"No sir," the two Carlos and Lisa said out in unison.
Ian checked to see how many coins he was remaining with after summoning the squad.
Host: Ian Conn
Age: 18 years
Level: 13
Exp: 48,000/126,000
System coins: 1,016,050
Troops: 15
Skill: weapon mastery level 2, tactical mastery level 1, melee proficiency level 1
Team alpha had cleared and killed quite a number of zombies in the 99th floor given they were androids and won't feel tired.
Total coins = 1,044,950
Exp: 78,000/146,000
He went to the shop to buy weapons for his new team and additional clips for team alpha.
M4 carbine× 10: 20,000 coins
90×magazine 30 rounds each: 45,000 coins
Beretta M9 × 10: 5000 coins
60× 9mm magazine 15 rounds each: 12000 coins
Tactical knife 10×: 1,500coins
Total=83,500
Confirm purchase. Ian pressed yes and the weapons were send to his storage.
He them out and armed his new teams and kept the rest for team alpha.
"Alpha 1 do you copy,"
"Go for alpha 1 eagle actual."
"Reinforcements will be coming in with me ETA 2 minutes, hold position."
"Copy that Eagle actual, holding position
"Listen up people,team alpha expects us in 2 minutes. Remember, no heroics, maintain communication with each other the map is on your wrist computers."
"Copy that sir,we"ll stay sharp." Carlos and Lisa assured.
Ian turned to the stairwell door, the team now in tactical formation, guns raised, ready to move out. Ian signal and the teams moved out ready to engage.
They had a smooth descent, located the alpha team and moved to join in. Mark moved to Ian's to give a report on what they encountered so far.
"We have cleared the 99th floor sir, there were no survivors here as for the infected you saw the numbers."
"I see, Mark this is Carlos and Lisa captains of team bravo and beta, call sign bravo 1 for Carlos and beta 1 for Lisa."
"Hello alpha 1,"Carlos and Lisa greated Mark.
"Enough talk let's clear and leave this building, we are on a very tall target."Ian called out to the team leaders. He took the extra ammo he had bought to Mark and his teammates and prepared for descent.
"Alpha team you take 98th floor, team bravo and team beta you take 97th floor, I'll go with alpha, any questions."
"No sir," the squad shouted in unison,"good move out in 30 sec and maintain communication at all time.
"Don't be complacent because you are facing zombies, you have to remember they can hord on you so keep your distance and retreat if the numbers are too many."
Ian was sure with his small team it won't be as easy as in the novels where the protagonist can pretty much solo a hord alone, he had to be careful or he'll lose everyone and everything.
I need to reach level 20 to summon more soldiers to clear faster. It takes upto 3 hours to clear a single floor and an additional 2 hours to sweep through the rooms, by now I have taken 10 hours in clearing the 100th and 99th floor. Factoring in the fact team alpha don't need to rest and the continued purchase of ammunition.
With two more teams, he hopped to reduce the time needed to clear the floors and finish his mission.
Having received their orders, team bravo and beta moved out after alpha team and Ian to clear the 97th floor.
Bullets flew, zombies fell, the teams advanced and retreated as they cleared the floors and after a whole 24 hours according to the system, they had moved 13 floors and now had to rest. Even team alpha had to rest not because they were tired but from the nonstop killing and to resupply.
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"I levelled up 7 times and now I've reached level 20,"Ian thought inwardly, now I can summon more soldiers to continue moving down, team bravo and alpha are tired after clearing nonstop.
I also need someone to carry supplies, I can't give orders and provide supplies at the same time. First let me check my progress so far.
Host: Ian Conn
Age: 18 years
Level: 21
Exp: 3354/1,200,000
System coins: 1,133,850
Troops: 15/100
Skill: weapon mastery level 2, tactical mastery level 1, melee proficiency level 1
First off, let's go shopping, we have used up almost all ammunitions and there's movement from the ground, possibility zombies moving up due to all the shooting.
SHOP
600×magazine 30 rounds each : 300,000
M4 carbine×85 : 170,000
Beretta M9×85 : 42,500
9mm magazine×600 : 120,000
Combat knife ×85 : 12,750
Two military grade laptops: 6,000
Two handheld machine guns: 10000
10 fragment grunetes : 4,500
Total= 664,750 coins
[Yes]
Balance : 468,100 coins
"Am poor again, by the time I leave this place only the mission reward will be remaining. I even forgot to purchase some explosives, let's finish summoning first."
Troop summon
Special forces × 20 = 20,000
Infantrymen ×50 = 20,000
Medic ×10 = 5000
General × 2 = 2000
Intelligence × 1 = 500
Machine gunners × 2 = 2,000
Total : 49,500
Ian moved to the hallway and after selecting a suitable place, his summoned materialized from the summoning circle.
There was no time to waste so he produced the weapons and armed them. After everyone had taken their designated weapons, the two generals stepped forward and gave a salute followed by the other 83 personal.
The two generals looked like people who had gone through a lot of fights, one possibly in his late 30s, 6 foot tall with a scar on his left chick probably from a knife, It was an old scar maybe got it during his early 20s, the guy looked almost Russian with a medium built body and green eyes, should name him Vladimir to see how he turns out.
The other standing at 6'3 a pretty tall guy even for Ian, in his mid 30s, a clean shaved head or maybe hair doesn't grow for him, he had a muscular build and cold blue eyes, the name stones will fit him well like the American Rock guy.
"What are your orders sir?" The two generals asked.
"At ease, first let give you two names, how about Vladimir and Stones."
"We feel honored to be named personally by the commander." Vladimir and Stones said out loud.
"Okay, okay not so loud you may attract the zombies towards us." Ian said trying to chear up his tired soldiers, the team made a chuckle finding their commanding officer funny at such a critical situation.
"Generals, create teams out of the 72 soldiers behind you, the medics will go and check on team bravo and beta as for the IT guys, hack into this buildings surveillance cameras and feed the information to the generals so that they could make a plan for getting out of this hell hole in 4 days time. Any questions?"
"No sir," everyone replied in unison.
"Good you all have your assignments, the operation will commence after 5 hours, that is at 0400hrs everyone be prepared."
"Yes sir, they all replied in unison even the tired team bravo, beta and alpha had to stand in attention to received their new mission directive.
"Good, dismissed." Ian finished his briefing and moved towards the hallway window to look outside, the city had become ruins, he was sure electricity will only last another 2 days before going out.
He was afraid that will slow him down since it will mean he only has to work during daytime and stay alert all night to avoid zombie ambushes. It is not a nice feeling waking up to a hord attack in the building hallways since they'll be cornered.
"I've even began sounding like a soldier now,
we need to get out of this place even faster now and such for a safe place out of the city to set up camp. How much life changes in the face of danger and the promise of death." Ian thought inwardly.
Somewhere far off in an unknown dimension, seated in what looked like a cinema hall, the gods sat watching the events unfold.
" You think he will be strong enough when the time comes." Asked God 1 who had golden hair and eyes radiating golden light.
" I don't have the slightest idea, remember even that guy can't see his future, it's like he is not there every time we try to see his future." Answered god 2 with long hair radiating white light.
Somewhere else the goddess looked at the gods and let out a chuckle which travelled to the ears of those two gods.
"Mmh she is watching." Said god 1 turning to look at her direction.
"Seems she finds the whole thing funny, I wonder what she knows that we don't." Said god 2.