Chapter 128 – Zombie Apocalypse 2 (36)

As expected, the luck breakfast during the day did not show much growth.

There was a possibility that the negative energy remaining in the body was blocking the circulation of mana, so I decided to offset that first.

By converting the accumulated mana into heat to remove the negative energy, most of the negative energy has now been eliminated and only a little remains.

Since this can be removed after a little time, I didn’t think I would need to eat fortune food again.

Naeun was still sleeping like the dead, and after finishing breakfast, I checked the time and saw that it was slightly past lunchtime.

‘I’m sorry for bothering you at the supermarket, so should I eat a nutritional bar?’

Although the supermarket felt like a restaurant, it was not a 24-hour store.

I opened the cardboard box, opened the remaining nutrition bar, and ate it.

If I’m starving later, I’ll have to make some cup ramen and eat it.

Since my stomach was reasonably full, I thought about what to do next and decided to think about the battle in the middle of the night.

I don’t think there was anything special about the battle itself, but I needed to reflect on the Shadow Circle I used at the end.

‘At that time, there were three rings I created.’

This is not my first time using that combination.

I tried the same combination when I exploded the head of the second evolved zombie I encountered, and that time, a black ring added strength to my fist.

Was it possible because the mana I had increased?

There may be some strengthening due to the skill link-boost ability, but I think the supply of mana through shadows had a big impact.

Another possibility is understanding of skills.

Chris Roanna said that even if you easily learn a skill through a quest, you must understand its principles to make it yours.

And with the shadow circle used this time, I was able to see what effect the three rings had.

I haven’t fully grasped the exact principle, but I understand about half of it.

‘Is it because it’s a skill I created?’

And making the ring felt easier than Yeomryunquan Ilryun.

I thought it might be because my skill in creating weapons through Shadow Craft was higher than that of Yeomnyun Fist.

In the end, in order to utilize all abilities equally, other possessed entities must also grow.

After thinking about it, I came to the conclusion that if nothing happened, I should return to Yusian.

‘It was still a possession worth doing this time.’

Before being reincarnated in Lee Sian’s body, he wanted the power to protect Naeun, and in the end, that goal was achieved, and he was reincarnated.

I felt really fortunate that Naeun accepted this strength of unknown origin because it was my strength, so it didn’t seem like our relationship had grown apart.

I gently stroked Naeun’s cheek while she was sleeping, then kissed her, took her smartphone, and got out of bed.

*

“Haaam… What should I do? My rhythm of life is completely ruined.”

Naeun woke up a little later, looked at the clock and said.

The time is now 3pm, and I slept really long.

“Don’t worry, I will force you to make it the way it was.”

“Ugh. I don’t like that. So what are you looking at?”

As Naeun yawned, she got up from the bed and sat down on the sofa.

She showed it to Naeun because she wasn’t seeing anything that wasn’t working.

“What is this? Looks like someone reported it?”

It was an article analyzing whether a photo of a pile of headless corpses turned into a pile of skeletons overnight was a composite or not.

“Yes. Although many things were omitted, I think this is the first example of a zombie that can use something other than physical force.”

Or maybe I knew about it but didn’t make it public.

If this fact is known, it will be difficult for survivors to have hope, and it may cause troublesome problems.

“Still, because there is no concrete evidence, everyone is making strange assumptions.”

There was quite a lot of support for the theory that the flesh of zombies created in the air would naturally melt over time.

“Hmm. I guess that’s inevitable. It’s hard to understand what’s happened so far, but something like this is even more so.”

“There’s someone right next to me who I don’t understand?”

“It’s okay. The prince who protects me may have a secret or two like that.”

Naeun smiled and kissed my cheek and went into the bathroom.

She thought that if it was an absolute ally she could trust, it would be easier for her to just trust it like that.

It’s not like I have a grudge against someone knowingly or unknowingly because I killed someone just because I learned magic.

And the last negative energy was removed with the mana created in the meantime.

Now that we’re ready to go back, let’s check the surroundings one last time.

Skill Link-Boost

Yeonyeom Shingong. Presence detection.

A wave of presence detection that even reads heat began to spread around me.

Starting with Naeun washing her face in the bathroom, I couldn’t help but be surprised as I read the signs of things around her.

‘Why is it here?’

A zombie with a strange heat that was slightly at the edge of the presence detection. Not only the heat but also the outline of the body was exactly the same, so it was definitely the zombie I had fought at dawn.

