Ray look at the item in his hands and found out that he needed to probably manually inject on himself for it to work since he didn't receive any prompt asking him to consume it in his mind, like the golden apple.
Thinking about the words awakening, he thought about what would happen if he consumed it right now. There was a possibility that the awakening could even take time.
And right now, since he was fighting zombies which could one shot him if he was careless, it would be dangerous if he were to use it right now.
*Shook!
*Thud!
The latest zombie summoned by the 3rd gate drops as a throwing knife flies into its forehead.
Now Ray look at the group of people behind as he recovered the knife.
'It seems they are doing great'
There was a change in their formation. With most of them being lined up on the opposite side, probably since he had managed to hold off this side.
Ray then shifts his sight on to the 2 gates remaining on this side. Because of the explosions and the liveliness on the center, it seems that they are starting to move there instead of going to Ray.
Seeing this, Ray then started to move towards the gates killing 18 more zombies which were spawned from the gates he cleaned up before.
Now from the two gates, there are only about 60 more zombies remaining and a portion of them had already reach here on the 1st gate he had cleaned up.
'It seems they are the zombies' final number since the portals had already stop spawning.'
Ray look at the zombies, half of them are attracted to him, but the other half continues to reach for the center.
'Time to finish this side'
...
The people look at the zombies coming in nervousness, there was only 1 ranged person left killing the zombies.
The others are too exhausted to fire off more of their unique abilities.
"Shit! now I'm exhausted too!" Hermes said as he fired off one last attack, shooting an arrow of fire straight into a zombie's forehead accurately.
He had killed about 34 zombies in total.
He had used the serum on himself, and together with the stat points he had added into his mana. He had lasted more than the people with ranged-unique skills around him.
He had even gotten a golden apple that boosted all his stats.
Hermes look at the people around him, and found out that there are some people looking at him in amazement.
Seeing this, he then tried to put off an act that it was no big deal and then said smugly "Man, I'm exhausted, If I had just took a rest before being summoned here, I may have shot triple the number of the 40 zombies I shot"
Earlier the people around him had seen him injecting himself with something and laughing like mad as he convulsed for a few seconds, they thought to themselves that he was certainly a hardcore addict, since he couldn't even stop himself away from drugs during such time.The few people who saw him, thought to themselves that they should avoid associating with him in the future....
Right now, about 80 of the zombies were killed by the people with ranged unique abilities.
And the remaining zombies are now slowly creeping into the people at the center.
"Brace yourselves!!! The zombies are about to reach us!!! A loud voice akin to one from drill instructor resounded around.
"They are Infectious, so be careful of bites!!!" The loud voice followed.
The people are nervous.
Mender tried to calm the people down with his words, he maybe just a normal person, but if he had one positive trait about him then it was probably his loud voice alone.
"The zombies may be scary! But they are as slow as turtles!!!" Mender shouted with everything he had; he needed his voice to reach everyone around him.
He had taken the lead, so it was on his heart to act like one, even if he didn't know how to.
He was in front of the people holding his sword on his right hand looking at the zombies coming near.
"The zombies' weakness are on their heads! so try not to get nervous and blindly attack them anywhere!!!"
Because of the earlier attacks of the people with ranged-unique abilities, there were about 70 zombies remaining
Mender took his stance and positioned himself battle-ready at frontlines.
"Ready your swords!!!"
"Attack!!!"
...
At the start of the fight when the zombies reached them, a portion of the frontline sneakily backed away. And only a few remain.
But as Mender killed a zombie, and receive the reward of killing one.
He then shouted.
"Killing the zombies reward you of stats and souls!!!"
"Kill them if you want them!!!"
And as the few people remaining killed one after another and receive such rewards.
They then began killing actively.
Zombies may be scary, but if you were just to carefully select a few separated ones, killing one isn't so hard especially since they are ridiculously slow.
"It's true!" "They really are giving rewards!!!"
And as the people heard such words, the defense entered a new change as a few more people joined the ones killing zombies.
"Ahhhh!!!"
As the fight continues, casualties started appearing here and there as few people got careless.
"Careful! Don't let yourselves get surrounded!!!"
The people with ranged-unique abilities who recovered also started to join.
The fight at the center continues...
...
*Thud!
"149, that's the number of kills I made"
Ray look at the 5 gates on his side.
Corpses of zombies littered everywhere.
There were no zombies walking alive besides the one you could see walking from the 3rd gate he cleaned.
Ray then look at the people at the center.
'That is certainly chaotic'The clumsy formation from before was already broken.People were running away from the zombies. And with a few remaining people receiving them, they can still manage to barely hang on. But as one person got surrounded by two or more zombies, it got harder for them to avoid being bitten.
And as more and more people got bit, the surrounding people got scared of being backstabbed, the bitten people could suddenly turn into zombies, and knowing that such people will definitely die, they would certainly want to drag other people too, thought themselves, so they looked at the people with hostility.
On the other hand, the people who had gotten bitten started to think that they are going crazy. The people could tell that they were still aren't zombies, but are just infected. But as they saw the eyes of the people looking at them as they were already dead people, and even the great hostility present in their eyes as if they were ready to kill them anytime, they got angry, here they are fighting at the frontlines, and for what? They then started to think of taking others down with them.
Ray could see people starting attacking people, and as they found out that killing other people also gave rewards like killing zombies, the killing got intense.
The zombies on the other hand are still present, and every time an infected person dies, he would turn into a zombie immediately.It was a chaotic free for all battle royal. Ray could even see the meat slime man from before crawling away from a crawling zombie without limbs.
It was chaos.
...
Light appeared in the center as the angel from before appeared before the people again.
"Dun! Dun! Dun! Dun!!! Congratulations! Everyone~" The angel look at the people around who survived happily.
from the hundred people, there were only about 40 people who had survived...