Grace didn't have time to dwell on the red glowing stone that just got a name through the system's scanning.
The streets were still swarming with the infected and if she stopped to ask 2025 for answers now, she was going to be torn apart in seconds.
She let 2025 take care of the stone while she turned her full attention back to the fight.
It was at that very moment when a low, guttural growl came from behind her. She immediately spun around just in time to see two Beasts charging at her from opposite sides.
One was a wolf Beast. Its fur had burned away, revealing grotesque sinewy muscle underneath. The other was a monstrous stag with jagged antlers that were twisted like sharpened bones. And both creatures were moving fast.
Grace acted on instinct. She dropped to the ground as the wolf Beast made its way to her first. She slid between it's legs, narrowly avoiding its massive, snapping jaws. As she moved, she twisted her body and fired three precise rounds into its underbelly.
