'AAAAAH!?' Jake freaked out and fell right on his butt.
'What is that!?' Jake immediately asked the system as he saw a strange creature.
[That is a three-headed snake]
'I know, but I mean why does it look so terrifying!' Jake said.
It was about 3 meters long and a meter thick with three heads, each head had its own color.
The one the right is green, the one in the middle is yellow and the one on the left is blue.
[It has three different types of venoms, the one on the right is acidic venom which burns you once it touches you, the one in the middle is paralyzing venom which will paralyze you once it touches and the one on left is hallucination venom which will make you hallucinate.]
'That is OVERPOWERED!' Jake told the system since he thought he had no chance against such a monster.
The snake didn't let Jake keep thinking as it started to spit venom at him. Jake managed to dodge the blue venom but once the yellow one touched him, he immediately fell on his butt.
'I'm dead, for sure' Jake thought inwardly. Once the green one touched him, he started to burn.
'AAAAAH!' Jake tried to 'scream' when he saw that he lost his left arm.
The snake immediately slithered to Jake's position breaking branches that were in the way.
Once it came close to him all three mouthes opened showing their fangs.
'no no no no no' Jake started to curse in his mind as the snake got closer to him.
The snake bit him and Jake died due to both the acidic venom and the snake's bite. It tore him into pieces and swallowed him up. After swallowing him up it slithered away to it's home so it can rest.
The snake arrived at its destination, it was a cave with several skulls outside it and dents on the cave wall. The grass outside was grey, most likely due to the acidic venom, the snake possesses.
After several hours of trying to digest the food, the snake found out that there was something wrong.
It couldn't digest the zombie!
Jake woke up to find himself inside some weird sticky environment.
'am I inside the snake?' Jake tried to ask the system since he was confused.
[Yes, Jake is currently inside the snake]
'huh? I thought I was dead, why am I still alive?' Jake asked.
[Jake cannot die because he has Revive from the dead]
'oh yeah, I forgot I had that skill. Wait a minute! Doesn't this make me basically immortal and op!?' Jake was ecstatic because now he had nothing to fear.
[Yes and no. People can still kill you with soul attacks to kill you or render you incapacitaded]
Just like that his hope got turned into nothingness.
'anyway, now I need to find a way out of here. System is there a way out?' Jake tried asking the system in hope of it finding a way out for him.
[Jake has three options, biting your way out of here by using your fangs, use your skill 'zombie turn' to turn this snake into a zombie pet although the chance is low or punching your way out of here since Jake has way more strength than any other minor zombie]
'I can turn this into a pet!? I'm gonna try this!' Jake brought out his fangs to turn it into a zombie pet.
He bit into sinking his fangs deep into the stomach and injecting some weird thing into the snake's stomach sack.
'I hope it works' Jake thought inside him.
Jake injected the weird liquid into the snake to make it become a zombie pet.
'I hope this works' Jake wished it works because if it did it would make everything much simpler and easier, like for example when hunting.
{Zombie turn FAILED}
'Wait why did it fail!?'Jake was flabbergasted because he thought it would work because it was lv 2 but it didn't.
[Zombie turn failed due to the resistance the enemy possesses]
'Huh? How strong is this snake!?' Jake became sad since he really wanted this snake as a companion.
Jake tried to inject the weird thing again but this time it didn't come out.
{Cooldown 52 seconds}
'Aah, so that's why it didn't work, system, if I keep trying, will it work eventually?' Jake asked the system.
[Chance of it happening is less 1%]
'Ah, yes, some hope at least' Jake said a little sarcastic, but if he kept doing it should work.
Jake waited for several seconds for the cooldown to end.
{Zombie turn ready}
The cold and mechanical sound gave Jake some hope.
He tried using it again.
{Zombie turn FAILED}
'Aaaah' Jake said disappointedly.
'I'll try again when the cooldown is done' Jake thought inwardly.
'System, does the chance of it happening even increase? I mean it should be getting more tired and the chance should get higher each time.' Jake asked after thinking for a bit.
[It does increase but only slightly and it's still less than 1% currently]
Jake injected again, obviously, it failed but he wanted to ask another thing.
'As I am attacking the snakes' stomach, shouldn't it be flailing around in pain since I'm attacking it with my fangs and injecting weird stuff into it?' Jake asked.
[No, if it was like that then it would be in pain every time it eats. The snake eats sometimes monsters with fangs but they aren't usually able to put up much of a fight as this is an S class monster and it's real though.]
'Oh, well sh*t. What have I gotten myself into.' Jake has heard about the ranking systems in some novels that are from F-S and some F-SSS in which S or SSS is the strongest type of monster or adventurer.
'System, what's the actual percent chance that I'll turn this monster?' Jake asked while trembling a bit.
[Jake, that's unnecessary as you will be able to beat it with enough tries] The System tried to pamper him and avoid the question.
Jake tried to breathe in.
"GLURHGH!!!" He accidentally swallowed a load of stomach acid.
