Level up Zombie Chapter 7: 193, a 13 tzameti fanfic

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When exiting the special challenge, Zain looked around him and he was lying on the floor. He was in the same room as he left, and a small beam ray of light could be seen poking through the windows.

A habit from when Zain was travelling with Kun, he would board up the windows, but since Zain was on his own and wouldn't turn on the lights anyway, he never did a full job of it.

'I was in that challenge for the whole night, and judging from my nose I can still smell that the others are in the other room. It looks like nothing bad happened while I was away.'

Checking out the system, Zain could see that he could still access the challenge. There was a little pause icon next to it, and whenever he wished he could select continue and would be thrown back into the challenge where he left off, but that wasn't what he was checking on. He was checking to see what type of crystals the system had rewarded him.

'It's just like I thought, I have two Bonezom crystals, which means I can unlock a different weapon!' Zain thought.

Wasting next to no time, he immediately stood up and looked at his bed. The Titan machete was still there, but his other machete was just its regular self. Just like the last time, the crystals were called from his system and then when touching the two items together the prompt to begin crafting had appeared and he selected.

[Yes]

It was turning out to be quite a haul. First a new weapon and now a second one, one that would be different from the Titan blade. He was sure that each weapon created with the different crystals would have their advantages and disadvantages, but for the Stage 2 zombie that gave him the most trouble, he was expecting quite a bit.

When the light faded around the weapon, it was the sign that the crafting was complete, and the weapon in front of him now looked different compared to before, just like last time.

It still had its machete like shape, but the edges looked to be more jagged, like a set of razor sharp teeth. On top of that, the colour of the weapon had completely changed. It was now a pale white. It looked like the whole weapon was made from some type of tooth.

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'The evolved zombie was fast, sharp, and agile, so I was expecting something like that, but I guess it would be hard to put those traits in a weapon. Holding the Bonezom weapon, I don't feel any stronger, just the strength of the weapon changed. The shape of this weapon… it hasn't changed much and I doubt it's stronger than the Titan. Was I expecting too much?'

Either way he needed to read the system details to get more information.

[Bonezom Machete (Current form)]

[You have unlocked a second variation of the machete evolved weapon 2/3]

[This weapon is made from the crystals from the Bonezom. A zombie that is light on its feet, fast and is able to reproduce the bones in its body. Like the Bonezom, the weapon is also incredibly light, yet still stronger than the regular machete.

[The weapon has a passive skill (regrow)]

[Skill Regrow: If the weapon is broken, depending on damage, over time the weapon will regrow back to what it once was]

[The weapon has an active skill (Reshape)]

[Skill Reshape: Once an hour, the user is able to reshape the weapon to the image in its head, to a certain degree.]

After reading everything about the weapon, his opinion had quickly changed and picking it up, he had to double check if he had something in his hand. It was so light. He swung it a few times in the current shape. It was at the moment, and with his strength and speed, it sliced through the air making a sound like a rope.

'This thing, it's stronger, lighter, and can be repaired on its own. On top of that, I can reshape it. It will do well to allow me to improve the mastery of other weapons. For now though, I'll keep the shape as it is.'

Exiting out of the room, Zain was in a happier mood than he thought, and the Wild Bones seemed to notice this as well. With these weapons he was confident that his journey to the Reborn group would be easier, so it was time he escorted the group as soon as possible.

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While walking down the streets of the city, it didn't go unnoticed by the others that Zain had two different coloured weapons compared to before on his back. Where he had got them from no one had a clue, and they certainly weren't going to ask… not while he was in a good mood.

"Hey, don't you need us to fight one of those Titan's for you again?" Nit asked.

"No need." Zain repleid. "Today, is the day we head to the Zombie Hunters base and after that, we will part ways."

Dali and Wiz were both sad to hear this news, but they knew that this day was going to come eventually, so they needed to pick up their spirits and start whacking some zombie heads.

Before heading straight to the base they were getting hungry and their supplies were running low, so they took a slight detour, but still in the general direction of where they wished to head, and that was when they ended up arriving at a supermarket store.

For a second, images flashed in Zain's head, as he pressed his hand against it.

"Are you okay?" Dali asked.

"Yeah… I'm fine, it's just a bad memory." Zain replied.

The group continued walking forward, but Dali was having second thoughts on whether they should continue or not. In the end they needed the supplies, so they pushed forward walking through the carpark.

"Hey look at this?" Nit said, as he pointed to a dead zombie next to a car, which had a hole through its head that looked to be burnt. It didn't look like an ordinary bullet by any means.

At that moment, the doors to the supermarket could be heard opening and a group of people were seen coming out. All of them were wearing black leather jackets that had white paint spelling out certain words… the words 'Zombie Hunters'n0𝗏𝚎𝓛𝓊𝓈𝒷.𝓒0𝐌

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Zain wasn't so much of an idiot that he never thought that this would happen. The closer they were to the base of the Zombie Hunters, the more likely they were to run into the group. However, travelling with other humans and in the state he was in now, at a first glance no one would guess that he was a zombie like the last time.

'I guess, we can see if all of these people from the Zombie Hunters group have those special abilities like last time, or if it was just a one off.'

The group of people leaving the supermarket were five in total. They all seemed to be talking to each other with ease, and with big grins on their faces. A rare occurrence when running into someone in this new world.

'If all five of them have abilities, will I be able to deal with them?' Zain thought. 'I was lucky the last time that the other one let me escape, but I don't think everyone from the Zombie Hunters will be like that.'

The Zombie Hunters were so nonchalant about everything that they hadn't even realised that there was a group of people right in front of their eyes.

"Hey, are you seeing what I'm seeing?" Nit asked.

The atmosphere was strangely quite tense, and unlike Zain thought, there weren't bright smiles on the faces of the Wild Bones, instead they were all holding their weapons in their hands rather tightly.

"Yeah… to think that we would run into them again, of all people." Dali said, as he moved his brother so he was standing directly behind him.

Finally, after walking out a few steps, the one in front of the others, who had a fairly square like frame and bright pink hair, had noticed the others.

"Look at this!" The Zombie Hunter declared, as he started to laugh hysterically and soon when the others saw who were in front of them they started to laugh as well. "If it isn't Dali and his gang of misfits."

"Crunk." Dali said under his breath while clenching his fist, but he soon shook his head, the situation wasn't the same as what it was before. Things were different now.

"Who is this guy?" Zain asked, standing next to Nit. Based on the tension, it felt like any second a fight was going to break out between these two, so he wanted to at least know some context.

"Crunk was the leader of the Oil Burners, our two high school gangs used to go up against each other all the time." Nit explained. "There was a big clash at the end of the year, and in the end we won the war. The deal was that the other gang would disband after the fight.

"But of course, someone like Crunk would never accept the outcome, and ever since then, he had been attacking members of our school here and there. To put it simple, there is a lot of bad blood between Dali and Crunk."

Zain could only imagine how the Wild Bones were feeling right now. They had been fighting endlessly with a goal in mind to join the Zombie Hunters. Perhaps after joining such a group, they thought they would be able to rest for a while.

After all that, they then find out the very group that they wanted to join already had members of a rival gang. In this type of situation, Zain was wondering what he would do, and wondered if the Dali would make the right choice for his group.

"Crunk!" Dali called out. "We should forget about what happened in the past between us two. Right now, people are dying left and right. A lot of my classmates died. This is nothing like our petty little fights that we had in school… I don't even have my parents anymore."

When Dali shouted these words, they were coming from deep within, his voice cracked a little, and everyone who was angry at seeing these people in front of them, that were in the Wild Bones, lost the will to fight at that moment.

They too were tired, extremely tired, and had lost too much.

'He made the right choice. To forget about the past, and move on, especially if they are now with the group known as the Zombie Hunters.' Zain thought, but there was a big BUT on his mind.n0𝓋𝑒𝗅𝐔𝓈𝒃.𝐂0𝗆

"Hahaha." Crunk started to laugh. "This is not the Dali I know. You're giving up, without even trying to fight. Oh, how the great have fallen."

This was Zain's worry, because now that the other, who had felt resentment this entire time, had power… power to defeat the other, they wouldn't let this chance slip them up.

"Let me take a guess as to why you're all the way out here, away from that kingdom of yours." Crunk said. "You heard about the Zombie Hunters right? So you came wishing to join them. Well, too bad for you.

"You see, they only let a certain type of people into the Zombie Hunters organisation. Special people like me. I was chosen by the gods you see, chosen to thrive in this new world, as for you, you are nothing in this world.

"Oh, how I wished you would have charged in like before, trying to defeat me, but I guess this will have to do."

Crunk started to twiddle his finger and it began to glow red. That's when Dali realised when looking at the zombies, all of them had strange holes in their heads, one that didn't look to have been made from bullets.

'The Zombie Hunters are people with special abilities. I should have known that Crunk would have one, but why him… why him and not me!!' Dali thought.

Out from his finger, a beam of energy left, heading straight for Dali's head, it looked like a laser bullet. Dali lifted his hand but the smile on Crunk's face told him it would be useless.

Right in front of Dali's face a large black machete was placed in front of it. The laser hit it clean on its side, and disappeared, doing nothing. Crunk's eyes, seeing this, opened up.

"I… like you." Zain said, holding the Titan sword. "Let me add you to my collection."

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For a second, Crunk was frozen in place as he looked at the person that was standing in front of the Wild Bones with his strange weapon being held out.

'I haven't gotten my ability too long ago, but this is the first time someone was able to stop my attack so easily.' Crunk thought. 'My heated finger blast can even melt metal, so how is his sword able to block my attack?'

Ever since receiving his ability, Crunk had no trouble facing off against zombies or threatening humans to do his bidding. Just like back at school, people were naturally following him and listening to him once more because of his power and now it had been stopped just like that.

Crunk scrunched up his face.

"Hey! Who the f*ck even are you. What are you doing getting involved in someone else's business!"

So fixated on the reunion of schoolmates, Crunk as well as the others, had failed to notice that there was a person that didn't quite fit the bill. Although Zain was older than the others, it wasn't by much. He was, after all, only a university student.

Dali, now stood behind Zain and was looking at the weapon that had literally saved his life. It was one of the new ones that he hadn't recognised before. Still, even he was confused as to why Zain had gotten involved.

So far, during the journey, there were times where Zain seemed to have little interest in helping the group. If there was something that he could gain from it as well, then he would do so.

Which made Dali wonder, what was there that he could gain from this?

[New quest received]

[You are being attacked by a group of superhumans]

[Survive the attack, or make them retreat!]

[Reward: Silver card]

There were multiple things for Zain to gain out of this alteration. For one, there was the reward for a silver card, which made Zain think that this task wasn't too hard of one, at least for him.

On top of that, he had a chance to grow his army, and add a new super zombie to the team.

"Move out of the way! Otherwise, I'll have to kill you as well!" Crunk shouted.

It seemed that whatever had caused Crunk to be stunned, and silenced, for a few seconds was no longer working as he reverted back to his regular self.

"Brother, why does that man want to kill us?" Wiz asked, shaking after he could see what he could do with his fingers.

How was Dali meant to explain this situation to his brother, and would Zain continue… No, could he even protect them all?

"You guys helped me obtain the crystals from before, and I still haven't gotten you to the Zombie Hunters base yet. So I will protect you." Zain said, as he started to walk forward.

"I wish to join the Zombie Hunters." Zain said, as he walked forward. "I want to have a fight with you. If I win, then I join the Hunters. If I lose, I won't get in the way."

Before saying anything, Crunk looked at the person, up and down. His body wasn't abnormally large, he didn't look well built. The only worrying thing was the weapon he had. Which made Crunk think that the weapons, or their state, might be an ability that he had.

'Another ability user, if I win the fight and bring him back with me, the base would reward me greatly. Even if I lose, he will come with us anyway. I can still give payback to the others.

'By then, it will be too late for him to do anything, and the other members can stop him if necessary. Besides, I doubt he would do such a thing, if he has interest in joining the Zombie Hunters. I guess this is just a little act from him, a final farewell to his comrades. He can live peacefully knowing he did everything he could to help them.'

"Alright, I accept, let's see if you have what it takes to become a Zombie Hunter." Crunk said, as he laughed and stepped forward.

Zain did the same and the two were around ten metres away from each other in the car park. There wasn't a completely clear area, as there were a couple of destroyed cars towards the side of the two of them.

The Wild Bones had actually decided to hide behind one of these cars, as they watched the fight from afar.

"If he tries to zapp us at least we have a bit of cover, and he can't say he hit us by accident during the fight." Nit explained to the others.

"Hey… are we going to dart while the two of them are fighting?" One of the members asked.n0𝑽𝐄𝗅𝑢𝑠𝓫.𝓒0𝓜

"What!" Dali said, turning around and nearly hit his fellow gang member but soon stopped himself. "Don't you understand, we were the one that brought him here. We were the one that got him into this mess and without him we would have died twice now, and now you want us to run."

The member felt ashamed after hearing Dali's explanation, but it was in human nature to want to survive, and honestly based on the past of the Oil Burners, they felt like Crunk wasn't going to make this a fair match.

To top it all off, there was a high chance that all of those that were with Crunk were ability users as well. Judging by the deep smirks they had behind Crunk on their faces, it seemed to very well be the case.

Zain pulled out the white and black swords, and was ready to try out his new weapons, to see if he was ready for the Reborn group.

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The side that was supporting Crunk were confident, as they were almost leaning on cars, sitting back and relaxing. As for the rest of the Wild Bones, they were nervous. Even though Zain had proved himself when fighting against the evolved zombies, this was something completely different.

Humans were smarter than the zombies, and this one in particular had a special power. The things Zain did, they seemed extraordinary, but were still within the realm of human capabilities.

"Do you think he can win?" Nit asked.

Hearing this question, Dali started to think back to the subway station. In his mind there was a sure way for Zain to win this fight, but would he reveal that type of power here?

'If someone learned he had the power to control zombies, then maybe even the military and other countries would search for him.'

There was no chime or bell for when the fight would start, which was why hidden behind his back, Crunk was already heating up one of his fingers. From behind, his team members could see him charging up his power, then swinging his arm out, a laser-like bullet shot out.

The attack wasn't as fast as a bullet, but in a lot of ways it worked a lot better than one. For one, it made no noise, meaning it wouldn't attract the surrounding zombies in the area.

'Let's test this out first.' Zain thought, as he stepped to the side and swung his white sword out. The energy beam wouldn't hit him, but still could potentially cut through the sword.

Just like before, the energy beam was unable to go through the weapon. However, it shook a bit as it took the attack.

'The good news is that the weapon can take his power, but it's not as sturdy as the Titan blade. A few more hits and it might break.' Zain thought.

The surprise attack didn't quite work, and it was mainly due to Zain's agility stat. It didn't just increase his speed, but also his perception and was how he was able to track things so well.

After all, if there was a point where Zain could truly move at the speed of a car, what was the point if he was unable to see things around him? For now though, he would keep his true speed underwraps.

Pulling out his other hand, Crunk started to fire another laser, and matching it Zain swung his Titan sword. As it hit, a small ping sound was made and the laser evaporated into nothing.

"Damn you!" Crunk shouted, as Crunk fired one laser after another toward Zain. He continued to swing his Titan sword, hitting each one. It was easy for him to tell which hand Crunk would use and when he would fire because Crunk's fingers lit up.

'I guess this whole time all you've been doing is fighting zombies, so you don't even know your own weaknesses yet. Oh well, it just means it's better for me!' Zain thought.

So far he had been in a stationary position blocking all of the attacks, but for the first time while blocking the laser hits, he started to move forward as well. For now, it was very important for Zain not to win this fight outright or too easily.

If he struggled it wouldn't look good either, as the other members would think they could do what they wished. For him, the best way was to win the fight suddenly.n0𝑽𝐄𝗅𝑢𝑠𝓫.𝓒0𝓜

"Your sword, just because you have that sword, you're able to block my hits. Well then, try and block this!" Crunk shouted, as he pointed all of his fingers at Zain.

Each one of them lit up, but it gave Zain a brief break. Still, ten lasers at once wasn't something that he would be able to block.

'I could just block the attacks aimed at my head. My body should be able to deal with it.' Zain thought.

Just as he was about to do that, he looked down at the Bonezom machete, and remembered one of its abilities.

'Wait a second, maybe that will work.'

[Weapon skill has been activated]

The machete started to change its form, as the shaft turned into a handle and the rest of the weapon spread out slightly, now round in shape and larger in size. What Zain had created for himself was a shield.

All of the lasers came out, and moving out of the way, Zain dodged a few of them, and used his shield to block most of the hits that were aimed at his head and heart. It looked like Crunk had let his anger get the better of him and he had tried to kill Zain.

If he had aimed at several different places, then Zain would have maybe still been hit.

'The weapon's transformation skill is good, but a few more hits and it would be done for. The shield shape doesn't suit it, but it comes handy in situations like this!'

Zain charged forward, his head under the shield, with nothing to worry about. He was also already at a close enough distance where it took only two steps to reach him, then out from behind the shield, Zain swung the Titan sword cutting off the hand of Crunk.

"ARGHHH MY HA-"

Before Crunk could finish his sentence, Zain swung it again, slicing off the other hand. It went through with ease and was nothing like when he cut through the Titan's or the other zombies' bodies.

Out of shock and unable to use his powers, Crunk fell to the floor and could see Zain standing over him.

