The Endgame Chronicles (by Hugh White) novel Chapter 219

Chapter 219

Heavy snow poured from The sky in thick flakes.

Inside the shelter, the temperature stayed warm and cozy.

The shelter was built to stay cool in summer and warm in winter, and the steel housing outside was made from materials produced by the system, so it handled the cold just fine.

Hayley stood on the second floor tower, looking out over her territory. Par away, the black greenhouses stood steady through the blowing snow. She smiled with genuine satisfaction.

Her base was completely stable through the cold snap.

She came back downstairs and called out toward the yard, “Leonard, Silly, get over here. Time for your bonus.

Robert paused his work. “Boss, my name’s Robert. You can call me Robbie if you want.”

“Robbie sounds awful. Silly sounds better. Silly, come here.” 1

Robert was speechless.

Did Silly really sound any better? And he wasn’t even silly.

“You’re my people, so your year-end bonus is double. You each get two down jackets, two sets of thermal wear, and 100 points. Whatever you want to buy, just talk to Hayz.”

The second Robert heard the word “bonus”, he stopped caring about the nickname altogether. “Okay! Thank you, Boss!” “Thank you, Boss,” Leonard added.

Hayley looked at her two loyal dogs…no, her two brothers-in-arms, with great satisfaction. After giving them a motivational pep talk, she waved them on.

“Go cook. It’s snowing today, so we’re having camp stew. Kill a fresh fish. And make ribs, too!”

“Okay!”

“Okay!”

Once they left, Hayley turned to her 16 dogs and helped each one change into their thick new winter outfit. Then, she headed out with her pack to play in the snow.

Well, the dogs were playing in the snow. Hayley was out there to practice her teleportation.

The dogs, racing around the forest, soon realized something shocking: they couldn’t catch her.

Every time they got close, Hayley blinked out of existence and reappeared several yards away.

They were stunned.

Hayley thought teleporting while walking the dogs was the best thing ever. She practiced again and again, and she slowly figured out how teleportation worked.

First, it burned through mental energy. Every time she teleported, she could feel her mental energy drop.

It was the same type of exhaustion she got after using her full range mental radar for ten straight minutes.

So teleportation consumed mental energy.

Hayley couldn’t help thinking of how Robert once saved over 100 people in her past life. That had to be pure willpower.

+15 Bonus

But Robert’s fumps had always been tiny. She was already clearing io feet easily.

After repeating her jumps over and over, she figured out her current maximum was 13 feet. Whenever she tried pushing past that, she felt a tight, strangling pressure inside her skull.

Like hitting an invisible ceiling.

Hayley wasn’t someone who backed down. The more something blocked her, the more she wanted to smash through it.

She stared at a pine tree 16 feet away and gathered every drop of mental energy into that single point. Her head throbbed like it was splitting open.

Still, she told herself that she couldn’t stop or give in. She aimed for the tree.

Whoosh!

A sharp flash split the air.

The dogs all yelped in confusion as Hayley vanished once more. By the time they caught her scent again, she was already standing under the pine tree 16 feet away.

“Woof, woof, woof!”

Hayley rubbed her throbbing head.

Breaking the limit made her feel like her skull was exploding. It hurt worse than using mental energy to kill zombies.

“I guess my mental energy is still too weak,” she muttered, massaging her temples.

Her next step needed to be strengthening it.

One option was using her gifts constantly. The other was taking evolution serum made from mental-variant zombie cores.

“I’ll ask Base K1 later if they have any mental-variant cores I can buy.” She shook her head. “A 16-foot range is still too weak.”

She had absolutely no idea that if Robert, Liam, or Alex were there watching, they would have collectively passed out from shock.

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