After I wake up I jump up to my feet and stretch my stiff body. This time everyone is waking up around the same time, So there would be no need to wait for things to happen.
'Mornin' Pha. How long did I sleep this time?'
Good morning! You actually slept for 8 hours this time! You must have been tired.
Jeez~ 8 hours? That's about as long as I slept before the apocalypse... I need to change that. It's not safe to sleep for so long anymore, Probably around 4-5 hours is best.
'Pha, Can you check what time it is?'
Yep! It is currently 6:24 am.
'Thanks Pha~'
So it is around 6:30 huh... Let's check my status then.
Name: Twelve Strength: 14 Intelligence: 12 Title 1: N/A Age: 12 Speed: 18(20) Endurance: 10(12) Title 2: N/A Gender: Female Dexterity: 12 Vitality: 550 Title 3: N/A Race: Vampire Progenitor Level: 3 Class: N/A Points: 320
320 total points... Oh the bonuses from my boots and pants show in my status aswell, Which makes it easier for me to see.
'Pha, How exactly do I get titles?'
To get titles you basically have to do certain actions that would meet the requirements to gain a title. The requirments are mostly random, So you can probably get some titles soon, If you do a lot of things, I think.
'Oh. Thanks Pha!'
After I finish chatting with Pha, The leaders bring their group the daily food, Which again is just noodles and water. After our group eats our food, Adam calls us all over to the gate. After everyone is gathered, He starts saying,
"Alright! We will be heading out to hunt and gather again, This time hopefully we don't lose many people. Today we will be heading South, Attempting to enter the big mall. Let's hope we can find stuff useful to us there. Now let's go!"
We all follow Adam out of the gate and head towards the huge mall. There is probably going to be a crap ton of zombies there, Which I hope it is like so, Since I can start farming points and levels~ We killed a small group of zombies on the way, Letting me get another 10 points, Which is nice. After 2 hours, We finally made it to the mall. We take a small 5 minute break, Allowing people to catch their breaths a little, Before we decided to enter the mall.
Once we get inside the mall, There is a lot of dead bodies all around, Mainly human, Though there are the occasional zombie corpses. A lot of people in the group look a little sick, But at least nobody puked, Which is good enough. I didn't really care though, Since I have seen worse, While at the gym. After walking a little while we haven't seen any zombies yet, Minus the dead ones, So we are a bit confused. My guess is there is a survivor group somewhere in this mall, Which lead the zombies to them, Something like that.
We walk a bit more and we find a little pharmacy, Which we head into. We find a lot of useful stuff, Like bandages, Disinfectants, Rubbing alcohol, Painkillers and advil, Which we stored all of it into the bags. I naturally put a bit of each inside of my storage, For safekeeping~
We leave the now empty pharmacy and continue to wander around the mall. Even after 10 minutes we find no zombies, Which leads most people in the group to feel a little bit of fear, Since it is abnormal to find no zombies at all like this. We then find a candy store, Which I instantly run inside of, Stunning my group a bit. After a minute I come back out with a lollipop in my mouth, Aswell as a big box of them inside my storage. When I come out everybody just looks at me a bit strangely before I just shrug and they chuckle a bit before we continue searching the mall.
After completely searching the malls first floor we decide to head up to the second floor, Since nothing of use is left down here. After we get to the second floor we only search it for 5 minutes before we start hearing screams and yelling coming from another end of the mall floor. We all look at eachother, Then we look over to Adam.
"Let's go and check it out. There is most likely survivors here, Which means all the zombies in this mall would be attacking them, Considering we found none on the first floor. Maybe we can get new people to join our group aswell, Which will be good for all of us. Hopefully they aren't in that much danger by the time we get there."
We all head over to the screaming as Adam has planned, Yet I do hope he has thought of what to do, Should those survivors decide to attack us. It takes us about 5 minutes to get to a spot we can see what is going on. What we see is a group of around 20, With mainly metal staffs, Getting attacked by around 80 zombies. It is quite a scary sight, As the amount of zombies is no joke. They group has somehow barricaded themselves inside a sturdy looking shop, Leaving a spot to attack any zombies that get to the entrance. There is around 10 or 15 dead zombies already, Which means there is around 100 zombies attacking them.
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Everyone sucks in a big breath, Even I am feeling a little nervous, Even though I can't die. Just as we were all going to head over to assist the group, Another large group of 60+ zombies somehow came out of nowhere and started attacking us from behind. One unlucky guy got his neck bit open, Which alerted the rest of us. Even I didn't notice there was any zombies behind us, Which isn't normal.