I thought she was seriously injured, but she’s alive and well?

‘What should I do?’

There is still a lot of time left until night falls.

I can’t use the mana to use Shadow Circle, the strongest skill I can use, because it’s not night.

An enemy that would be difficult to deal with without that power is still alive and well.

Instead, when I used the presence detection boost to find out, the weapon he was carrying seemed to be a sword.

Did you lose your shield then? There were so many bones left, so why did I bring only one sword?

I know it’s dangerous, but I want to check again.

“Sian, I’m hungry.”

Naeun came out of the bathroom and said with a bright smile.

‘Because we haven’t come close yet.’

It was in a position where it caught on the edge of the presence detection boost.

If we come a little closer and the fight becomes unavoidable, then let’s fight again.

I hope the night comes quickly.

*

While eating dinner, whenever I had time, I used the presence detection boost to check the location of the bone zombie.

It moved little by little, but there was no significant change in position.

I couldn’t tell if he had this strange behavior of cutting off zombies’ heads while holding his ground.

After dinner, on my way back to the car wash, I grabbed another window from the supermarket and when it got a little dark, I decided to tell Naeun about the bone zombies.

“Naeun, it looks like the zombie we fought yesterday is still alive. It’s pretty close.”

“Really? Then what should I do?”

“Now that it’s night, I have no choice but to use it one more time.”

“Isn’t she alive because it didn’t kill her?”

“Still, we can buy time to escape like we did yesterday.”

“Okay. Let’s go.”

Naeun decided to trust me and follow me.

She has fewer weapons than yesterday, but I think it’s okay since she knows how to deal with them.

We carefully left the car wash office.

Then, she used her presence detection boost to find out where the bone zombies were staying and went to the place. It was not a large building like a warehouse, but the third floor of an ordinary building.

Even though we approached the Bone Zombie without hiding any sign of our approach, he was unresponsive on the third floor of the building. We decided to activate Shadow Circle at any time and slowly walked up to the level where the Bone Zombie was.

“Naeun, I’ll go in alone.”

Naeun held my face and gave me a short but deep kiss.

“Yes. Don’t get hurt.”

“Okay. I promise.”

I opened the door and entered while raising the assimilation rate with Lee Sian to 100%.

The bone zombie stood still while looking at the moon coming through the window, holding a white sword like it had been used yesterday.

I walked slowly, holding the spear in both hands tightly, and then the bone zombie slowly turned its face towards me.

Yesterday, I was so full of thoughts about fighting that I didn’t really look at her appearance, but the face revealed in the moonlight was a woman that I thought was quite beautiful.

The color of her hair and eyebrows was black, which gave the impression that she was Asian, but her blue eyes gave her a mysterious feeling.

‘Wait a minute, your eyes don’t turn red when you see someone?’

One way to distinguish between humans and zombies was the eyes.

The normally unfocused and blurry eyes turned red the moment they became hostile, but compared to the zombies I had seen so far, that zombie was abnormal.

When I thought about it, when I met him yesterday, I was sure he was a zombie because he was just spouting meaningless sounds from his mouth, but then I realized that his eyes didn’t turn like other zombies.

“What are you?”

“Aaaaah.”

Still making unintelligible noises, the bone zombie slowly fell to her knees.

And with both her hands, she raised the sword she was holding above her head as if presenting it to me.

I would have been scared if it wasn’t an action I didn’t know the meaning of at all, but I was able to understand the meaning behind the movement.

I lowered the spear I was aiming at and slowly approached and grabbed the white sword.

“Thank you, King of Shadows, for freeing my soul.”

The bone zombie that left me those words in the language used by the Cyan Raven turned into powder and disappeared, leaving behind a white sword.

“Not yet king.”

I heard from a strange guy that it was one of the possibilities in the future, but I know that the Cyan Raven I possessed is a long way off.

She held her spear in her left hand and held the sword in her right hand against the moonlight.

The white sword that used human bones to fight me yesterday had an uneven shape, but this sword had a smooth shape.

I cut the air with the sword in my right hand.

Sigh!

Just by hearing the sound of the wind cutting, I could tell that the sword was very sharp.

“What is the tower that the woman fell from?”

Even with my ability to transcend class and possess, there was still a mountain of unknown things.

When we return to Yusian, which exists at the highest level, there is more to be done.