New zombies

Military Camp.

At this moment, James, Hannah, John, and Richard were all standing in line together for food.

"Damn, I can't believe they took our weapons just because it could be dangerous," John was complaining.

"Don't speak so loudly, if they hear, it could cause problems. At least they left us with our backpacks with food," Richard said to John, who was still irritated.

"Don't worry, at least we'll be safe here. We don't need to be afraid," this time it was James who spoke. He was optimistic because the camp was well protected with sniper towers and several well-equipped soldiers.

Hannah was just watching everyone talk, clenching her fists in anger. She was irritated because the gun she had received from Ethan had been taken, and she even saw where it had been stored. However, she couldn't get close because there was a strong guard.

At that moment, James's voice interrupted Hannah's thoughts.

"Hannah, I searched for the refugees and even asked the guards, but I didn't find your family. Maybe they're in another camp."

Hannah, upon hearing this, was clearly very disappointed, and even thought about leaving the camp at that moment.

"Thanks, James. I also searched the whole camp and didn't find them. I guess I'll have to look in the other camps," Hannah sighed as she thought about everything that could have happened to her parents.

At that moment, the line began to move, and soon it was their turn.

After getting their food and sitting in a corner, they saw several soldiers running towards the gate, all armed. The snipers opened fire, followed by the soldiers. After a few minutes of intense shooting, all the soldiers stopped, and a silence fell over everyone.

After all, they knew what had just happened, but they were happy to see that they were protected.

In another location.

At this moment, Ethan was sitting with several zombie corpses around him.

*You defeated 10 zombies +100 exp*

*Your skeletal wolf defeated 30 zombies +150*

2450/4800

"Wish there was another zombie horde, but I'm only finding these potato chips. What happened to all the zombies?" Ethan sighed.

"Well, I'll have to settle for this exp," Ethan said, activating his skill to summon a skeleton and bringing back his number one skeleton.

Number 1

Level: 1

Strength 3

Agility 5

Endurance 5

Intelligence 1

Ability: Acceleration

Swallow spirits

Until the bones break.

"Well, let's strengthen you, my friend," Ethan walked with the skeleton to the next street and ordered it to attack the zombies there.

The skeleton ran towards the zombies that were attracted by the sound of bones. The skeleton used the acceleration ability right away and appeared next to the zombies, cutting the head off the first zombie. There were a total of 8 in this street.

The skeleton continued towards the other zombies, which were easily defeated.

*Your skeleton defeated 8 zombies + 80*

At that moment, the spirits began to leave the bodies of the zombies, then the skeleton opened its mouth, sucking all the spirits near it.

After devouring all the spirits, there seemed to be no visible change, but Ethan had the impression that the bones were lighter.

Ethan then opened the interface of his skeleton.

Number 1

Level: 1

8/15

There was a new progress bar on the interface. After seeing the quantity, Ethan quickly ordered his skeleton to hunt more zombies.

It didn't take long, and soon his skeleton had killed the 7 remaining zombies and swallowed their spirits.

*Congratulations, your skeleton has leveled up.*

Upon reading the interface, he quickly opened it to see the changes.

Number 1

Level 2

3/30

Strength: 5

Agility: 8

Endurance: 5

Intelligence: 1.5

Ethan was very happy, especially to see that even the intelligence of the skeleton was increasing.

'I have a long way to go, but it's good, I can level up while also increasing my skeleton's level. When it reaches level 10, I'll start leveling up the others to have an elite unit.'

After thinking this, Ethan ordered his skeleton to continue with the slaughter.

But at that moment, Ethan heard the sound of motorcycles coming from the end of the street. As he looked, there were indeed two motorcycles approaching quickly.

'I hope they're not attracting any giant wolves again. But then again, it would be great if they were,' Ethan began to think about the points and exp the wolf could grant him again, not to mention he would have another wolf for his team.

But he soon realized that nothing was chasing the motorcycles. After a few seconds, the two motorcycles stopped in front of him.

Two men got off the motorcycle and stared at Ethan for a few seconds in silence, but soon the shorter one started talking.

"My name is Andrew, and this is my friend George. We watched you fight before with that mutant zombie, and it was really cool. You're very strong, what level are you? 10, 15?" Andrew continued speaking as his eyes gleamed with every word.

