Chapter 103 Everyone Has A Past, Don't They?

Entering the area of the building, I looked around to find a dozen zombies crawling all around the reception area. Though before I can begin.

"Here, take this," Myla spoke as she gave me a handgun as she continued,"are you really going to barge in with only a crossbow?"

Taking her gun, I put it on my back before giving the crossbow to Caroline,

"Use this only when you feel like you have no options, okay? I will tell you more about this crossbow later."

Blankly, she nodded at me as she took the crossbow. As for Myla, she just observed the crossbow with slight jealousy. I then looked at Myla and asked,"do you have a knife?"

As a person from the military, she would surely have a knife, right? And sure enough, she took out a knife from the tip of her rifle before passing it to me. I thanked her again before turning to the zombies.

"You guys just give me a minute," I spoke before swiftly moving towards the zombies. Myla looked like she wanted me to stop, but before she could even speak, I reached one of the zombies and

[You have killed an E-Grade Zombie!]

[+50 Exp Received]

Been a while since I saw this System message.

[Level: 10 (79280/80000 Exp)]

'All right, let's continue then,' I thought before moving to another zombie and then to another, and to another before all the zombies were killed in this area. I didn't need any skills to kill all the zombies here. Even without it, I finished it quite fast and returned back to Caroline and Myla.

"What happened to you two?" I questioned as I looked at their blank faces. For the next few moments, they couldn't even speak anything and I just observed them and smacked their head

-POW!

-POW!

"Ouch!" x 2

Then both of them just kept gazing at me before Caroline spoke,"don't blame us for getting surprised. What the heck was that?!"

"Not like the first time you have seen me doing this?" I asked as I remember using [Temporal Deceleration] even before in front of her. Just what was shocking now?

"No... this was different. This time you weren't just agile, earlier you were fast and strong but still cautious and careful but now you were literally cutting through them as if you were slicing bread and butter,"she explained the difference between last time and this time... which was actually true.

I really was taking things seriously before... hmmm... maybe all this power got to my head? I should not overestimate myself though... After all, I had seen by my own two eyes how powerful the enemy can be.

"Wait! What is going on here.... What just happened?" Myla, who finally came out of shock, spoke out as she turned to me before looking at Caroline, who pitied Myla for a few moments. Then Caroline sighed before explaining a few things regarding me and how I was a bit different from others.

I didn't mind Caroline telling about me, but it was quite interesting to see the reaction of Myla when she received all the information. And after all things were said and heard,

"So let me take this more properly... Michael is strong... or should I say, way stronger than any of us. And his powers are untraceable by anyone among you, or perhaps anyone at all? Also... he has some special skills? Did I get that correct?" Myla spoke, and we both nodded.

I then saw Myla look at me for a few moments before speaking,"honestly if I hadn't seen things with my own eyes... believing it would have been near impossible."

"Why so? People in your base should have figured it out, no?" I spoke, and she looked at me surprised for a few seconds before she sighed,"yeah... I guess it's not much of a secret, is it now?"

Her eyes traced Caroline as she spoke that.

It was true. People were getting strong really fast and it would be a matter of time before someone as strong as me would appear too... at least as much as I had shown Myla.

"But still. Your power is something that we expected to appear in about 4 to 5 months, that too as rare cases. Looks like the reports need to be changed," she spoke, and I just looked at her for a few moments before speaking,

"Can you 'not tell' this to the military?"

She looked at me for a few moments before an understanding expression came on her face. Looks like she really looked into my life. Turning to Caroline... sigh... she too knows about me, huh?

I then shook my head as I looked at Myla and she answered,"all right. I will mention it as 'someone that powerful appeared.' Is that fine?" and I nodded before speaking,

"If they repeat the mistake they made last time," I said with a kind and humble smile before continuing,"I will obliterate them without any hesitation."

A chill ran down their spines as they looked at me and gulped a little. Turning around, I began walking towards the stairs to reach floor 1.

Just remembering the past, my mood was a bit spoiled and I kind of didn't want to talk anymore. I simply turned silent and plastered a smile on my face as I tried to think of something good.

As soon as I reached the first floor

[Temporal Deceleration!]

[Temporal Deceleration (Copy)!]

I then killed the 3 zombies on this floor in an instant.

Deactivated my skill.

"Only 3 here. Killed them,"informed the two girls with a smile before moving to the next floor.

"Only 4 here," next floor.

"Only 2 here."

"Only 8 here."

"Only 5 here."

"Only 7 here."

.

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Soon I reached Floor 17 and...

[Level +1]

[+5 Stat Points]

[+5 Skill Points]

[New Skill Unlocked: Time Skip]

[Time Skip]

[Allows the user to skip time for any non-living object. Note that the user needs to be at least within 10 meters radius of that object.

Cost: 0TP]