LOGINWhen the apocalypse came, she lost everything. Starving, hunted, and desperate, she trusted the one man she loved… only for him to betray her in the cruelest way possible. He stole her last supplies to please another woman and left her to die in a sea of the undead. But death wasn’t the end. She woke up days before the world collapsed. After cutting ties with her ungrateful ex and his parasitic family, a mysterious voice awakens in her mind, LUS, a Level-Up System designed to help her survive the coming end. With knowledge of the future and a system guiding her every move, she begins to prepare. She stockpiles resources, builds a base, and learns how to fight back against the horrors that once destroyed her. And when the apocalypse arrives again… she’s ready. But survival isn’t the only thing waiting for her in this new life. A silent killer who watches her like prey. A manipulative genius who wants to unravel her secrets. A gentle protector who sees the girl she hides. And a dangerous man who thrives in chaos. As the world burns and power shifts, they’re all drawn to her, each with their own motives, each with their own darkness. Even her past refuses to stay buried. Because now, the man who once abandoned her is back, broken, desperate, and begging for a second chance. Too bad she has no time for regrets. Not when she’s busy rising to power… and building a kingdom in the ruins of the world.
View MoreDara terengah-engah saat merasakan pusat kenikmatannya berdenyut. Basah di dalam sana, tapi itu bukan berasal dari miliknya melainkan Arkha—suaminya yang sudah mendapatkan pelepasan.
Arkha, suaminya menarik selimut untuk dirinya sendiri. Tubuhnya sudah berpindah ke sisinya dengan senyum penuh kepuasan. “Makasih ya, Yang. Sekarang sebaiknya kita tidur. Aku capek banget, Yang, ” kata Arkha berbisik di telinga Dara. Dara tak menyahuti. Hatinya bergemuruh. Ia masih menginginkan sentuhan serta hujaman dari suaminya. Setiap melakukan hubungan seksual, ia tak pernah terpuaskan. Hanya Arkha yang selalu mendapatkan kepuasan. “Aku belum puas, Mas! Tidakkah kamu tahu itu. Aku bahkan belum keluar sama sekali! ” sungut Dara dalam hatinya. Ingin Dara mengatakan itu semua. Namun, teriakan itu hanya tertahan dalam pikirannya. Dara menatap langit-langit kamarnya yang gelap. Denyut di antara pahanya perlahan mereda. Hatinya terus merasa hampa. Entah apa yang salah dengan dirinya sampai tak pernah merasakan kenikmatan lagi. Dara menarik selimut hingga ke dagu, merasakan dinginnya kain sutra yang yang menutupi tubuhnya. Hal itu terasa kontras dengan hawa panas yang masih terasa di bawah permukaan kulitnya. Di sampingnya suara napas Arkha sudah berubah menjadi dengkuran pelan dan teratur. Setiap tarikan dan embusannya seakan menegaskan jurang yang memisahkan mereka di ranjang yang sama. Dara memalingkan wajah, memandangi sosok suaminya yang sudah tertidur lelap. Ujung jari Dara bergerak, meraih tangan Arkha yang tergeletak lemas di atas seprai. Dengan sangat hati-hati dia membalikkan telapak tangan suaminya, laku perlahan-lahan menuntun tangan itu meletakkannya kembali di atas pusat kenikmatannya. Dia hanya sedang mencoba mencari kepuasannya. Tangan suaminya yang hangat dan berat itu hanya diam, tidak bergerak ataupun memberi sentuhan yang bisa menuntut lebih untuk menciptakan permainan baru. Hasrat Dara tak terbalas. Hampa itu kembali menyapa. Penasaran itu selalu terjadi setelah permainan suaminya usai. “Apa hanya aku yang merasakan hal seperti ini. Tidak mendapatkan kepuasan di atas ranjang? ” Dara menarik napasnya dalam-dalam, menahan sesak di dadanya. Pertanyaan itu tidak berhenti berputar di kepalanya. Bukan hanya kepuasan secara fisik yang tidak didapatkannya, tetapi juga emosionalnya. Dara bangkit dari tempat tidur. Kakinya membawanya ke jendela. Dari balik kaca, dia melihat bayangan dirinya sendiri, samar. Seorang wanita dengan rambut berantakan usai percintaan yang menyesakkan. Matanya menyimpan kegelisahan yang tak terselesaikan. Sepasang mata Dara mengamati pasangan di seberang jalan yang sedang berpelukan di balkon, dari kaca jendela. Tawa mesra seolah dunia hanya milik