Astrick's back was covered in cold sweat as he was looking with wide opened eyes at the figure that attacked him.
It was a 7 feet tall male zombie , but unlike normal zombies this one had a much bigger body and was much faster amd stronger.
According to the recent exchange , it was slightly faster than Astrick , as if it wasn't for his well trained body and instinct , his head would've been already rolling on the ground.
Astrick could also feel something he didn't in other zombies , he could feel an energy much similar to mana inside the zombie , although it was much less pure and less effective than normal mana .
He could tell that the zombie in subconsciously using the mana to strengthen his muscles and increase his speed , which is something people usually don't do as it puts a lot of pressure and pain on the body.
But it wasn't like the zombie could feel the pain , or maybe does feel it but simply doesn't understand it or care about it ...
The Male Zombie was so angry that his prey was able to escape him and that he didn't finish it in one hit , he charged once again towards Astrick with the intention of ripping his flesh apart .
Seeing that big scary monster charging towards him , Astrick's body acted before his mind as he writhed under the zombie's grip...
The Zombie didn't stop and threw another punch towards Astrick's face , Astrick barely dodged it with a hair's breadth .
The Zombie kept throwing these wild punches around everywhere giving Astrick barely any space to move , but he somehow with pure skill was able to dodge each and every punch...
But that didn't go for long as one of the punches finally got through his defense and hit him in his guts sending him flying through the Mall's glass .
Astrick got up immediately ignoring the pain he was feeling as he coughed some blood, thankfully this zombie is more reliant on his human instinct and uses punches instead of his infectious nails , or else Astrick would've been dead right now ,
Or undead, specifically.
But as soon as Astrick got up he instantly ducked down dodging another punch from that mad zombie , it was already furious as its little prey was dodging all its hits.
Fueled with anger , the zombie became more reckless with its attacks and put more power to it making its defense weaker and weaker , Astrick was finally able to plunge his knife into the zombie's side , but had to pull it out instantly as the zombie wasn't stopped by pain and was getting ready for another attack.
That was the first hit Astrick was able to get on the zombie as it wasn't giving him any space to hit back before .
The Zombie became more enraged and reckless after Astrick injured it allowing Astrick to land more and more hits on it .
Eventually , the zombie's injuries hindered its movements , and Astrick was finally able to kill it .
As Soon as the zombie's body hit the ground Astrick grabbed his stuff and ran away as although he wanted nothing more than lying on the ground and resting right now , he had to escape the place cause their fight made too much noise and was already drawing some zombies .
After Astrick reached a safe area he finally lied on the ground taking gasping for air and breathing in a heavy way .
...
While he was getting his energy back , Astrick couldn't get his mind to stop thinking about what that zombie was ,it was different than other zombies, was this zombie an exception ? was this a mutation? and are other zombies going to become like this as well?
Thinking about the possibility on its own made Astrick shiver and gave him goosebumps, fighting one was already life threatening to him, fighting more would mean his absolute and assured death.
That Was when Astrick realized that the mission's difficulty wasn't a mistake at all , if he didn't get enough food and had to go out again and fight more of that mutated zombie , it won't take him long before he loses his precious life....
This Realization made Astrick think of one thing only,
"I Need to get stronger quickly!"
.....
After Resting for a little he started going back to the residence , but on his way he saw a lot of zombies killed leading towards an alley on the side of the road , Astrick walked up carefully and slowly trying to get a good look on what's in that alley .
Getting to the side of a wall he was peeking silently at the scene happening in the alley .
And what he saw caused a frown to form on his face.
In The alley , five guys seemed to be harassing a 15 to 20 year old looking female , they had disgusting expressions of lust and desire as the ugliest one of them said,
" Come on Fiona, Why do you keep hanging out with that loser Patrick , we're much better than him in many things ...."
The Girl was disgusted while looking at the guy who just spoke as she said ,
"Hmph , you ? better than him ? you'd be lucky to just be compared to him , what in the world can you be better than him at?"
Hearing her words the guy who spoke earlier had an ugly expression on his face but quickly changed after hearing her last question as a smile was spreading from his ear to the other making his disgusting face even more disgusting.
"Hehe, We're better at a lot of things , like the things we're going to do now ,hahaha."
Listening to the words that he just said , Fiona showed an expression of fear as she thought of what he meant by his words as she threatened them,
"You guys... If you do this , Patrick won't spare you ..."
As she said these words , the five boys laughed as the same ugly one from before said
" Spare us ? even if that lucky bastard has a superpower, he's still a human, and we're still five while he's only one , he should be happy if we spare him...hehehe"
When the boy finished the others laughed with him as well while trash talking about that Patrick guy.
But right now Astrick was frozen after he heard the word superpower as he thought,
'Could it be...?'
Meanwhile the ugly guy and his friends were starting to make their move and do what they were planning to do with Fiona , Astrick was trying to decide if he'll interfere or not .
But before he could make a choice he saw a boy walking in an angry way as he heard heard a male voice with a lots of anger and even some killing intent hidden inside it asking,
" What the hell do you guys think you're doing...?"
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