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Well, well, well

Author: Kosi Antonia
last update publish date: 2026-09-08 05:47:08

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
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  • Reborn in the Apocalypse: My Level-Up System    Well, well, well

    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

  • Reborn in the Apocalypse: My Level-Up System    Hello, Ronan

    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

  • Reborn in the Apocalypse: My Level-Up System    chapter 48

    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

  • Reborn in the Apocalypse: My Level-Up System    chapter 47

    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

  • Reborn in the Apocalypse: My Level-Up System    chapter 46

    Ronan stood near the marble entrance of City Hall, eyes tracking the crowd as he kept the line of incoming civilians moving. He was hungry and running on fumes after hours of nonstop work, but years of military discipline kept him upright and steady. Nothing showed on his face.A few yards off, Freddy—the only teenager among the rescued players—kept watching him, wide-eyed, until Ronan caught it and gave him a quick wink.That was enough to get the kid walking over.“What’s your name, kid?” Ronan asked, voice low.“Freddy,” he said, adjusting his oversized jacket. “Freddy Clifford.”Ronan’s eyebrows went up. He knew that name. The Cliffords were one of the wealthiest, most connected families in the country, with fingers deep in both corporate and military circles. He’d actually crossed paths with the patriarch, Denzel, once, during a joint security briefing years ago.“Denzel’s family?” Ronan asked, studying the boy. “I’ve met him. As far as I knew, he only had three kids.”Freddy let

  • Reborn in the Apocalypse: My Level-Up System    Let the Apocalypse Begin!

    Inside the cramped motel suite, Ara and most of the crew—everyone except Daniel, Silas, and Ronan—sat huddled around a flickering television with a few of the rescued players. The static cleared into a live broadcast from NexMind’s public event at City Hall.On screen, a man, one of their own, stood behind a sleek lectern, his voice was smooth and practiced as he talked about humanity’s “next evolutionary step.”Dinklage crossed his arms, his mechanical wrist clicking with frustration. “I can’t believe we’re sitting here watching a press conference when we should be storming that building and smashing every camera in the room.”Dain shook his head, adjusting his glasses. “It wouldn’t change anything, Dinklage. The man they’re about to announce isn’t really the first subject. He’s a prop, something to sell the story to the public. NexMind’s almost certainly already run this serum through hundreds of their own people across the region. In a very real sense, the apocalypse already st

  • Reborn in the Apocalypse: My Level-Up System    Telenburgh 2050

    Ara Pov: “Run faster, they're getting close” A voice called out in front of Ara, as she jumped over the huge crack on the ground, her knee almost giving out, but she kept her stance. Her foot caught the edge of the concrete crack and she stumbled, her body lurching forward. The ground came up at he

  • Reborn in the Apocalypse: My Level-Up System    The Traitor in the Room

    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

  • Reborn in the Apocalypse: My Level-Up System    The File That Should Not Exist

    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

  • Reborn in the Apocalypse: My Level-Up System    Player 001

    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

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