A Month later...
The life of Adam had been very fruitful and breezy in the base.
The life of everyone on the base had become much abundant as mutated apples had been mass produced giving everyone an avenue for food source. In regards with Adam's contribution, he was revered by many people in the base and had become popular second only to Arthus.
In this month, Adam had become more close to Grandpa Sam and Grandma Elle, the old couples who regarded him as their grandson. The two even became accustomed to Arthus and is not afraid of the big guy anymore.
Everything had been good.
Aside from the usual work to home cycle of Adam's daily activities, from time to time he along with his team are tasked to clean some cities of remnant zombies that wandered to the reclaimed areas on the northern region. These zombies are not hunted because of the few population and strong people to set another base in these cities, therefore resulting to the accumulation of these rotten meat to seize the area.
He also gathered some experience points although small due to the small number of zombies in each cities.
' It's okay, I don't need to pressure myself to become strong anyway. '
Adam knew that Arthus is already a very powerful being in this country. Even if there is a powerful enemy, Adam still have many life preservation methods.
Still, he didn't disdain to do the clean up task and obediently lead his team on cities after another.
But something become off on the later days as they encountered less and less zombies.
To prevent zombies from overpopulating those abandoned cities, survivor teams and soldiers are often sent to do the extermination. These had been going on for awhile and multiple teams set out in different cities to do their task. But, an unusual activity had been noticed by the dispatched teams. They noticed that in some cities and their other neighboring cities are free of zombies like there was a mass exodus.
Many speculation about this phenomenon had been generated. Some are saying that this might be because of the recent zombie tide resulting to the loss if all the zombies, others are even saying that maybe the zombies migrated due to lack of human presence. But all these speculations had been rejected by the scientist and researchers.
According to them, these mass disappearances may be because of another commander variant zombie with higher tier. Commander type are the brightest of all zombies. Maybe, they can even reach the scale to generate a bigger zombie tide than the past and make the medium size bases to collapse, like Pandora Base.
After having this speculation, the army had dispatched countless individual to monitor the other cities if the remnant zombies also disappeared.
And their investigation was not fruitless.
Zombies that were still identified to be present in the city in a few days had been missing when it were rechecked. Although the remnants zombie of the northern region is not as exaggerated in the fallen region, the total of zombies that had gone missing should be near half million in count, more than twice larger than the previous zombie tide.
If this number attack...
Unless the tier 5 awakened are all present in the base under attacked, it will surely fall. Even the iron wall may be destroyed by higher tiered zombies or some randomly unknown zombie variant.
And an even more dreadful news reached them. The three bases standing in the eastern boarder lost all contacts and when they checked on it, there was only puddles of blood left on the scene.
Many people panicked but after being stabilized by the base chief and directors, everything returned to their daily activities.
As for the huge zombies missing..
But of course, many in Pandora Base knew that thus number didn't pose yet a life and death crisis knowing how powerful their Sir Arthus is.
The scene where the big armored guy slaughtered all the powerful zombies in a blink of an eye is still fresh in their memories.
Therefore they believed that as long as Sir Arthus is present, Pandora Base will not fall.
But still, the issue remains very troubling for the higher ups in the army. One even requested Arthus to be sent in the headquarters but was faced by the big guys direct refusal.
No kidding! Why would he leave the [ lord ]?
Arthus doesn't care about others life unless his [ lord ] made a request to him. Even if they beg him, unless Adam say a thing, he can watch these people die.
" Jaya, do you really think there will be another zombie tide? " Adam asked his ever loyal maid.
" There is a big chance for it master. "
" Unless there is a powerful zombie to lead the tide, I don't think those remnant zombies will leave by their selves. "
The team Abyss is currently riding a modified jeep as they are travelling to City H right at the eastern boarder of the northern region.
Actually it's not only them but another 4 teams with 5 teams in total.
All these teams are led by a tier 3 peak awakened and evolutionary who are famous in the base.
They had been acquainted for awhile but Adam didn't have any deep interaction with them. The biggest reason, Arthus don't like him interacting with them as they rarely bathe.
