With Baladan looking at his system and the rest of the team gathering to check each other out there was one little problem they overlooked.
???: "Don't Move!"
A voice came from the other side of the car, immediately everyone even Grim was forced to stop moving.
They couldn't even talk as their bodies locked up. All they could do was wait for the being who told them to stop to do something.
Soon a man came walking out around the car, a blonde man with red eyes. He had a smirk on his face as every single one of them got affected by his command.
Ryder: "Look what we have here~ a couple people with AR's a massive dog and a certain psycho bitch! Where's your boyfriend Rosa? Don't tell me he abandoned you? Oh and who is that, with the skull face?"
Rosa tried her best to resist answering only to be forced to talk the next second.
Rosa: "My prince is the person with a skull face… he wouldn't abandon me even if the world ended…"
With all of them being low on Mana and Grim having more of a physical build then a Mana build no one could stop him for now.
Ryder: "Oh! So it's you, you little bastard! You decided to run off and leave us, now what? Did you come back to rob more from us?"
This time it was Baladan's turn to talk, however due to his magic circle he could resist the effects! He still couldn't move without having Pure Mana but talking was something he could manage.
Ryder: "Not going to talk huh? Looks like you still have some tricks up your sleeve! Then how about this!"
He forced Rosa to move directly in front of Baladan. With a sudden grab he began to grab at her clothes tearing off the school jacket.
Ryder: "I will continue to strip her and then torture her until you tell me what I want to hear!"
Of course he had other motives besides just getting Baladan to talk. Rosa was after all well endowed making her look very appealing to the eyes.
With the tearing of her clothes he could see more of her elegant white skin. The large mounds had almost been revealed by now before he finally began to talk.
Baladan: "…W-We came here to gather the buses from all the different schools to transport people from the schools to our settlement…"
Ryder clicked his tongue, he may be scum but it would be no fun to not play by his own rules. He said he wouldn't continue if Baladan spoke which he did.
Ryder: "Interesting… so you came here wanting to take the buses, looks like you guys would have to search all over though. The buses are parked in the parking lot under the science building… however it's to bad none of you will be returning!"
He had grabbed Rosa by her hips lifting her up over his shoulder before starting to give out his commands.
Ryder: "All of you hand in your guns to me and head towards the gym. Baladan… since you want to be a problem and won't submit to me then you can just die. After handing in your weapons go walk into the science building and kill as many as you can before you die from those undead~ while I have fun with your girl!"
Under the mask his eyes were bloodshot, his face was screaming with anger as he watched Ryder casually take their weapons before sending him off alone to face possibly a thousand Shadow Corpses in the science building alone!
Boss: 'Damnit… I used to much Mana during the fight! If only I could activate [Authority]! I could easily turn this scum into a corpse!'
Bal: 'Just you wait Ryder!!! When I get out of the science building I'm going to beat you to the point of near death before turning you just to devour you!! I will make you regret ever making me your enemy!'
At this point he didn't care about morals, he had some misgivings about eating the undead but right now he didn't care about any of that. If it could get him out of this situation then he would eat every single undead he came across just to kill that fucker!
Ryder: 'With that settled let's bring these guys back, I'll be sure to keep their Mana low using commands before I have my way with Rosa! This psycho bitch might be crazy but her body is top tier~'
Rosa: 'My prince! Baladan! My love is going to die! Nooo! I can't move! Let me go! Let me go! I must save my love!'
Tears were rolling down her face as she had to sit there and watch as Baladan walked into the science building before closing the door behind him.
Ryder: "Now that he's out of the way let's get back to having you all submit completely to me!"
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Bal: "This bastard really thinks he has won huh? I bet he's going to be real surprised when I come back to beat his face in!"
[Congratulations! Your magic circle has passively increased your Pure Mana by 1.]
Pure Mana: 100 —> 106 (1)
He instantly placed the attribute points into Pure Mana before his body was forced to attack the undead. Due to the command he had to try his best to kill as many as he could before dying.
Now he was running towards the corpses using his hands and the rest of his Aura to constantly slaughter them as he ran through the halls.
