He quickly turned around, moving around the place touching here and there as if he was inspecting the place except, everything he inspected vanished into thin air. Not long after the room was empty, not even the zombie corpses were left. With that he had picked the few he needed, afterwards he walked to the door to get out of the building.
As he walked down the hallway, Adrian had his nerves tensed and muscles bulge due to tension. It was on a weekend, so most students had gone out to have fun. Only some who had made appointments, like him, were using the workshops.
Suddenly two zombies appeared at the other end of the corridor, staggering towards him. Adrian came to a sudden halt. He could feel himself getting anxious at the appearance of the two threats. He took deep breaths to calm himself, after ensuring that he had relaxed, he walked forward a spear in hand while watching the movements of the two zombies.
Tap! Tap! Tap!
Adrian's footsteps echoed in the hallway as the distance between him and the two zombies lessened. When they were about three meters apart, the zombie's drunken appearance disappeared, letting out low growls, they suddenly accelerated towards Adrian. Adrian had been watching their movements not to be caught off guard, the moment the zombies accelerated, his hand moved at the same time out of instinct piercing through the head of the first zombie killing it instantly. The second zombie, about a meter away from Adrian, thrust its arm forward in a grabbing motion. Adrian used the shaft of the spear to block the grabbing arm of the second zombie stalling its movement for a few seconds.
After that, he let go of the spear and hastily jumped back distancing himself from the second zombie. He knew at that distance he could not retract the spear in time to engage with the second zombie, he decided to disengage first.
Growl!
The zombie let out a growl and immediately attacked again. Adrian summoned the katana from his storage. Holding the katana pointing back, he lowered his body in an attacking stance watching the zombie rushing to him. The anxiety and expectations made his adrenaline rush through his body erasing the nervousness as his senses heightened. The fast moving zombie movements started to slow down in his vision as if time had slowed down.
One step, two steps, three steps, the zombie was an arm reach from Adrian. It stretched its arms to grab Adrian. Adrian still didn't move, he just stood still in a stance holding a sword with both hands.
"...Now..." He muttered at same time his body moved a step to the right, evading the zombie at the last minute. His left foot stood firm on the ground while his right moved back together with the body in a sweeping motion. His muscles bulged gripping tightly on the hilt of the sword. The sword made a beautiful horizontal arc connecting with the back neck of the zombie.
Shwiff!
Adrian stood back to back with the zombie. No one moved.
Thump! Thump!
The zombie's head fell to the ground rolling a few times followed by the body. Adrian fell on one knee breathing heavily as the effects of adrenaline rush resided.
[ You have gained the soul essence of a normal zombie level 3.]
[ You have gained the soul essence of a normal zombie level 3.]
[ You have leveled up to level 3. You gain 2 free status points.]
Haa! Haa! Haa!
It took a while to calm himself. After thinking for a moment, he walked over to the two corpses and stored them together with the spear, this time he decided to go with the katana. As for storing the corpses of the zombies, he had a feeling that they will be of use later.
Facing the last zombie might have increased his courage to face the zombies head on. He knew he would have to do so later on so it was better to confront his fears earlier. His hunt became much more efficient as he went through the hallway. His also became more efficient in using the sword.
Zombies would pop out of the rooms as Adrian traversed through the hallway. He would take advantage before they closed on on him, dash forward and chop their heads before they could react.
At one point he had tried to use his morph skill on the sword, to his surprise, dark miasma merged with the katana, it's appearance changed completely. It became twice as heavy, nothing he couldn't handle, it's colour changed from grey to pitch black, also after Adrian inspected it clearly, there seems to be dark fog flowing through the blade.
So far, Adrian had killed over 30 zombies, 37 in total from the moment he left the workshop. Strolling through the hallway, two zombies staggered a room ahead of him.
Taking advantage of his 18 points of agility, which made him almost twice as fast as a normal person before the apocalypse, Adrian dashed past the zombies quickly circling around them, he appeared behind them and stabbed at the back of the head of the first zombie. Pulling back the sword, he made a horizontal slash at the other before it completely turned it's head.
[ You have gained the soul essence of a normal zombie level 4.]
[ You have gained the soul essence of a normal zombie level 4.]
[ You have leveled up to level 5. You get 2 free stats points.]
Adrian stored the corpses and proceeded to the exit. Upon opening the door, Adrian came to a sudden stop looking at the zombie blocking his path with wide eyes, all his hair stood on end.
The zombie was taller, at least 2 metres tall. It had two grotesque and powerful arms the size of a grown man's thigh.
Obviously, the zombie was more dangerous.
The zombie also sensed Adrian and moved towards him, sending a fist aiming for the head. Though it was slow, it speed was twice that of normal zombies.
Taken by surprise, Adrian's pupils constricted and moved his body to the side, dodging the fist by a hair breath.
Bang! Crack! Boom!
The zombie's fist made a hole on the metal door. It's arm got stuck in hole and when it used it's strength to pull it out, it uprooted the door together with part of the wall supporting the door.
Adrian was sweating bullets seeing the zombie's fist cause a hole on the metal door and his face turned white watching the zombie remove the door with part of the wall from the wall. He realized if that attack had hit him, his body would have turned to a bloody pulp.
In the moment of crisis, Adrian pushed his body forward. Utilizing his strength, he jumped and kicked the door with both of his legs from the other side, forcing the zombie stagger a few steps back before falling with the weight of the door pressing on top.
Seeing the zombie incapacitated, Adrian advanced and stabbed with the sword. However, to his surprise, the sword only managed to pierce a few centimeters before being stopped.
The zombie started to struggle to break free but the weight of the door wouldn't let it break free.
Adrian changed target to a more vulnerable part. Utilizing all his strength, the sword pierced the zombie's eye finally managing to crush the zombie's brain.