*Gulp*
'System is whatever I swallowed, is it b-b-bad?' Jake asked a bit shaken.
[Yes, it's really bad, you need to hurry up and bite this snake]
Jake immediately started biting and injecting, waiting for the cooldown and this cycle repeated until the snake died.
{Level up}
{Level up}
{Level up}
{Level up}
{Minor zombie ready to evolve}
{Do you want to proceed}
'YES!'Jake really was happy because he was exhausted.
{Do you want to evolve into a lesser zombie, minor poison zombie or minor acid zombie}
'Hmm...' Jake thought.
'System what are the benefits of these 3 choices?' Jake asked curiously.
[If you evolve into a lesser zombie you will get bigger and a big boost in strength and health. Mana will also be unlocked. Minor poison zombie would be able to release dangerous but not fatal poison mist and use poison-related skills. Minor acid zombie can emit acid mist which could melt some metals and use acid related skills]
'Oh! The lesser zombie is really tempting but the other ones are more useful.' Jake thought for some time about what choice he should make, as this will decide his fate.
'I'll choose Minor poison zombie, thx!' Jake chose this as he didn't think he'd get out of here any time soon and there are mostly beasts here, or so thought Jake.
{Evolving}
{You will be put under induced coma under the time you are evolving}
'Wai-'Jake didn't think that would happen and was going to command the system to suspend it because he was still inside the snake.
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"Hah hah hah! Guys, I don't think it is following us anymore!" One of the guys (Guy A) Jake saved said while panting. If not for his armor you would be able to see a lot of sweat.
"What was that even? A minor zombie that has such a high intellect!?" A girl said.
"We might have to report this to the higher-ups!" Another guy says (Guy B).
"But, I think it might have tried to help us!" The girl said unhappily.
"Girl, are you dumb!? A zombie doesn't have emotions nor does it 'help' anyone! It kills for no reason." Guy B said angrily at the girl.
"Who are u calling dumb, huh! If it weren't for the monster that we faced along with the countless of horned rabbits that came out of their hiding for no reason, I could have easily killed those minor zombies ALONE!" The girl said clearly frustrated at what that guy said to her.
"BOTH OF YOU CALM DOWN!!! We can't have a fight amongst each other and especially not now! But what you said James (Guy B) is true, we should report this to the higher ups. But we can't forget the abnormal behavior of the horned rabbits. Anyway, let's go to the base before we get into more trouble." Guy A said.
"Yes sir!" both James and the girl said at the same time.
They started to walk away cautiously, so they don't run into any more dangers.
After an unknown amount of time, Jake finally woke up.
{Evolution complete}
{You have evolved, some skills have increased by one or two levels and you gained more skills, for more information check your status screen}
{Level up}
{Level up}
{Level up}
{Level up}
{Level up}
{Level up}
[Congratulations on your evolution Jake]
'ah, thank you system' Jake was still a little stunned and confused, most likely due to the evolution.
'show status' Jake ordered the system.
[ Name: Jake Smith Age:0 Race: minor poison zombie
LV:16
Stats
Health- 23 > 34
Strength-50 > 66
Agility-16 > 32
Stamina-56 > 70
Mana- Locked
Luck- 10
Titles: Former human, Clutz, Rotten Zombie, being from another world, Kin killer, Unedible (new)
Skills: Zombie turn LV:2 > LV:4, Intimidate LV:2, Revive from the dead LV: MAX, Poison fang LV:2 > LV:4, Berserk LV:4, Pack leader LV:1 > LV:3, Poison mist LV:1 (new), Poison slash LV:1 (new)
Passive skills: Poison attacks +20% (new)
Resistances: Poison resistance LV:1 > LV:3, Rotting resistance LV:6 > LV:7, Physical resistance LV:1 > LV:2, Pain resistance LV:2 > Lv:3]
[Jake has 63 points to allocate]
'Allocate 20 points in strength, 30 points in agility and the rest in stamina' Jake said.
[understood]
[Strength is now 86 points, Agility is now 62 and Stamina is 83]
'good' Jake thought.
For some reason, Jake started to feel strong and energetic, but that feeling quickly turned to weakness and hunger.
Jake opened his eyes, but he immediately remembered that he's still inside the stomach of the snake.
'Is it just me or does this snake's stomach feel smaller' Jake wondered because he felt more cramped in here now than before.
[Correct, the three-headed snake's stomach sack is now smaller because it has just died]
'wait why!?' Jake immediately got angry because he was looking forward to getting something that can hunt for him.
[The three-headed snake has died due to Jake inhabiting its stomach. The three-headed snake couldn't digest you nor could it eat anything else because it was full all the time]
'wait, didn't I turn it into a zombie!?' Jake asked.
[Yes, but Jake has been under a coma for 5 days and the three-headed snake couldn't hold out for that long]
'No! Why! Now I am all by myself without anyone else.' Jake became somewhat depressed.
