Stronghold In The Apocalypse

Chapter 193: Mutant Hawk (First Half)

A few hours later, Leo and the rest finally met their military escort halfway through the journey back at Manchester City, or now known as Hope 101.

"Leo, how have you been, brother?" Austin greeted Leo the moment he got off from the vehicle he was riding on.

"Oh? Why are you here?" Leo was surprised when he saw Austin coming down the vehicle.

Austin scratched the back of his head, and said, "Y-you're mother, called me back for the time being and at the same time, she wanted me to lead this men for a supply, you know to store more food for winter. Just in case our supplies would be insufficient with the small increase in our numbers everyday"

"You're right, but what about your family then? They are still at Cambridge, right?" Leo held his chin as he talked to Austin.

"Yeah, that's why I'll be going back as soon as we escort you back at Hope. After all, the storage trucks are already fully loaded, so we are already done with collecting supplies" Austin said as he pointed towards the three medium sized storage trucks.

"Come on, let's go then. I don't you missing your wife and daughter that much" Leo laughed while tapping his shoulder.

Leo then ordered for the journey to carry on, and this time Leo sat inside one of the Humvee, with Austin sitting beside him.

"Right, how is your daughter's training so far with her magic?" Leo turned to Austin, asking.

"It's going well but...aren't the kids too young wielding that kind of power?" Austin said, clearly worried about the situation about the kids.

"Yes, but that's the reason why Alex is mostly the one that supervises them, and you shouldn't worry too much, after all, they were taught how to control their abilities and magic first, and there's also Wen Wen, even that brat is really annoying sometimes, he's also incredibly mature and the kids always listen to him except for Jess, that brat. Good thing, there's Olivia to look after them" Leo said as he tried to dispel Austin's worries.

"Right, Olivia, it's really amazing though, that little girly can finally walk!" Austin said while looking at Leo with admiration, after all, he knows that the reason behind Olivia being able to walk is because of the man beside him.

Leo noticed Austin admiring look, but he had a stiff smile on his face, after all, the [System] forgot to tell him that the required [Level 30] meat can't be just any [Level 30] Mutated Beast, but should come from a Mutated Komodo Dragon, probably because of its self regeneration as an innate ability. Which really troubled him for a bit as the [System] doesn't want to provide more information about it, so Leo was forced to make his own hypothesis instead, and with a bit of research, he came to the conclusion that animals that have regenerative abilities even before the Apocalypse, directly fits the target, and luckily, he was right.

"Anyway, I'm tired, wake me up when we get there," Leo said, as he slowly closed his eyes and went to sleep.

"Sure, boss" Austin replied.

*Rumble!*

Leo groggily opened his eyes, he lazily looked around and saw that he was the only person inside the vehicle left, so he immediately got down from the vehicle while rubbing his eyes.

But the moment he stepped out of the vehicle and laid his eyes on the thing in front of them, his eyes widened in shock as he suddenly exclaimed, "Oh shit! Is that a Dragon?"

His soldiers around him are pointing their guns towards it, while Austin on the other hand had already transformed into a [Tiger Beastman].

But when Leo got a clearer look at the creature blocking the road in front of them, "Ohh..it's just a huge bird" his voice was tinged with disappointment.

The creature in front of them is a huge ten meter tall hawk as it used its wings to support his huge body from the ground, as it stared at Leo and his group soldiers, while the civilians had backed up their vehicles into a safe distance to avoid getting in their way in case a battle happens, with the [Dark Warriors] watching over them.

"Anyway..why is it just watching us and how the heck did a flying mutated beast suddenly appeared from out of nowhere?" Leo turned to Austin for answers.

"Uhmm..it just suddenly dropped down from the sky" Austin replied back, as he pointed towards the sky.

[Mutant Hawk

Level: 30

Abilities: Steel Wing, Gale]

"That's weird, this feathered beast wasn't here before. How come its only appearing now?" Leo said as he strode over and stood in front of the group while the mutated beast in front of them, watched his every action, as Austin cautiously followed him and stood just a step behind Leo.

"Why is there a flying mutated beast here? When they have been absent since a few months ago" Leo said, as he didn't care that the feathered beast in front of them is now glaring towards him.

