Chapter 2: Elevator
“What the hell, it's real!”Jace exclaimed in a panicked voice, finally realizing what was happening.Wendy shambled forward, blood drooling from her mangled lips.Grey grabbed his chair and climbed the table, before leaping over to Jace side and hitting the chair on Greta's face, which sending her backwards.She charged once again, but Grey used the chair to push her backward.He slammed the chair in her face, her body fell to the ground. Grey then began to ram the chair down continuously. With a final hit, Grey heard a crunch, which came from the zombies' skull.Wendy was dead. He had killed her.“No,” Grey shook his head. “Not her, it.”Wendy was nothing human, in fact, she was more dead than alive.More zombies were approaching them with the rest of them hunting down the human among them.Wendy wasn't the only one infected. About 70% of them had turned into zombies, and they were all biting at chewing at those unturned.Jace was shocked by this, but Grey gripped his shoulder firmly.“Jace, we have to move!”He informed, which snapped Jace out of his stupor.“We are going to have to fight our way out. Grab anything you can use as a weapon.”“Huh fight? Weapon?” Jace said in a daze.“Just grab anything you can use to keep the zombie away from you!”Grey grabbed the chair beside him, while Jace grabbed a keyboard and held it over his head.“Seriously!” Grey said.“What…theres nothing else, dude.”Ruar!A zombie grunted charging at Grey, but Grey swung his chair which hit the zombie, sending it over a cubicle. Not losing momentum, he kicked the next one, who fell unto the other. One charged from his side and before Grey could block which his chair it had slammed unto him. Grey fell to the ground, the Zombie over him.It scratched and bite the chair was the only thing keeping the zombie from him. Not good.He summoned his strength and pushed the zombie backwards. He hurriedly stood, to zombie attack once again, but he body swayed to the side, dodging it, and he bash the zombie's head from behind. The chair broke and the rest of it was thrown at the three approaching zombies. He smashed his knee on the first one ribs, grabbed it's by the hair and slammed its face repeatedly on the edge of his desk, sending them flying. He grabbed the computer and slammed it on their head.He took a keyboard and hit the last one chin, sending the key pads flying.He turned toward jace who was held by a zombie.Grey pulled it back by the shirt backwards, took a chair and swung it with so much force it shattered. The zombie fell to the ground, it's neck twisted abnormally.Grey panted wildly, adrenaline coursing through his veins. That was insane, he had never experienced such a feeling in his life. He almost enjoyed it.He looks at the zombies whose body were still twitching. Even with that, it wasn't dead.“Tenacious bastard.” Jace said in a shrill voice, his chest visibly heaving.They were still two zombies in the office feasting on their prey. Grey deemed it too late to save them and turned away.“Lets move!”Grey said and the headed towards the exist and Jace followed. Running down the hall, their gazes turned towards the offices, and they saw the same scenes were taking place in the offices on that floor. A zombie saw some humans running down the hall through and pursued.Grey ran toward the stairs, but Jace voice stopped him.“Wait!”“ What are you doing, let's move.”Jace stood in front of the elevator and pointed. “Why not use the elevator.”“No don't!” Grey yelled, but it was too late. Jace hand was already on the button.Shit?Elevator? If they entered and landed on a floor filled with zombies, they would be swarmed immediately and would have to fight in an enclosed space. Even worse, if the elevator arrived, and they were zombies already inside they were f*cked.“Shit!”Grey cursed as he ran to meet jace but a zombie charged from the side. Grey stepped back, and the zombie ran into the wall.PingThe elevator arrived and the metal door opened.*GrowlThe zombie announced their arrival. One scratched at Jace face, which caused him to fall backwards. It then pounced on him, but Jace reacted fast and rolled to the side away from the threat. The rest of the zombies walked out of the elevator.And when Jace stood, he found he had rolled away from Jace. Now the path between him and Grey was blocked.“ Ah Shit!" (;;;・_・)Chapter 3: Live WireGrey cursed as the zombies swarmed towards Jace. “Grey, don't worry about me…leave” Jace yelled as he ran back into the office.Grey saw this and began to worry they were still zombies back there, Jace was going to get pincered.Grey wanted to move to aid him, but the zombies were unrelenting. Even worse, more of them were attracted by the noise.*Punch**Kick**Shove*Grey hit fast and fierce, but the zombie didn't feel anything and kept crawling back with more intensity. It just wasn't enough to overcome the zombie tenacity. Grey was disadvantaged, he had to be careful as a single bite might be enough to turn him into one of them. If only he had a weapon. But he was in an accounting firm, where the hell was he going to find one.Grey then remembered there should be a fire axe right beside the fire extinguisher for emergencies. Grey ran towards it and a zombie followed. He hurriedly got rid of the glass cover, grabbed the fire axe and swung it down the head
