Warning:

- This story portrays mental illnesses such as depression, anxiety, suicide, and self-harm.

- This story contains violence, gore, strong language, sexual themes, drugs, and adult humor

- This chapter contains, situations such as sexual abuse, rape and child abuse

Reader Discretion is advised.

Foreword:

Hello, I'm GameMaker8YT. The author of this light novel series. This is my first light novel and I apologize in advance for my inexperience. I hope you enjoy it. This is the first chapter of the second volume enjoy : D

Written by GameMaker8YT

Cover by: Rexxch

Houston, United States, 2021 AD. 

“Draconus Lieutenant, have you retrieved the package” the assistant says, “not yet, something seems fishy here, why is there no one in the outer defense? they should’ve predicted that we would defeat them in the center, but why is no one in the outer?” Draconus says. 

As Draconus and his Xethain squad are standing on the battlefield, a siren starts to alarm. “What the hell, why is there a siren?” Draconus thinks to himself. Suddenly helicopters start flying to the north. “What the fuck is going to happen?” Draconus says. 

Ten nuclear bombs suddenly start simultaneously dropping on the biggest cities on earth. Draconus has no time to think so he puts himself on top of the package, as the bombs hit the earth. 

The earth became a wasteland, with very few places remaining intact.  

The population of Earth was drastically reduced to only about 10 million people. But now that the earth’s habitable places were practically destroyed, the 1^st Umbran war was over, but at what cost. 30 years went by, and it is now the year 30 AU (After Umbran). 

New creatures started to appear which were then called Xethains by the surviving people. After the Xethains, 5 gigantic and powerful creatures appeared along with the most powerful of them all, the so-called Sentinels. 

It is believed that when the Sentinels awake the Xethains started to awaken along with them. There was no way to defeat them, everyone was disarmed and afraid. After a few months, a traveler named Armanda found a mysterious package hiding beneath a corpse, Armanda rolled over the corpse and noticed there was a patch with a name on it, it read “Draconus”. 

Armanda took the package out, “What the hell is something like this doing on the battlefield, must be something important if that man put his life on the line to save this” Armanda says. Armanda opened the package slowly not knowing what could come out. 

A small blue particle cube, with a green outer translucent layer, appeared. 

Not knowing what would happen Armanda touched the cube, blue and green energy started to flow around Armanda who started screaming in pain, regretting touching the cube. After a minute, the pain stops, Armanda looks at his hands to see if there was any blood or injury. 

“What the fuck was that? I don’t feel anything different, but I know something definitely happened” Armanda says. Armanda started walking, as he walks he encounters a large creature, it was a Xethain. The Xethain rushed toward Armanda, Armanda with a scared expression on his face tries to block the Xethain with an attack, but then a large scythe chops off the head of the Xethain, Armanda drops to the floor, “what… what just happened?” Armanda says out loud. 

The scythe approaches Armanda as it starts to fly around him in a circle, it finally settles floating on Armanda’s right side. 

Armanda starts to glow with blue particles flowing all around him. “What am I?” Armanda asks himself. Armanda starts to run in fright, suddenly his scythe goes below his feet and starts to fly in the direction he was heading, as Armanda is standing on the scythe flying. “

Woah… Woah, what is happening” Armanda says. The scythe flies Armanda throughout the horizon as he passes the dirt grassy plains with plenty of hills surrounding him, it seems like he is on top of the world almost like a dream. 

As he flies, he sees all the destruction that happened below him, like he is a God. Armanda lands in his town and the scythe deconstructs itself in particles that flow into his body, he goes inside the only bar remaining in the area called “St. Brewery”. 

Some reconstruction has happened since the apocalypse and now there are multiple villages and some towns spanned towards the land, but most of them are quite barren with only houses and some facilities. Armanda enters the bar and looks around. 