"Boss, what do we do with this guy? It's not attacking, but being watched by it creeps me out" Austin said as he took a step back.

"Leave it to me, I'll take care of it" he said, but then he did something which looked cool but at the same time absurd.

*Screech!*

The Mutated Beast Hawk suddenly roared in anger!

"Eh? It seems It could understand the gesture" with his middle finger directed towards the mutated beast, Leo was dumbfounded because he didn't expect that the beast would actually understand the meaning behind the gesture!

*Rumble!*

"Disperse!" Leo yelled as his soldiers immediately dispersed out of the way, as the mutated beast actually charged towards them on its feet, as there was still a distance of two hundred meters between them, the soldiers had the time to move the military vehicles out of the way, all thanks to the mutated beast trying to charge at them using its two feet where it could have just flew towards them using it speed.

"Get out of the way!"

"Move! Move!"

*Screech!*

"Raah!" Leo roared, as his body started undergoing the transformation for his [Beast Form]!

*Swish!*

The mutated hawk beast leapt towards him, with its beak thrusting towards Leo, planning to ram through him and kill him.

"Leo! Dodge!"

"Boss!"

Emily and the other survivors yelled at him in horror, as they already imagined Leo getting skewered, but the soldiers in the other hand are still composed as they already pulled out their own combat weapons as they prepared to help in a moments notice!

"Not today!" Leo grinned as he put his hands in front of him, he's like the boyfriend that was about to catch his girlfriend that jumped to him for a hug, but the circumstances for Leo this time is that he won't be getting a hug from a girl!

*BAM!*

"Ahhh!" Leo roared as he caught the giant monster beak in his arms, as he slid backwards for a good one hundred meters.

"Ahhh! That hurt you bastard!" Leo yelled as the veins in his arms bulged as he lifted the huge mutated beast, that it even made the latter screech in surprise!

*Boom~!*

And in a suplex, Leo forcefully slammed the monster on the ground, causing dust to fly everywhere, creating a natural smokescreen around them.

"Welcome to Suplex City, motherf*cker!" Leo angrily cursed as he repeatedly slammed the Mutant Hawk on the ground.

Leo immediately jumped away and the moment he did that, a shadow flew towards the skies from the dust cloud as it immediately flew away while screeching angrily...maybe.

"Tsk! What a tough bastard" Leo clicked his tongue, he felt a bit disappointed as he even had the thought of taming it and the thought of having an aerial mount just makes him excited, sadly, it managed to flee from him.

But the survivors on the other hand, are slack jawed in disbelief when they saw Leo catching that huge monster and then slamming it on the ground for numerous times, and most of all, he wasn't even injured in the least!

"What a monster" Fin said as he stared at Leo's back, feeling that his decision to follow this man was right.

"So he's that powerful, no wonder" Derek muttered as he finally realized why Leo wasn't even bothered about the zombies surrounding him that day, the moment they stumbled upon him.

"He's really amazing, pity, he's not interested in me," Emily sighed, as she felt that this big fish got away from her grasp.

"Come on! Let's hit the road!" Leo reverted back to his human form as he yelled at them.

The soldiers immediately put away their weapons as they looked at Leo with glowing eyes, full of admiration and respect.

*Vroom!* *Vroom!* *Vroom!*

The group gathered again as they once again hit the road towards Hope 101, and the survivors riding at the back of the convoy looked at the craters beside the road with eyes full of shock and amazement as they had never seen someone as powerful as Leo before, who could lift that kind of a huge monster with just a little bit of effort.

"The boss ish really amazing, right? He beat that monster like it was nothing! I want to be like him when I grow up!" a little boy said, with shining eyes, full of admiration.

"Hmmp! He's a baddie though! I don't like him!" a nearby little girl snorted in displeasure towards the boy, it was that little child who stopped Leo from killing Daryl and the rest before, and she's called Nicole.

"Bleh! You're just jealous because no one likes you!" one of the kids stick his tongue towards her.

"Yeah, no one likes you, because you're ugly" a little girl commented from the side, clearly jealous with the tone of her voice.

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