"Wait, what are you doing! Are you going to kill me?" Crunk asked.

"Isn't that what you tried to do to me, moments ago?" Zain replied.

"You can't kill me, if you do, you'll become an enemy of the Zombie Hunters. They will come after you for killing one of us! You said you wanted to join us as well, right... just don't kill me!" Crunk cried.

The others that were standing by the side, were afraid to jump in. It was taking them some time to process what had just occurred.

"It's okay." Zain replied. "I'm already the main enemy of you Zombie Hunters anyway."

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"It's okay." Zain replied. "I'm already the main enemy of you Zombie Hunters anyway."

The others were too far away to hear these words, and Crunk who had heard them, didn't understand the meaning behind them and was far too scared for his life to be thinking about those things.

His only life line, his powers which were in his fingers, he was unable to use and he had no idea how to use his powers any other way.

With a swing of the sword, Zain stopped just after cutting the skin from his throat. The surface had been cut and blood was trickling down. However, the eyes of Crunk were gone.

He was feeling lightheaded and suddenly fell over backwards as he had passed out at that moment.

'Oh?' Zain thought. 'I was never going to kill him in the first place, as I wanted to turn him, but I guess this works as well.'

Zain then turned to the others and it appeared his plan had worked. Defeating what was most likely their strongest member in a blink of an eye in front of them, would make them all feel powerless. This feeling that they had right now though, would soon disappear so Zain had to act fast.

Stepping forward, Zain was ready to run over to the others, but it looked like one of them had acted fast.

n0𝑽ℯ𝐥𝗎𝓈𝑩.𝐜0𝓂

"Everyone grab on!" One of the youngest members said, and the others seemed to listen as they grabbed their packs and held onto whatever part of the member they could. They grabbed his arms, legs, chest and more.

With a blink, the next second they were all gone and they had disappeared just like that. Zain couldn't even use his sense of smell to smell them anymore.

"So they left, it must be some type of teleportation power." Zain looked down, as Crunk was still passed out on the floor. "It looks like they need to all touch him to teleport though. All the powers I've seen so far have some type of limitation. Guess they had no choice but to leave you behind.

"But based on what I just saw your friends do, I doubt that they will be searching for me. They didn't even stay behind to attempt to save you. What a naive person."

It was then that the rest of the Wild Bones came running out from behind the car they were hiding behind. They had waited a little bit after seeing the Zombie Hunters disappear thinking that they might be coming back, but quickly realised that they had to have run away.

"Zain you were so cool!" Wiz shouted, as he was the first to approach, and the little kid couldn't help but look at the hand that was on the floor. Of course, the kid, after surviving for as long as he had done, had seen a lot worse than this.

"Zain, thank you for fighting for us." Dali finally said. "I never imagined that of all the people from the Zombie Hunters, we would run into someone like him."

The real question on everyone's mind though, was what did they do now? The other Zombie Hunters had seen their faces, and their first impression of the group they were seeking out didn't give them a good impression.

"Our journey, it ends here." Zain said, as he stood up and put Crunk's body over his shoulder. "The Zombie's Hunters' base is not far from here and there is a chance I could run into more of them.

"After this they will be after me, not you. Not all of the Zombie Hunters you have met will be like this guy."

Zain was speaking from experience as he remembered the same woman he had met from before.

"I'm sure that if you explain to them what happened, they would understand your situation. You guys are talented and they will need people like you. They won't just be a group of ability users, they will need regular people to do other tasks as well, and you guys are a good group.

"You don't have to join them, but I was just giving you my opinion on what would be best for your survival, for you, your friends and your brother."

Without letting them reply, Zain was already walking off with Crunk's body and everyone was left looking at the back of Zain. It was a strange feeling for them all, as they felt like they had just lost a leader looking at this.

"Do we have to go with the Zombie Hunters, why can't we keep travelling with Zain?" Wiz asked.

"I would have liked that as well." Dali stated. "But I think he's just different from us, and we would only slow someone as great as him down. Maybe one day, we'll be able to help him."

"I think your right Dali." Nit said with a big smile. "Zain gave us options and not one of them was to travel with him. In the future, we will have to make him consider it as an option. We will pay him back."

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When Zain was finally a good distance away from the others, he entered an alleyway and placed Crunk down. He was still bleeding from his wound. It was no wonder he hadn't woken up, and if Zain didn't turn him soon, Crunk would lose his life.

"I wanted to turn a few of the others as well. It's a shame that they ran away. Oh well, I hope you can use your ability without your hands, or at least grow them back." Zain thought as he went to open his mouth and deliver a bite.

Superhumans were more resistant to the virus, so there was a chance that he wouldn't turn, but he had to try.

As Zain opened his mouth to bite down, a pain in the back of his head started.

'No… not now.' Zain thought.

His vision started to go blurry, and his whole body was going weak, as he fell to the ground, passing out himself.

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Once in a while, a trigger would occur as Zain had named it. A large headache would occur which was strange for his zombie self which didn't feel pain anywhere on his body, and soon after he would pass out.

At times it would be a vision and he would appear as a child and after experiencing these visions, he would remember what had occured in them.

At other times it seemed to be something more to do with the system, but he still hadn't quite figured it out yet nor the reason behind them.

Regardless, right now this trigger was occuring at one of the worst times possible. He had yet to bite Crunk, the superhuman, if the other was to wake up and Zain was seen there on the floor, without a doubt he would attempt to kill him… ending his life.

'This piece of crap body, can't you see what situation I was in. I'm doing everything I can to survive and it feels like sometimes you are trying to do everything you can to kill me!'

There was no answer, at least Zain thought there was no answer, but soon a familiar message box appeared in front of him.

[The system is currently receiving an update]

The message had appeared in a completely dark room. There was nothing… Zain was unable to see his own hands, or body; it was almost as if he was stuck here while the system was updating.

"You have improved considerably." A deep voice said.

This voice, it was one that Zain recognised, it was coming from the faceless man that he saw in his visions.

Although Zain wanted to reply, he was unsure if it was talking to him, and in the past the faceless man appeared to dislike when it found out Zain truly wasn't the one in the visions.

"I have done my best to teach you as much knowledge as I can, passing on everything that you might need to survive in this world.

"However, there are some things that might occur where you will be forced into a choice. Right now, you will be forced to choose."

The black space that he was in was starting to go away and an image was reappearing once again. The night sky could be seen out.

Zain could feel his heartbeating once again and the wind was blowing quite strongly. When looking out from the view, it appeared they were on top of an apartment building of some sort.

The surface was flat and the rooftop was clear with a short ledge, but in front of him there was the one thing he wasn't hoping to see.

The faceless man was standing there. He had his camo uniform on as if he was a member of the army, but as usual there was no face.

This time he wasn't alone either. There were two people that had black bags over their heads sitting on chairs and had been tied up.

"These two people here you do not know." The faceless man said. "So you don't have to worry about them. However, they have a family, people who care and worry about them dearly. If they were to die they would be greatly missed, that is a fact."

Zain had to wonder what type of vision this was and who was this mad man in the first place. When he looked at himself once again he was in his child-like body, around 11 years old at the top.

Was this someone else's memories, because he sure didn't ever do something like this, yet a situation like this had reminded him of something similar.

Looking down at his hands for a second they were covered with blood, but it soon disappeared quickly.

'I'm having visions in visions, great.' Zain sarcastically said to himself.

"I said before that you would have to make a choice and one of the important things that you need to do is to get used to killing."

For a second, Zain was worried, worried that he knew where the faceless man was going with this. As he looked down to his right, on the ground there was a large dagger sitting unused.

Zain went to pick it up.

"You are catching on, as I would expect. Your duty is to kill one of these people. You can ask any question you wish and I will answer about their lives.

"Kill one, and the other lives. Kill none, and they will both die by my hands."

Immediately Zain scrunched his face at the choice.

Although this was a vision, there was a sense of reality to this that he didn't like.

In some ways, the real world felt like the fake one to Zain. He was a zombie, a person who couldn't feel pain and there was madness and death everywhere.

Yet here, he could hear his heartbeat, feel the wind and even smell the air. This world, apart from the faceless man, felt very real.

Which made him second guess himself, if this was real or the real world, then did he really have to decide.

With the dagger held in his hand, Zain walked forward toward the two wondering what to do.

As he walked he tried to access the system, but the same message as last time had appeared, stating that it was in the middle of updating.

'Come on, get me out of this thing… I can't do this?'

Why was it so hard, Zain had killed easily ever since turning into a zombie. No, more correctly, it was ever since he lost Skittle… So why was this so hard?

"You're shaking." The faceless man said. "Hurry, are there any questions you want to ask?"

Zain stopped, in front of the two people, while the faceless man stood to his side.

"I do have a question." Zain finally spoke. "Are those really the only two options?"

"What do you me-"

Before the man could finish his sentence, Zain had leap toward him with the dagger in hand. There were always other options if one looked hard enough.n0𝗏𝔢𝑙𝑢𝑆𝔟.𝐂0𝗆

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There was a simple reason that Zain had survived in the new zombie world out there so far. At least it was the reason he believed he had survived for so long, and it was because he treated everything like a game.

The many survival games he played were ones where one made the best decision at the time for the situation. In real life, there were times where feelings, emotions and more were in play. However, in his zombie body he had learned somewhat how to disregard this.

It never felt very real to him, due to his new body, the emotions were numbed down on top of every other feeling. Yet here, in this what he assumed was a vision, it wasn't the same.

He could feel his heartbeat, was alive, and his senses were sharp. When trying to put himself in a game situation, once again he found it difficult, which had allowed him to think a little more clearly.

If this was a game, then right now there were two forced options he could choose from, and it was obvious… kill one to save the other. Perhaps one would ask about their family situation, how old their relatives were, if they were a good person or not, and choose from there.n0𝑽ℯ𝐥𝗎𝓈𝑩.𝐜0𝓂

This is what the faceless man wanted him to do, and there was this urge inside of Zain, to try and not to do whatever the faceless man wished.

'In games, there are only two options because it's been coded that way, but here I can feel, I'm in control of my body and I can do what I want. There aren't only two options, I can make a third option!' Zain shouted inside his head, as he had leapt with the dagger towards the faceless man.

Due to the height difference between the two, Zain could only really aim for his upper chest or the stomach, and instead went for a stab toward the stomach. The tip of the blade looked to have pierced part of his uniform but soon an arm had grabbed his wrist and pushed it off to the side.

A large cut was made on the man, across his stomach. It was only a flesh wound but blood had still been split. Twisting the dagger in an odd way, Zain had broken free from the grip and had caught the dagger as it was falling, quickly jumping back.

'That's strange. I was always good with swordsmanship, but never so much with the dagger.' Zain thought. 'But all the actions I just did then, it felt so natural. Is it because I'm here again.'

"Look at you." The faceless man said. It was still hard to get used to when the man was speaking, as the sound was clear, yet nothing on his body moved other than his arms to indicate he was talking.

"After everything I have done for you. Everything I have done for this world, is for you to survive, for us to survive as a race, and yet now, you are here attacking me!" The faceless man yelled, he was clearly annoyed.

"I was the one who brought you into this world, and now you want me to take you out yet!"

Zain looked at his hand and it was slightly shaking, it was the last words the man spoke, it made him react in a certain way. His stomach was starting to churn slightly and now his mouth was starting to move on its own.

"I have to do it again." Zain said.

These words had confused the faceless man.

"I have to get rid of you again!" Zain ran forward, more wild than before, and went to stab the man who moved out of the way, to the side. He went to grab Zain's wrist again, but with an upward slash he had cut the man's hand, and the system message had appeared.

[Dagger mastery is now level 3]

Slashing and stabbing, the man was avoiding it all, and he was being careful now about when he would go and try to grab the wrist. The way he was acting, it was as if he or it could truly die.

"I see now." The man said, when Zain charged in once again, instead of using his hands, he kicked upward, hitting the bottom of the dagger. It was a forceful kick that had sent the dagger flying into the air and off in the distance, now there was no weapon in Zain's hand.

'Sh*t with the size difference, and the strength of this body, there is no way I can beat this guy.' Zain thought.

"You are not them. Why are you here again? Did I not warn you the last time, that if you were to come in here, I would kill you. Yet for some reason you keep coming here!" The faceless man stated.

[System has completed its update]

At that moment, Zain felt his body was fading, the area around him, the sky and everything was disappearing and it looked like the faceless man could tell as well. As he just stood there accepting his fate, but his head was aimed in the direction of Zain.

"I have a feeling now that we will meet again, and next time I will recognise you right away."

A chill was sent down Zain's spine when he heard those words, which made him hope that he wouldn't be coming back to wherever this was any time soon.

Everything had disappeared, and Zain was seeing nothing but black once again. Control over his eyes were starting to work, and as he started to open them there was one good sign.

'I'm not dead… did Crunk not wake up. Or was I gone for a short enough time?' Zain thought.

When opening his eyes though, he soon saw another face looking down at him, staring right into his eyes.

"K—Ke —Kelly!"

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Opening his eyes, one of the last people that Zain expected to see was Kelly. Maybe Kun, a stranger or maybe even Crunk ready to bash his head in, but why of all people, was she in front of him?

Kelly was a person who he had met, what felt like a long time ago, with Skittle.

Right now, it looked almost as if she was looking from top down, her body was to the right, and based on this angle, it was almost as if he was lying on her lap.

Lifting his head, he looked back and quickly realised.

'It didn't feel like I was lying on her lap, but I am lying on her lap.'

"You must be a bit confused." Kelly said, as she could see Zain was looking at his surroundings. They were in a normal everyday apartment, but that was what confused him even more, because the last thing that he could remember was that he was on the street.

"You were passed out when I came across you and it was starting to get dark, so I dragged you in here." Kelly explained.

For a second, Zain was trying to get his bearings, because the vision he had moments ago felt very real, and in some ways, this did as well. There was a need to clear his head in order to think things through logically.

'How, was she able to drag me to an apartment floor? We look like we are on the second floor. I know I don't weigh much, about 80kg, but still, that would be hard for a single person?'

"Alright." Zain said, shaking his head. "You said, you found me, I was in the street. At least that part adds up. If you really saw me, there was a person wearing a black leather jacket with me."

"There was, might be the right word." Kelly replied back. "I was roaming around on the streets, and that's when I saw the zombies all heading towards a certain direction. When I arrived, it seemed like they were making quite the meal out of the one in the leather jacket you spoke of."

Zain clicked his tongue. It was a shame that a superhuman had died just like that. He would have loved to have turned him, and even then, his brain would have been useful to find out what he knew about the Zombie Hunters and how they operated.

Perhaps now their numbers were small, but the fact that Zain was running into more and more superhumans, it was a worry. Maybe, zombie's would no longer be the problem in the future.

"Well, thank you for getting me out of that situation." Zain stated. "But I have a few questions if you don't mind."

The two were never particularly close with each other, not how he was with Cody, which was why it felt slightly awkward and he felt the need to speak politely when talking.

"Where is Cody, or better yet, what happened, after I stayed behind. Did you finally manage to get to the museum?" Zain asked.

Kelly had been expecting this question, and she wasn't so sure how to answer it when she knew Zain would eventually wake up.

"There is a lot I need to talk to you about…" Kelly stated.

Kelly went on to explain what had occured, how Kun and Pink had left, as they went to search for him. Meanwhile, her and Cody had joined the museum and their group. Things were good and everything was fine until they had suffered a large scale attack from a random group of people.

After that, she had paused again, because this was where the tricky explanations would start to come in for her, but if there was anyone that might understand something similar to what she was going through, it would be Zain.

So after taking a big deep breath she went on to explain how she had fought back, and the changes she had experienced in her body.

"I… really don't know what is happening to me, and after getting rid of the attackers, I could see the look on their faces. I wasn't welcome there anymore, so I didn't even get to say a proper goodbye to Cody.

"I was wandering around outside for a while, and that's when I realised as well, not even the zombies seem to attack me anymore." These words were clearly painful for her, because she started to tear up, and was no longer able to speak.

Zain listened to her story well, but found everything a little strange. What was Kelly? She hadn't been bitten, and honestly with her right next to him, she didn't smell like a zombie, but she didn't smell like a human either. So he understood why the zombies weren't going after her.

'The only thing I can guess is the final experiment from that doctor had worked, he had managed to create a superhuman, but even a superhuman smelled like a superhuman, whereas Kelly didn't.'

"I don't think you have to worry too much." Zain replied. "Let me put you a little at ease. You're not like me. I'm sure you already know, but I'm an undead, a zombie, I'm like those out there but slightly different, which is why I can tell you're not like me."

Kelly wiped her tears away, and although it was some relief, it still placed a large question mark in her mind/

"Then, what am I?" Kelly asked.

"I'm not sure. I don't really know why I am like the way I am either, and I'm trying to find out. I'm not a scientist or doctor so I can't help you, but I am going somewhere, somewhere they might be able to." Zain stated.n0𝗏𝓔𝓵𝐔𝓈𝓑.𝑐0𝗆

When waking up, there was another change, a change to his system. In the vision it was stated that his system had been updated, but with what exactly? The only thing he noticed that was something different, was that a new quest had been received, but it came with no reward.

[New quest]

[Head to the Reborn group]

At the same time, when selecting the quest, a map appeared, showing him the exact location of the Reborn group.

'It looks like my hunch was right, they have something to do with this system after all.'

