Chapter 115: year of the apocalypse Pt.1

[ week 1 of 52 ]

A week had passed and he had been stuck up on the top floor like the other survivors who were too scared to leave, there was no sign of zombies getting up here but to be safe no one left their rooms at all.

Without having to use transform or cloak or any magic in general, his mana went down by 10 evey hour so he was fine for 11.5 days before he needed to restore his mana. and as for his hunger situation he just drank a milliliter of vampire blood from his blood back a day.

It was a very longly week,, he hated being alone and he wanted to find someone to be with but he had to think about it doe a while before eventually saying to himself "what would Annie say" and so he fought himself and came to a conclusion.

He had been doing nothing but pure meditation for his Darkness and it became level 9 but after that it only went up by 1% a day so on the sixth day he got a knife and tried slicing his hand but it failed, so he used his claw to cut his hand and create a small nail of blood which costed 30 HP.

Blood manipulation was pretty simple to train, he just needed to try and get used to controlling it and also just using it in general, he was only able to call out 30ml of blood which was only a little bit. But that ment he just needed to try and get used to shifting, shaping, and moving it. HP was like how much blood he was able to use for his blood manipulation and for evey level he was able to call out another 10ml of blood.

He wasen't able to do much with with blood besides make it float above his hand in the shape of a small ball, but just by doing that, it was still enough to count as training as it was still being manipulated.

After a while day of keeping his blood out he lost around 1,000 hp as the blood would splatter and he'd lose control of it. He tried to pick the blood up but it was too hard and sometimes the blood would simply just come back to his hand and then fall again.

[ Week 2 of 52 ]

The full moon came and he went on a bit of a you could say stressful uproar as he tore up multiple things.

He also lost another 1,000 HP but it was a good sacrifice as he had finally got to level 5 of blood manipulation and he could call out 50ml of blood. But he still wasen't able to form anything.

However...He was able to keep his blood floating above his hand like the devils coin for about ten minutes and whenever he swiped his hand while useing the blood and it hit something...It was as if it was a blade seeing as it cut through the wall making a slash mark appear.

He wanted to name this move something, like blood swipe of even wet balls of disaster...But he couldn't think of anything good.

He was on his 11th day here and he was really hungry as the diet of only 1ml wasn't doing so well, also he needed to restore his mana and also heal. . .He only had 730 HP and 130 MP left.

Finally leaving the room he was greeted with two roars as there were two zombies charging at him, he didn't want to fight them though.

"Hey...Can we talk about this instead" he really didn't want to fight them, despite them looking nothing like the zombies of his realm they still were zombies and that ment just ordinary people.

They growls and snarled as they continued going after him "fine, so be it" the black pupils in the center of his eyes turn crimson.

They came at him slowly and he walked twards them and he started running as he cut both of his hands.

[ Blood Manipulation ]

Using 25ml on both hand he moved past the zombies and their were slices on both of them. but the blood didn't hit them deep enough and it seemed as it didn't affect them.

They turned and lunged at him, he was too slow to react to these lvl1 zombies and they cought him. but as they both bit down on his flesh, he hit them with his tail and bit both of them with his claws.

The zombies were outraged as he cut them and Made green blood drop down their faces, they lunged back at him but this time he grabbed one of the zombies with his tail and then punched the other zombie making him fall back as he lost balance.

The zombie held by his tail tried clawing away at his tail but his scales were too strong making his attempts useless.

Lotus's then straitend his hand and them stabbed his hand right throught the zombie not killing it, he was morally confused as his hand went right throught the zombie and then zombie simply just went to attack him.

He jumped back releasing the zombie and he then watched as the heartless zombie got back up and lunged twards him. the other zombie came back too and then lotus heard Annie who told him she wasen't allow to talk with him much since it was a punishment.

She tiped him that zombies can only be killed by having their brains destroyed, he took that to heart as he attacked the two knocking them down and then bashing their heads in with his bare foot which took a bit of time to do.

He was bare footed and it was a bit bloody.

