Chapter 88: Valhalla (I)
Book 2. - The Bloody Path of a World King
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Glory City was a massive city nearly four thousand kilometers away from Silent Wind Military Base. It was one of the largest and most borderline cities in Constantine County, near the border. Like all other places, this city was attacked by demonic beasts that rose from the ground in the first days of the apocalypse.
However, unlike other cities across Constantine Country, this place was not full of corpses or broken buildings, and there were currently thousands of people in it, living their lives. Such a sight should inspire hope and thrill in the heart of a better path, yet all the humans in this place were in a state of constant fear and anxiety.
People did their best not to leave their homes, and those who did always walked with their heads down, trying not to draw attention. Something interesting about their wardrobe was a black armband that over 90% of the population wore.
A man named Josef was walking down the street, and he also had a black armband on his arm. Suddenly, he noticed a person coming his way, and as he saw the golden armband on their arm, the man immediately moved to the side and lowered his head, not daring to make eye contact.
Josef’s eyes were filled with fear and apprehension, and he only relaxed once the person with the golden armband walked away. He glanced again at that person, and a feeling of impotence assaulted his heart.
That golden armband was the mark of a Gifted, someone born with unique power, while his black armband was that of someone without a Gift.
Those armbands were essentially a caste system, and those with golden armbands could command and rule over people with black armbands. Such a system would usually incite revolts, especially since those with black armbands were much more numerous, but the world was different now, and one person could kill a hundred.