The silent and eerie night suddenly turns into chaos in a blink of an eye, people started screaming at the top of their lungs watching their friends, partners, or even family got mauled and slaughtered by the Zombies that woke up.
Wherever one glances, there are more people running and pushing each other.
Its once usual peaceful night turns into a hunting ground in an instant as more and more Zombies woke up, but amongst them stands Pati looking around the situation calmly trying to locate the safest route for them.
Jericho Paradise Beach is already around the corner, it's so near yet so far at the same time.
All they need to do is to take a left turn at the end of the street to reach their destination, but the chaos ensued makes it hard for them to go there without getting knocked by other survivors.
Jeff, Dinda, Salsa, and the others are already gathered close near Pati to avoid the running survivors.
While Pati was looking around the place, he realized that the ones that woke up are only Walkers. Ones such as Brawlers, Runner, and Heavy Walkers are still lying on the ground sleeping. Just as he realized that, a survivor suddenly tries to push him to the side trying to flee from a Walker that doesn't move stiffly anymore.
It becomes more agile because of the chaos amplification. But instead of pushing Pati to the side, the man is the one that got pushed back instead.
Although he's clearly pushing a young man, the survivor feels like he's pushing a wall. Pati is rooted on the ground like a rock that can't be pushed that easily. Glancing to the side at the man, Pati's expression turns cold before he front kicked the man right at the charging Walker.
"Raarghh! Help! Please help!", the man pleaded for help but was ignored by Pati and the others.
The Walkers start to bite through its neck and tear off its head savoring the free meal that falls into its open arms, if it has consciousness then it might just thank Pati for doing that.
Shifting his attention to the side of the street, Pati finds a two stories cafe on the left side of the street. He once went there after deciding to not check out the newly opened beach, "Go to that cafe, it has another exit on the other side. We can avoid these stupid people if we go through there"
"Okay...!", Dinda shouted before looking at the others and signaling them to follow her.
After the others started running excluding Jeff who stayed behind, Pati scans the Walkers that are now as agile as a Runner before he said, "We'll help them cross the street before following them"
"You gotcha!", Jeff said readying his two battle axes in his hands.
Just as Pati was about to protect the rear of the others from the charging Walkers preying and leaping at the running survivors, the corner of his eyes saw a Walker trying to grab Jeff from the side. Its claws are uneven and have some sharp edges.
But with his insane reflex that had already reached an inhuman level, Pati's body moved.
Side stepping to the side and adjusting his body swiftly, Pati landed a straight uppercut right onto its jaw followed by a roundhouse kick to the head realizing that his punch didn't manage to burst its head open.
With the little time he had, drawing his sword was not an option and he was forced to use his limbs.
Then again, each of his limbs should've been enough to kill a measly Walker that is the most common and the first Zombie that he ever killed. And now despite two consecutive attacks, the Walker got back up and slowly glanced back at Pati.
"You ugly bastard, don't get fucking cocky!", Pati grins nastily before slashing his sword.
Slash!
The couple of seconds created from the swift consecutive attacks are enough for Pati to draw his sword. And even though the Walkers are noticeably way stronger because of the Survival Night, the Peacekeeping Sword Grinder cut through its neck like butter and killed it instantly.
[Gained a level 11 Walker Chaos]
[Class restriction has been employed, unable to absorb gained Chaos!]
Severing a Zombie's head is the safest way to make sure a Zombie is dead. So after he killed the Walker, he looks up and finds Jeff sprinting in front of him toward a Walker.
The Walker is currently trying to reach for Abby but got held back, she kept firing a barrage of gunshots but the Walker kept charging forward as the bullets missed its head. The gunshots look ordinary but it's certainly faster than a regular bullet, 'It should be a skill, a pretty good one too...'
Jeff's muscles tensed as he charged at the Walker, "Body Charge!"
A condensed wind appears around his body that becomes even more visible the faster he gets, it creates somekind of half of a ball barrier that covers Jeff's front side. Upon hitting the Walker, it got sent stumbling to the side almost falling to the ground.
Many of the onlookers exclaimed in awe seeing the powerful strike from Jeff.
But Jeff didn't stop just right there, his battle axes glows with a subtle red light before he jumped at the Walker and swung the battle axes down with a heavy slash. They manage to crack the Walker's skull and destroyed its head.
"He's so strong..."
"Why didn't he become our leader? We'll be better off with him"
Some of the survivors that saw this scene despite the chaos look at Jeff in a new light, many of them starting to get close to Jeff for safety. They were surprised by how powerful he turned out to be.
