Being chased by creeps many times today, Luke was confident that he could outrun the crowd of creeps that he just pulled before they go back to the hospital road. But the situation went against his expectations! The creeps didn't seem to have any plans on retreating!

"For fuck's sake! Why are you all so adamant in chasing after me?!?" he loudly cursed as he felt that he was getting tired.

Reactive Armor didn't just regenerate HP or heal his wounds and bruises, it actually also rejuvenated his whole body that he would have endless energy even if he was fighting all day just as long as he has stacks of it.

Being chased by the creeps, he tried to outrun them so he didn't have a stack of Reactive Armor on him; thus he was currently losing strength on his legs and felt like he was about to collapse.

He could stop running and let the creeps hit him so that he'd gain stacks of Reactive Armor but leading the creeps behind him was a pack of wolves! Ever since he received the ability, he has always been taking blunt attacks from creeps. He has constantly been dodging attacks from the maces of centaurs, the claws of satyrs and the sharp teeth of the wolves!

He couldn't help but imagine his neck getting bitten by a wolf, how would Reactive Armor even help? Before he could heal up, he'd already be dead! He also wasn't sure if Reactive Armor could even grow any body parts of his that he may lose so he didn't dare test it out!

He was getting frantic and had no idea what to do, he was regretting picking up the hammer! He didn't know if dropping the hammer now would stop the creeps from chasing him, if he did drop it and they still chased after him, wouldn't he be easy picking for them? He thus decided that he might as well make his final hurrah and kill as many creeps as he can before he drops!

But before he did so, he should call Roy and tell him to immediately leave the hospital!

He took out his phone and because he still had to look for Roy's name on his phonebook, he slowed down and the creeps were able to lessen the distance between them.

It didn't take long for Roy to answer his call.

"You finally called! What the hell took you so long to pull the--" said Roy but Luke immediately cut him off.

"No motherfucker! These beasts are still chasing me!" Luke shouted on the phone

Roy frowned as it had already been a few minutes since he entered the hospital, it should take around a minute to pull creeps before they go back to where they came from as he had witnessed before. "What do you mean? Why are they still chasing you?" he asked in a serious tone.

"I have no clue! God knows how far I've ran and I seriously feel like collapsing Soon, so please, leave the hospital RIGHT NOW!" said Luke in a strained voice.

Hearing that, Roy was surprised at how Luke's voice seemed a bit tragic "Why do you have to sound so overly dramatic, you have Reactive Armor, you won't die from getting surrounded"

"You asshole! I don't have an iron body! There are wolves right behind me! These animals would aim for my neck and limbs! I don't think my ability can heal me before I die after these beasts maim me!" Luke angrily shouted.

Roy then finally understood the gravity of the situation and realized that this might be the last time he'd hear from Luke. "You.. Can't you do anything to escape from the creeps?"

"Bullshit! I was only able to escape from creeps every time because they were programmed to turn their backs, now that they're insisting on chasing me, how am I supposed to compete with a wolf in running long distances?! How do you think I can escape from that?!? Please, I'm hanging up now! Leave before these monsters come back! Tell Sunny and my family that I'm sorry!" said Luke who immediately ended the call.

Luke then threw his phone away then took out his weapons as he abruptly turned around, facing the wolves who were about 3 meters from him.

"You bastards are gonna fucking regret chasing after me this far!" he shouted as he raised his axe and bashed it at the head of the closest wolf.

***

Roy fell silent for a moment as he listened to the beeping sound after Luke ended the call. His mind was currently in turmoil with how the situation escalated.

Being a son of a senator, he was expected to keep his emotions in check and always stay calm but the current situation was too much for him! He took a deep breath as he didn't want Luke to waste his sacrifice as he gazed at the doctors behind him. "Prepare to leave! We don't have much time before the monsters come back!"

The doctors were in shock with how Roy changed after a single phone call that seemed to be from his friend who acted as a bait.

The doctor who shouted at him a while ago suddenly laughed mockingly and sneered as he said, "Weren't you so arrogant a while ago? Look at you panicking now! Hahahaha!"

Roy's men quickly raised their guns, silencing the doctor once again though he still sneered at Roy.

Roy shook his head and ordered his men to lower their guns. "Let's go" he said in an indefferent voice.

The other doctors were glaring at the doctor who just shouted who quickly defended himself, "What are you looking at me for?! That brat acted as if he was some big shot! If it wasn't for those men with guns, I wouldn't even bother with him!"

