Volume 39 - Safezone Compromised

## Chapter 457 - Gnayiliv 5X

Karim was walking through the streets of Gnayiliv 5X, the tenth world orbiting the fifth star in this quinary star system. Supposedly, this planet was the first to gain sentient life after the mysterious Ancients' disappearance from the galactic stage billions of years ago, and that meant that these aliens, the Gnayiliv, probably had technology so advanced that they were basically gods, so he needed to be careful what he did around here if he wanted to get rid of the Medical Research Center that was here, but first he'd need to destroy the Virus Destruction Tower, or perhaps...turn it over to his advantage.

## Chapter 458 - Reencounter

"Karim!" Jack shouts, as Karim turns around to face him and his friends.

"You sure are quick." Karim remarks. "Healed up already?"

Jack hesitated for a moment, but pointed his gun at the supersoldier and fired...only for a laser from a tower to disintegrate the bullet!

"Wh...wha..." Jack breathes.

"Seems these guys don't like fighting." Karim says, as he turns around to keep walking towards the entrance.

"You're not getting away that easily!" Jack roars, running at Karim as the others follow close behind, Karim smirking and throwing a knife at Jack, only for another laser tower to disintegrate said knife.

## Chapter 459 - Breaking In

As Karim walked over to the entrance, he noticed a panel on the side that seemed to be for scanning. Without hesitation, he merely punches it, destroying the panel and causing the door to open, as he walks in, his hand regenerating.

The others follow as close behind as they can, as multiple of the jellyfish-and-muscle-like Gnayiliv follow behind *them*, carrying laser rifles with them as they floated!

"W-we're on your side!" Kasper shouts, as the five make it inside the building as well, and see multiple Gnayiliv with their heads caved in, and sparks flying from another destroyed panel.

## Chapter 460 - Inside the Tower

Karim was wrestling with a Gnayiliv, who had its tendrils wrapped around his arms and neck, and was attempting to strangle him, before he headbutts it to bash its head in, and then uses its corpse to punch through the next door.

As he prepared to walk in, he turned around to see the team and the Gnayiliv guards behind them, who fired at them with their weapons, Jack, Kasper and the Gnayiliv with their laser guns, Andromeda and Candice with their Psychic Weapons, and Shunsuke with his Winchester.

Karim simply allows himself to be hit by all the attacks, another smile on his face, as he is sent into that corridor.

## Chapter 461 - The Chase Continues

Karim is quick to fire heat-seeking rockets at the Gnayiliv with a double barrel, before tossing it aside, catching Shunsuke's punch, and flipping Shunsuke through the next door, shaking the area!

He blocks Jack's first punch with his forearm and catches his next with his hand, letting Jack kick him in the knee as he then knees him in the stomach and tosses him into a wall, catching a missile from Kasper and throwing it to the ground between him and the rest to act as a smoke bomb, briefly disorienting Andromeda and Candice, who coughed a bit before Kasper dissipated the smoke.

## Chapter 462 - Nearing the Core

Karim walked through the door he had thrown Shunsuke into, and saw that the end of that hallway was the core of the tower. He smiled, and walked towards it, casually blocking Jack and Shunsuke's punches, as well as dodging Andromeda and Candice's Psychic Weapons, which shocked them briefly, before he fires at them all, and they dodge or catch his bullets.

He leaps backwards, and when he landed, he was in the core, and looked around as they all entered with him, and unlike him, who kept his composure, they all looked on at what they saw in complete awe at what it was.

## Chapter 463 - Desperate Times

"So this is it..." Karim remarks. "...I wonder where the control panel for this thing is."

"You're not getting it!" Shunsuke shouts, throwing another punch at Karim, who sidesteps it before blocking Shunsuke's kick with both arms, sliding back in the process, and then dodging another punch from him as he proceeds to punch Shunsuke in the gut.

"Argh!" Shunsuke grunts, being sent sliding back himself as Karim sees the control panel and walks towards it, one of his hands in one of his pockets.

"No you don't!" Kasper yells, firing the disintegration beam at Karim, who dodges it and lets it be destroyed by a laser tower.