berdua. Perasaan hampa di dalam dadanya semakin menjadi. Iri dengan apa yang dilihatnya. “Apa dia juga pura-pura puas dengan suaminya?” tanyanya dalam hati. Dara menatap tangannya yang kosong, mengingat kembali bagaimana jari-jarinya sendiri lebih setia memenuhi hasratnya dari pada pasangannya di ranjang. Setidaknya sentuhannya sendiri tak pernah membuatnya merasa sendirian. *** Keesokan harinya, untuk menemukan jawaban dari kegelisahannya, Dara membuat janji temu dengan Fanny, sahabatnya. Matahari siang menyelinap lewat jendela kaca Cafe de Luna. Suara gemericik air mancur di taman tengah mall hampir tenggelam oleh bunyi mesin pembuat kopi dan bisik-bisik percakapan pengunjung lain. Fanny duduk bersebrangan dengan Dara. “Kamu kayaknya harus ke profesional deh, Ra. It's serious! Kamu nggak akan bisa kalau cuma curhat ke aku!” kata Fanny. Dara menatap sedotan panjang di gelasnya, mengaduk-aduk bubble yang sudah habis. Sisa milk tea-nya yang mencair itu seolah menjadi gambaran pernikahannya dengan Arkha. Rasa manis di awal kemudian pudar dan jadi tawar seiring waktu. “Aku bingung, Fan,” ujarnya. Suaranya lirih namun sarat beban. “Tiap kali kayak gini tuh rasanya aneh. Aku juga pengen kayak kamu. Bisa puas. Hasratku bisa ... terpenuhi.” Fanny mendesah pelan, matanya yang tajam menangkap setiap kerutan kekhawatiran di wajah Dara. Dia meraih tangan Dara di atas meja, menggenggamnya erat. “Dengerin aku, Ra. Ini bukan cuma soal kamu nggak klimaks. Ini soal kamu yang merasa sendiri di ranjang tiap kali kalian berhubungan. Itu masalah serius!” ucap Fanny menekankan, suaranya terdengar khawatir. “Kamu harus ke profesional, Ra. Aku punya rekomendasi tempat yang bagus. Ada seorang sex therapist yang terkenal. Kamu dateng ke sana buat dapet solusi, bukan cuma tempat curhat.” Dara mengangkat pandangannya, bertemu dengan mata Fanny yang penuh keyakinan. Ada sebentuk harapan kecil yang mulai menyala di dadanya yang sempat beku. “Terapis ... seks?” gumannya, mencoba mengucapkan kata itu di lidahnya. Rasanya asing, sedikit menakutkan, tetapi juga menjanjikan sesuatu yang selama ini ia rindukan. Sebuah kepuasan untuk hubungan romantis dengan suaminya. “Iya,” sahut Fanny meyakinkan. “Itu bukan aib, Ra. Itu sama kayak kamu periksa ke dokter kalau sakit gigi. Coba kamu bayangin, kamu bisa belajar bukan cuma soal tubuh kamu sendiri, tapi juga cara komunikasiin yang kamu inginkan ke Arkha.” Dara menarik napas dalam, lalu menghembuskannya perlahan. Sebuah harapan kecil akhirnya terlihat di matanya yang biasanya pasrah. “Iya deh,” katanya, sambil memainkan ujung sedotan. “Nanti ... nanti aku coba omongin sama Arkha.” “Iya, Ra. Ini serius. Kamu harus pikirin saran aku kalau mau hubungan kalian di ranjang bisa balik harmonis. Percaya, deh!” Fanny terus membujuknya. Namun di balik kata-kata yang terucap dari bibirnya itu, sebuah pertanyaan menggelitik di benaknya. Bagaimana cara menyampaikan hal seserius itu pada suami yang selalu ‘selesai’ lebih dulu, saat mereka berada di dalam permainan ranjang mereka? “Terapis … seks? Apa aku harus mencobanya?” ***Ara's heart pounded as she stared at the feed of the top-floor corridor. Ronan was locked in it with Kayla, but he wasn't really fighting back—just blocking, deflecting, absorbing hit after hit. It was brutal to watch. Kayla had player speed and precision on her side. Ronan had nothing but training, instinct, and stubbornness. Every block cost him something, and he still wouldn't draw his gun on her.She was so locked onto that feed she almost missed what Silas found on the second monitor."Ara, look!" he said, pointing. "The other four didn't stay with Kayla. They went around Ronan while she kept him busy—they're heading down the residential hall!"Her eyes snapped to the feed. Four armed VBNI operatives, moving fast, heading straight for the suite where most of the civilians were holed up.She opened the comms. "Daniel! Dain! Four agents just cleared the stairwell—they're coming right for you!"Inside the suite, the room went cold. Daniel didn't hesitate. He moved the families back
