Groaning as they came.
They are the ones commonly seen in apocalyptic stories.
The famous animated corpses on the games and films.
They are what they called as zombies.
However instead of the CG-based models on the games or the actors in films covered with zombie make-up.
The way they sound, the way they move, the way they look, and if you did try to smell them… the way they smell.
What's coming out of the gates are real zombies.
There was even one without a lower body, crawling using its hands.
"Eeeeek!" "Are you kidding me!" "I-is this f-for real?"
"Zombies!" "..God..."
The panic of the people has peaked.
At the initial summoning, there were five zombies summoned on each gate.
Ray checked the zombies coming out of the gate nearest to him.
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[Zombie]
[Type: Undead]
[Grade: 1 - Normal]
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Stats:
Str: 17
Agi: 3
Vit: -
Mana: 0
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Description: corpse infected by an unknown virus.
Warning: Virus is infectious.
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Looking at the zombie's stats, if comparing to the average human around Ray then it has strength double of that of the average person, however, if he took what the status says to mind then the zombies are ridiculously slow, with them only having about a third of an average person's agility.
Ray began checking other zombies to see if all are the same. Discovering that they are all indeed almost the same, or at least for the majority of the ones currently outside the portals.
Not knowing anything about what the angel wants, who knows what other else is waiting to come out.
Still, Ray thought that if the naive him survived this event, then the current situation shouldn't be too brutal, but that is with the account that the task didn't change due to some butterfly effect or something.
"Everyone! there are swords below our foot!" Someone shouted informing every one of the weapons the same as the one which Ray earlier found.
The voice then followed, "We need to work together!"
Ray thought that being able to work together is remarkable.
But Ray didn't plan on listening further to the people around.
Knowing what's coming. Ray knows that he needed to grow stronger.
His current strength paled in comparison to the strength of the beings on his dreams.
He should take the initiative because time waits for no one.
He grips the sword on his right hand tight. Feeling the emptiness on his left hand, ray thought that a shield would've been good.
Ray then slowly walk into the direction of someone as the people around are nervously trying to get into a clumsy formation.
The zombies are slow but they are now a huge number of them.
with about ten zombies in each portal.
And it's still not stopping on summoning zombies, but right now the rate of summoning had slowed, it was only summoning 1 zombie at a time.
Ray picks up another short sword on the ground which the owner of the sword saw a few meters away.
"Quack!!!" "Quack! Quack!!!"
The owner of the sword shouted its objections and tried to take back the sword.
But Ray didn't pay it any mind.
It was even slower than a normal zombie right now.
Ray gripped it tightly with his left hand.
Now it didn't feel empty.
Ray then looked at the zombies around. For some reason, they were still weren't attacking and were just loitering around their area near their gates.
Looking at them, there was a considerable distance from each zombie, so if he was just fast enough and attentive, he could avoid being surrounded easily.
They may be slow but seeing the earlier warning of the inspect skill. Being wounded by one would probably be a fatal mistake.
The people around had already formed a clumsy circular formation waiting for the zombies, but he didn't plan on joining them.
Ray took a deep breath to calm himself. Being too excited could be detrimental.
When he starts moving, he needed to be efficient. He was only one man, the things he could do alone are limited.
There were about 30 meters in distance between them and each gate.
Ray then slowly walk in the direction of the zombies on the nearest gate on his directions.
Seeing him walk away from the formation, some of the people near him turned their sights on him calling him to come back.
"Hey idiot, what are you doing?!" "Hey man! Come back here, you will die!"
"...Lunatic…"
Ray ignored their words and continued.
Right now, in each gate there weren't that many zombies. With about 15 zombies on the gate nearest to him.
The best time to attack is right now when they are not a lot yet.
If they wait till all the zombies are finished being summoned on each gate then it would be a lot harder.
Then as Ray arrived half the distance on the nearest zombie, he began accelerating.
Being careful not to consume too much stamina on his movements, it was a controlled acceleration.
with just enough speed to take advantage of the zombie's sluggish movement, he came near the zombie and turned around it with a swing of his right sword before it could even react.
From the stories he had read and the games he had played, the zombie's weakness would always be at the head, so right now, he thought that it was best to aim at it. He didn't know anything about these zombies, so he could only use whatever he could, and right now it was the only knowledge that he had about zombies.
Ray could only feel a little bit of resistance on his sword as it slices the zombie's head in half splashing yellowish liquid.
It seemed that he put too much strength on it. It wasn't as hard as he had thought it would be.
His stats and unique skill probably have something to do with it.
Since slashing is too much, it seems, for now, he should only stab their heads if he could.
But it seems he was right this time, killing these zombies did gave him rewards.
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[Congratulations! You have killed a Grade 1 Zombie!]
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Rewards:
1 Stat Fragment (Item fragment)
1 small soul (Soul)
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Ray then discovered that the rewards were automatically sent to the group storage.
'It seems that now, I have the reason to kill every zombie here' Ray thought as he then looks at the attracted zombies nearby.
As one more zombie is spawned on the gate there are now 15 again.
Ray moved to the next one.
With almost the same movements.
Appear near it, then turn around the zombie as it reaches for him, then this time instead of a slash, he stabs the back of its head.
As the zombie dropped on the ground, the same words then appeared on his mind.
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[Congratulations! You have killed a Grade 1 Zombie!]
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Rewards:
1 Stat Fragment (Item fragment)
1 small soul (Soul)
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Then next!
With only the number of zombies around.
There was no suspense.
Stab!
Stab!
Stab! Stab! ...
One thrust, one kill.
With each kill, the same rewards were given to him, until he killed the 17th zombie which was the latest spawned.
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[Congratulations! You have killed a Grade 1 Zombie!]
Rewards:
1 Stat Fragment (Item fragment)
1 small soul (Soul)
1 golden apple (special item)
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Surrounded by the dead zombies, Ray looked around and it seemed that he had also begun to attract the zombies in the four other gates nearby.
Meanwhile the zombies on the other gates had already started moving towards the people at the center.
Another new zombie came out of the gate in front.
But before it could even begin to take another step, it has already been stabbed, dropping to the ground.
There was no golden apple this time.
Ray then began checking the description of the items he had received since there are still a few moments before a new zombie is spawned and seeing that there's still a few distance away from the attracted zombies.
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[Small Soul]
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Description : Use for various rituals
Current small souls: 18
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[Stat Fragment]
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Description: Collect 10 stat fragments to increase 1 stat point
Current fragments 18/10
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[Golden Apple]
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Description: Consume to increase all stats by 1.
Consumption limit: 5
Current Consumption times: 0
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Ray put off using the fragments since he still didn't know which stat to nurture but the Golden Apple is different.
[Consume Golden Apple?]
'Yes'
As Ray consume the Golden Apple, he felt refreshed as if he was bathed in cold spring water.
[All stats + 1!]
'Status'
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[Name: Ray ]
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Stats:
[Strength: 20]
[Agility: 19]
[Vitality: 21]
[Mana: 1]
[+] Skills:
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He knew how hard he trained to achieved his current body.
It took him 5 years building it, and he didn't know how many total hours and sweat it had taken him.
And the higher the stats, the harder should it be to increase it through training.
Right now, he didn't even know how long it would've taken him if he would try to increase all his current stats by 1 through training alone.
However, it only needed him 1 apple of weird color to achieve almost such achievement.
It even increases his Mana too.
Ray looked at the people at the center and he could see that several people are throwing various ranged attacks, which were most likely their unique skills.
Stab!
As Ray killed another zombie in front, he began eyeing the zombies coming to him from the other gates.
'it's time to move on to the next gates'