## Chapter 464 - Desperate Measures

Jack is quick to rush at Karim, who once more simply blocks his punches and kicks with his forearms, before sidestepping another punch and elbowing Jack in the back to send him to the ground, then kicking him into a crate.

"GAH!" Jack screams, holding his chest in agony as Andromeda violently slashes at Karim, who dodges each and every one with ease.

"Slow. Sloppy. Sad." Karim taunts, before grabbing one of Andromeda's horns and snapping it off as if it were a trig.

"AAAAARGH!!!!" She shrieks, before being kicked back and sliding next to Candice. Sunsuke attempts to punch Karim again, who dodges...and allows the punch to hit part of the control panel!

## Chapter 465 - Different Kind of Virus

Shunsuke looked on in horror at the sparking, smoking, very much destroyed control panel, as Karim chuckles, and plants some sort of drive into another one.

Then, suddenly, a magenta eye formed on every screen, and the central glowing orb, the core, turned off, and floated down beneath the ground. And then, Karim cuts his own wrist with a knife, and throws that knife into the center, where the laser towers blast it!

"Ah...the virus has now been aerosolized." The terrorist remarks. "I'd say that if any of ya wanna live, you'd better get out of here. It's already too late for this world."

"IT'S NEVER TOO LATE!" Jack roars, pointing his gun at Karim as Andromeda holds him back.

"We need to get out of here and warn Rosenstock!" Shunsuke shouts, wincing in pain. "There's nothing we can do here now that he's made it so anyone who breathes this air can be infected!"

Jack turns towards Karim, who merely looked at him with a small, smug smile, and glares at him. But eventually, he gave up and decided to retreat.

They failed this mission too...and that meant...they were no longer a part of the military.

"...Mission accomplished." Karim says to a communicator. "Kazuyuki's schoolbooks sure came in handy."

## Chapter 466 - Alerting the King

"...I see...I'll tell everyone else." Rosenstock replies, as he cuts the transmission between himself and Reuben.

"What's going on?" Grimwald asks. "...Karim has managed to infect three worlds that we know of by now." Rosenstock answers. "One he turned into a panspermia of disease, the other...was the leading researcher into a cure."

And then, he turns towards Grimwald, his expression more serious than ever before.

"Right now..." Rosenstock says. "...We are in a galactic crisis."

## Chapter 467 - Alerting the Council

Rosenstock walked into a massive spherical room, and stood in the middle of it, as holograms of what looked like a massive number of people from vastly different species appeared around him.

"What is it that you have to say, King Rosenstock?" An elderly, bearded man with pointed ears and closed eyes demands.

"A supersoldier from centuries ago, Karim Kouri, is working with a former scientist of ours to infect the galaxy with what is, essentially, a zombie plague." Rosenstock explains.

"A zombie plague?" A royal-looking, deep-voiced male Socqreath in robes and armor demands. "Absurd."

"I would have once agreed." Rosenstock replies. "But it seems that even I don't know everything there is to know, or see everything there is to see. It seems...that there *are* some things that can get past me."

"If we're not gonna speak in dramatic tones," Sanjuro Akibara inquires. "what exactly are we dealing with?"

"The virus seems to be compatible with, that is able to infect, all forms of life, no matter how simple or complex." Rosenstock answers. "I have my top scientists working on a cure, but so far we've only found sterilization and treatment methods, that only seem sixty percent effective at best."

"We did lose contact with Gnayiliv 5X earlier..." A large figure wearing full body armor remarks. "We should put the entire galaxy on high alert, and under heavy surveillance."

"We cannot allow this disease to spread." The elderly man states. "Even...if it means eradicating the nations the disease is found in."

## Chapter 468 - Army of the Undead

A number of targets were fired through, as a number of zombies were holding the rifles, wearing combat armor, Arthur looking proudly over them.

"Wait til they see that our zombies aren't shambling morons." Karim says jokingly, having returned from Gnayiliv 5X.

"Soon, will be a new generation of equality and immortality." Arthur remarks. "All shall become one, all were always meant to be one."

"Cool." Karim replies, looking on at zombies learning to fly planes and drive tanks. "Glad to see this base of Kazuyuki's get some renovation. Guy was obnoxious, but definitely smart."

Arthur smiled, as he knew that soon...hatred would end, as would fear and death.