[No, Jake can control other minor zombies]
'Wait, why didn't you tell me this before!' Jake said.
[Jake never asked]
'Damn you!' Jake told the system in a fit of anger.
[Jake should probably focus on getting out of here instead of cursing at me]
'Sure' Jake started to slash and punch his way out of there.
After a couple of seconds passed, Jake managed to easily get out of there.
'First of all, I'll need food' Jake thought
Jake started to run around searching for an animal. weirdly the forest felt quite empty like it was devoid of life.
'Yes! I finally found some rabbits!' Jake thought, but what he didn't expect is that all of the rabbits would start attacking him and surrounding him. They impaled him with their horns breaking his legs and arms.
'AAAAH! WHAT IS THIS!' Jake was startled and scared because they were way stronger than he thought.
[These are Horned Rabbits and they are being controlled by a demon]
'Wait, a demon!? I should probably-' Jake couldn't finish because the Horned Rabbits killed him.
Jake woke up immediately completely recovered.
Jake's mind went blind with rage and he started to slash and attack the Horned Rabbits, killing them on the spot due to his strength.
"GRAAAAAAH!!" Jake growled eating and attacking all of the Rabbits.
Something appeared from the shadows. It was tall and about 2.4 meters (7.5 feet). It had long sharp teeth and claws, it was drooling and had eyes as red as blood. It had a red mantel without a shirt or anything covering its stomach it showed an amazing 8-pack. On its stomach, there were red markings that looked like devils star (google it if you don't know what it means). It had red pants with no shoes or sandals. It was also growling and had 5 centimeters long toenails that were sharp.
"Who are you and what do you want with me!!!" the demon said, looking furious and like it was about to start a slaughter.
"So you are saying there is a demon lurking around the Gala forest!" Said a man with a muscular build and a scar across his face.
"Sir, that's not all of it. There also seems to be an intelligent minor zombie there too." Said a man with black ninja clothes kneeling.
"Hmm...The demon is a much bigger threat to us than a mere zombie, Markus keep on going" said the man.
"Sir, the demon is able to control horned rabbits, and it may also be able to control other things as well." Said Markus (the man with ninja clothes). "A demon that is able to control living things must be a class A or higher."
"Oh. If it were not for the SS class zombie residing inside the Gala forest, we could've sent in a huge extermination team to kill the damn demons." Said an old man with a wooden staff."What should we do guild leader?"
"We might have to ask for help in other kingdoms if it becomes a big problem, but for now let's send in an S class party in," Said the muscular man that appears to be the guild leader.
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"Sir, I don't think that is necessary, we can send in an A class party in" Said Markus.
"Markus, you may excuse your self," Said the guild leader in a cold tone.
"Yes sir," Said Markus with a trembling voice.
When Markus went out, a conference began.
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"GRAAAAAAH!!!" Jake roared and then started running straight at the demon.
"I SAID, WHAT DO YOU WANT!" Screamed the demon.
Jake didn't respond and just kept charging at it.
The demon just evaded Jake's charge and slashed at him with its claws cutting Jake in two.
"Hmph, it was just a dumb zombie after all. I don't even know why I was worried," Said the demon.
What the demon didn't know is that physical attacks are futile against Jake.
Jake got up and started to release poison mist, he also ran straight at the demon.
The demon was surprised and didn't know how to react, thus letting Jake slash at him. Jake used the skill Poison Slash to attack him and at the same time poison fangs to inject a lethal poison into the demon.
"AAAH! What is this, how are you alive!?"The demon was confused since he saw the zombie die. The only explanation he had was that it used some kind of illusion magic but that was unlikely since it felt way too real.
'aah! It's using lethal poison, it seems I'll have no other choice than to take out the pill.' thought the demon.
The demon took out what seemed to be a pill and ate it.
{Poison fang failed due to the resistance of poison}
Jake immediately woke up from his anger.
'ah, what is happening?' Jake asked the system.
[Jake was under the influence of berserk and all your stats except luck increased by 100%, but not anymore]
'huh, wait I-I-I can remember! Now I remember everything!' Jake remembered everything again.
'System, can I control myself while I'm under berserk?' Jake asked the system.
[Not right now, but when Jake evolves into lesser species he can]
'Oh, shit!' Jake was in a dilemma about whatever he should activate it or not. But the demon didn't give him more chance to think about it, as it attacked him.
"What happened, why are you not attacking anymore?" The demon said while rushing straight at him.
Jake didn't have time to react and got cut in several pieces but the demon.
'AAAH!' Jake experienced great pain but that was for a split second because he died quickly.
"HAH HAH HAH! I will never ever use such a pill again. It makes me so goddamn exhausted!" The demon started to talk to himself for no reason.
'But the thing that I do not understand is that it seemed like this zombie revived. Anyway, it surely interrupted my plan, so I'll have to wait for a few weeks to wait for these rabbits to reproduce.' The demon thought inside him as to not let anyone that was eavesdropping know about his real plans.
