"Fight me"
"Huh?" Aaron was dumbfounded.
"Why would i do that" He asked with a raised brow.
The girl didn't reply. She once again vanished from his sight, appearing behind him with the tip of her spear thrusting towards the back of his neck.
Aaron moved his neck slightly to the left, effectively dodging the spear.
'She did it again. Teleportation?' He wondered.
Aaron passed his sword to his left hand and used his right hand to grab the spear shaft, locking it in place. He extended his left leg backwards, turning his body with a slash aimed for the girl's left side.
The girl let go of her spear and charged at him.
'Fast!' He thought.
She used her left hand to grab his left wrist and sent a palm strike to his back, but a spark appeared right infront of her stomach.
BANG!
The explosion sent both of them flying.
Aaron used the force to make a front flip and landed right infront of the gymnasiums door, while the girl skid back seven metres.
"Care to explain?" Arron asked while turning to face the girl.
The girl straightened her posture and looked back at him, a strange gleam in her eye.
"Become mine" she said with a straight face.
"WHAT?!" Dave and Alex shouted
"Excuse me?" Arron asked with a raised
brow.
"Join me, become my soldier" she rephrased, seeing the mistake she had made.
"You're joking, Right? He asked.
"One, I dont know you, two, you attacked me for no apparent reason, and three, I need a new shirt because of you now. Forget joining you, I'm strongly considering blowing you up right now." He said while turning turning to stare at Dave.
"Lets go" He said, walking into the building.
Dave and the others who just stood there, too shocked by what just happened finally broke out of their reverie.
The girl picked her spear up and chased after Aaron.
Inside there seemed to be more than a hundred people staring at them as they entered. Teachers, students, and strangely enought, a kid.
Aaron took this all in and looked for a place to rest, finding one that happened to be under a window.
As he walked towards his chosen resting spot, the girl from earlier caught up to him.
"Hey, my name is Cecilia. I meant no offense by attacking you earlier, I just got the sense that you were strong and I just wanted to confirm." She said while following behind him.
Aaron finally reached his destination, sitting down on the cold floor, resting his back on the wall, then placing his sword down right next to him.
'So that's why I felt no malicious intent from her earlier' He thought.
"And what does it matter to you if I'm strong or not?" Her asked while closing his eyes.
"I want to turn this place into a shelter to protect the remaining students and teachers, so I need people who can fight to protect it incase monsters attack." She said while sitting to his left.
Dave and Alex happened to reach them and set to arrons right, listening in on their conversation.
"Are there no people with strong enough abilities willing to join you here?" He said while opening his left eyes to stare at her.
"I doubt it" He continued.
"There are a few with strong abilities here, but they're unwilling to go out and fight. They say it's better to wait for the soldiers to come and save them, but we will probably be dead by then, there are way to many people in this country and not enough soldiers to rescue them all" she explained.
'That's assuming they're not dead' He thought.
"Horizon academy is one of the most prestigious universities in the Northern continent, with the children of the people in power attending this school, I'm sure we will be quite high on the priority rescue list" Dave said.
Cecilia shook her head "That would be true if there was still order in the military, my father is a soldier and I called him before the signals cut off. He said the situation is too chaotic, some of the soldiers are attacking each other, so even if they do sort things out, it will take time and there will be fewer soldiers to work or the rescues" she said
"So we are looking at a week or two stuck here" she concluded.
"Damn" Dave said with a crestfallen face.
"So those zombies appeared in the military as well." Alex said while sling his palm down his face.
"What is even happening, where did all the monsters and zombies come from, and how did we suddenly gain these powers?" Alex questioned no one in particular.
" I was at the campus gate when this all happened, so I got to witness somethings. A cat suddenly grew larger after one of those golden specs entered its forehead. That's all I witnessed before I passed out from the spec as well." She said.
"Going off of this, the most likely explanation is that every monster was previously a regular animal, but they gained power just like we did. The surge of power probably awakened their primal instincts, causing them to turn violent.
I don't know anything about the zombies though" she said.
"I see, that would explain why there aren't a lot of the beast type monsters in the campus, most of the monsters we encountered were bird types, meaning they flew here. The school has a strict no pets policy afterall." Alex muttered.
"But what about the zombies you mentioned?!" A voice suddenly rang out.
Arron and the other three looked up to notice that their conversation had become the center of attention.
Aaron stared at everyone and sighed.
"I killed five zombies from the ones that were outside, the notification I got from the system was that I killed a level 1 monster 'Tainted Human'. Going from this..."
"Wait, you killed them? Didn't we agree to only aim for the legs?" Rachael interrupted him.
"Because I killed them, I now have the information you oh so desperately require. Now shut up and listen" Aaron said in annoyance.
Rachael grit her teeth, but did a she was told.
"As I was saying, using this information, we can assume that some people couldn't handle the 'Awakening' we all underwent, thus turning them into vegetables. Violent man eating vegetables" Aaron explained.
'Or that's how it usually goes in the novels anyway' He thought.
"That makes sense. But we can't be too certain. We need a way to verify this theory, but we'll go with that for now." Cecilia said.
"On the bright side, all we have to worry about are the zombies. For now at least" Dave said.
The whole room went deathly silent, everyone taking in all the information they had just been given.
Cecilia turned to face Aaron.
" If we're going to be stuck here for days or weeks, we will need security, water and food, all of which require us to fight in order to gain them. So I'll ask again, will you join me, will you help me create a place where we and our loved ones feel safe?" She said while glancing at the child from earlier.
'Loved ones huh?' Arron thought.
He followed her line of sight and saw the kid agin.
"You related?" He asked.
"Huh?" Cecilia turned back to face him.
Aaron used his head to gesture at the child.
"Him. You related somehow?"
"Ah. Yeah he's my brother" she said as she gestured for the him to come over.
Cecil stool to her feet and dusted off her blue jeans that showed off her lovely assets.
"This is my younger brother Jordan. Hes turning thirteen soon and was here to help me move my things to the secon year dorms. He's the reason i was at the gate." She introduce the kid.
Jordan nodded.
"Nice to meet you." He said.
Aaron and the others nodded back.
"You're a second year?" Dave asked.
"Yes." Cecilia said bluntly.
'Cold' Dave thought.
"So, what do you say?" Cecilia asked Aaron once more, with her right arm outstretched.
'Well, I got nothing better to do,and I also need to eat.' Aaron thought.
"Sure" He said, standing to his feet and shaking her hand.
....
Somewhere else on campus
"Damn it! Why are there so many of these things!" A brown haired student screamed while running.
Chasing after him and about thirty other students was a horde of half a metre tall ants. No less than 200 of them, chasing them down.
"Gahh!! Help me! Wait... please....don't!"
One of the female students near the back tripped and fell, and the monsters were not ones to refuse a free meal and pounced on her.
"ANNA!!!"
The male student that was running by her side turned back, running to save her.
"Martin stop!!! You can't help her!" The brown haired student attempted to stop him
"Fire ball!!" Martin ignored him and attacked.
Swish, Bang!
A ball of fire hit one of the ants surrounding the girl, burning its head off.
"Fire ball!" He cast another, killing a second monster
"Fire...guh!"
He suddenly coughed out blood and fell to his knees.
"W-What's happening to....aahh! Stay away!"
An ant used the opening and pounced at him, its pincers aiming for his head.
CRUNCH!
"Damn it all! Ruuun!!" The brown haired student shouted.
THUD
Martin's headless body fell to the ground and was instantly swarmed by ants.
"Martin..." was all the Anna got to say before everything turned black.
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The current world structure is in the auxiliary chapter.