I want to clarify one thing and that is the MC doesn't have a gamers mind or an equivalent of it, so he is going to contradict himself for now.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything except my MC.
*Caw*
A deep croaking noise resounded in the shack waking me up.
*Caw*
"Mnn, five more minutes…"
Turning around and blocking my ears I go back to sleep. But it seems the raven is having none of that as she just started pecking me on the arm.
Feeling pain in my arm I opened my eyes to watch her amusing antics.
"Ouch ouch ouch! Stop! I'm up alright! I'm up!"
Ravens beaks can hurt! They're quite sharp after all
Rising from bed I looked over towards the beady black eyes staring at me.
Yawning, I garnered a guess for her waking me up.
"*Yawn* …Are you hungry by any chance?"
*Caw*
Taking that as a yes, I just tossed a small slice of meat towards her. Which prompted her to catch it and start tearing at it. If a raven could look satisfied, I guess she is from her reaction.
...You know, all this makes me wonder if she actually understands what I say or she just understands some phrases. Should I teach her some tricks?
Checking the time, I see it's morning, so I have some time to prepare… I guess I will change my clothes now, as I'm still in wet clothes due to the rain from yesterday.
Cleaning myself off with a towel I wear some gray clothes and start to get out of the shack.
The raven finishes eating the piece of meat and gets back to my shoulder. (raven needs a name soon)
"You don't want to get left behind huh?"
She just *caws* at me and I just smile at the reply.
Opening my map, I check where the objective is and start treading off in the general direction of it.
There were some animals on the way but they either cautiously approached me or just observed from afar.
Petting some animals that were near me and giving some food to them I, go on my way.
…
Arriving at a calm and shallow river surrounded by dense trees and a rocky terrain it is fairly well hidden and looks pleasing towards the eyes.
Chilling in a random tree branch with good coverage I eat some snacks and wait for the hobo search party to arrive…
Nearly 2 hours later boredom and me forgetting to charge my phone, made me start teaching the raven a few tricks.
Yup totally not useless at all.
As I was enjoying the airborne show, I heard some rustling along with human voices. So, they finally came? I was starting to get impatient and started contemplating if I want to hunt them down.
Staying up in the tree I observe the group of hobos. The same worn out clothing with haggard looks.
I ask the forest if there are any more people around and I receive a feeling of denial. Ok, so they all are here then.
Passing right below me I heard their conversation.
"Where are the guys? Didn't we say to meet up here today? I swear if they went out and bailed on us I will skewer them alive…" One guy with a sneer said. He had better clothes than all of them, I guess he is they're leader as he is talking arrogantly.
"I have checked the usual camping spot they use, and they weren't there so most possibly something happened or they are wasting their money again."
Another hobo answered. You know what? I don't care much about what they're talking about, but I need to wait as I don't know if there are any traps set up or not. It wouldn't hurt me that much, but just to be safe.
"Yeah who cares about them. Let's go scavenge this bunker! This is an unexplored bunker we're talking about! Think about all the stuff that is possibly here!"
The group of 6 started to make a dam around the entrance with the surrounding rocks so the water doesn't get in.
While they worked their asses off, I looked at them from above with an impassive expression. It took about 30 minutes for them to get the job done and I was just observing the trapdoor with a greedy gaze.
Having a sudden burst of inspiration, I ask the forest if it could use the wind and redirect my arrows to the heart or head, and I receive affirmation. Ok that's nice as I don't know if I could shoot straight, it's 100 ish yards from a tree.
As the group started to prepare to get in, I get into position and draw my bow to take aim at one of them. Drawing the bow and arrow full crescent, I hold my breath and stay in position waiting for them to open the trapdoor.
When I saw someone open it, I waited for a bit then let go of my bow string. The arrow flew successfully and pierced the head.
Everyone widened their eyes and looked at the collapsing figure of their friend, blood slowly seeping and dirtying the ground. They were shocked, but they heard another falling down. Getting out of their shocked state everyone was panicking and trying to get into the bunker.
Alright this is not what I was expecting, so I panicked a little.
They are going in a bunker with possible GUNS, that may or may not work. So, I started rapid firing in the general area. I missed about 2 shots, but I got 3 guys incapacitated and one still managed to get in.
Taking a deep breath of air, I jump down, activating 'Adrenaline Rush' and sprinting towards the bunker, I quickly stab with an arrow in the head to each incapacitated hobo and get in the bunker.
The interior was devoid of any light, and the only source of light was the open latch. I heard frantic movements trying to find something. Quickly going deeper, I don't see much, but I can faintly see where the guy is, going up to him with a butchers' knife, I swing at him.
He dodges it by accidentally stumbling on a shelf, falling down he takes a random gun and started frantically shooting at me.
Hearing several gunshots and seeing white flashes then sudden darkness, after that I fall down on the ground dead…
The guy shot all the bullets left in the magazine, but the last shot broke the gun and exploded on him.
The explosion was small but the gun was still in his hands so the miniature explosion ripped off his fingers and scraped his skin, bleeding and turning his hands into a bloody mess.
Screaming hysterically immediately, he rolled on the ground crying, getting the blood everywhere.
While this was happening, I was meeting an interesting entity and having a tea party.
