Volume 1: Bo'an Awakening & The Calamity Storm
The crimson blood rain fell unabated over the heart of Bo’an City. Viscous, greasy droplets tainted with the rank stench of gore and berserk venom drummed in a ceaseless patter against shattered masonry and crumbling rubble, churning roadside puddles into small, bubbling pools of frothing blood. The acrid reek of combusting gasoline, the foul effluvia of ruptured sewer conduits, and the suffocating miasma of death intertwined into a choking shroud, constricting the lungs of every living soul struggling to survive this earthly purgatory.
At the wide boulevard crossing connecting South Street to the arterial thoroughfare leading toward Feng Lan Magic High School, the makeshift defense line held by the experimental class and their instructor had only just repelled the rabid onslaught of more than thirty Black Scarlet Wolves.
Across the fractured tarmac, wolf carcasses lay strewn in heaps, black blood coursing through the jagged crevices of the road.
Zhang Hu leaned heavily against a crumbling slab of reinforced concrete, hands propped on his knees, wheezing ragged breaths through gritted teeth. He had cast the primary Earth spell over a dozen times in succession to erect stone barriers across the streets; the mana in his sea of consciousness was more than half depleted, and his legs shook violently from sheer exhaustion.