Chapter 4 – 4. Capturing a Slave on the Street

I hit the heads of the zombies blocking the stairs and went downstairs. It’s inconvenient to move because they’re blocking the road. It would be nice to clean it up on the way down.

Of course, I didn’t waste too much time hunting zombies. Right now, the goal isn’t zombie hunting. I roughly hit my head and ran to the first floor.

“Get out of the way, damn it!”

Randomly pushing the zombies down the stairs, they ran to the convenience store, trampling on the backs of their necks to prevent them from getting up again. It didn’t run at full speed. As I ran at a moderate speed while distributing my stamina, I immediately saw a convenience store with its door wide open.

‘Seeing the door wide open like that, it must have been robbed already…’

As I expected, there was almost nothing left in the convenience store, let alone food or daily necessities. It’s because I didn’t know for a while, but it’s already been three days since the destruction began. In the middle of the day, the awakened guys in this neighborhood must have robbed all the convenience stores.

“Shit.”

Still, I was able to pack a few packs of cigarettes, the most important goal I was trying to pack at the convenience store. Not many, just three. No, I never thought I would have taken all of my cigarettes with me. The guy who turned here first must have been pretty lame.

‘Even the equipment warehouse was robbed…’

After checking the convenience store warehouse, I immediately hit the heads of two zombies lingering at the entrance and ran outside. Judging by the coin coming in, it seems that both of them died in one blow.

As it was, I crossed the road full of cars stopped and entered the pharmacy on the first floor of the shopping mall opposite. As expected, there were several zombies hanging around inside, so I went inside and split all the heads. As I hit the heads of the zombies in succession without stopping, the shock was transmitted to my wrist and it felt a little stiff. If you do it wrong, you may stretch ligaments or swell your wrists, so I need to be more careful.

“Under…”

As expected, the pharmacy was also robbed by passengers. Still, I didn’t scrape all of them, probably because they had a conscience. I hurriedly swept the pills into my bag before anyone else came.

Headache medicine and anti-inflammatory painkillers, antibiotics and a lot of cold medicine, antidiarrheal medicine, anthelmintic medicine and so on. Not only the drugs you can see, but even the things in the drawer. Bandages, bands, wrist guards, and a few other guards for related parts were left, so I packed them all. When I looked at it all, it was pretty thick. Unfortunately, there were no vitamins or supplements left.

The captured wrist guards were put on right away.

“With this, the pharmacy is done…”

When I checked the watch on my phone, 30 minutes had already passed. Time goes by way too fast than you think. I haven’t been able to rob the pharmacy yet… But my heart is impatient.

I managed my stamina moderately and ran to the nearby large mart. I was able to arrive when I was a little out of breath. The mart was already occupied by someone. The entrance was barricaded with cars.

“What, I already sold it.”

First of all, there is a force that occupied the mart. This is really bad news.

The guy who was looking around on the roof of the mart saw me and shouted.

“Don’t come any closer! Shoot when it comes!”

Two on the roof, one standing at the entrance and glaring at me. I immediately hid myself. I don’t know what they’re going to do with me. He even had a handgun used by the police. That looks pretty dangerous. It’s awakening, it’s nabal, and it’s still a level 1 dog, so if you get shot, it’s the same as normal people.

Let’s leave without regret. If there are guys who can occupy that road in 3 days and even barricade it with cars, there must be quite a few Awoken people there. I am not the opponent to do anything alone.

You should blame me for starting later than them. Still, if you’re lucky, you’re lucky. It’s a situation where you’re lucky just not to come after me and try to kill me.

“The mart is also out…”

I ran to the hardware store. It’s not a very big hardware store. A local hardware store that might have a faucet or a few.

“Sher, the shutters are down…”

The entrance was cut.

“You can open it and go in!”

As I tried to lift the shutter with a grunt, a terrifying voice came from inside.

“Go away! If you open the shutter, it will break your head right away! I am an Awoken!”

It was the voice of the hardware store man. He didn’t feel the need to open the shutter to see if the uncle was an awakened person.

“Ah, uncle! I only have one paru…”

“Doesn’t exist! Get out of here! It’s a zombie trap, so get out of here!”

Damn… Unexpected events are happening one after another. Almost all convenience stores and pharmacies have been robbed, a group of survivors have already settled in the mart, and the man at the hardware store is screaming at me to fuck off.

