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    His father was a strength–type ability user, chosen to serve as a camp guard in the Middle Ring. He wasn’t as powerful as the ability users here in the arena, but he still stood far above ordinary people.

    At first, he promised his wife and son that once he settled in the Middle Ring, he’d find a way to bring them inside too.

    Later, he admitted he couldn’t get them in. But he said he would at least send them food.

    In Ark Camp Two, children under the age of ten weren’t given daily rations. The camp decided they were useless, not worth feeding, and that their survival was solely their parents‘ responsibility.

    If his father didn’t send food, the boy wouldn’t have anything to eat. His mother barely had enough for herself.

    But not long after, even that stopped.

    The boy asked around and eventually discovered the truth–his father had found another woman. She was also an ability user. They had started a new family in the Middle Ring.

    That woman had a child of her own, and the boy’s father spent his food and effort raising that child instead.

    The boy grew up overnight. He realized all he had left was his mother.

    He began hustling on the streets, scamming and begging to survive, swearing that no matter what happened, he would never turn to his father again.

    But then his mother fell ill.

    For days, he struggled with himself before finally deciding to beg his father for help.

    It took everything he had–pleading with people, pulling strings–until atst he managed to see his father outside the city walls.

    He couldn’t even describe how he felt in that moment. He just threw himself at the man’s legs and cried.

    His father listened to his story in silence, then brought him home for a full meal. He gave the boy more food to take back to his mother and told him to wait. He promised to find a doctor and bring them into the Middle Ring once everything was arranged.

    For a little while, the boy believed. He thought, maybe, his father was still his father.

    He waited, and eventually his father dide. He took both mother and son into the Middle Ring for the very first time.

    He even brought them to the bark entrance of a grand opera house.

    The boy was confused. Was this really where they were supposed to see a doctor?

    Before he could ask, his father collected two huge sacks of grain at the check–in counter. Then, without warning, mother and son were shoved forward, rough hands pushing them inside as though they were

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    livestock.

    The boy tried to call out, but his father only turned once to look at him. In that nce, the boy saw calction, relief at shedding a burden, and the quiet glee of a man who had just secured a fortune in supplies.

    Onlyter did the boy understand what that look meant.

    His father had sold them.

    For a hundred pounds of grain, both mother and son had been traded into the arena as cannon fodder.

    The boy was stunned for a long, long time. His mother broke down, holding him and weeping uncontrobly.

    But he couldn’t shed a single tear.

    He knew crying would change nothing. It was useless.

    Now, he and his mother were pressed to the edge of the group. A zombie dressed in a shredded suit. limping on one leg, bared its blood–red mouth and lunged at them. Its face looked disturbingly like his father’s.

    The boy stepped in front of his sick mother and pulled a stick from his coat.

    “Mom, I’ll protect you.”

    “Shawn!”

    His mother cried out in panic, forcing her weak body forward to shield him with her back.

    Just as the zombie’s ws reached for her, an invisible barrier spread wide across their front.

    The zombie smashed into the Aeroshield with a guttural roar.

    Its grotesque face stopped barely an inch away, bloody saliva dripping from yellowed teeth. But instead of falling, the blood slid sideways along a curved, unseen surface.

    The creature snarled and gnashed at empty air, its jaw muscles straining, but it couldn’t bite down on the people just inches away.

    The boy stood frozen, astonished. Everyone around him stared in disbelief.

    His gaze swept the crowd and finally stopped on the young woman standing before them.

    Theresa stood calm and steady, the Acroshield radiating outward from her. Behind her, every ordinary person was wrapped in its protection

    What a waste it would have been to throw away such strong, willingbor to the zombies.

    If those fools didn’t want them, then she did.

    She would take everyst one of them with her.

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    As the Aeroshield enveloped Theresa and the civilians, the entire arena fell silent. Spectators on the stands were left in shock.

    They could all clearly see it now: a massive, glowing hemisphere of Aeroshield, five yards across.

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