Aleesia had to decrease her speed as Maria couldn't keep up with her. For Aleesia, Maria was moving too slowly. While moving, the ice princess finally took time to look at her system logs.
[ Level 50 Frost Sorceress Mythical Class requirements: -
- Kill 30 second-order beings
- Upgrade your Innate skill Ice Manipulation to the next level
- Kill 5,000 Mutant beasts]
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'While I can kill 30 second-order beings in the next few days, killing 5,000 mutant beasts might be troublesome.' At this moment, just like humans and demi-humans, all the mutant beasts, starting from ants to dragons were experiencing the evolutional change. The normal animal, beasts, and demonic monsters of the past now had become more powerful with their evolution.
Even before the apocalypse the forest always has been a dangerous place. But now with the arrival of the evolution system, the mutant beasts of the forests have become more violent. Any second-order or higher-order Mutant beasts have adult human intelligence in them. Meaning they can understand the evolution system and make choices. This fact itself makes Mutant beasts of the current world 10 times more dangerous than the animals and beasts before the apocalypse.
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If Aleesia wants to complete her last requirement she has to go to a place where she can fight hundreds of mutant beasts. Currently, even a second-order like her don't dare think of going into the forest for hunting mutant beasts. Luckily for her, the monster outbreak that was going to happen in 5 days was about to give her a wonderful opportunity to 5,000 Mutant beasts.
'But before the monster outbreak, I should complete my other two requirements. For evolving my Ice manipulation skill to level 2, I will need certain requirements. Luckily for me, those requirements are not that hard. I should be able to finish them by today or tomorrow.'
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"Milady, I hate to interrupt you. May I know your name?" Maria asked.
Aleesia looked at Maria from the corner of her eyes and replied. "I am Alessia."
"Great. My name is Maria Lucas. Please call me Maria."
The long, beautiful hair of Maria reached down to her waist. In addition to having a pretty face, she also had a mole on the left side of her face. Her body was skinny and malnourished. Maria was wearing some white dirty old clothes while covering her entire body with a brown cloak.
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"What is your current level, Maria?" Aleesia curiously asked without looking at Maria.
"I am currently at level 8, Milady."
"What is your class?"
"My class is SpellCaster which is a rare class."
Hearing Maria's words for a moment Aleesia was shocked. From her recent experience, Aleesia knew that not everyone had a rare class. Having rare was very unique and how can someone like Maria who previously was a peasant have a rare class. In order to have a rare or mythical class, one must complete certain requirements.
Before the apocalypse, Aleesia already was an Ice user, so when the evolution system came, the system gave her Frost Sorceress class.
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"Did you perhaps know any spells before the evolution system arrived?"
"Mother used to work as a maid. My mother's master was really a kind woman. She taught mother some basic spells which mother later taught me before passing away."
"Did your parents die...?"
"No, my parents died about a month ago. Due to certain incidents." Aleesia nodded and didn't ask any more questions. After all, Aleesia also had lost her mother and knows the pain of losing the most precious person in her life.
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Scene change
Sitting on a luxurious chair, a young man was busy drinking wine with multiple beauties accompanying him.
"Now, let's have some fun." The man put the glass that was full of wine down on the table and lustfully looked at the girls. These girls had a similar situation as Maria. They came here to seek refuge but who would have thought that the leader of this base would turn out to be a low life. The girl's situation was so worse, that they are being treated worse than slaves. In this base, the girls had no rights. If any one of the girls spoke without permission, that girl would be violently beaten.
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Knock! Knock!
"Who is it?" The man asked in a loud voice in an irritated tone.
"Boss, our evolvers have returned."
"Boss, we have successfully hunted all the zombies near our base and also have built fortresses around the base to prevent zombies from coming near our base. There is no danger within a five-kilometer radius of the base."
The irritated look on the leader's face disappeared. Finally some good news. Staying in this underground base for days was getting unbearable. "Good job."
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"What about our food supplies? We barely ate anything in the last few days."
"Boss now that there are no zombies around our base, I have sent our survivors to gather all the grains from each abandoned house around our base. By evening, we should have enough food to fill out bellies."
"Good job, Jenson. I reward you for your work later. Now stop bothering me and leave." Jenson from the other side of the closed-door showed an angry look.
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'If only he wasn't the son of a noble. Charles, the man who was drinking wine and acting like he was the leader of this base was the son of a rich and powerful noble who had visited this city before the apocalypse. Jenson was the strongest man in the entire base. But since Charles was the son of a noble, when Charles threatened Jenson who previously was a slave, he had no choice but to hand over the leadership position to Charles.
'One of these days, I am going to kill this son of a bitch. How dare he treat me like a servant?' Just with his talent and 2 days of sleepless nights, Jenson had managed to reach second order. Jenson was slowly beginning to regret his decision of handing over the leader's position to Charles.
It was also because of Charles that the women in this base was suppressed and were not even allowed to raise their own voice or opinions.
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"It looks like this is the base." Standing 20 meters away from the fortress, Aleesia and Maria looked around. The so-called fortress was rather built by blocking out the streets with heavy and large objects. The houses of the slum were built very close to each other; almost with no space between the houses. Even the roads that were built between the houses were very narrow, only 1 meter wide. So by blocking the roads, the people of this base can keep the low-rank zombies away from their bases.
Low-rank zombies were very weak, even weaker than an adult humans. Since almost 96% of the zombies in the slum were level 1, building fences to block the roads, the zombie's habitation area could be controlled.
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"Maria, you wait here. I will sneak inside the base and deal with the enemy. Meanwhile, you can do whatever you want." Maria lowered her head and nodded. She understood that going with lady Aleesia would only burden her.
"I will just hunt the level 1 zombies and try to reach level 15." Aleesia took out a short sword and gave it to Maria.
"You might need this." Saying that Aleesia disappeared. She moved so fast that in Maria's eyes, Aleesia had practically teleported.
"Don't worry, Milady. I will give my all."
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The one and only base of the northern part of the slum, this base was known as the Warrior Faction. The Faction had a total number of 19,000 survivors. Almost all the males of this base were forced to fight. While the woman of the base was not given much freedom and was forced to stay in the shelter only.
Due to this, the number of evolvers that the Warrior Faction had was about 11,000. What Charles was doing had dissatisfied almost every evolvers and survivor of this base. Because of Jenson's mightly power, no one dared to oppose the leader. And whoever dared to say anything against the leader or Jenson would be executed and fed to zombies. This caused even the Peak first-order evolvers to fear Jenson.
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Everyone in the base was suppressed and was not allowed to raise their opinions. Since no one could do anything about Jenson, everyone had to live by not showing any dissatisfaction.
The people who were not evolvers were also not given much food and were kept hungry all the time. Since all the women of this base were not allowed to become evolvers, most of the time they were left hungry and cold.
The situation was so worse that some people even died from hungry. This base was not a shelter, it was rather a cold prison for the survivors.
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Using her Frost dance, Aleesia took advantage of the gloomy atmosphere of the base and managed to sneak into the shelter without anyone noticing. After entering the shelter, Aleesia quickly hid among the other women.
"You?" Aleesia quickly signaled the women around her to shut their mouths.
"Don't worry, I won't hurt you. As a fellow woman, I will give you freedom. For now, just help me blend here." Since Aleesia's goddess faces and feeling her powers, all the women united together and helped Aleesia.
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