In the depths of darkness and fear, there will always be people who will overcome it and emerge out stronger than ever.
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Before any of this happened, every one got a notification about the sudden intrusion if the powerful mana and how it would affect the world entirely, the same notification Nathan received, and on the same screen but others had their retina's colour to be different.
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People turned into bizarre creatures after they have been scratched or injured by these zombie-like creatures. Well as long as the zombie bit or scratched, if the zombie causes anyone injuries with its own body like arms or teeth, anyone would be transformed into the same vile, altered human with sickening features.
Some people were even eaten alive by multiple zombies as the same time as some of the zombies mostly tumble over each other when they focus on devouring their unfortunate host. Surprisingly yet no too surprisingly, no one had the gut to fight back as they obviously had this mentality that they would end up in the after life when faced with one of these creatures.
No one seemed to stop to analyze the situation which would be kinda stupid considering the panic and situation of the place.
Ethan who seemed to be calming his nerves at the moment was thinking, he would take in deep breaths and exhaled to calm down his nerves and racing heart.
He wanted to manage his current mind state to analyze the situation well before knowing what the rational thing to do in this situation was.
Towards Ethan's direction were these altered,disfigured creatures who use to be humans, strollimg in slow steps, gradually gaining their way to his position
He soon noticed the that these monsters were relatively slow yet had a little bit of strength than they ought to have if they were still humans.
What he also noticed was that they had a limited field of vision, they could only look in the direction they looked or turned to as they seemed to be able to sense movement around them.
Ethan then realized that they seemed to be blind as they really never looked I the direction of their prey accurately as some.of them still had their pupils still intact.
Some looked a bit discoloured and less visible to the eye. Some had their pupils facing different directions. Although they couldn't see, at least some of them, those that couldn't see had a way of knowing the location of the next victim.
Probably an ability that comes with their bizarre mutation.
Out of instinct, Nathan looked around for something that could be used as a potential weapon.
He would attack when they get within his range if he isn't forced to back out into a corner in His room as he currently stood at the entrance to his room.
With nothing in sight, he immediately grabbed the pen he had kept earlier in his pocket.
There were currently five zombies heading his way.
He stood firmly as he planted his feet firmly to the ground, ready to slaughter these creatures.
He didn't seem to care that they were humans before, reason being the fact that even if it was some sort of infection, these zombies would probably be dead before a potential cure could be made.
He could be wrong though, but what could he do now?, it's either his life or theirs, he wouldn't be charged anything even if things went back to normal. As it would be probably considered an act of self defense.
The zombies weren't together though as the was some intervals of a meter or two at most. One of the zombies was within his range, about a meter or two, he dashed forward and held the pen in a reversed position.
Like how a person would hold a dagger, he tightened his right hand, which happens to be the hand he held the pen with.
He did that as he was dashing his way over to the first zombie. He held the pen over his head and as the zombie was in arms length,
he struck, aiming for one of it's eyes.
Well not before he considered thought of piercing it's heart first but dismissed that thought as he didn't know even if the skin was normal as a humans or thicker than it used to be, even if it would work, he didn't take any chances as the eye was one of the most delicate and weak part of almost every creature he could think of.
SWOOSH !!!!!!!
He dug the pen deep inside it's eye socket without hesitation whatsoever, they seemed to net feel pain as there wasn't any reaction of pain, not even in the slightest, as the pen got deeper into his head then, then headed to it's brain.
It's stopped in it's motion when it was about to swing it's claws at Ethan. Ethan then plunged the zombie towards the ones behind to slow them down.
It worked perfectly as the zombies seemed like extremely clumsy creatures.
Two more fell to the ground after being hit by the first zombie Ethan had killed earlier.
This time he didn't have any pen on him son he dashed forward again and clenched both his fists,and then stuck out the index and middle finger of both his hands, when he reached the zombies who had a hard time trying to get back on their feet once more,
he dug all four of his fingers into both of their eye socket with full unrestrained force.
There was a disgusting mushy sound after the attack. There was splatter and gushing of Blood afterwards.
The bulging and pulsating veins around their eyes burst and splattered on Ethan's fine face. Luckily, it didn't enter his eyes or mouth, only the sides of his face which trickled down his face onto his chin, then to his neck.
Finally, two zombies were left for him to kill,
they then got near his range and since they stood unlike the other two who he tripped earlier with the first zombie,
he ducked to doge the attacks if the zombies as they swang their claws at him.
He managed to successfully dodge a few more attacks this time, but he couldn't repeat the same attacks he did to the previous batch.
This time they were too close to him those time around. The horrible smell of their corroded bodies invaded his senses strongly. He was suffocating under such situation as he kept holding his breath while dodging.
He managed to survive this time because most of their attacks were one after the other. Plus on was behind the other.
This time they both attacked simultaneously with one swinging it's claws at him which happened to be the one closest to him with the other coming in with its potrude mouth hole open widely, coming in with a bite with its green and yellow teeth which screamed certain infection if bitten by them.
He had the power to block or dodge one attack at a time, he didn't want to back up into his room as he feared more other zombies coming in while he was occupied with the zombies he faced. And if that should have happened, there's no telling how he can make it alive.
He blocked the zombie coming in with the full of it's claws with his left hand.
The other zombie then dug it's teeth into the the same arm Ethan used to block the other zombie's as it was the closest part of Ethan within it's range.
Nathan grimaced in pain, filled with rage and panic, he held the head of the zombie who's teeth was still impaled inside his skin and then pushed it backwards.
The other zombie came in with another swing of it's claws again, but this time, Ethan caught the arm and bent the elbow of the zombie backwards.
And to his favour, the mutated skins and bones of the zombie was soft and weaker than what they use to be which helped him a lot.
The second zombie he pushed backwards regained it's disfigured composure as it came in with full force towards Ethan. To Ethan's favour, he used the zombies momentum against it as he stuck out both if his thumbs and applied a bit of force on both thumbs as he dug them deep into the eye sockets of the zombie.
He dug it so deep with enough force as the bones around the zombies eye sockets broke a few times .
It dropped dead onto the ground after letting out a growl. Nathan then focused on the last zombie as he dodged yet another of it's attacks just in the nick of time.
Hey grabbed the head with both hands and smashed it against his knee with full force. Crushing the skull a little bit.
He then crashed the head against the ground at full force, this time, shattering the skull completely, blood splattered around on his face and arms as mashed brains decorating on the ground with pieces of broken skull all around.
He then let out an audible sigh of relief. Only for it to soon fade right after . He then stared right in front of him, as a few tens of meters away, were more zombies a little more than 20 approaching his direction in slow steps, some faster than the other.
He hurriedly entered his room and closed the door behind him at full speed and locked it multiple times and then placed his chair underneath the door knob.
He then received bizarre messages he hasn't seen till now except the first message he saw earlier in which everyone received the same thing as he did.