Once the demon turned away and started walking, Jake revived.
Jake got up slowly, to not alert the demon. When he got up, he started to slowly walk towards the demon. Step by step, slowly getting closer to the demon. He took out his fangs, and he bites the demon injecting both deadly poison and the weird thing which turns someone into a zombie.
{Zombie turn FAILED}
But apparently, the poison worked, he didn't stop there and released poison mist alongside using poison slash to cut him.
"GAAAAH! HOW ARE YOU ALIVE, YOU DAMN ABOMINATION! WHY WON'T YOU JUST DIE!" screamed the demon, he fainted when he finished that sentence and just seconds after he died.
{Level up}
{Level up}
{Level up}
...
'Aw shit, I leveled up so many times! I'll probably evolve with just this.' Jake thought inside himself.
[Congratulations Jake, you reached the requirements to evolve]
'AW, yeah!' Jake was ecstatic because he was wondering what he would evolve into.
{Minor poison zombie ready to evolve}
{Do you want to proceed}
'YES PLEASE,'Jake screamed inside his head.
{You can evolve into, lesser poison zombie}
'What!? Why is there nothing else to evolve into!?' Jake asked.
[Jake can evolve into other things when he reaches lesser poison zombie or reaches the hidden requirements to evolve into special kinds of zombies]
'oh. Makes sense.' Jake finally understood why he only had one choice.
'Hmm... How long does it take to evolve?' Jake asked curiously.
[It will take about a week to evolve into the lesser species]
'Huh, why so long?' asked Jake.
[Because evolving requires transforming the body and that's why it takes so long, but when you evolve into higher species it takes less time]
'sigh, sure, just evolve me' Jake said.
{Evolving}
'NO, WAIT' Jake panicked when he remembered that he would be put under a coma.
{Are you sure about not evolving or do you want to postpone it}
'Postpone it, sir' Jake said.
{Postponing evolution}
{Say "Evolve me" when you want to evolve}
'Ok,' Jake said.
Jake took a look at the dead demon and walked away.
'I should go and look for a cave or something else' Jake thought.
Jake walked around for a while until he saw a hole in the ground in which he crawled inside.
'aah, I hope there's nothing here. Evolve me,' Jake ordered the system.
{Evolving}
{You will be put under an induced coma under the time you are evolving}
'ok' Jake said nervously.
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"How long will it take to form a party of S class adventurers?" A person which looks like a person of authority said.
"It should take approximately 2 weeks to bring all the S class adventurers from all over the continent," Said someone who looked like he was under the other person.
"I'll give you exactly 1 week and 1 day to do it, and no less!" Said the person of authority.
"Ok," Said the other person.
"Ok, are all of you ready! We are about to enter the gala forest!" Said a knight with full body armor looking like the leader.
"Yes, we heard you goddamit no need to scream out so goddamn loud you prick." Said one of the S class adventurers who was gathered here to exterminate the demon.
"Show some respect you damn vermin!" Said another S class adventurer.
"Tch, I apologize." The S class apologized when he saw that people got irritated at him.
.
.
.
After a while of walking, they reached the Gala forest.
"We finally reached our destination, does anyone want or need to rest?" said the leader.
No one said anything and the leader took that as a no and they started to march in.
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{Evolution complete}
Jake finished evolving.
'Aaah, I feel so refreshed. Damn, I wonder how I look like now.' Jake wondered.
When he stood up, his head hit the roof.
'Did the cave get smaller? Oh, wait, I'm the one who got bigger.' Jake was surprised at his growth, he was at least 70cm taller and he also looked somewhat bigger and more muscular.
{Level up}
{Level up}
{Level up}
...
{Intelligence is unlocked}
{Wisdom is unlocked}
'Oh, sh*t! Why am I leveling up so damn much!? What are the things that just unlocked?' Jake asked with a little excitement.
[The amount of experience gained from killing that demon leveled you up to LV 52]
'...' Jake was speechless.
After a moment of thinking, he said.
'Show status'
[ Name: Jake Smith Age:0 Race: lesser poison zombie
LV:52
Stats
Health-34 > 55
Intelligence-66
Wisdom-21
Strength-86 > 146
Agility-62 > 78
Stamina-83 > 111
Mana- 0
Luck- 10 > 11
Titles: Former human, Clutz, Rotten Zombie, being from another world, kin killer, unedible
Skills: Zombie turn LV:4 > LV:6, intimidate LV:2 > LV:4, revive from the dead LV: MAX, poison fang LV:2 > LV:4, Berserk LV:4 > LV:5, pack leader LV:3 > LV:5, Poison mist LV:1 > LV:3, Poison slash LV:1 > LV
Passive skillsTongue [https://www.royalroadcdn.com/public/smilies/tongue.png]oison attacks +20% > +40%
Resistances: Poison resistance LV:3 > LV: 5, Rotting resistance LV:7 > LV:9, Physical resistance LV:2, Pain resistance Lv:3]
[You have 128 points to allocate]
'OH SH*T, I HAVE SO MANY POINTS! Wait the Mana is unlocked!?' Jake became ecstatic both for the points and that Mana is unlocked.
