Chapter 37 No item drop?
Tap! Tap! Tap!
Just then, they heard some footsteps from outside the building and immediately became alert. Rio stood in front of his wife and son while Julia helped Lori up, warily looking toward the entrance, making no noise.
Kean, who stood beside the window, looked outside to see how Luke was doing but frowned when he didn't see him.
"M-Mom, dad, I can't see big brother Luke." He called out to his parents in a low voice in order not to attract the attention of whoever was coming toward the building.
"What do you mean?" Rio glanced outside and only saw zombie corpses strewn across the ground, but there wasn't any sign of Luke.
His wife also noticed this and became worried. She asked uncertainly, "H-honey, was he killed, or he ran a…"
Before she could finish her sentence, Rio gave her a stern glance, causing her to shut up immediately.
She raised her brows at her husband in confusion, because he never acted like that with her. Just then, she suddenly felt chills run down her spine, but it vanished a moment later.
'What was that?' She thought. As she turned around, she found Lori staring at her threateningly.
Gulp!
She gulped nervously and asked, "Madam Lori, w-what…"
"Never have such thought again or I'll kill you," Lori snapped before she could say anything.
Rio gulped when he heard this and hurriedly apologized on his wife's behalf. It was only then Lori calmed down turned her gaze toward the entrance.
"Mom, what happened?" Julia asked in a whisper. Julia was surprised by her mother's anger as she had only seen her that furious once before when she almost got kidnapped.
"Nothing." Lori shook her head. Julia glanced at Rio's wife before ignoring the matter.
Tap! Tap! Thud!
The footsteps continued to grow fainter as they came nearer. A moment later, they heard someone falling heavily to the ground right outside their room.
Whoosh!
Everyone was confused when suddenly Lori's eyes widened, and she rushed out of the room.
"Mom…" Julia also ran after her.
"You guys stay here." Rio told his wife and son and also went out.
person creeps as his face, lips and teeth, everything was drenched in blood.
Just outside the room, a bloodied man was lying with his eyes barely open.
When Lori saw him, she cried out, "Luke!" and hurriedly sat beside him, placing his head on her lap.
"Luke, are you alright?" She asked while checking his body for injury.
"I'm… fine. You guys… are safe, right? I heard some fighting sounds a while ago." Luke smiled a bloodied smile that could give a normal person creeps as his face, lips and teeth, everything was drenched in blood.
Before Lori could speak, Julia sat on his other side, grabbed his hand, and answered. "Yes. We are safe. There was a mutilated zombie which mom killed, and she has also become an evolver."
Lori looked at her daughter, sighed inwardly, but didn't say anything.
"That's good." Luke nodded and looked toward Lori. "Congratulations!" Right after that, he fainted.
Seeing this, Rio glanced at his blood drenched body and asked, "Is he alright?"
"Yes. He doesn't have any injury and is perhaps just tired." Lori nodded and said, "We'll stay here until he wakes up. Help me carry him inside."
With that, Rio and Lori carried him inside. Rio's wife and son were scared when they saw his condition. Only after Rio told them he was alright that their nerves calmed down.
…
While Luke was unconscious, Alice was surrounded by over two dozen zombies and many more were lying dead around her.
Huff! Huff! Huff!
She was breathing heavily as her C- cup breasts heaved up and down temptingly with each exhale and inhale. Her hair was in a mess, her right sleeve was completely burned off and her clothes had many tears here and here, exposing the patches of her alluring, snow-white skin.
The sight of her was tempting. Unfortunately, no one was here to admire it apart from zombies that were only interest in eating her alive.
Shingg~!
After taking a few quick breaths, as the zombies weren't stopping to let her rest, she swung her sword, originally white, now completely red from zombie blood, sideways, getting rid of all the blood.
Huff!
She then took a deep breath and activated her skill [Flame Manipulation]
Crackle!
Immediately, fire sparks started appearing all over the sword before completely engulfing it. Seeing this, she nodded lightly.
Whoosh!
She then charged ahead, continuing the carnage. Even without a basic weapon mastery skill, she wielded her sword skillfully, without almost any useless movement. With every slash, she would behead a zombie, which would then be burned into ashes by the fire.
After fighting the zombie all this while, she benefited a lot. Not only did she level up a few times and got used to high-intensity combat, but also learned to control her skill.
The first time she used this skill, she had almost burned her right hand, but now she could control it to the degree where she could use it offensively, multiplying her attacks' lethality by a few folds.
If Luke were here, he would he would sigh with emotion at her natural talent and at [Flame Manipulation's] mightiness because after using the skill, her attacks had the strength on a par with his attacks after he used mana manipulation.
Of course, that's only true when he used 15-20 mana units. If he used more, his strength would easily surpass hers. But then again, she also only had a little control over her skill for now, leaving much potential to be uncovered.
…
After two hours later, Luke finally woke up. The first thing he noticed was that his head was resting on Lori's soft lap. For a moment, he didn't want to get up.
"You woke up?" Lori immediately noticed when he opened his eyes. Hearing her voice, Julia, who lying resting against the wall, Rio and his family walked over, asking if he was feeling alright.
"Don't worry. I'm fine. I was just too exhausted." Luke smiled at them as he reluctantly got up.
"Are you sure?" Lori asked sceptically.
Luke glanced at her and nodded. "While I was fighting them, I heard some fighting noise from here and got worried. That's why I used all of my remaining mana and stamina to finish them quickly. However, I never expected doing that would cause me to faint almost immediately. Fortunately, I had some mana and stamina gems that I used and prevented that from happening. But even then, I barely walked to this building from losing consciousness."
When he recalled the moment when his stamina and mana hit zero, he broke out in a cold sweat because, at that moment, if he didn't have the mana and stamina gems, he probably would've never woken up.
Therefore, he seriously said, "Lori and you guys also, remember, never let your stamina and mana hit zero, especially stamina."
"Understand!" Lori and others nodded.
Luke then asked, "How long was I unconscious?"
"Not long. Only two hours." Julia answered.
"Oh…" Luke nodded before he suddenly remembered he had told Alice and others that he would be back in an hour.
'They must be worried now.' He sighed inwardly. At least this experience told him not everything always goes according one's plans.
He then opened his status screen.
[Luke Greyson
Level: 8
Race: Human
Class: None
Title: None
Strength: 23 (20 +3) / Agility: 22 (20+2) / Health: 15 / Stamina: 26 / Mana: 11 (40) / INT: 101
Skill points: 2
Status points: 4]
'Hm? So, thanks to the stamina recovery skill, my stamina has completely recovered, but mana… sigh! I need to find a mana recovery passive skill too. I can't afford to have such low mana with [Mana Amplification] as my main skill.' Luke thought after seeing his stamina and mana stat.
He then moved his gaze to the 4 free status points which he got by leveling up by 2 levels.
After thinking for a moment, he added all four points to his health stats because it would not only keep him healthy and help him heal faster, it would also improve his stamina and possibly mana recovery, too.
Done with this, he stood up, stretched his stiff body out and ordered, "Let's go. We need to return before it gets dark."
Everyone nodded and followed him out of the building. When Julia walked by the zombie corpses, she asked, "Mm… sir Luke, you didn't take the item drops before, right? Then why can't I see anything here?"
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