Chapter 4: New discoveries and horrible scenes

I wake up to pain from my body and groaning from a particular zombie in front of me well half a zombie. But still, I began to care for her due to her recent actions despite our current predicaments.

Having regained some strength, while sitting down I picked rain up then held her close, as I hugged her, I was scared of losing her thoughts in my mind were "I need to get stronger and such ideas", however, I remembered something about my skill.

"grants the ability to manipulate flesh at the cost of Health and Mana, the higher the level, the lesser the cost."

Yes to manipulate FLESH... but it didn't say anything about it being my just flesh, right?

So what if I used my skill on Rain?

So that I did.... however, upon doing so brought about large amounts of pain to my being.

All of my body fats were torn from my already feeble body while rain visibly thinned out as her arms, and everything shrank down as she slowly shrank down to a possible ten-year-old version of herself still half a body. Nevertheless, we should be able to fix that upon getting the other half of her.

Feeling that what I had wasn't enough, I dragged myself to the bodies of the two elite zombies.

Doing so was rather tricky as rain clutched on to the broad arm of Tank that she was trying to feed me.

So an idea can to mind, what if I absorbed this arm like how tank did to a zombie?

So I tried, the result was more pain unlike any other, as the flesh from the arm seemed to reject, no. It was trying to devour me like I was trying to do to it.

As I was doing this, rain crawled to blade then began munching down on one of the legs.

While the process only took a few minutes in reality.

For me, it felt like a very long time as my body got repaired, then broken down and fixed yet again.

A seemingly endless back and forth loop that threatened to kill me as well as strengthen me, as for why I know about the strengthening part... my conditions are recovering.

The severely malnourished was gravely malnourished from trying to restore her, but due to absorbing the large arm, it became malnourished, and my crippled status got removed as well.

I also gained some levels for my ??? job whatever it is I am guessing it is related to my skill or something else.

here is my current status

Name: Hiei Grotto

Title: The hybrid(dual levels), The Abandoned one(no blessings/ double stat increase per level), The Ruthless(all mind capabilities +2), The Unrelenting (all physical abilities +3).

Level: 15 (human)

Level: 3 (???)

Race: human/???

Status: Scarred(luck - 5), Malnourished(slower health and mana regeneration).

Hp: 52/92

Mp: 49/102

Str: 41 + 4(+3)

Vit: 39 + 4(+3)

Agi: 43 + 4(+3)

Dex: 42 + 4(+3)

Int: 43 + 4(+2)

Wis: 45 + 4(+2)

Luk: 22 + 4(-5)

Skill:

Flesh Manipulation (3) (21/30)*: grants the ability to manipulate flesh at the cost of Health and Mana, the higher the level the lesser the cost.

Hehe, I was feeling rather gleeful due to my stats, and my arm and formerly crippled hand were now in tip-top shape.

Well, if you ignore the skinny look that it has now.

what? I couldn't help it.

However, my skill is a rather tricky one. I can heal myself and others; apparently, I can make my body covered in armor and blades due to my now dead references.

I am slowly becoming inhuman-like aren't I?

Is that the reason why the zombies never took the initiative to attack me?

Is that why rain is treating me like her child or something?

Speaking of which, how is she doing now- never mind she seems to be enjoying what is left of Blade as she already ate the lower half of the carcass.

Releasing a sigh, I got up and approached the pin cushioned tank and tried to tear off the arm that remained attached by a few strands of flesh, as for why?

Well, since I can level my other job by simply absorbing others, why not use Tank to spam my skill piece by piece?

since I experienced resistance earlier, there is a chance that it will happen again...

.....

...

...

....what? This time I felt nothing. There was no resistance rather the opposite, acceptance the eager kind...

As if dropping a piece of myself and returning it to its rightful place, my formerly skinny appearance changed to a more lean frame.

Since I was able to "eat" the arm, let's do so for the rest of the body...

As I did, I felt a noticeable change in weight, and overall height as my body expanded, ripping apart my ragged loincloth...

My long lost brother was dangling about!

as I did forget about him since that day, my late uncle was angry that I wasn't female and cut it off after mutilating my nether region.

Since the zombies and other creatures are away from this location, I guess I should eat the rest of the carcasses as Rain has a rather big belly as she is resting near me, and for some reason, this seemed slightly wrong.

--Elsewhere--

Inside of a three-floored building that is more than 10 miles from the mall that Hiei was in as a group of cannibals having foregone their humanity. A significantly larger size being around 10 meters tall entirely muscular, tanned, also hairless as well as naked. He was sitting on his throne made from the bones of who knows what and how many things. At the highest point of the building, while he acted as the overseer of those below him. He was watching everyone while feasting on one of the tender arms of his captive. The victim of this brutal setting, having spasms from the pain and shock as the large man held him while eating him alive.

The being was called the juggernaut due to his ability to be impervious to physical attacks which was why Juggernaut "conquered" the area as zombies can't hurt him, other humans are more than weaker than him as he was already level 77 due to his seemingly endless urge to eat and kill.

Some say it is because of his skill... while some say it is due to self-satisfaction...

However, one thing is for sure he is one of the most f*cked up individuals as he sends another bait for the zombies and unlucky humans to follow, then lure to his domain his bait tends, to be children less than the age of 6 mostly. Sometimes an unfortunate pregnant woman as they tend to bring hoards of zombies to his location and at times humans that are just too kind or too much of a scum...

For him it didn't matter, food was food, as his band of 30 enjoyed two of their captives. They the remains of the group from a random group that were looking for food and supplies were currently ravished repeatedly by these loud and rowdy scum of this world. Despite missing their limbs and eyes, their screams of pain and suffering made these horrific bastards enjoy it even more as they covered the two girls in cloudy fluids both outside and inside of their bodies...

(Alright, You bags of shit!!!!) Bellowed Juggernaut with that malicious and dark tone as the formerly noisy group went silent as they awaited their fearsome leader's words and orders.

(tonight we are to clear this area of the zombies, and then find the rest of our snacks!!!) he declared as could see that glint of hunger and playfulness could be seen.

The group roared in agreement and insanity as they revered him as their unstoppable leader.

Yes, Juggernaut was playing with his current prey as well as the upcoming targets this time as the one he held in his hand was giving no reaction anymore as the smell of piss, blood, vomit filled the area.

Juggernaut grew annoyed that caused him to throw the unconscious teen to his group to let them deal with the mess as they did just that.

He stared into the distance as a disgusting smile formed on his face, a burst of bone-chilling laughter echoed from him. As light from a torch not very far from them caught his attention, causing him to lick his lips as new prey has appeared.