A man standing next to a table full of men bidding money on women, “So whad’ya think about this one, nice brunette, large tits and I can’t tell ya but she is really fucking tight” the sex slave seller says. “Oppai!” all the drunk men say, “I bid 100 credits”, “I bid 110 credits”, “I bid 200 CREDITS” the men start bidding. “Jesus! never thought the sex slave market would be so popular so soon, maybe I should get on that hahah nah” Armanda thinks to himself. Armanda approaches the bartender, “Hey, Rico come on, serve me a hmm, Red Scarlet! 3 shots!”, “Coming up, why are you drinking this time, Armanda?” Rico says.

“Now hear me out----” Armanda says while drinking. “I think I might’ve found the jackpot that could get us outta of this shithole, we can move to the fucking capital” Armanda says, “That’s what you’ve been saying since we were kids, at this point, I really don’t care anymore, and how are you already drunk you’ve only had 2 shots!?” Rico says, “I told ya I have low tolerance, but for real I’m not lying this time” Armanda exclaims. 

“Show me then, give me some actual proof this time okay buddy?” Rico says sarcastically. 

Rico picks up a glass and starts to dry it with a towel while walking to the kitchen. “Give me one second, I’ll show ya it” Armanda says. Armanda walks outside and tries to activate the scythe and his powers again, but nothing works, no sparks start to fly nothing. “goddammit work!” Armanda yells. 

Everyone in the bar seems startled and concerned for poor Armanda, Armanda was quite a well-known citizen from his village as he’s been in lots of trouble in his childhood from theft, forgery, and assault. 

But he was a fan favorite of the village. Armanda goes back inside the bar and shuts the door, “Hey Rico!” Armanda exclaims, Rico walks towards Armanda, “Yeah, do you have your…proof yet?” Rico says sarcastically.

“Kay kay, hear me out, I swear, I actually fucking had it but it just won’t come out, I tried but it won’t work, believe me” Armanda says, while drinking another shot. 

“What even was it you were trying to…show me?” Rico says. “I went out scavenging and found this package, so I opened it and sort of like a magical cube came out and went inside me, then suddenly I got this huge ass scythe that could even fly!” Armanda says pitching his proof to Rico. 

“That’s…bullshit, there is no such thing as magical weapons that can float you up in the sky, we live in a reality where nothing magical ever happens, or have you forgotten that?” Rico asks Armanda, “But I swear, it’s true, we can get out of this shithole and finally liberate our parents, and become heroes in the military” Armanda suddenly fell asleep while speaking, “That man, I swear always thinks we are going to make it but, at least he actually has the guts to try and make it” Rico says. 

Rico picks up Armanda off his shoulder and leans him on himself, walking him to his room in the bar. “And you guys, over there bidding on sex slaves, if you’re gonna do that, do it at another place, we can’t have illegal gatherings happening in the bar” Rico says before entering the room. 

Rico sits down on Armanda’s bed, “But for real, will we ever get to meet our parents again?”. 12 years ago me and Armanda were only 8 years old, and suddenly, the capital sent a bunch of soldiers to come to our in-construction village,  they took a lot of people saying they were going to work wonderful jobs and get paid a hefty salary. But in reality, they were getting drafted into the military, and the women were used as maids and shit. They took mine and Armanda’s parents away, and ever since that day, Armanda has always been getting into trouble just to get me and him outta here and go to the capital to liberate them and become heroes in the military, well that’s what he said.

The next day, 

“Shit! What the hell happened yesterday?” Armanda asks himself while waking up. “Oh right, I still need to find proof to show Rico that what I found was real” Armanda says. Armanda gets out of bed and goes through the door, “Hey Rico---” Armanda says. 

He sees a bunch of soldiers taking Rico into their carriage, Rico looks at Armanda with tears coming out of his eyes, “Rico!” Armanda yells while running towards the carriage. 

“Hey, you fuckers stop the damned carriage” Armanda yells, the carriage stops, and Armanda approaches them, “Hey! Where are you guys taking these people?” Armanda asks with an angry expression, “We will be taking them to the capital and their services will be used there” A masked soldier explains to Armanda. “Okay, then, take me with you!”

P.S.

Thank you for reading the 12th chapter of the "Project Sentinel" light novel series. The new volume of Project Sentinel will now start publishing weekly.