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Chapter 4 - Chapter 4- Level up

Though the boar was not bothered as it was looking for a way to remove the woman's dead body from its tusk to eat and it failed continually. It was his mother Monika who whimpered, as her tears that stopped flowing sometime ago started again but she quickly covered her mouth. That woman on the boar's tusk was her friend, and her husband had gone to pick their son from kindergarten. The boar was most likely their pet pig that mutated.

As Damian saw his mom in tears, and the woman he considered his aunt being treated as a plaything by that dumb pig he was vexed. So as it stepped onto the road still trying to pull his aunt's dead body from its tusk, he came out from behind the car and getting into an axe throwing position he learned from his mentor, who also thought him how to use a wide range of weapons. Taking deep breaths, he circulated the internal energy from his dantain into the meridians in his legs for balance and the hand holding the axe. Drawing his hand far behind him, there was a faint outline of a boar behind him as he roared furiously the axe at the boar.

And in the blink of an eye, it was deeply embedded in the middle of the pig's head. The pig paused for a moment and 5 seconds later fell down with its eyes losing all signs of life until it was dead.

[ Congratulations on your first kill!!! ]

[+500XP ]

[ +100XP (first kill!) ]

[ Level up! ]

[ Level up!! ]

[ Level up!!! ]

[ STATUS ]

Name:- Damien Morales

Age:- 18

Job:- None

Level:- 3

Power level:- 500

Mana:- 39/39

Qi:- 59/59

Strength:- 221

Magic power:- 29

Dexterity:- 20

Wisdom:- 20

Perception:- 15

Vitality:- 200/200

Innate ability:- Multiplication

Unassigned stat points:- 15

[ SKILLS ]

• Beast Varja Technique ( Lvl 3 )

• Axe throwing ( New )

[ You have reached level 3 ( 300/400exp remaining )]

Before looking at the screen that popped up in front of him, Damian quickly ran back behind the car before the zombies on the road noticed him. But he was too late, as the old general on the opposite side of the road noticed him and was staggering disgustingly towards the car with his mouth gurgling with black blood.

Damien was about to step out and deal with it but, he was stopped in his tracks and stared deeply into his shivering sister's eyes. Not even looking at his parents, who were asking themselves if it was really their son who threw the axe. Almost as if knowing what he was about to say, Alice shook her head vehemently with tear filled eyes. "No!Never!! I won't to do it! I won't kill Uncle John.", she exclaimed but in a quiet voice. But Damien only looked at her, he didn't say anything, just looking into her eyes believe but didn't say anything just looks deep into her eyes.

As if speaking telepathically, she stopped sobbing, nodding her head and wiped her tears with her sleeve. And picked up her weapon of choice, a rolling pin, and stood up. Their mother tried to stop her but, Damien also looked at her and shook his head. "She needs this.", he said as he spoke in a low but powerful voice. "And besides if anything happens, I'm here.", he assured. Meanwhile, Alice was having a mental battle. ' I'm about to kill a person, and someone I know at that!! But that's the point, I once knew him but, ...now he's gone and he's never coming back and it's heartbreaking because, what's here now is only an empty shell. I have to put Uncle John out of his misery.' She thought but fear gripped her again. ' But I will still be killing something. A thing that looks like someone I care about... But I have to, I can do it, I need to grow stronger so that I won't be a burden to Damien tomorrow. And also protect him and our parents.' That's when she realized has always been a burden to her brother. She always got into trouble and he always had to come and save her, and even then, all she did was make matters worse. She wanted to change and maybe even return all the favors he had done for her. 'That's right, this is the apocalypse. I'll be seeing even more gruesome scenes. This won't be the end. Maybe by the time I die I would have killed millions of creatures, hehehehe.....hahaha.' She laughed with a determined yet sadistic length in her eyes and with a smile ran up to the zombie with the rolling pin in her hand. The zombie seeing her, increased his staggering pace.

The only thing on Damien's mind was 'So cute!!(⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠)'. But before he could bring out his phone to video the moment, as she was running she surprisingly tripped on a stone and fell face flat on the ground with the rolling pain rolling steadily towards the zombie. The zombie seeing its prey in a state increases pace faster. But before Damien could rush up and slice it's throat, it slipped on the rolling pain and exaggeratedly fell on its neck, breaking it severely and damaging it's brain.

[ Congratulations on your first kill

(⁠ノ⁠◕⁠ヮ⁠◕⁠)⁠ノ⁠*⁠.⁠✧ ]

[ +50XP ]

[+100XP ( first kill!! ) ]

[Level up! ]

[ STATUS ]

Name:- Alice Morales

Age:- 16

Job:- None

Level:- 1

Power level:- 100

Mana:- 21/21

Strength:- 11

Magic power:- 15

Dexterity:- 11

Wisdom:- 13

Perception:- 12

Vitality:- 100/100

Innate ability:- Goddess of luck

Unassigned points:- 5

[ SKILLS ]

• The trip ( New )

After staring at the magical screen for a while, a little embarrassed at her first skill, she got up and ran back to the car squating beside her brother, who kept looking at her as he was trying to hold back his laughter. But she just ignored him with a straight face and snorted. Damien later snapped out of it and realized that four other zombies had noticed them. With the farthest one being 15 m away and the closest one 5 m away. He looked at his parents and they nodded indicating that they were ready, as they too went out with him to kill the zombies. Damien defeated two by himself, with his mother and father throwing up after bashing the brains of the other two. Especially his mother, he could see terror written all over her face.

While comforting his mother, he discussed the screen that appeared in front of them like when the Divine order sent them a message. It seems the world was turning into a video game but, with the difficulty amped up to hellish mode and no respawn. And they could increase their strength by killing monsters. Leveling up and adding stat points. But he knew another way, Cultivation!! Taught to him by his master. It seems they also saw the qi stat in the 'Soul tabs', which is what he calls them now. Meaning they could also increase it and become magic filled tanks.

Mana and magic was self-explanatory already but, he didn't know what exactly he should use it on or with. Strength too was self explanatory, most likely dealing with the amount of strength he could utilize around his body. Dexterity was probably the speed at which the body could react and get out of situations. It probably had to do with strengthening the nerves. Wisdom was probably the computing power of the brain, and how fast you can process and, transmit information. Perception likely had to do with his five senses. Strengthening them to hear, smell, see, taste and sense better. Lastly, he figured that unassigned stat points where distributed after leveling up after fulfilling some conditions. The most path to take concerning his unassigned stat points was to save them in case he needed an boost or advantage while fighting a powerful enemy.

It was obvious that there will be more powerful enemies because, according to the Divine Order, before it all things were equal meaning, they each had their choice and path of evolution. So he has to get stronger fast, and the best way to do that was to get out of this f****** estate first.

AUTHOR:- Hi everyone. It's been a while hasn't it. I was writing this book thinking of going far but medical exams came up and I had to take a break. They want to kill me with their exams (⁠ノ⁠ಠ⁠益⁠ಠ⁠)⁠ノ⁠彡⁠┻⁠━⁠┻ .So next time I'm having an exam I will keep you guys updated and inform you all. But just to inform everyone, I'll be posting one chapter a day so stay tuned and please come back my beloved readers (⁠つ⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠)⁠つ.

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