…
When I fell down, I lost consciousness almost immediately and got sucked into a black void.
But what greeted me wasn't the usual pale blue screen, but a woman with pale features and black-brown colored hair that reached to the waist, adorned by ruby-like colored eyes that were shining. She was fairly young looking, around her mid-twenties with charming facial features and was wearing a black and red kimono with a big red ribbon around her waist that accentuates her bodyline.
She was staring at me with great interest and amused glint in her eyes. I shudder at the gaze that probes into my soul with a feeling of everything laid out before her with no secrets that I can possibly hide.
She snaps her fingers and a table with two chairs opposite of each other appears. The table had antique tea ware with fresh aromatic tea wafting off and some delicious looking pastries on it.
She sat down first and gestured at me to sit down on the available seat. Me not wanting to anger her or just be rude, I sat down slowly with a stiff face.
Silence issued between us. We stared at each other to what felt like an eternity until suddenly she started to move a little before starting.
"*Ehem* I see you are not the talkative type. I thought you would be like the others that would just panic and ask questions right away. I guess you are special after all."
A voice that sounded angelic, akin to pleasant sounds of wind chimes resounded in my ears.
Not breaking the focus on me, she started talking further.
"Then again, I did not expect you to use my 'Blessing' so soon after all. I thought it would take a while before you 'died', but nothing is certain, after all. Everything changes according to the whims of others. If the person is too weak to change it, it's their fate to dance around in the palm of the others."
She took her tea cup and started gracefully drinking from it.
Ok, I died by gunfire again for a second time. This time I can't get over it and just am shellshocked for a while. Time went by as I looked at the one who dragged me here. I think she can read my mind as I saw her raising her eyebrow at me.
"I'm going to correct you on one thing. And that is, I did not drag you here, but invited you for a cup of tea. Also, you died by a bullet in the head, if you haven't guessed already. Congratulations."
Clarifying herself she explains. Ok well this is… interesting to say the least. It's not every day you can have a tea party with 'death' after all.
Taking the tea cup, I slowly start to sip the piping hot tea. When the liquid reached my taste buds, I widened my eyes. The tea tastes otherworldly, like ambrosia that you only want more of.
Not wanting to look uncultured, I took a sip and started asking.
"…Thank you for clarifying my stupidity. And nice to meet you too. My name is Elijah but I guess you already know that, may I ask for yours?"
Sounding a bit stiff I try to ask.
She looks in wonderment at me before replying.
"Nice to meet you too Elijah, as I have many given names I usually go by 'death' that is commonly understood by all."
Trying to give a smile but what came out is a forced one. I try asking.
"Thank you. But I wanted to ask one thing and that, is there any reason as to why I am here?"
She contemplates on my words with a thoughtful face before replying.
"I guess I was lonely. The last time I talked to a person was a century ago. She was called 'The Countess of Bathory' and she was not sane enough to hold a proper conversation. Her 'vampiric' urges were uncontrollable, so she hunted and lured young maidens to her estate, bathing in their blood as the thought of male blood disgusted her. It's hard to find a sane person to talk to as they are either corrupted by the void or they are not sane to begin with."
Giving a sad smile she stares at the void in reminisce.
Listening with great interest, I notice this isn't going anywhere so I start.
"If you want company, I don't mind being your tea buddy, but I need to get stuff done so I don't have to worry about dying stupidly again."
Looking straight into her eyes, I look at her with a sincere smile now. As she looked at me with an amazed expression, I just remembered that I'm in the presence of a god that governs death, and can obliterate me on her whims.
"I'm sorry if I was rude. I was just caught up in the moment."
Nervously laughing, I gain an amused grin from her.
"It's fine… It's been a long time since a sane human talked to me after all."
Drawing her hand out, she summoned a plain watch and watched at the time with a sad expression.
"It seems like our tea party has to come to an end as your soul is too weak to stay here any longer. I will await our next meeting."
Giving a smile she waved at me as I saw a vortex forming under me, sucking my whole body in.
"Please do remember that your body and soul can't endure many revivals. That's why it's only limited to once per month."
Giving a muted scream I vanish from the void.
…
"Fuck my head hurts."
Groaning and massaging my head, I feel a tingly feeling all over my body. Glancing at my bloodied and punctured clothing , I see no visible wounds on me.
Ok that was one hell of an experience. It's not every day you experience death and revival twice…
Looking around, I see the guy who shot me with bloodied hands, unconscious on the ground with a foul stench coming off of him. Did he really just shit himself?
Ok I have an option to bandage him right here and now, then torture him, but I'm too goddamn lazy, and I just want to get back to my fucking comfy ass bed.
I look at the time and see that I was out cold for 3 minutes. Good to know.
Taking a quick arrow from the inventory, I stab his head with the arrowhead to finish him off.
Holding a flashlight from inventory, I light up the area. What greeted my eyes was a bunker stocked up on guns. Everything was military equipment of World War II.
So, this was a secret gun stash of the Empire of Japan? I'm concluding that because of the big Japan flag with 'EMPIRE OF JAPAN' katakana under it on the wall.
There were some pistols and submachine guns with a couple of rifles around. Some crates with bullets in them as well. The guns have seen better days as some were covered with rust. There were also some bayonets and grenades.
Having a big grin on my face, I check the notification about the quest.
