Infinite Mana In The Apocalypse

Morning of the next day, I was in the back of a black sedan watching cars rush by as we went down a long road. When we left the roads of Outer Bank X city, we had to pass the only checkpoint for those leaving the city. The checkpoint was near the entrance to an old bridge that was the only road leading towards inner cities. To the left and right of the checkpoint was an expanding wall that circled around the entire city

It was mostly hunters or highly influential people that were able to move around in the empire. The two titles were actually interchangeable as no influential person chose to not awaken

The driver pulled out sparkling military credentials to the Hunter Guards standing by and we were soon driving away from the city. We went across the bridge when I looked back for the last time to see the city surrounded by a wall, not knowing if I would ever return

The scenery around us quickly changed to destroyed buildings and architectures as we saw guard posts every 10s of miles down the road. I couldn't imagine the job of these people that stood in The Barrens for days, only switching their shifts when someone else came to relieve them

The Barrens were the empty and destroyed lands that nobody was living in. You would only find roaches or rats, or mutated animals that were hungry enough to attack anything there. The only people who took the post as guards along these long roads leading from cities were people that had nothing in life and were offered an olive branch from the government

They were contracted to work for them after they were given the resources to awaken and had to follow the contract for a specified time. I felt sad thinking of the people that had no option but to resort to these kinds of work

We drove through The Barrens with no complication, passing other cities surrounded by walls throughout the day. The road got cleaner and cleaner as we went further inland and we saw guard posts more frequently, eventually leaving behind the dystopian Barrens and becoming exposed to a few green trees

walled-off city in the distance. This city

inside after the driver flashed his papers on the guard's face in an annoyed tone as the process was much more thorough this time

day to get here, and after the time it took for us to bypass the gates night had already arrived. I was able to see the city come to life with

arrived

a stark contrast to the destroyed lands we had passed by this morning as if we were in a completely

beauty of the city as if I was back to a time when no dungeons had appeared as if I had traveled in time to the bustling metropolis

on their size. I was able to see blue monoliths similar in size to [Solael's Caslte] after

outfits patrolling, arriving at a huge compound that had a sizable monolith with a light orange hue

was almost twice as big as a rank C monolith, its pressure coming down on me and taking my breath away. I got out of the car and breathed in the air of the city, feeling it to be much fresher than what I've been

with a scan of his ID. The military compound had a variety of eye-catching buildings all around, with a ton of armored

a very comfortable sofa before an imposing man came out. He had a long scar on his jawline with his tanned face glistening in the bright room. A

I observed the man in

right I come

first thing he mentioned after his name was how he wanted to personally come to meet me as soon as I