All Chapters of Apocalypse: The Substitute Bride's SSS-Rank System: Chapter 11 - Chapter 14

POV AMARA“Inheriting a high-tech bunker means nothing if the base’s electronic brain believes you and your husband are just two more walking corpses.”«Four seconds until fire purge» the flat voice recites through every speaker mounted around the hangar.The four heavy turrets rotate in perfect mechanical unison, their twin barrels locking onto our position. The electric hum of capacitors charging fills the vast steel chamber with a rising, unbearable vibration that settles deep in your bones.Nikolai plants his boots firmly on the grated floor, spreading his armoured arms wide to place himself as a living shield between me and the guns. The dark metallic plating crawls up his neck, hard and seamless against his skin, and every muscle in his back tenses as if he is already bracing to take a direct missile impact.«Three seconds…»“Get behind me, Amara!” he roars through gritted teeth, his jaw clenched tight. “My armour can absorb the first full burst, but the moment they fire, you ha

POV AMARA“There is nothing more satisfying than watching an army of nightmares shatter against a wall of fire that you yourself kindled.”The anti-materiel rifle kicks hard against my shoulder, recoil hitting with the force of a pneumatic piston. The round blazes forth wrapped in a tight spiral of blue plasma and searing white flame, tearing through the air with a low, thunderous crack. One thousand five hundred metres below, it punches straight through the centre of the first Hive Commander’s exposed cerebral mass.The detonation is colossal.That four-armed monstrosity does not simply collapse. Purifying Fire ignites inside it like a white phosphorus charge, spraying a rain of blazing embers that instantly incinerates nearly fifty infected clustered around it. Without the synaptic link holding them together, roughly two thousand infected at the vanguard lose all coordination at once. They stumble blindly into one another, tumbling over the steep roadside embankment and vanishing do