(WARNING: Potentially disturbing scene ahead)
Kain just killed the 10th zombie with his dagger when he saw 3 stragglers join their group. Kain was happy to see that one of them was Jake and another was the woman who thought he was a pervert. He didn't know the 3rd person who was a man.
They joined the group on the opposite side of where he was running, so he decided to catch up with them when they reach the city and find somewhere to shelter and rest. He wasn't tired at all from the constant running and killing because he was being strengthened each time he killed a zombie.
Although his endurance was fine, his ration pill count had fallen to 25. However, he was more than happy with his gains. Each successive zombie kill was quicker and quicker, and the speed of his strike was becoming a blur to onlookers.
On the last two zombie decapitations, Kain felt his knife go through the neck as if it was cutting through butter and he saw that the wound was a sheer plane with visible muscles and blood vessels bisected before blood filtered out and covered everything again.
A woman with short, vermilion red hair was currently running behind Kain. She had seductive emerald green eyes and vivacious cherry red lips. They went perfectly with her elegant nose and pearly white teeth. She loped along easily like a lioness and her amazonian-like figure reminded men of a goddess out on a wild hunt. Her honey-drenched skin tempted men into wanting to see what it tasted like.
She had been running behind him in the group but didn't really pay attention to Kain in the beginning, as she wrote him off as just a run-of-the-mill long-range support because of the guns and dagger.
However, by the 4th kill, she started paying attention because Kain's melee skills were way beyond the baseline for her expectations. The zombies she faced had no chance of fighting back as she was a knight tier melee class.
She wasn't even using a weapon and was just smashing with her fists and the zombie heads became like exploding watermelons. None of the gore got on her as she was able to direct the force in a direction away from her each time.
By the time the 10th kill was completed by Kain, the woman threw away all of her previous assumptions about this mysterious teammate. The other teammates at the front like them were no longer the same teammates as they had long been rotated out with others from the back.
Yet, Kain and the woman were still going strong. The woman was seriously confused because she was knight tier and she was starting to feel fatigued, yet this man was not getting tired at all. Instead, it was the opposite!
He seemed to be getting stronger and stronger! She had always had a talent at accurately ranking another person's strength by observing the person in action. When she first saw Kain in action, she ranked him at 6x strength.
However, by the 4th kill, something had obviously changed as he was solidly at 7x strength based on his speed and the shimmering in his skin. By the 8th kill, the man seemed to break through again and she ranked him at 8x strength.
What ungodly progression speed was this? Wouldn't he be able to breakthrough to knight tier within just a few days at this rate?
Little did she know that Kain was not even fully utilizing his absorption power with melee kills. Her analysis was off by more than a few factors because she didn't know of his ability. Even Kain didn't know the full extent of his ability, let alone the woman.
Her competitive nature rose up and she tried to analyze how she would fare against this man in a one-on-one battle, assuming he broke through to knight tier.
When she factored in his seemingly unlimited endurance, godly progression speed, marksmanship ability with guns that was assumed with his role, and the veteran presence he exuded with every action committed…she really doubted she would be a match at the same tier.
She even suspected that he was the rare individual that can jump tiers and battle evenly. Suddenly, a different thought occurred to her in regards to a different form of battling, as she thought of the unlimited endurance aspect.
Soon enough, the glances she gave from behind him were filled with admiration and even…desire.
After a seeming break in battling due to a sudden lack of zombies in front of them, she ran up next to Kain and matched the tempo of his pace and said, "Hey you, I couldn't help but notice your melee skills. My name is Elisha…what's yours?"
Kain looked over to her and his eyes weren't drawn to her face, but were invariably drawn to the bouncing orbs of her chest. His face reddened and forced his eyes to her face, but couldn't help still being distracted by the motions at the edges of his vision.
Certainly, the girl was incredibly attractive. If it were any other time and they weren't fighting to stay alive, he may have engaged in a longer talk. In the end, he decided to engage in small talk. Seeing her reminded Kain of Saya and how she was doing back in Bastion.
"My name is Kain. It is a pleasure to meet you."
"Tell me how a long-range support like yourself can have such good melee skills?" asked Elisha.
Kain took a while to reply as it was in regards to his power. She must have been keeping an eye on him from behind. He decided that he had to keep his power a secret and not let others hear about it. There was no benefit from others knowing about it.
