Chapter 47: Leaving the University (2)
Gwen climbed onto the first bus, shooting her arrows at the zombies ahead of it. The buses also moved, entering the swarm of zombies.
Instantly, they were attacked. But the spikes worked just as Leon intended.
Despite being coordinated, the zombies were still mindless. They continuously rushed at the bus despite being pierced and killed by the spikes on the body of the vehicles.
’These things are working surprisingly well, I’m surprised.’
Gwen thought as she shot an arrow through a zombie’s head. It quickly fell down, trampled and crushed by its own mates.
’Wait.’
Suddenly, her brown eyes caught sight of something coming from the dense horde of zombies. It was definitely a zombie, but...
’Why is it that tall?’
The zombie rushed forward, heading straight for the bus. Panicking, Gwen immediately called out to Selene.
Selene glanced over, and instantly felt a chill run down her spine as soon as she laid eyes on the zombie.
’Definitely above Level 20.’
She thought as she turned her attention to it. And that was when she noticed something strange.
The zombie only had a human head and torso. Its arms ended in massive crab pincers.
"Wait...!"
She looked down, and realized its legs were actually like that of crabs too. Her expression darkened.
’What is this?’
She didn’t have much time to ponder that question. The zombie was just a few meters away from the bus, so she had to act immediately.
She fired small ice shards at the zombies around her, then shot two zombie discs at the crab zombie.
It raised its arms and directly crushed the discs, surprising her. She immediately realized it was fast enough to react to her attacks and switched tactics.
Instead of targeting its torso, she targeted its multiple legs. Unsurprisingly, the hard shell protecting the zombie’s legs proved to be a hassle to deal with.
Thankfully, her attacks had halted the zombie. However, the buses were also forced to stop.
Their path forward was blocked, and they were being swarmed by zombies from all sides.
Inside the buses, the students were extremely terrified, seeing the grotesque faces staring at them and trying to get closer to the people inside.
Even the drivers were frightened, their knuckles whitening around the steering wheels.
Selene knew this, and knew she couldn’t prolong the battle. So she used up 30 of her mana points to create a thick ice spear.
Glancing at Reymond who was keeping the other zombies away from her, she felt glad that he was a useful friend.
’Alright. One hit. Instant kill.’
She took a breath, leaned back with the spear held diagonally, then surged forward.
With a whistling sound, the spear tore through the air and struck the zombie’s head accurately.
The left side of its head was blown off, and it stumbled. It wasn’t dead yet.
Seeing this, Selene’s expression turned cold. "Run it over."
She said coldly, startling the driver.
Even though the windows were shut and the surroundings were chaotic, he still read her lips.
"Do it."
He gritted his teeth, then abruptly switched to the accelerator. The bus lurched forward, then slammed into the dazed, half-dead zombie.
It was instantly pushed to the ground, and the bus roughly climbed over it, crushing the torso in the process. Thankfully, the tyres didn’t get pierced by its sharp legs. The second bus moved around it, and their slow, crawling journey continued.
[You have slain a Level 24 Mutant Zombie! +8 Strength points gained!]
[You have Leveled up to Level 21! +8 Stat points gained!]
During her previous hunt with Reymond, she had grown to Level 20, and with this mutant zombie added to her collection, she had advanced again.
’Mutant Zombies...’
Burying that thought for now, she refocused on the battle around her.
Samson was busy being a brute he always was. Ignoring the zombie claws that failed to scratch his skin, he butchered them with his battle-axe.
Dark red blood spilled to the ground, followed by masses of flesh and bones.
His clothes had become tattered, and his eyes burned with the fervor to kill more. So, he did.
[You have Leveled up to Level 20! +10 Stat points gained!]
As more zombies died at his hands, he continued to grow stronger.
Leon’s little squad, on the other hand, was struggling.
They had been abandoned by their master who lusted after an old enemy, and were left to fend for themselves.
’Poison won’t work on the zombies, so that ability is useless.’
Fel thought as she looked around and observed the battle. Currently, she was in the middle of the formation, protected by her teammates.
"Haap!"
Marie gasped, straining against four zombies that pressed themselves against her shield. Then, using her other hand, she stabbed the red spear forward, skewering the four zombies in their heads.
[You have slain a Level 9 Normal Zombie! +4 Mana points gained!]
[You have slain a Level...]
On her left, Miguel was being a brute similar to Samson. Although he didn’t dare to be as reckless as the man, he was still crushing zombies around him into pulp.
After taking Fel’s hammer instead, he had been putting his free stat points into his strength points, giving him a terrifying level of strength.
"Die!"
Raising the hammer over his head, he brought it down upon the zombie whose lower body had already been crushed, and was trying to reach him.
Bang!
The zombie’s head exploded into pulp, with blood splattering on his shoes. Miguel didn’t care. He grinned and winked at Richard who was clearly struggling against the zombies.
At some point, a zombie attacked him from behind, but Cassie appeared just in time and beheaded it before he could be bitten.
He sighed in relief. "Thank you very much."
"Don’t stray too far, everyone stay close." The black-haired girl said.
Her blue eyes scanned the position of her teammates, and she immediately pulled back to regroup with them.
Meanwhile, deep inside the horde of zombies, Leon was still relentlessly pursuing a particular black-skinned zombie. If anyone didn’t know better, they’d have thought he was being racist.
Leon didn’t care, though. He only cared about eliminating the zombie and clearing the way.
Two shadow spears pierced the wrists of the black zombie, forcing its arms apart. Then, Leon slashed his sword at its neck without hesitation.
Slice! A head rolled to the ground.
[You have slain a Level 24 Killer Zombie! + 8 Stamina points gained!]
Before he could relax, he saw three more killer zombies rushing at him.
Leon immediately tensed again.