Adam quickly gives us orders to attack those behind us first. I was easily the first person to start attacking, As I slash out with my machete, Beheading 2 zombies in one go. The others finally started attacking after seeing me. I didn't bother with them and continued to cut zombies apart. By the time I killed around 15 of them, i got a notification, Which made me back off a bit.
You have hit level 4! You have gained 2 free stat points.
I quickly put both points into dexterity, Which increases my reaction speed, Then quickly head back into killing zombies. We killed all the zombies after 10 minutes of tiresome fighting, While we lost at least 15 people. Now we only have around 10 left. I spot a few chests and books, Which I snatch and store in my storage. I left 4 chests and a skill book to people not all that suspicious. Well not that it would matter.
Adam grabbed a chest and skillbook, While the other 3 chests went to a few strong members. We look around us to see if there is any more surprise attacks, Which there is none. Finally we look over to the group that is being sieged by zombies. The group only lost 3 or 4 people, While there is around 50 zombies left. I switch out my now broken machete for a new one from my storage before heading over to the zombies. Everyone else follows me and we start killing them from behind, While the other group attacks from the front.
We easily kill the remaining zombies in a few minutes, I also snatch another skill book and treasure chest, Before I back off. My whole body is currently covered in blood. It's honestly a good thing I can just absorb this blood off of my body and clothes, Even though it doesn't help me at all. It's basically a free cleaning, Perk of being a vampire. the other group heads over to us after making sure no zombies are alive.
"Thank you for helping us fight all these zombies. It was a great help to us. You even lost quite a lot of your members."
After that he lowers his head a bit, Probably feeling bitter for us losing so many people, That or he is a good actor. I'm going to assume he is a good actor, Since I get bad vibes from him. Adam starts talking with him and I just decide to ignore them and head over to where the people of our group died. I start grabbing all their backpacks, Storing about 30% of each bag inside of my storage, Before carrying them all over to the group.
Adam, Seeing me bringing all the backpacks over, Comes over with the remaining people and takes some aswell, Moving the stuff inside of them to their own packs. I decide to head over to another area alone to open my chests and check my skill books. I find a quiet and empty spot where vision isn't that great and start opening my chests.
I open all my chests and I got a sword looking thing, A pair of boots, A pair of gloves, A skill book, Another dagger and a cloak.
'Pha, Show me the info for all of these please.'
- Darksteel Sabre: A sabre made out of Darksteel. It is the same as the Darksteel dagger, Just with more range.
- Black Agility Boots
- Gloves of Vigor: Durable gloves that aren't easy to break. Wearing grants an increase of 3 strength.
- Sneak Skillbook: This skill allows your movements to be so quiet that it's like you are not there. You footsteps will be as light as a feather and your breathing as quiet as a breeze
- Darksteel Dagger
- Assassins Cloak: This cloak is a useful item for all assassins. It blocks your whole upper body, While also having a hood to cover your head and face.
Wooo! Such good stuff! You are super lucky, You know!
Woah! I don't even bother thinking about anything and quickly put the gloves and cloak on. I also put the new dagger into my sleeve, For easy access, While putting the Sabre and extra boots in my storage. I then take out the other 2 skillbooks and have pha check them for me.
- Nightvision Skillbook: Allow you to see perfectly in the dark, As if it was daytime.
- Book of Speed: Using this gives you a permanent 10 points in speed.
I quickly learn all 3 of the skills and get more notifications.
You have learnt the passive skill Sneak.
You have learnt the passive skill Nightvision
You have gained a permanent 10 speed.
I instantly feel a burst of power going through me. I feel so light, As if I could move unhindered. I decide to head back to the group, And notice that they are looking at my new cloak and gloves. I simply tell them that I got them from the treasure chests I got and they just nod, Finally understanding. By now it is already pretty late so we all decided to sleep in the store that the other group was hiding in, Since it is big enough and not easy to break into, Incase more zombies come.
Due to having to fight a lot of zombies today, As well as the long walk, We all fell asleep pretty fast. Even I was so tired I fell asleep before a few people...
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Name: Twelve Strength: 14(17) Intelligence: 12 Title 1: N/A Age: 12 Speed: 28(30) Endurance: 10(12) Title 2: N/A Gender: Female Dexterity: 14 Vitality: 550 Title 3: N/A Race: Vampire Progenitor Level: 4 Class: N/A Points: 640