The First Dragon God

"You guys can choose any apartment here. Clean yourselves up. As you see, the building has electricity and it also has water. But make sure you guys ration the water well so that it can last longer," Ves said, as the door of the elevator opened up to the access hallway of the first floor.

The group nodded and stepped out of the elevator. While others moved to choose an apartment for themselves, Miguel didn't.

He feebly held his axe as he looked at Leo and Ves for a few moments.

"Is there anything else you need help with?" Ves asked Miguel curiously when she saw him still standing in front of elevator.

"No...," Miguel replied and gulped.

"It's just that I wanted to say thank you for helping me and my group. I promise to repay the favor," he said, and started walking down the access hallway.

"He doesn't seem to be a bad person." Leo smiled when he saw Miguel walking away.

"Yeah. He doesn't. I just hope it's not a facade," Ves smiled wistfully, as she pressed one of the floor selection buttons.

The elevator door closed and elevator started ascending, this time to the thirteenth floor.

Since they were already done with the group's problem, they decided to continue their zombie hunting and this time from the thirteenth floor.

They had already taken care of the twelfth floor and the only thing that's left is to transport the zombies' corpses to the ground floor. And they decided to leave this task of clearing out the zombies' corpses to the building's new addition. That wasmy they would be useful.

Arriving on the thirteenth floor, Leo and Ves were about to continue their zombie hunting when a loud roar that shook the foundation of the building and its surrounding was heard.

Its roar was guttural, like metal scraping against stone, and the ground seemed to tremble under its unseen weight.

"What was that?" Leo asked in apprehensive curiosity as he looked towards where the sound could possibly be coming from.

"We have a problem, Leo." Ves said with a tensed voice.

Leo immediately looked at Ms Ves and he could see the fear in her eyes, and how she was continuously nervously clenching her fist.

"What is it, Ms Ves?" Leo asked with his apprehension of the situation increasing with each second.

"It... It's a mutant Boar and it seems to be higher leveled than us. Possibly more than five levels higher than us and it's coming from there," Ms Ves replied, pointing to the direction where the mutant Boar was.

Ves could almost picture its hulking form, bristling with mutated features.

Leo's face tensed up with worry and anxiety when he heard this. He thought of different ways to deal with the current situation and only two feasible ways came up: they either hide their presence from the mutant Boar or they face it head on..

But Leo was also aware of just how impossible the first is. Hiding their presence wouldn't be the best decision for them right now as he has no idea if the mutant creature is just passing by or it intends to make this its territory. Also, it's not like they can just walk up to it and ask it this questions.

Leo sighed and closed his eyes briefly when he thought of this. He knew that the only thing they can do is to face the beast head on. Even though its level is higher than his and Ms Ves, they have no choice. They either sit around and wait for their death like cowards or they die fighting.

"Ms Ves, how far is the mutant Boar from the building?" Leo asked, as he started formulating a plan in his head.

"Less than 70 meters away and it's closing the distance fast," Ms Ves replied.

"I see..." Leo nodded.

"What do you think are our chances or beating it," Leo asked curiously, as he finalizes the plan in his head.

"I don't think we even stand a chance against it. The only thing we can is run. Nothing else." Ves replied in a solemn voice.

"You know we can't do that. We either face this thing and kill it or we all die. Since it's at least five levels higher than us, then it means it's stronger and faster than us. Which means we can't outrun it." Leo said with a equally solemn voice.

"How do you suggest we fight it? The new additions can't fight. They're too weak and they are too tired to. It's just you and me but even with the combination of both our strengths, I don't see us winning," Ves said with a tensed voice.

"Then, we just have to make do with the two of us," Leo said, causing Ms Ves to sigh.

"Are you sure about this? There's a high chance that we won't survive this fight." Ves asked, as she looked him directly in his eyes.

"Yes, I'm sure. There's a high chance that we won't win but there's also a chance that we might and we have to take those chances no matter how small." Leo replied.

Though it felt like he was talking to himself more than he was actually replying Ms Ves' question.

"If you say so, then how do you intend to proceed?" Ves asked as she looked out the window.

"We attack immediately. We make use of the sun still shining," Leo replied and Ms Ves nodded.

"I understand. Let's move."

The two of them immediately took the elevator down to ground floor.

In the access hallway of the building's first floor, Miguel and his group were looking at each other in fear. All of them rushed out of their apartments when they heard the roar.

Though they are not like Ms Ves who can sense what made the sound thanks to her [Enhanced Senses] skill, they knew that things weren't good.

"What do we do now?" One of male asked, with his hand shaking visibly.

"Nothing. You guys can't do anything. What it is that roared, it's way stronger than us. We can't fight it, we will only get killed," Miguel replied, biting his lips in anxiety as many thoughts filled his head at once.

"Then what about them? Can they fight it?" Another asked in a trembling voice.

"I don't know but we can hope they can." Miguel replied with uncertainty in his voice.

"Should we help?" The girl asked.

"Can we?" Miguel asked, as he smiled wryly.

Miguel was aware that if the boy and the strange woman can't stop the whatever it is that roared, they'd be as helpless as lambs in a slaughterhouse.