Chapter 64 Prefight Preparations

'The Parking area and the park, huh?' I pondered about the locations of the place for a few moments.

There were three ways out of the building to the outer area. One was through the park at the end. The other was through the basement gate that would directly take me to that Lesser C-Grade Zombie.

The final was the main gate through which the zombies were trying to come. The one that was connected to the central reception area.

Other than that, there was one more thing that the system did not include: the convenience store within the infrastructure of the area. Wonder why there is no message about that…

I had already seen the places where the Zombies were through the balcony of the first floor and after a few minutes of consideration; I decided to take the door from the park side.

Slowly walking towards the Park area, I sighed as I saw a couple of zombies standing against the Glass gate. They were just standing there doing nothing, and I wondered what they were trying to do.

[E-Grade Zombie: A zombie who has gained the power of another Zombie and now is on the verge of Evolution to the next Phase

Reward for Killing: +50 Exp]

[E-Grade Zombie: A zombie who has gained the power of another Zombie and now is on the verge of Evolution to the next Phase

Reward for Killing: +50 Exp]

Same as before, there was nothing strange about them and without pondering much, I opened the door and saw them coming towards me.

"Hello Ladies. Are you new here? Never seen you here," I spoke with a smile as I greeted them.

"Rwar?" They too came closer to hug me with a hungry look on their face.

'Couldn't wait to eat up a handsome guy, huh?' I spoke before…

[Temporal Declaration!]

And then I decided to absorb them for Cronas

[+5 Cronas]

[+5 Cronas]

Leaving the two of them to sleep peacefully, I then moved towards the Zombies in the park.

"Finally outside the building, huh?" I spoke with a relaxed and freer look as I moved towards the closest Zombie.

[Lesser E-Grade Zombie: A normal Zombie, whose Zombie Genes have completely taken over its Human Genes

Reward for Killing: +25 Exp]

I saw his status, before proceeding to absorb him as well.

[+3 Cronas]

The more I moved forward, I looked up the building for a few moments before turning at the Zombies again. Then I proceeded to kill a few more Zombies starting from the closest one.

[+5 Cronas]

[+3 Cronas]

[+5 Cronas]

[+5 Cronas]

"RWARRR!!" I heard a child zombie shouting loudly as he turned at me. He was faster than the others, enough to match my current speed even when I was using [Temporal Deceleration].

[Pincer(D-Grade Zombie): Evolved its claws to the point of making it sharp enough to pierce even through the toughest materials. He also has twice the agility of an average D-Grade Zombie.

Reward: +125 Exp]

I saw him running towards me at a rapid speed. Though with my ability still active, his speed was relative to that of an average child walking towards me at a fast pace.

Looking at the other two Zombies reaching towards me, I took a few steps back to deal with that kid first.

That Kid Zombie almost reached me and, using the golf stick, I first put him down

-Bang!

Of course, he didn't die with just that. In fact, it was the golf stick that broke on the very first hit.

'Kids these days are really too energetic,' I made a wry expression before holding him on the ground with my foot and using my hands to touch his head.

"Absorb," I commanded, and the system began absorbing the Life energy of that Zombie.

Unlike E-Grade zombies, which were almost instantly absorbed within seconds.

This D-Grade Zombie took about a minute to get fully absorbed. The other Zombies have approached closer to me as well.

[+20 Cronas]

"Hmmm?!" Surprised at the amount of Cronas I received, I looked at that D-Grade Zombie again. Though since the other zombies had already reached me…

[+5 Cronas]

[+3 Cronas]

I absorbed them first before pondering about this difference. Was it because the D-Grade and Lesser D-grade were too far apart in strength and other aspects that I got more Cronas than usual? I didn't know. But that was the best I could think of.

Not really going deep into that, I moved on to kill the other Zombies in the park and soon ended up absorbing all of them, clearing the Park area completely.

I then moved towards the parking area in front of the park. There were a couple of zombies in the Parking area in the walking area and a couple of more near the half-open gate.

I thought a little before moving towards the outer gate as I kept absorbing the Zombie one by one. Reaching the Outer gate, I first killed the zombie outside the building as I took a look at the area outside.

My heartbeat stopped for a few moments as I witnessed the surrounding scene. It was… creepy… scary… gave off an eerie feeling. There were zombies, broken cars, and a creepy silence that covered the entire area. Not even a single living being was visible as far as I could see.

