle, white fur bristling, and red eyes burning with empty bloodlust.

Its claws scraped sparks off the asphalt as it lunged.

Mina moved first with incredible speed.

One dagger sank into its skull. The other severed its neck in the blink of an eye. The body collapsed without a sound.

More of the monsterd came immediately from alleys, shattered storefronts, and behind them.

They were once humans and animals but now turned into the same form of white fur, elongated limbs, and jaws that split too wide.

Red eyes locked onto the group with single-minded bloodlust.

"Fight!" Clyde shouted.

They did. 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

Clyde’s spear flashed, punching through a spawn’s chest and pinning it to a wall.

Mina danced through the gaps. Her daggers blades opening throats and bodies with ruthless precision.

The others followed. They were slower and rougher.

John brought his chair leg down again and again. Ren swung his crowbar with a shout, fear turning into force.

Yuri stabbed wildly, then steadied, then stabbed again.

James shielded Regina and his daughter while striking over his shoulder. Emi screamed, then silenced herself and begin to hit harder.

Blood hit the pavement. White fur darkened.

The spawns died one by one.

They were breathing hard. But they pressed forward into the moonlit streets as more howls rose ahead.

They keep moving, but nobody knows how long they been moving and how many monsters they had killed. They havent even noticed the level up notificiations.

Finally, the Lunar Beast nest was visible.

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