'Allocate half of it to Mana and use the rest of the points on Intelligence and Wisdom.' Jake always loved the magic the MC in novels uses.
[Ok, Mana is now 64, Intelligence is at 98 and Wisdom at 53]
'*sigh*, now I feel like I'm actually playing an RPG game.' Jake uttered.
He stood up, as soon as he did his head hit the ceiling and he fell straight on the ground.
But, he then heard someone and when he did he froze.
"Hey, what is that noise," Someone said from the entrance.
Jake turned around to look at the person who was there but he became blinded by the light and only saw the silhouette of a male.
He sighed and tried to talk.
"Axnmcibfka, qwbeol-"Jake couldn't utter a single coherent word. His words sound like grunts and whimpers.
"Wait, did that lesser zombie just try to speak to you?" a female silhouette exclaimed.
"Guys, it might actually be the evolved intelligent zombie we heard about before." Said another male silhouette.
An arrow got shot out from behind the crowd.
The arrow flew right past the crowd and hit Jake straight in the face.
"Gaah!" Jake fell right down on the floor, he barely even bled, since he was a zombie.
"Done, instead of arguing with each other, you could just kill it and be done with it. Let's go as there's nothing here apparently so get going!" A woman with a big and thick crossbow said.
"I don't take orders from you b*tch!" Said a man with two daggers and a cape.
"What did you say!" the woman said while aiming the arrow at his throat.
The man took out his daggers and stopped them just 5 millimeters away from the woman's head.
"Break it up, now you two!" A man that looked like the leader said.
"And Emma, we should have captured the zombie before killing it as we would have gotten more rewards that way." The leader said while staring at Emma (the woman with the bow).
"Tsk, ok. Listen, you douchebag, you're lucky this time. Next time you call me a b*tch, I'll fucking kill you!" Emma said while staring daggers at the man.
"Oh, yeah I-" The man wanted to continue but the leader stopped him.
"LEAVE IT!" The leader didn't want any dispute happening between the members on his watch.
"I'm sick of you treating me like this, I'm leaving and none of you b*tchs can stop me." The man said and started to walk away while pointing the middle finger to everyone.
*Thud*
His body fell lifelessly on the floor with an arrow sticking out of the back of his head.
"The back of your head looks ridiculous!" A man in blue clothes and a hockey mask said from the crowd.
"Why did you kill him!?" The leader said after he took out his gigantic sword and pointed it at Emma.
"First, I warned him. Second, He tried to bail on us. Third, I don't like him." Emma said.
"Well, your second point is the only valid one. But still, we could've just punished him back at the guild, there was no need to kill him." The leader said anxiously since Emma was nearly as strong as the leader.
"Well, it's done now. How about we just continue, huh?" Emma started to get a bit frustrated that no one was at her side.
"Fine, but if you kill anyone else, you'll get branded as a criminal." The leader decided to give it up as the dead guy was a bad guy before, and it wasn't worth risking it for him.
The group of S class adventurers started to walk away and look for the Demon that was in the forest as reported.
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'Gaah, damn. I just dodged a bullet, if that woman hadn't shot me, I would've died right there.' Jake heaved a sigh of relief since the adventurers just left.
'I just wanna rest ri-' Jake wanted to take a rest but something interrupted him suddenly.
{You have dropped one level}
{You lost 5 points of your health}
'Aw, shit. You scared me shitless.' Jake was only startled a bit and didn't care much as it was only one level.
'Anyway where was I, oh yeah' Jake wanted to have some time to think by himself as everything was going too fast.
'Hmm, my first priority was food and water, but I don't need water and I ain't going to be hungry for a while.' Jake started to think about his priorities.
'And I don't need to get shelter as I am a zombie. Ah,' Jake then leaned back,' I really do miss the security and safety I feel at home. Ok, my priority except for food is shelter. Wait, that's just backtracking. Dammit, my head will hurt if I think too much.'
Jake relaxed and breathed in and out.
'Hah, I'll just try to evolve and maybe find a way to get home.' Jake finally found out what he should do.
'Yeah, I'll just try to evolve and become a God-like being and get home to my-.' Jake said happily, at least until the system interrupted him.
[You won't be able to travel back home as you'll have to become a sovereign or higher to break the law of realities.]
'Oh, then how did I get here?' Jake asked curiously.
[Error]
[Error]
[Error]
'What the hell!' The sound turned from the Japanese voice to a mechanical sound which was really loud.
[Rebooting]
[1%]
...
[2%]
'Why did it take so long for 1%?' it took nearly 3 minutes for that 1%.
[Error]
[Do not disturb or you will be eliminated]
[1%]
Jake was startled and scared shitless. He didn't doubt the system at all and really thought it would kill him.
