Reborn Cave Queen of the End Times novel Chapter 142

Chapter 112 Into the Pods

Before the floodwaters reached them, Leonel gathered everyone together, just in case the surge crested the summit and they needed to shelter inside the survival pods ahead of time.

Autumn sat at the top of the mountain, her binoculars now useless. The naked eye was more than enough to track the long, churning wall of water rolling toward Karthmoor with the force of something ancien and completely indifferent to human survival.

A deep, rushing roar swelled across the distance as the brilliant blue water surged forward in a relentless tide that swallowed everything standing in its path.

The water took Karthmoor’s city center in minutes.

That shattered, ruined city slipped beneath the surface for good, never to see daylight again.

At the shelter entrance, high walls had been thrown up to hold the flood back.

The water split around both sides of the structure and reunited behind it with a thunderous crash that shook the ground underfoot.

Inside, the shelter’s residents pressed together in dense clusters, every single one of them praying with everything they had that the water wouldn’t reach them.

Over at Aurora Base, Beckett had moved everyone to the high ground. They watched from above as the raging water swallowed their former camp, climbed halfway up the slope, and erased every trace of the place they’d lived and worked and trained in.

The water was enormous.

The noise was obliterating.

People had to lean in and shout directly into each other’s ears just to be heard.

That was how fast and how violent the current ran.

Nature never wastes time warning you. It just hits.

Autumn felt the trembling travel up through the mountain and into the soles of her feet.

She genuinely worried whether a mountain hollowed out this thoroughly could hold up against a flood of this scale.

Every second, she half-expected the whole thing to simply come apart beneath them.

If it did, the survival pods were all any of them would have left.

And as if the universe had been listening, the high ground next door convulsed the very next moment.

A massive crack split the air so loud it nearly blew out everyone’s eardrums, and then the entire slope collapsed with a bone-shaking roar, enormous chunks of rock plunging into the floodwater and sending Ailosive bursts of spray skyward on impact.

It went like dominoes after that.

One gone, and then the others followed.

Two more elevated stretches of land crumbled and disappeared into the flood in rapid succession, each collapse sending fresh shudders through the mountain beneath them.

“Are we going to die up here?” someone screamed, voice cracking wide open with panic, completely unable to hold it together.

Nobody answered, because nobody knew the answer.

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