Approaching the nurses office I noticed undead stacking up outside it due a "manly" scream. Pulling a grenade of holy water that made acidic for Bone Walker's from my bag. I pulled the pin and tossed the grenade between the legs of the undead teenagers. When it went off the undead and a few hidden Possessed within the blast just vanished. As in they were immediately vaporized into mist and crimson slime tainted with gastric acid. The ones mostly unaffected were the ones blocked by the bulk of the dead.
The sound didn't register to any other undead in the school. As it wasn't truly a regular explosive and that any sound it made was muffled. The living however heard it given it was essentially against their only barrier of safety. Advancing upon the undead that were dying due to the grenade regardless of not being in the center of its blast. Droplets of blood burning the undead as they contained the effects of Holy Water in them. Stabbing forward with my musket, the sword attached to it piercing through the head of a zombie.
Jerking the left, the blade cuts through the corpse's head and into the possessed with a green glow next to it. The possessed barely had time to fire its bullshit spirit arrows as it can't magically give the undead a gun. Though I believe there was an Archery club so any Glutton that possessed those undead members. Well they would have a ranged weapon and infinite arrows due to that as they don't need physical arrows.
[PrimalHunter has donated 10 SP to play "The New Delusion" by Sin Shake Sin on the Stream]
"Oh you have to be kidding me Jake! Really that one?!"
[PrimalHunter: Go with the flow man, you're too tense. If you die you die, it'll be sad to see but I'd rather you die relaxed and having fun fighting. Also bows are still superior to guns.]
'Hey, hey, what do you say?
We're all flocked to, for judgement day
Hey, hey, who do you blame?
The one who set fire or put out the flame?
I know, I know, the storm is getting closer
(Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh)
I know, I know, the trials are far from over
(Oh-oh-oh)'
Shaking my head the hunter I couldn't help but follow his advice as I wanted to see my story end fighting GODS. I've always instinctively hated any god not Hestia or Hades whenever I thought about them, even before my racial traits were activated. So if I must die, it shall be while I'm bathing in the blood of the divines! Though I knew besides the Divine Anthemea trait, which I shared with the first Streamer, I had a racial trait that was unique to only ME. One solely about my past hobby and that was currently grayed out if I inspected myself with Analyze from the Stream.
As I thought of these things I realized something that was happening after a long time. I was subconsciously applying decades worth of dance practices alongside fighting to kill the undead pests around me. They never once touched me, they simply died with a thrust of my sword to their head. It was funny how I learned to dance and fight honestly, during a contract in Egypt to deal with an Ancient Nightmare I ran into a man. He was a foreigner who moved to Egypt ten years ago to establish his own Banisher group, Ra's Light. His group was suffering heavy losses and requested help from any Banisher. Needless to say, by accepting I was forced to learn to dance to avoid traps and dangerous ghost variants. Since then I have mixed in plenty of dances to my fighting.
'Your freedom's just an illusion
Welcome to the new delusion
Welcome to the new delusion
Your mind is your institution
Welcome to the new delusion
Welcome to the new delusion'
Through all that dancing I had also made something… something dangerous for this world, yet I could pull it off because of my energy from here. I had created a Breathing Style like from Demon Slayer, completely accidentally due to my Spiritual Energy as that world also had the same energy.
[Moon Breathe Technique: Dakota Carter Style (Incomplete)(Evolving)
Description: Through the act of dancing and embracing death at every possible second. ABreathing Technique was born in a world not its own, but in one with its own similarities. Don't fear the darkness, like the sun it embraces you with care. Sleep and become something new when the sun embraces you once more.
Perk: Favorability with entities related to Death, Darkness, Coyotes, and Void is highly increased. Unintelligent beings of these categories will still attack on sight until they are befriended or forced to acknowledge you.
Disadvantage: Beings related to Life, Foxes, Sun, Holy, and Angels will have a dislike for you. Don't get killed by them because some of these entities will be EXTREMELY HOSTILE. Foxes though can be negotiated with as the Sun requires a Moon.
First Form: Moonless
Second Form: Waxing Moon
Third Form: Quart Moon I
Fourth Form: Waxing Guillotine
Fifth Form: Moonlight Waltz
Sixth Form: Waning Blizzard
Seventh Form: Quarter Moon II
Eight Form: Waning Waltz
Ninth Form: New Moon]
'Hey, hey, easy, my friend
The rules were made for us, not them
Hey, hey, look around
The thread you're hanging on's coming unwound
I know, I know, the storm is getting closer
(Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh)
I know, I know, the trials are far from over
(Oh-oh-oh)'
Because of the breathing style mistake I knew I was in a way going to become a very dangerous Apex Predator. However, unlike my predecessor I wasn't going to wait to adapt if I can pull off these kinds of mistakes. It's just about finding the right way to bring a bit of another world into my current one with the similarities they can share…
'Your freedom's just an illusion
Welcome to the new delusion
Welcome to the new delusion
Your mind is your institution
Welcome to the new delusion
Welcome to the new delusion'
By the time I stopped moving, one entire half of the hallway was blocked by a small mound of the dead. My weapons dripped with blood and were also coated in blood. I mostly stabbed the undead in the head Shizuka and the student who originally defended her had come out of the nurses office. They stood there staring at me while Shizuka quietly clapped her hands. Saeko the ever iconic samurai of the franchise standing beside the two with her bokken covered in blood.