...
[2%]
...
[3%]
"Hey, that zombie is still alive! Wait, that is a Lesser Poison Zombie! Kill it!" The adventurers came back.
[Error]
[Threats have been marked and will be eliminated in three seconds]
"Gaah!" An adventurer fell.
"AAAAAAAAAAH!" Another fell.
"Wai-" The leader fell too.
"AAAAAH!!!!!"
One after another, all of the adventurers fell.
[Accumilated Exp exceeds the 10000 point threshold I can hold]
[All Exp will be transferred to Host]
{Level up}
{Level up}
{Error}
{Too much Exp at once}
[System Rebooting]
[...]
{Error}
{System shutting down}
'Eh!? What is happening!?' Jake was speechless at what was happening.
'Hey!!!' Jake was screaming inside his head, or at least he was trying.
Everything went quiet inside his head. Before he could talk inside his head and it at least sounded like something but now he could only think.
'Did something happen due to my question!? Was it something I shouldn't have asked?' Jake started to panic as this system helped him a lot.
"*Breathing deeply in*, *Breathing deeply out*" Jake managed to calm himself down, thanks to his increased wisdom which let him think faster.
'I'll have to wait for the system to turn on again, then I'll see. But for now, maybe I should go and hunt some for some food.' Jake felt hungry since he did not eat for quite a while so he stood up and started to walk out of the cave.
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Emma's POV (during the slaughter and after)
"Hah, they let me go out to scout just cause I'm some "danger" to the group. Hmph, those pathetic bastards with the delusion of doing the "right thing"." Emma started to complain.
"I hope they all die, pathetic losers." Emma kept on complaining about how weak all of the S class adventurers are.
Emma is 29 years old, she is usually called a genius because of her young age. Nearly all S class adventurers are above 50 years old and most above 60. so being 29 and S class is an amazing feat.
She also is 1.7 meters tall, has short dark hair, a green tight shirt and pants made from leather. She also had a great figure.
"Gaah!" she heard a scream from the direction of the adventurers.
"AAAAAAAAAH!!!" another scream was heard.
"What is happening over there!?" Emma became fear stricken by the screams.
"Wai-" the leader also was heard.
"AAAAAH" She kept hearing screams over and over again.
She even heard someone beg to be spared.
Only 10 minutes after the screams passed did Emma go to check out what the screams were.
She first crawled on the floor to stay unnoticed. When she came to the scene, she became petrified.
There were dead bodies all over the place and the strangest thing is that there was not even a single drop of blood on the ground, just bodies lying around.
"*Heavy breathing*" something was breathing heavily inside the cave.
Emma nearly jumped. She walked back slowly as to not make noise, but when she heard footsteps she froze. When she turned around, she was frightened.
It did not look like the zombie from before as this one was over 2 meters long and did not even closely resemble the Lesser Poison Zombie from before. This did not even resemble any species of poison zombies.
"Patient Zero" Emma's heart pounded like crazy because she just witnessed a SSS class monster which has never been seen before.
"God, save me." Emma murmured then passed out due to fear.
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Jake started to walk out of the cave, but when he came close to the entrance he noticed that he was now way bigger than before and he could smell things now.
'Wow, I didn't notice before but I couldn't smell things, but now I can smell various different smells. What is that!" Jake got the whiff of what would be sweat and a person moving.
"Patient Zero," The girl said trembling and sweating.
"God, save me." She murmured under her breath, then passed out.
"Hey!" Jake said a real word for the first time.
'I can talk, I can talk!' Jake became ecstatic.
"Ahahahaha, I can talk!" Jake screamed in joy.
Jake proceeded to jump around, screaming and even talking. He talked to the trees, the dead bodies and even, after a moment of gathering confidence, the unconscious girl. When he calmed down, he cut a tree down and sat on the stub. He then heard the mechanical sound again.
{System turning on}
[Jake, I am unable to adapt to your current body so I'll have to de-evolve you]
"What, NOOOO!!!" Jake screamed out.
{De-evolving}
{Host is put under induced coma}
"CANCEL! Stop! AAAAH!" Jake started to resist but he couldn't.
Jake then went into a deep coma that lasted for weeks.
EMMA'S POV
"Ah," Emma started to wake up, "what is happening?"
When Emma sat up she saw a Medium Poison Zombie laying on the ground.
"Hah, hah, hah. *Heavy Breathing* Where is it? *Gulp*" Emma was panicking.
She looked around for a while and was playing dead. When she made sure that it was not here anymore, she heaved a sigh of relief.
"*Sniff* What's that smell, God it's disgusting. *Puking* Blaargh!" Emma puked.
She was not used to the smell of dead bodies, although she's used to dead bodies but not the smell as it takes usually almost a day for it to smell.
"Hah, I should go and report this to the Guild." She stood up and started to walk north.
'I think I'm supposed to go this way. I'll just hope it's west or any way other than north because the S class demon is supposed to be there.' She prayed a little and kept walking.
