As Dexter stepped out of the store he was greeted by a cold breeze brushing against his skin.
He glanced around to still see destroyed buildings, dead bodies which were missing limbs here and there, and the damned eerie silence.
Explosions from far away also reached his ears and he just breathed to calm down as he was extremely tensed.
'Max and Jude are still out there. And Hannah too. Dexter, be strong.' He encourages himself inwardly and began to walk towards the direction of where his brother's were.
He knows this area as he has schooled around before so he immediately began to walk in the direction of where their house was.
It wasn't long before he spotted three Zombies ahead of him and he immediately hid behind a car.
The three zombies were blocking the path which was the shortest path.
'Should I try to kill them all? I'll be risking my life. Or should I take a detour back and follow a longer path?'
At the end he decided to kill the zombies.
There were a lot of cars in the area so Dexter sneaked from car to car while approaching the zombies stealthily.
He removed his heavy bag and dropped it somewhere close before running out towards them with two knives equipped.
The zombies immediately came at him and he gritted his teeth as he dropped one knife.
He wasn't used to using his left hand to wield things in the first place.
The zombies all growled as they revealed their terrifying set of saw-like teeth and charged at Dexter.
Despite the fact that the zombies were faster than normal humans Dexter was even faster than them at the moment.
He immediately approached the closest one and jumped while spinning before extending his leg. The sole of his sneakers collided with the zombie's chest, causing a loud bang to resound before the zombie flew backwards with great force.
*Bang!*
The zombie crashed into another car.
'Wow. Plus ten strength points are not joke. Seems like my years in teakwondo club throughout highschool is not going to waste.' Dexter smiled and immediately ducked as a zombie reached out to grab him from behind.
He immediately did a backflip, bringing his leg down on the zombie's head with the effect of both gravity and momentum.
*Crack!*
The zombie fell down, no longer moving and Dexter felt a little bit... relieved.
'What was I so scared about?' He ran towards the third one and sliced slantly at its chest.
With his strength the knife had no resistance and cut the chest of the zombie.
Dexter then stabbed it's neck before it could even react and it fell to the floor.
He panted as he looked around and walked back to his bag.
As he reached the zombie which was crawling towards him from his front with a broken spine he used all of his strength and stepped on it's head, crushing it completely.
After he did that the familiar golden lines of the system began to morph in front of him, soon forming readable words.
[You have killed three level 4 zombies and have recieved 30 heaven tower points and 30 Spirit points]
'Hm? These heaven tower points again. What do they do?' He tried tapping on the screen but nothing happened so he just dismissed it and decided to move on.
Before he could take another step he heard a low growling sound from behind him and his eyes shone with fear and shock as he turned around slowly.
His heart skipped a beat as he saw a creature more than fifty metres in front of him.
It was tall and saliva dripped from its mouth. It was the size of two adult humans on top of each of each other with a disgusting bald head.
And in addition to its terrifying size it had a hunch back and claws that were ten centimeters long each.
The creature didn't have pure white eyes like the others but instead had a single split pupil as it stared at Dexter while growling and moving forward slowly.
'If I move it will charge at me.' He looked at his bag which was filled with food behind him and made a decision.
"It's you and me today."
He then began running towards the straight path, past where the zombies where blocking before and he ran as his life depended on it.
The zombie let out a loud Growl as it chased him on all fours.
'What kind of zombie is this one?' Dexter exclaimed inwardly as he took a sharp corner, noticing the zombie was close to him.
This was the same one that he saw which chased him into a store filled with normal zombies.
It's claws were sharp enough to tear through cars and it was strong enough to toss them around.
Dexter wouldn't take chances with this creature.
The creature, seeing that Dexter took a sharp turn suddenly looked at a building beside itself and lept over it.
...
'I lost him.' Dexter felt relieved as he turned around to see nothing scary chasing him and he sighed.
'I might have gotten a big boost in stats but I'm not sure of this one.' He thought as he slowly walked back.
*Bang!*
Feeling the vibration from the floor and hearing something land behind him Dexter turned around slowly, his heart beating extremely loudly.
Behind him was the towering figure of the monster zombie that chased him before.
The zombie didn't waste time and clawed at the human in front of it with the intention to kill.
Dexter has always been agile, he ducked before jumping backwards and getting into a solid stance while gripping the knife like a dagger.
"It's clear that you're not going to let me go, even if I run. So let's do it here and now. COME ON!"
The creature roared loudly to Dexter's aggro as it lept into the sky with its hand outstretched coming down at him.
Dexter had no choice. It was either do or die. He was scared, he was terrified, he didn't want to die, he didn't know what was on the other side if he dies.
He immediately remembered his girlfriend, her pretty face and how she always comforted him.
'I haven't even kissed her yet. This won't be the end.' Dexter opened his eyes with new found resolve as he too jumped up, higher than any athlete has ever done, into the air towards the zombie that was falling down.