Chapter 15: Killing the Tier 2 Zombie

After leaving their positions and decided to kill the Tier 2 Zombie, the front line defense suddenly has a huge gap that needs to be fulfilled as the User has the initial responsibility for holding the fort.

The pressure it gives to the people from the Black Market made them panic and despair as the countless zombies started to pour in.

When they are on the brink of despair, one of Malek's subordinate that he instructed earlier, suddenly activates a wire that connected at the explosive in the center of the zombie horde.

*Booom*

The explosion blew up as the thousands of zombies that rushing in including a few unlucky Tier 1 Zombie are now charred to the ground.

"Wow. That's so effective isn't it!?" Reynold exclaimed as he whistled at the explosion.

"If we can do it a few more times this will end this probably." Ziv commented as he saw the huge explosion.

"How can I collect a huge amount of explosion like that so easily!?" Malek exasperatedly said while hearing him saying that.

"My bad then." Ziv said while scratching his head.

"Anyways, there is a 7 Tier 1 Zombie around that guy. We need to kill or stop some of them as we tried to kill the Tier 2." Malek said while looking around the group.

"Me and Ziv. Can kill all of that dudes!" Reynold volunteer himself.

"Are you sure you can handle?" Malek asked doubtfully.

"Give us at least 45 minutes we can kill all of them." Reynold confidently said.

"Okay. I'll give you that task while the four of us deal with that huge rat!" Malek agreed as he leads the others to the Tier 2 Zombie.

After confirming their own task they quickly execute the plan.

Reynold swiftly dashes forward as he constantly kills zombies along the way to fill his Stacks to full while Ziv is closely following behind him saving his Energy and only using his python to kill zombies.

"Ziv we are going to encounter them in a few seconds! Be ready!" Reynold warned him as beautifully dashing and killing across the battlefield.

"Never thought that after training it's practical next!" Ziv said while laughing and shooting the zombies around.

After the group saw that they can handle on their own while clean up a path for them they were shocked.

"I never thought that guy was that strong." Hanzai said while seeing Reynold is swiftly cleaning the zombies on their way.

"We need to hurry or else that guy will notice us right away." Feng Shuo said in rasping tone.

"Let's hurry before the path filled in again."

...

When Ziv and Reynold both arrive near the 7 Tier 1 Zombies they didn't immediately rush in instead they lure them a little far from the Tier 2 Zombie that massacring the humans.

They lure them by Ziv annoying them when he shot his gun towards them.

"How many can you handle, Ziv?" Reynold asked him casually.

"It's not how many of them I can handle Reynold. It's how many of these turds I can kill before I save you." Ziv mocked him as he smiles in disdain.

"Look who is speaking now! Who just cry a while ago when we are training, huh!?" Reynold rebuked him.

"Well, let's just see then." Ziv shrugged as he didn't want to further discuss that topic instead he dashes in the nearest Tier 1 Zombie.

He dodges to the side when the zombie suddenly strikes him while he quickly move towards its left side and uses his hidden blade to pierce through its left eye.

When he saw the eye got pierce deeply, he swiftly pulls it out to dig out its eyeball before extending his hand inside the eye socket and activates Synthesize while turning its brain into mush.

'One dead!' he thought while the body drop to the ground.

He didn't rejoice or relax as he know that there is still 4 or 5 zombies around him.

He slightly backed off from the corpse to better see where the other zombies were.

When he saw 2 Tier 1 rushing towards him, he quickly runs towards their direction as he takes the initiative to fight.

While seeing both of them attack with their fist, he didn't panic instead he slightly tilts his body to dodge their attack before shooting their eyes with his gun to hinder their vision.

Without wasting the blind spot that he created, he easily maneuvers himself and position better while finding a chance to decapitate them.

'I need to finish this before the other zombies join the fray.' he thought before deciding to waste 50% of his stored Energy.

He made a fluid set of movements that allow him to bypass their defenses while simultaneously grab one of the zombie's neck before cleanly remove its head from its body while doing the same thing to the other zombie.

"Ha.. That's 3 of them." Ziv said while gasping some air.

[Energy: 87/200]

"I still have 40% remaining, but I couldn't continue fighting 2 of them anymore." Ziv said while looking at Reynold killing the last Tier 1 Zombie on the group.

After finishing their fight, they quickly get the Tier 1 Energy Crystal on the ground while applying it on the stats they want.

He had used his Crystal on Stamina twice before using the other on Dexterity.

"What did you say earlier?" Reynold smugly asked while running towards their group that fighting intensely with the Tier 2 Zombie.

"I told you that I'll help you when you are in danger. That didn't happen anyways." Ziv disregards his smug face as he runs towards the intense fight.

"Let's talk about this later. There is still business ahead of us." Reynold said with dreadful expression.

"That's true." Ziv nodded as he replied at him.

When they saw the scene in front of them it was evident that the battle was harsh and intense.

The left arm of the Tier 2 Zombie was severed while there are some exposed muscle and bones all over its body.

While the group of User wasn't free from injury.

Malek clothes were soaked with blood because of the hole in his shoulder from its attack earlier, while he was constantly emitted green air and keeps attacking it in the distance.

Both Eve and Hanzai were only lightly injured as they have the speed and agility that can catch up with the Zombie while constantly attacking it.