'Let's break free from this misery
Fear no more, soon we'll have victory
Your freedom's just an illusion (an illusion)
Welcome to the new delusion
Welcome to the new delusion'
"No pleasantries, let's just get out of here."
No one objected as from behind my mound of corpses new ones were slowly crawling or spilling over. We moved through the school to the teachers office where we were the second group to arrive. Saya and Kohta were already in the room when we came in to find some keys to vehicle's of the staff. After a while Takashi and Rei joined us in the room, no one turned on the TV as it was long on already. The news around the world was just getting worse and worse. Although I found it extremely odd that key places and groups were essentially crippled at the start. Multiple undead were essentially created in the middle of their operations.
'Your mind is your institution (your freedom's just an illusion)
Welcome to the new delusion
Welcome to the new delusion
Welcome to the new delusion
Welcome to the new delusion'
Perfectly healthy people had become zombies abruptly without warning, crippling these powerful and influential groups. In my opinion that reeked of several scenarios involving Spirits, Humans, Demons, Angels, and even God's in some capacity. Given Witches, Warlocks, and Sorcerers are real since Witchcraft very much works so something or someone did the zombie apocalypse. For now I'll rule out Spirits as Nightmares are too far and between to be able to create this. Demon and Angels are contractual creatures to anyone skilled in Witchcraft so they could cause this for a price.
God's are at best vaguely linked to this world so they can't interfere much, but they could stack curses and diseases over centuries to make the zombies. Humans are extremely capable and willing to create Immortal Soldiers or to destroy their enemies. As I KNOW America has made a zombie virus. As in the eighteen and nineteen hundreds I had to kill their pet experiments during the Vietnam War while on contract to kill a Scourge on the verge of becoming a Nightmare.
Tapping my fingers along the counter housing a coffee pot, I continued to rule or create new possibilities on how this happened. As this was strange, very strange, the undead HAVE a source of creation as to why they exist. However, it's figuring out that source of origin, why it was done, and if it was reversible for those still living. Because those that have died to the zombies CANNOT be revived. At least not without a spell like Resurrection from a different universe, such a spell requires Mana or Divine Energy in the end though.
"Hey… aren't you the security guard and the one who murdered the teacher that got bit by that man?"
Without looking at Takashi I watched the news studying the brief glances of the undead.
"Yes I'm the school's lone security guard, and the man was dead as soon as he got bit. I just put him out of his misery while he was HUMAN and not a zombie. Though you probably got a good front row seat to everything huh kid? After all, you skip every class and brood on the roof or emergency stairwell."
"Don't… Nevermind, just how can you do something like that without hesitation? You could've saved him or something but you just killed him instead. So why… why are you so calm about this all as if it's just a regular thing?!"
I could hear the disgust in his voice, yet I didn't care since I've already heard it all before.
"Because dealing with ghosts by either killing them or banishing them is a normal part of my day. I've also already taken multiple lives over my lifetime so it wasn't anything new either. Sure I worked with the man, but I didn't know him nor even care for him much. So giving him mercy was easy as all it took was just going through with the deed to keep him Human."
"You're fucki-"
"SHUT UP! I'm sorry for the idiot and the others Carter. Thank you for your help with that THING… and daddy said if anything like what happened before happened again to just trust you… is this all related to those things?"
"No little lion, I don't know if this is related at all to like what caused that incident when you were six. Though your father is a smart man because he won't be able to come running to you due to the undead. Although telling you to stick around me isn't a bad idea… though he'll owe me one of his artifacts from the Edo Era in his collection."
Turning to look at the Takagi heiress I saw her simply nod her head with a small troubled smile. Her eyes clouded with doubt though about her father and mother so I cut those off.
"Saya, your father is on the other side of the city with a compound that can safely house survivors. Due to chaos and undead cutting off most roads or ways here he is likely out securing survivors and supplies. Your mother is holding the fort and organizing the survivors and men guarding your home. Expecting either to risk everything to come running while endearing would also kill them. As the undead are growing fast and the two would be in the thick of it without any preparation if they tried. So don't blame them, pray they still draw breath next you meet instead."
She stares at me before nodding her head with tears forming in her eyes. Everyone else watched quietly, Kohta rubbing the pink haired girl on the back silently like a good friend.
[Missions are now Available]
Well damn… guess the tutorial is essentially done time to get deep in the guts of the story.