Chapter 4: Awaken“What the heck does this mean?”Grey muttered in a confused manner, as he stared at the floating screen in front of him.He reached out his hand to touch the words, but found that his hand and arm went past the words, not even touching them. He didn't understand what was going on, so he figured he might as well-read the words on the floating screen.[Congratulations, you have awakened the system.]- You have been rewarded with 10 free stat points.[Daily Quest Now Available][You have killed a zombie.][Level Up!] - All stats increased by 1 - You have been rewarded with 2 free stats points - Loot: 5 gold coin “Stats? Level up? Loot? Quest”Grey muttered, that sounded like terms from video games. Grey pursed his lips in thought as he wondered if what he was seeing was real, or if he had hit his head and this was a dream. Heck, the whole zombie apocalypse could be a whole big dream. But then Grey remembered the ferocity of the zombies, the pain he felt when it b
Chapter 5: Hard DecisionsBeing able to manipulate his mana was the key to unlocking other skills under [Electric manipulation].He check his panel and saw a new skill was added under electric weaponry.[Abilities: ]1. Devour: Cosume the abilities of those you defeat. Requirement: Physical Touch.2. Electricity ManipulationSkills Unlocked:[Electric Weaponry:] Charges melee weapons with lightning, enhancing their damage. Requirement: Melee Weapon - Lightning Slice (Unlocked) - Lightning Stab (Unlocked)The way he directed his mana to use [Lightning Stab] was more different from when he used [Lightning Slice]. This had enabled him to unlock the new skill.Though the difference was minute, Grey was able to sense the change.Grey wondered what would happen if he could fully manipulate his mana. He would be able to activate new skills by being creative with his mana flow. Grey grinned joyously, he had so many ideas but for now, he wanted to level up and increase his mana pool. He f
Chapter 6: Essence?Meanwhile, in a luxury hotel on the same street as Grey office. A group of men fought with the zombies.They used weapons like bats, steel pipes, and knives to fight the zombies. Each one of them showed considerable strength. But one of them stood that, he blitzed among the zombies with unnatural speed and then sheathed his katana.Plop!Plop!Plop!The head of the zombies fell off their bodies, and they dropped succeeding.This man was the second in command of one of the biggest gangsters in the city. His name was Draco.With the zombie dealt with, a charismatic man in a white suit walked toward the hallway.“Boss”“Boss”The men hurriedly made a path and greeted with a bow, even the swift swordsman was no exception.The man took out a cigarette and lit it up without any external fire.He has quite bulky, and his face was covered with a beard. This was Bunta, the boss of the Alleyway Kings. A savvy urban gang, adept at evasion and ruthless in crime.“So what did
“System Disabled?” Grey read the penalty and reread it again, refusing to believe what he was seeing.“This must be a joke right?!” Grey said, his voice quivering. He was going to have to fight the hulkalean zombie or he'll lose the system. The zombie noticed Grey and welcomed him with a ear defeaning roar.It rose to its feet, revealing its full body, a hulking ball of muscles. It regarded him with almost human eyes and insatiable hunger which made Grey shiver.Ah I'm f*cked...yep, the system had f*cked me up. It was intimidating and looking really strong which caused Grey to gulp. He grit his teeth and steeled his resolve. He had no choice but the fight. The zombie charged towards Grey with surprising speed, and punched but Grey was able to dodge.Baam! It's fist smashed into the wall and Grey leaped away from it. It was fast, more agile than your regular zombie.The juggernaut pursued after Grey, launching its blows in a frenzy. Grey evaded it's attacks not getting a chance t
The zombie roared, enraged that Grey had taken his arm. It charged at Grey with the intent to pummel him with a single fist. However, as the zombie's fist almost hit Grey, a sphere of lightning blasted out of him, pushing the zombie backward.The muscular zombie tottered to the rear with a pained grunt as electricity coursed into his body. It was surprised that the human who had fled from its attacks, like an annoying rat, was somehow stronger than before and now able to fight back.The look of defiance in Grey's eyes pissed it off, and it roared loudly in annoyance, before rushing towards Grey with the intent to bludgeon him into a bloody pulp.Grey grinned at the power he was able to unleash. He had managed to create a move that boosted his ability and that made him excited. But he knew he was running on limited time; there was no point to the boost if he couldn't use it to defeat the zombie.Focusing his attention on the beast, he readied himself. The zombie threw out a fast and fi
Vruummmm!A vibratory sound rang in Grey's head and his eyes shot wide open. He immediately sat up and looked around, wondering where the weird noise came from. “That certainly wasn't normal.”Grey muttered and brushed his bedsheet aside. He rolled out of his bed and walked towards the window to look out. The morning was just beginning, so barely anyone was outside. Grey glanced at the wall clock and saw it was 6:00 am, and decided it was time to prepare for work.He stretched his arm which revealed his slim body toned with solid muscles, that showed he worked out a lot. Grey took his bath, got dressed, had a small meal, and headed to work. As he got out his apartment, he noticed a man slowly hitting himself on the door of a shop. It was one of his noisy neighbors who was always drunk and had a wife who constantly nagged at him for not taking care of the kids.‘Well at least they knew who their parents were’Grey would mutter. Unlike them, he was an orphan, who didn't know who hi