There’s nothing to see at Daiso.

“Is it real?”

There were people who had already settled in the real Daiso. He was even holding a bow from where he got it, but if he hadn’t left quickly, he would have been hit.

If you do this well, you might be able to see the mart guys and Daiso guys fighting over territory. Unless, of course, I starve before then.

“Shit.”

After all, in a destroyed world, other people are hell. You must be prepared to kill and steal them all. If I don’t, I’m going to die.

Should I grit my teeth and crawl in and kill them all and loot them? Can I go in with a baseball bat and kill them all and escape?

Too much The tentacle summoning skill is also limited to 3 times a day, and once you use it, you can’t use it again until you run out of mana. Shouldn’t this have just been a human sacrifice? Or should I have shot the rising flesh and hit the ground while being beaten? I don’t know.

Meanwhile, the effective time of zombie repellent continues to decrease. You have to go home before the two hours are over. Because I don’t want to use the spray one more time.

“Ha… I need to bring something…”

The only harvest I have now is household medicine and a few packs of cigarettes. I tried snooping around a few restaurants, but almost all of them were cleaned up.

The Korean people’s spirit of hurry was still the same even though the world was destroyed. The speed of plunder is the speed of light.

‘Isn’t it too fast?’

Still, it wasn’t that there was no harvest at all. There was an open door to a snack bar in the alley, so I went inside and a zombie lady wearing an apron greeted me. I easily split her hair and searched the kitchen, and found several bags of ramen with an expiration date.

‘I must have been robbing here…!’

In the refrigerator, I was able to find some wilted vegetables such as eggs and green onions, expired fish cakes, similar frozen dumplings, and I was able to bring cooking oil and rice cakes for tteokbokki. Almost all of them were past their expiration dates or were about to pass, so it seemed like they didn’t take them on purpose.

“Are these little things not worth taking care of?

Going further doesn’t seem to make things better.

3 days is a very long time.

In just three days of destruction, the Awakeners had already formed a group, and the survivors had united and built a base. Now, it’s hard for me to force myself into their midst. The situation of being cut at the entrance as if kicking a ladder continues to occur. To fit into their gap is the only way to prove or show off my strength, and that’s also undesirable.

Should I pick up a zombie head while I’m just out?

“Die!”

He broke the heads of the zombies wandering the streets.

The more I catch and kill them, the more coins I don’t know where to spend.

As soon as I smashed about thirty rotten heads like that, a notification popped up.

[The level has risen by 1.]
[Select a job skill.]

[Jang Jo-jun]
[Level: 2]
[Class: Cultist]
[Muscle Strength: 17] (13+4)
[Agility: 15] (12+3)
[Health: 14] (11+3)
[Will: 20] (18+2)
[HP: 20] (10+10)
[Lucky: 666]
[Skill: Tentacle Summons]

Abilities have increased slightly overall. Thanks to that, my body feels lighter. The hand holding the baseball bat was strong. Now, the confidence to be able to smash real zombie babies with one shot springs up. And mana went up a lot. Climbing 10 at once. Is it because your job is a cultist?

Anyway, the lucky number doesn’t change. I don’t know if it’s the original stat that doesn’t change or if I’m the only one who’s fixed at 666, but let’s ignore it. It’s because it doesn’t seem like fun and happy things happen just because your luck is high.

I went into an empty building to take a skill.

[Choose a skill]

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

A new skill was created in place of the tentacle summon. That’s a very interesting name…

“Because it’s a slave brand… Gulp.”

[Enslave Brand: Makes the subdued target a slave. A slave absolutely obeys the master’s commands.]

This is a really, really cool skill. You can enslave anyone just by subduing them. He could go home right away and subdue Lee Eun-ji and enslave her. After making her a slave, it’s enough for me to do as I please. No worries about being betrayed. It could even lead to suicide attacks.

It is perfect. Not choosing this is sick.

“As a slave brand…”

[The skill is acquired.]

“Kuh…!”

This time, as if digging through my head, how to use the skill was entered. As expected, I couldn’t stand the dizzying pain and let out a drop of saliva.

“Kreak…”

Using the skill was a bit tricky. The subdued subject must be brought to their knees, then cut through the thumb and the blood smeared on the opponent’s forehead. It just wasn’t an easy skill to use. It is a skill that requires some kind of conscious action to use.

It costs 10 mana.

