"What do you expect? We survived the initial chaos, that's gotta count for something right?" Akiada replied with a cocky grin. "The madness in the streets weeded out anyone who was too unlucky or unskilled for living in the apocalypse." He moved up to join Baz, motioning for everyone to hurry up.<br/><br/>"Besides, aside from the training we're pretty much on equal footing now anyways - soldiers and civvies, that is. There's no one up higher anymore so it's down to individual skill. No one's gonna come flying in to save us now."