Kaguya's POV:
Kaguya who was tired entered forest to find food and safe place but when she entered and walked some distance she felt like something is following her.
She became alerted when she heard some rustles and growling.
She instantly looked back and got shocked by seeing the thing which was following her.
Yes, they were corpses she saw lying around some time ago.
They were walking towards her,
There was fear, there was the terror in her eyes, she was shocked by it that her legs started to give up with shivers running through her spine.
GRRR~GrRr~
"What is this?Zombies!!" she said with shocked expression.
As she said and her voice was heard by them, every corpse following her started running in her direction.
Her fears didn't get enough time to get on her as she quickly took her run, opposite to them.
There was no choice than running, there was no help than running, there was no hope than running.
All she could think of was to run far far far away to save herself .
Huff~haa~haaa~Huff~
'I have to quickly do something. '
'Think, think think. '
It was evening and atmosphere turned din and red.
More she ran more corpses join the horde and follow her.
'W-what? there are so many!', she exclaimed looking back.
Will she give up? No.
She fastened her pace and ran back circling the area and came closer to the half dead memories of people.
She didn't know why she did it, but she thought that it will help distracting the zombies.
She wasn't heartless. She wasn't someone who will sacrifice other for her gain.
She believed three words of system "memories of past".
When Kaguya killed the people to get 'courage points', she didn't get any 'experience points'.
It was told that if we kill, we will grow but didn't grow in this case.
This gave her clear understanding about the situation which lead her to accept them as just 4-D projections.
As she ran through the people who were lying on the ground. The zombies stopped folowing her except some zombies which passed through the people.
The whole area glowed and a barrier was formed surrounding from the fortress to the last person memory.
Zombies which were within the barrier got incinerated and turned into ashes and then got erased turing into black particles which were scattered by wind.
Kaguya sighed in relief while trying to catch her breathe.
Huff~Huff~
Looking in surrounding she searched for open area. Her body was sore and throat was dry.She fell down and fainted.
-[Next morning]-
It was early morning, sun was shining, no birds were chirping.
She opened her eyes,but forced to see the gruesome scene upon getting up.
"Ahh.." She screamed, "It wasn't a dream!!. "
Her heartbeat increased. She sat on her butt and placed her hand on her chest to calm it down.
"All is well, Al is well. "
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She was thirsty and hungry at same time she wanted to take dump.
She looked in her surroundings and quickly went to nearby bush.
After freshing up she walked close to forest and didn't enter it.
Walking some distance she heard rustling sounds.
Yes, It was sound of waterfall.
It was the happiest moment for her. She quickly ran towards the sound and when the scenery became visible to her eyes, tears of happiness were formed.
She walked close to water and searched surroundings if they are safe or not.
Confirming safety she she jumped in shallow water.
Chugged mouthful of water by cupping her hands.
Resting in the water she sighed...
Now the thing remain was to find food, but to her surprise she saw a bush growing blue berries side of the stream.
Problem of food:solved.Problem of water:solved.Problem of shelter:Solved.
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Days passed,
In these days she use to follow:
wash- kill-eat-sleep cycle. Whenever it's night timing she use to sleep within the barrier so no zombies bothered her.
During day she went in search for food. There was no scarcity of fruits, but to find them she had to travel long distance.
She didn't totally avoid going in forest. Along the way entering the forest she used to kill some zombies which were standing below trees.
But she didn't dare to go deep in the forest.
She also searched for the fortress.
To conquer it she has to go on top of it and kill the king, was what told by system.
King was also same as other people. On the verge of death.
But to reach it she has to clear zombies hiding on entrance of fortress.
Yes, fortress wasn't fully inside the barrier.
Entrance to the fortress was from behind and it had no lights so it became hideout for zombies.
Fortress had three floors with no windows on first floor followed by two entrance.
One on North and one on east.
It was a tall building.
When Kaguya went close to the fortress she tried entering through the east entrance which was within barrier.
But her bad luck, it was blocked from inside by stacked corpses.
She tried removing them but all were struck and were glued to each other.
She gave up and planned to enter through North gate.
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"There are still many zombies there. They didn't come out during day. That means, I have chance to enter the fortress during night. "
"Maybe my plan will work.But for now I have to complete other quests. I will take it at last. And conquering arena is impossible for me so I will leave it as it is. "
Following days she managed to kill every broken except from the fortress.
Every broken was within the huge barrier which covered large distance.
Remaining were some in all 3 floors of fortress and
"the king".
-[Last day ]-
All six days she killed some zombies in the surrounding and gained some strength.
Now it was time for the main event.
[Conquer.]