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Chapter 31: The First Wave of Defectors
By the time Chase cracked open the eighth skull of the night and pocketed its core, the zombie that had been steadily approaching finally closed the distance enough for a proper look.Female, from the shape of her but her skin ran a sickly blue-gray, and dense black bone plating covered her limbs and chest like natural armor. She carried a steel whip, and her expression sat somewhere between predatory and furious by default.Chase didn't feel threatened. If anything, she hadn't shown a shred of hostility toward him at all which made the whole thing more interesting than alarming.She reached him and dropped smoothly to one knee....Okay, that's new."I greet... the great... Zombie King."The cadence matched Chase's own voice from his very first days as one of the infected slow, ragged, working hard around a throat that hadn't fully adjusted yet."Who are you?""I was born of your will. I exist to serve you."Born of my will. Chase turned that over, trying to place any moment that migh
Chapter 30: The Rise of the Mutant Zombies
Dylan arrived at Chase's base and found the outer wall considerably more imposing in person than anything the internet chatter had prepared him for.Taller than the footage suggested, and cleaner too the direct result of Chase's newly acquired metal-resize ability, which had made the whole reinforcement job dramatically faster than manual construction ever could have.Dylan's own power leaned support over combat, so rather than force his way through a crowd of infected, he found a quieter stretch of wall and activated his ability. A thick vine rose beneath his feet, lifting him steadily upward until he reached the top, climbed over, and dropped down safely inside the perimeter.Jason clocked the intrusion almost immediately recovered enough from his earlier injuries to be back on monitoring duty."Unknown human entered from the southeast, scaled the wall directly. Reads as a plant-type ability." He relayed it over the intercom without delay.Lulu's expression hardened, and she headed
Chapter 29: Saving Wesley
Are they burying people alive out here now?Chase reached the source signature and found nothing but a fresh grave waiting for him.His life-sense had always distinguished cleanly between human and infected, and whatever was giving off that purple core reading was definitely not a zombie.He raised a hand. The loose earth scattered instantly, and a slab of stone rose up out of the ground, dragging a body along with it.Wait isn't this the guy who summoned the submachine gun that night?Wesley's skin had gone bone white, close enough to death that most people would've stopped checking for a pulse. Chase knew better. The wounds told the real story this was blood loss shock, not death.Pale like a corpse because he's basically drained dry, not because he's actually gone.The Ability Response Base really let this happen?Chase didn't waste time debating it. He started healing on the spot, sealed the worst of the damage, secured Wesley across the back seat, and drove straight for the Aurig
Chapter 28: Improving the Use of Powers
"Vanessa's always been Wesley's number-one open case, but he never actually filed a progress report on it. So from your side, what can you tell me about Subject One?"Vanessa met Director Grant's gaze with carefully manufactured guilt. Something about this woman's stare always felt like it saw straight through whatever performance was currently running.Subject One the base's working name for Chase, the only documented case of an infected retaining full communication and reasoning. A category of one, as far as anyone knew."Director, he's a monster. He killed my boyfriend. He killed my parents. He was about to finish me off too, and the only reason I'm alive is because your team got there in time and even then, he still came after me and nearly killed me in the process. Captain Quinn barely knew anything real about Subject One. Mostly he just kept finding excuses to talk to me..."Vanessa let her voice catch, playing the same card again Wesley's supposed infatuation, framed as the rea
Chapter 27: The Iron Fortress That Attracts Attention
Chase worked through the fallen crew's cores methodically. Every single one turned out to be offense-oriented, and the weakest of the batch still came in blue.One combination caught his eye immediately Wall of Flame, a skill he'd only ever managed to produce before by manually fusing fireball with range expansion. Here it was, sitting fully formed in a single core."Huh. These two garbage-tier skills actually combine into something?"A blue-tier air cannon and a green-tier scent-projection ability the single most useless power in his whole collection fused together into a fresh purple-tier core: Area Sleep.Combining two cores can produce something a full tier higher than either one alone. Chase hadn't expected that at all, and immediately locked it in.Once merged, both source cores vanished, replaced entirely by the new purple ability perfect for something like slipping past the Ability Response Base undetected. A few other combination prompts flickered up as options too, though no
Chapter 26: Terrifying Loyalty
Chloe seemed to catch herself mid-hug and pulled back fast, cheeks going pink.She was also still propping up Ethan, the college kid who'd thrown himself at a gang member with nothing but a basic leaf-blade strike to buy her an opening. He'd never in his life stood this close to someone who looked like Chloe. His whole face went scarlet, and he just shook his head mutely when she thanked him, too tongue-tied to form words.With the fighting clearly over, Denise hurried across the courtyard carrying Ellie, Sean jogging alongside to help his frame doing most of the actual lifting."Ellie what happened here?" Chase frowned, confused. From what he could tell, they'd never even made it fully into the fight, and Ellie showed no visible wounds. So why was she out cold?Denise filled him in fast, and understanding clicked into place.Right. I already suspected her ability went beyond party tricks. Purple-tier doesn't hand out cute dolls for nothing."Overexertion, probably. She's still young
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