I Spread my Genes to Level Up in the Apocalypse

Chapter 75: Ray vs Military, Death

At this time, Evelyn was floating in the air with the help of a sword, and five swords spun rapidly behind her, forming a protective barrier against the oncoming bullets.

"She looks really cool like that," Ray thought to himself.

This girl was the quietest among them, but judging by the corpses on the ground, the number of soldiers she had killed was not small—she was like a reaper of death.

Ray took his tomahawk and casually threw it, the weapon spun through the air and sliced straight through a soldier before embedding itself in the ground with a resounding "boom."

"Ray, you're finally here," Grace said, tears filling her eyes, her ice magic also seemed to have improved by a lot.

"Hmm," Ray nodded, then stomped the ground and launched himself into a slaughter, unfazed by the chaos around him.

Tanks were crushed into bits, missiles were punched out of the sky, and the ordinary soldiers with guns had no effect on him—their bullets ricocheted off his body as if they were made of rubber, utterly ineffective against his thick skin.

Only a little trouble was the helicopter constantly shooting minnie guns and Rpg at him but they didn't dare to fly too high because of the potential danger in the sky.

For this Ray casually picked up the destroyed tanks and destroyed the helicopter with it.

"Have you evacuated the girl?" Ray spoke lightly to Vanessa who was basically converting those soldiers into an eerie black pill.

"Yes."

Vanessa nodded her head.

"Good," Ray nodded lightly, his expression unreadable.

"Lightning Arts: Lightning Field."

"Lightning Arts: Lightning Spear."

With swift and precise movements, Ray unleashed his lightning arts.

The air around him crackled with electricity as the Lightning Field spread out, creating a dome of deadly electricity that directly fried the soldiers who got near him.

Bolts of lightning streaked from his hands, forming into spears that pierced through the air with blinding speed, each one directly destroying all the snipers far away.

Not stopping there, Ray summoned Fire Magic and Ice Magic. Flames roared, consuming everything in their path, while shards of ice erupted, freezing soldiers in place before shattering them into pieces.

The battlefield was soon a scene of absolute slaughter, a literal sea of corpses strewn across the ground as far as the eyes could see.

"Sigh," Ray exhaled, surveying the aftermath.

He stood amidst the corpses, surrounded by Evelyn, Grace, Vanessa, Kate, and Daisy.

These five women were essentially all the Awakened ones among the seventy-plus women, they had fought alongside him, while the others had been evacuated to a safer location.

Gina and Melissa were also awakened however they were at the base of the Awakeners.

Vanessa was the first to break the silence, her voice tinged with unease. "What should we do, Ray, with these corpses?" she asked, her expression tentative.

The sheer number of bodies around them was overwhelming, and the sight nearly made her nauseous. She fought the urge to vomit right then and there, the stench of death was very pungent.

Ray looked at the corpses silently, not saying a word.

Vanessa desperately wanted to get far away from this area before the sight traumatised her, but…

"If we leave the corpses here, the radiation in the air might cause them to become undead," she said, her voice trembling slightly.

"Burn them," Ray replied, his expression cold and unreadable. He retrieved some oil from the apartment and began spreading it among the corpses.

Then, with a flick of his hand, he used Fire Magic to ignite the pile.

As black smoke billowed into the sky, Ray and the five women had already distanced themselves from the fire, doing their best to isolate the flames as much as possible.

As Ray watched the dark smoke rise, his mind was consumed with a troubling thought.

"Did the military really think they could kill me with just this? Or did they hope to kill all the girls to make me mentally unstable and then…?" Ray didn't finish his thought, his eyes narrowing as he pondered.

Just then, a rotating stick engulfed in flames launched toward him at a terrifying speed.

"Oh?" Ray raised his brows as he casually caught the stick, halting its momentum.

"As expected."

A sneer appeared on his face as he jumped high into the sky, but his expression suddenly changed.

"Is that the entire military?" His pupils immediately shrank.

Thousands of soldiers with tanks and all kinds of cold weapons surrounded the entire area, and at the forefront of five leading individuals stood the middle-aged man—the five-star general—coldly glaring at Ray.

Compared to the couple of hundreds of soldiers he had fought, the numbers were really terrifying.

The general casually held a speaker and spoke into it.

"Ray, you are surrounded by the military. If you don't surrender, we will immediately raze the entire city."

"Even if you can survive this, can your women survive?"

A hint of a smug smile appeared on the general's face.

The soldiers stomped the ground hard with their guns, making the entire ground tremble; it was almost equivalent to Ray's stomp roaring so loudly that the entire city trembled.

"Think carefully. We'll give you a day's time. If you don't surrender by then, don't blame us for the slaughter."

Ray didn't respond but simply landed on the ground again, silently.

"What should we do, Ray?" Vanessa asked, her voice trembling with fear as she leaned into his arms, sweat dripping from her forehead.

They had all heard the speaker's threat, along with the terrifying roars and stomps of the soldiers.

The five women were extremely anxious.

Even someone as powerful as Ray could be exhausted to death. Could he really defeat thousands of soldiers?

A person naturally has a limit and they could still be exhausted.

And then there were the other Awakeners—after all, that flaming stick had reached them from so far away.

So naturally, they were all anxious, as if death was looming over them taking their life at any given moment.

Ray remained completely silent and expressionless.

"Ray, say something, please," Vanessa tugged at his sleeve, tears welling up in her eyes.

"Please, I'm scared," she began to cry softly in his embrace. The other four women also leaned into him, crying at the same time.

Ray gently rubbed the heads of the five women, tenderness in his eyes.

Death—it can come so easily, in just the blink of an eye. But not many have the courage to face it; most people don't, especially in this era of technology and advancement.

Some speculated that AI might be the end of humankind, but they never looked at the present to see the wars and destruction that could cause our downfall by our own hands.

A human's greed is limitless and can never be satisfied.

For the military, even if the soldiers weren't Awakened, they didn't suffer as much damage as ordinary citizens did, even in the apocalypse.

It could be said that the country's entire citizen population might be less than the army.

"It's fine, let's meet up with the other girls first," Ray said, taking the five women with him as they rapidly travelled to the location Vanessa had mentioned.

Soon, they met up with more than seventy girls who were in another shelter.

There were some new faces as well, which made Ray raise his eyebrows.