Quest completed:
Description: Like the baddie you are you intimidated a poor fellow and gained information about a juicy and unexplored abandoned bunker!
Timeframe: 2 days | 1 day
Objective:
Find and explore the abandoned bunker. | X/X
Rewards: 1000 EXP; ?; ?.
Rewards:
Received: Treasure sense perk.
Received: Gunman class unlocked
Level up:
Perk obtained: Dragon scales
Skill obtained: Steady shot
Uh… stats.
|Elijah|
| Level – 9 |
| EXP – 494/516 |
| Archer 9/100 |
HP – 7600
MP – 400
AP- 1200
STR – 60 (60)
VIT – 76 (76)
INT – 20 (20)
WIS – 20 (20)
DEX – 24 (24)
AGI – 20 (20)
CHA – 50 (87)
LCK – 7 (12)
Points: 0
Perks:
-Treasure sense-
You have an innate talent for treasure hunting .
When you are near treasure you can sense valuable items and get notified.
-Dragon scales-
Gained through the 'draconian bloodline'.
You can summon scales on your body to defend you from physical attacks.
Skills:
-Steady Shot (Passive) 2/100-
Training how to use the bow you learn how to aim steadily and shoot the target.
Minor increased accuracy when aiming with ranged weapons.
In total I gained 1748 exp today. I spent all the points on INT, WIS and AGI to up them to 20 and 1 to LCK. Intelligence and wisdom can help me out in sticky situations and it doesn't hurt to be smart. Example, me not waiting for him to come out even if it would take a while.
Looking at the stats I have I couldn't help to break out into a small celebratory dance. The Dragon scales perk will need some testing but it looks like it would be very useful for close combat.
Anyway, looking around the bunker I see I have a lot of work to do…
…
Being careful not to touch the goddamn grenades I looted everything I could.
Climbing up to the surface, I see it's a few hours from dusk.
When I was outside a black shadow charged at me. But with my passive skills I could see who it was. Before it could hit me, I sidestepped to avoid the crashing.
"Ok, calm down I'm alright! No need to charge at me so relax."
The raven flew straight back to me back on my shoulder. I guess she freaked out by my bloodied clothing? Eh I guess I need to change it then.
Petting her a little, I give her a snack to chew on. She didn't bother going down as she just gulped it in one go. She didn't say anything as she just stood there on my shoulder like a watch bird.
Cleaning up the area and dumping all the dismembered bodies in the inventory, I move the rocks away from the river and let the water flow freely again.
Feeling satisfaction from the forest, I start treading back to the city through the forest. The walk seemed uneventful as I did not meet any people here except for the sparse animals. I got enough points to survive the apocalypse now and grind.
Walking for a few hours, I arrive at the border of the forest and the city.
"So, do you want to stay here in the forest or come with me?"
Asking the raven, I receive a classic *caw* from her and I just shrug it off. Going back home will take a while so I guess I'm running for now.
Starting in a run the raven is flying above me at a steady pace. I received weird looks but who cares. It's about to be doomsday anyways. Running for an hour I get back home.
"I'm home… *sigh* there is no one here, why do I even bother."
Turning on the lights I go in the house. The raven also came in and landed on top of the couch. She observed the surroundings with interest.
You know before I forget, I need to make a collar for her or something to identify her with.
Fishing out a white ribbon, I tie it around her leg in a bowtie. She looked at me then at her new bowtie on the leg seemingly happy.
"You know it's not nice to call you 'you' or 'girl' all the time don't you think? I think the name Freyja would suit you well."
She responds by *cawing* so I guess it's fine. Smiling a little, I go to the kitchen and cook some dinner for myself and something for Frey too.
I have 5 days to relax and laze around. I will need to read some books on school subjects just for precaution sake and possibly up my stats a little.
~~~~~~~5 Days Later~~~~~~~
Wearing my school uniform that fits me perfectly, I call out to Frey.
"Frey! We are going now!"
Walking down the stairs, I check if I got everything that I could throw into the inventory.
As my inventory is very limited, I could only store smaller items, but I noticed that I could store bigger items now. And the conclusion I came to is that the INT or WIS stat influences the volume I can store.
Taking the guns from the table, into the inventory, I look at the tutorial 'how to clean a World War II pistol at home'. The internet is your goddamn best friend for random information.
As I was contemplating, I felt someone on my shoulders, I checked on Freya and her new collar to see if she was alright then started to head out.
Watching the new addition to my UI, I see Freyjas' name and overall status. It's nice that I accidentally found a way to make her my familiar. Short gist of it was I bought a collar and made her wear it, the system took it as a sign and offered me to make her myfamiliar.
I got offered to share my EXP in a 50/50 style and it is even possible to modify it. As I need the EXP at the moment I turn it off.
Wearing dark headphones with some music on I head to the school.
When I have free time, I will learn how to play the guitar or the lyra just because I like music.
Giving my house one last glance, I start treading off to the school.
…
The school had many students entering inside as it was morning. Some people glanced at me and my raven in wonderment. Yes, I know that I look stupid or just outright bizarre right now but I don't give a single fuck.
I tell Freyja to wait outside for now as I'm pretty sure animals are not allowed inside the school.
Freyja took off somewhere to kill time. Possibly hunting for mice or something.