[ 2x zombies killed - 2 Exp gained ]

Having the two dead...again he looked down at them and they didn't look rotten but these zombies weren't like the ones in his realm, these ones looked disgusting and actually scary.

He began walking but as he did he was stabbed from behind, a sword peiced right through him.

[ -233 HP ] he turned to who stabbed him and it some emo looking girl who had a frightened look and a door was opened at were I fought the two zombies.

"¡What are you!?¡" she said backing away and he yelled out in pain.

This was a bad situation as he was taking bleed damage now and he just encountered his first human who was already hostile.

He pulled the sword out of himself and the girl fell as she was terrified of this being... but then they both heard the roars of zombies and large group came up the stares.

The girl was petrified and lotus gritted his teeth as he pointed two fingers at the abundant of zombies.

[Seto]

Using half of the DM collected over the past few weeks he released a massive demonic blast killing all of the zombies running down the hallway as well as blowing a large whole in the building.

[ 112 zombies killed - 112 Exp gained ]

He was panting as that took to much of a toll on his body and he feel to his knee.

Not even a minute went by and he heard a roared of zombies coming in their direction.

Without hesitation he started to run, he grabbed the dark looking Gothic girl and they both went inside of her room since it was the closest to them.

After closing and locking that door the zombies filled that hallway.

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That day had passed and he ended up drinking all the blood in his blood bank, meanwhile he sat in the corner of the room and she was terrified as she just sat as far as she could away from him...But at the same time she was confused as he hadn't done anything but just sit there in silence after he covered his wounds with a banage that he took from her bathroom.

Hours past and he was close to running out of mana so he started dissolving his DM into core mana. He had 25DM left and that ment he had a total of 2,500 mana to keep him going for another two weeks. but now he had to deal with his own hunger.

But now he wasen't alone anymore. . .But he felt shy as he was just around some stranger in another realm...despite it being a system created world.

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Two days past and his stomach wouldn't stop grumbling as his hunger reached 0%, he just started mediating and she was super scared as there was a black mist covering the floor. She hopped on her bed which sat in the middle of the room just terrified of what it was also there was hord of zombies just outside of her door so she couldn't even speak without ending up being killed. . .By him or them.

[ Emo girls PoV ]

The boy thingy had been here for three days now and I'm tring to stay calm as I pet my bunny, but he just suddenly got up out of his corner and a pair of wings poped out him like fucking bam!

He didn't even bother looking at me as I was anxiously stoking my rabbit, something black started flaringing up from him and half of his hands became black as it was like a firey black flames covered there and then dissapeared.

This was like some seven deadly sins type shit and his face glew bright as he saw them and then his wings suddenly disappeared going in him? Or somthing like that? And then he sat back down meditating with that black mist thing coving the room again.

God if your real...Just why me!?

Scared out of my mind I stoped holding my rabbit and then he hoped out of my lap and then went on the floor, I silently cried out it's name "max!..." but he just continued hopping untill he jumped onto the guys lap and just sat there.

The boy lost his concentration and the mist dissapeared as he opened his eyes and looked down at the rabbit.

I hopped out of the bed as he then grabbed my rabbit max and picked him up, I slowly approached to him not to agitate whatever it was, but as I did his eyes glew green and then I knew I needed to get max before he... Dose somthing to max!?

But as I took a few steps at them the boy smiled and patted max's head before putting him down. what a relief~ I thought max was a goner.

I'm no doom guy and will seek a powerful revenge but I appreciated him not merking my rabbit out of existence like those undead walkers.

I took a few more steps with hesitation and picked up max and he just glared at me, his eyes fadded and turned dark green again.

His expression was that of shyness or even being nervous as he just looked away. I went back to my bed and me and max stayed away.

A few hours passed and I tried making my first interaction with him, I didn't try to sound scared but it was enevitable as I couldn't help being scared of whatever the hell he was, like seriously he has horns, wings, a tail, and can ducking shoot a raging blast out of his finger tips.

