monster devourer: System chapter 1 advertising my novel for the contest

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*year: 2020*

*locations: ruins of Iloilo city*

*month: unknown*

*day: unknown*

*Time: dawn*

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the sun was being devoured by the horizon ahead, as darkness slowly covering the old and moldy structure's that the past human civilization have build.

building covered with vegetation. trees can seen in every direction, while deafening sound of silence covers the whole uneven and barely visible cement road where two shadow has slowly make there way to an abandoned building that was almost crumbled by time.

a teen, 18 years old of age had his leg his shaking from unexplained hunger. breathing heavely, he felt that his foot is being constricted by chains that was attached to a heavy metal ball.

the teen is named Neo Jones, a boy that is neither too handsome nor too ugly, he have a jet black hair, he have a white colored T-shirt and jeans stained by dirt and dust to cover his skinny body, while he strolled the road with his badly battered blackshoes and big travel bag.

there are times that he wish that all of the pain and suffering he was felling rigth now would just flew away, but he knew too well that the only way that could do that, is just by ending his own life.

"big bro...are you alright?" amidst of he's deep thoughts , a sweet cheerful sound of a six years girl, suddenly echoed to his ear, revitalizing his soul that almost lost its will to figth.

the little girl has a long black hair covered by dirt and dust, her body was as slim as a stick, while trace of malnutrition is visible in her small childish face. she's wearing an oversized furcoat ,and pair of little blue boots.

the young man has manage to squeeze a little smile in his haggard looking face, as pats the long unkempt hair of his little sister, that is currently holding to his left arm.

"don't worry, every thing is...alright" its an answer to not only comfort his little sister, but also to make himself believe, that there is still hope for the both of them.

"are you hungry Alice?" Neo gently asked her sister, who is also visibly weaken by half day of walking, he opened his bag and pulled a fry meat. and pushed it towards the young girl.

"didn't we just ate ummm..... 4 ahh....5 hours ago?" the girl said, seemly suprise of his brother unusual behavior, they usually eat one meal per one days to conserve there food supply. so its highly unlikely for his brother to give her food to her rigth now.

"really...it just been 5 hours?.....my bad" wearing a weak smile, Neo kept the canned bean back to his bag.

"hahaha,your being silly big brother"Alice laughs cheerfuly, often time,Neo thought of how can his sister laughs in this such difficult times and even in matters, which isnt funny at all. 5 hours without eating is not a joking thing, but now 5 hours without eating, is as normal as breathing for her.

3 day ago, Neo was suddenly awoken by unusual kind of hunger...an unbearable kind of hunger, he felt that he could eat a whole roasted cow if it was presented in front of him.

he tried eating a normal amount of rations, but his stomach feels like a bottomless pit, he wanted to eat more, but if he did so, his sister will probably starve to death, before the two of them reach there destination.

because of this sudden strange *illness* that he unknowingly developed, he felt scared,but not because of dying, but for the future of his little sister will have, after he died.

for three days he kept this fact for himself, so that her sister will not worry, strange unexplained things like this, has been happening around the world for more than 4 years. now

and the thing that is happening to him rigth now migth be one of it. he knew that if this strange condition is not *cured* he will likely die, so he wanted to at least make his sister a little happer and taking her to the nearest human made fortress as soon as possible.

*chreeeeerrrgggg*

as the siblings continued moving forward, a snarl that sounds like the call of death itself ,suddenly jolted Neo and Alice,stopping there steps in place.

"bro-brother....wha-what was tha-"Alice said in a terrified voice. while holding his brothers arms even tigther. her was face turn pale from fright.

"shhhhhhh..." Neo muttered cutting her sister words to make her quite. turning his head around slowly, towards the direction where the sound came from. he saw a menacing beast staring at them from the distances, with his glowing red eyes, looking at them like a predator eyeing its prey, ready to attack at any given moment.

the 15 feet tall monster is walking with its four limbs and it was covered in black shade of fur. it looks just like a Panther, but with pair of razor sharp, crescent bone blade attached to both of its muscular front paws.

"sh*t, it saw us!" Neo muttered angrily, he slowly wrapped his hand around his sisters body to hold her in a princess carry. before summoning every last drop of strength, that was still left in his exhausted body, before suddenly bursted running towards the nearby ruins.

*Roaaaaaaaaaar*

seeing his dinner is trying to escape, the huge panther like beast gave loud roar, before hurriedly gaving a chase to the two weak human, with its more superior speed.

4 year ago/ year 2016

earth was populated by billion's of Humans, as modern machines made life easier and comfortable.

people only need to education to get a job and live a good life, while some could even just sit on there chair all day and earn a living.

but then, everything changed, strange phenomenon suddenly started happening, like electrical storm, toxic rain, earth quake, subzero degree winter and etc.

with only that almost 65% of the 7.8 billion humans, had died from the harsh and unpredictable *weathers*. forcing the surviving human to live near bunkers, that was built by there government. to avoid being killed by strange natural elements.

after that life on earth wasn't like it was used to be, every time there's are a weather disturbances, human that are working outside like farmers, will hurriedly hide in this bunkers. to wait for the disasters it to pass.

with that, buildings are being abandoned, while nature is slowly retaking it place, cities are slowly turning into jungle, while vegetation slowly growing thicker.

1 year later after that , human has slowly adjust on living in those harsh conditions. human one's thought that there will be nothing worser than there currently situation. but they are terribly wrong.

mystical creatures suddenly appeared, as well as colossal monster, some people said they came from the deeps of underworld, and they are here to cleanse the world from the poison known as humans.

the this creatures vary in all shape and sizes, some of the beast are harmless, but some are mostly hostile and when those beast found its way to a human compounds, bloodshed is inevitable.

modern weapon like guns, rockets, missile could somehow destroy some of the weaker monsters, but when a stronger one's came up, there's no other way to survive, but to run as fast as you can.

2 years later,

only 0.001% of the total population of earth was left. bunkers are being destroyed one by one, while man living in there are turned into monsters snack, while for others that manage to escape they could only hope to reach other bunkers before the monsters reach them.

this creatures has almost exterminated all the animals that was living in earth the monsters replaced there place, because of this ecosystem has been changed to a more treacherous and unforgiving one, trees grew much larger, strange plants started appearing, new kinds of minerals formed, and the overall law of the world has change.

but when the humanity thought that all hope is gone, a few human had evolved, materializing supernatural abilities no human is capable of before.with this new found strength humanity finally somehow found a way to figth for there rigth to survive in the new world.

1 year later, only 0.0002% or 150,000 plus humans are left in the human population throughout the world. the bunkers that survived until now, thanks to combined efforts of the enhanced human and its inhabitants was now called Last Hope Fortress, or LHF. while the evolved human that protects it are called evolutionary's

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