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Chapter 13 - Underestimating His Own Power

'It's above me all this time...'

Upon realizing the fact that the fat Zombie is above him and probably is looking at him the moment he enters the room, Pati kept his body still trying to not agitate the fat Zombie.

From the green goo, it should be directly on top of him.

Since the Zombie is fat and is fairly big because of its fat belly, Pati never expected that the Zombie can actually climb or do something to climb to the ceiling. It shouldn't be able to do that, but who is Pati to expect that in this apocalyptic time.

Everything that is happening denies all of the knowledge he has before, including this.

Pati slowly pushes the chair back forcing himself to move in a calm and collected manner, he can feel the fat Zombie's eyes fixated on him from above, 'Don't jump...don't jump... don't jump...'

Knowing that the fat Zombie can jump at him anytime, his heart is beating like a war drum.

If he tries to look at the fat Zombie then the fat Zombie will instantly attack, Pati can feel it in his heart so he tries to avoid looking up despite he really wants to. He then takes his first step towards the door carefully.

After stepping two times acting normal, Pati feels his throat dry.

His eyes then landed on a small mirror that is hanging by the wall just beside the door, intendedly Pati went to the small mirror and looks at the reflection. Just like he thought, the fat Zombie's green eyes are looking at him.

The fat Zombie is on the corner of the ceiling with green saliva dripping from its mouth.

It seems the fat Zombie can stick to the wall using the green goo covering its entire body, the fat Zombie's eyes are looking at Pati curiously without making any sound. Pati then shifted his eyes to the butcher knife, 'I need a longer weapon', he thought.

Just from looking at the fat Zombie's body that contains a thick fat layer, Pati knows that the butcher knife will not be able to do anything except if somehow he manages to destroy the fat Zombie's skull which should be its weak spot.

Anywhere aside from its head is covered by fat, so Pati needs to aim that.

'Okay, let's aim for its head. I doubt its body is as strong as a Brawler', Pati thought preparing himself to engage, but the fat Zombie's face contorted as if it can sense what Pati was about to do or even blatantly read his mind.

So as soon as he thought of that, the fat Zombie push itself off of the ceiling.

Growl!

The fat Zombie jumped down from the ceiling intending to crush Pati with its weight, its growl was hoarse, and spitting green saliva as it opens its mouth angrily. Hearing this daunting voice, Pati instantly uses his Leap skill and dash to the size.

In the last second before getting hit, he manages to dodge the fat Zombie as it crashes to the wall. The sheer weight of the fat Zombie destroyed the concrete wall as it crashes outside.

Pati then slowly got out of the control room before frowning, "Where is it?"

Just as he mutters in confusion, he then looks up and saw the fat Zombie on the ceiling again. The ceiling of the university is quite high, at least more than 30 feet. So if anyone doesn't look up, then they won't see this fat Zombie hanging on the ceiling like a spider.

Once again, the fat Zombie jumped down but this time Pati is ready.

Boasting his agile movement 7 times faster than a normal human, Pati swings the butcher knife towards the descending fat Zombie. His arm turns into a shadowy lash because of how fast he swings it.

Boom!

The butcher knife landed solidly on the fat Zombie's head, in that split second Pati saw the butcher knife sliced through the fat Zombie's cheek before sending it crashing away. He was surprised that the fat Zombie got flung away.

Although he got stronger, he thought that he will only be able to defect the fat Zombie's advance.

Instead of deflecting the fat Zombie which is very heavy judging from how it looks, Pati manages to absolutely send the fat Zombie crashing through the wall and into the janitor's room. He underestimated the seven times the strength of an average adult.

Feeling the overwhelming power from his swing, Pati looks at the butcher knife in awe.

His eyes widen still in disbelief by the amount of force his swing can generate, it's simply monstrous, "Is this really me? Hah! It's fucking fun!", Pati exclaimed, he can't hide his excited expression.

With this kind of power, he will be the strongest man prior to the apocalypse.

But just as he wanted to finish off the fat Zombie that got sent crashing into the janitor's room, Pati glanced to the side when he hear two crashing sounds from his right. There are two holes on the wall on his right, and not long after two Zombies got out of the classroom.