I spoke but he just tilted his head and looked at me confused despite me just asking what he was. I tried again but this time I started simpler, like hey you have a name, but he didn't respond he just seemed confused.

He responded back to me but I had no clue on what he said, there seems to be a language barrier between us.

Like dude do you speak English...I guess not.

He grabbed his tail and them leaned against the wall going to sleep as it was an awkward failed conversation.

I wasn't as scared anymore since he didn't seem hostile to me, but I did take out my computer and I started doing research to figure out what he was, I needed to know... Also max went back to him and fell asleep next to the boy.

***The Night Passed***

Unable to find anything I ended up falling asleep, but as I woke up I heard the sliding door open and I jumped as I thought a zombies came in. . . but it was just him with his wings out and he walked in from the balcony.

He was holding many bags of food and drinks and he simply walked into the kitchen placing them in the fridge and or cabinets.

I was confused but then he picked up a sticky note and a pencil, using a drawing to show that it was for me. I was confused on why he didn't just leave me to rot up here with max but I wasen't complaining as I haven't eaten in day's.

Meanwhile as I was chowing down I noticed something and he had a blood bag in his hand which he then drunk. I opened my freezer and I saw many blood bags and it made me gulp as he could be planning on using me as a portable meal to eat whenever he wanted.

Was he also going to faten me up like Hansel and grettle and then eat me like a witch.

I felt terrified and as I backed away from the freezer and then tripped falling flat on my butt.

I heard him laugh at me and as I looked at him with a scared expression he just pointed at me and shook his head before sticking his tounge out in a teasing manner.

He then pointed at himself and then to the blood bag which he then started drinking some more.

I was still scared but then he just started sketching and explaining in picture form which he made surprisingly quick. the boy had no intrest in me and only the blood bags.

I tried asking why he was here and what was the food and drinks for, but he still didn't understand so I tried using his method and it surprisingly worked despite my awful drawing skills.

He said two people is better than one and he was still sour about me trying to kill him...but he was alone in this world and he just wanted company since everything in this world is dangerous.

I felt that, I wasen't longly though as I had max but before he came I thought me and max were going to die of starvation, I could care less if I died but thinking of max dieing scared the hell out of me.

We came to an agreement and were a group, me him and max, we all survived together and we were going to make it throught dooms day.

I finally asked if he was some sort of human hybrid thingy and he responded by drawing a heart, a horned face, and then a sword.

Heart devil sword... Okay time to use my brain. . . . . . .I'm guessing the heart represents kindness or love, the devil represents a devil, and the sword represents...Well I'm just going to assume from the massive whole in the side of the building from his blast it means fight.

So he's saying he's a... Warrior devil who's kind... Yea seems about right.

She drew somthing like that and he nodded his head and she cheer silently as she was correct, or so she thought, he was tring to say he's an incubus, a demon of love and battle but that was the same thing.

***Next Day***

After their long game of charades she was dumbfounded that she met a real devil, she was atheist and didn't belive in angel's or Demon's but now Her whole life was changed by this living proof.

She asked about heaven, hell, and if there was an afterlife but he just shrugged as he wasen't going to ruin her fun but he did tell her that it all existed.

Also he tried explaining that all realms were linked to the same hell and heaven, the underworld had layers for the punished souls but that was only in the hells prison of all damned, the underworld was literally its own realm.

She learned alot and he just told her about what he learned himself in school, which he was surprised he remembered, since there was like no way In hell he was ever going to thee underworld.

***Another Day Had Passed***

[ Week 4 out of 52 ]

Lotus went out and got more supplies and then continued training as he was a peacful place train his darkness and blood manipulation, It was to risky to train his incu-lust trought meditation becuase he didn't know what'd happen so he just stuck to the same two things.

She watched in awe as he trained and she still couldn't belive magic existed and she tried copying him but it didn't work, but she still tried.

[ Week 5 out of 52 ]

Five weeks of training with his darkness and his mana pool had finally started expanding slowly, his INT increased by 3 points over this long period and he was happy to finally see his numbers naturally rise from his own work.

