New type and weapon at morning and a bloody feast at sunset
[DAY 15]
***POV: Ninette, Donatien, Meram, Elly and group of five
Five days have passed since the group was able to escape from the apartment thanks to Neo's help. The escape wasn't easy and there were moments when they almost didn't make it. They run out of ammo and strength to keep fighting, they are not undead with infinite stamina. Instead, they need food, water and sleep to recover. The undead, on the other hand, had no mercy on them and attacked the group mercilessly as far as they perceived them. With the collapse of the water system, however, the group could no longer take care of themselves and only on the evening of the 11th day did they all arrive exhausted in the building described by Neo.
The group didn't have much hope at first, but they remembered what miracles the unknown man named Neo had done so far and therefore they decided to follow his instructions.
And they were not disappointed. The small brown house turned out to be a former small café and when the group entered the house they found no undead or corpses there. There was some blood here and there, but that's nothing that the survivors of this apocalypse fear anymore. The windows and doors of the café were barricaded and looked solid. The group decided to examining the café more closely, they found an incredible amount of supplies on the third floor. 50 bottles of plain water, 4 large duffel bags stuffed with assorted foods. From canned food and noodles to dried meat and sweets.
Before the apocalypse came, what was in the duffel bags might not have been worth much. But nowadays any man with that much stock could buy a small army. Males would sell their power and strength in battle, while some females would probably sell their bodies to Neo for even some of the supplies.
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Everyone in the group gathered around the supplies and looked down at them as if they were bars of gold.
"Uwaa! so much food!...oh and even chocolate" said a little girl.
"And look at that Mera..." said another little silver haired girl while pointing to a box of biscuits.
"These... these are... these are double chocolate biscuits with a hazelnut filling! Our favorite biscuits Mara!" said another little girl who looked exactly like the girl she was addressing.
Mera and Mara are the twins which Elly saved after their parents turned undead. Elly and the old man always split their rations equally although the kids could not fight, they got the same amount of food. Which wasn't much in the beginning.
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While the children looked at the sweets like a treasure, the adults talked to each other.
"How can Neo have so many supplies? And then he willingly gives them to us? ... Is he stupid or just naive?" asked Ninette the group.
"I don't really understand his intentions either. I mean why does he give us these supplies just like that?...And why did he help us against the monster?" Meram asked himself frankly.
"Mhmmm...well I don't give a damn, all I know is that he fought like a real man...I like his attitude and he can't be that bad if he leaves the supplies to us." said Donatien the muscle head, afterwards.
"I don't know why but I trust him... I mean we would all have died in there if it wasn't for him... just... the old man... I wish we could have saved him too. Who knows A few more seconds and he might still be alive." Elly said suddenly with a sad voice.
"Hmpm... if you hadn't taken our weapons from us at the beginning then..." Ninette replied, but Meram stopped her from completing her sentence.
"That's enough for Ninette. We couldn't have known all this and I would have done the same if I had been in their position. This damn cult is to blame for everything. f*cking cannibals! ." said Meram when he interrupted Ninette.
Elly on the other hand, said nothing while keeping her head down.
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"Let's not argue and have a feast instead. I mean we survived that nightmare didn't we?" Donatien said as he took a large can of beans from one of the duffel bags.
"Hmm... If we ration the supplies we could probably feed ourselves for a week. Then why did Neo tell us they only last for two days?" Meram asked himself as he also took some cans out of one duffel bags.
"No more rationing! I want to eat till I am full! ... Please Meram?" Donatien asked as he looked at Meram with puppy eyes.
'A grown man, almost 2 meters tall, begging for something with dog eyes. oh man Donatien you'll never change will you?' Meram wondered inwardly.
"Sigh. OK but a maximum of three cans, the rest is for the others and then we ration again! Got it?" Meram said in a slightly louder voice so everyone could hear him.
"Got it !" Donatien said as he bit into a pile of beans while drinking water.
Everyone followed his example and started eating the supplies.
If Neo would be her he would cry in tears. I mean they are eating his supplies while Neo had the real terrifying battle and even lost his arms and legs for their sake. And here they are eating until they are full. Shameless!
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After they had eaten, they started introducing themselves afterwards they made a ration plan and created shifts for guard duty and divided the room with the supplies in two. The men sleep on one side and the women on the other.
The supplies were between them, while two people always had to work in the guard duty, everyone had their turn except for the children. To be on the safe side, the night shift changed every 4 hours so the group could recover for the next few days.
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***Back to Neo
[DAY 15]
In a large living room that many would see as a nightmarish place where dead bodies and blood were basically everywhere. There was a particularly large corpse of a monster that killed and ate people like insects in the past.
