Albeit in the middle of a very dangerous situation, the girl's eyes that met with Jeff's eyes before were shining brightly. Her oval slightly chubby face and short brown hair that gives off a mature air is the type of girl that Jeff really likes.
Even though the girl is wearing a not-so-fitting t-shirt, her figure still can be seen clearly.
Because of that Jeff feels a sense of heroism in him and decided to save the girl from this big Walker, with just an impulse he blocks the big Walker's attack and told the girl to run.
Jeff feel good for a moment but seeing the girl actually running didn't cross his mind.
In this kind of situation, them running away should've been expected but Jeff thought differently. He feels a connection between them and turns out only he was feeling it.
"Motherfucker... why am I here?"
After the three ran away, Jeff realized the situation he was in.
The danger of the situation becomes more real when he saw the guy's corpse that has his head bitten off, blood is still leaking and the puddle of blood has even already reached his shoes.
Graah!
Opening its mouth growling in front of his face, Jeff can smell the nasty scent coming from it.
Now that the three has fleed away leaving him alone here with this big Walker and the other Walkers slowly approaching him, his only option was to turn back to Pati.
But then suddenly, a loud crashing sound came from the cafeteria.
Boom!
Pati got sent crashing away bursting from the storage room before hitting a wall.
With wounds all over his body, Pati stands up glaring at Tanky who came out of the storage room prowling. Even though Pati is hurt, Tanky is also hurt the same.
Its right front paw got severed making it hard to move, but Zombie doesn't feel pain.
After getting crashed outside of the storage room, in the corner of Pati's eyes notice a bunch of Zombies moving. He turns his head and was surprised to find Jeff is engaged in a fight against a big Zombie.
'Why is he still here?', Pati thought with a frown.
But he soon turns his head back to Tanky seeing it about to attack him again. Tanky lowers its body while fixating its eyes on Pati, and soon a weird feeling concentrate on its legs before Tanky leaped forward.
Raawr!
Looking at this, Pati jumped to the side dodging Tanky's leap.
Tanky crashed to the wall and cracked it before shaking its head and glaring at Pati, it was the movement that gives Pati a hard time inside the storage room. It's some sort of skill that Tanky always use to close in the distance.
Pati positioned his hand holding the butcher knife before he swings it powerfully seeing Tanky leaped again at him.
Slash!
It manage to break Tanky's jaw making it dangling but the momentum didn't stop.
Growl!
With Tanky on top of him trying to bite his head off to try and eat his brain, Pati uses both of his hands to stop Tanky's head advancement by the neck. His butcher knife got knocked away.
Even with his strength stat reaching 37 points, it was still hard to hold Tanky back.
But soon, Pati heard fleshy sounds coming from his back.
In his mind, Jeff is in danger so he musters every inch of his power to grab Tanky's head and slam it to the ground. Just by a stroke of luck thanks to one of its front paws severed, Pati manage to do it.
After slamming Tanky to the ground, Pati immediately stands up and connects his fists together. His hands become hardened and even glistening a bit as he activates his Hammer Fist skill.
Putting everything into one wide swing, Pati hammer both fists at Tanky.
BAM!
Pati's hammer fist landed cleanly on Tanky's head, his clasps fists smashed its head breaking the leftover skin covering Tanky's skull and even cracking the skull. Seeing no message from the system, Pati raises his fists and slams them down again.
BAM!
On the second hammer fist landing solidly on Tanky's head, the skull cracked mushing its brain.
[Gained a level 9 Zombified Black Cat Chaos]
[Class restriction has been employed, unable to absorb gained Chaos!]
After the system message popped up showing that Tanky is really dead this time, Pati ran to take his butcher knife before turning around to help Jeff. But soon he stopped in his tracks upon seeing the scene in front of him.
It's very shocking that even he can't contain the confusion and anger inside him.
Something like what he was seeing right now never crosses his mind at all especially knowing that Jeff did this, the coward who ran to him every time asking for help, "This is not possible..."
What lies in front of Pati are corpses of Walkers that are lying on the ground.
All of them have the same wound on their necks that severed their heads, the clean-cut wound shows that it comes from a machete. The same machete that Pati gave to Jeff a moment ago which resulted in them being spotted by Tanky.
Jeff is currently fighting with the big Walker with the bloody machete in his hand.
From just a glance from the side Pati saw that the big Walker's legs have many cut wounds, Jeff should be aiming for its legs since even though this big Walker is not a normal Walker its movement is just slightly better than a normal Walker.
Looking at this, Pati gritted his teeth before he charges forward.
Meanwhile, Jeff dodged a powerful swipe from the big Walker by side-stepping to the side. With the Machete in hand, he then slashes the big Walker right on its neck, 'Tch! Why is so hard to penetrate?', he thought looking at the big Walker's neck.
On the big Walker's neck, Jeff kept hitting the same spot hoping to cut off its head.
He's been doing it many times right now and the wound is not deep enough to kill the big Walker, but then suddenly Pati body slams the big Walker powerfully making it stumbles back.
"Pati!", Jeff exclaimed excitedly.
Upon seeing Pati, Jeff looks back and finds Tanky's corpse already lying on the ground. Although unbelievable since Tanky is very fast, Pati nevertheless manages to kill it.
Without looking at Jeff, Pati then said, "Let's finish this up quickly before others arrive"
Hearing this, Jeff nodded his head before focusing back on the big Walker. With its legs getting slashed a couple of times and missing much flesh, the big Walker is walking limply. This heavily reduces its mobility, and a Zombie like this is easy to be dealt with.
After readying themselves, Pati and Jeff sprinted at the big Walker.