“Haha…”

I managed to gather my senses and stood up from my seat.

Whining. The cell phone alarm rang.

An hour and a half has already passed. It’s a 15 minute drive to the house. Now I have to go back slowly.

“Time goes by so damn fast… But I still have to go home and use my skills…”

“There! Stop!”

Thinking of quickly subduing Lee Eun-ji and making her a slave, I was on my way home in a hurry when someone called me.

“Put down your bag and baseball bat and go away.”

Loaded arrows. Archers or a woman with a useful bow were glaring at me.

‘Ha, fuck. I heard it’s 666 luck. This is fucking unfortunate… Isn’t it? Maybe… This could be an opportunity…’

That woman looked like an awakened person like me. She must have sprayed her with zombie repellent spray since she didn’t see her zombies getting attracted to her right away.

I don’t know what skills he has, but I’m glad I didn’t shoot an arrow right away. I don’t know if I would have followed it if I had just randomly hit my head. The conversation is cold. I was so complacent that there were no people on the street.

“…”

Without a word, I put my bag and baseball bat on the floor.

“Raise your hands! Get out of here.”

Until I got far enough, the woman seemed unwilling to unstring her bowstring.

‘Such a bitch…’

I stepped back, trembling like a really frightened coward. That woman did her best to act carelessly. As soon as the woman was far enough away from me, my performance seemed to have worked, she lowered the bowstring for a moment and quickly picked up her bag. I’m thinking of taking it and running away.

Being generous to others like an idiot. Mojiri year. You should have shot me as soon as you saw me. Let me remind you of the dangers of foolish sympathy.

“Al-Rakum-Ruey.”

Even the pentagram was perfectly drawn with his right hand!

Sensing her danger in her moment, she tried to lift her bow again, but I was faster. Without time to deal with it, a round glowing purple magic circle was formed in an instant, and a bundle of pink tentacles extending from the center grabbed the woman’s body.

“Town!!!”

A woman whose limbs were bound. The tentacles coiled up to her mouth and neck, giving me a perfect grip. If I give a little bit of strength here, that woman will explode to death. If you squeeze her open palms into her fists, her tentacles will crush what you’re holding.

Of course, that’s not a very good ending. In the destroyed world, he captured the awakened woman so perfectly. And now I have the fucking slave brand skill. There is no answer to this now other than making them slaves. Even her lower body looks pretty strong, probably because she was a woman who used to exercise… A well-balanced figure overall. It’s very cool.

She doesn’t look as good as the pure slender Lee Eun-ji, but with that kind of body, she’s quite enough to put an end to my mother-in-law’s life. It overflows because it is not enough. Thank. For not killing me right away and giving me a justification for capturing and enslaving me. Maybe my lucky number of 666 is a fucking number.

How can I have such a wonderful woman as my own?

All sorts of dark thoughts ran through my head.

Hehe.”

I approached the woman. Perhaps that woman might have a strange skill like mine, so she didn’t relax.

“Town! Town!!”

The woman’s eyes were stained with fear. A few drops of her tears also fell. She’s terrifying, though, as all of a sudden gooey, slippery pink tentacles stretch out and bind her whole body. But I’m so damn excited right now. It’s a historic moment when I get my hands on the first slave in my life.

She slightly loosened the tentacles around her mouth.

“Hey. Don’t rebel really die.”

“Eup… Please… Save me…”

[The opponent has succumbed to you.]

Good. A notification window popped up as if to make this woman her slave right away. It’s over. Now all it takes is blood on the thumb of her left hand.

The right hand is controlling the tentacle, so it cannot move. She tried to cut it with a cleaver, but it seems the only way is to bite it with her teeth.

Aww

“Ugh… Fuck… That fucking hurts…”

In the anime, when you summon a toad, you just bite your thumb and bleed. In fact, it is not unusually painful to bite and bleed. It doesn’t tear the flesh well.

Still, she bit into it with her fangs and drew blood. Because there is no time to hesitate because it hurts. She has to quickly make her a slave and take her home.

“You, from now on, be my slave.”

She placed her thumb on her forehead.

Chi profit…

As if a real brand was being stamped, smoke rose and a notification window popped up.

[The player ‘Seong Harin’ has been enslaved.]
[Achievement achieved! ’12 Years a Slave’]
[Achievement achievement reward will be given.]

Haha… Even the achievements. It feels really good.