"Brother… mother… father… just a little more time and I will come for you," I spoke with a determines face as I then shook my head and returned inside the apartment's outer area.

Closing the gate from inside, I rubbed my chest a little to wipe off the fuzzy feeling before proceeding towards the Parking area on my left.

[+5 Cronas]

[+7 Cronas]

[+3 Cronas]

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I kept collecting Cronas one by one. There were about 30-40 Zombies in this parking area. Other than that, there were a few cars just sitting there, which I believed could use them later on for various purposes. Though I would need someone who knows about cars first.

"Plus, I need to learn how to drive a car as well," I muttered as I got out of the parking area and proceeded along the road towards the main gate of the building.

[+3 Cronas]

[+5 Cronas]

I killed a couple of Zombies before killing a couple more, and then saw a dozen standing in front of me as they were trying to enter the building from the main gate.

"Excuse me, sirs… madams… don't you think we can deal with this in a more polite way?" I asked in a loud voice, gathering the attention of those zombies as they turned towards me.

"Yes. Yes. That's it. Now you guys get it," I spoke again as I saw them coming towards me one step at a time.

"So as I was saying," I kept speaking as I saw one of the Zombies reaching closer to me

[+ 7 Cronas]

And I absorbed it pretty fast before continuing,"Some…"

[+3 Cronas]

"... things…"

[+5 Cronas]

[+3 Cronas]

"..are easier…"

[+5 Cronas]

[+5 Cronas]

[+3 Cronas]

"...to solve…"

[+5 Cronas]

[+3 Cronas]

[+3 Cronas]

"... peacefully. Don't you think so?" I completed my sentence before absorbing the last E-Grade Zombie.

I looked at the second parking area in front of me where the zombies were heavily infested and then at the Shop on my left about which I was curious for a while.

My eyes also traced the ground where about 50-60 electronics were broken and thrown as if they were rough garbage.

A wry smile formed on my face as I recalled how I threw objects from the top floor to farm some Exp. That was a one of a kind experience as well…

Then I first proceeded to kill the Zombies on the road towards the main gate of the apartment complex and then take a look at the Shop. As for the Parking area, I decided to deal with it in the end.

I reached the Main gate, closed it and then returned to the shop. Soon I found out the reason why the shop wasn't included in the system message.

'Shop is closed for this weekend' was the board hanging on the door of the shop, which made me sigh a little.

'While people would need food for survival, i doubt anyone would break into a closed shop when the threat of survival is on their head,' I thought before leaving the shop as it is. Since it is closed from the outside, human or zombie, I doubt there would be anyone on the inside.

Next I moved towards the heavily infested parking area and looked around, observing the whole thing. There were a couple of cars and… that's it.

'Well, let's start farming I guess,' I thought before moving towards them and began my killing spree. It wasn't really hard. With [Temporal Declaration], even if I had just kept moving forwards and killing everyone, it would have been a breeze.

But not letting it get over my head, I decided to kill the zombies in the bunch by luring them out first.

While this method was a tad bit slower than the first one, I felt like it was much safer than to go and breeze through the Zombies.

'If I ended up getting attacked by a D-Grade Zombie out of nowhere, it won't be funny,' I thought as I kept killing and absorbing those Zombies one at a time.

Sometimes later…

About an hour passed since I kept killing those zombies and they were almost done. Now the question that I wondered about previously… did the quest included the zombies in the basement as zombies in the parking area? Or it counted just the Zombies outside?

[Side Quest: Free the area from zombies!]

[The zombies are roaming freely all around the ground floor, parking area and the surrounding park of the building.

Kill the zombies within the building: 0 Zombies Remaining

Kill the zombies in the parking area: 1 Zombie Remaining

Kill the zombies in the park: 0 Zombies Remaining

Reward: +5 Stat Points; +5 Skill points; Random Skill Upgrade]

"Nice!" I spoke with a bright smile as I first used the skill points I had to upgrade my skill [Second Space] twice, before absorbing the last Zombie, who was under my feet for a while now, without any second thought.

[+3 Cronas]

[Side Quest Complete!]

[+5 Stat points]

[+5 Skill points]

[Skill Upgraded: Eyes of the Time Keeper]