One of the doctors who was silent the whole time suddenly said in a low voice, "I... I think I know who that young man is"

"So what if he has some background?! What can that do to us in our situation?!" the angry doctor shouted.

"He.. I think he's Senator Roxas' eldest son.. I remember him back when the senator was campaigning for the election"

The conference room fell in silence after what the doctor said. The angry doctor suddenly felt chills down his spine as cold sweat gathered on his back. 'WHAT HAVE I DONE?!?' he shouted in his mind.

The doctors quickly stood up one after another as they tried to chase after Roy, leaving the dazed doctor behind.

As soon as they left the room, they saw that everybody was in panic! People were quickly leaving the hospital, some of which could be seen carrying medicine with them.

"Doctor! People are looting the pharmacy!" A crying nurse said as she seemed to have gotten hurt after stopping people from looting.

The doctors felt their chests tighten after what the nurse said as they realized that those people they saw leaving the hospital with medicine actually stole it! But they can't do anything now! They have to quickly leave the hospital before the monsters come back!

Some of the doctors made their way outside along with the crowd, with no plans on keeping order around. The head doctor shook his head seeing that as he ordered the few nurses who stayed behind to help people safely leave, and not bother anymore with those looting the pharmacy.

"Doctor Torres, what about the patients who can't leave the hospital?" a nurse worriedly asked Doctor Torres, the head doctor.

Doctor Torres closed his eyes as he shook his head as if he was making a hard decision. "They'll have to stay"

Everyone shook their heads after they heard the decision, some of them started to sob, feeling sorry for those who are about to get left behind.

Doctor Torres then opened his eyes as he gazed at the nurses, "I'm staying here, so you all don't have to worry about the patients. For those patients who can leave, please help them in doing so and when you reach the army, please make sure to still accompany the patients and take care of their well-being"

The nurses and doctors stared wide-eyed at their head doctor, he had a family to go back to yet he chose to stay behind and do his duty as a doctor! They felt ashamed as they couldn't make the same situation as him as they all nodded their heads and left to make sure that everybody who can leave would leave immediately.

Doctor Torres then watched as everybody else left and sighed as he grabbed a chair at the side and sat on it, not realizing that someone was approaching him.

"I saw what you just did, doctor" he heard.

He raised his head and saw Roy smiling at him. "I didn't do it for fame or to be called some sort of a hero, I'm just doing my job"

"Don't you have a family, doctor? What about them?" Roy asked.

"I do, I have two daughters in high school and a son in the 6th grade. My wife should be at home right now, worrying about me." he said as he smiled bitterly "I just hope they'll understand my choice and be proud that after everyone left the dying patients here, I still stayed behind and did my duty as a doctor"

Roy nodded and smiled "The world needs more people like you, doctor. I hope you'll survive" he said as he left.

Outside, the people were rushing to leave as they pushed those who were in front of them, some of which fell to the ground and got stepped on. Even though there were nurses and other civilians who tried to maintain order, it barely stopped people from panicking.

Roy then met up with his men who were pointing out where everybody should head to. Behind them was the security guard, Joshua, and a handsome young man that seemed to be around his late twenties by his appearance. Roy then approached Roy, who was a bit worried when he was told to stay behind before Roy arrived.

"Can I please go now?" the young man asked.

"Are you perhaps Luke's brother?" Roy asked as he couldn't help but get nervous as he didn't know how to explain Luke's situation.

The young man then glared at Roy and said, "Are you their boss?" he asked as he pointed at Roy's men. "I've been telling them that Luke is indeed my brother and that I am indeed Lyndon Rivera! So please, let me leave before those monsters come back!"

Roy guiltily shook his head and said, "Your brother came here with us and acted as a bait to make all the monsters here leave the area"

Lyndon's eyes widened hearing Roy's words and just as he was about to say anything, Roy cut him off.

"He called me a while ago to inform me that he's facing the monsters and that everyone in the hospital should leave before the monsters come back... so he... he..." Roy choked as he couldn't finish his words.

"Stop" said Lyndon as he shook his head. "What other words did he leave behind" he solemnly asked.

"He just wanted to tell his family that he's sorry" Roy answered as his eyes got a bit watery.