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While walking she smelt a stench far worse than a dead body.
"What is this smell, oh, sh*t!" Emma said startled by the smell.
She walked to the direction of the smell and she found the dead body of a demon... and rabbits.
"Wha-What is this!? Wait, it must be Patient Zero's work!" Emma shuddered when she remembered it.
"Wait! NO, I have to run away!" The thought of it being here struck her.
'This way must be north as the demon is here so west should be left.' Emma pondered.
She then immediately started to run away in a steady manner as to not get tired too fast.
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She reached the entrance to the forest and saw some guards patrolling the area around the entrance.
The guards noticed her and greeted her quickly.
"Good evening, Emma!" The guards said in unison.
"Hi, have any of you seen my horse? I need to get back to the Guild!" Emma said hastily.
"Um, Madam, what happened and where are the others?" One of the guards asked.
"I asked nicely, don't make me repeat myself! Or you will face dire consequences." Emma warned them.
"Ok, ok, I'll bring it to you. No need to get violent." The guard who spoke said with a tinge of fear in his eyes.
He then went away for a short while and came back with a black horse with the symbol of lightning on its right side.
"Here you go." The guard with the horse said and gave it to her.
"Good, now hold guard and don't run whatever you see, or else!" She looked menacingly at the bunch of guards.
'Hmph, I guess it's ok, too sacrifice these worthless bunch. Although there is the chance of them turning and becoming stronger due to the strange power of Patient Zero.' Emma was thinking.
She then hopped on her horse and rode off.
"I hate that b*tch the most."A guard said.
"Me too, by the way, didn't she seem like she was on a hurry?" Another guard responded.
"Yes, very strange. And now we should get back to work!" A third guard said popping out of nowhere.
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Emma arrived at the entrance to the nearest Guild, so she can report. She went ahead and opened the bar-like doors and went in. The first thing she noticed was that everything smelt pungently of ale and alcoholic beverages.
"Ah, sweet home, I guess... NOT! I NEED THE GUILD MASTER IMMEDIATELY!!!" She shouted at the top of her lungs so that everyone can hear her.
"Who are you, sweetie pie?" A muscular man asked mockingly.
"None of your business, now would you move or do I have to use force?" She threatened.
"Whoa, now you are trying to pretend something you're not! Now if you don't ask for forgiveness and become my lady, I'll-" He lashed out, but before he could finish, someone interrupted him.
"Shut up! Barry, that woman is an S class adventurer and I promise you, you don't wanna mess with S class adventurers. Especially her, she is the 5th strongest, but the most brutal one." The Guild Master cautiously.
"Wait, do you mean Emma?" stuttered the muscular man.
"Yes! Ah, poor you."
"AAAH! I'm terribly sorry for my wrong-doings! If there's something I can do to make up for it, tell me." The man was now trembling as fear struck him.
"I'm not in the mood, luckily for you, so move!" Emma demanded.
"I'll never bother you again." He then proceeded to walk out of the Guild.
"Oh, I guess this must be something extremely important for you to spare someone." The Guild master said jokingly.
"As a matter of fact, yes! I have extremely important matters to discuss with you... can we go somewhere more private?" Emma said sternly while hinting at him that they should go to his office.
"Oke doke. Follow me." He then showed her the way to his office. He sat down in his office chair while letting Emma sit on the guest chair.
"Now explain what happened."
"Wait! Patient Zero! Oh no, I have to report this to HQ! Ok, you, go and patrol the area along with the guards while I report this." The Guild Master told Emma while fidgeting with his fingers nervously. "Patient Zero, huh. This is going to become a slaughter if we miscalculate its strength." He mumbled.
"What, are you trying to send me to my grave, huh!? I'm not going to go on a suicide mission, with no chance of success. I'm not brain-dead you idiot, you do realize that I only nearly failed the IQ part of the test!" Emma was not dumb, at least not dumb enough to even go near that thing again. She then took out her dagger and pointed her dagger at his throat.
"I'm not going there." She threatened.
The Guild Master was at a loss of words, he never thought that she would get this scared. He backed up but every time he took a step backward she went with him. Until he stumbled onto his office desk and got an amazing idea.
"Hey, no need to get violent. I'm not going to do anything, in fact, I'm basically harmless in your eyes so please put that down." When she didn't back down, he picked up a sleeping dart and stabbed her in her right arm.
"OW! You think a mere dart can injure me!? You are gonna regret that deeply, cause I'm g-" Emma fell flat on her face, unconscious.
"Hah, this damn woman, she's a complete psychopath." The Guild leader picked her up and threw her in the basement.
Her body fell down a good 20 meter before a thud was heard. Just after that, you could hear some whispers and a green light down there.
"Hah, it's Emma again, huh?" A figure said while stroking its big beard, Emma has come down here 4 times this week only, and that's because she always causes nothing trouble.
"I guess we'll have to erase her memory." Another said.