She felt a sudden surge of energy go through her and a screen appeared infront of her face, it was as if she had a system.

She looked at it and she found out she could check her stats and also it explained stuff to her, like how to use mana, how she was in the first sub-stage to a stage 1 evolved human.

It was simular to lotus, but it was lesser.

Once she got it though, she looked under her level, health, mana, experienc bars and she saw another name with those four.

[ Party members:

Name: lotus Ito

Level: 25

HP: 2,350/2,730

MP: 2,111/2,800

Exp: 10,444/25,000 ]

She then looked at hers

[ Name: Grace Millar ]

Level: 10

HP: 100/100

MP: 100/100

Exp: 0/1,000 ]

She was shocked by this and then for that entire week she was messing around with it and just playing around with this new found system.

[ Week 6 out of 52 ]

Another full moon came

He went out into the halways while she sleped and when she woke up she watched as his Exp bat went up... but it was super slow.

He came back an hour later with less than fifty Exp gained, and when he returned and walked throught the door his black nails were sharp like small claws and he was soaked in green blood.

He looked a bit scary as his eyes were a glowing crimson red and he was covered it wounds, he took a shower and when he came back out he was only wearing one of my towels and he sat down on the couch.

I didn't say anything... becuae I might of. . .been admiring his body.

His body was full of wounds from the zombies, there were a few bite Marks and alot of searches and slashes. I know it must hurt like hell to have to get those...but mmm~

Like God damn he looks hot as hell with those battle wounds. I wonder if it'll leave a scare?

My though was quickly answered as he drank a blood pack and the wounds slowly closed, they weren't fully healed though.

His hair was wet even though it was in a bun and after he sneezed one time I decided to lend him another towel.

As I was behind him I couldn't help but get a closer look at his body and something about him made me bite my lip and want to just be so embracing.

BUT I resisted as my womanly instincts were so embarrassing and...and...and ahh! no I can't do that, I'm not a pervert!...ahh! yes I am! why am I still thinking about it!

Like come on grace stop looking at this Demon boy! what would my religious parents think. . .naw fuck them...but still! ahh!

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After fighting with my inner woman I looked at him and he looked pretty fatigued as he passed out so I just left him be.

***That Night***

Note to self...blue mist is good.

***A Day Past***

Messing with my system I clicked on his bars under my my own and it pulled up a separate tab, none of his stats were higher than 20 except his VIT, INT and DEX which were 273, 280, and 215. I saw somthing under something called DM and it it fatigue and it was at 93% so I guess that's why he's been just resting alot more.

He also had a few things that were scrambled so I couldn't tell, like Race, Class and Clan. But I saw that his tital was [lesser blood knight] so that kinda said a bit of why he feeds on blood, but after that I couldn't see anything out of the ordinary, besides he had a hunger bar.

Also not to self he sleeps alot but max likes sleeping with him so it's kinda adorable to watch.

***Another Day***

Another day came and so did another blood bag, he fully recovered and as he did he was excited and hoped up and his towel fell making my face burn with anticipation and a deep blush.

But as I almost saw his sacred parts a black and green thick mist covered him and those clothing he once wore that had been covered in blood came back but they were clean this time.

He then spoke some words and a black mist covered him and it was like a crusaders leather armor was on him...Was that his blood knight armor? I thought he would wear metal not a black leather material?

[soul armor] it said to me and that was to confusing so imma just call it leather armor or kight wear.

He then walked over to my wall and picked up one of my swords which I kept for collection persposes and he was planning on going out but I stoped him and told him I was coming along as I grabbed my last weapon which was a short sword and made him switch weapons with me.

***A Day Later***

we were two floors below and we had wiped out a few groups of zombies. but I ended up being a burden as o kept getting in his way and he got hurt as I was almost killed multiple times. I thought I knew what I was doing but I treated it like a game and acted like I was immune to the infection.

