After their little moment he stayed up for a bit watching out for anything before finally laying down to sleep.
With a peaceful night of rest his Pure Mana and Aura finally went back up to max! Now he didn't feel as on edge as before.
[Congratulations! Your Aura has passively increased your stats! +17 to all physical stats]
[Status]
Strength: 48
Agility: 46
Health: 48/63 (63) (+15 hood)
Stamina: 47 (47)
Pure Mana: 200 (200)
Pure Aura: 176 (176)
He was looking over his stats as he rubbed his eyes trying to get rid of the tiredness only to see a new notification appear.
[Conditions met! Features have been unlocked in the system]
Bal: 'What? There is more, wait what was the condition that I passed? Was it something with my physical stats? The only thing that changed was that… don't tell me it's because my health is above 50?'
[Quest Log] (New)
Main Quest: Eat Your Fill
Quest Description: Your cells are craving the flesh of undead, feast upon 200 undead! Upon completion the hosts body will shut down to conserve the energy.
Quest Rewards: Evolution Path Unlock, Race Evolution Treasure, +10 Evolution Points.
[Path has been changed from Sorcerer's Path to Physique Path]
Bal: 'Huh? What am I a zombie? They want me to go around eating 200 of those things! Wait… why would it give me the path to evolve and a treasure to evolve? Isn't that kinda pointless? Also what is Evolution Points?'
Rosa had woken up not to long after Baladan had seen the new quest tab on his system. He had a face of confusion and a little helplessness.
Bal: 'How about instead of focusing on this I get prepared to fight that bird again… I bet it's going to be pretty mad with me, actually… I never really explored Shoel did I? Could there be undead down there, if so can they grow stronger? It would be horrible to gain all this power and still be weaker then that damned bird…'
Rosa: "What's wrong Bal? You look as if something is bugging you"
Even though she sounded calm her face was as red as a tomato! She was still thinking of last night while Baladan was planning to take out a bird many times bigger then him by himself!
Bal: "It's fine, let's get ready in the locker rooms before regrouping with Boss to take on the parking lot below the Science Building"
———
Boss had been out on stage talking with Randy and Josh.
Boss: "We have gathered all the wires we could around the gym. Randy, I want you to go around with the students picking up the different cords in the class rooms. Josh can you help Randy by putting the trip wires together before we go to set them?"
Randy: "I'll get right to it!"
Josh: "Yes I can. Just give me some time and I'll create trip wires strong enough not to snap upon contact with those undead"
???: "Can I come with?"
A women's voice came from the bottom of the stage. When they looked at her they saw a blonde women with black eyes and a sharp file in hand.
The women who survived the classroom slaughter by herself was sitting there waiting for their response.
Randy: "Of course, it's only about getting wires anyways. With most of the school cleared we should have a lot of time to go through and get what we need"
???: "Ok. Call me when we are ready to leave"
She had a look of indifference on her face, this women seemed to have never left the gym however she was one of the few who wasn't touched by Ryder!
At that time it shocked him greatly to find that one of his people had Mana on the same level as him! Though she never did anything to threaten him so he just decided to leave her alone since she wasn't even that pretty compared to some of the other girls.
After that weird interaction Baladan and Rosa met up with the group before going over their supplies and the plan.
Bal: "Then I'll prepare my Aura while you guys gather the items together. Boss I suggest you start having everyone tell you their abilities or at least get Josh to right it down first"
Boss: "I was planning on it, with Grim back outside I've asked the others to take care of it. They should be back around noon with the list, you go and prepare. We will need you at your best"
———
When the clock hit 12 the bells on the Science Building began to ring and at the same time Baladan opened his eyes with a smile on his face.
Pure Aura: 176 —> 200
Pure Mana: 200 (176)
Bal: 'Now all there is, is to wait for my stats to go up naturally with my Aura or… I can see the effects of the physique path while working on that quest'
He stood up from his bed before walking to the stage the moment the group of people had come back with another couple bundles of wires. Josh had been busy with a couple other people creating the trip wires, even Rosa had been helping by cutting the wires and even using her knife like a makeshift Souter melting little pieces of metal together to increase the durability of the wires.
Bal: "Looks like we are almost ready to take on the nest huh?"
Boss: "Nest? Is that what they are called?"
Bal: "No idea, I just said it because in some games I played before a secluded location like that one would be filled with creatures which eventually was given the name of a beast nest. However I feel like this is more an Undead Nest instead of a beast one"
Boss: "Well whatever it is I don't like it, none of them have left the parking lot! Even with the bell ringing they seemed to have ignored it and instead chose to stay put, it doesn't feel right"
Bal: "Well… we can't say that this is just like a game or anything but usually when zombies do something like this it's because they are either making a nest. However a nest is usually made by zombies who are I guess you could say alive, like Days Passed. Though there is another case where the zombies horde together and combine themselves into a new type of zombie much more powerful then the normal ones"
Boss: "…Let's hope they are just making a nest then… they are pretty smart even though they are considered corpses by the system. If there is anything really powerful we will be counting on you to stop it! So don't mess up!"
Bal: "What! Why is it that I feel you are pushing your responsibilities onto me again! Also, don't jinx it!? Knock on wood right now!"
Boss began to laugh at Baladan's sudden outburst. It's obvious that Boss has done something like this before. Actually it's just like the time Baladan met Rosa, at that time Boss was supposed to be the one going but instead he gave the task to Baladan!
Boss: "Don't worry about it! You and I both know you won't be the only one fighting. I wouldn't leave you to fight a monster by yourself like that"
He then leaned down and knocked on the stage with Baladan.
Bal: "Then we should be fine, let's go set up the trap and stir the hornets nest shall we?"
They had quickly began to fill the hallway with those trip wires. Each of them placed in a way that even if they got up again to run they would hit them again. This should slow them down greatly while they get their shots in before the horde was on them.
With Baladan up front he passed over the wires before heading down into the secret parking lot from a stairway disguised as a closet. What he saw when he got down there was horrifying.
Looking at the group of Shadow Corpses there only seemed to be around 200 left. Blood was covering the floor as a large worm like creature coiled itself around one of the buses as it takes its time to devour the corpses one at a time before Baladan walked into the room.
The creatures mouth opened wide making a screeching sound as it crushed the bus before charging at Baladan with its minions.
Bal: 'Well shit… who would have thought that even a worm would be effected by all this shit! It's even an undead now as well! This is such a pain!'
He quickly pulled his gun up firing shots at the creatures body as he heads back up the stairs.
At that moment the worm slammed into the wall before spinning its body while biting to drill into the wall chasing after Baladan as he reaches the surface.
Bal: "Get out of here! Boss we were right! It's a massive fucking monster!"
Using his Aura he increased his speed jumping over all the wires as a giant worm came crashing out of the ground following him.
Boss: 'Damn… I really did jinx it!'