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When looking at the system, Zain thought he was in luck a little bit. Because according to his map, the Reborn group wasn't even something that was in this city, it was in a small town that was quite a drive away.

'I guess it would make sense. It's not like they can have a secret room, doing all sorts of things in a big city like this.' Zain thought.

Eventually, as well, Zain believed that he would have to leave this place at some point. He didn't know why but there was just an initial attraction to this place for a reason.

'There are a couple of things that I need to decide before leaving this place though.' Zain thought. 'Do I complete some of the quests that I still have. There was the meteorite one. I guess due to how high-level of a quest it is, it would make more sense to find out more, and I can always come back here.'

With that Zain had made his decision, he would visit the Reborn group first, but that didn't mean he couldn't do a few things on his way there. Both him and Kelly were walking through the streets, and Kelly was blindly following him.

She had nowhere to go, no direction and the person who she felt was most like her now, was Zain. So she decided to travel with him to wherever this Reborn group was.

"So what are we looking for?" Kelly asked.

"We need a car, but the centre of the city is too cluttered. It would take a long time to drive out of the place and the noise would just attract attention. So we're walking to the edge of the city to see if we can find a clearer way out of this place."

The answer satisfied Kelly, but there was still a lot on her mind. When she asked Zain about how he knew this group, or why he thought they could help them, he didn't really have an answer, apart from that they might not.

His words didn't really give her confidence but she wanted to find out more about herself.

Eventually, like Zain had said, the two had walked out of the main centre where traffic would have been busy, and now were approaching what looked like a large school. There was a wall surrounding it and multiple entrances covered in blood.

When the two reached the main entrance, they could see multiple zombies roaming around it and in the open area, including children that had been turned as well.

"Is this the Reborn group area?" Kelly asked.

"Does it look like it to you?" Zain snappily replied. "I told you before. There is an underground carpark for the teachers in this place. We're going to be borrowing a car, but before that, we need to clear the area."

"Wait, by clear, you don't mean to get rid of all the zombies. In a school, there could be 1000's here. Why do we need to do that?" Kelly asked.

Raising his hand, Zain had three fingers up.

"First, I want to see your capabilities. While fighting the zombies, I want to see the limit of your powers, skills and more, and if the zombies will see you as an enemy. If your going to travel with me, I need to see everything you're able to do."

Putting one finger down, there looked to be two more points.

"Second, when this area is cleared it will become our base. We need a place to store things, and the school is large and secure. There is even a big wall so it's a good place to hold up in, if there is ever a need."

After that, Zain had one finger raised up, and just headed into the front of the school.

"Wait, didn't you say there were three points! What's the last point?" Kelly asked.

Zain's hand was now on the ground and she was wondering what he was doing. When his hand started to light up, soon she could see figures being summoned in the area around him. They were humans! No, she was wrong about that, they were zombies, and some of them she recognised well, such as Cobra.

The zombies quickly went into action and seeing that, Kelly had forgotten about the last point, but Zain hadn't; he just didn't say it out loud because it only made sense to him.

'I need to see, if clearing the area, will make this my territory and just how large of a territory I can keep. The passive exp from areas is sure to be a game changer.

Inside the place, it seemed to be filled with mostly zombies. So Zain wouldn't lose exp, he decided to let the others do most of the work including Kelly. Watching her carefully, he noticed that she certainly was special and looked to be an all arounder.

Zain had done a lot to improve his stats, but she was just as fast, just as strong, and just as durable as well. The only thing was, she didn't have any of the skills to back it up. She had been scratched, and even bitten by a couple of zombies who would see her as hostile as soon as she started to attack them, including the regular zombies.

But with this, Zain could make out two things. Her healing capabilities were far superior than his, and it looked like she was unable to turn into a zombie, even though she wasn't one.

'Does this mean she's immune? Maybe it's a good thing to keep her by my side. In some ways, she might even be a superior version of me, because I'm an undead that can still pass on the infection.' Zain thought to himself.

When the area was eventually cleared, the system reacted.

[The area is now clear and has become a claimable territory]

[Would you like to claim the Chovan Experimental School?]

[Yes]

[Territory has been claimed]

[0/100 Current protectors]

'A 100? That's a large number. I guess it's because the place is a large one as well. It will take me a while to fill it up, but I can do it on the way to the Reborn group.'

Heading down to the carpark, there were plenty of cars to pick from, but he was searching for a large SUV that looked to be bulky and good and could take a few hits. Zain had eventually picked his car, even though there were a couple of sports cars to choose from, and his inner self wanted to pick them since he had never driven such things before, he chose not to.

Driving together, the two of them eventually left the city, and were finally on the way to the Reborn group. Sitting in the seat next to Zain, Kelly couldn't help but continue to look at him until words eventually blurted out of her mouth.

"I'm sorry." Kelly said. "You probably have no idea why I'm saying sorry to you, but it's because I prejudged you about your past. I know we don't know each other that well, but you've saved me more than once. I think I'm starting to know what type of person you are.

"Which is why I apologise. There must have been some mistake about you in your file at the school or something." Kelly smiled.

There was silence for a moment, until Zain replied.

"It's not a mistake, what you read about me, it's probably all true."

Saying these words, Zain started to think back, about his past.

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When looking at the highway the two of them were on, it was emptier than Kelly had expected. For one, many of the cars looked to have been moved to the side of the road and onto the land or in with the trees and such.

In some cases, it looked like a large vehicle had just bulldozed them out of the way. On top of that, there just weren't many cars. It looked like whenever the attack happened, and where the attacks were concentrated, most people weren't out on the road at the time. They were in the cities and such.

Because of this, their driving experience was quite smooth. Still, there was silence in the car between the two, as neither person was talking to the other and it was just leaving Kelly to think about the conversation they had not too long before.

'I remember at school when they gave me that report. So what it said, according to Zain, it was all true?' Kelly thought.

On the report she was given, the warning from the principal of the school was the fact that Zain was a juvie student. A student who had been to a Juvenile Detention Centre. They were called by many different names but practically, it was a prison for kids who were underage.

Kelly was a substitute teacher at the same university as Zain. At that age, Zain was able to go to prison, which meant whatever it was he had done, he had done it before university when he was still considered a child.

There were multiple reasons why a kid might go to a Juvie centre, but it was usually cases that were beyond what teachers or parents could handle, and when looking at Zain's file, it was one of the worst crimes one could commit.

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'Zain said what was written on his file was true, so that means… he really was a murderer.' Kelly thought.

Those were the words that were written on his report. The thing was, what was clearly stated on the report was "murder" and not manslaughter, which were two clearly different things.

In many cases, where one kills the victim by accident, through self defence or with no intention, it would be considered manslaughter, but in Zain's case, the file indicated murder, which meant he was sane, it was intentional as well.

It was something Kelly had never seen before, and it was the reason why she was so frightened of him. Sure, she had seen many people commit such an act in the current world, and if Zain was to do those things now, she would understand, but what could have possibly driven a person so much to make them commit such an act before the world had become like so.

Once in a while, thinking about this, Kelly would glance over at Zain. He didn't seem like a crazy person, and all of her interactions with him had been relatively nice. She wanted to ask about his past, ask about what happened back then, but it didn't seem like Zain wanted to talk about it.

When he was in the position to, or when she felt close enough to ask that question, she would find out the reason why.

For Zain though, this explained a lot, he wondered why Kelly was so cautious about him, and now that he knew she knew about his past, he felt like he could relax slightly.

"So… you want to know, don't you?" Zain said with a smile. "I… don't like speaking about it too much, and a lot of it I tried to remove out of my mind, but it's impossible, especially lately with all the visions I've been having. I-"

Just when Zain was about to talk about it, he started to slow down the vehicle because there was a row of cars in front, a barricade that almost blocked the car from going further.

Looking at the map, they still weren't really out of the current city area, and they still had a ways to go before heading to the Reborn group.

"What's happening?" Kelly asked.

The two got out of the car, to see what was going on, and that's when they could see other people had gotten out of their cars as well. After exiting from their vehicles, they would start to walk around the barricade of cars, or through the small gaps that were left open.

"We will just have to see." Zain replied. "We'll have a look, and if there is trouble, then we'll try heading another way."

Zain wondered with his current strength if he could push and move the cars out of the way, but the amount of humans that were here was what was alarming him. In this area alone there were around ten or so, doing the same thing.

When they eventually went through one of the small gaps in the barricade, they could see up ahead there were several rows of people, each one containing around 20 people, there had to be hundreds of people here.

"What do we do?" Kelly asked, because she had seen why people were lining up.

"I'm not sure what our best option is." Zain replied while thinking.

The reason why the people were queuing up was to exit out of the city, because the military had formed a barrier. They all had weapons, and large vehicles were surrounding the exits. It looked like they were checking every person that went in and out of the place.

If it was set up here, it was most likely set up everywhere in the area. Which meant they were stuck. If they wanted to head to the Reborn group's hideout, they would have to confront the military either way, and Zain was sure he would be sniffed out.

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After seeing the soldiers in front of them, Kelly's initial reaction was to turn around, and that's exactly what she did, but she soon stopped as she realised something. There were more soldiers that were standing behind them.

'Were they hiding behind the barrier of cars?' Kelly thought.

It seemed to be the case, from the other side of the barrier all they could see was a gap, but the soldiers didn't reveal themselves. If they were to attempt to head back the other way now, it was clear that they would be suspicious to say the least.

"Let's just stay looking in this direction for now." Zain said, as he bent down and pretended to tie his shoe lace. There were quite a few others that seemed to be startled by the sight of the soldiers and weren't heading forward, so they were safe to think for a bit… for now.

Looking around him, Zain was looking at his options. Every single one of them had automatic rifles. On top of that, they had even more equipment on the back of the trucks near the self made border.

'All of these are trained on how to use weapons, as well. I can see one way of surviving, and that's rushing back, and getting back in the car, to head back to the school. Or maybe I could head to another territory like the Zombie Hunters.

'I doubt these groups will be so welcoming to the military after everything has happened, but that's incredibly risky with how many there are, and who knows how many units they have in the city.'

Zain soon stood up, and Kelly was right behind him, wondering what he was going to do.

"So what's the plan?" Kelly asked.

After a few seconds of thinking Zain had his answer, it was the only thing that he could think of that would solve a few other questions that he had.

"I'm going to find out what they're looking for." Zain asked, as he started to walk.

Kelly quickly pulled up her hood that she was wearing and looked around, as she got close into Zain.

"What do you mean by that, what are we going to do, are you planning to fight? I know we both can heal, but I don't think we can heal from a few hundred bullets inside of us." Kelly stated.

The reason why Kelly was worried was because Zain was walking forward rather than backwards. She too felt like they had a chance if they just got back in their car and rushed their way back.

With the border up, they might not even chase them, but instead he was walking forward, to the area where there were more soldiers.

"There is a big difference between me and you." Zain said. "You will head on first, they will check you and let you through the border with no problems. There are no bite marks on your body. From a visual inspection, you show no signs of being a zombie. Even if you are bit, you can heal the bite mark on your body, but for me it's different."

Zain pulled on his shirt, showing a bite mark that was around his neck.

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"It was the first bite, those that call themselves the Reborn all have it. The bite marks we received before turning. Now I need you to listen to me carefully."

Kelly was expecting Zain to start to talk about a master plan he had, but instead he was just giving her a set of directions. Directions beyond the city they were in, and they weren't precise either, just a general idea of where to go.

'Why is he telling me all of this?' Kelly thought, confused but soon Zain gave her a little nudge. Indicating that she was to go through first.

Kelly was queued up in one of the lines for inspection and as she turned her head she could see Zain was standing there waiting.

'Is he trying to see if I'll get caught or not? He's using me as a tester?' Kelly thought and was a little annoyed by this. If she did get caught, she then would have to rely on Zain to come help her, or her own strength and she wasn't so sure based on who Zain was, whether or not he would help.

The que was moving slowly, but people were getting through and were allowed to walk to the other side, a little away from all the military vehicles. It looked like they had almost prepared cars for everyone to use if they wished, that were working. They were placed out in the field, one by one, and were even giving out keys.

It was strange, even Kelly was finding it hard to figure out what the military's goal was. Apart from the fact that they were looking for something in the city and whatever it was, they wanted to keep it inside.

Eventually it was Kelly's turn.

There was a makeshift curtain that was drawn, blocking the view from the others in the line.

The soldier used a torch and shined it in Kelly's eyes, looking at each one of them. He then proceeded to check the rest of her face and used a machine to take her body temperature as well.

"Alright take off all your clothes." The soldier asked.

Kelly's face went a little red but she understood why and did as asked, after an inspection, and with no bite marks present, the man shouted one word.

"Pass!" The soldier said. "Put on your clothes and take only one of the keys from the basket. If you wish to return to the city, you will need to go through the same check again. Don't get bit."

Going through the border Kelly couldn't believe it. She knew she wasn't like them, she wasn't a normal human, and yet she had passed all their checks.

'Does that mean…'

However, Kelly's happiness was short-lived as she could see Zain on the other side, he gave her a thumbs up, and there was a smile on his face. He had expected this result, and now it was his turn to stay in the que.

He waited his turn, one person after another, and Kelly was carefully watching.

"Hey, move along and get in a car, don't block the way!" a soldier shouted.

"I know, I know, just two seconds, I'm waiting for someone!" Kelly snapped back.

Finally it was Zain's turn and the curtain was drawn. The soldier grabbed his flashlight but before he reached Zain, Zain spoke first.

"I'm telling you now, I'm going to fail every single one of your tests." Zain said. "So rather than you getting scared and shooting me on the spot, let's just call out your sergeant or general, or whoever is in charge okay?" Zain smiled.

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The soldier was frozen stiff as he heard the man in front of him speak. To be honest, he didn't really know what to do as it was the first time something like this had ever happened. The temperature measuring machine was held in his hand along with the torch in the other and he just stood there.n0𝓥𝗲𝗅𝔲𝓈𝑏.𝕔0𝓂

'Is this person joking?' The soldier thought.

Working at the border, the soldier had seen a number of different reactions from people. Those who would be nervous, sweating in buckets as they were checked. There would be those that were hiding a bite, and then when caught did a number of things.

They would try to push past and run through the curtain, only to be shot down shortly after, others begged the soldier to let them go, to not tell anyone that they had been bitten. Stating that they were normal, they could speak well.

Some had even tried to bribe the soldiers, in many different ways, using their bodies, giving them information among other things, but none of them worked.

The thing was, depending on the wound and the person themselves, each person was different after they had been bit, but everyone who was bit would turn eventually. Even if they didn't notice it, their body temperature would drop to abnormal levels.

Their pupils wouldn't react to a light being shone in their eye. Then finally, one was to check for a bite mark.

Yet, this person in front of them, wasn't nervous, and was practically telling him he was a zombie.

"What, you don't believe me?" Zain finally said. "Look, as I said, I will stay here, but you let me speak to whoever is in charge. You guys have to be looking for something right? But maybe at your level you don't even know what you're looking for."

The soldier still didn't know what to do, as he slowly walked forward and was ready to just proceed with his routine, he first pointed the temperature machine at Zain, and as expected, the machine came up with 23 celsius. That was the current temperature of the room.

'His temperature… it's not just a few degrees less, it's room temperature. That makes no sense?' The soldier thought.

The human's body temperature should measure around 37 degrees, it could be 1 above or less, or slightly high if one had a fever. The test they did, was to bring in anyone that was just a couple of degrees under, because it meant their body was in the process of dying.

But for the body temperature of a person to reach room temperature, it would only be the case for a completely dead body.

"Look I have important information about myself, as you can see I'm a strange one." Zain continued.

"Marcus!" The soldier called out.

Soon one of the soldiers that were standing guard watching the people came into the curtain. After whispering a few words, the original soldier ran off, and a few moments later, it looked like Zain had got the person he was looking for.

An older gentleman with a chiselled face and with a grey beard and hair walked into the room. Although his face looked old, his body was something that most would never achieve in their lifetime.

There was a different sense of aura around this person and it was clear he was the one in charge. Immediately, the general also pulled out his hand gun and pointed it right at Zain's head.

'I thought something like this would happen.' Zain thought. 'It's a good thing I unlocked the storage skill.'

There were multiple bronze card rewards that Zain had received, and before coming here he had claimed all of the cards, most of them were exp, or subtle upgrades to the system and one of them was a storage unit.

The storage unit, unfortunately, wasn't like one of those from those games that had unlimited space, but it would hide whatever it was he could carry on his body. So his two weapons and hand guns had been placed inside the storage unit for now.

"They said you wanted to speak to me, you are either very brave, or an idiot, and so far all I've met are idiots." The general said.

Zain solely went to reach towards the top of his neck, and then pulled down, to show the bite mark he had received.

"This is a wound I received one month ago." Zain started to explain. "I'm sure the soldier told you about the strange readings, but as you can see, even though I have been bit, I am still talking, I can still move and am very aware of my actions."

The general seemed to raise an eyebrow as he heard this, but he wasn't quite jumping for joy like Zain expected.

'Does this mean they were looking for something else, regardless I should still show an interest.' Zain thought.

"How can we trust you on your word? You could have been bit five minutes ago. Who cares what your body temperature is!" The general shouted.

Zain smiled as he had an answer for this.

"Well, I haven't told you the best bit yet. You see, it's clear my body had changed. In fact I would say that I'm a living, talking zombie, and the zombies don't attack me.