While the last person, Feng Shuo was decapitated because of the Zombie's Rage skill that he didn't anticipate earlier that gives it a sudden speed and strength boost.

"We are here Malek!" Reynold shouted as he immediately joins the battle while Ziv walked towards Malek to heal his wound.

"What are you doing!? Help them!" Malek angrily exclaimed while seeing him approaching him.

"No. I'll first help you with that." Ziv pointed at his wounded shoulder while grabbing it to heal and close the wound.

After the wound was healed and the bleeding stopped, Malek was amazed by this as he didn't anticipate this guy can heal other people wounds.

"What kind of skill was that?" Malek mutters under his breath.

"Done. I'll restore my Energy first before going there unless I want to die early." he said while grabbing a bunch of Tier 0 Crystal that scattered from the ground.

"Just do it quickly, that Zombie was a serious deal." Malek reminded him as he moves towards it.

"Okay." Ziv said while observing the battle in his surroundings.

'How come the Black Hawk didn't attack right away? It should be the perfect time, right?'

The Tier 2 Zombie is just swinging its huge claw around as he can't hit his target especially Reynold who activated his skill.

*Swish* *Splash* *Swish*

"Faster! Faster! Faster!"

Reynold mumbled maniacally as he keeps slashing its body with his bloodshot eyes.

"My stored Energy is at least 60% I can make something out of here."

After finishing restoring his Energy he grabs two bullets in his pocket while fiddling it on both of his thumbs and index finger.

'I just need to coat and combine my Energy to this bullet while use it when it reach the right amount of Energy.' he thought while patiently waiting for the right time.

*Roar*

The Strength Type Zombie wailed in agony as he called out in the direction of the Intelligent Type Zombie seemingly asking for help.

Their face pales in fright when they figure it out that this Zombie has requested for reinforcement.

"Sh*t we need to end this fast before another of this thing comes!" Malek shouted in frustration.

"Buy me 10 seconds!" Ziv replied loudly.

"Be faster or we will die at this rate!" Eve said as they keep resisting the desperate attack of the Tier 2 Zombie.

While the Zombie disregards its defense and focus on its attack, it still couldn't be underestimated when its attack become more lethal and precise that even a casual strike of its claw can easily kill one of them.

"Is it ready yet!?" Hanzai shouted as he parry its claw with his sword.

*Chirp*

"Damn it!" Hanzai cursed when he saw his sword snapped into half.

After coating his bullet for 25% of his Energy, Ziv received a notification popped up in front of his eyes.

[Empowered Bullet]

[A bullet that was made out of copper, lead and steel while it was coated in the outside shell with Energy.

Effects: Disintegration in the area near the bullet.]

"W-What!?" Ziv suddenly frightened by this bullet.

"Ziv! Hurry up!" Reynold urges him as he spat out some blood when he got thrown out of its body.

He quickly loaded the two bullets in the chamber of the gun as he carefully aimed his gun towards the Zombie that attacking them.

"Ha.. You dead." Ziv calm himself for a bit before aiming at its head that howling loudly.

*Bang*

The bullet travels quickly as it lightly hit its head before the bullet bounce off without any effect.

When the Zombie got hit on the forehead it stopped howling as he looked towards the direction of Ziv confused.

"I-Is that it? The time we bought for you is just for that?" Eve blankly mutters as she despair when she saw the bullet didn't have effects.

"*Kahk* What is that!?" Hanzai injury become severe as he saw that.

"Ha-ha! We are dead! Why did I even trust him?" Malek panic and despair when he saw that the attacked he made was ineffective.

"No. It works look." Reynold said while pointing at the head of the zombie.

They become suddenly shocked and surprise when they saw the scene in front of them.

When they looked at the head of the Zombie they saw its head started disintegrating slowly from its forehead all the way to its neck like a paper that was lit with fire.

"What just happened?" Malek exclaimed in shock.

"I-Its head suddenly disappeared." Hanzai couldn't believe his eyes.

"Disintegration that was it." Ziv indifferently said while looking at them having a face of disbelief.

"That should stabilize our sh*t for a little bit." he added while looking at their surroundings.

The sentries that stopped earlier because of the cool down of their guns continue firing non stop while the people regain their confidence and they retaliate more intense as they know that their life is on the line.

By removing the threat of the Tier 2 Zombie the casualties that could be seen significantly reduced from the side of humans.

"Uhm.. Thanks for that!" Malek said after waking up from his stupor earlier.

"We should get out of here and reorganize ourselves before fighting again." Ziv reminded them as he saw that there is another wave of zombie coming towards them.

They picked up all the Crystal that was littered on the ground, especially the Tier 1 Crystals, Feng Shuo Energy Core and the Tier 2 Crystal before leaving in that area and return to the safe zone.

While everyone was concentrating on collecting and leaving there they didn't notice a slight fluctuation that happens in Reynold's shadow.

"Your Majesty, my shadow is now tracking them." Shadow's said respectfully to the man with black and red cloaked.

"Give the coordinates to Gianis, we let those filthy fools handle it for us." Klint nodded as he smirked slightly.

"Let those fools fight for themselves while we laugh at their graves after we kill them with our hands." Klint laughed loudly while the people around him bowed their head.

""Yes. Your Majesty!""