We returned and max was happy to see us, he ate almost all the carrots thought.0 so I'm glad we came back before he ran out.

***A Day Passed***

[ Week 7 out of 52 ]

He said he was leaving and couldn't stay any longer in this building, there was to much dead zombies that it was attracting more.

He has a samurai complex, why the samurai zombies?

I grabbed my weapon and max's cage and as we left into the hallway to go to the giant whole we were encountered by zombies.

He swiftly killed them and I'm thankful I gave him a short sword, which he was actually good at using unlike my long sword.

But before we could make put depart his eyes lit up and he stuck his hand in the air, all the zombies body's lit up in black flames and they all the raging flames or what it seemed to be mist all went to his palm forming a super big black mist ball which then condensed into a solid black ball like pill.

[ devour ]

He them ate it and his Exp bar shot up as he gained a few hundred Exp.

We them departed as he picked me up like a princess which I didn't like...but I accepted it... and then he ran and I don't think I've been so scared in my life as he jumped out of the building through the massive whole in the wall and we flew out of there.

We got a few miles away from that area and I though max would be scared like I was since we were so high up but he was so calm.

We eventually landed somewhere in Eastern Harlem and we decided to plan our next actions.

It was hard communicating but using a few articles and also substitutes like images and location on my smartphone, I basically told him we needed to head to Connecticut.

New York wasen't the safest place to be seeing as the ground was covered with hoards of zombies.

Also the zombies were both stronger and faster than last month when they first came and it was scarry as they stoped rotting and decaying so they couldn't just wither away.

They still looked creepy as hell but they only had a few ewww parts about them and their skin were gray or green, but they did look more like people now...and that was the terrifying part.

I was hoping we could fly there, but he couldn't carry us two for long and he needed to rest his wings.

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There were zombies everywhere so we're were kinda stuck up here but then he had a plan, he's been building up something for a while and he flew in the air and then shot a [seto] at a large building and it caused an explosion. causing alot of loud noises as cars were going off.

The zombies were now being attracted to that noise and he flew back down and we waited for an hour before the strees were now clear and a gigantic hoard was now all down south.

We headed down to the streets and started walking to Connecticut while also finding places to camp out and hide from a few large groups of zombies left over.

[ Week 8 of 52 ]

We were still in Harlem and we got far but the zombies were everywhere and we had to set up base in a few places.

We meet a group of survivers but as soon as they saw lotus and me they immediately started shooting at us so he grabbed me and we ran,

We ran alot but it seemed as if more people started chasing us.

They chased us for a while and even cornered us, but lotus had a plan.

He flew on the short building and hid, so once they came and cornered me he leaped down and cut them were they stood using the short-sword but some little crimson thing was on the blade.

I don't know why but it felt as if everything he attacked a crimson afterlife came off his sword and I think he might of been using magic?

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We got a paper map, weapons and tools, food bars, liqids and he made me look away as he drank all the blood from the hunters and then made use of them by using [ devour ].

I didn't mind it since being a vampire was kinda a dream of mine since I was younger and drinking from them I thought would be fascinating... but I appreciated that he was considerate about it since they were also human like me.

[ Week 10 of 52 ]

Max evolved into something called a beastkin, he was now a rabbit man of the first stage and he was a level 25 thanks to lotus feeding him using that [devour] thing.

It was intresting as he was clinging to me for a long time but then as he saw lotus he started doing the same thing but he kept trying to speak to lotus.

Me and max spoke English and lotus didn't so I had to explain that to him. But he didn't care as he tried anyways, he really liked liked lotus.

I also became a stage 1 after magically gaining 10 levels, and also from killing some zombies which gave me alot more then lotus.

Now having max's system bar apart of our party we continued on our way to Connecticut.

[ Week 12 out of 52 ]

After running, hiding, and sleeping for weeks we finally got out of New your but our path was blocked by military set up, we flew over it and then continued as we now had to walk a long way to there through a vast street and woods everywhere.

Please let there be no hoards.