"I don't know why I've turned out like this, but I thought you could perhaps use me, and if you don't believe me. You can lock me up in a cell for a few days. I'm sure by then, you can tell if I was lying or not, or better yet, chuck me into a horde of zombies and see how they react."

The general normally wouldn't give anyone a chance to say such things and put a bullet through them as soon as he saw the bite mark, but the odd confidence this person showed. It was clear that they were confident for a reason, there wasn't even a single hint of fear, as if one wasn't afraid of death at all, and even soldiers were afraid of death.

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Kelly had been waiting by the side for a while now, wondering what would happen to Zain, she slowly walked towards the car and finally could see it, a group of soldiers all walking out, and they had Zain held there, with handcuffs on, and rope tied around his arms as they walked along with him.

"Zain's been… captured?" Kelly thought, but through all the people, she had seen something, she could see a smile on his face. "Is this… part of his plan?"

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The crowd behind the group of people that were lined up waiting to go past the border, could see a man getting carted off somewhere, and the way they were treating him wasn't humane at all. As not a single soldier wanted to get close to the person.

"Look at that. They don't even have the manpower to enter the city and try to stop the situation, yet they are quite happy to place a border, and treat us like crap." One of those in the queue said.

"It most likely he got bit. We should be lucky that they aren't just killing him outright. If one of us gets bit, maybe they will be taking us to a medical centre to see if they can do something."

Of course, none were aware of the special situation Zain was in, and in the end, the army had locked him up in the back of a police van. There were bars at the back that would allow him to see through, but it was reinforced on the inside and no one else would be travelling with them.

"Take him to the base!" The old man's voice was heard.

The van Zain was in started to drive away, and there was an escort truck not too far behind. There looked to be a total of eight soldiers with assault rifles held in their hand, and including the driver and his passenger, there were ten in total.

'It's a lot less people than there were at the border. I guess they've never had a situation like mine if they're treating me like this. If I really wanted to, I think with all my powers I could break out of here and escape, but then I wouldn't find out everything I wanted.' Zain thought.

Through the small gap area that he could see, Zain noticed that the vehicle he was in wasn't heading back into the city, but was heading somewhere else instead.

'There should be multiple military bases stationed in different areas. I guess their military base is a little ways out from the city. Away from people, making their life a bit easier.' Zain thought. 'Judging by their reaction though, they weren't looking for me. The border was set up for another reason, but at least, I managed to peak their interest.

'Let's just see how much the military is involved in this, and how much they know.'

Eventually from the small window, Zain could see that they were heading into the middle of some fields. There was just grassland everywhere, and a few large trees here and there. There were almost no signs of life at all.n0𝐯𝐞𝐋𝑢𝔰𝐁.𝑪0𝕞

However, with his sensitive hearing he could hear the sound of many people, vehicles moving, large and heavy, even the sound of helicopter propellers. Without a doubt, they had arrived at an army base, and it seemed to be a rather big one.

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Kelly, had seen everything. Since Zain's commotion had caused quite a stir, she as well as the other soldiers were stunned as they watched the scene in front of them. So she was no longer being told off for standing idly by.

As Zain was practically forced into the vehicle, in her head, she kept flip flopping about what to do.

'I… have strength and Zain himself is strong. If I was to try and break him out of that car now. We can maybe make it, right?' Kelly thought. 'But then, wouldn't Zain have asked me to do such a thing, or is he in a situation right now that even he didn't know about.'

In the end, it was the smile, the smile she had witnessed on his face that made her decide that the best thing to do was nothing, because before being captured he had given her a bunch of directions.

'Zain… you told me these directions because you knew you would be caught, but why is this place so… important.' Kelly thought.

The key's were held in her hand, and it was her last chance, she could take the car and try to follow where Zain was going, or head to the location that had been given to her, and a choice had been made.

Travelling in the car, Kelly's eyes were beginning to fill with tears as memories were filling her head.

'Crap, why am I so useless!' Kelly thought, as she banged her hand on the steering wheel, and bent it slightly. It still worked, but any harder and she would have destroyed the thing.

'Everyone around me gets hurt, and I finally find someone that can help me, and he gets taken away, right in front of me!' Kelly thought.

The destination was still a little away, about forty minutes of constant driving on the highway. She had eventually reached her destination. It was a small town, known for doing a lot of industrial work.

There were a lot of factories and even a power plant as well. Like the city though, as soon as she got close with the car, it was practically useless for Kelly to drive on the roads. So she stopped the car by a petrol station that was just on the outskirts of the city.

'I'll take the keys with me, never know when I might need the vehicle again.' Kelly thought.

From there she started to walk, and was repeating the name of streets in her head, she had no reference, and there was no phone to try and find where a particular location was. Luckily, Zain had told her to head to the power plant that could be seen from nearly anywhere in the city.

From there, she needed to find the street names, and continue, and that's exactly what she was doing.

Until she had finally reached her destination. Not too far from the power plant, attached to the side, was a rather large factory. It was a big rectangular shaped building that was still quite intact.

There was a wall surrounding it with barbed wire as well, and now she stood in front of a solid gate that needed to be opened, either from a button, or something Kelly didn't really know.

"Hello!" Kelly shouted. "Is this… the Reborn group?" She asked, and eventually saw a camera on the wall blinking slightly red, showing that they were watching her.

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It didn't take long for Kelly to notice that the camera was looking at her, and as she moved it seemed to be tracking her movements as well.

'What is this place, there are obviously people inside, and zombies aren't even gathered around here for some reason.' Kelly thought. 'But, Zain asked me to come here for a reason, and he said that this might be the place that can help me out.'

Taking a deep breath, she soon turned toward the camera.

"Hello, I know you can see me, you can hear me as well right?" Kelly asked. "I'm… I'm here… to find the Reborn group."

Kelly decided not to say more than that, at least not for now, and only say what Zain had told her so far which wasn't very much. After waiting a while, it seemed like there was next to no response.

'Should I just try and use my strength to break this?' Kelly was starting to think, looking at her fist.

"Please don't do what your about to do." A disheartened voice said from a speaker that Kelly was finding it hard to locate. "How did you come to know of this location?" The voice finally asked.

Now, Kelly was wishing she had pushed Zain a bit more, because she didn't know anything about this group, so she decided to just go with the truth.

"A friend." Kelly answered. "A friend was the one that said to come here, to come here to help with my situation."

Once again there was a pause and next to no answer, but eventually there was a clicking sound that was heard and the door was seen sliding open slightly. She had been let in.

When the door finally opened to the facility it looked the same as any other building. There was a space for cars to be parked in the car park, and then there was a large door on the other side that looked like it was locked by some type of pin code.

Kelly tried the door, pulling it by the handle, but as she expected there was no luck.

'Well, they let me in, so I guess I'll just wait.'

While looking around, she was noticing more and more, how the place really hadn't been affected by the current circumstances that the world was facing. Beyond the wall, it was a different story but inside the wall, there was no blood, no signs of fighting or being hit by anything.

A moment later, a young adult, around in his twenties with black spiked hair and a scarf around his neck had come out of the door.

"Stay still and don't move." The boy said.

She had noticed that it was the same voice that was on the speaker from before.

"I'll listen to what you say, but really I mean no harm." Kelly replied. "I'm just here because I have nowhere else to go."

"Show me." The boy said. "Show me your bite mark."n0𝗏𝑒𝒍𝑢𝐬𝑩.𝒞0𝑀

Now, Kelly really was out of options as to what to do, and guesses as to what this place might be were coming into her head.

"I don't have one." Kelly replied, a little worried. "But I know why you're asking. You're like my friend right, you're a zombie, a zombie that can think and talk. He had a bite mark on his neck, but for me, I can't have a bite mark, my bite marks heal!"

The boy raised an eyebrow as he heard her speak, and it was quite clear that he was suspicious of her. In a way, this made Kelly feel even more like an outsider. She couldn't even fit in with the Reborn group, and what was she going to do if they were to turn her away.

"Bring her to me." A voice was heard coming from around the boy's hip. A small radio was placed there, and the voice that had come out of it sounded like a female's.

The man kissed his teeth, not pleased with what was going on. He then went and undid his mask, revealing his face, which was a little scarred up. Part of his ear was missing, as it looked like it had a large bite taken out of it.

"Hmm, maybe you are telling the truth, you don't seem to scared." The man said, turning around. "Follow me."

The two entered the large facility, and now they were walking through multiple white halls. There wasn't much on the walls like there would be in a normal building, posters, or signs for the doors.

Instead there were just doors with no signs at all, which was quite freaky in a way.

'The Reborn group, are they a group of people like Zain then? Is that why he said I might be able to find out what I am, and what he is, but how did he know about this place? Did he come from here, no he was just a university student, so how would that be possible.'

Kelly was incredibly confused, but for a second, depending on how many people were here and who they really were, she thought they might not just be able to help her, but help the captured Zain as well.

Eventually, the man stopped and entered a room, he held the door open.

"I'm not going to hold this all day for you, will you hurry up."

Kelly skipped as she went into the room, and soon noticed that he and she weren't the only ones here. It was a small room, with grey walls, and a mirror in the back. In the room, there was a desk and two chairs, one was empty, while the other, there was a woman sitting in it.

On top of that, there were two people who were by her side wearing a thick uniform that looked similar to what a SWAT unit would wear. At that moment, Kelly noticed something, it was the fact that she was quite different from Zain and the zombies, because her nose was unable to tell the difference between a human and a zombie, but when looking at the person sitting down, for some reason, Kelly was sure she was human.

"Please take a seat, you don't have to worry, it's just rare that we have visitors so we want to ask you a few questions." The woman, with blonde hair and in a white lab coat asked.

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The man who had let Kelly in was standing by the door, then there were the two dressed in SWAT-like uniforms standing by the side of the woman in the lab coat. It was intimidating to say the least, and it was clear, there was no way of trying to get out of this room, not unless she wanted to fight her way out.

'I wonder how all of these compare to Zain. The other's we met, like the chained zombies, were a lot stronger than him. Maybe, it's the same here, and I don't think I could beat Zain in a fight, even with my new strength.' Kelly thought.

"Please, relax a little." The blonde woman in the lab coat said. "This is just a procedure we do with all of our guests. As you would expect, we have some secrets that we can't exactly let out."

The woman was smiling, it was a warm smile, and for some reason, even though Kelly didn't know this person, she wanted to trust her, wanted to pour everything out.

"From what I've heard, your friend was the one that told you about this place, Correct? Do you mind describing him to me?"

Kelly gulped before answering, she thought the subject of speaking about Zain at least to others was taboo, but in a place like this, where they were those like him, it should be fine, right? At least that's what she thought.

"He had red hair, and was a university student. There was a bite mark on his neck, he was fast and strong as well. He was also like you, I mean not like you, but like the others in the room." Kelly nervously answered.

"Oh, so you can tell." The woman replied. "According to my friends here, they say that you are not like us. I'm sure you might have guessed it by now, but this facility is for people like my friend, not for people like you and I."

Kelly wanted to snap back, and ask why she was here then, and it also confirmed her suspicions that the one in front of her was a human. However, she kept her head held down. The fact was, based on how the first man listened to her radio call, it meant she was some type of big shot in this place.

"My friend." Kelly answered. "He said you could help us, you can help people like us. Even though I'm not the same. I'm not human. I can get bit, and I don't turn into one of you guys. I have fast healing, super strength and speed as well. I… don't know what's happening to me."

The blonde researcher sat back in her seat for a while, and then leant forward once again.

"Are you aware that from all of this chaos, there have been superhumans that have risen up, a new generation of humans as some people would say."

Kelly nodded, she had seen a few things, Cobra with his superspeed, and the doctor who was obsessed in trying to create a superhuman. Is that what she was?

"I have… but there is one other thing. Zombies… they don't attack me."

The researcher looked over to the man that was standing by the door, as if looking for an answer.

"It's true." The man replied. "She doesn't smell like a human, but she doesn't smell like a zombie either."n0𝐕𝓮𝐋𝔲𝓈𝒷.𝒞0𝑚

This was a first case of its kind, as superhumans still attracted zombies, and with that last bit of information. The researcher had made her decision.

"First, I think I should introduce myself. My name is Sarah Bain, and I am in charge of running the Reborn group." The researcher stated. "Based on what you have told me so far, I want to give you a couple options.

"You are free to join the Reborn group, once you do, you will follow the rules of the base. Riley, the young gentlemen, will be the one that will guide you in that aspect. Of course, if you do decide to join, I will do my very best to help answer your questions that you are looking for, but I can't promise anything.

"And of course you always have the other option of leaving this place, we won't stop you, but just ask that you don't spread the name of this place, unnecessarily."

Once again, the words of Sarah were what was drawing her in. Since she hadn't seen deeper into the facility, it could be a cruel place that would run experiments on her, just like the last doctor she had met.

Due to that, Kelly had a hard time trusting people, but she wanted to trust Sarah, more so, she needed to trust her, and felt like right now, she was the only person who could help.

"I would… like to join the Reborn group." Kelly finally answered.

At that time, Sarah placed her hand out, for a hand shake.

"Welcome to the Reborn group."

Kelly took it and the two of them shook hands, something she felt like she would never do again after someone knew the real her, yet here she was.

Riley and Kelly were left alone, while Sarah went off somewhere. Just as stated, Riley would give her a tour of the place, while explaining the rules and the two of them were walking down the bland hallways once again.

"Everyone in the Reborn group is assigned a leader, and that leader at times is assigned different tasks. If you ever want to leave this place, then you need to speak to your leader. There are all sorts of different tasks around here that you will get to learn, once you stay with us for a while.

"Some might ask you to stay on the outside for a certain amount of time. When this happens, we actually ask for volunteers and Sarah or the leader in charge of the task will select who they think is best.

"Other than that, there will be a daily schedule for you to follow as well." Riley explained.

It was a lot for Kelly to take in, especially when she had no context of the situation, but soon she understood, as a door slid up and she entered and there was an incredibly large open space where she could see them all.

It was a large facility filled with a number of different things, books, weapons on the wall, rooms upon rooms of entertainment and training areas as well, but most importantly it was filled with people, those that were like Riley, the Reborn zombies.

If Kelly was to take a quick guess she would have assumed there were at least fifty or so of them inside.

"For now, just try to mingle with the others, everyone has a cool story on how they got bit or changed, and they're quite open to talk about it. After that I will assign you to a leader and they will go through the rest with you."

Scanning around the room, some of the Reborn looked quite frightening to approach, but if her eyes weren't deceiving her, she was sure that she could see someone she recognized, not just someone, but a couple.

"Pink… Kun?"

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Zain was stuck in the specially crafted vehicle for a while, as he continued to hear the sound of many footsteps, helicopters and perhaps more. It was as clear as day that he had made it to an Army base.

'Based on the state of the city, I thought the Army would have already dissolved into nothing. They didn't seem to be doing any evacuations of any sorts.' Zain thought. 'Yet, a base like this, to still be operating with this much power.'

It seemed like Zain had underestimated humanities capabilities. Although his frame of reference was only from the games he played, where there would be next to no military help at all.n0𝗏𝑒𝒍𝑢𝐬𝑩.𝒞0𝑀

The sound of the doors being cracked open were heard and for a second the bright light had startled Zain as he lifted his hands. When he finally let them down, he could see the outside.

It was just as he expected. There were two rows of men with military weapons, and on the other end of them, was the same older gentleman that he had seen before with the grey beard and hair, only the overcoat he was wearing was a bit different this time.

"I guess you might be surprised, but I am the general of this entire place." The old man said. "You were smart enough to call for a high ranking officer, so I believe you will be smart enough to know what that means."

A general was one of the highest positions in the army that was attainable, and the way he was speaking, it made it clear that he was actually the one that was in charge of the entire base.

Beyond the people, Zain could see a small army of around 2000 people, all with supplies, helicopters, tanks and more. The area looked intact, as if there was not a single zombie that was inside the area.

The concrete ground and the untouched barracks, everything looked well organised as well.

"My name is General Begal!" The old man shouted, and the soldiers standing by the side felt a response in their body as they stood more upright. "It's a name that you should know well, and remember around here.

"You stated that you were a living zombie. We have heard quite a few reports, but you are the first one that I have seen, and you are the first that has willingly been captured! It was a brave move on your part. You could be left in the hands of a scientist that would pull your body apart, or drain you of your blood and see what is different."

"But…" Zain said confidently. With the general so close to him, he was confident he could summon his zombies to make a wall and take the general as hostage to get himself out of here.

"But… we are more concerned with other things." Begal folded his arms. "For now, we need to test things out and see if what you are saying is the truth. You will be locked up and kept under wraps for a few days.

"We will get someone to check to see if there are any changes to your body. If there are none, then we will start with a few other tests, and see if you can be useful in other ways."

The general started to walk away at that point leaving the rest up to the others, but Zain still had a big question on his mind.

"General Begal!" Zain shouted out. "If I prove to you that I can be useful to you, in more ways than one, will you tell me why you set up borders around the city, would you tell me what you're looking for?"

The general stopped for a second, and smiled.

'So he knew we were looking for something. Even if he isn't really a walking living undead, he seems to have a smart head on his shoulders. It would be good to keep him.'

"There is something that is concentrated in this city, compared to the others, and perhaps even the whole world." Begal replied. "For now, it doesn't concern you."

It hadn't answered Zain's question but it did give him a hint.