Upon seeing this, Pati widens his eyes seeing that the two are the Brawlers from the second floor.

They must've heard about the commotion coming from his fight and the fat Zombie and leaped from the second floor to the sixth floor. Pati looks at them with a smile on his face, the surge of confidence makes him puff up his chest.

Realizing how strong he has become, he's unfearful of the two Brawlers.

Roar!

Both brawlers started to charge at him like two angry bulls, they both towered and even nudged each other since the hallway is not big enough to fit both of them charging side by side.

Each step they took makes a heavy thud and the floor beneath them cracks.

Just this alone shows that these Brawlers are very heavy from their dense muscles, a normal human getting hit by them will definitely find their entire body broken but not for Pati.

Without backing down, he throws the butcher knife to the side before he also sprints.

Pati's eyes look at both Brawlers like a maniac as he charges at these monstrous Zombies, the contrast of their size is evident for anyone to see but nevertheless he's not scared by the sheer size of the Brawlers anymore.

Bam!

Upon collision, the Brawlers got blown a couple of yards away.

Their bodies create two fine crack lines on the ground as they screeched for another couple of yards, it's unbelievable to see that these two giants are blown because of the collision with Pati.

A hysterical laugh escapes Pati's mouth as the feeling of strength overwhelms him.

For as long as his life until the apocalypse started, he never really experience this kind of feeling. But now that he felt it, he now realizes the fun of suppressing someone weaker with strength just like those bullies.

While Pati turns around to finish the fat Zombie first which might have an ability that he doesn't know, a room just near where the two Brawlers crashed opens.

A blonde-haired girl popped her head and saw Pati walking into the janitor's room.

That blond-haired girl is Dinda and the other two who try to see what the commotion is about. Since Pati is currently on the sixth floor, he's on the same floor as the classroom where the group of three are hiding.

Upon seeing Pati getting inside the janitor's room, Dinda's eyes flash intending to go to him.

But just when she was about to step out of the classroom, she turns her head to the other side and saw the two Brawlers trying to stand up. From the collision with Pati, one of the Brawlers' legs is broken while the other has one of its arms twisted unnaturally.

Dinda widens her eyes in horror before closing the classroom door once again.

The sight of two monstrous Brawlers scared her back into the room, even a Walker is already scary enough for her but these are not Walkers. They're Brawlers, way bigger and stronger than Walkers.

Meanwhile, Pati got inside the janitor's room and finds the fat Zombie already standing.

From the attack he did before, the fat Zombie's jaw is clearly broken and its cheek is torn making the left part of its jaw hangs lower. Its green eyes are glaring at Pati murderously, but with his newfound confidence, he stands in front of the fat Zombie calmly.

After staring at the fat Zombie with a cheeky smile, Pati then decided to attack first.

Closing in the distance between them using the Leap skill, he swings the butcher knife that he already took before going inside the janitor's room. The fat Zombie doesn't manage to dodge as a long slash cut its belly open.

With its intestines coming out, Pati regretted doing that since the stench becomes stronger.

Pati's eyes then dilated when he saw the fat Zombie move, it makes a gurgling sound with its mouth before spitting its green saliva towards him. Upon seeing this, he can feel that this one is not the same as the green goo that falls to his shoulder earlier.

It's easy to spot that it's not the same since this once lets out steam just like a hot pot.

Dodging the green steaming pit by stepping to the side, Pat then readies the butcher knife once again before using all of his might to swing it down horizontally right at the fat Zombie's head. With his strength, the butcher knife cracked the fat Zombie's head open.

Even with that, it's still trying to reach for him as the butcher knife is not deep enough into the skull.

Pulling the butcher knife out of the fat Zombie's cracked head, Pati was caught in surprise seeing that the butcher knife snapped. It succumbs to the constant powerful slash Pati did and finally snap.

Clang!

Upon seeing this, the fat Zombie cracks a smile as it reaches out its nasty hands to grab Pati.

