The zombie didn't let go of Ryo's hand and kept biting him but the gray crystals from Ryo's hand protected him.
Ryo didn't understand what was going on at the moment. His hand which should be bleeding from a bite from the monster was covered in some kind of hard gray crystal.
While his hand was still in the zombie's mouth, he got up slowly and pushed the zombie away. He then takes a stance and runs as fast as he can which to his surprise is very fast. Far faster than anything a human is capable of, he moved so fast that he couldn't even control the direction of his movement and crashed into a tree making the tree that was about one meter thick and twelve meters tall fall over shocking him. He got up and ran once again to get away from the zombie but it seemed like the monster was just as fast as him. In less than ten seconds after he ran from the monster he reached a cave and ran into it hoping to hide.
"Splash"
He entered the cave and it was pitch black and full of water but Ryo kept going deeper and deeper in order to avoid the zombie. He soon reached the end of the cave and hid behind some rocks and started to think about what just happened.
"What the fuck is this gray stuff. What the hell is happening to me, humans shouldn't be able to move that fast and knock down trees".
"This isn't normal, I have to get out of this mess first and then I'll go find the nearest shelter and see a doctor"
he says and laughs a little because he didn't think a doctor could do anything.
When he laughed, the crystals on his hand slowly disappeared back into his skin. Ryo tried to bring them out again but his attempts were futile.
While he was distracted, a dark figure appeared behind him from the left side of the rock he was hiding behind. Turns out it was the same zombie he was running from. The undead monster was relentless in its hunt for Ryo.
The zombie then pounced on him once again and once again his hand crystalized in order to protect him from the bite. He blocked the bite and then moved back and pounced towards the monster with his crystalized hand and gave the monster a powerful punch to the stomach sending it flying to the wall and making a large crater that could easily allow a car to drive through it; but that wasn't enough and it got up again but this time didn't bite but it through its fists at Ryo.
A fierce barrage of punches rained upon Ryo. He used his hands to block but it wasn't enough as he started to cough out blood and was sent flying to the entrance of the cave with the last punch from the monster. He got up as soon as he could but it wasn't good enough as the zombie was now directly above him hanging from the top of the entrance of the cave. As he notices the presence of the zombie, saliva from the mouth of the zombie falls on his face which makes him look up and is almost immediately attacked by the monster and thinks to himself.
{Why the fuck is this thing so strong?}
{How am I still alive after taking hits that strong?}
{What is this stuff that's on my arm?}
{How do I get out of this situation?}
{How do I beat this bastard?}
All these thoughts and more went through his mind but he stayed concentrated on the fight.
The monster went for another punch but Ryo dodged it making its hand hit the floor destroying the ground bellow them. But that wasn't the end of its fierce attack; the zombie then used its hand as its support and threw a kick towards Ryo's head which connects and sent him flying through seven trees and upon hitting the eight tree he stops and falls to the ground. The zombie slowly approaches Ryo and Ryo's feeling of impending doom increases.
Ryo's crystals slowly disappear as he slowly losses his fighting spirit prompting the monster to pounce on him once more after acknowledging that Ryo's defenses where now dissipating.
It uses Ryo's body as its own personal toy and bashes him on the ground and into some rocks. Its attacks became more refined and sophisticated as the battle with Ryo progressed which indicated that it was learning from the fight.
Ryo then remembers he promised that he would live even if death is what stands in his way. His body was in agony from the beating that he had taken so far so he thinks of a way to end this whole ordeal in one attack and get on with his life.
Ryo realizes that he could uses the trees around him to his advantage so he gets up from the ground and reaches the top of the eighteen-meter tree with one leap. He goes from tree to tree in an attempt to confuse the monster and finish it with a sneak attack.
After moving through the trees like a monkey for a while and succeeding in confusing the monster with his swift speed. He gets behind the monster jumps down and clenches both his hands with extreme force to land the final attack.
For some reason, his body reacted to his will to live and blood lust and crystalizes both his hands. He grabs the monster with one hand and uses its face to slide across the ground with extreme speed, lifts up the monster, and punches it in the face making it fly away for about twenty meters.
Before the zombie could hit the ground he was already at its landing point and extended his right leg and crunched down while his left hand was holding his right hand back making him look like a fictional character charging up a punch. His right hand was covered up to his biceps by the gray crystal and he let out a roar before releasing a powerful punch completely destroying the zombie's head and sending the body flying twenty meters away.
"Finally. I killed that fucker" he says with excitement.
He fell to the ground and looked up to the sky while smiling with ecstasy in his expression.
"Well I guess I better find food and shelter before nightfall" he says immediately after he killed the monster. The night would come eventually and only god knows if he would make it through the night with all these monsters that could sneak up on him at any time without shelter so he had no time to rest.
"I hope I can find something to eat. I feel like I could eat a cow right now ha ha ha" he laughs.
He gets up and heads back to the pond where he was washing himself to get his bag and starts looking for food. After searching for some time, he finds a bush full of orange berries and picks some. He knows there is a possibility that it could be toxic but eats them anyway. He thought that if crashing through seven trees wouldn't kill him, this wouldn't either. And to his surprise, the berries were absolutely delicious. He took out his bag and tried to make space for the berries and stumbles upon the crossbow-like gun he made and took it out.
"Maybe I can go hunting too" he says.
He makes space in his bag by holding the crossbow in his hands and plucks lots of berries. He then leaves the area and went back to the cave that he fought the zombie at and went in.
"Splash"
He walks around, finds a large stone and sits down hoping that he would not see any more zombies while he eats, he decides to lay a bell wire trap at the entrance of the cave with the materials in his bag.
He stacks the stones in the cave on top of each other in order to make a platform higher than the water to make a bed to sleep on. He was shocked that he was able to lift the stones because each of the stones weighed more than five hundred kilograms and he was able to lift them which was surprising but he calms down quickly because it's not like that's the most abnormal thing that had happened to him. He sits on the stone bed and eats to his fill and drank from the water in the cave. He lifted up his shirt to check on the injuries he sustained from the previous fight and to his amazement, he was almost fully healed. At this point he was fully convinced that he was no longer a normal human but didn't know what he was or why he was like this.
Ryo at least knew that his body could get tired because of how sleepy he was. He felt like he had just run a marathon while weightlifting. He couldn't hold back the sleep as his eyes slowly closed and he lied down falling into a deep slumber.