Rebirth: 100 Days Before Doomsday

The winds that once howled through the ruins of Country B were now carrying different sounds - steel striking stone, commands echoing across empty plains, and even the soft pulse of spirit energy thrumming through the earth.

Where five ghost cities once stood, swallowed by time and beasts, a new vision had taken root under Grace's unyielding hand.

The Blue Moon City.

That's what the people around the world had come to know this new safe zone. The name was not just because of the stunning blue colored stone Grace had embedded into the central tower to power the city-wide defense grid, but because it represented something rare, luminous, and full of quiet promise in the endless horrors of the apocalypse.

This city, it was the beginning of another new era.

The redevelopment program launched the very next day the barrier was erected.

The first task was simple in theory but far massive in scale - to clear the land.

If they wanted to build a new city from the very scratch, then they needed to tear down the old ruins that were cluttering the cities.

Every single building, tower, bridge, or alleyway had suffered catastrophic structural damage during the past nine and a half years of apocalypse. So, instead of salvaging half-broken ruins, Grace made the call to tear it all down.

And to quickly wrap up the task, it was carried out by using superpowers and elemental powers instead of doing it with machines or manually.

Warriors with earth elemental power manipulated the structures to crumble them down into heaps. Then, instead of getting rid of the debris, Grace decided to reuse them for construction.

Every pile of debris was filtered. Steel was magnetically drawn and melted down by fire wielders. Stone and concrete were broken and reinforced through vibration manipulation before the former was fused to create big rocks for construction.

Glass fragments were collected and fused into new sheets. Even the wires and plastic remnants were sorted using psychic precision and telekinetic storage.

Hundreds of men and women worked in shifts. Still, even with superpowers, the process of demolishing and separating took a full month. By the end of it, the entire expanse of the new safe zone, which was formerly the five separate cities, became a single, unified stretch of flat, empty land, filled with sorted resources.

There were no trees. No buildings. No signs of life. Only possibility for the construction of a better future.

And that's where the true vision began.

Grace didn't hand off the redevelopment to anyone else, but personally supervised every detail. She and 2025 worked to create a 3D model of the new city. It was an ambitious design of mixed urban and green layouts. She made sure to create a balance between security, sustainability, and quality of life.

And once the model was passed by the community heads, plots were designated - apartment buildings, underground bunkers for emergency purposes, water stations, greenhouses, vertical farms, hydroponics systems, solar panels, wind turbines, hospitals, warehouses, convenience stores, primary and junior schools, warrior academies, restaurants and cafés, parks, roads, orchards, perimeter defense, tunnels, community buildings, workshops, and even a library.

And lastly, a towering Headquarter Building which would serve as the city's nerve center, housing both a warriors wing and a command center.

And at the very heart of this building was sitting the Blue Moon Core. It was a Spirit Tower built around a Level 10 Spirit Stone that was created by fusing stones that carried elemental powers of fire, earth, water, air, shadow, and lightning.

This stone was the most powerful item in existence of their universes after the two jades.

Construction began with a roar.

If the first phase of the city's construction program was tiring, then the second and third phase literally took everyone by surprise.

Building an entire city of such size and that too with such requirements, was not an easy task. But no one stepped back, instead, everyone was looking forward to completing the construction work and witness the birth of the Blue Moon City.

It took six long months for the city to complete its construction, and by the dawn of the tenth year, Blue Moon opened its door for residents.

On the other hand, Grace continued to shift her attention among other important matters as well, this included - spending time with her boyfriends, focusing on her training, and training the warriors as they continued with the hunts.

Every now and then, she also visited the research lab to know about the recent updates on the ongoing researchs.

After the successful vaccine discovery for mutated plants, Professor Neil and his team was working on improving the previously created vaccine for Infected Beasts.

But so far, there had been nothing for either Shadow or Monster Beasts.

According to Dr. Kian and Professor Neil's theories, despite the continuous failures, there was still a possibility to find a vaccine for the Shadow Beasts as they were the result of a virus as well.

However, the same was unlikely to happen with the Monster Beasts as those creature were born the way they were, instead of evolving into their current forms.

This only confirmed that the Monster Beasts were needed to be eradicated, at least the stronger ones that were imposing the greatest threat to humanity.

As time continued to pass, Grace also continued to grow stronger.

It was on one particular cold night beneath a violet sky, that she made another breakthrough.

Her energy core cracked, grew stronger, and then rebuilt itself. The four Level 6 Spirit Stones embedded in her being - Red, Blue, Green, and Purple - resonated together, igniting a chain reaction that surged through every fiber of her body.

She was now at Rank SSS.

This was once again something she had considered unachievable, and yet, here she was.

She was becoming something beyond any title, and if 2025 was correct with its predictions on her growing strength, then there was a high possibility that Rank SSS wasn't her last breakthrough.