'Is there something in this city that is attracting everyone? The weird man from before with the Chained zombies, the Reborn group that is stationed in another place not too far away, and the military as well. What's so special about this area?' Zain tried to think.

His hands were tied up in thick iron cuff's rather than the standard handcuffs, and Zain was wondering if he actually had the strength to break out of these, but continued anyway.

While the army wasn't trying to kill him, there was no problem with him staying here. They continued to take Zain with them until they had reached a separate building that was on the outskirts of the base, that seemed to be made for confining people. There were cells inside and more but before Zain reached the cell he could see several vehicles driving past him and heading somewhere, the soldiers were acting out.

"Open the doors, we have one!" They shouted.

Turning his head, Zain was taking a look. The doors were open to the base, and on the back of a large truck, they were pulling something in. When it went in further, Zain could finally see it. It was large as a car and black in colour, it was a meteorite.

'The soldiers, they were looking for the meteorites before as well.' Zain thought. 'Is that what they were looking for, but that makes no sense, why would they put a border up?'

That's when Zain noticed something different about this meteorite, because in parts of the rock, it was glowing red, and almost looked like it was breathing. As the glow got brighter and weaker like a pulse.

'This meteorite, it's active!' Zain was excited, because there was one quest, a Diamond level quest, to find an active meteorite and it had come right to him.

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For a while Kelly felt like she was alone in this new world. She had moved to a new city, far away from her family in the countryside to work at the university for the first time. She hadn't been teaching long and hadn't made any friends, and then all of this had happened.

The closest person she could call a friend in this new world was Cody and after leaving him, she didn't have a clue how he was doing, or what he was doing. In the end, she had somewhat started to trust Zain and now he was gone as well.

Which was why joining the Reborn group was a scary thought for her but seeing certain people in the same place, it brought her comfort, a comfort she never thought she would have. Kelly didn't even know Kun or Pink that well, other than the brief moment they had met each other.

But in this place, where she felt alone again, she had someone that she could speak to. Since it looked like Kelly already knew Kun and Pink, the person who was meant to show her the ropes had decided it was best for the two of them to do so instead, and that's exactly what they did.

She had spent an entire day at the Reborn group, and thanks to just general observations as well as Kun and Pink, Kelly had learned quite a bit about the place. For one, the Reborn group were encouraged to fight each other quite a bit.

There would be sessions where the Reborn would train, using weapons and testing out their capabilities and strength. Kelly had seen some crazy healing capabilities, as well as other unnatural things, but they were also things she had seen before.n0𝗏𝑒𝒍𝑢𝐬𝑩.𝒞0𝑀

However, none of them had a skill that was similar to Zain's one that would allow him to control others, or one that would allow him to summon zombies seemingly out of nowhere. On top of that, a lot of the Reborn zombies would fight outside of the training sessions as well.

They were always fighting for something, what their goal was or the entire goal of the Reborn group was unclear.

According to Kun and Pink, each individual would get scattered information. At the same time, there would be times where different groups with their leaders would be assigned different jobs and the jobs truly did vary from anything.

The one that knew all and was controlling everything was Sarah, the researcher she had seen before, just like Kelly, a lot of the Reborn zombies trusted her, and that was mainly because she had answers to the many problems and questions they had.

Why were their bodies stiffening up, was there a way for them to survive without eating brains. As for Kelly's own research, Sarah did drop by briefly to inform her that only after she had settled in a bit more, that she would start running some tests on her.

After a full day, it was time for them to get some rest, and although zombie's didn't really sleep, they were trained to go in a meditative state that would allow their bodies to last longer. One of the other Reborn members kindly had moved and cleared out their room so Kelly was able to stay next to Kun and Pink, and during the night, they didn't waste time coming over to her.

"I never thought... I would see you in here." Kun finally said, as he sat on the one bed next to Pink, while allowing Kelly to sit on the chair in the room.

"Trust me, I never thought that I would be here either." Kelly stated. "Things just changed so much and happened so fast."

"Well, now that you're here, why don't you explain, how did you even get here in the first place?" Pink asked. "What happened to that young boy you travelled with?"

Pink always liked Cody, he was a human that had helped her quite a bit, and she would be willing to help him out again if he was in trouble.

"We split ways." Kelly answered. "It was after I found out I had powers, that I was more like you guys, that I ended up looking for answers. I felt like it was unfair for Cody to travel around with someone like me. Sooner or later, he would only get hurt."

Although some would say Kelly's actions were strange, Pink could understand because she felt the same way with her parents as well. They could never find out the truth and if they did, then she would attempt to stay away from them as much as possible.

"How did you guys get here anyway, I thought you were looking for Zain?" Kelly asked, quickly changing the subject.

"We never did find Zain, but we did run into another person from the Reborn group." Kun explained. "They told us about this place, and I already had some knowledge about this place, so they agreed to send us here for now. I thought there might be a chance Zain was here as well, but there was no luck."

"Wait." Kelly raised an eyebrow. "This was in the city? But how did you get to the Reborn group? How did you manage to get through the barriers?"

"It was because of Fry." Pink answered. "In one of the subway stations North of the city you can get out of the city. The subway station was still in development so I guess they thought just nobody would use it, but it allowed us to get through the borders."

"Really!" Kelly seemed excited but her face quickly dropped after. "If I had known that, then maybe Zain wouldn't have been caught."

Kun stood up, as soon as he heard these words and looked at Kelly.

"What did you say, you were with Zain?! Why didn't you say anything sooner, and not just that, what do you mean he was caught!"

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There was only so far ahead that Zain could think as to what would happen or try to predict what would occur. He had come up with multiple solutions but the military was certainly something that was more unpredictable to him.

He had been held up in a cell in a military facility, the sounds of moans and groans could be heard from left, right, and above. When entering the place, he could see there were three floors and the cells were placed in a rectangle shape.

This allowed Zain to see the prisoners that were on the other side, and unsurprisingly some of them were zombies. It was hard to tell whether they were human originally and had been turned or were just human, but judging by the uniforms being military, he imagined it was those who had been bit going out on missions.

Sitting in the cell, Zain wasn't doing much movement and was just keeping an eye on the little bit of sunlight he got from the back of his cell. It was a small set of bars that allowed one to look outside, but not much had happened.

'I've been in the cell for at least three days now. All they've done is come check up on me once in a while and try to hand me food.' Zain thought to himself, but he made it a point to never take the food, because it didn't do anything for him in the first place.

'During this time my energy has lowered and my body funcinaitly is down to 77 percent. It's a good thing that my intelligence is keeping my body function from going down too fast. If something like this had happened when I first turned, things wouldn't be so pretty.'

The problem was, if the military didn't try to do something with Zain soon, then he would have to act. The longer he waited, the lower his body function would get, and it would affect his ability to fight his way out of the facility.

'I thought something might have happened when they brought that meteorite in. Since the quest didn't complete, I might need to get closer to it. It's a higher level quest, there has to be a reason for it, and with all this fire power and the military around me, it would be safer to do it here than anywhere, maybe I can convince the general to let me see it?'

As Zain was thinking about the general, it didn't take long for the door to open. Some of the prisoners immediately stood up looking out of their cells and that included the zombies that held out their hands, trying their hardest to reach those walking past.

Zain was on the second floor, but just based on the footsteps alone, Zain could tell who it was, as the old white haired man came into view with four guards by his side.

'The general at least seems to be cautious of me, most people would be confident just with two guards with guns, and according to them I'm completely unarmed.'

"It's been three days Zain." General Begal stated. "As you can imagine we have observed quite a few of ours that have been bit. We have even gone to extreme measures of amputating the limbs of where the bite marks were. In some cases, it worked, in other situations it only slowed down the process, but you see your bite mark was on your neck.

"From our research, the closer a bite is to the head, the quicker the person turns. Not only do you have a deep visible bite but it's right next to your head. By now, you should have turned into a mindless zombie, but you seem just fine."

Zain stood up and slowly approached the bars but didn't get too close as to worry the others.

"I didn't lie to you. I have already been bitten a long time ago. I think and act just like a human, the only downside is, I don't eat regular food." Zain stated as he looked at the meals that had spoiled in the cell.n0𝚟𝑬𝓁𝔲𝗌𝑏.𝓬0𝗆

Maybe in some cases there would be those that would try to act as human as possible, but Zain knew that it wouldn't get him anywhere, for the General, Zain had to prove how useful he could be.

"There is one other thing that you mentioned, and today we are here to see if you pass the test, if you do, then we can talk." Begal explained.

Zain was let out of his cell and brought down to the first floor. Between the stairs and the floors there was a special type of fencing that looked to have been electrified. They were locked and Zain was told to go to the open area on the first floor.

Soon, Begal and the other guards with him closed the door behind him, and walked up to the second floor. They then entered a control room, where there were several other soldiers that were acting as wardens and kept watch over the ones being held there.

"You said that the zombies, they recognise you as one of their own, well let's see how true that is." Begal stated through the microphone.

A buzzer sound had gone off, and several of the locked cells started to open, but not all of them, and the ones that did open, there were zombies that started to come out. When they did though, Begal was expecting them to swarm right towards Zain, but instead they went up to the wall, and tried to reach up at the humans that were above them.

The smile was quite wide on Begal's face. Meanwhile one of the other men that were in the room seemed to be doing something under the table. At the same time, in the Reborn group's office…

"Ma'am, we have been informed that the military has managed to capture one of us."

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Kelly had gone into detail about what had occured between her and Zain, during their travels. How she had met up with him, what skills she saw and what he was planning, and in the end how he had managed to get captured.

At first, both Pink and Kun were frustrated and it almost felt like they were about to take out their frustrations on her, but they soon realised that it wasn't her fault, and in the end she had only done what Zain had asked of her.

Still, they failed to understand why had Zain done what he had done, why had he let himself go so easily. It was safe to say regardless, the two of them wanted to go outside and attempt to save him, but they had no information at all.

Where would Zain be, where was he taken, or anything of the sort. The only thing they had was to go back to where Zain was last seen. On top of that, they needed permission if they wanted to leave this area in the first place.

So in the meantime they were unable to do anything. For Kelly, she had entered a few practical lessons, and the main instructor seemed to be glancing Kelly's way. She wasn't too sure if this was due to her being the new student or not.

The instructor's name was X. It seemed like a nickname as he had an X shaped mark on his forehead that appeared to be there from before he had been bitten, otherwise the wound would have healed.

As for the reason why Instructor X was looking at her, it was because of the sound of her fists as she hit the air, the movement of her kicks and more, it was safe to say he was impressed.

'Her speed, and the snap in her attacks. Although her form is off, and it looks like she's never been in a fight in her life, if they are tuned up, it's quite possible that she could become one of the strongest ones in here.' X thought.

In a way, Kelly felt quite guilty about her life at the moment, because she was in a safe place and she was living stress free, while Zain was still out there.

When the third day had arrived, after having stayed at the Reborn group for three whole days, the young Reborn zombie who she had first met, named Sid, had called her away and the others could see them leaving the Reborn area.

They walked through labs and more, and Kelly was too nervous to ask what was going on, as she just assumed that Sarah, the leader of the place, had called her to run a few experiments on her, as she had yet to do so since arriving.

Soon, she did find herself entering a lab as Sid held the door open for her, but the sight she could see was not what she was expecting at all.

On a high desk, where usually bunsen burners and flasks would be placed, it had been cleared out with only a few stools, and on those stools, Sarah, Kun, Pink, and Instructor X were sitting down.

'What is going on? Why are Pink and Kun here as well? It's strange to bring them to run some tests on me.'

"You must be slightly confused, but I have had to call an emergency meeting to discuss something with you three." Sarah stated. "Please, it would be best if you sit down."

There were nervous darting eyes, and it seemed like Pink and Kun didn't know the reason why the three of them were called either.

"Our network of the Reborn group is larger than you think. Kun should know this." Sarah started to explain. "Although this facility is strictly for the Reborn zombies, at times there are humans that will come and go from this facility.

"At the same time, we have tried our best to create a network that is spread far and wide. Now that you know this, I will cut to the chase.

"All three of you have described a particular Reborn zombie that showed extraordinary skills with red hair, and it appears the military has captured him."

The news wasn't so shocking to the others as they had talked about it already, but what was surprising was the fact that Sarah knew about this information. Based on what she said earlier, it was clear they knew where Zain currently was.

"Unfortunately, the zombie you have described is not someone that is in our file or has ever been to the Reborn group before, and as you know, to go against the military, even if its a single base, would require the might of all our power, but I thought that you should at least know this."

For all of them, it felt like they were being teased, a ray of hope was shone in front of them and immediately it was taken away. It would have been better if they knew nothing at all, and in the end Kun couldn't hold it in anymore.

"We have to go rescue him." Kun said. "The whole reason we agreed to come to this base was because we thought he was here."

"I agree!" Pink said, and Kelly nodded soon after.

"I know you would have strong feelings, but the rules were explained to you before. Although I would like to save your friend and invite him back here, we have more to lose than gain in this situation."

Hearing those words, Kun stood up from his seat.

"I don't think that's the case." Kun explained. "Zain had quickly overtaken Shark, one of our best agents, in terms of smarts, strength, and knowledge. It seemed he even knew things that Shark didn't."

This seemed to cause a slight reaction from Sarah, as she opened her eyes slightly wider.

"He… was also the one that told us about the crystals. He had told us about how to use the crystals to make us stronger before we had come across the Reborn group."

Now Sarah was really interested as she put her finger on her lips.

This was knowledge that she didn't know about either, until later on, so how would a zombie she had never met before know about this? There had to be a reason, and there was something that was peaking her interest about this zombie that had met with all three.

"I see, I can see how strongly you three feel about this person, they must be truly great for you to act like this." Sarah sighed in defeat. "It seems even if I forced you to stay that you would attempt to leave anyway, and that in itself is a risk, so I guess there could be another solution.

Sarah looked to Sid, and looked to instructor X as well.

"A small group of five, with two talented individuals, are to attempt to bring him back. It's a hard first mission for you three, so I don't expect any results and your survival is the most important.

"Instructor X will be in charge, and if he deems the mission impossible, you are to return immediately."

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In one of the military bases, in the temporary prison that had been built, an experiment was being conducted to see whether or not a certain individual had told the truth, and from the looks of it, it seemed to be the case.

'A person that doesn't get attacked by zombies?' General Begal smiled. 'With someone like this, we can explore the more populated areas of the city. Perhaps use them to scout out the areas as well.

'This is a gold mine. It would be good if we could find out how he came to be in the first place. Maybe there is a chance to turn some of our own… but that would require sending him off, which might not be the best situation.'

On the ground floor, where the experiment was taking place, Zain was looking up at the general while the rest of the zombies continued to claw at them, and just to make sure he could be of use to them.

Zain walked up to the group of zombies and pulled one of them by their shoulder dragging them away. He then pulled down its head, kneeing it in its face. Due to the strength Zain currently had, his knee had crushed the skull and had killed the zombie.

'I need to hold back when showing my strength, otherwise they will think they can't control me.' Zain thought. 'Still, judging by the general's smile, it looks like he is quite pleased.'

General Begal was really pleased, and a meeting had been set up between the two of them. They had entered what looked like the warden's office. As usual there were several people in the room with guns. Although it did seem like there were a little more than usual.

'I guess they're taking extra precautions after seeing me knee that zombie's skull in, but I had no weapons on me, what else could I do.' Zain thought.

"This world is a dangerous place now, and there aren't many places where one can relax freely." Begal started his conversation. "There are many who would wish to be protected by us soldiers that are here. You are in a very safe place.

"However, based on what I have seen you are very safe out there as well. You seem like a smart person, if you wanted to, you probably could have evaded us at the border, so tell me, what do you want from this?"

Zain didn't reply instantly as he was thinking about how to answer the question. It was true that Zain could have escaped from the border, and done what? His goal was to reach the Reborn group and since he was unable to do that, he wanted to know what the military was looking for.

If he said that he was a curious student who got wrapped up in all of this, he couldn't imagine them reacting too well to this.

"What else could I do?" Zain eventually replied back. "If anyone found out what I really was, then there was a good chance they would kill me on the spot, or at least try to. There is nowhere for me to go, and I'm tired of being on my own.

"Sure, I thought you guys might run a few experiments on me, it was a risk I was willing to take, but I thought that maybe, once I showed you what I could do, that you would find out there were better uses for me."

The general didn't say anything as he rubbed his chin, up and down. It was a reasonable explanation, and Begal wasn't so sure, but maybe the fact that he was a zombie had a reason to do with why he was so calm. It was one of the things that couldn't be explained.

"Very well." Begal said, leaning forward with both his elbows on the table. "It seems you know that from here on out you will be used, but I am a fair person. Since we will be using you from now on, is there anything that you would like us to do for you.

"Search a particular area, or maybe look for a specific person perhaps?"

Zain wanted to ask why they had made borders around the city, but if he showed too much interest in what the military were doing then maybe it would put him in a suspicious position.

On top of that, it was most likely that Begal would only do him one big favour, so when thinking about everything that he could ask for, he had finally decided.

"There are two things that I would like to request but they are somewhat linked to each other." Zain explained. "If you grant me these things, then I will work for you, no questions asked."

Begal nodded for the time being, as long as it wasn't a ridiculous request then he would comply.

"First, I don't know why I'm like this, I don't know why I can still think and do things like a normal human. If there is any information you have, on those that are like me, then it would be nice to have."

"That is a reasonable request, but I will tell you now that you could be in for a big disappointment, as you should know more than us." Begal replied, as he gestured for Zain to say his next request.

