The tension could be felt in the air as the Whitebonez was staring directly into Nate's eye with pure killing instinct.
'I can tell you are irritated by my presence, but too bad I can't do anything about that,' Nate thought.
The whitebonez was the one that took the lead by swinging its claws at Nate. Nate also rushed in and when doing so, he altered the axe from a wipe to a shield that protected him from the hit.
He was pushed back a little bit after the hit, however, received no damage at all. He continued by turning the shield this time into a long sword that he swung at the Whitebonez.
He was not yet at a range the sword would touch the target, but an azure thread shoot out from the sword's edge and hit the whitebonez chest.
Nate could see what was happening, the whitebonez zombie was about to swing its hand at him again when the thread hit its chest. Nate could see the zombie's hand slowly down to an extent that it almost seems as if the zombie was pausing its movement, but Nate know that this was the work of the ice ray power the axe had.
However, this only happened in friction of seconds as the whitebonez zombie craw continued descending at Nate. But just that few seconds was enough for Nate to move out of the way with his current agility and then plan for another counterattack.
The whitebonez hand hit the ground, sending fragments of ice flying through the area. The zombie found out that the attack missed and decided to strike again. But Nate blocked it with his axe being altered into a shield and then altered again into its axe form before nate swung it at the whitebonez jaw in an uppercut.
The Whitebonezs body was sent flying backwards and Nate followed after it. With his agility being doubled, he kept on swinging the axe at the whitebonez body until the whitebonez body eventually clashed with the cliff wall again.
The cliff shook violently as a landslide of snow started to fall. Nate seeing this retreated backwards leaving the Whitebonez to be buried by the snow slide.
Meanwhile, back behind nate, Zuni, Cab, and Max's mouths were widely opened as they watched the scene before them.
"Is it over? Did he just kill a Whitebonez like that, like it's nothing, the weapon he is using, you saw it, right?" Cab could not stop throwing questions at his colleagues.
"Why are you asking us, we are all the ones watching it all along," Max cracked at Cab. They all were the ones witnessing it for the first time, a whitebonez being killed like it was not. To them, it seems effortless to compare with the fight against the king-level beast.
"That weapon is interesting, I wonder who made such a powerful weapon," Zuni said.
"Maybe, I can ask him to make one for me, if I had a weapon like that, then I might not be of too much a burden to your guys," Cab said and was already walking up towards Nate.
Meanwhile, while the others have already concluded that nate has slaughtered a whitebonez effortlessly, Nate didn't think the same.
'Hey, he's dead already, give me my reward already,' Nate spoke to the system but got no reply.
'Why are you keeping silence?' nate became angry at the system.
[Quest still in progress. Survive the encounter with a Whitebonez]
[Reward= Gold medal]
'What are you talking about, are having some virus problem or something, the whitebones you are speaking of are
currently lying buried under those snow and you are... Wait, still in progress? Those that mean it's still alive and can still fight?' just as Nate was thinking about this, a silhouette busted out from the snow in front of him and leapt towards his direction.
Nate had already been alerted beforehand but was caught off guard and could only cross the axe in front of him. He had no time to turn it into a shield and decided to block with the axe.
Not having a strong stance since he was caught off guard, Nate was sent flying to the side as the axe fall out of his hand.
The whitebonez wanted to follow nate up but its eyes caught something by the corner and decided to go after it instead.
It all happened fast, having thought that the whitebonez was dead, Cab was walking carefreely towards Nate and never expected the whole thing to change in just seconds.
"Can run!" Zuni and Max shouted from behind but it was useless, if they wanted to help, they won't be able to cover the distance between them and Cab in the time since the Whitebonez will beat them on that. However, there is no harm in trying.
Zuni didn't hesitate to rush towards Cab however, just like they expected, it was super easy for the Whitebonez to move in the snow and a blink, the zombie was already on top of Cab.
Can himself was so frighted to a degree that it seems as if his spirit has left his body as he was pinned down on the ground. The whitebonez tentacles quickly bite into his body and injected a poisonous substance into Cab's body.
"Noooo!" Zuni cried out as he kept running towards Cab.
His yell caught the attention of the whitebonez as its gaze was shifted at him.
The zombie was about to move to him but it was then an ice spear was stabbed on its back as he was scooped off Cab's body. "Fine a way to sustain him till I'm back," Nate said to Zuni as he rushed off towards the whitebonez.
Meanwhile, the whitebonez was rolling on the ground as its fingers were placed in the spot Nate just stabbed the ice spear.
'Pain? a zombie that can feel pain?' Nate was not believing what he was seeing and decided to use a skill that will usually expose one's weak spots to him.
[Soul weapon]
When using this skill on a zombie, the skill will usually should the head as a vital spot of a zombie that one can use in killing it, however, right in front of Nate, the soul weapon skill was showing him two vital spots.
One was the head of course and another was the heart.
'If the system didn't particularly state you as a zombie, I would have doubted that as well,'
In all the games Nate has played so far, never had he heard of a zombie that has a functioning heart. 'This also explains why you can stay in could without getting frozen,'
It now did not understand why the whitebonez were able to stay out in the cold without any happening to them. It's all because their heart was still functioning and this means it was still pumping blood into circulation in their body and it was warming them up.
'Let's just finish this up,'
Nate altered the axe into a chain again and sent it to the Whitebonez, pulling the zombie towards him, Nate throughout his fist at the zombie's jaw.
The zombie's teeth were shattered in an instant, as it whacked back, but the chain was still there as Nate pulled the zombie forward once more and repeated the same thing.
Recalling the chains, Nate turned them back into an ice spear before thrusting it forward at the Whitebone. It was a direct aim at the zombie's heart as the spear went through its chest and came out from the other corner.
Blood was gushing out from the zombie's chest as it slowly slumped on the floor.
[Quest completed= You survived your first encounter with the whitebonez]
[Reward= Golden medal has been granted]
'Finally, I get my reward,' Nate said.
[Congratulations to the host, you just killed a manmade zombie]
[The host is advised to retrieve its brain and heart]
'Man-made zombie?'