Getting inside I look for the teachers' lounge. Asking a few people for directions I get to my destination.
Knocking first before coming in I go up to a random female teacher to ask about which class I'm attending. As I got an answer after saying my name, she introduced me to my new classroom teacher.
"Hello Elijah-kun, nice to meet you. My name is Ichirou Shido. I will be your classroom teacher from now on."
In his black pinstripe suit with a white shirt, black pants and a yellow tie he introduces himself with his 'characteristic' smile, I try my best to hide my scowl. Why the fuck do I need to see this shit for brains here? When the apocalypse starts, I'm murdering this fucker ASAP.
"Nice to meet you too Ichirou-sensei. Please take care of me."
I want to vomit… FUCK. If it wouldn't be for the quest, I would strangle him already. Even though he hasn't done anything but I see the fuckers calculative gaze on me. I'm too used to this shit. I don't need a repeat of the mistake from my previous life.
He is probably thinking somewhere along the lines 'If I could befriend this boy and make him a well-known figure, I could possibly have some political power and use him'… Yeah, I'm 100% sure that's it. He is basically licking me with his eyes watching me.
Standing up from his chair he gestures for me to follow him to the class.
Getting to classroom 3-A together with the fucker I wait outside and wait for his cue.
Hearing my name and telling me to come in, I open the door and look at the students with a quick glance. Oh… how fun, I'm in the class with Rei and Saeko. Giving a quick smile I write my name in katakana on the blackboard and introduce myself.
"My name is Elijah with no surname. Pleasure to meet you."
Doing a small bow, the fucker says to take a random seat.
Taking a seat that's free and right next to the window, I sit down and zone out of his lecture. It's goddamn nerve racking to feel so many gazes on you when you have somewhat enhanced senses. It's like something is breathing down my neck all the time. It's goddamn fucking annoying. Next time if I get a similar setting, I'm wearing a disguise. Period.
Checking the quest completion, I get 100 exp and see that I'm 22 exp short for a level up. Damn.
The fucker said something about concentrating more but I'm pretty sure my INT stat is higher than his so… I can't be bothered.
Watching outside the window I see it's raining cherry blossoms. A nice scene...
I suddenly hear some screaming as the window is open. Watching the gates, I give a sadistic grin. There were three teachers that were at the gate. One was bleeding pretty badly from his arm. His facial features becoming paler and overall being unresponsive. My 'Eagle Eye' passive is so useful for looking at long distances.
Standing up and outright leaving the classroom, I don't forget to use 'Marked for Death' by just willing it, at the fucker.
Going down the stairs I hear the speakers warning about violence and telling to evacuate the premise.
Having a quick flash of inspiration, I go up the stairs and find the recording room. I found the room pretty fast because I heard the screams. Kinda hard to miss after all. Kicking the door down I draw my bow and headshot the zombie with a quickdraw. I don't need panic just yet. I knew it was worth it learning some tricks with the bow.
Recovering the arrow back I go to the recording setup and press the big red button and start to speak.
"*Riiiiing* One, Two, Three. Ok it still works. MAYDAY MAYDAY! STAY CALM! THERE ARE A GROUP OF ARMED MEN THAT HAVE INFILTRATED THE SCHOOL PREMISE! PLEASE EVACUATE FOLLOWING THE REGULAR PROCEDURES LISTENING TO THE TEACHERS! DO NOT PANIC AND DO NOT ENGAGE WITH THE ARMED GROUP! I REPEAT DO NOT ENGAGE AT ANY COST!" Having my fun with this, I hear the frantic running all around the school. Mission accomplished.
If someone was smart enough and listened closely, they would find that I sounded weird. Like which military personnel does that? But the sheer chaos negates that so no one cares at the moment.
Equipping holsters to my waist and holstering two 'Type 14 8mm Nambu' pistols. I Wear my headphones and play some random playlist I downloaded, I calmly wait for a bit and start going down the stairs.
There are ALREADY zombies in the school. I mean how the fuck did they get infected THAT fast!? This is completely beyond me…
All the zombies started to get more aggressive and charged at me. Ahm. Hmm I forgot I had the flaw where I smell like fucking pastry to every monster. Fuck. I need to get out of the school NOW.
Drawing out the two pistols, I dual wield the guns and start shooting them in the head.
As I have a surplus number of magazines and bullets, I can go wild a bit. After all I got an amount that was meant for a small platoon not for one person.
Shooting the zombies in the heads here and there, I already feel the level ups strengthening me. As I didn't care if the sounds attracted more zombies, I just went downstairs and cleaned up the horde.
As I was heading down, I felt the fucker was close to me. I know his exact position so I know he is heading straight towards me.
Seeing him running frantically towards my direction with his group of students he stopped when he saw me. He was about to come up to me but stopped when he saw the two guns I had in my hands.
With the shit eating smile as always, he started.
"Elijah-kun you are a student and you shouldn't be wielding firearms. You are underaged to wield them, so you have to hand them over to me so we don't have any accidents. Don't you guys think so as well? Guns are meant to be used by adults."
The students nod at him as he gloats.
Ok what the fuck. No 'Glad your safe' bullshit? You got to be retarded if you just give the guns to him. Do rules still apply when there is a fucking zombie apocalypse on-going?
