Joseph woke up after 12 hours of sleep he was well-rested and he was in a better mental state he wasn't feeling great but he wasn't feeling as bad as last night.
He then called for Godiva to check out how many Crystal Cores he had gathered last night.
Damn finally the first day is over it was so long and exhausting that I felt I was stuck in a loop there are no more zombies left here but I need to get stronger so I should leave this place and move on hey Godiva.
He called out but Godiva didn't respond.
G.O.D.I.V.A Mrs Godiva are you there? helloooo
[ *yaaaaawn* jeez can't you let me sleep a bit, what? what do you want?]
..... Who are you where is that yandere?
[What are you talking about if you don't need anything then I'm going back to sleep]
Indeed it was weird Joseph was confused previously Godiva had a nice and gentle but threatening voice now her gentle voice reflected a hint of a lightheaded person Joseph didn't know what happened but this sudden change was odd to Joseph.
Well, can you tell me how many Crystal cores I have?
[ah that sure I will]
Huh?
[What?]
Oh no nothing ty.
[Wierdo...]
[you have 3 rank 2 crystal cores if they were complete they would be 39000 each but since they weren't complete they are just 29000 each you also have 40 normal zombie cores and 125 lesser zombie cores in total you have 92250 evolution points worth of material.
To have so many evolution materials in just 28 hours after the apocalypse you sure are lucky]
Then can you help me evolve pls?
[yes sir right on it. evolution requires 36000 points adding the special skill effect it's 72000 but since you took in 5 first rank crystal cores 32 normal zombie cores and 63 lesser zombie cores you only need 18170 points to evolve.
will you proceed?]
Yes pls, proceed with evolution. but damn I was close to the second rank during my fight.
[Well considering that you were facing a spy you would have needed that much to just barely survive. I will now proceed with evolution.]
Wait a spy? What's a spy?
[I will tell you after you evolve good luck]
The process of evolving to the second rank began it was a painful process but Joseph had no choice to become stronger he needed it.
[Yaaaaaay congrats you evolved successfully to the second rank I will now explain zombie ranks to you then I will show you your status window so you can see how amazing this Evolution really was.]
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Lesser zombie
zombie
Strength type Agility type mage type
1-Soldier 1-Thief 1-Mage
2-Warrior 2-Spy 2-Conjurer
3-Chief 3-Killer 3-Sorcerer
4-Chieftain 4-Assassin 4-Wizard
5-Warlord 5-Reaper 5-Arch mage
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[This is the basic Zombie evolution tree the most common ones I would say but there are hidden Evolution trees such as yours. which happens on very rare occasions and those occasions being when a third party is involved or such as that idol girl you fought her past as an idol influenced her evolution tree if she was to survive that night she would definitely become a very threatening existence to both humanity and other monsters.]
Joseph's expression changed as soon as Godiva mentioned Fuyumi. noticing this Godiva wanted to immediately change the conversation but it would have only made things more awkward.
[Sorry for your loss she seemed to be very important to you the only thing you can do now is to become stronger by using the strength she gave you..]
Ty, I will can you show me my status window pls.
[Yes ofcourse]
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status window
Name: Joseph Race: Undead(Guardian Zombie)
Age:22 Height:195cm Weight: 90kg
HP: 210(+200+100)/510
MANA: 69(+36+18)/123
STAMINA: x/x
Evolution Points:74080/144000x2
STR:48(+34+17) AGI:45(+30+15)
DEX:54(+22+11) INT:33(16+8)
WIS:29(+12+6) VIT:63(+50+25)
Active Skills: Holy shroud LVL ˡᵛˡ ᵘᵖ3 (A) /Goad Zone LVL ˡᵛˡ ᵘᵖ2 (B)/
ⁿᵉʷOx Assail LVL 1 (C)
Passive Skills: Modern Martial Arts LVL ˡᵛˡ ᵘᵖ7 (C)/ⁿᵉʷUnyeldieng will LVL 1 (B)
Special skill: Super System LVL max (SS+)
Delayed Evolution LVL max (SS+)
Current active status effects:----------
Bonus from delayed evolution skill has been applied +50% increase in stats gained after evolution
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[Before you ask any questions let me show you what your skills do]
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{Ox Assail LVL 1 (C)}
No one can get in the way of an ox who has locked its vision on its target.
it's a skill that Locks on a single target for 1 minute. The movement speed of the user will increase whenever the user is running towards the selected target, and grants the user 1 empowered attack (only upon hitting the selected target).
MANA Cost: 20
Range: 20 meters
Cooldown:10 minutes
Empowered attack: Users STR + 50%
Movement speed: Users AGI + 70%
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{Unyeldieng will LVL 1 (B)}
A warrior who laughs in the face of danger Taunts, Stun ? What a joke a warrior is not afraid of such things
Decreases negative status effects by 30% including skills that target mental, curses and physical effects such as stuns.
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Ty now can you explain to me why my VIT has increased so much last time it was my DEX that increased more than other stats?
[well it's because of your Evolution path since Vitality VIT for short increases your overall HP and HP recovery and you are evolving as a tank it's a given that stats are associated with your HP increases.
But there is something really weird even though you have a cheat skill that increases your stats after evolution by 50% you still gain way more stats than a normal zombie your stats only lack behind RANK 3 zombies by just 50 overall stat which is insane right now you are powerful enough to take on several RANK 2 zombies on your own and it's only the first day of Apocalypse at this rate you will become a formidable Existence that gods will either try to win over or get rid of you should be more careful in the future]
Well considering how easy it was for me to get to where I am I don't think it's something special that Gods would make a big fuss about also can you tell me the human level standards?
[Whaaat you are really an idiot do you realize that the war that you monopolized right now was supposed to give birth to a powerful zombie that would dominate this region of Tokyo?
Even if humans were to fight and kill monsters ever since the start of the apocalypse in just 28 hours they would only reach LVL 15 and their overall stats would be 105 at LVL 15 and that would be because of the LVL15 Job bonus right now the highest LVL human wouldn't even be LVL 10.
Their total stats at most would be 80 while your's sir is 518 do you know how much is that? its almost six and half times of an LVL 10 human]
Then I'm OP I guess.
[Hell yeah you lucky bastard at this stage only places such as malls, stadiums, luna parks and etc. that could host over 80000 people can produce RANK 3 zombies]
After hearing how strong and lucky Joseph was he had a satisfied expression on his face he now wanted to focus on becoming even stronger so he asked Godiva about what to do in the future and she told him to go to AOEN Laketown Tokyo's Biggest shopping mall due to the high traffic there every day.
Or he could have gone to UENO ZOO the biggest zoo in Tokyo but he didn't want to fight with animal type monsters for now since they would be more dangerous than zombies.
and AOEN would be big enough for him to evolve one more time.