Indeed, people might get jealous and try to exploit his abilities. Besides, he was still learning about his new found power and didn't want to get ahead of himself. He decided to tell a little-white lie.
"I have been on several missions before this one and I have learned that one can't always be sniping away from a distance. I'm actually just learning how to get better at using my melee skills." said Kain.
"Well, I can say that I am very interested in your melee skills. I wonder if you would have some spare time later. In a more private setting, if you get my drift." said a smiling Elisha.
Just as Kain was about to respond…
*SQUEEAAALLLL*
The jogging group did a dead stop as they heard the sound and everyone's breathing became chaotic.
"What the fuck! I thought we were supposed to feel the ground shake first before the squealing!"
"You numbnuts, we probably ran into its territory and woke it up or something!"
"Fuck, who is the target? When it shows up everyone just fucking bombard the bastard."
The ground finally started trembling as they felt something lumbering towards their group. They heard trees snapping like twigs and the lumbering became faster until the whole group was shaking. Some people even lost their balance and fell to the ground.
*SQUEEAAALLLL*
The sound was so much closer now.
"Everyone scatter!"
Everyone complied and their originally clustered group spread out as they all looked in the direction of the oncoming squealer.
Suddenly, the tree they were looking at exploded and everyone saw the squealer. They all launched everything they had. Unfortunately, nothing seemed to phase it and the speed of the charge was too fast and it quickly arrived in front of a beautiful, young woman sitting on the ground frozen in shock. It grabbed her and sat down on its hindlegs.
*SQUEEAAALLLL*
"No—NOOOOO!!" screamed the woman as realization dawned on her what was about to happen.
The squealer made quick work of her clothes as it held the woman like a child that was playing with a doll. The woman couldn't reach the suicide pills because they fell to the ground out of her clothes. It licked her face and then swirled its long tongue around the woman's breasts. Its penis grew erect, growing as long as the woman's leg.
Soon, it was as big as the distance from the bottom of her feet to her bellybutton and was as wide as the width of her thighs. Seeing the monstrosity that was near her, she was desperately kicking at it, but it didn't even move.
The squealer leaned forward and wrapped its tongue around its penis and it became shiny as it was moisturized with a viscous substance that slid down the sides.
Satisfied with its work, the squealer grabbed the woman around her midsection and hovered her above its rod.
The woman screamed, "SOMEONE SHOOT ME IN THE HEA.."
*BANG* *BANG* *BANG*
The first shot broke off the top of the rod, the second shot broke the middle of the rod, and the third shot blew off the ball sack.
*SQUEEAAALLLL*
The squealer's eyes rolled back and toppled onto its side as it dropped the woman. The woman promptly fainted upon hitting the ground and the squealer was shaking and hunched over its mangled mass of flesh.
Everyone broke out of their reverie and then promptly rushed toward the fallen squealer. The men rushed over and stabbed and smashed onto what was left of its groin. The women congregated around the fainted women and one person covered up the naked women with a blanket retrieved from a pocket dimension.
Kain, who had made the 3 earlier shots with magic rounds, reached the head of the creature and quickly jabbed into one of the open eyes, but the blade of his dagger snapped on the first attempt. He threw away the blade and placed the palm of his hand on the forehead. He then proceeded to make a show of punching an eye with his other hand.
Kain was inundated with a stream of power that was so large, that it physically launched him flying into the air. He bounced three times off the ground like a skipping stone thrown across the surface of a lake before stopping near a tree. Kain groaned in pain and grabbed all the ration pills left from his watch and placed them on his chest before passing out unconscious.
Seeing what happened to Kain, the men backed off a bit, but quickly noticed that the squealer was dying and its skin faded to a pasty gray color. The men collected any dropped weapons and looked around their surroundings.
Many wondered why there were no other zombies in this area. Were they all driven off by the squealing and the commotion?
The men finally congregated around the passed out Kain and was about to pick him up, but then heard a voice coming from a distance, "No need."
They looked skyward and saw Lady Sylvia floating down, like a goddess appearing before mortals. There were 5 shimmering swords of varying colors fanned out behind her like silent bodyguards.
She flicked her hand and Kain and the fainted woman floated near her. She then floated to the corpse of the squealer and said, "My, my, we have been busy, haven't we?"
Sylvia smiled.