[Title: Grim Reaper Activated- Undead Sent: 10]
With his wild attacks destroying heads and killing them quickly it was bound to send some of them to hell. With there being no limit to how many titles you can equip, that he knows of. He was able to keep both of them he had on active at all times.
At the moment he had killed around 100 undead, it was honestly horrible how he only sent 10 undead after killing 100 corpses.
With his Aura now gone however, his killing spree lessened considerably. With his stats just being barely over double the strength of a normal human it took a couple of attacks to take the Shadow Corpses down.
This left him open to being bitten and scratched, he even got punched some. His gift jacket had been riddled with holes, the only equipment that was still fine was his head and mask. He had made sure to avoid their blows around his head at all costs.
[Title: Grim Reaper Activated- Undead Sent: 20]
Bal: 'Is there even an end to all this!? I've killed around 200 Shadow Corpses by now but they keep coming! With the time they have been given they have gotten used to their bodies as well! Now they are just running through the halls jumping over each other to get to me!
Damnit! At this rate I wo- did that… did that camera just move?'
With the red blinking light from the camera taking his attention he realized that it had been moving around like someone was controlling it to get a better look at the situation.
Bal: 'What the fuck!? Is someone actually still alive in this building!'
Luckily Baladan had found a fire extinguisher that he began to use to smack the undead over the head with. In his path blood and death could be seen, this was the time he decided to try out his new racial abilities.
Bal: 'Let's hope it doesn't taste absolutely disgusting…'
With one hand grabbing onto a zombie that was chomping into his arm he pulled its head away just to suddenly lean in and bite down hard just to tear his head back ripping out the corpses throat!
Immediately the overwhelming taste of iron filled his mouth. It didn't have much of a horrible taste it was just very chewy which disturbed him.
In the end he swallowed the flesh as a series of notifications appear in his vision.
[You have consumed a level 15 Shadow Corpse. Please choose future path for development]
Development Paths:
-Evolution Path: Use the energy from eating undead to evolve your race. (Requires Physique Path)
-Sorcerer Path: Use the energy from eating undead to increase Mana pool and potentially learn more spells.
-Physique Path: Use the energy from eating undead to strengthen the body and create your own constitution.
All Paths can be taken in the future. Choose which path you would like to focus on first. More paths may be available in the future after evolution.
Bal: 'Why even give me the Evolution Path if it requires another path to even get!? Fuck it! Pick Sorcerer Path! Right now I need my Pure Mana back!'
[Sorcerer Path selected. Energy being transferred to Magic Circle now]
Pure Mana: 106 (1) —> 111 (6)
The moment the energy had begun to funnel into his Magic Circle the Mana in the air began to get pulled in violently. With the Pure Mana controlling the energy it immediately creates more by combining the Mana in the air with the 10 DE absorbed directly from the Shadow Corpse.
Bal: 'I see… so with Pure Mana having taken Mana and Death Energy's place the system is automatically gathering Mana to instantly create my Pure Mana for me… this is a lot better then just absorbing DE from killing Shadow Corpses… wait why hasn't that been happening?'
Both of his titles had said they would absorb DE from his opponent upon death. Yet it hadn't happened the entire time he had been slaughtering undead.
Bal: 'Is it because of my Pure Mana? Actually let's not think about this right now! Just eat!'
Now with a new batch of Undead coming down the hall in an instant using his new found strength he jumped into the undead trying his best to use his mouth to chomp off pieces of the corpses as he bashed their heads in!
One after another the corpses fell and turned into a puddle of blood. At first he didn't notice any other changes besides his Pure Mana going up, that was until he looked at himself finding that his wounds had been constantly healing with each new piece of meat he took from the undead.
Pure Mana: 111 (6) —> 161 (56)
Out of the 30 or so corpses that had came running after him he could only eat about 10 of the body parts before the rest began to disappear into a pool of blood.
Bal: "Hey, I don't know if you can hear me but if you are alive in there can you move the camera some more?"
While talking to the camera during his free moment he took off his mask revealing that he was human to hopefully get a response from the people inside.