Although it's not the time, Jeff can't help but rub his nose feeling proud of himself.
'This feeling is actually not bad... showing off is absolutely the best thing that a man can do', Jeff thought with a smile, but his eyes then shifted to a shadow that suddenly appears above him.
Following the shadow trajectory, Jeff realized that there are three Walkers heading toward him.
But the shadow intercepted these three Walkers that tries to attack him. With his arms clasped together creating a hammer, the shadow slammed them down at the three sprinting Walkers crushing their bodies and even cracking the ground beneath them.
Some of the survivors felt the ground shake and almost stumbled over because of that.
Jeff blinks his eyes a couple of times and discovers that the shadow is holding a particular sword with rigid teeth on its sharp side, "Great, way to go to take all the spotlight Pati!"
"Oh...? I didn't see you there killing one little Walker", Pati replied with a smirk.
Without even waiting for Jeff to reply, he already dashed away. This act alone frustrated Jeff since he wanted to reply but didn't get the chance to, he can only look at where Pati dashed off to and shouted, "At least I didn't cause unnecessary damage to the street! My kill was clean! CLEAN!!"
After shouting at the top of his lungs, a middle-aged man with white air approached him.
"Young man... does that young man that created a crater on the ground your friend?", the middle-aged man asks with a soft smile, two other men of similar ages also stands on his back expectantly.
But somehow their soft smiles are like a mocking one in Jeff's eyes, "Fuck you!"
The three middle-aged men were caught off guard by the reply they get from asking nicely, but seeing another wave of Walkers approaching Jeff dashed away following the others to the cafe on the side of the street.
Upon entering the cafe that with nothing inside aside from broken tables and glasses, the others instantly went out of the other exit. Pati and Jeff are on their backs fending off the Walkers.
Graah!
Crash!
Some of them followed them inside the cafe so they need to take care of them right now.
None of the Walkers are able to operate the door as they just bust into the cafe using their sheer strength, and they started tumbling and crashing into the things inside the cafe with their eyes fixated on Pati and Jeff.
Murderous eyes are the only look they have as their minds are filled with the intent to kill.
In the small and cramped place of the cafe, it becomes even harder to fight especially for Jeff that doesn't have any fighting passive skills. His weapons are also two battle axes that do him no good in such a tight space.
Jeff got pushed and stumbled from the chair or table legs while dodging the Walkers that tries to bite him, he was having a hard time and finally abandoned his battle axes when a Walker leaped to him.
It's a different story with Pati, his movement is way more efficient despite the cramped place.
Street Fighter Champion passive skill utilize every limb efficiently in any kind of situation, they focus on that because a street fight can happen literally anywhere. Pati's body automatically adjusted the fighting style, he now already sheathed his sword and use more of his knees and elbow.
Each strike he landed on the Walker should be able to destroy a person's head easily.
Only because of the amplification by the abundant Chaos from the Survival Night that made the Walkers able to sustain Pati's hits, but they still don't stand a chance if he activates his Hammer Fist Skill.
Splat!
Using both of his clasped fists, Pati smashed the Walker's head and exploded it.
Blood squirted all over the place dying the brown floor of the cafe with thick decayed red, Pati then glanced to the side and finds Jeff in a power struggle lying on the ground while pushing back the Walker's neck using his arm.
The Walker kept trying to bite Jeff's neck clamping its jaw a couple of times.
Saliva dripped down to Jeff's face as he turns his head away, he then takes a huge deep breath and use his free legs to push the Walker off of him. It's successful, but he quickly grabs the battle ax that dropped on his side before slashing the Walker's head off with his All-out Slash skill.
Swish!
"For fuck's sake, they're not supposed to be that strong!", Jeff shouted with a heavy breath.
Pati that watches this from the side ready to help in case Jeff got overpowered by the Walker chuckles lightly, he stretches his hand and helps Jeff gets up, "Quit complaining and let's go outside, we're still not in the clear yet"
After Jeff clicks his tongue, both of them went out of the other exit.
The street on the other side of the ones they travel through earlier doesn't have many people around, only a handful of them can be seen lurking through the place avoiding a fight. Despite the street being quite desolate, there are still some Walkers walking around.
Most of them are already attracted to the commotion on the other street, but some are not.
Looking to his right, Pati can already see the edge of Jericho Paradise Beach at the end of the street. But weirdly enough, there are only a handful of survivors that manage to get inside.