Playing along for now I play dumb.
"What do you mean Ichirou-sensei? These are plastic toys that I bought from the kids' toy shop. They were really cheap, you know? Somewhere around a hundred yen each."
Giving an innocent smile he looked at me dumbfounded. Heh I know. The guns are giving off smoke indicating that it was shot recently and the gunshots didn't make it any better. He knows this. I know this. I just want to fuck around with him first.
He went up to one of his students and whispered something to him. The student looks uncomfortable but the fucker just said something and then he immediately looked mortified. The fucker tries to speak to me. Stalling for time?
"Elijah-kun… you are not fooling anyone. Anyone can see that they are real firearms. Now give them to me or face the consequences of the law and follow me. You need guidance! You need a guiding light to guide you and I'm willing to be that person! So be obedient and hand them over."
Saying all this, I see the student sneaking around me stealthily if it could be called that. Ignoring him I play along.
"What do you mean Sensei? Oooh… I guess I should clarify my parents threw me out as I was unwanted. I learned how to be a big boy at a young age so no need to worry. Also, I already said that these are just toys. Wait don't tell me… Sensei you want to play with them in a time like this!?"
With an expression of bewilderment, I hear the students' faint footsteps behind me. Ok are you trying to make fun of the hard-working ninjas everywhere!? Who sneaks around like that!
The fucker gave me a look like he was talking to a pitiful child, he watched behind me and I knew this was the signal probably.
Turning around I quickdraw my gun to the students' head and pull the trigger.
"Bang."
The bullet piercing through his head, he flopped down making a pool of blood. Ok where the fuck did, he get a goddamn brick!? Ugh priorities… I turn my gaze back to the fucker as I feel him running towards me with something.
I point my gun at him and he immediately stops. Plan failed eh? What are you going to do now? Make your students your meat shields while you run?
Looking at him with a bored expression I say exasperated.
"*Sigh* You guessed right… they are real. But you know? I tried to give you one chance to redeem yourself but it seems that it was unnecessary after all..."
"Wait a goddamn minute you murderer! You will be punished by the law! If you turn in now you can still be redeemed!"
Slightly panicking he started to play mind games with me, hoping he could lower my guard down. I was surprised that he was still ongoing about this…
"You are too 'fresh' to join the real political wars. Go play the devils' advocate in hell. I will 'guide' you there, and the fare for the ticket is free."
Saying my words to him, I pull the trigger aimed at his thighs.
"Bang."
The sound of gunfire and the shell dropping twice on the ground gave off a heavy feeling.
Inhaling in the fumes that are wafting coming from the barrel I give out a delighted sigh.
"Haaaaa… this takes me back. I love the fresh smell of gunpowder in an apocalypse."
The students watched in blank horror as they didn't dare to move. Guess they are more scared of me than I thought huh…
"You…! Why did you do this!? Haven't you been taught anything about kindness!?"
Ichirou, still alive, practically screamed at me.
I just looked at him with a surprised expression. Did he really just preach about kindness? God. This world is collapsing… well it kinda is but it's still ridiculous.
"You know… if you hadn't been such a calculative prick, I would've let you go and let you build your little cult. But you had to poke the dragon with the stick, didn't you?"
Crouching down and poking him with the gun, I give him a sardonic smile and just walk off.
"H-Hey where are you going! Get back here!"
Hearing him say that, I turn around and drag him by the neck with me.
"W-what are you doing!? Release me you!"
Ignoring his incessant screaming, I meet Saeko by the stairs. She just looked at me with a questioning gaze. Seeing the battered state of Ichirou her gaze quickly hardened.
"Heya Saeko, want to watch how I crucify this bastard? Oh, and if you intend on stopping me, all I can say is that I don't go easy on girls that are aggressive towards me."
Giving a charming smile, I walk past Saeko and continue treading downwards.
"It doesn't end well for both parties. I hate to hurt a girl after all."
Not responding she quietly followed me… It seems like she hated the bastard too.
Clearing out the path, I arrive at the entrance of the school. I already gagged the bastard cause I couldn't endure his preaching and yelling. Going to a smooth wall outside, I take a regular kitchen knife, place his hand on the wall and stab it deeply impaling his hand. The stone wall made small fissures from the stab courtesy of my strength stat. Doing the same for the second hand, I admire my work.
He had a pained and terrified expression. He tries to scream something but he is gagged so nothing comes out.
I cut his leg tendons just to be on the safe side, I took a picture of his bleeding and lifted the crucified form with my phone for a possible photo album.
Saeko was just standing on the sidelines, watching and doing nothing to stop me, so I guess she wants this too or just doesn't care.
It was a pain to clear out the area for zombies here for me to be able to get the time I need to crucify him.
The Myriad of skewered, slaughtered and mauled bodies thrown everywhere along with screaming and a few explosions, it's chaotic but that's just the 'beauty' of the apocalypse, I guess.
Not bothering to be here any longer, leaving him to be zombie food, I make a loud whistle and Freya comes landing back on my shoulder.
Giving her quick pats, I check the map for possible looting areas. If I have the chance, I'm looting all I can. I never know if I will need them later after all.
Starting to leave the premise, Saeko follows behind me at a distance. Uhm, I guess she doesn't mind following a murderer or something?