Lyndon nodded as he was furrowing his brows and bit his lips. "I understand"

"He's a brave man, the main reason we're here was to rescue you.. I.. I'm sorry for your loss" said Roy as he deeply bowed his head in remorse. "I won't hold you up here anymore"

Lyndon then left in slow steps, clearly shaken by the news he just received.

Roy couldn't stop a bit of his tears from falling after seeing Lyndon slowly leave, Roy didn't have many friends so Luke's death truly affected him. He stared at the ground and said to his men "Let's leave" as he left along with the crowd.

His men then nodded at him and followed after him.

They didn't notice that behind them, there were 5 men studying the altar the hammer was floating on earlier.

"Look! It's definitely made of ivory! And it's also inlaid with gold! We're rich!" A middle aged man exclaimed.

The men who were with him immediately got excited at his words as they all mentally agreed that they're taking the altar with them.

They quickly surrounded it and tried to lift it, and although it was indeed quite heavy they could still handle the weight. What they didn't know was their act of moving the altar alerted all the creeps in the area!

***

Luke was currently lying on the ground with every inch of his body covered by blood, both his and the creeps'. His hands were a mangled mess, along with his arms and legs full of bite marks and some parts clearly bitten off. Barely breathing, he didn't understand why the monsters who were about to finish him off suddenly perked up and just left.

All sorts of thoughts were on his mind as he felt that he was about to die.

'Was it worth it to come here? Yeah, definitely. My family would be relieved with me dying instead of my brother. My old friends barely remember me, so they won't really miss me. Maybe some of them truly will, Like Shy or maybe Reza and Niña? Hahaha. At least before I died I managed to do something good, right?' he thought as he quickly fell unconscious.

***

"Sir, there aren't any monsters appearing anymore!" A soldier reported to his officer.

The officer solemnly stared at the road where a seemingly endless amount of monsters kept appearing and the people from the hospital who kept on coming.

"Assist in the evaciation of the hospital! Jeric, I want you and your men to stay behind to help keep order here, inform HQ about the situation! We need more trucks to send all these people away from here and we definitely need more reinforcements, I have a bad feeling something happened over there in the hospital!" he ordered.

After his men left he couldn't help but think that something must have happened for the monsters to stop appearing "What did those two young men do?" he couldn't help but ask himself.

***

Roy just arrived at where the soldiers were gathered at. He had a blank look on his face as he stared at the ground when the officer leading the soldiers approached him. "You did a good job, boy. But where's that Luke kid?"

Roy had a bitter look on his face as he replied. "He sacrificed himself... Giving everyone time to escape and evacuate the hospital"

The officer shook his head and lamented that the country lost a brave young man. He could have made great contributions to the country with how strong he was.

He was about to console Roy when a soldier was frantically running towards him.

"Sir! Sir! The monsters are back! And we still haven't finished evacuation! The soldiers there are already doing their best to hold them back but the monsters seemed to have gotten berserk, not caring how about much they got shot! The soldiers can't handle the pressure!" the soldier reported.

The officer frowned while Roy on the other hand stood up and without saying anything, ran towards the direction of the hospital.

"Kid! Don't! Shit! Send every soldier here to assist our men over there!" he barked his orders.

As soon as Roy arrived at the crossroad where he last saw Luke being chased by creeps, he saw the creeps about to reach the soldiers as they stepped over a pile of corpses of other creeps. A soldier was eventually taken down as a civilian shrieked in horror.

"We're gonna die!" the young woman shouted as she saw a centaur stepping on a soldier with its body filled with wounds.

Everyone around her was in panic seeing the situation as they were one of the last ones to leave the hospital and the monsters coincidentally also arrived.

The people saw the other soldiers getting overwhelmed and the monsters about to reach them when all of a sudden; they saw a young man run in front of them and raised his left hand.

They saw something shine on his wrist and noticed that a symbol of some sort that was made of ice appeared above his hand and they couldn't help but think, 'Superpower!'. They saw the symbol fly to the sky and all of a sudden, it started to snow.

They were all flabbergasted seeing how it suddenly snowed since they were after all in a tropical country! 'It must be his power!' they thought. The intensity of the snowfall quickly grew into a storm, with strong winds and the snow quickly piling on the gound when the young man suddenly shouted. "LEAVE RIGHT NOW! WE CAN HANDLE THIS!"

Everyone stared at the young man as if he was some sort of a god that came to save them, some of them couldn't help but snap pictures of him to remember this moment as they left while saying thanks to the young man and the soldiers who arrived with him.