Chapter 111 – Zombie Apocalypse 2 (19)

After confirming that the real Naeun had fallen asleep while holding onto my clothes, I called up the status window without saying a word.

【Yusian】

【Level: 3】

【Combat Power: 440】

【Skills: Underworld Possession (A), Self-Establishment (A+2), Survival Rules (A), Shadow Mastery (E+2), Smoke Flame Magic (5 stars)】

【Quest in progress (7/8)】

『Quest』

〈 Organize your enlightenment and create skills. 〉

-Upon completion: [Skill]?

What I brought up is the status window of Yu Xian, who received the quest, not the currently possessed Lee Xian.

‘I have five skills.’

Summer Possession, a skill that allows me to be possessed in another layer and return.

A skill that establishes one’s self, allows one to maintain ‘Yusian’ even after being possessed, and becomes resistant to mental attacks.

Survival rules, a skill that consumes mental power to increase senses and helps restore physical strength.

Shadow Mastery, a skill that allows you to utilize shadows by creating negative attribute mana.

Flame magic, a skill that absorbs heat, converts internal energy, and allows you to use martial arts containing heat.

Although it is one skill, many things are intertwined to the point where there are details.

What I wanted after receiving that quest was a skill that was versatile and could be used in any world and was involved in growth.

Would it be okay to say that I wanted a non-attribute version of the Lotus Flame Divine Technique? It would be great to learn such skills, but that is not what ‘Yusian’ should do.

Improving the Yeonyeom Shingung is left to ‘Han Xian’.

Strengthening Shadow Mastery is left to ‘Cyan Raven’.

It is ‘Lee Sian’s job to raise one’s senses with the rules of survival.

And what ‘Yusian’ will do is connect it all.

『Quest』

〈 Organize your enlightenment and create skills. 〉

-Completion: [Skill] Skill Link (C)

【Skill: Skill Link (C)】

【Connects forces from different sources.】

【One. Boost: Ability is amplified.】

I used my newly acquired abilities right away.

Through the skill link, Shadow Mastery and Flame Magic were connected, and their abilities were amplified.

The dark night when I gained enlightenment.

As I absorbed darkness like a shadow, similar to burning heat, the speed of building up mana in my body became incredibly fast.

*

“I don’t know if I slept or not.”

My head was a little dizzy, but my body was definitely light.

Does skill link also use mental power as a resource rather than mana?

I thought this might be because the only resource that Lee Sian can handle as a skill link resource is mental strength.

Still, overnight, something that could be called a lump of mana was created.

It felt like the grains of rice I could count had grown, but this was enough to force me to use Shadow Armor.

Although it is still impossible to use it offensively, having mana in her body increases her combat power.

While I was leaving, I checked Lee Sian’s status window.

【1】

【Lee Sian-(75%)】

【Level: 4】

【Combat Power: 924】

【Holding Skill: [Skill] Survival Rules (A)】

【Awaiting Quest (7/7)】

It definitely grew overnight.

Although I have not yet reached level 5, which can be said to be a level transcender, I felt that there was not much left if I could use skill links to collect mana.

In order for Lee Sian to grow dramatically, the answer is to strengthen his survival rules.

Maybe it’s because I’m getting stronger now, but the quest didn’t come.

Because Yu Xian’s quest clear count reversed yesterday.

What? Has it finally turned around? Last time I was possessed, it was only 6 days, but I did 7 things.

In addition, I did the tutorial-linked quest here in the beginning.

‘I don’t know.’

How important is the number of quests cleared? Anyway, I’m getting stronger.

I went to the bathroom, washed my face, and took the dry metal bat out of the bathroom.

And then I lay down next to Naeun again and spent some time playing with my smartphone.

The information I was looking for was focused on evolved zombies rather than synthetic zombies, but not many videos were uploaded.

The incident in which an evolved zombie exploded a nuclear power plant in leader was so intense that other things seem to have been buried.

And what was helpful in checking domestic information was the video posted by the government every day.

The video showed the approximate direction of movement of the zombie group. If the group is not dealt with in time, evolved zombies will appear.

There was a little more at the end of the video, which I usually don’t skip, and when I continued watching, I saw the nationally designated evacuation centers for each region.

Most middle and high schools were designated, but among them, Hyorim High School, whose name I heard last night, caught my eye.

First, is that the official shelter in our area? If food supplies are only distributed to official shelters in the future, there may be some problems.

Because not everyone waits kindly.

“Where did you go…?”

I felt Naeun’s sleepy voice from behind me and a hand pulling the hem of my clothes.

“What are you talking about when you grabbed my clothes?”