"Uhh, I'm flattered and all, but why are you following me? You know I have my hands full with zombies at the moment."
She doesn't respond and just looks at me. Thinking for a while for an answer she responds at the end.
"I have bigger chances of survival if I'm to stick together with you. And no, I'm not worried if you want to murder me, I can defend myself."
Oook, so you are basically saying you can dodge bullets? I call bullshit, but I'm not sure if the main characters have 'plot-armor' so I'm not testing that. But Ichirou didn't have it so I guess he was less important?
"Suit yourself, be warned though that I'm not going to babysit you 24/7. I'm going hunting for some items."
Outright ignoring her, I started walking to the gun store. I want better weapons than my 'World War II' collection. While they are nice and all, they are small and don't quite make the 'punch' that I'm used to having.
On the road to the only gun store in town, there were some zombies on the road blocking it. I had to take out a butchers' knife and decapitate them to not make noise, sometimes stabbing them with an arrowhead in the head.
Saeko with her wood sword knocking them down I see Takashis' group on the side of a road.
Wait a fucking minute. Weren't they supposed to be in a bus now or something? Well there is no Shido anymore so it should go more smoothly than ever getting out for them. Wait, did my gunshots attracted more… ok you know what never mind.
Subtly trying to go past them unnoticed, Saeko doesn't get the signal and follows me normally and that catches their attention. FOR FUCKS SAKE.
I see them closing in on us. I just ignore them as Takashi is fucking screaming to gain our attention. While it did catch Saekos' attention, all it did to me was garner displeasurment. For fucks sake don't yell where zombies can FUCKING HEAR YOU. Ok I did the same but I didn't have a choice at that time.
Hearing the zombies groaning and footsteps count growing by the minute, I curse under my breath. Ok cool, I can gain a lot of experience but… I CAN'T BEAT A FUCKING HORDE WITH TWO GODDAMN, ALREADY LOUD PISTOLS. If I pull out a submachine gun out of my arse now, I will just gain the attention of more zombies, which I don't need at the moment.
Pointing my gun at Takashi he stops in his tracks. Everyone in his group looks at me with a terrified expression except for Kohta. Fucking hell he is still a guns nerd. Guess he knows the model of the gun.
"Shut. Up."
Still pointing my gun at him I spoke with an annoyed expression on my face.
"Do you want to attract more zombies? If you do, don't drag me into your goddamn mess. If I hear you yell again. I'm pulling this trigger and giving you a bullet to your head."
Holstering the guns, I continue walking on, not before Kohta the 'gun nut' bothers me, looking at the guns in my holsters with an analyzing gaze.
"Hey is that the 'Type 14 Nambu' pistol? These pistols' origins were from Italy where it was first made to be given to Germany but the Japanese stole it for their own use. The gun is easily serviceable but is really weak and fragile because of the method to open the gun. The Japanese stole the idea and made their own. They were produced in an attempt to reduce the cost of manufacturing guns for officers and non-commissioned ones in the Japanese Army. But due to war the quality dropped over time and became worse over time. This model seems to be manufactured before the war, because the lack of machining marks and non-polishing is anything to go by."
Everyone in Takashi's group watched him with an expression 'now is not the time'. I give him a quick look. The same fatty like they depicted him…
Amused by his antics, I reach out to him.
"So, you are interested in guns eh? Do you want one for a souvenir then? It's not functional but with a little bit of maintenance it is possible to fix it."
Holding his shoulder and smiling, he looks at me with stars in his eyes.
"Really!? I would be really glad if you could! Leave the gun's maintenance to me!"
With a confident expression he pointed at himself.
Giving him an entertained look, I reach in my coat and pull out a rusty old 'Type 14 8mm Nambu' and a few serviceable clips with bullets inside them.
He quickly snatched them out of my hands and inspected them closely to see how he could start to service it.
"Ok I know you are happy and all but the zombies are coming thanks to one dumbass, so I'm out. See ya."
Turning around I continue my delayed destination to the store not before I hear Takashi loudly talking, practically screaming again.
"You! Who are you calling a dumbass!? If anything, you are the dumbass here practically calling all the zombies at the school is YOU! We had to escape from the already forming horde there!"
Ok yeah, I noticed but do I care? No, and does he never learn and generally enjoys being a pain in the ass? Is he secretly an M or something? Am I not threatening enough?
Going up to him, his expression turning paler the closer I get to him, I swing my fist at his face squarely hitting him on the nose, making him fall down on the ground.
I held back so he isn't going to die but he sure is going to bleed from the nose for a while. Learned this trick to shoo away people from fighting me, most of which were afraid of getting beat up ironically.
Looking at his bleeding nose, I speak with a sardonic expression.
"Did you hear what I just said? I said don't yell or get a bullet. As I'm feeling nice today, I won't do that. But there is no next time."
I was delayed long enough and now I just ignore them. Freya flapped her wings and look menacingly at Takashi. Looking at her aggressiveness against Takashi I calm her down and toss her a few berries as snacks. She greedily eats them and calms down.
"You! Why do you need to be so aggressive!? He just stated a fact and you got all defensive about it! There is no need for you to ACTUALLY hit him!"
The little pink tsundere comes to the rescue ish… You know what I'm not dealing with Saya.