"When… the whole attack started, that was the day I changed, but there was something else that happened on that day as well. The meteors that fell onto the city. I'm not sure if it's related to me or not, but I would like to see one. I saw your team bring one in not too long ago." Zain stated.

Hearing these words, for some reason Begal smiled. As for why Zain had chosen this, it was to complete the diamond reward.

"Well, that certainly is an interesting request, because that was the first place that I was going to take you anyway." Begal stated.

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One of the biggest bases and one of the biggest groups in the city was located at the museum. Due to an unfortunate event, most of those that were located at the museum had been dealt with and they had been killed.

The news had spread to other groups that were stationed in the city and because of this attack, it caused all of the groups to tighten up their defences more. The large group that belonged to Ryan, had now dwindled to a group of fifteen.

In total, there were five members of the SWAT team that had managed to survive, while the rest were regular civilians. Most were students, since the old and young were unable to get away in time.

Out of those that managed to survive, there was Max and Tod. Tod, the weapons specialist who used two blades to fight, and Max, who was practically a wall of muscle for the group. If it wasn't for these two, then perhaps even more would have died on that day.

Currently, Ryan was in the hospital that they had taken over, the group's second location. Most were in the reception area, while Ryan had called for the guards to have a meeting in one of the surgical rooms.

Chairs had been set up for them to sit on, while he sat on one end. All five of the guards were there but there was one more seat that was empty.

"We'll wait for everyone to arrive before I talk about our next move and what we have found." When Ryan spoke it was straight and to the point, at the same time, he no longer had the same smile on his face as he had in the past.

There was a complete change in demeanour and attitude after what had occurred. Eventually, the door opened and a young man walked through.

"I spoke to the others, they are resting for now, and a couple are on guard. Everything seems to be fine." Cody reported, as he sat down.

One of the survivors who had decided to stick by Ryan was Cody. He had thought about going off and searching for Kelly, but based on her last words to him and how she had reacted back then, he knew she would be long gone.

Although Cody trusted in his skills, to go out in the world on his own, without any help whatsoever, was an incredibly big risk.

"That's great to hear." Ryan said. "Once they have rested, it might be time for us to make a big move. Thanks to Max, we have been able to gather information on the army bases that have moved around.

"I have tried communicating with other groups, but after what happened to us, they are afraid whoever targeted us might go for them. The only group that is big enough to protect us right now… is the army."

There was a shocked look on the faces of the others, as they twisted and turned their heads, and there was a simple reason for that.

"Are you sure about this?" Tod asked. "Our scouting groups in the past have met up with military personnel and they didn't seem interested in helping us out. What do you think will be different this time?"

Ryan stood up as he went to answer this question, he looked at the ground for a few seconds before lifting his head.

"Because we don't have a choice." Ryan replied. "We can stay here and survive but for how long? We might get attacked again, we can't join any other groups, and we can't go out as much as we did before in search of supplies.

"Everywhere that is good for shelter will eventually just become a target, even this hospital will have people coming in and out of it. We have stumbled across the location of a military base, just outside of the city. We will force them to accept us, even if we need to do their bidding. It's the only thing we can do."

Those in the room were frustrated because they knew Ryan was right, they had already lost a lot, and there wasn't much choice.

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However, Ryan and his group weren't the only ones that had managed to intercept and find out about the army base that was not too far from the city they were currently in.

In the back of a large truck that the military would use to transport a large number of personnel, was a group of people, but those inside the vehicle weren't military at all, as they were all wearing black leather jackets inside, with words painted in white on the back.

"Alright listen up!" A female was standing, with her hair tied up, with her hand hanging on top of a railing to hold onto. "I know for a lot of you that are here, this is your first job as part of our group and it should be an easy one.

"We have made a deal to meet up with the military base in cooperation to exchange information as well as a few items. However, I warn you all, that things can very quickly go sour.

"So you all need to be alert and listen to me."

"Yes, Wendy!" One of the men said in a sarcastic voice as if they were in the military and started to laugh.

"We're going to a military base, this really is a big deal for our first mission." One of the younger boys said, shaking his knees up and down.

"It's okay… they're looking after the others, and they are looking after Wiz." The other smiled.

Wendy was looking at the two new members, they were young, around 16 years of age, and she felt slightly bad for them. Because there was a good chance that this would turn sour and if that was the case they were most likely to be left behind.

"Dali… and Nit. I will remember their names, in case something happens to them, so they will live on with me." Wendy whispered to herself.

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For once, while in his zombie state, Zain was excited and for more reasons than just one. Currently, he was undergoing a few basic tests, he had been moved to a military unit and guards were to stay with him at all times.

They were handing him a military uniform to wear, and not just the light weight clothes either. Since they knew he had slightly more strength than usual, they allowed him to wear a bulletproof vest, heavy duty boots and so on. It was more along the lines of what a SWAT team or a specialist team would wear, but they all had a tint of dark green to them.

It was essentially an upgrade to what Zain had on before, but a new set that was more protective. Of course, they hadn't given him any weapons. The trust wasn't quite there yet, and judging by the wandering eyes of the other soldiers, it perhaps would never be there.

"It's okay, I have my goals, I can stay and find out what the military is looking for, and I will be able to tell why those meteorites are so important.'

The main reason he was excited though, was the diamond quest. Wondering what type of reward he would receive.

'But it makes me wonder, what is taking General Begal so long?' Zain thought.

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Today of all days, it seemed to be quite busy for the army base, as they were preparing for a number of things. The base was relatively large with multiple sections, and each area had their commanders that would take care of things, but due to the importance of certain matters Begal was getting called all over the place.

After leaving Zain, Begal was heading to the barrack headquarters to prepare for a meeting with a particular group of people, but on his way there, a commander rushed out and intercepted him.

"Sir, there is a situation at the gate that I think needs your direction as we are not sure what to do." The man stated.

Begal looked at the man while shaking his head.

"Is it really not something you can take care of yourself?" Begal replied.

"Sir, it is civilians, we asked them to leave and turn back, but they refuse to, and wish to make a deal." The man explained.

The front gate of the army base was opened, as Begal walked out with a small group of around ten men, all with weapons held in their hands. It was quite a presence for one to march up to, but it was something that needed to be done, especially when the other side had weapons.

Taking a quick look, these civilians, it seemed at most only three of them would be much of a threat, and Begal was wondering why he had been called out here in the first place.n0𝐕𝑬𝗅𝓊𝗌𝔅.𝕔0𝓂

"I'm sorry to say, but this is a wasted trip. I know the situation is tough inside the city, but this base cannot accept outsiders and is for military personnel only." Begal was going to leave it at that and turn around.

"Wait!" The man shouted. "We have nowhere to go, but we aren't useless to you. We don't expect you to take us in for nothing. If you do, we will join you, do whatever you ask of us, to do whatever tasks you need from us.

"We don't just expect you to take us in. The fact that we have survived this long, with just us, must show you that we are capable in some way. On top of that, we have brought a large amount of medical supplies, and food that you can use… in this type of situation you know eventually these will become important."

Begal turned around and looked at the man one more time.

'Lately I have been meeting quite a few people with a good head on their shoulders.' Begal thought. 'His words are quite convincing, and we have more and more losses everyday. Eventually, we will have to ask the public to take up arms. The people, though, rely on the military too much and expect them to protect them at all times.

'Which is why he said what he said. The only problem is, other than the four of them I don't think the others will be of much use, but I doubt he would leave the others behind. It's a take all, or take none, type of situation.'

"It's time we start coming up with a plan. As things change we need to change as well." Begal said. "Commander, Tin take these people to the medical centre to get checked. If all is good, then I want you to take them to the training centre. Let's see what these people can do.

"As for you." Begal said, looking at the man in front. "What's your name?"

"Ryan, sir! And thank you."

Ryan, Cody and his fellow survivors had been invited into the camp as their next safety spot, but they weren't the only ones that had arrived at their destination. In the base, in one of the large tents, there was a team of five, that were in thick suits, wearing large helmets on their heads covering up most of what they looked like.

Standing in front of the five was what looked like a normal soldier, who was nervous with sweat running down his face and peaking over his shoulder.

"This was the best I could do to get you in here. Luckily, there is a lot going on so the base is distracted. If anyone asks, you are EOD specialists. It gives you an excuse to wear those costumes you understand." The man asked.

"What is going to happen to us… if we get caught?" Kelly asked.

"Well, based on the fact that we are sneaking around like this, we will probably be shot to death, but at least we're in the right place." Kun replied.

"Don't worry too much, we can take a few bullets." Pink joked, although it was only to lighten the mood as they were in for a serious task ahead of them.

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There seemed to be a lot of distractions in the camp for the general today, but after letting Ryan and the others in, he believed that they would settle on their own, and he could decide how useful they would be to the base later.

Now, it was time for him to continue to the barracks headquarters, it was a large makeshift container-like material rather than a bunch of tents that had been set up for the other areas, and here his meeting would take place.

Opening the door, into a large room, with several guards lined up on the side of the wall with weapons, his guests could be seen already sitting down.

"I apologise for being late, there was an unexpected matter that needed to be taken care of." Begal explained.

The others stood up as soon as they saw the general, not sure what to do, but did so out of respect. There was quite a large group in the room, around ten or so of them, all with black leather jackets, with the word Zombie Hunters written on the back, but only one of them had bright beaming confidence.

"I suspect that you are the one in charge of your group here." Begal said, approaching the dark haired woman and placing his hand out for a shake.

The two shook hands and Begal offered her a seat, soon they were both sitting opposite each other and it was time for them to get to the matter of things.

"I would like to note that I am here as a representative of the Zombie Hunters, or ZH faction as our leader would like to call us. I am not the actual leader but one of the heads of the group." Wendy explained.

"Yes, I have had communication with your leader, and that is why we set up this meeting in the first place. He has shown me what you are capable of. You managed to clear a whole district and you have claimed it as your own. Your name has also spread to groups all over. Of course, most of that is due to the strange powers that you have." Begal explained.

"Yes." Wendy nodded. "Which is why our leader is wondering if you will supply us with what we have asked for. We are still lacking in two departments and since our goals are the same, then we should support each other, don't you agree?"

Part of the deal with the ZH faction was that if they were able to prove themselves useful and clear out a district of the city, then they would provide them with more weapons and food supplies as well.

The army had plenty of rations that would last a long time. Food that wouldn't deteriorate quickly. Whereas food from the supermarkets, that were at least within the city that were still edible, was fading fast.

However, Begal never expected them to complete the task, at least not this quickly. It showed their strength in more ways than one, and he had to be careful, because if he supplied them with weapons, then what if this group happend to get bigger and stronger than the military.

The military was the only form of control that the humans had left of a functioning society, but a deal was a deal, and they couldn't back out of it now.

"I have to ask you, while clearing the district did your group come across any problems?" Begal asked.

"Problems, of course there were problems. The zombies seem to be getting stronger which is why it's important to eliminate them all as soon as possible." Wendy answered.

It didn't seem to be the answer that the general was looking for, but he was unsure if she knew what he was talking about. Perhaps, someone at her level didn't have enough information either.

"We will give you what you need, and if you could clear the district next to you then we will supply you with the same amount again. However, please do contact us, if there are any problems while clearing the districts." Begal ended the meeting as simple as that.n0𝐕𝑬𝗅𝓊𝗌𝔅.𝕔0𝓂

Dali and Nit, let out a big breath of relief and so did the other Zombie Hunters. Although a lot of them had been sent, it looked like they weren't needed, and there would be no cause for action.

Begal and the ZH faction walked out from the building, as he went to show the location where they could pick up their supplies, but as they walked out, Dali had spotted someone else, walking across the hard ground being sent to another location.

"Hey, are my eyes deceiving me, or is that… Zain!" Dali asked.

Being escorted by four guards with guns, there was a redhead passing through.

"No, you're right, that is Zain." Nit asked as well.

At the same time, while outside they weren't the only ones that had spotted Zain. Ryan and the others had changed into clothes and their first job was to help pack up the supplies for the Zombie Hunters.

Cody and Ryan had both spotted the red head, but didn't say anything out loud, because the way they were walking with him, it made him look like a prisoner.

And out of those from the ZH faction, Wendy had recognised the red head as well.

'Isn't that person…'

Flashbacks appeared in her head, a scene of a certain person protecting the zombie. She was sure of it back then, both of them were zombies, but one could think and this person was the same person.

'Is that why they have guards around him as well. Do they know what he is?' Wendy thought.

"Where are you taking that man?" Wendy asked.

"Oh… do you know him?" Begal asked with a raised eyebrow. "He is being escorted to have a look at the meteorite we found. Do you want to have a look?"

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Inside their large suits, Pink and the others had also spotted Zain, but only for a few moments before he was escorted into a fairly large tent that almost looked like a circus from the outside. It was so big.

It was designed in a way to stop outsiders from looking at what was inside.

"Did you see… we finally found him, he really was here?" Pink said, shaking her friend. "Kun… did you see that."

"I'm not Kun… you're shaking me, Sid!" The other complained.

"Oh… sorry." Pink replied, as she quickly stopped.n0𝐕𝑬𝗅𝓊𝗌𝔅.𝕔0𝓂

Since the suits also had an entire face helmet that would cover them. It was hard to tell who was who from just a glance.

"It looks like they have guards on him at all times, and there are a lot of military personnel around." Mr X started to explain. "I'll be honest, it will be hard to break him out of here. When coming, I was hoping that the military might be on an expedition and there would be less people.

"Or the other option was if your friend was stuck in his cell. If that was the case, then we perhaps could have broken him out, but if he's like this… then there isn't much we can do."

The others never expected the Reborn group to take a big risk. Honestly, they thought just coming to a military base was a big risk in itself, but after coming all this way, and seeing the person in front of them, the one that had saved their lives, they wanted to do something.

"Can we… just wait and see for a while?" Kelly asked. "Maybe something will happen, and most of the military will have to leave the place."

"Are you serious?" Sid replied. "We have a lot of work to do as it is… we already listened to your request and if it wasn't for Sarah being interested in this person, we would have never-"

X raised his hand, ordering Sid to stop speaking. His raised voice would attract attention in this situation.

"A day… is the most I can give. We will keep an eye on your friend Zain and see if there are any opportunities, but it has to be one that doesn't put a single one of us at risk. Even if we were to save your friend, if two of us were caught in the process then it wouldn't be a good deal, would it."

They understood when X phrased it like that, but in the others' heads Zain was worth a lot more than just the two of them.

——

Entering the tent, Zain could see that the military had quite the operation going on. The meteorite was about as big as a house and there were countless different machines which had already been attached to it.

There were workers in Hazmat suits that got close to it, and a type of plastic sealant that had been placed around the meteorite to separate those that were working inside with the meteorite and those working outside of it.

Unlike the one that Zain had seen, this one, from within the small creators on it a red glow could be seen getting brighter then sinking in, as if it was alive, as if it was breathing.

'Damn it… I'm this close to it… and still the quest hasn't been completed. Judging by how careful they are being, I don't think they'll just let me inside. Maybe I can come up with an excuse.'

Zain, along with his escorts waited for a while, standing on a metal flooring that was placed around the entire meteorite along with countless numbers of terminals, and eventually the one they were waiting for had arrived, Begal, but as he didn't do so on his own. There was the normal squad that would go everywhere with Begal to protect him, but there were also the Zombie Hunters.

'That woman… she's the one that let me and Skittle go that time!!!' Zain was thinking of the scenarios going through his head. In a place like this, he never thought he would recognise someone, yet here he had, but he soon started to calm down.

The military already knew what Zain was, so the fact that she did, didn't make a difference. If anything, to her fellow Zombie Hunters, it might hurt her more if they did find out what he was.

"Zain!" A person called out. "Is it really you… It is… I thought I recognized you."

The person who was calling out to him was none other than Dali. Since Zain had been paying attention to Wendy, he had failed to notice Dali and Nit who were with them. For a second Wendy glanced at them, looking back and forth, wondering whether they knew who this person was, and even the general found the turn of events quite interesting.

'Zombie Hunters know this kid… things are certainly very interesting.' Begal thought.

"It's good to see that you made it to the Zombie Hunters in the end, and I told you there were some nice people in the group." Zain pushed his luck as he gave a little wink to Wendy, because when he commented that, she was just the person he was thinking about.

"Anyway, so what is this thing, why is the military going around trying to gather these meteorites?" Wendy asked, almost sounding annoyed.

"So you really don't know, well we have a theory you see about these meteorites." Begal explained.

"That the virus came from them?" Nit interrupted. "A lot of people think that since the meteorites were the same day the wave of attacks happened."

The thing was Zain knew this wasn't true, because the Reborn group were already hiding the fact there were zombies and there were reports of them on the Dark web.

"No… it's something else." Begal said, but he was soon interrupted by a cracking noise, several of the machine's beepers were starting to go off, and something happened to Zain as well.

[You have found an active meteorite]

[Your diamond quest is starting.]

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Originally Zain thought that if he just got close to the meteorite then the diamond quest would complete. Due to the difficulty of the quest, he thought that maybe an active meteorite would just be hard to come across.

After all, it seemed like the military were after them and the one that he had happened across, wasn't active at all. Yet, here he was, in front of it, and the quest had only just begun.

'The quest has just started, what does it mean? Is something going to happen?'