I slightly moved her body, took her hand away, and rubbed my forehead against Naeun’s forehead.

“Ahaha. It hurts.”

When I removed the forehead, I was able to see that Naeun’s forehead was slightly red.

“Are you awake?”

“Yeah. I thought my forehead was on fire.”

Naeun rubbed her forehead with her hand and got up from her bed.

“I’ll take a shower and come back.”

Naeun went into the bathroom and waited while charging her smartphone. Naeun came out of the bathroom looking clean.

And then we opened the box containing the clothes we swept up from the department store.

“To change clothes?”

“Yeah. We’ve been wearing these for a few days. We can do laundry, so wouldn’t it be nice to do it?”

“Because there is no washing machine here. Is there any laundry soap?”

“Yes. I saw it at the grocery store yesterday where there are supplies. Let’s bring it after breakfast. Sian, you should change too.”

Naeun gave me sportswear that matched my size.

If I wear my clothes for this long, they will get damaged, so I thought it would be a good idea to wash them when I have time.

I picked these up from the sportswear section of a department store, and the top and bottom set was quite expensive, so I felt comfortable even when I changed into new clothes.

After changing into new clothes and taking our weapons and smartphones to protect ourselves, we came out of the office and met Lee Du-jin, who was looking around at the entrance of the mart.

“Hello?”

“Yes. Are you here to water the garden?”

“When the weather gets hot, lettuce doesn’t grow well, so we have to control the temperature by giving it water.”

There is something like that. The patrol team is out on morning patrol, so it might be a good idea to watch us spray water.

Since the water is sprayed with a rubber hose, it doesn’t take that long, but it definitely makes noise.

Dujin Lee started spraying water on the garden using the rubber hose in the sink.

With the cool sound of water, the garden began to become moist, and I began to detect presence.

At that time, I sensed something appearing in the air behind me.

“Sian!”

I tightened my grip on the hand holding the iron bat and turned around to increase the distance.

“Krrrr!!!”

As soon as the blue-skinned zombie came out of thin air, her eyes turned red, and she made a low sound when she saw me.

“Huh?! It’s a zombie!!!”

The zombie was aiming at me, and when Lee Du-jin saw it, he shouted loudly, and the zombie’s head turned towards Lee Du-jin.

Did that kid volunteer to work as a farmer because he doesn’t have a wall like that?

Naeun was much better in the combat aspect.

When the zombie that moved the target started running towards Lee Du-jin, Lee Du-jin quickly turned the rubber hose and sprayed water on the zombie, and the water drenched Naeun and me.

“Lee Du-jin! We changed our clothes today!”

Whoa, whoa!

I predicted and hit a moving zombie with an iron bat.

The zombie’s head and part of its upper body were crushed with a heavy sound that could not be heard from a baseball bat.

“Uuuuuch”

Lee Du-jin vomited when he saw the zombie’s corpse.

Fortunately, it was done on the floor of a car wash, not a garden, so I think I can just flush it away.

“But this thing is really strong?”

I lifted an iron bat covered in zombie blood and flesh.

Because it was made by roughly weaving together door frames, it did not have a smooth body like a baseball bat, but that also seemed to be part of its destructive power.

The only time I had used it against people was to push their faces away, so this was the first time I swung it with all my might, and I was satisfied with it.

Naeun went to the sink, turned off the water, and then approached me.

“Sian, can’t you make the weapon a little neater?”

“Isn’t it okay to show ignorance as much as you look ignorant?”

And first, I have to change my clothes one more time.

As soon as I take out my new clothes and put them on, I wonder what this is.

*

Naeun and I changed her clothes again and cleaned up the garden.

Since Lee Doo-jin and I ate the same thing yesterday, there was no need to check what we ate.

The marks were washed away with water, and the zombie’s corpse was also brought to the incinerator and thrown into the incinerator.

Before learning the skill link, I would have tried to accept even that contaminated mana, but now I decided to just throw away the ineffective contaminated mana.

“Ha. Ha. Is that how zombies actually die?”

Lee Do-jun, who was waiting for me to leave the zombies, asked.

“No. Should I stay at the supermarket as a customer for no reason?”

Lee Do-jun nodded his head and asked me carefully, feeling like he was shaking.

“If the garden fails…”

“That doesn’t mean I’ll break my head. But I might get a little greedy now that my seed is gone.”

“Hehe… I understand.”

When I playfully scared him, Lee Doo-jin ran into the supermarket in a panic.

Why not look for a paper on gardens and lettuce?

And so the morning of the 9th day dawned.

Smashing zombie heads every morning shouldn’t become a daily routine.