"The last wave is coming, get ready!"
Five days had passed in brutal fighting against the monsters. Since the whole Bulltors force had arrived in the Hiveminds territory, the pace of killing the monsters had accelerated to a breakneck speed.
Of those five days, the most gruelling were the first seventy-two hours, during which John had relentlessly led his friends, the Twelve, and Lanmar's group into constant fighting during the night and good parts of the day.
It had taken every ounce of their strength to take over the yellow monsters' dens. John had destroyed the first two yellow monster dens on that first frantic night. After a brief midday sleep, he returned to crush the third. He was determined not to let a single monster core last beyond the eleventh wave ever again.
By the time the third den fell, he opted to obtain its core rather than hack it, leaving him with two reset cores, precious insurance policies for when they eventually returned to Athanasia.
