EastFox City is a city located near the Southern border of the Aetas Kingdom. The EastFox city is a medium-sized city. The population of the city is between two hundred and fifty thousand to three hundreds thousands. The whole city was built like a star and the city is protected by 2 layers of fortresses. The first layer of walls is about 25 meters tall. And the second layer's walls are about 50 meters tall protecting the city from magic and demonic beasts that live in the forest.
The space between the first layer and 2nd layer is about 10 km. That space is home to countless peasants and slaves. The space between two layers is also called the slum area. Often people who are unable to pay the taxes in time are forced to live in the slum area and work in mines or as cannon folders when beasts from the forest attack. Or sometimes people like them end up becoming slaves.
Isaac has not learned much about this city aside from its geographical location. But what Isaac heard from his teacher Leo, this whole city is run on corruption, and apparently Isaac's father, that bastard Liam did nothing to clean the corruption.
Both first and second queens secretly received large sums of money from the noble family that runs this city. It was rumored that both queens received around 25,000 gold coins per month. This much money was more than enough to make the queen's mouth shut. The first and second queens needed a large sum of money to support this son's political carrier.
By giving money to the royal family, the noble family who was in charge of this city and the area around this city also stayed neutral. Meaning the noble of this city supported neither the first prince nor the second prince.
This whole city used to be a heaven for rich people but hell for poor or middle-class people. All the middle class or poor people had to pay large sums of money as tax each month. it was also rumored that the noble family controlling this city gained this huge amount of money by money laundering for other corrupted nobles.
Isaac landed in front of a city entrance which now was engulfed in flames in several areas. Black smoke was coming from several parts of the city. The guards who were responsible for guarding the city now had turned into zombies because they were unable to withstand the Mana wave pressure. Among the zombie guards, there were also normal level 1 zombies. Those zombies were the people who were entering the city before the mana wave incident happened.
"According to how this evolution system works, the guards must have the strength of a 4th or 5th phase of Silver rank cultivation before the apocalypse started. After the arrival of the evolution system, the cultivation rank of those guards must have turned into levels." Isaac now had two choices. Either make his way through by killing all the zombies at the entrance and take shelter in the city. There was a chance that Isaac might have to fight people who previously were Gold-rank cultivators. Or Don't enter the city and eventually get attacked by powerful high-level beasts.
"The second option sounds safer than the first. But I was going to take the first option anyway. Without risk, there would be no benefits. If I keep hiding and do not enter the city, then eventually after a few weeks even the ordinary people will surpass me. It has been only more than an hour since the whole world entered into this crazy state. And just within one hour, I have managed to level up 6 times, meaning I have reached the 5th phase of silver rank which normally would have taken me at least one year to reach."
Isaac has lost everything that he has. Isaac's only motivation for living was to get revenge. "If I keep avoiding taking risks then how I will get stronger. If I don't level up soon, then those two princes will surely level up and reach a new height. Besides I have to become strong enough to bring this entire Empire to its knees and destroy everything." The hesitation in Isaac's eyes completely disappeared. The word fear didn't exist in Isaac anymore because of the passive skill 'Heart of Ice'.
"Let's see. There are almost five hundred zombies roaming at the entrance. Climbing the walls is not an option since the walls are built with countless traps and hidden weapons that could kill even a gold rank cultivator." Isaac was about 100 meters away from the zombies. Isaac was trying to find out if the zombies could sense him or not. "Having more information about the zombies will definitely help me in the long run."
Isaac slowly without making any noise started to close the distance. Isaac was trying to find if Zombies were attracted to sound or something else. Isaac slowly took each step, making no sound.
After Isaac closed 10 meters distance, Isaac saw something which completely surprised him. It was like as soon as he was at a certain distance, a high-level Zombies could actually sense him.
[Guard Zombie level 29]
Isaac's gaze met the eyes lifeless eyes of a level 29 Guard Zombie. From the way the zombie was looking at Isaac, Isaac was sure that the Guard Zombie is an intelligent type of zombie.
The zombie observed Isaac for a few seconds before letting out a loud roar.