Checking the map again for another route to the gun store I start walking. Saeko switched her stare between Takashis' group and me then she quickly started following me. The group picked up Takashi and also started following me. Am I a fucking mother duck walking her ducklings!?
"Don't ignore me you goddamn idiot!"
Not thinking about it anymore, I draw my butchers' knife and start slaughtering. Saeko helping out sometimes when I was cornered and Freya warning me if there were more incoming. The group looked at our teamwork slack jawed and wondered if they could do that as well.
Leaving a trail of bodies in my wake, I arrive at the gun store. There were some people inside looting whatever they could. There were some outside being too scared to go in and scavenge and were just observing.
Ignoring them I go by them but one of them stopped me.
"Stop young man! Don't go in there! There are armed bandits scavenging the gun store in there! They said they will shoot anyone in sight if someone goes inside."
Looking at the middle-aged man, I thought about his words.
"Ok quick question then, how many are in there?"
The man surprised by my question still answered me.
"I saw six guys going in there, why? Is there something wrong?"
Uhh… No, there is nothing wrong. I just want to know if I can kill them all. That's it.
So, bandits huh? Is it going to be hard to wipe them out? No. Is it going to be a pain in the ass to deal with the aftermath? Yes.
Giving the man 2 energy bars as thanks I find a free bench and sit on it, taking in a breather.
The zombies around here are sparse and already wiped out. There are only some that are roaming around so it doesn't matter that much, I guess… I'm pretty far from them too, so my flaw doesn't rile them up.
Sighing loudly, I attract everyone's attention.
"Haaa… So, care to tell me why you guys are following me like ducklings? You basically do nothing and don't bother me that much so I'm not saying anything. But."
Stopping for a bit to see their expressions really surprised, huh is there something I said? Anyway…
"We are having problems if you think you can just come with me and scavenge the stuff in the building, I'm at. And to clarify. I don't care if I only take a few packets of noodles or the whole store. Also I'm not clarifying on how I can do that."
Crossing my arms and legs, I lean back further on the bench, relaxed. Freya standing on the bench looking at me with her beady black eyes.
"And also, I don't need people guarding me, scouting or all that bull crap. I work solo well enough."
Closing my eyes, I take a small rest thinking about my abilities.
I have the dragon scales if things go haywire. But I don't know if bites would infect me or not, so I'm not going to go testing if my scales can survive bites. And also…
Perks gained:
-Dragons lungs-
Due to your 'draconic blood' lineage you have gained the lungs of dragons. With your mighty voice you are now able to chant 'draconic magic' and have an inspiring voice.
Improved lung capacity; perquisite for 'draconic magic'; prerequisite for specific skills; speech skills improved
-Draconic magic-
Due to your 'draconic blood' lineage you gain the power to use magic that dragons use. Use the magic power of dragons to clear everything in your wake.
All dragonic magic is accessible now; learning 'dragonic magic' speed increased by 50%; effectiveness of 'draconic magic' increased by 50%; knowledge of basic 'draconic magic'.
Abilities gained:
-Double shot (Active) 1/100-
Cost – 10 AP | Per shot
Handling the bow, you are now able to fire two arrows simultaneously as you would with one.
Shoot two arrows instead of one, not hindering the accuracy.
-Vital shot (Passive) 1/100-
While shooting with a bow you grow more accustomed to enemies' vital spots and exploit it.
Lesser perception of vital spots; Striking a vital spot gives bleeding status, 2% increased bleeding damage done, possible critical strikes (1% X (0,5 x LCK))
Status perk tokens gained:
1x STR perk token
1x VIT perk token
As I'm reading this, I become dumbfounded along with everyone. Ok first, what the actual fuck.
Second now I know why everyone is dumbfounded. My voice just became all deep and majestic like all of the sudden and everyone would be surprised by the sudden change, still it doesn't make sense. It only changed my lungs, not my voice box. Did it get modified as well?
Third now that I think about it, I suddenly know about draconic hieroglyphs now… Oook I know the spells and the power of them is just absurd. It's just basic spells but I can detonate a building if I wanted to but… It costs too much mana, which I don't have much of.
Also, that 'Vital shot' is just absurd.
Uhh… stats.
|Elijah|
| Level – 17 |
| EXP – 165/2219 |
| Archer 17/100 |
HP – 13200
MP – 400
AP- 2160
STR – 108 (108)
VIT – 132 (132)
INT – 20 (20)
WIS – 20 (20)
DEX – 40 (40)
AGI – 20 (20)
CHA – 90 (158)
LCK – 20 (35)
Points: 27
Ok what the actual fuck. Did killing a couple zombies net me this much EXP!? It's absurd. This only shows that I need to get out there grinding than moping here on a bench contemplating. Fuck.
Spending 13 points on LCK and leaving the rest as is.
I wanted to spend it all on INT and just cast some 'draconic magic' but screw that. It takes preparation and a lot of mana to make runes. When I'm higher level it won't need such tedious preparations. Chanting is hard and I haven't practiced so I don't want to accidentally blow myself up.
Quickly pulling my thoughts together I open up the Shop.
The Shop had a new tab available that is called the 'Perks'. Self-explanatory… The tab has perks which I can buy with my Tokens. Each perk correlates to the stat and costs more depending on the power and usefulness of it.