But Pati didn't let its nasty hand covered with green goo touch his body, he jumped avoiding the fat Zombie's stretched arm before he saw half of the butcher knife still stuck in its skull. Without wasting any second, Pati then clasps his hand and activates his Hammer Fist skill.

Bam!

With the Hammer Fist skill, Pati successfully engraves the butcher knife deeper into the skull.

[Gained a level 11 Acidic Fatso Chaos]

[You have reached level 7...]

[You have reached level 8, Stats has been distributed accordingly]

Pati manages to level up two times from killing the Acidic Fatso which turns out to be level 11, the highest-leveled Zombie that he has ever killed. If the Acidic Fatso notices when Pati peeks inside the control room the first time, he might die from that exchange.

But thankfully the Acidic Fatso didn't sense him, so now he manage to kill it.

After killing the Acidic Fatso, Pati didn't idle around. He harvested the brain and takes the dropped items before going out of the janitor's room. He still has two prey to kill, and one of them is heading toward him while the others are looking into the classroom through the window curiously.

Upon seeing this, Pati remembered that the group of three are inside that classroom.

Stomping his feet on the ground strongly, Pati uses the Leap Skill to attack the Brawler heading towards him. The Brawler clasps both of its hands when it saw Pati arrives, it then swings down powerfully.

Looking at this, Pati jumped over the Brawler while simultaneously dodging its attack.

Boom!

The attack missed Pati and hits the floor powerfully, the cracks on the floor started to spread before the floor collapses alongside the Brawler. It falls to one floor below, but Pati ignores that Brawler and throws the handle of the butcher knife in his hand towards the other Brawler.

Bam!

Growl!

Pati's throw manages to hit the Brawler right on its head, it growls angrily but stopped when it saw clasped hands heading towards it and is already right in front of its eyes.

Splat!

Just like a watermelon, the Brawler's head split into two before its body falls to the ground.

[Gained a level 9 Brawler Chaos]

Now that his strength is already reached 70 points, his Hammer Fist skill becomes even stronger. It even manages to completely split the Brawler's head. Blood burst into the surroundings and some splattered on Pati's face.

Using his hands to wipe the blood splattered on his face, Pati then glances into the classroom.

Dinda is looking at Pati through the window on the door making eye contact with her somewhat glowing blue eyes, she seems to be anticipating for Pati's arrival and this confuses him. But soon the other Brawler burst from the floor growling menacingly.

Pati refocuses his attention back on the Brawler before he went into his battle stance.

Well, it's not a unique battle stance as he only learned martial arts when he was a kid. He clenched his hands into a fist and puts them in front of his body, a normal battle stance.

The Brawler rushes in like an animal before engaging round two with Pati.

Each of the Brawler's strikes is powerful creating a crater or simply cracking the ground, but Pati dodges everything the Brawler throws at him with ease. He dodges a powerful left hook that destroys the concrete fence of the sixth floor beside them.

Because of this powerful left hook that missed, the Brawler's body is wide open.

Pati went in and sent a punch straight to the Brawler's body sending it crashing to the concrete fence and even almost falling, but without stopping he then grabs the Brawler's hand and pull him back before using his leg to sweep its legs.

Thud!

The Brawler's legs got swept as it fall to the ground, and with that Pati started raining powerful punches to completely dominate the Brawler under him. Not long after, another message from the system appeared.

[Gained a level 9 Brawler Chaos]

[Class restriction has been employed, unable to absorb gained Chaos!]

After the message from the system, Pati cease his punch and immediately harvested the brains and collected the items dropped from both of the Brawlers. He got plenty of things now that will make him even stronger.

Just as he puts the items he got into his pocket making it bulging, he sensed someone behind.

Turning his body around, Pati finds Dinda standing behind him. She made eye contact trying to look calm but Pati saw her fingers playing with the edge of her clothes showing that she was actually nervous.

Even though he spent most of his time inside his room, that doesn't mean he didn't know completely about socializing things. In fact, he learned a bit about body language.

'She seems nervous, what is she trying to say', Pati thought while looking at Dinda.

With the blood of the Zombies decorating his clothes and face, Pati looks very much intimidating. But Dinda steeled herself before she finally forces out what she wants to say, "Please let me join your group!"