Zain was keeping an eye on the scene in front of him, as it was all starting to unfold. The equipment was buzzing, the sound of alarms and beeps coming from everything.

"Everyone, quickly, you know what to do!" General Begal shouted.

Those in hazmat suits were in a panic, they started to run from the glass cover and were exiting as quickly as they could. Meanwhile, the other soldiers had their guns pointed and aimed at the meteorite, but it wasn't just guns.

They soon started to bring out rocket propelled grenades and sniper rifles as well. It reminded him of when Zain had first come across the army, they had used a lot of fire power to try and get rid of a level 2 zombie.

'It's almost as if they're getting ready for war. If they're using this much fire power, and acting like this, then it means they know what's about to happen.'

"Zombie Hunters, and the special kid." Begal said, to make sure not to reveal the identity of Zain in case the others didn't know. "Stay back for now, this situation could turn ugly at any moment."

The meteorite was continuing to glow, as the craters on it were glowing brighter and the intervals between the glow were getting shorter. Now it seemed even more like a heartbeat as they could feel a thud each time through the vibrations on the floor.

"What on earth is inside that thing?" Wendy thought. In her whole time with the Zombie Hunters, she had never heard of anything like this. Like Zain, she had only come across deactivated meteorites.

Finally, the red pulsing had stopped, the vibrations on the floor had stopped, but not a single person had put down their weapons. Looking closely, a small crack could be seen, it was a hairline crack that quickly expanded into a large crack.

A piece of the meteorite fell onto the floor, and immediately the order was given.

"Fire!" Begal shouted.

Bullets rained down at the one area where the crack had appeared. The glass that surrounded it all had shattered. Shortly after, five different rockets left their launchers heading to the same location.

They exploded on the spot and the heat from the explosions could be felt by Dali and the others. Now smoke was covering the front of the meteorite and they were unable to see anything, but the bullets didn't stop.

When one group reloaded, another continued to fire. A loud bang would go off once in a while as a sniper bullet was sent out.

'They're using everything they have, what could possibly be coming out of that meteorite for them to use so much power. Is it a stage 3 Zombie, no it could even be a stage 4 for them to be this worried.'

Outside of the camp, the bullets and explosions were being heard from everywhere. Multiple different platoons were getting ready, gathering their weapons to go into combat.

"What's happening?" Ryan asked.

"There's no time to explain." The soldier opened up a crate which was full of weapons. They had been packing the weapons away for the Zombie Hunters in the first place, and now they were being given out to them.

"Just grab a weapon, listen to what I say, and let's just pray that those inside can take it out."

After grabbing their weapons, Ryan, Cody and the others quickly went to the large tent where the meteorite was being held. Vehicles were being used to create a miniature border on one side around the large tent.

"That noise, I'm sure of it, that's where Zain went. Something is going on, we need to go inside and help!"

From the sound of the voice, Cody felt like it was familiar, when turning his head, he could only see the Bomb squad in their uniforms and each one of them were arguing with each other.

'How… would they know Zain?' Cody thought.

There was something else that he found a little strange, for some reason, it looked like one of the bomb squad specialist was staring right at him. They were ignoring what was going on with their teammates and just looked at him unmoving like a statue.

'Cody… I'm so happy to see that you're still alive.' Kelly thought.

——

The bullets continued and those that were using the RPG's started to reload, but before they could, out from the smoke, a large brown tentacle had come out lightning fast. It slashed right through the body of one of the soldiers holding one of the RPG's.

His top half started to slide down and fall on the floor, as a fountain of blood came from his legs. Soon, not just one of these strange long tentacle-like limbs had come out from the smoke, there were a lot of them.

'This… I've seen it before.'

Zain was trying to figure out where he had seen something like this before, but what he was more concerned about was where the limbs, or who the limbs were aiming for. They had attacked and killed every single one of the soldiers who held the RPG's and it looked like they were going for those with the sniper rifles next.

Begal's whole hand was shaking with anger as he needed to decide the next move. The smoke from the intal RPG attack was starting to die down, and three figures could be seen, standing just in front of the meteorite.

"These damn Demons! We will get rid of them all!" Begal shouted.

[Diamond quest has begun]

[Eliminate 0/3 Demons]

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The dust had settled and the demons were in full view, all three of them just as Zain's system had stated. They were dark skinned in colour, and had a mostly humanoid shape. However, towards their upper back it would hunch slightly and was also slightly larger than that of a human.

On of that, they had white eyes with what looked like almost no pupils inside them, sharp teeth and pointy ears, but the most deadliest part of their body, seemed to be the large tentacles that would come off from their back. They had the ability to extend and reshape with great strength.

'They look the same… the same as what I saw in Shark's memory. These are the demons that killed the Reborn group that I was with.' Zain thought.

In the memories he had seen, the demon's strength looked great and ever since then Zain had listened to the advice of the late Shark, to avoid travelling at night. It was unknown what these demons really were or where they had come from but now Zain had a clear idea.

'The meteorites… this has to be the reason why it stated it was a diamond tier quest, but why would the system try to make me find and run into these things. What exactly are they as well, are they a different form of zombie, did the original virus come from these guys from a meteorite before, or are they just some type of alien?'

There were too many unanswered questions in his head, but the real concern was whether the military had the strength to beat them or not, because right now it wasn't looking so hopeful.

Their hard bodies were able to take the rocket launchers and it was unlikely in the base that they had anything more powerful than that.

'Before coming across these things it would have been nice to try and face one of them on my own, but now with three. I think I might need to use everything I have.'

The army were repositioning themselves, as they were trying to run from the second floor on the railing down to the first floor, but as they did, one of the demons turned towards them, and Zain wasn't sure if he imagined it or not, but it looked to have a smile on its face.

The large tentacle from its back, shot out stretching far and wide and blocked the stairwell. The men in a panic started to fire at the tentacle, it was doing little to no damage as the bullets fell to the floor and some men had even shot at their own men.

After that, the tentacle went and grabbed the first soldier, and ripped his body in half. With the same tentacle it then hit the head of another knocking it off and hitting one of the soldiers behind.

The tentacle was moving fast and with each hit it was ripping the bodies of the humans with ease. Seeing how the soldiers knew that they were going to die on the second floor, they had done something unexpected.

Pulling the pins out of their grenades and incendiary grenades, they set them off, exploding their bodies and starting a large fire. The tentacle pulled away and half of it seemed to be damaged. A good chunk of the tentacle had been torn off and it was throbbing in pain.

The look on the demon's face wasn't pleased but, it wasn't panicked either as it used another tentacle and went for one of the troops on the ground. The others started to fire at the tentacle but just like before, it was doing nothing.

When it reached the closest soldier, the tentacle opened up looking more like that of an elephant trunk, it attached itself to the chest of the person, and in an instant the energy from the man's body could be felt leaving him.

He dropped his weapon to the ground, and his skin was shrivelling up, he was unable to do anything until his skin looked like that of a raisin. The tentacle let go and now the other tentacle on the Demon looked to have completely healed.

'Did it just drain that person's life force and heal… these things can do some crazy things.'

Seeing all of this, the General had made a decision. He wanted to suppress the demons to try to get the soldiers on the second floor to safety as there were still some up there, but if they stayed here any longer, without a clear plan, then it would simply mean the death of more of them.

"Everyone, retreat to the outside! They won't come out in the sun! We will regroup and form a plan then!"

The soldiers nodded, and the ones that were on the second floor still there, knew their fate. Surprisingly, the soldiers didn't just form around Begal trying to protect him but had done so around the Zombie Hunters and Zain as well.

They were backing away, continuing to fire their weapons. Although the bullets didn't pierce their skin, the heavy amount of fire did seem to deter or knock away the tentacles.

While they were backing away, all of the demon's tentacles from all three went toward the centre, right where General Begal was. They knocked the soldiers to the side. The attacks didn't seem to kill them as it was just a quick hit to move them.

It continued to hit soldier after soldier away and now there was a clear path, as the tentacle was heading straight for Begal. Even with a gun in his hand, he doubted he could do anything.

From Begal's left side, at that moment he saw a black looking machete. It swung right in front of him, and hit the tip of the tentacle, it didn't slice through but slammed the tentacle right into the floor making an imprint on the ground

"Zain." Begal saw who had just saved his life, but as for the weapon in his hand, he wondered when did he get such a thing, and how was it able to do that.

"I have a lot of questions I want to ask him, so you can't kill him just yet." Zain pointed his weapon at the Demon in the centre and smiled.n0𝓋𝚎𝓵𝑢𝓈𝓫.𝗰0𝑀

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The sheer sight of these creatures, that most had never seen before, had shook their very core. If one thought the zombies were scary, this would make them look like no threat at all.

Guns, grenades, nothing was working against them, and when they eventually injured them, still they were able to heal. They felt like there was a large wall in front of them, one that was too high for them to beat.

Yet, a single person had changed the atmosphere in the room, with a swing of his sword, he had watched the large tentacle slam into the ground, and instead was smiling toward them.

"I've gone through and experienced things far more scary than you." Zain said to them.

He looked at the tentacle, and although it hadn't been sliced through, the top of its skin had been cut. His new Titan weapon was doing him well.

The demons, in retaliation to this, sent out another tentacle toward him, but with his speed and strength, he was able to knock it away. The original tentacle that had attacked lifted up from the ground trying to hit him from the other side.

Swinging his empty hand, soon a white coloured weapon appeared, and sliced right through the tentacle. It was now wiggling about on the ground, and black blood from the demon was squirting out everywhere.

Soon from the wound, the tentacle was regrowing. Zain could see that the demon he was fighting with, had used another one of its tentacles to grab onto a soldier that was on the floor still alive, but not for long as it was draining its life force.

"Good job kid!" General Begal shouted. "But it's time we all get out of here. Trust me, they can't get us outside."

While Zain so far was faring fairly well against the demon, he wasn't so sure he could take on three of them on his own, otherwise, it wouldn't have been considered a Diamond tier quest.

Since everyone was leaving the area, the best thing for them to do was leave with them, for his survival. While they were running backwards just like the general stated, it looked like the demons weren't moving from their position and were staying where they were.

At the same time, Wendy looked at Zain's hands and the weapons in his hands.

'I'm sure of it, that sword appeared in his hand midway? Is it a superpower? Like what we have, but he's a zombie, how can he have both and those weapons don't exactly look normal either.'

Exiting out of the tent, they could see that the ground was filled with vehicles and weapons pointed at them, as soon as they saw the general though, the fingers went away from the triggers.

"Stand down, we are okay for now." The general shouted.

Standing on the sideline, Pink, Kun, Ryan, Cody, Kelly, all of them were watching intensely as they were watching everyone come out, and they could finally see him, the red haired figure.

They wanted to shout out his name, call out to him to see if he was fine, he had a bit of black blood on his clothes, he looked fine, and for now that would have to be enough as they were unable to say anything.

"General, I think you have some explaining to do here." Wendy asked. "What is going on, and are we safe?"

Begal didn't answer straight away, instead he looked at the sun, and could see that it was starting to set slightly, but it was still bright outside. Meanwhile Wendy was looking at the tent, waiting for the strange creatures to come out at any second.

"I can't explain much and we don't have much time, but since we are all in the same situation, I'll tell you what I know." Begal started to explain. "The military has been unable to get a hold of certain cities not because of the zombies, but because of these creatures.

"We don't know who gave them the name, but we call them demons. As you saw, the demons seem to have come from the meteorites that landed and you have seen their strength for yourselves.

"Although other cities are struggling, it's not at the same level as this one. A large number of meteorites have fallen in this area, and that's why a border has been set up. If you were to attempt to travel out further, the border that has been set up is almost impenetrable. Those of you in this city don't realise it, but we are isolated from the rest of the world."

'A bigger border than the one we tried to go past?' Zain thought. 'No wonder they weren't too bothered with people leaving the city so much, but then what was their border for?'

"You asked before what we were looking for, well we were looking for these demons. There are a few things that we have learned from them. First they come from the meteorites, they act like a cocoon for the demons. We were trying to figure out a way to get rid of them before they hatched, and now it has turned into this situation.

"We had a theory that maybe when the demons hatched out of the meteorite they wouldn't be as strong but it doesn't seem to be the case. As for the other details, the demon's skin doesn't react well to sunlight.

"While the sun is out, all of us are safe, but they do have a way they can travel in the sun, and that is by using human skin. The demons are able to disguise themselves as humans and travel during the day just fine."

Zain had seen this in Shark's memories, and now he understood why the border was there, but with the general's explanation over, it looked as if they had around five more minutes left of sunlight... before the demons would be out, and ready to attack.

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There were nervous faces all around, including that of Begal himself. There wasn't much they could do now, if they wanted to escape, then they would have to try and take one of the vehicles. If that happened would they be chased down by the demons?

The army was staying there because they knew it was their best chance for survival, as for Zain, well, he decided that he still had a quest to complete in the end.

'If it comes to it, I'll have no choice but to summon the others, but in a situation like this, I already have the support of the army, so things should be okay.' Zain thought.

'We can't leave without those supplies, and that thing looked dangerous, the military might even need our help to take it out.' Wendy thought.

At the same time, there was Mr X, along with Sid who were whispering away at each other.

"Now we're in this situation we can't just really leave, the army will think of us as deserters." Sid commented.

"I know." Mr X replied. "Of all the things we could come to face with, it had to be demons and three of them as well. Honestly, I'm not sure this was worth the risk and if we knew demons were going to be here we would have brought more with us."n0𝒱𝑬𝐋𝑢𝗌𝒷.𝒸0𝓂

"Are demons really that strong?" Pink asked.

A few sharp screams were heard at that moment, ones that didn't exactly sound human coming from the tent. The sun had completely set and it was now night time.

The strange screech mixed with a growl stopped, and ripping through the outer tent were the same tentacles that they had seen from inside.

"Everyone, launchers... fire now!" Begal ordered.

Rather than grenades they were using launchers instead for fear that the grenades could be hit back. Unlike with the launchers that blew up on impact. The demons seeing this strangely brought their tentacles together and they started to intertwine.

Soon it looked like a giant ball of demon flesh was in front of them. The rockets blew up creating a large amount of smoke, but next came a raining fire of bullets.

'I've seen this routine before... it won't work.' Zain thought.

'If they had a tank, or maybe some other weapons to use, then maybe we can expect a different result. Looking at things as well, it looks like they're learning how to deal with the more troublesome weapons as well.'

The smoke disappeared but the bullets didn't stop, and just as Zain had predicted the demons were fine. Unlike before, their limbs weren't damaged, and they began to untangle them, revealing the main bodies of the three of them.

The bullets were hitting their bodies, and it looked to sting a little, but they weren't getting damaged at all. Seeing this, Zain knew he needed to do something.

"General, I'm going to make a move, we won't win the fight this way, and they're just going to figure out how to get through the rain of bullets like they did before." Zain ordered. "Just keep two of them busy, and I'll take care of the one in the centre."

Before the general could disagree or agree, they could see Zain running off ahead.

"Soldiers avoid the middle one, continue to fire on the two at the sides. If you think you're going to hit our friend then don't fire. Make sure you don't get in his way and support him!" Begal ordered and the soldiers understood, immediately complying.

Although Zain was strong and his endurance was high, unlike the demons, if he was hit in the head by a few bullets he would be down for the count.

The demon in the centre saw Zain, and there was no smile on its face like before, but there was one on Zain's. The tentacles came out right toward him and just like before Zain hit it with his Titan sword, knocking it up in the air.

Another tentacle tried to get him from below, but with a jump and a spin he managed to cut the bottom one slightly. A third tentacle was ready to hit him, but Zain pushed off, jumping to the side and avoiding the third, and the tentacle smashed on the ground lifting up part of the concrete rocks.

When Zain jumped though, he had gotten in the way of the soldiers bullets, and now the demon next to the one he was attacking was free to attack. Since Zain was closer, the demon seemed to charge in, but when it moved from its position a rocket launcher came out hitting the demon on its side, it managed to stop its advance for a few seconds but it would take a while before another would come and help him.

Three tentacles at once, intertwining each other came straight for Zain and it was at a fast speed. Not being able to dodge this one, he placed both of his weapons in an X shape blocking the attack.

It was heavy as he felt it push him back relatively far.

'Three tentacles, these demons have four on their back, where's the fourth one!'

Before he knew it, another tentacle came from his side and hit him right on the leg. It was a powerful strike crashing through his bones, but Zain felt no pain, and he used his other leg to jump back out of the firing line, allowing for his leg to heal.

While healing though, the two demons seemed to be getting used to the rain of bullets, and were pressing forward. Using their tentacles they lifted them in the air, and all of them went toward Zain in different areas.

"It looks like, your going to need a bit of help!" A voice shouted out.

The tentacles to the left of Zain were hit away, it looked like by some invisible force, but he could see the Zombie Hunter named Wendy standing there.

Meanwhile, a bunch of soldiers dressed in strange suits and helmets came out, hitting the other tentacles on his right side with their bare hands.

Finally, another rocket launcher was fired towards the demon in the centre, giving more time for Zain to heal his leg, but the shot turned out to come from incredibly close to Zain's side.

"It looks like there are a lot of people that want to help you, Zain." Ryan smiled as he stood by his side.

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Someone standing by Zain's side, it was something he wasn't used to, and of all people to help him out personally in this situation, he didn't think it would be a regular human like Ryan.

