Path of the Berserker

Wind blasted into the interior of the drop skiff as the reentry dome retracted from overhead, forcing us to shield our eyes as we went into freefall.

Hue Zen’s largest content loomed before us like a giant map, now pocketed with burning impact craters which now denoted the major cities destroyed by the trio of Lesser Deity Realm cultivators tearing the shit out of the planet.

I gritted my teeth as the wind pressed into my face, uneasiness building in my gut. I was heading into some messed up shit, but I couldn’t let my emotions get the best of me. For better or worse, I had to keep it together for the sake of my team.

“Deployment in one minute!” I shouted above the hurricane howl of the wind.

My platoon was spread around the edges of the skiff, each one of us grabbing hold of one of the smaller defense skiffs, preparing to leap over the side. There were two or three of us to each skiff and I was teamed up with Juk Sui and Dim Wei.

Jei Su Long was in the center of the main skiff, alongside the pilot now guiding us through a thin layer of cloud. As we headed towards our predetermined drop zone, I could just see the darkness of night cutting the ‘map’ of the world in two halves before us. Where the craters trailed huge plumes of smoke on the light side of the planet, they burned like erupting volcanoes in the dark.

That’s where we were headed.

The dark side.

Literal Hell on Earth.