'What's stopping them from getting inside the beach?', Pati thought in confusion.
But soon his attention got shifted back to Jeff that is pointing at the others that slowly backing away, Pati can't see what they are backing away from and this prompted him to walk over to them, "Why are you guys stopping? Quickly, go to the beach!", Pati commanded.
A frown appears on his face when he saw the others seem to be scared of something.
Pati turns his head to the front and saw a sleeping Brawler currently twitching disturbingly, the twitch slowly turns into a seizure while the purple light started to create a thin layer.
Upon seeing this, he immediately reaches for his sword and unsheathed it.
The Walkers alone got amplified to the point that they can even threaten Jeff's life and sustain numerous raw attacks thrown by Pati, they become so damn strong that it's sheer terrifying. But now what lies in front of them is not a Walker, but a Brawler instead!
"Go around the Brawler! Run to the beach!", Pati shouted.
Dinda and Salsa without hesitating quickly moved their legs and sprinted around the Brawler, Kian and the man with the bag also follow along leaving Abby that is frozen in her place. She was hesitantly walking around the Brawler's body with a pale face.
It seems she has quite a bit of fear for the Brawlers, maybe from a bad experience with it.
"Abby! Run right now you dumb woman!", Pati shouted angrily.
Just as Abby snapped out of her daze and intends to run, the Brawler suddenly jumped up, its body is somewhat nimble and managed to stand up strongly creating a huge crater on the asphalt ground.
Soon Its devious eyes glanced at Abby fiercely, a murderous gaze that sent a shiver to Abby's spine.
Its disfigured face is haunting to look at even for a grown adult, the Brawler is standing towering over Abby who looks very small compared to its hulking body that is at least as wide as a bus.
Abby shoots her guns repeatedly but they didn't manage to scratch the Brawler at all, every bullet got deflected or bounces off of its tough skin that is stronger than steel thanks to the amplification of Chaos.
Her body lost all will to fight upon seeing that the bullets didn't do anything.
ROAR!!!
A thunderous roar escapes the Brawler's mouth shaking the surrounding air itself.
Abby's soul left her body as her face turns white paper, but when the Brawler was about to smash both of its gigantic arms toward Abby that is already closing her eyes to accept death. A streak of shadow slammed into the Brawler.
BAM!
"Run right now!!", Jeff shouted after using his Body Charge skill and hitting the Brawler.
The Brawler didn't get pushed back even for one step upon getting hit by Jeff, but he manage to catch its attention. Eyes that are already murderous enough turn berserk thinking that a puny human dares to attack it.
Snapping out of her daze, Abby quickly sprinted away as Jeff readies his battle axes seeing that the Brawler was about to attack him judging from its leaning body.
But in the next split a second, the Brawler's head got forcefully turned away by a punch.
Pati activates his Hammer Fist Skill and punches the Brawler right on its head. Unlike before when Jeff attacks it, the punch sent the Brawler stumbling away a couple of steps before crashing into an abandoned taxi car.
"Damn, its head is very hard", Pati cursed while waving his hurting fists.
While looking at Pati to the rescue, Jeff was surprised to see the crazed look on his face.
Stepping his right foot to his front powerfully and creating a crack on the asphalt ground, Pati stretches his arm holding the Peacekeeping Sword Grinder to the side while wearing a brutal expression.
Almost as if the Brawler is conscious, it glanced back at Pati and wipes the blood flowing down the corner of its mouth. Something only an intelligent being would do.
"Why are you glaring at me, big guy? You want to eat my brain?", Pati shouted mockingly.
Many of the survivors are also walking around the Brawler that is being distracted by Pati and Jeff watches this scene in horror. Seeing Pati talking to a humongous Zombie that makes a normal person looks tiny, and even dares to mock the Zombie, they all thought of him as one thing only.
A madman! Nobody sane enough would do what he did.
But contrary to what they thought, Pati is just excited about visualizing eating the brain of this Brawler.
Aside from the delicious brain and also Chaos he will gain, there's a thought that might be plausible with this Brawler in front of him, 'Although this Brawler shouldn't be level 30, with the current amplification it should have a power to a level 30 Brawler without the amplification right?'
'Then it becomes a perfect training partner for me', Pati thought before laughing maniacally.
ROAR!!
The Brawler roared once more knowing that Pati is mocking it, but Pati responded by lifting his sword to point at the Brawler and shouted again, "Let's duke it out, big guy! We'll see who's brain going to be dinner in the end!"