Chapter 2 – 2. The Skill Is Strange

I am devastated.

In just three days, the world became strange.

“Phew. It’s good that I’m at least awake.”

In a world where zombies roam, it’s great luck to have something in your hands anyway. Somehow, it’s great luck that I’m still alive, but I thought I’d wake up. Looking at the status window, it seems that my luck level is very high. Could it be because of that?

The lucky number alone is 666… ​​Huh? It’s a number familiar to the eye for some reason… This… Isn’t 666 the devil’s number?

From my memory, it seems to be the number symbolizing the children of Satan in the movie ‘Omen’. That’s why my job is a cultist. So, I’m not sure if I should interpret this as a heretic or a priest from the other world, but anyway, was that a strange job?

This is embarrassing from the start. I don’t feel good because it seems that the foreshadowing of ‘You are corrupt’ has been laid from the lucky number.

‘It’s embarrassing.’

I felt a little scared because I felt like a divine being was smiling at me from a place I didn’t know. Is it because you want something from me, so you are hinting at me like this? Or, I’m not sure if it’s simply degenerated into a game for God, but I have no intention of playing around anyway.

“But how do you choose your skills?”

The moment I had such a question, a window appeared in front of me.

[Choose a skill]

[One. Human sacrifice]
[2. Deformed vision]
[3. Filling Flesh]
[4. Tentacle Summon]

“Huh, fuck… What is this?”

Perhaps because his job was a cultist, the skill names were unusual. It is only doubtful whether he has really become a child of some kind of devil.

‘No, human sacrifice. What is a tentacle summon?”

Again, the moment I had a question, a new window popped up as if it were giving me an answer.

[Human sacrifice: I hope to build up karma by sacrificing living things and get closer to ‘God’.]

It was a brief description of the skill.

‘The explanation is brutal. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to get close to God…’

Killing people in a ruined world is sure to happen often, but this skill is rather bad as it is a revelation from the devil to voluntarily roam around and commit murder. If I make a mistake, I will be accused of being a madman and I will be caught and killed.

[Transformed field of view: The pupils change. You can see through the dark space.]

This is a good skill for moving around in dark places or at night. I have no idea how the pupils change at all… But looking at the effect alone, it’s a good skill.

[Filling flesh: Trauma heals quickly. It is accompanied by some pain.]

“Oh oh. A good skill… Right? Is not it?”

This is just as effective as night vision, but it’s a decent skill. It takes a while to say that it is accompanied by a little pain… But it seems like a good skill once you learn it. Because you don’t know how many things will get hurt in the future. The real problem is the last skill.

[Summon Tentacles: Summons tentacles from the other world. Enemies near the summoning circle are crushed.]

Tentacle Summon is also a pretty good skill if you look at the effect alone.

Each of the skill names is missing a screw somewhere, but it might be a job that is a cultist or a priest from another world, a job that can be unexpectedly reclaimed. Is it a hidden job that you do it all by yourself?

“First..”

For now, I have no intention of learning human sacrifice. In order to use it, you have to find and kill people, but it doesn’t seem like it’s a bit much to kill people from the beginning of the destruction. If I did, I would be caught and killed as a serial killer. And get closer to God. I don’t even know what the god is doing, but what is the good thing about being close to a god who tells me to kill people? Something terrible is about to happen…

If you receive even a stupid quest to annihilate a survivor camp, it’s over. This is bad. Individually. How much effort would it take to destroy a survivor camp…

You don’t need to get the altered vision right away. If it’s really dark, you can find a flashlight and use it. Of course, it’s not a skill that seems to end with being able to see in the dark, but I didn’t think to learn it right away.

All that remains is flesh filling up and tentacle summoning.

“Choose tentacle summon.”

There are no injuries right now, so wouldn’t it be better to learn attack skills first? If you learn the filling flesh, you can recover yourself, so it’s definitely good, but I’m not attracted to it. The explanation that it is accompanied by pain is also a bit awkward. For some reason, I feel like I’m going to hurt you maliciously.

[The skill is applied.]

The moment I learned the skill, how to use the skill was imprinted in my head. It was as if I had stabbed my brain lightly with an awl, and it hurt so much that I would not hesitate to fall to the floor.

“Ahhh…!”

Various unidentified letters float around in my head. And I was able to naturally know how to use the skill.

The pain subsided and several drops of saliva dripped from his mouth.

All you have to do is draw a pentagram with your hand while reciting a spell. Then, a round circle was created and the tentacles stretched out to catch the enemies in front and crush or smash them. If you apply it well, it seems that you can create a summoning circle under the feet of the enemy.

“What is this… It’s so sick.”

I wanted to try it right away, but I couldn’t. There was a whopping 6 mana consumption, and there was a limit of 3 summons per day. There’s no one to kill, so you can’t overuse your skills. This is a technique used as an instant kill at the moment of desperation.

“Next, achievement reward…”

Achievements, or rewards you get for completing challenges.

There is no detailed information on how to achieve the achievement, so it would be nice to just accept it as a feeling of luck if you achieve it.

[Choose a reward.]

[One. Zombie repellent]
[2. Zombie antidote]
[3. 5 inventory slots]

“Oh.”

The zombie repellent was a spray that did not attack zombies for 2 hours. Can be used a total of 3 times. It is great that it can be used for a total of 6 hours. Zombie antidote is a dog that detoxifies if eaten or fed within 5 minutes of being bitten. 5 inventory slots literally means you have 5 inventory slots.

“Ha. This worries me.”

All of them are useful or immediately necessary rewards. You don’t even know when you’ll be able to achieve the achievement again, and there’s no law that such a luxurious reward will come out next time.

