Over the next few days, Ethan and his people made a full sweep through several nearby countries.
Some still had compounds hanging on.
Some had been completely erased by the apocalypse.
And some didn't have compounds at all… but still had humans alive.
Those survivors were scattered in small pockets, hiding wherever they could, dodging zombies and scraping together a life day by day.
Seeing all that side by side, it only made one thing clearer:
The Atlas Federation was doing the best out of everyone.
In these last few days, aside from the Void Realm creatures they'd run into in the Seorin Republic, they didn't encounter any more. The later countries had none.
They did find a few more Awakened, though. Ethan took their abilities and transferred them onto members of the Fallen Star Guard.
It wasn't that Ethan was unusually ruthless.