The room has been completely silent for the last five days without even a fly making a sound. Outside, on the other hand, the occasional gunfire could be heard from the north and screams and pleas from survivors could also sometimes be heard.
But then suddenly something changed in the room. An invisible dark aura spread throughout the room. If you would looked very closely you could see a slight purple shimmer and then there was a loud sound of bones breaking and blood squirting everywhere.
"kark, krak, kra" made the bones.
"splat ... splat splat " made the blood that splat everywhere.
And out of the mouth of the body of the giant monster suddenly came out a human-like being that stood up from within the undead it had its head and its right clawed arm raised in the air.
The creature has a dark exoskeleton that is slightly purple if you would look closely. His entire body was encased in this pointed and sturdy looking skin-tight armor. The creature's head was completely encased in a knight-like dark helmet. The style of the armor could be defined in one word.
Demonic.
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Of course, the creature was none other than Neo, who took a full five days to recover from his wounds using the flesh, body, and purple crystal of the Stage 2 Undead.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH" screamed Neo, his voice sounding demonic and cold.
"This feeling... Indescribably powerful... I feel reborn." Neo said in a demonic voice.
"Congratulations Host on beating the Stage 2 mutated undead. And Host is kind of right. Host has been reborn." the AI suddenly said in a slightly emotional sounding voice.
"Actually, Hosts absorbed the Stage 2 armor with Host's regeneration ability to heal his wounds. It used some of the Stage 2's glowing endoskeleton and formed the exoskeleton that is now the Host's new skin. The design must be Host's desired unconscious choice" explained the AI.
"Ah, so I picked up the armor from the Stage 2...mmhm. Does that mean I'm a type: *defense* now too?" Neo wondered.
"No, Host misunderstood AI. Although Host picked up the armor to regenerate his wounds, Host shouldn't have the DNA to be a type: *defense*, Host owes that to his type :*regeneration*, which Host, gained directly after his transformation into an undead." corrected the AI.
"AH... so what's my new type?" Neo wondered.
But before the AI could answer, Neo suddenly had an instinct and focused on a bone lying next to him.
He didn't know what that instinct wanted from him but he imagined the bone flying towards him and then it happened.
The bone slowly wobbled by itself and before you knew it the bone was slowly flying up in the air, like at a magic show the bone was flying 1 meter above the ground by itself and then the bone fell back on the ground.
Neo had to concentrate very hard and imagine in detail how the bone flies and the bone makes exactly this movement in reality. But in the end he lost concentration and for a moment his head felt like it was being cut into a thousand pieces.
"AAAAAAAHHHHHH!" screamed Neo loudly.
"Host mustn't use his powers now! Host hasn't recovered yet!" the AI suddenly screamed, with worry in her voice.
Neo whose headache subsided after a few seconds sighed and then smiled again.
"Yeah you're right, but I just can't hold back my smile... I mean I have type: telekinesis or something, how cool is that?" said Neo with a big smile.
"Host is wrong in his assumption. Host's type shouldn't be telekinesis but type: *mind*. AI measured Host's brainwaves and Host's brain works about 300% more efficiently than a normal human." AI explained.
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"WHAT? Does that mean I'm a genius? Can I unlock more skills with my type: *mind*?" Neo wondered shamelessly with a smile.
"Host shouldn't overestimate himself. Host might have the type: *mind*, but that doesn't mean that Host is a genius, after all it still depends on what Host thinks. And to the last question. Yes, the telekinesis ability developed by Hosts *mind* type and as Host consumes more viruses and the fusion rate highers, Host could gain new abilities." replied the AI.
"Mhm... OK, got it... I can't really think about it right now, I'm so hungry" Neo suddenly said as he made his way onto the terrace with the pool. with each powerful step the apartment shook slightly.
Neo's height when wearing the armor has also changed, he is currently a whopping 210 cm tall (6 feet 8). If others could see Neo in his dark armor, they would think of him as an evil demon and scream in panic, begging for their lives.
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As Neo makes his way to the Terrace, he notes how light his body feels despite the armor appearing massive and heavy. He is sure that this armor could stop bullets if they were shoot upon it.
When Neo arrived at the terrace, he feels that his perception abilities also increased. Neo can feel everything alive for about 5 kilometers and also the undead, even stage 1 undead are among them, although not many.
And then he smells a sweet but slightly savory odor...
"Ahhhh I'm so hungry... human flesh... THERE!" screamed Neo in his demonic voice. When he suddenly jumped in the direction of the sweet smell. He jumped a whopping 10 meters and then fell from a height of about 35 meters onto a street with some undead.
He killed 7 or so undead with his impact. But Neo doesn't care about them in this situation, because there are 11 people in an alley in front of Neo. All of them wear black cult-like robes and have a mask on their head with a circle on it that looks like it's made out of hands.