Both of them cross each other before attacking from the side, the big Walker tries to grab or even hits them to no avail. Jeff kept sneaking an attack to its neck while Pati is diverting its attention by keeping on its line of sight.
This strategy is very effective as Jeff manages to sneak in many powerful slashes.
In about a minute of doing that, Pati saw Jeff's continuous slash manage to cut halfway into the big Walker's neck. Pati dodged an attack from the big Walker's claws before he jumps.
Clasping both of his hands, Pati then hammered the big Walker right on the side of its head.
Pah!
The impact of the hit creates a reverberating sound that makes even Jeff feel the power behind it. While still growling, the big Walker ate Pati's hammer fist skill but its neck gave out as the attack snap its bone sending its head crashing to the side.
Because of Jeff's work on its neck, Pati manages to snap its bone rather easily with his skill.
[Gained a level 8 Heavy Walker Chaos]
[You have reached level 6, Stats has been distributed accordingly]
[Hammer Fist skill mastery has increased to level 2!]
Upon killing the Heavy Walker, Pati managed to reach level 6 and even increase the Hammer Fist mastery to level 2. Overall, it's quite a good unexpected harvest they did. But still, their objective is to check the storage room not to fight.
After killing the Heavy Walker, Pati glanced to the side and saw Jeff is excited.
"Yo! We're a dynamic duo! The Zombies are a piece of cake for us", Jeff rubs his nose with a slight smile, he's proud of himself for fighting such a monstrous Zombie.
Ignoring his remarks, Pati then asks, "What were you doing here? Why are you fighting this?"
"Wait a minute... this is not a Zombie's corpse", he added looking at the human headless corpse, from its skin this headless corpse surely is not a Zombie. Noticing this, Pati looks back at Jeff who is scratching his head.
As if he got caught, Jeff then replied, "I met with the survivors before, they're trying to kill a separated Walker. But it suddenly becomes even muscular and turns into that thing, so I jumped in to help"
"Jumped in to help? More like jumping recklessly to save the girls right?", Pati said sarcastically, of course, Jeff would jump in to help if there were the girls.
Hearing this, Jeff wanted to rebut but he can't muster any words.
With a sigh, Pati then looks back at the Heavy Walker's corpse before he asks, "So you're saying that one of the Walker turns into this thing? How did it do that?"
"I think they evolve or something after eating that Zombie's corpse over there", Jeff pointed at the Brawler's corpse that is already half eaten by the Walkers crowding it earlier, and this makes Pati frown in thought realizing that Zombies can get stronger too.
Just like him, he needs to eat brains to get stronger because of his Brain Eater class. These Walkers turns out to also needs to eat to get stronger, but they eat other Zombie's corpse instead.
Rubbing his chin in thought, Pati shakes his head before he looks down.
There are a couple of things dropped by the Heavy Walker, just like the Brawler. But the Heavy Walker dropped a red crystal that has a tint of brown in it unlike the one dropped from the Brawler and also a black coin. Pati then run back to Tanky's corpse and looted a green crystal, two black coins, and another parchment.
Out of all the things he looted, the parchment is the most valuable of them all.
At least for now because this parchment contains skill. The Hammer Fist skill is already powerful enough that is very useful in a battle, so another skill to his arsenal will boost his power.
Without wasting any time, Pati crushed the red crystal and green crystals.
[Gained + 8 Strength and +3 Vitality]
[Gained +11 Agility]
Just after crushing those two crystals, a surge of power travels throughout Pati's entire body making him feel rejuvenated. He then harvested Tanky's brain before he walks back to Jeff who is already sitting on the stairs drenched in sweat.
Jeff glanced at Pati and mutters, "Can I also get those things? I contribute to the fight"
"When you quit being a bitch then I'll let you get some of the loot, until then, you're stuck being the side character", Pati replied sarcastically, this makes Jeff clicks his tongue and rolls his eyes.
Jeff knows what Pati is trying to say,
He basically referring to Jeff trying to save the girls and getting surrounded by the Walkers, although it turns out good in the end it's still a stupid move.
But when Pati was about to harvest the Heavy Walker's brain, he stopped suddenly.
Upon looking at this, Jeff unconsciously grabs the machete he puts on the side. He looks around warily, "What is it? Are there any more Zombies?"
"No it's not that, I just realized. How do you kill those Walkers?", Pati asks in confusion.
Throughout the start of the apocalypse which is just yesterday night, Jeff only killed two Walkers. So he's probably level 2 or level 3, but he manages to kill a dozen Walkers that fast.
Pati when he was level two or three still needs many hits just to kill one Walker.
So Pati finds this strange, "I use the machete, of course. What else can I do?", Jeff replied
"How many points do you have on strength stat? I'm curious", Pati asks again feeling something weird, it's just too fast for Jeff to kill those dozen of Walkers when he exchanged a couple of blows against Tanky.
Pati saw Jeff seems to be looking at his status window before he replied, "37 Points"
"While you're harvesting those brains you brought, I'm trying to learn the status window. With the 5000 Chaos at the start, I use most of them on strength and distribute the others to th-"
Before Jeff can finish talking, Pati stopped him, "Wait, back up. 5000 Chaos?"
"Yeah...? 5000 Chaos. Well technically it's about 5600 Chaos after killing the Walkers", Jeff said nonchalantly but this made Pati widen his eyes, he can't believe what he was hearing.
This makes Jeff weird out but Pati is looking at him in absolute shock.
But that shock slowly turns into anger when he realized that Jeff got 5000 Chaos from the start while he only got 400 Chaos, 'So you're saying he's more talented than me?'
'This motherfucker somehow keeps pissing me off for some reason...'