‘Zombie reblowjobnt…’

The moment you get the zombie repellent, you can go outside. Zombies won’t attack me, so if I kill zombies until the effect wears off, won’t I level up quickly? Moreover, it has been used 3 times. That’s a pretty good reward.

‘It’s hard to give up the antidote.’

Actually, this is a really great item. It almost feels like taking an extra life with you. If you get this and get bitten by a zombie, you can take it off right away. If later, even if you have a valuable companion, you can eat a bottle of this without shedding tears even if you get bitten by a zombie.

‘Inventory room 5 too.’

As expected, geography is a reward in utility. Can you put up to 5 of anything? Moreover, the previous rewards are consumable, so they disappear when used, but the inventory is a permanent reward. Because you can put anything in it and you can use it until you find it.

“I think I’m going crazy.”

My head feels like it’s going to explode, probably because these are things that are related to my life right now.

‘Okay. Let’s go for zombie repellent. The antidote is… As long as you don’t get bitten. Inventory too. Oh, I’m so sorry I just need to carry a bag.’

Repellents take precedence. All I have to eat at home right now is a few bags of ramen. Whether it’s a supermarket or a mart, you have to go out immediately and collect food before it runs out so you can plan for tomorrow. Even if you choose an inventory, it is meaningless if you cannot do something about those zombies right away.

I don’t want to miss the spray because I’m preoccupied with the inventory with a way to avoid getting noticed by zombies. After all, the inventory is meaningful only when it can survive those abnormal things.

‘2 hours for one use… 6 hours for consecutive uses. If I make good use of this, I think I’ll be able to farm well and rob something that lasts for more than a month…’

Whether you make a weapon or pick it up and use it, you can easily find one even if you rob a hardware store. Roughly, 6 hours will pass quickly if you rob our neighborhood, but it seems that a fruitful frost is possible.

“Give me a zombie reblowjobnt.”

[Pay the reward.]

As soon as the window disappeared, a small spray appeared. There was an instruction manual attached to it, but it was said to be roughly sprayed on the face.

“Good…”

-Boom! Boom! Boom!

-Uuuuu!!

“Whoa… My choice wouldn’t have been wrong…”

Now I have a way to quell those zombie bastards trying to break through my front door. Just spray it, go out and push it to the railing and you’re done.

Be prepared to go outside and use the spray. I get annoyed when I waste time.

“I think you’d better get a weapon…”

First of all, I can’t use the frying pan anymore because the handle is clumsy. Is there anything that can be used as a weapon? First, I searched the kitchen for anything that seemed useful.

“It’s a kitchen knife…”

A kitchen knife is unlikely to be a very useful weapon against zombies. Those who have already fallen behind will not die even if they inflict more small wounds, and in text messages, they must smash their heads or cut their necks to die, but the kitchen knife has a very short reach and cannot be used as a blunt weapon. Still, it’s a good thing to kill people, so take care of it.

While searching the house again to find a weapon of appropriate length, he found a baseball bat in the closet.

“Oh, I forgot about this.”

Since I live alone, I thought I would need a bat to use for self-defense if something happened, so this is a baseball bat I bought the year before last. This would be enough to break the skulls of zombies. I’ll spray it and go out and break all the earthenware pots.

‘Then this is the weapon… Is there anything to eat at home?’

There were only two cans of beer and three bottles of water in the refrigerator. There wasn’t even kimchi.

The refrigerator was empty, and the only thing to eat was two bowls of instant rice and one cup of ramen.

I don’t think I can last even a week. I also have to go out and shake something.

‘As expected, procurement of food is urgent… If water, electricity, and gas are cut off, then it’s really heading to the ground, so it would be nice to stock up on bottled water…’

In the 2020s, climate change, including global warming, reached its peak, and now, 22 years later, winter and summer have become extremely cold and hot.

To add a bit of exaggeration, in summer it is so hot that it is difficult to go outside during the day, and in winter it is extreme cold that is perfect for getting hypothermia while walking around at night.

‘If it’s cold, the only way is to wear as much clothing as possible…’

Death from hypothermia is an instant. I know it relatively well because I’ve played similar survival games a few times. The fact that people unexpectedly die so easily.

There are no women who are good at skin-to-skin, so you have to take care of your clothes as much as possible.

‘It’s hard to move in long padding, so pass it… I think he told me to wear a lot of thin clothes.’

As I was checking the closet, recalling the survival knowledge I had seen on the Internet, I heard something strange.

– Smart smart.

It was a regular noise, unlike the zombies scratching at the front door with ignorance. It was the sound from next door.

“What is it… It looks like the person next door was alive..?”

The woman lives alone next door. I don’t know how old he is, but I’ve run into him occasionally on the way to work. We didn’t say hello to each other loudly, but sometimes we heard the girl next door and her boyfriend fighting. They almost killed each other. It seems to have been a little less since about 2 months ago.

Anyway, I put my ear to the wall at the regular knocking sound.

– Smart smart. Hey…

When I put my ear to the wall, I heard the voice of the woman next door.

“Are you alive there?”

-Ah yes! Thank god…!

The woman was delighted with a very welcome voice.

– Hey… Do you want to come over to my house?

This woman must have had a rather novel experience in the past three days… She invites strangers so easily. What to do Should I go? What if it’s a trap…

“Uh, there are a lot of zombies outside the door…”

-Hey… Come to the veranda. You can break down the lightweight partition for fire evacuation there and come in.

“Oh!”

I took out all the clutter in the veranda cabinet and broke the partition with a baseball bat. I hit it with a little force, and the wall crumbled and connected to the next door.

“Oh, welcome.”

The woman next door greeted me awkwardly.

The girl next door I hadn’t seen in a long time was pretty.