"WHAT'S THIS!" shouted one of the cultists.
"A demon! A monster standing against our sacred mission!" shouted another
"Quickly kill him. Our savior sent him to us as a challenge. He will ..." said another masked man before being cut into three pieces by a black claw in a matter of seconds.
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Neo, unwilling to waste time with these people, therefore he doesn't interact with the cultists and instead quickly attacks them.
He moved toward the first cultist at inhuman speed and sliced him in three with his claw. Only the brain and most of the oranges were not sliced.
He then did the same to the other 10 cultists who shot him with guns in return. But none of the bullets got through his armor and just bounced off without leaving a dent. After one or so minute, all the cultists were already dead and lying in pieces on the ground.
Neo's dark aura, which he himself did not perceive, spread in the alley and although meat was lying around openly everywhere, no undead dared to enter the alley and they all stopped strangely on the street.
Neo who killed all the cultists made his way to a small cage in which he sensed two people.
The two watched the complete massacre and when they saw the armored demon walking towards them, both teenagers, a man and a woman, started to pee themselves and could barely manage to stay conscious.
Neo on the other hand just looked at the two of them. A brunette teenage girl around the age of 17 who has a beautiful face with blue eyes and an average looking boy with green eyes and black hair who is around the same age as the girl.
Neo then spoke for the first time with a demonic voice "I'm not a demon. I'm not a hero. I'm just me. You should know that, you're not dying today because I'm evil, but because you were too weak."
Shortly thereafter, Neo moved his hand slightly and used it to cut the cage into several pieces, killing the two teenagers in the cage as well.
Neo then began packing the brains and various organs into a bag he found, also taking the cultists' guns and ammunition with him, and then jumping from building to building until he arrived back on the terrace with two bags in both his hands .
He wondered if he could extend and retract the armor like his claws and teeth, and just thinking about it changed Neo's appearance. The dark demonic armor changed and Neo looked like he used to be before the Stage 2 sliced him apart, like a human, oh and his height was 182 cm tall again, like before.
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After that he wanted to cook something to eat with the brains and organs he just got and at the same time he was looking for something to wear. He first went to the bedroom in the apartment and there he found something interesting.
After changing into a black shirt and pants, he found a secret door in the closet that was half open for whatever reason.
He opened the door and found there a room full of 20 or so bars of gold and some swords and armor all reminiscent of the late Middle Ages. There was also a bunch of water and food inside.
'The owner of the apartment must have been a paranoid and wealthy man who must have had a really strong interest in the Middle Ages' swords and armor.' thought Neo as he looked around the room.
The gold is still important even in today's interstellar world and so the gold could be very valuable to Neo if he ever leaves the planet.
However, he wasn't entirely interested in the gold but in a sword lying in a corner as if it were garbage.
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The sword was housed in an ash black scabbard and had a dark purple hilt with small markings. The sword resembles a broadsword used by knights in the Middle Ages. When Neo touched the sword, his hands tingle and he can feel a certain aura from the sword. Neo pulls the sword out of the scabbard and examines the sword blade.
The blade is completely black, it feels as if Neo is looking into the deepest abyss when he looks into the sword. You can also see a slight purple glow in the sword if you look closely.
"Host the sword emits some kind of gas in the air... The sword is made of an unknown material that doesn't exist on Earth. AI recommends Host to put the sword away ... it could be dangerous."
the AI suddenly warned.
But Neo didn't hear the AI anymore because his spirit once again entered the world of darkness. This time he didn't see a red thread there, but a purple one that was as big as a rope. He followed the thread and ended at a small black ball that glows slightly purple. Neo feels some kind of connection with the sphere again and he decides to touch it.
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Then he wakes up in reality. Here only a few seconds passed but in the world of darkness several days passed for him. Despite being an undead, he still feels completely exhausted in his mind, badly in need of a break right now. But it was worth it as he now feels a connection with the sword and a slight sense of happiness coming from it.
'Interesting' that's what Neo thought as he thought about the possible experiments and examinations he could do with it. But he decided to save that for a later time and he sheathed the sword again and took it with him.
He left the rest in the secret room and locked the door behind him.
Then, exhausted, he went to the kitchen and cooked various dishes with the brains and organs.
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Afterwards Neo made his way to the terrace and started watching the sunset while he eats.
He made a casserole from the brains and liver, which he braised in the oven. He uses the intestines to make sausages and a large mixed salad with some eyes he also took with him.
He also prepared some bones as a little snack. While eating, Neo drinks from a large glass filled with blood and pureed brains.
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"Sigh...this is life...Eat something delicious and keep evolving. If I can I'll do that more often in the future" Neo said with a big smile.