Although behind him, Ryan wasn't alone, helping him reload the rocket launcher as fast as he could was Cody, a person that Zain had known for a long time now, and was one of the few people that when he saw, was happy that he was still alive.

"Zain!" Cody said. "If you need a rest or a break, just jump back, or to the side. We'll blast them with a rocket to give you time to recover."

Zain's leg had already healed thanks to the interruption, and as they said, although the Demon wasn't severely hurt, the rockets did somewhat startle them.

To his left and to his right, the other two Demon's were busy as well. A group of strong figures wearing helmets and thick suits looked to be attmepting ot take on one of the demons.

It was a strange site to see, as Zain would have guessed they were some sort of bomb squad. The soldiers watching the whole thing were confused as well, but in this situation they were just happy that there were those that could hold the Demon's back.

Then there were the zombie hunters as well. Zain knew that many of their members had special powers, so they had a good chance of dealing with the Demon as well.

"Okay, I'll trust you for now!" Zain said as he ran forward, toward the demon.

Ryan was looking at the young person's back and was happy he could help. Due to certain decisions, he had made, he had already lost a close friend, Brandon. Based on what he heard from the others, Zain had done his best to let the others live, and he was still here fighting even now.

The world didn't need more people like him, it needed more people like Brandon and Zain, which was why he was happy to help. The only thing was, the first one to act from their group was Cody and not him.

With the supplies they had gathered for the Zombie hunters, Cody went to grab one of the rocket launchers but had no clue how to use it, and that's when Ryan stepped in, turning the situation around.

General Begal was at a loss of what to do, there were others fighting on his behalf, while he and his soldiers were unable to do anything.

"Rocket launchers, aim at the two demons at the side, support the Zombie hunters and the bomb squad! Medics get ready to treat anyone injured. Men, head through the back and see if anyone is still alive in that tent, now!"

Leading the Zombie hunters in the centre was Wendy, she stood strong in the centre looking at the Demon.

'I've dealt with stage 3 zombies before, so how much tougher can this demon really be?' Wendy thought.

All four of the tentacles from the demon came toward her.

n0𝓋𝞮𝐿𝚞𝒮𝓑.𝓒0𝓂

"Those without powers stand back, this is not your place to die!" Wendy said.

Quickly, Nit and Dali, both knew this was a message to them, along with a couple of others. Four of them moved to behind the line where the regular soldiers were, while the rest of the Zombie hunters were ready.

"Don't hold back not showing your power, I want everyone to come out of here alive."

When the tentacles were close, Wendy leapt to the side, but with a single jump, it looked like she had travelled a great distance and at a great speed. She expected the tentacles to continue following her, but instead, three of them went to the others while one went toward her.

The tentacle lifted in the air, ready to slam down on top of her head, but moving her hand through the air, once again it looked like an invisible force had hit the tentacle away. She hadn't touched the Demon, yet it physically could be seen being slammed away.

As for the other tentacles, one of the Zombie's hunter's hands were covered in a strange rock, and slamming down at the right time, he hit the tentacle into the floor. It was a powerful blow.

With another hunter, spikes appeared all over their body, and they stood there in place. When the tentacle hit the person, the spikes stabbed right through, but the tentacle continued its powerful hit sending the zombie hunter flying through the air.

As for the last one, the Zombie hunter moved, but his arm was a bit too slow, the destructive power of the Demon could be seen again, as it pulled at the Zombie hunter's arm ripping it right off.

However, the Zombie hunter continued to run forward, and his arm was seen starting to regrow.

Watching from the other side, in his bomb suit was Kun.

"Man…I can't even do that? Isn't he the zombie hunter, and he can do that? I would say he's more Zombie than me."

Turning his head back around though, what was perhaps even more impressive was the Reborn group. They had no weapons on them, they had nothing but their bare fists, but both Sid and X, were able to work together and navigate with their strengths.

Two of the tentacles came at X, who managed to grab onto them both. He then stood on top of part of the tentacle with his foot while pulling at another part. Then threw one of the tentacles to the side so he could use both hands to pull the demon in.

While all of this was happening, Sid was already behind the demon and had jumped on its back, placing its legs between where the tentacles would come from and held its neck.

"Hey, are you two just going to watch us do all the work here? Help us!" Sid shouted. Kun, Pink and Kelly soon snapped out of it and started to charge forward at the Demon.

With the way things were going, they would defeat the demon first, at least that's what they thought. Before Kun and the others could even come toward the Demon, a black sword was shoved from right under its chin through its head, and the sword point was close to Sid.

"That's two down…one more, and I've completed the quest," Zain said.

The Reborn group were left confused, but Ryan and Cody had seen it all.

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The Reborn group knew their strength and there was a reason why Sarah had sent Sid and X out together without too much worry, because they were some of the best and strongest members that the Reborn group had.

Skilled in fighting, excellent strength and speed, and they knew quite a lot about the current situation and their reason for the Reborn group in the first place.

They knew their strength and believed that with all of them, they would have been the first to take out a demon, which was why it had come as such a big surprise when they could see the red haired zombie in front of them.

"Did he… kill the other demon?" Sid said, as he got off from the demon's back allowing it to drop on the floor as it was certainly lifeless. What was also impressive was the weapons that Zain held in his hand.

"You… you're Zain, right?" X said, coming over. "You are like us, right?"

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A little while before Zain had gone against the second demon he was still facing one of them on his own. With Cody and Ryan backing him up, it gave him a slight amount of room to breathe, and now that the other two demons were busy with their own groups, in a way it felt like a much fairer fight.

Zain ran forward as fast as he could and the tentacles came toward him, when the first one went to grab him he swung the titan sword with great strength. Rather than trying to cut it, Zain hit the tentacle with the side of his sword, whacking the tentacle away.

'I can't slow down, if I want to get rid of it, the best thing to do is attack its main body, not the tentacles.' Zain thought. 'The Titan sword isn't sharp enough to cut through the tentacles in one go, so this is better.'

When another one appeared, rather than trying to strike it, Zain decided to avoid the tentacle by jumping the side, it slammed against the floor leaving a large mark. It was no wonder it broke his bones even with the endurance stat.

Still, although he had avoided two, the third and fourth tentacle once again seemed like they would be too much for Zain, as he wasn't ready to use his weapons, but a click was heard and seconds later a large bang and explosion went off.

A rocket had hit the main body of the demon, the tentacles moved slightly off target and it allowed Zain to run through again.

'I might only get one chance, so let's use it wisely.' Zain thought.

He could see Ryan and Cody reloading the rocket launcher again, it was a good distraction and now it allowed for Zain to get in striking distance of the demon.

He swung the sharper but more fragile white weapon sideways, aiming to slice off its head, but what Zain didn't realise through the smoke was that one of the tentacles had retracted, getting smaller in size. It swung from the side and hit him in the ribs, he could hear them breaking and although there was no pain, his whole body was swung to the side.

'I can't get too far away, I have to stick close to it!' Zain lifted the Titan sword and stabbed it in the ground, stopping him from rolling away any further. He started to use his energy to heal his broken side, and immediately ran right at the demon.

"Fire away!" Zain shouted.

It was a clear signal to the others, and they complied as Ryan pulled the trigger. The rocket launcher flew through the air, and once again, at the right time, it hit the demon cleanly, right on its body and a black cloud of smoke had been made blocking the view for both of them.

Zain ran forward, and through the smoke he could see it, two tentacles that looked slightly different. The ends had opened up like a mouth and were heading right for him. Rather than trying to avoid the hit, instead he thrust the white weapon forward, and both of the tentacles hit him right on his shoulder. It felt like two suction cups were suddenly on him.

The suction power didn't last long as the two tentacles soon fell off from him. When the black cloud cleared up, Ryan and Cody could see it, somehow, Zain was no longer holding onto a sword, and instead it had turned into a spear.

The spear end had been shoved right through the demon's head killing it on the spot. Zain had used the transformation skill of the weapon. An element of surprise while the smoke was clearing up.

It was safe to say thanks to the help of Ryan and Cody, he was able to complete this far easier than he intended. It wasn't soon after that though, that Zain went to help the other Reborn group finish off the second demon which led him to the situation he was in now.n0𝒱𝔢𝒍𝗎𝗌𝑏.𝑐0𝗆

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Pink, Kun and Kelly all came running over, and as they did, they lifted up their helmets a little to show Zain who it was.

"Zain, we have been looking everywhere for you!" Pink shouted.

"X, you don't have to worry, this is the person we were talking about, this is who we wanted to save." Kun explained.

Zain looked at all of them with smiles on his face, and turned to Kelly as well.

"It looks like you made it then, is this the Reborn group?" Zain guessed.

"Yes." X replied, he still had his helmet on and Sid quickly pushed down the Helmet of the others.

"We are part of the Reborn group, and you should be able to tell that we are just like you." X explained. "While the army, and the others are still dealing with the last demon, we should get out of here. After they're done with that, they will soon come for us."

Zain looked and could see that the Zombie Hunters were still fighting, and Begal was concentrating on the last enemy as well as helping those that had been hurt. It was a good opportunity to leave, but there was one worry he had.

'If I'm away while the last demon gets defeated, will I still get the diamond quest… but, the Reborn group, they should have the answer to all the questions I have, right?' Zain thought.

It was a risk but it looked like the Zombie Hunters would be able to finish the last demon, so more likely he should still get the quest reward.

"Alright, let's get out of here, and head to the Reborn group." Zain answered.

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Most of the army's attention was being directed at the final demon and the rescue missions. Now that there were fewer demons, they were more free to move to get to the others. This worked to the Reborn group's advantage.

They fell back and a group approached them asking if they were okay. All of them answered and then shrugged them off and went towards the closest vehicle. It was a large truck that had a few soldiers on top with their guns out, carefully aimed at the demon.

X lifted up his hand and put his thumb up, that was the signal for all of them to act. Quickly, all of those in the bomb squad suits jumped on board at the back. Meanwhile, Z had used his strength to force the door open, breaking the lock, then pulling the driver out and throwing him to the ground.

"What is going on?" the soldier said, confused.

At the top, as soon as Zain had climbed on board, he ran forward and grabbed the two guns, pulling them hard, breaking the strap and throwing them to the ground. Straight after Kelly was by his side, throwing the two of them off to the side.

"Hold on!" X shouted, as the engine of the vehicle was turned on, and it was revving hard as the car spun around and headed straight for the gate, they were going to crash their way out of the place.

"Sir, the bomb squad along with the captured Zain are escaping!" One of the men shouted, and lifted his gun ready to fire at the wheels of the vehicle.

Before he could pull the trigger though, he had been hit by his side, and arched over, firing out bullets but completely missing the vehicle.

"What are you doing kid, why are you getting in my way!" the soldier shouted.

The kid in question was one of the civilians they had brought in, it was Cody, and barging into the soldier wasn't an accident at all.

Still the man ignored the teeneager and lifted up his gun again and now a few others that had noticed lifted their gun up as well.

"Let them go!" General Begal shouted. "It's because of them in the first place that we were able to get rid of two of those things. We should concentrate on finishing off the last one, and on our own people."

The soldiers placed their guns down, as they witnessed the large vehicle crash right through the metal gate, and continue to drive off in the distance.

"We made it, we really made it out of all of that." Pink said, falling to the floor, and just sitting there. Seeing the demons again, it was tough for her. The last time she had met with one, not just her, but her whole team was completely overpowered by them.

Without the others, if she saw one again, then she would have been too frightened to move.

"It was a success." Kun said. "We managed to find Zain, bring him out of there, and all without losing one of us. We can finally put our guard down a bit."

Although Kun said that, Zain didn't feel the same way, and one could tell by his reactions. In the car, nearly everyone was on one side, while the rest were on the other side, including Sid.

"I'm sorry, although I agreed to join your group, I didn't mean I was actually joining your group. I just have some questions of my own, and I would like some information. If I'm not happy with what you tell me, well then I'll just leave." Zain explained.

Sid knew that Zain was strong, and the problem was with having a strong Reborn zombie like this, it meant that they could back up their words with action.

"I'm Sid, and the person driving is X, although I could tell you a few things here and there, we probably couldn't answer all the questions that you have. The best thing to do is to head to the Reborn group, where our leader Sarah will answer your questions the best." Sid explained calmly.

The fact that Kelly, Kun, and Pink were here, and had come out on this mission to save him was a plus for the Reborn group. If they allowed them to do this, then they weren't so controlling like many other groups and that was one of the worries for Zain.

He wanted to do things his way, not under someone else, who he didn't really understand.

"This Sarah person, is she a researcher, blonde hair, blue eyes, with a thin small nose?"

Zain remembered from some of his visions, the girl Sarah that was in it couldn't be a coincidence.n0𝓋𝞮𝐿𝚞𝒮𝓑.𝓒0𝓂

"Yes... have you met her before?" Sid asked, now a little confused.

Zain didn't answer his question but decided to sit down, showing his willingness to follow them, at least for now. He felt like he was close and with this Sarah person, he could find out how all this zombie mess started in the first place, what were the demons and why was he like what he was.

Why did he become a Reborn, why did he have a system? What were the demons, and was there a way they could end this all, a way to turn back those that had been turned?

The journey in the vehicle continued and eventually it stopped. There was the border that they had to get past, and they were now going through the secret path that the Reborn group used.

It was an unfinished subway station, while walking through it though, Zain had received a ding from his system, and it had brightened his mood.

[3/3 Demons have been defeated]

[You will now receive your Diamond reward card]

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After leaving the Army base, Zain had accepted the fact that he might not get the diamond reward. It was why he was so hesitant in the first place, but due to the quest details itself, there was a slight hope that there was no need for him to kill all three.

Originally the diamond quest had stated for him to only find the active meteorite, and after finding it, the real quest had begun. Thankfully, the military along with the Zombie Hunters were able to beat the last demon without their help, and in turn the quest had been completed.

'I wonder what the diamond card will give me. The rewards have been all over the place once they hit gold, so it should be something quite valuable.' Zain thought. 'But, the diamond quest was easier than I thought. I wonder, is it because I was given that quest a long time ago.

'Is that's the case, maybe I've just improved a lot, or it was the fact that everyone else just happened to be there when I discovered the meteorite.'

Thinking about it more, Zain wasn't so sure if he could beat three demons on his own, not without summoning his own army to help him, and even then, there would have been significant losses.

If he was to lose his super zombies, it would be a big hit to him in the long run.

'I don't know how long this journey is going to take, but while I'm here, I might as well see what the diamond card will give me.'

[Are you sure you would like to use the Diamond card now?]

[Yes]

[Diamond card has been used]

[You have received 'Max out stat!' Reward]

['Max out stat']

[The Max out stats is a one time use item. It can be used on yourself or anyone in your Horde. This will allow one stat to be maxed out to the user's capability.]

'It will max out one of my stats! This is… amazing!' Zain thought.

Although there was an initial excitement, that excitement started to dwindle for a moment, as he thought about it more. Because there were some questions that he was unable to get answers to, which might decide whether or not this reward was truly a great one or not.

One of them was, what was the max amount a stat could improve by? Every game Zain played there would be a cap, and since this was the real world, the cap had to be realistic. It wasn't as if he could max out his strength stat and suddenly destroy the world with one punch.

Currently, his highest stat was 15 and he was level 13. He had gained two levels, one each for defeating the two demons so he had two stat points to improve his own skills. Perhaps based on this, he could imagine the max stats for something being around 25 or 50 at the high end.

'That would improve my strength or speed by fivefold. It would make fighting against others a lot easier.'

For now Zain didn't use the two stat points he had gained, if he was going to max out one of his stats anyway it would be a waste, on top of that there was something else he was considering as well.

'This reward, it said, could be used on other members of the Horde as well. Does that mean I can use it on Skittle, or Cobra? If so, Cobra would become the fastest zombie or Skittle the strongest.'

There was one more thing Zain was thinking about, but he wasn't too sure about it, and that was using the stat to max out Skittle's intelligence. In doing so, it made Zain wonder, would Skittle become like him.n0𝗏𝓔𝑙𝑢𝐬𝑩.𝓬0𝔪

Capable of speech, remembering everything that happened, more normal. If he knew it was for certain, then maybe Zain would have already done it. Still, it conflicted with his new principles since this whole world went to crap.

It was the fact that it wasn't the best thing to do in terms of survival.

'It… was because of me that Skittle ended up this way. I promised myself that I would try to find a way to bring him back, and this might just do that. So why am I hesitating, was I always this selfish, or is it this world?' Zain thought.

Opening up his own stats again, Zain was ready to use the skill, he was aiming for the agility stat. It was one of his lowest stats, but he had power from the weapons. He was ready to use it but then hesitated for a second.

'If Skittle was in my situation… I bet he wouldn't have hesitated that much. After this, I'll continue just caring about myself, but I can't let this opportunity slip.'

Zain placed his hand on the ground, and a spark of light was seen in the tunnel. Sid and the others turned to look at it wondering what he was doing and soon a small zombie appeared.

Sid was less alarmed when he saw that it was a zombie but was still confused.

'Did he just summon a zombie, what is going on, is it some type of power, or something?' Sid thought. More so, why did Zain just randomly summon a zombie here of all places.

'Skittle, come back.' Zain said.

[Max out stat has been used]

[Horde member 'Skittle' Stats have been upgraded]

[Intelligence: 1 50]

After the reward had been used, a new light could be seen in Skittle's eyes as he turned his head and looked at Zain.

"Skittle… are you there? Can you understand me?" Zain asked.

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