This time, with enough points in hand, Alicia went and started shopping. It didn't last long as she quickly found something to purchase. Coincidentally, it is actually the small dagger made out of Third Princess's unknown metal. The one Ren Qingquan previously purchased to beat a wolf in Martial Arts World.
Seriously, till this day I still don't know the name of that metal.
Once Alicia pressed the purchase button, I created the metal on top of her hand.
When she saw a dagger suddenly appear in her hand, Alicia almost threw it away.
While grabbing the handle of that dagger and observing it, I heard Alicia mutter. "This is just like a game. Kill monsters to get money, then purchase some equipment in the store. What's next, kill monsters to level up?"
Well, after I learned more about this world, I indeed thought of adding the leveling function. But it looks like Alicia is merely talking to herself and doesn't require any answer from me, so I decided to keep silent.
After testing the power of that dagger I created by piercing a concrete building nearby, Alicia nodded in satisfaction.
Although the dagger I created can't do something like cutting concrete like tofu, it is still sharp and strong enough to easily pierce it.
When she was done playing around, Alicia looked at her handwatch, "an hour has passed by already? Guess I'll need to return."
Alicia's journey back to the restaurant is pretty chill. With the map I gave her, she easily evaded places where a lot of zombies gathered. Soon, the small restaurant came into view.
Once Alicia returned to the small restaurant, I saw Edward and another teenage boy standing inside the small restaurant.
When he saw Alicia, Edward asked. "Alicia, where did you run off to for so long? It's an hour already!"
"Nothing much, I was just testing something. I might tell everyone about the test later. Also, why are you alone with the student council president here? Where are Reynald and the others?"
The student council president replied. "While looking for Miss Alicia a few minutes ago, the others found another restaurant nearby. Most of them went there to gather food while the two of us are left here to wait for you."
Once the student council president finished speaking, Edward spoke. "I thought the business you wanna do is something like collecting cosmetics or going to the toilet. That's why I readily agreed."
"Sorry about that. Well, now that I've returned, let's meet up with the others." Alicia stretched her body and opened the map I gave her. She saw a building nearby where a few blue dots had gathered inside. Those dots are most likely the other human from her group
Seeing as there are no red dots which symbolizes zombies nearby those groups, and they all seem to be in a safe position. Alicia just casually followed after Edward and the student council president.
Upon arriving at the new restaurant, I saw dozens of people busy packing and storing foods into backpacks. Most of the backpack has been filled to the brim with food or edible ingredients.
Once they saw Alicia's three man group, one of the man come forward while pointing at three backpack and said, "Just in time, we've also filled yout backpack"
"Sorry about the wait." Alicia apologized as she, Edward, and the student council president went towards the backpack and wore it. Then, I heard her ask, "Reynald, how much longer are we going to stay here?"
Reynald replied, "There are still some ingredients inside. But the bag we brought has been filled to the brim. We'll just take the leftovers with us the next time we go out to forage for food. Most of the people in this city have either died or turned into zombies anyway. So, we don't need to worry about it getting stolen."
Although this Reynald guy has no filter on his mouth. But damn, do I agree with his decision making skill. What a pity he is pretty weak and barely touched the Martial Apprentice stage. Otherwise I might have chosen him as my host instead of Alicia.
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A few minutes later, everyone finished packing and brought their backpack and walked toward a direction while chatting in a low voice.
With Alicia subtly guiding everyone, they easily evaded any large group of zombies and safely arrived at a school.
On the school's plaque, the word 'Small Pigeon City High School No. 2' is written. The Small Pigeon City is most likely the city's name, which sounds frickin silly.
Alicia's group, which consists of fifteen people, went into the school. Inside, I sensed slightly more than 200 humans, with most haven't reached the Martial Apprentice stage and only 5 at the Martial Apprentice stage. Furthermore, I sensed no zombies within the school grounds. Which means this school is already a safe place.
The fifteen people from Alicia's group went inside and chatted with a few people while handing the food they've gathered.
As Alicia has arrived at a relatively safe place, I decided to busy myself experimenting things once more while leaving only some attention to the outside world and listening to their talk.
The first thing I do is organize the information I've gained these few hours.
My gut feeling is telling me this word's power level is pretty low. So low to the point Alicia's Martial Grandmaster level self might be counted among the strongest here.
From the short talk I heard when Alicia's group traveled and the one they currently have, the zombie apocalypse started merely a month ago. Before that, this world was exactly the same as Earth with no supernatural power.
Those who have awakened supernatural power are called awakeners by the people inside Small Dove Highschool No 2. But as the school has lost contact with the outside world for quite some time, it's unknown whether the name awakener is used globally or not.
Among the awakeners in Alicia, she has awakened on the second day. Which is the fastest among every awakener there, and also the reason I suspect Alicia is among the strongest in the world.
Especially when I found everytime those awakeners breathe, some of the dead energy in the world will get inside their body. Then, their power will slightly increase. Which is a case of turning stronger with every breath, Literally.
It is quite similar to Cultivation in the Cultivation World. But, even cultivators still need to circulate their spirit qi to increase their power. As for awakeners, they merely need to frickin breath!
As for zombies, the case is quite similar. But instead of breathing, I saw every time those moving corpses walk past a place, the density of dead energy will slightly decrease as some of it is absorbed into their body. Although some death energy is spent when they move, the gain still outweighs the loss of energy.
This also results in a similar case to awakened human's breathing being stronger. To be more specific, those zombies turn stronger every time they walk. Which is why they often roam about randomly.
Random roaming is a way for zombies to cultivate and become stronger.
Luckily, the rate of those zombies gaining power through walking is much slower than awakener. But, with how many zombies there are compared to humans, the future for everyone in this world is quite bleak.
But no worry everyone, this great me has come to save the day! As long as no super boss suddenly spawned out of nowhere, I should be able to help kill every single zombie in this world!
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As I go to my flight of fancy while organizing the information I got, I focused myself on the twelves awakened inside the school ground, which include Alicia. After some comparison, I found even though they breathe death energy in and repel them out at almost similar pace. The amount of power everyone gained from that act differs from one another.
This difference should mean their talents. Just like spirit roots in Cultivation World, their speed of and absorbing death energy should be the way to differentiate an awakener's talent. Of course it is just my speculation. But with this much information, I am already pretty sure about it.
If the speed of power increase per breath is indeed a show of their talent, then Alicia can be said to have monstrous talent. The kind that can make everyone doubt life.
Awakening on the second day, coupled with her extremely high power increase per breath. It is no wonder Alicia could reach Martial Grandmaster within a month without using any cheat.
This gives me melancholic feelings. I am reminded of Ren Qingquan who has genius martial arts but trashy cultivation talent. Even with me as a cheat, he still took quite a long time to reach the Martial Grandmaster stage in the Martial Arts world with his so-called genius martial arts talent.
Now then, I guess my next step is to test whether cultivation methods, martial arts, etc can be used to increase the speed and push Alicia's already insane progression speed even further.
As for immediately creating energy inside her body to push her level just like what I do to Ren Qingquan, that must wait for once I've understood how absorbing death energy affects someone's life level.
While I am planning, my focus suddenly got pulled toward the attention I left on Alicia's group. As for the reason, it's because Alicia has just gone and told everyone about me!
With a casual face she dropped a bombshell, "Oh, by the way. While we're outside, I got the ability to convert zombie souls to items. It even comes with the bonus of a five kilometer wide map."
Damn it, I just praised your talent and now you went to spread your secret like a moron? Did I accidentally choose a female version of Ren Qingquan as my host?