Roar!
All the zombies under that guard zombie charged at Isaac and the normal level one zombies began to follow the guard zombies. Isaac felt his heart nearly stop seeing more than 500 zombies charging at him together.
In a second the quiet atmosphere turned chaotic. The rain continued to fall from the dark sky, and Isaac saw a horde of zombies charging at him.
"It looks like high-level zombies have the same intelligence as humans and has the ability to command other low-level zombies." Isaac changed his Executioner of Nightmares into a 1.5-meter-long spear seeing the level 29 guard zombie approaching Isaac before the horde of Zombies.
The guard zombie moved very fast. Its speed was so fast that even Isaac was having a hard time keeping up with its speed. The zombie arrived near Isaac in less than 5 seconds. The guard zombie was still wearing gold armor and holding a silver color sword.
Roar!
Isaac almost couldn't believe how fast the zombie moved when he swung his sword at Isaac's throat. For a moment Isaac thought that he was going to die. But when the sword was about to slash his throat, Isaac suddenly felt something getting activated by instinct.
Bang!
The guard zombie widened his eyes in shock. The guard zombie couldn't believe how a low-level human managed to dodge his attack.
"How?"
'Moon Steps'
Even without realizing Isaac had just activated one of the skills that he acquired after gaining Moon Marshal class.
Isaac managed to retreat a few meters back with the same shocking look as the guard zombie had. 'This zombie is holding back his powers. If he hadn't done that, then I would have died there. I can't afford to be careless.' This fight was Isaac's very first fight. Before Isaac only had fighting experience through training or having friendly matches against others. Isaac realized the difference between friendly spars and actually life and death fights. Both things are completely different.
"System hurry up and add [15+] free stats to my speed." Just as Isaac said those words, he blinked his eyes for less than a second and when Isaac opened his eyes, Isaac found the guard zombie in front of him.
'It looks like I really underestimated the guard zombie.' Isaac couldn't believe how fast the zombie moved. Isaac could do nothing as he watched the right fist of the zombie guard hit his chest.
Isaac was sent flying like a cannonball. From shock from the punch caused Isaac to let go of his Executioner of Nightmares. Isaac crushed on the ground 15 meters away from the guard zombie.
Bang!
After falling to the ground, Isaac almost lost consciousness. Isaac felt his eyes getting heavy and blurry. Isaac couldn't describe the inhuman pain he felt in his chest. Isaac was sure that he had broken and cracked most of his ribs. It would be a miracle if even one of the ribs were left without any damage.
Cough!
'Am I going to die here?' This question come to Isaac's mind as he watched the guard zombie slowly walking in Isaac's direction with an arrogant expression on his face. It was as if the guard zombie was telling Isaac that Isaac never had a chance against him.
[_Health: - 05/25]
Isaac's health had dropped to a dangerous level. If Isaac doesn't heal his injuries then he will die in a few minutes.
Isaac closed his eyes for a moment.
[Brother are you going to give up?] Hearing that familiar voice, Isaac's entire body trembled with various emotions. This was the voice of his dead little sister. Isaac opened his eyes only to see two images of his mother and his little sister.
"Mom." Isaac's entire body trembled seeing his dear mother in front of his eyes. Isaac's eyes for a moment turned moist. Isaac slowly, ignoring the pain he was feeling stretched out his right arm as if trying to touch the two transparent figures.
[Don't give up son. You have a long way to go. You can't fall here.] Isaac couldn't even say anything back as from the two transparent figures, the zombie guard emerged and swung his sword aiming at Isaac's throat.
"It's you again." At that moment, Isaac's eyes turned bone-chilling cold. For the moment the guard zombie felt confused sensing the strong hate that Isaac carried in his tone.
Before the sword came near Isaac, Isaac suddenly moved like that wind and disappeared.
"Where did he go?" The guard zombie felt shocked seeing how fast Isaac moved. He immediately turned around but then....
Isaac stretched out his right hand as if calling his Executioner of Nightmares. Just when the guard zombie turned around, he widened his eyes seeing the red spear tip entering his throat.