Of course, the arrival of the intruders has been notified by the system to Nate and he was left in contemplation on what to do.
"This is serious, from the map, the hunter's number is seven and they are all heading towards Dike, should I go back and help him or should I just focus on finding the matrix origins just like the system stated," Nate was left to make his decision fast.
The last time he fought against a zombie hunter, he could first handily vouch that they were not by any means weak, especially to a small kid zombie-like Dike, however, many things happened that made Dike totally different from himself when he fought against the zombie hunter.
One was his superpowers, Nate could vividly remember that Dike was nearly killed by the zombie hunters before but they are one thing that the Dike of then didn't have that he has now and that was his altered form.
After giving Dike the power of the previous zombie captain, his power surely has leapt through levels ahead.
Aside from that, there is also the rain that has enhanced their attributes and Nate was sure that with these two things alone, the outcome of the previous fight between Dike and the zombie hunter might not be the same now.
"You asked for action, right?"
"I hope this will be enough to quench your blood test," Nate said then before leaving to look for the origins matrix.
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Meanwhile, Dike was stunned to see the people before him. Out of the seven people with zombie hunter written on their chests, Dike was only able to recognize two people and he took a step back slightly with worries written all over his face, however, they soon turn into grim as he smirked. 'I'm very much different from before, I have gotten stronger and I believe I can take these people down, ' Dike thought erasing all signs of worries on his face.
He stepped back while pushing Mini behind him."Stay behind me and don't move," he whispered.
Meanwhile, the zombie hunters suddenly halted as the person standing in front of them started to speak.
"Really, you are mean to say that a little kid zombie was able to annihilate your entire group of hunters, is this a joke or something," the man that was having only two short guns in his hand said with his face frowning.
Some of the hunters giggled while only two out of them didn't have funny expressions on their faces. "He is not the one that did it, but it will be of our best if we don't underestimate those things, not only can they talk, they are pretty strong," the guy from before that later found out has a speed ability said to warn the others.
"Speed. What do you take me as, I and my group have slayed zombies of their type, even the latest zombie that has been discovered was killed by my group, what do you think a little zombie kid will do," the man said.
It turned out that the guy from before was named Speed and judging from the way they were communicating, the two were not in a good team.
"Tel,"
"Call me captain, from now on, since your team has suffered a great backlash for their inability to do a simple job by killing weak zombies, it has been decided by the base that I take you two under my wing, you should count yourself lucky that I decided to take you, if not, your of all people know what is waiting for you back in the base if you have returned, so do me a favour and call me your captain!" The man known as Tel yelled at Speed.
"Are you guys going to stay there and talk about your stupid hunter stuff or are you going to come at me already," Dike's voice suddenly interrupted their discussion and Tel turned his attention to Dike.
"As for you, aren't you scared of death!" Tel shouted but was being looked at weirdly by Dike and it kind of annoyed him. "Oooh... I'm guessing based on what you are, death is nothing since you are already dead, however, it's time to make it official," Tel said, "Rita, cut this zombie into pieces for me," he called out to a female hunter that was with them.
It was a slim and tall woman and she quickly act by pulling out a rope from her side and swung it at Dike.
Dike seeing this swivel to the side using his hand to carry Mini along, the wipe hit the ground.
Bang!
It exploded throwing dust up and covering the surroundings. She proceed to recoil the wipe and swung it at Dike again, but the little zombie jumped allowing the wipe to go beneath his foot.
While doing this, he kicked on the edge of the wipe and went forward to the woman called Rita and throw his fist forward.
His fist collided with his chest and went through before coming out from her back. Dike quickly retreated to Mini before taking a stance again.
Tel and the others couldn't believe their eyes as to how the little zombie before them managed to deliver a such strike.
"Quick, use your healing power on her," Tel quickly urged the guy holding a meteorite stone in his hand.
"It's already too late, I can't feel any heartbeat, she's dead," the man declared as he tried using his power on Rite.
"How dare you kill her, I'm going to kill you," Tel rushed forward at Dike. Seeing this, Dike took Mini and ran back towards the safe house, however, he didn't just enter, but rather tossed Mini inside.
"Stay in there with the others till I open the door," Dike said, Mini wanted to oppose but Dike was already closing the door.
"She's going nowhere!" a voice yelled from behind, however, rather than coming from behind, a kick was sent at Dike's chest sending him flying back.
Dike quickly marched his power to that of the kick and stabilize himself before looking at who just kicked him.
Initially, where he was looking, Mini was meant to be standing there however, Tel was there instead as for how he got there, Dike has no idea.
"Help... Ahhhhh...!!!" Mini's scream from behind snapped Dike out of his daze.
'How did she get there?' he questioned as he stood up.
"Give it up little zombie, you are surrounded and can't do anything, let me kill you and we can think of spearing your little girlfriend," Tel said as he swiftly approach Dike.
"Hahaha...!!! Do you think it's over? I still have many things to show you guys, I will show you guys how much different I'm from the other mindless zombies you have killed," just after Dike said that his body started to alter. His mouth started to widen as it took the shape of shark teeth. His skin colour turned red as multiple poxes surfaced on his smooth pale skin that became jogged.
The last change that occurred was his four tentacles spread out. However, it was not over yet, the inventory mist started appearing on each tentacle, and soon, various weapons appeared on his tentacle as he grip it tight.
"What is that?" all the zombie hunters asked taking steps back in shock.
Before they could do anything further, the tentacle came after them and started using the weapons on them.