At the front entrance, Dinklage shifted behind a concrete pillar, sneering at Maksim across the way.“Hey, kid,” he said, eyeing his stance. “You ever actually fired a gun before? Killed anyone? Because right now you look like you’re waiting for a bus.”Truth was, there was nothing wrong with how Maksim was standing—not by Ronan’s read on it, anyway.Ronan turned and gave Dinklage a look sharp enough to strip paint. “Dinklage. If jokes are all you’ve got instead of focus, go join a circus. Maybe that arm’ll get you a laugh out there.”Dinklage’s smirk dropped fast, jaw tightening, teeth grinding audibly. Before he could snap back, static crackled through the wall speaker.Silas’s voice came through, dry as ever. “You two can flirt after this is over. Eyes on the glass.”Up in the control room, Silas leaned over the console beside Ara, who’d pulled every camera feed—street, hallway, aerial—up on the wall monitors in high definition.“Can you lock onto targets straight from your hea
Daniel walked over to Ronan, who sat hunched at the corner of the desk, jaw resting on his locked hands, face tight with worry.“Ronan,” Daniel said gently, pulling up a chair. “This Kayla—does she mean something to you?”Ronan sat up slowly, dragging a hand down his face. “She wasn’t just squad, Daniel. She was one of my closest friends. When she disappeared during my last deployment—the one that supposedly took my whole squad—I thought she was dead. I carried that for months. Then she just shows up during our first raid on this place, and now she’s standing next to Vaeden.”Ara watched from across the room, chest aching at the strain in his voice. He was rattled, and she understood why—but with the VBNI already moving on them, they didn’t have room for that right now.She turned to the group. “Everyone, listen. We need to be armed and ready right now. We can’t lean on the automated system alone.”Silas raised an eyebrow from his seat by the console. “In fairness, we haven’t eve
General Vaeden Rickon stood in the center of the dim tactical command room, eyes locked on the satellite feed looping on the wall monitor. Thermal footage showed a single dark-clothed woman tearing through the security of Telenburgh City Hall like she wasn’t even trying.Around him, his deputies and analysts kept talking over each other, panic bleeding into every voice.“She bypassed three firewall nodes in four seconds,” one analyst said, hands shaking as he typed. “Her movement speed doesn’t make sense—she took out a twenty-man defense unit alone.”Vaeden stayed still through all of it. A faint, unsettling smile pulled at his mouth as he watched the loop of Ara clearing the building.“When was this recorded?” he asked, calm, almost bored.“Tonight, sir. About an hour ago,” the lead engineer said, pulling up more feeds. “And our drones caught several transport trucks pulling into the underground docks right after. We’re estimating over a hundred people moved inside.”The deputy gener
Ara POV: The hideout had become a warzone in under two minutes. Three of Elena's players had made it through the lower entrance before Ronan managed to collapse the stairwell, and the fight that followed was loud and ugly and nothing like the clean action sequences she had seen in movies before th
Ara POV: The hideout was not what she expected. She had pictured something grim. Bare concrete, a single flickering light, maybe a bucket in the corner. What she got instead was a gutted storage room three floors underground with actual furniture, a generator humming in the back, and the smell of
Ara POV: "Do you accept your first mission?" "Absolutely not," Ara said out loud, to empty the air, in an empty lot, like a completely sane person. "No. Who even are you? Get out of my head." The voice said nothing for a moment. Then it said, pleasantly and mechanically and with absolutely no re
Chapter 2: The Day Before The End Ara POV: "Ara? Ara, wake up already!" She shot upright, gasping for air. Her hands flew to her throat first. Then her arms. Then her face. She noticed there were no bites, no blood, and no open wounds oozing something dark and wrong. She pressed both palms flat












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