It was midnight and Hans was striving through the neighborhood. Making sure to take with him every abnormal in every house.
It was quite the sad sight that was presented to him.
In most houses it was obvious for him that the family gathered in one spot, mostly inside the cellar packed with water and food.
Fate didn't like them. Most families were 4-5 people.
The norm of adults that build their house and family here were people who through sweat tears and blood created their wealth. They were headstrong people.
Their children were second generation rich kids to often pampered to be weaklings.
As such the picture found by Hans was two adults turned abnormal but always heavily crippled with prior injuries.
They were all killed by their own small children they loved so much.
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For Hans it was a blessing in disguise as it allowed him a clearing speed of 2 houses in 10 minutes.
Also it took him some time getting into the routine.
It was around 0:30 am when Hans discovered his first clear house and reached his new top speed.
He didn't know if the family was out or they all survived and fled.
While later was more likely as he still found a shelter room. Just that some resources were missing.
Hans had cleared 22 Houses till now and his harvest was an average of 4 crystals for 20 houses.
He had only met level 1 abnormals.
He had gotten:
* 8 Mana
* 16 Strength
* 22 Agility
* 14 Endurance
* 20 Perception
+ 3 damage crystals from one house. Looking at the scene it was likely a pump gun that blasted away the Head. Too much force destroys the crystal and makes it unusable and lose halve its worth selling.
Hans didn't know what to think about this Discovery.
He never planed on using guns. But being unable to fall back on a pump gun was also not that nice. Especially if the abnormals didn't get to intelligent by leveling up. As for now only humans could use guns.
It's a thing of the past now.
While Hans stats were the present.
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User Name:- Johannes Martin Schmid (Burnt)
Stats:-
Strength - 1.8 [3.6 (2.8)]
Agility - 3.2 (2.1)
Endurance - 3.2 (2.5)
Perception - 2.9 (1.9)
Mana - Blocked
Skills:-
Strength Booster (2nd Tier) - 20:28 Hours,
Agility Booster (1st Tier)
Equipment:-
None
Wealth:-
14 White Coins
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Also a few realisations came with the improved stats.
First and foremost there was a cap to how many skills he can have active.
The watch informed him that he can only swap skill slots if he was out of combat for 10 minutes.
Secondly magic, that's what the name Mana implied, was a no-go for him.
Cause when Hans tried to consume the first black crystal he had a very bad feeling.
The moment he brought his tongue in front to lick the crystal carefully, a strong burning and pinching sensation hit him in his heart.
So he was only left with selling them and buying the new booster skill.
It was also the reason why Hans dared to run around destroying windows and plundering houses.
Germany just as well has weapon owners as America.
HOWEVER instead of shooting first an unarmed guy and asking later. Here we first speak.
And as long as Hans knew there was somebody, he would go away. No need for a conflict. This apocalypse has enough monster for all of us.
If they would order him to let go of all his belongings he wouldn't let him self get robbed that easily.
He trusted in himself that with 6 times the normal human speed he can escape anybody's aim.
Especially his strong spike in perception gave him a lot of confidence.
He didn't fear meeting another second level abnormal.
He looked forward to it.
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1 am
Hans came out of a White House. He just finished another 5 abnormals.
There was only one more house left on this block.
It had a red roof and a yellow wall. The window were quite low so he swung the axe once through the nearest window and stepped in.
Shrieks could be heart from the top.
From the early noise the abnormals in the house would be triggered.
With a fast step Hans approached the barricaded door.
After standing still for 10 seconds.
He took up position in front of the door. Swinging the axe back over his shoulder he took a full swing at the door.
From the other side repetitive scratching could be heard.
However after the full swing there were far less scratches being heard.
After that Hans put away the axe and took out his sword.
With a heavy kick the upper part of the door broke into splinters and shattered inward.
After two precise swings to more abnormals were down.
‚Damm. There's one more and it's stuck inside. Not a good start for a new Highscore.'
Hans put his hand onto one of the two skulls that were rolling on the floor.
It truly looks fascinating how a crystal broke out of the head and landed on Hans hand.
‚Shid again red. I already maxed it out.'
Hans put the crystal over the watch and it just disappeared.
Next Hans went through the effort of getting into the room without getting ambushed.
After finishing of the last abnormal he took the last to crystals and popped them into his mouth like candy.
After that he went to the stairs jumped down one floor then swung on the pillar over to the next window from where he jumped out and rolled to finish his landing directly going further.
Over the Street into the next house.
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He had a plan.
3 houses further down the road from his home he wanted to set up shelter.
It holdes a few perks.
First it was build in two major halves, which allowed for a defensive setup Incase of human invaders as well as brainless waves of canon fodder.
Second it just as his home had direct access to the forest.
And third while it wasn't the house at the corner it had a very good view of streets. One giving straight view to a crossroad of the major street of his district. While the other gave him view over the street connecting all the houses that had direct access to the forest.
While he could build his base to defend against both he would like to specialize it against strengthened humans like himself.
As such he was giving his best to clear a radius of building blocks completely of abnormals. Also the reason why he doesn't want any abnormal left at all.
Cause if a big fight broke out between humans a single abnormal could work as a chain together more if not put to silence in less then 2 minutes.
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Extra information for readers:
As a normal tier 1 abnormal would only turn his head if he heard a distant shot.
If there is continuous fire abnormals would get up and turn towards the direction.
Here it is now important how far away the explosions are or more accurately how loud the individual sound is being perceived by the individual abnormal.
If it's not loud enough not important how continuous it is they won't come, this counts only for Sound clearly produced by inanimate things. A Vulcan eruption, river crashing, lets say purely the sound of pick axes hitting stone (the sound of movement and breath would then still trigger abnormals, if they perceive it).
Exception may be the cry of another abnormal.
The strength of a sound is very important. If there was a huge TNT explosion every abnormal will move into that direction however over time they will lose direction slightly till they stop or till they meet a gathering of abnormals.
If laters happen they will stay with the group till new impulses appear.
More extensive knowledge would only be revealed after controlled experiments with abnormals to study them were conducted.
These however were a few runs still away.
This basic version of knowledge could be gained mostly by observation over a span of already 1-7 days time and is what will be the general level of information with all survivors past the second week.
Depends how lucky you get with being at the right time at the right place to witness such occurrences.
At the end of his first night of hunting Hans already grasped most, just greater herd mentality wasn't witnessed by him.
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