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On the sixth floor, all the survivors heard the terrified screams from downstairs. They huddled in fear, terror 

written on their faces. 

Caden shouted, “Powered humans, hold the rear. Ordinary folks, get to the top floor now. Move!” 

At the shout, ordinary people rushed for the top floor. In the chaos, everyone snatched whatever food was left. Some even threw punches over scraps. 

Someone shouted, “I got these cookies first. Give them back.” 

“Bullshit. They’re mine,” the other person retorted, clutching the package tighter. 

“Damn you. Give me back my pasta,” a third person snapped. 

An old woman clutched a box of pasta to her chest when a burly guy snatched it away. She slumped to the floor, wailing. 

A woman darted through the panicked crowd, eyes wide with terror as she searched desperately, sobbing uncontrollably. 

“My child! Where’s my child? Has anyone seen my child?” she cried, her voice trembling. 

Her child had been separated in the chaos. 

After the madness died down, the sixth floor was deserted, just piles of trash and the last scraps of food looted by the survivors. 

With a quick look, Chloe counted only eight powered humans left: herself, Emily, and six others from Caden’s squad. 

Just then, a flood of people rushed up from downstairs. Caden shouted, “Ordinary people, keep going up. 

Powered humans, stay behind…” 

But no one listened. Everyone was terrified. Faced with a moving mountain of spiders, no one dared stay behind. 

The gunshot finally snapped the powered humans out of their panic. 

“There are only so many floors left. Sooner or later, those spiders will reach the top. What are we supposed to do then?” Caden said. 

He gave Damir a half–smirk. “Damir, weren’t you just boasting about wiping out the spiders? Now look who’s running scared.” 

Damir’s face paled. With a gun aimed at his head, he kept his mouth shut. 

He stood quietly next to Caden, watching in terror as the spiders continued crawling upward. 

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Chloe’s heart raced. “Everyone, be careful. The Spider King is at least a third–level mutant beast.” 

‘How is this possible? It’s only been a month since the apocalypse. Even the first–level mutant beasts are supposed to be rare,‘ she thought, her mind reeling. “This is seriously weird.’” 

“What?” Everyone’s hearts sank. 

They thought, ‘A third–level one? What’s the point of even fighting?‘ 

Despair washed over the crowd, draining the hope from their faces. Some simply gave up, letting the swarm of smaller spiders engulf them without resistance. 

Counting Damir’s crew, there were barely twenty powered humans here, most of them rookies who had only recently awakened. 

That wouldn’t even cover a fraction of what the Spider King demands. 

Only Damir, Caden, and Chloe stood a chance of fighting back. 

The spider swarm had already reached the stairwell between the fifth and sixth floors. Damir quickly summoned an earthen wall, backing away step by step, fear written all over his face. 

“It’s useless! My wall won’t hold…” he yelled, panicked. 

Before he could finish, the earthen wall collapsed instantly under a barrage of spider silk. Damir didn’t hesitate. He turned and sprinted upstairs. 

Caden’s knees nearly buckled. He gulped. “Shit… that thing is lethal.” 

He aimed his gun at the Spider King’s head and fired. The spider dodged in a split second, and then flashed a creepy grin at the crowd, making everyone’s skin crawl. 

A strand of silk shot out, wrapping around Caden before he could react. Panicking, he fired several more shots, but missed every time. 

At the last second, Chloe conjured a dozen ice blades and sent them flying straight into the Spider King’s eyes. 

With a shrill scream, dark red blood gushed from its right eye. 

Caden was slammed to the ground, his pistol skidding to Chloe’s feet. 

She quickly snatched it up, stuffed it into her pocket, and dragged Caden to safety. 

The Spider King, now blind in one eye, fixed its remaining venomous gaze on Chloe, 

Ignoring the pain, it unleashed a barrage of silk, strand after strand, all aimed at her. 

“Everyone, fall back,” Chloe shouted. She moved in a blur, so fast that she left afterimages in everyone’s vision. 

Emily was about to unleash a psychic attack. 

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“Don’t! It’ll backfire on you,” Chloe warned, freezing Emily in place. 

Emily could only stand there, frustrated and helpless. 

As Chloe dodged the Spider King’s attacks, she yelled, “Is anyone here fire–powered?” 

“Anyone fire–powered?” she called again. 

A curvy woman, Mindy Fischer, stepped forward, her voice barely a whisper. “I… I am.” 

Chloe barked at Caden, “Grab that can of diesel from the corner. We need to burn them out.” 

Fire was the only way to deal with a swarm like this. 

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Caden rushed over and grabbed the diesel Chloe had stashed earlier. As Chloe reached for it, a strand of silk shot straight for her heart, missing by a hair. 

A large hand gripped the silk tightly, blood oozing from where it cut into his palm. 

Dustin smiled at her, “I’m a strength–powered human,” he said. 

But the next second, his eyes rolled back and he collapsed. 

The silk was toxic. 

Chloe whipped up a gust of wind, dragging Dustin to safety, while Caden stepped to the stairwell entrance and poured a basin of diesel down onto the spiders below. 

Mindy stepped forward, sparks dancing at her fingertips. She flicked the flames into the swarm. 

Flames roared to life below, crackling and popping, mixed with the tiny, desperate screams of spiders. 

The acrid smell of burning filled the air. 

Luckily, nothing else in the stairwell was flammable, so the building didn’t catch fire. 

Everyone waited anxiously until the flames died down, leaving only a pile of ash on the stairs. 

The Spider King was nowhere to be seen. 

“Where’s the Spider King? Did it burn to death?” Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. 

But Chloe couldn’t shake a bad feeling. 

Before ten seconds passed, that creepy rustling came from below again. More spiders swarmed up, scrambling over each other. 

They packed the entire stairwell, fist–sized spiders piling three feet high, a solid, writhing wall. 

Caden quickly repeated the move, pouring another basin of diesel, and Mindy flicked more flames into the 

horde. 

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Chloe rushed to treat Dustin. It was just a scratch, but the spider’s venom was deadly. 

It took all her effort to extract it. Without pause, she grabbed a core and drained it dry. 

Only three minutes had passed, and Caden was on the verge of collapse. 

Every time they torched a wave, another swarm poured in endlessly. 

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“Damn it. Where are they all coming from? How can there be so many?” Caden cursed, his voice shaking with frustration. 

Chloe was baffled, wondering, “The earthquake hasn’t even hit yet. Why are these things swarming up from underground?‘ 

Mindy’s face was ashen. “What now? I’m out of energy. My fire power’s spent.” 

Caden poured the last of the diesel, lit his lighter, and tossed it into the spider mass. 

“I’m out of diesel too,” he muttered, desperation creeping in. 

They barely had a second to breathe before another wave flooded in, crawling everywhere, filling the stairwell. 

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