Searching for a bit, I find one neat and useful perk for VIT. I'm eyeing a STR perk that can double my STR status but it needs 2 more tokens.
VIT perk gained:
Enhanced regeneration 1/3
Improve your natural HP regeneration by 2x.
Hopefully this helps with my stamina regen, but I'm a little unsure… either way it is useful nevertheless.
Getting out of my thoughts I inspect the surroundings. Everyone is still staring at me like I'm a weird animal…
"Ok the fuck you guys staring at? Can't handle it when I drop my accent or something?"
With my deeper and more gravelly voice I state. As I don't want to deal with this, I just bullshit something random that isn't believable in the slightest, I look past them and peer into the gun store.
The looters were still there scavenging whatever they could into their bags.
Standing up, Freya lands on me as I start to go towards the store.
Everyone wanted to follow me but I just stopped them by raising my arm.
Pinching my nose bridge, I say with an annoyed voice.
"Ok this is going to take me effort to do so you guys are out. You can neither help me nor do anything. The only thing you guys are going to be is just be a hindrance to me."
Walking past them I tried to get into the gun store but was rudely stopped by the screaming of a certain self-proclaimed genius…
"Did you just call us deadweight!? How dare you! I'll have you know my IQ is higher than yours and you don't even know about zombies using only sound and smell. How dare you call me deadweight, I can pull my own weight and there is no need to pull yours!"
Looking at Saya like I was seeing a brain-dead person, she took it very offensively. She wanted to scream again but I immediately stopped her.
"Ok first. I did not fucking know that they are attracted to sound. I only gained that knowledge when I was on a shooting spree. Second, you want to tell me that, I suddenly need knowledge about ZOMBIES characteristics when it's fucking day one of goddamn doomsday? And third. If you think I have a low IQ then why are you following me? If I'm such a brain dead person as you say I am then I can just murder you here, because 'I'm just stupid after all."
Starting to lower my hand on my holster, she immediately shut up. Good girl. At Least it is possible to teach her manners.
Ignoring everyone, I start treading off to the store. The guy who stopped me asked me what I was doing. I just smiled and said "You should get out of this area. It will get rowdy in a second."
He didn't question why or how and just ran off… guess he saw the guns holstered on my sides.
Not wanting to get Freya hurt in the crossfire, I make her wait outside.
Looking in the store through the windows, I see all the 6 guys there in the open and no one was on a lookout. Guess they were worried about the zombies and wanted to get the hell out of here.
Drawing my gun out, I hold my breath and take aim then kick the door down. They were surprised but they were not fast enough to react.
I shot six consecutive shots in the heads of the guys. Everyone immediately falls to the ground bleeding, and making a pool of blood under them.
Thanks to my enhanced stats I can do this shit and do a quick draw to kill them. Interestingly enough, one guy had a firearm in hand, but was too shocked to shoot. Phew that was close, almost got my second ticket to hell…
Checking around if there are any more, I quickly grab literally anything I could and shove it in the inventory. Bullets, guns, cleaning kits, modifications, sights, magazine clips, knives, holsters and all that. As I was doing this in a rush I did not know if they were compatible or not. Hopefully my LCK stat does something here.
Looting like a maniac for 5 minutes, I hear groaning with growing footsteps getting progressively louder. Taking that as my cue, I quickly smash the register in and take the money. What? If I'm going into a similar setting, I want to have money to spend and not be a hobo.
Getting all that, I leave outside and don't see the group anymore. So I guess they were scared by the gunshots and me attracting the zombies? Eh… well that's fine as I wanted to go solo.
Whistling to call Freyja back, I go in the opposite direction of the horde and start running.
No, I am NOT fighting a goddamn horde and getting flanked by both sides. I need high ground and my bullets aren't infinite. I think I wasted 50 bullets if not less. And I have two magazines in the guns loaded with a few full ones in the inventory. The rest are empty and I will need to fill in later.
"Oh, how fun and joyous this beautiful day has become."
Running to a store that isn't all just glass windows, I get in and see it has been already raided. There was some stuff I could take but not now, I need to get on the roof.
Blocking off the entrance, I find my way to the roof and relax for a bit.
"Haaa… safe at last."
Letting out a troubled sigh, I look down and see the already forming of a zombie horde.
"This is going to be a pain in the ass."
Thanks for reaching this far... Writing this was a lot of fun but there may be mistakes here and there. Hopefully it was readable.
Chapter was edited by Artekha, Grim Riper and Empyrean Asura.
M2R: Yes it kinda was, I just needed an excuse where MC gains something or has something to do.
Thel310: That is a possibility that I'm thinking about doing.
tjanjua115: Well I just want to accentuate how big of a douche he is.
raven63827: Thanks.
This-Mickey-Seems-Iffy: Well last name means that he has a family. In this case he does not. A name with no surname isn't that unheard of. It just says that the person may have been an orphan.
Dawood Saqlain: Thanks.
stylo1: He can only start one quest at a time to get rid of his flaw. All the miscellaneous stuff only happens now. Action is starting. And I'm planning to add modifiers and I need the original stat value for purpouses.
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Gods Beyond: Thanks. The ID is just stupidly op.