Doomsday Pillars

Chapter 300 - Farewell

As soon as the stage 5 zombie was killed, the behaviour of the zombie horde that were still fiercely attacking before, quickly returned to normal as sounds could easily distract them, allowing Alex's team to divide and conquer all these zombies.

Alex and the other 8 people quickly ran back and regrouped with their other fighters that were still trying to catch up to them. The group then swiftly went back towards Sydney City to check the situation over there. After they ran through the Australian wilderness for 1 hour, they reached the defensive line of the Sydney Gate, where they could see the area was still swarming with zombies.

Immediately, Alex ordered all his men to throw various explosives to each direction to lure the zombie horde, separating them to several small groups easier to manage. When the explosives went off in several directions and caused loud sounds, the zombie horde quickly lured by it and separated, moving towards their nearest explosion sound. As the zombie hordes split up and move to different directions, the previously massive zombie hordes finally disbands and is no longer a threat.

There are also the white zombies and black zombies among the zombie horde to worry about, but fortunately there are not too many of them, with only several white zombies and tens of black zombies in the divided horde.

Seeing that the distractions are doing their job, Alex swiftly moved with his fighters to clean up these zombie hordes as they split up and charged towards different directions, slaughtering their way through the zombie hordes.

Within half a day, the zombies were finally driven out of the city.. Alex took his time to go to Sydney headquarters as he rechecked his plan and calculated the gains he got during his time in Australian continent.

As he stepped through the front door of Sydney headquarter, Alex was immediately welcomed by the prime minister, Malcolm along with government officials and several military officers at his side. The man quickly walked over to Alex with a grateful expression on his face.

"Thank you! Thank you for your help, Mr Alex. On behalf of all citizens of Sydney city, I would like to give my heartfelt gratitude." said Malcolm with a ninety degree bow.

Raising his eyebrows at the unexpected gesture, Alex could not help but say.

"You're welcome, Mr Malcolm. We should help each other in this apocalypse era." said Alex calmly. "I have done what i can, I'm sure your men can handle the rest of the zombies."

"Of course!" said Malcolm firmly. "What you've done is more than enough, Mr Alex. It is time for us to clean up the rest and rebuild the city."

Nodding his head, Alex then spoke. "That's great. I hope all goes well, Mr Prime Minister."

When the battle of Sydney was finally over, Alex decided not to stay long in Sydney city and informed Prime Minister Malcolm about it. Hearing the news, Malcolm decided to break the regulation of the previous government and gave the honour of Knight of the Order of Australia which had been abolished to Alex, showing his gratitude and sincerity. While on the other hand, Arief was awarded with the honour of Companion of the Order of Australia due to his help in their effort to defend against the zombie hordes.

Alex doesn't care much about any kind of honors and even has a casual attitude on it. But since he is currently the leader of the headquarters located adjacent to Australian continent, it means that in the future they will definitely be in touch with each other. Alex decided to take this seriously. Seen from a diplomat's political perspective, this award could be a good start for the two countries in their future relations.

Alex extended his olive branches to the 70 thousands Australian citizens that lived in Sydney city to join him and immigrate to Bali Island. Unfortunately, Malcolm rejected his offer because they could not bear to leave the country, their identity. After seeing the battle, Malcolm actually determined to restore the country to its former glory, there are thousands of his people still separated in different cities. Now that Sydney already has access to the Doomsday Pilas spirit Barrier, he plans to gather all the Australian citizens to this city.. 

The meeting turned into a discussion of a pact between the two countries. After hours of diplomatic discussions, they agreed to a protection pact between the two countries stating that they would assist the other when needed. The next day, Sydney city government then began their plan to clean up and build the city while Alex and his group prepared to leave.

The Fatahillah destroyer from the start had brought enough transport ships to accommodate Alex's entire army. That way, after spending another night resting in this Harbor city, they were all ready to sail back to Bali the next morning.

The 1st platoon led by Arief, the 2nd platoon led by Cindy and Dinda, the 3rd and 4th platoon led by Jerry, and the 5th and 6th platoon led by Sergei and Theo quickly boarded the ship. Alex's 360 elite fighters as well as Karra's more than 100 selected fighters left the Sydney Harbour, followed by the Sydney citizens' farewell.

2 ships, one Fatahillah destroyer and another transport ship sailed together along the Australian coast to the north. However, before heading to Bali Island, Alex and his group had to stop at one place, a small town in the northeast of the Australian continent, a city called Cairns.

Their main goal going to that place is to pick up the 7th and 8th platoon that were already waiting there. But when they arrived at the city pier, the more than 100 fighters from 7th and 8th platoon greeted them with lackluster faces.

Alex could see Raufgar and Ark among them, as well as Dario, the Death Squad fighter from Surabaya. When their ships were finally docked at the pier, Dario immediately took Alex somewhere. Dario doesn't say a word as they walk, causing Alex's feelings to grow even more uncomfortable. Unable to endure this suffocating silence any longer, Alex opened his mouth.

"What happened?"

Sighing deeply, so deep that Alex could feel a hint of sorrow in his sigh, Ark slowly spoke.

"We lost Darius."

"What ?!" Surprised by this shocking news, Alex couldn't help but ask again

Letting out another sigh, Ark said. "Darius was badly injured and just passed away yesterday."

Darius, a man who is a B aptitude darkness element spirit enhancer who has special understanding in the mastery of gravity. He is also one of the first fighters to join Alex group in Bali.

Alex hurriedly entered a room where 5 bodies lay motionless there, Darius and 4 other elite fighters.

Seeing Darius's pale face, the stone-cold lifeless body of this 35 years old man, Alex seems to be lost in thought.

To Alex, Darius is the fighter he can relate to the most because they are the same age and their roles are parents, more accurately the fighter he can relate the most with the previous life of him where he didn't manage to save his family. Unlike Darius, Alex was able to save his family due to his reincarnation.

"Tell me how he died."

Apparently, a few days ago, the squad was attacked by a rare tier 4 mutated beast as they travelled through the Australian desert, where Darius sacrificed himself and died heroically while rescuing his teammate.

Upon hearing this, Alex frowned because he thought there was no glory in death, let alone heroic. Only when alive can you truly make a difference and contribute to the world, not in death.

In his previous life, Darius was one of the great and famous fighters in the second and third years of the apocalypse, whereas in this life he couldn't get past the first year.

Sighing at this revelation, Alex knew that he couldn't save everyone. The future has become much different from before because of the butterfly effect that his existence brings. Shaking his head, Alex thought resolutely. 'There's no use thinking about the past. I just have to do my best at this point.'

Apparently, just like Darius, the other 4 men also didn't have a family to go back to.

Alex then decided to make a small ceremony on the ship as they continued sailing towards Bali. These fighters were given a tribute funeral ceremony where rifles were fired 5 times into the sky followed by a salute performed by the 400 soldiers as they gave their final farewell to their fallen comrades. After that, their bodies were cremated and their ashes were then thrown into the sea.

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Bali Headquarters, Bali Island.

An information received from Fatahillah destroyer.

-Mission Summary-

Mission on the Australian continent.

Of the 500 fighters, 452 were able to return. 

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