"Before that how about we torture her!" A third one wickedly said while rubbing his hands evilly.
The three figures started talking about the ways they could torture her and they finally agreed upon returning her memories and then start their unimaginable torture, specialized for adventurers.
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The Guild Master called his Vice-Master and told him to bring him the fastest horse A.S.A.P. The Vice-Master ran out to finish his task. While waiting on his assistant, the Guild Master sat down on his chair and hanged his arms on the table while thinking.
'To defeat an SSS class Monster, we'll probably need at least a united army or two. Hah, the Gala Forest is done for, all A class and under will probably get exterminated.' He sighed and then went ahead to formulate strategies.
After a while, the Vice returned and told the Master, that the horse was outside. The Master then took the horse and rode off as fast as possible.
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BACK TO MC POV
'Aaah! Where am I?' Jake was in a state of confusion because he just woke up from a coma.
A cold mechanical sound responded [I'm sorry. But while you were in a coma, I rebooted. I lost a lot of data files and won't be able to help you much.]
'Oh, now I remember! You made me de-evolved me just after I got evolved!' Jake gritted his teeth when he remembered what it did to him.
'Curse you! How dare you do that to me just after I evolved?' Jake spat on the ground to express his rage.
[Uh, oh. Well, I guess I'll have to butt in to save your sorry ass] Just when the System finished its sentence you could see an army appearing from all over surrounding Jake even if it didn't mean to.
5 arrows came out from the army and all were headed for Jake, but weirdly the arrows struck nothing but air.
[Hey, host. Can I take control of your body for a while? Of course, it's just to defeat this army for you.]
Jake didn't have time to answer as the arrows penetrated him but luckily didn't kill him.
"Gaah!" Jake could only groan as the arrows hit his stomach.
[... Never mind] The system remembered that it doesn't know how to control Jake anymore.
While Jake was falling down, he got struck by a bolt of electricity which sent him flying away.
Jake landed quite far away from the army but he lost all of his limbs and a chunk of his stomach. He was dying but at the same time he was healing up, albeit slowly. He was also unconscious and really vulnerable to any attack.
{Regeneration unlocked}
{Regeneration LV:1}
The regeneration couldn't keep up, so he was doomed to die.
[No, you can't! You can't die, not like this, sh*t! If I just didn't need to get his permission to use the points I would have used them to save him.]
Before Jake died, an enormous eagle picked him up and flew away... out of the forest.
[Huh!? Wait this is a great opportunity if this Eagle could just take him as far away from the army as possible]
The Eagle flew away into the mountains far East of the Gigantic forest.
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A SS class adventurers (Louis Cyr A.K.A Strongest man alive) POV
"We need to find this SSS class Zombie or it may as well be the end of the world!" Louis shouted at his men.
"Yes, sir!" The shouted in unison.
"But for now, let's rest so we can search effectively tomorrow!" It was night and dark so the army had to rest otherwise they won't be able to survive here for more than 3 due to fatigue and monsters.
The army has been searching for Patient Zero for 3 days now and has found nothing (AN: I mean traces of Patient Zero.) The strangest thing, however, is that an SSS class was found near the entrance to the south, actually, it's even strange that it was found. Because all people who see SSS class monsters die. But makes even less sense how a Patient Zero was found here. The only way for a zombie to become a Patient Zero zombie, it needs to gather a humongous amount of EXP at once and then they need over 1000 days to evolve. Unless it was a lesser or smaller type of zombie species.
While thinking, another SS class adventurer came from behind him.
"Howdy, Louis!" The adventurer said.
Louis turned his head around and then saw an all to familiar face.
"Dominic Grigor Cho! Your mother had a weird sense of humor, didn't she." Louis messed around with Grigor.
They greeted each other with a hug and chatted for a bit.
"Will you never get bored of that, huh? Anyway, how're things going? If I didn't know better, I'd think that you always have been a commander of an army." Grigor chuckled.
"Well, yea."Then turning into a more serious tone, Louis continued."Anyway, what do you think about this."
"What?" Grigor was confused as to why Louis turned serious.
"I mean, Patient Zero. *Gulp*" Louis turned nervous at the thought of seeing that monster. "Do you think that we'll be able to take such a monster down?"
"We do have strength in numbers, but we did lose 10% of our soldiers to a pair of SS class monsters 2 days ago. Even more, if you didn't show up to aid the army." Grigor turned pale while thinking about how he nearly lost his life fighting those monsters.
"I personally think that if we manage to take Patient Zero down. We will not be able to come back because the remnants of the army wouldn't be able to take down another SS class monster." Louis sweated a bit thinking about a strategy to take it down with the least amount of casualties.
"Well, we only need to look for another 4 days then we'll be going back. So let's pray that we don't meet it."
"Well, the camps should be done by now. Hmm, on second thought let's stay guard tonight. I get a feeling that something may happen tonight." Louis said cautiously.
"Sure, thing!" Grigor said with a smile.