On the first day, Arthus directly cleansed those innocent people and removed all the germs on them.
" ... filthy... "
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Gil and others: * shrug * They are used to Arthus already. The dude didn't even let Adam touched anything before he does.
Another thing, Gil had become a tier 3 evolutionary and the rest are already tier 2. As for the base being doubtful about their speedy powering up had been quelled as Arthus had performed a ritual like show giving energy which lead to all the people believing that it is one of Arthus' ability.
As for the process, just left it as it is.
Therefore, even if there are people who held greed in their heart and mind, they had a sense of measure and throw away their thoughts.
They still cherish their lives and didn't want to offend Arthus.
Also Adam made an excuse that Arthus powering up had some limitations and can only be given to few number of people.
And for the number of people, there are only few slots left so Arthus refused to indiscriminately give it to anyone.
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After hours of driving, the teams finally reached the city.
As expected...
The city is empty.
An empty city had no use for Adam. They don't even give something in return for the long journey.
As for supplies, it had been long ago looted by the army.
The teams went the inspect all corners but even the sewer didn't have a trace of zombies left, aside from the casual rotten flesh from killed zombies long ago.
" Captain Adam, the city is pretty much empty and we can't get anything at all. Are we just going to return to the base? " A sturdy man called Jason, the captain of Blue Pegasus said.
He is an awakened that can manifest a winged horse made of blue flames that's why he named their team that way.
" We don't have enough fuel to make another long journey from here. We better return. " Said another man but this time a rather skinny one but not the malnourished looking type.
This man is another captain called Luke from Green Ape. The man is a support type awakened majoring in healing and minor enhancements. Among all the people here, Gil and the others was the closest to this guy.
" We better return then. "
" Arthus, make another round around the city and look for any clue. Before we leave, it's better to gain something than returned empty handed. "
" Yes...my [ lord ]. "
Arthus then left like a ghost and no one could see his trace anymore or even how he managed to disappear right in front of the people present.
" Sir Arthus truly lived up to his image. Powerful and cool! " Luke said in awe.
" Our base is very lucky to have such powerful person present. "
After 15 minutes, Arthus returned and said that the traces of zombies leads to further east.
Arthus found traces of thousands of zombies being led by a zombie with a lingering aura of a tier 4 advance zombie. ( metal controller zombie )
When the rest heard this, the faces of the rest of the people become ugly.
For them, tier 4 advance is already an unbeatable monster. Aside from sir Arthus, no one stood a chance.
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In the furthest city in the eastern border of the northern region, a zombie numbering more than million can be seen flooding the city that even a spot of the ground can't be seen by how congested the number is.
Aside from the northern region, zombies from other areas had been drawn too albeit few so the number had reached the terrifying amount. Not to mention that these zombies present are only mostly gathered from the eastern side. If all the zombies are gathered how terrifying it would be.
Eskelon standing on a platform made of rubbles then look at the army of zombies in front and made a satisfied grunt.
The metal controller zombie was on his left while the variant dog zombie stand on his right.
The zombie dog had been promoted to tier 4 at this time as many crystal nucleus from tier 4 zombies had been fed to it by Eskelon. Those tier 4 nucleus came from those zombies that resisted his rule and dared to escape.
Their ends..
All their heads were smashed and thrown to the side.
* Growl *
* Growl *
* Growl *
* Growl *
The terrifying number murmuring and groaning together gives off a very creepy vibe. If there is anyone present, their scalps will be numbed just watching the zombies stands their.
* Roooooooaaaaarrrr!!!! *
Eskelon then made his terrifying battle cry and with a strong leap, his 2 ton body made a beautiful arc and landed right in front of all the zombies.
When he marched, all zombies followed so.
And in that place, the biggest zombie march in the country occur.
And the goal of the march had been clear.
Pandora Base.
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[ A/N: I had become very busy making plates and drafting some plans. Just let me know about the typos for I had no time to look for it myself. ]