Seeing this, George patted him on the shoulder, reminding him of what they came to do here.

Ethan was surprised by what Andrew was saying because he hadn't seen anyone watching him.

"My name is Ethan, and the mutant zombie wasn't that strong, but where were you watching me from?" Ethan asked as he was intrigued.

"We were on top of the building near where the fight took place. We climbed up there after fighting that monster and almost having our entire team eliminated. He was absurdly strong for us to fight, so we managed to escape by luck. But after that, he started hunting those who escaped, leaving only us who had hidden ourselves at the top of the building." It was George who spoke this time, closing his hand in a sign of anger. Andrew did the same when he remembered it.

Ethan was surprised because he had easily defeated that zombie, but considering the zombie's ability and his level, it could indeed cause a headache. The bone armor certainly made the fight much easier because he wasn't even injured at any point.

"But anyway, we followed you because we wanted to know if you want to join our camp. We have many people, and the camp leader is someone who is at level 5. Many of us started teaming up to hunt these zombies while we gather supplies," George continued speaking after a while in silence.

Ethan didn't expect that after three days that had passed since the beginning of the apocalypse, people had already set up a camp and were actively hunting zombies.

"I see, it seems like everyone has adapted quickly to the changes that are happening, right?" Ethan asked the two. George smiled and began to explain.

"All thanks to our leader. He encouraged us to actively hunt the zombies. He participates in most of the hunts, but lately, he's been defending the camp because many zombies are running straight there. Luckily, we have some equipment that we managed to get to deal with them, but I believe that since you enter our camp, everything will be smoother." He finished explaining and was looking at Ethan expectantly.

Andrew by his side was also waiting for the answer with great expectations.

"Well, I can go to the camp to take a look," Ethan hesitated for a moment but agreed to go.

"Alright, you can ride on the motorcycle or on your skeletal horse and follow us," George said as he walked towards the motorcycle along with Andrew.

Ethan summoned his mount and waited for them to get on the motorcycle.

"Well, before that, I need to do something quick. You can come with me if you want," saying this, Ethan started walking further ahead and entered another street.

Andrew and George were unsure of what Ethan was going to do and followed him.

When Ethan reached the street, he saw that his skeleton was killing the third zombie; he had already fed on their spirits.

As soon as Andrew and George saw, they weren't very surprised as they had seen his skeleton before through binoculars.

"I'll just clear this street, and then we'll leave, okay for you guys?" Ethan asked them, and they nodded in agreement.

Ethan watched his skeleton defeat the zombies, and it was much easier now that it was at level two.

"Ethan, what level are you really at?" Andrew asked while watching the skeleton easily kill the zombies.

"I'm at level 9," Ethan smiled at Andrew as he answered.

"I expected that from the way you defeated that mutant zombie, but man, this is just insane considering the number of zombies you have to kill to level up. We've killed so many zombies and we're still stuck at level 2," George said this time.

"Man, I really need to level up quickly, I want to get strong like that," Andrew said, imagining himself defeating that zombie the same way Ethan had.

"What are your classes?" Ethan asked as he looked at them.

Upon hearing Ethan's question, Andrew was the first to respond.

"My class is monk."

George spoke right after.

"Mine is knight."

Ethan didn't expect to encounter two such unique classes at this moment because, from what he understood of the system, most people who had no affinity or awakened talent would become warriors or something similar.

"Unfortunately, we only have one skill for now," George sighed.

At that moment, the skeleton had defeated the last of the zombies.

*Your skeleton defeated 11 zombies + 110* 2590/4800 for the next level

*Your skeleton swallowed the spirit of 11 zombies*

17/30 for the next level.

Ethan smiled as he saw his exp slowly rising.

'I'll accompany them to the camp while my wolf hunts zombies, very good. At least I won't waste time without gaining exp.' After thinking this, he turned to Andrew and George.

"Shall we?" Ethan asked.

"Yes, let's," Andrew and George were very happy because Ethan had agreed to go along. His company would make it much easier for them to return.

Ethan sent his skeleton back to the underworld and waited on his mount.

Andrew and George got on the motorcycle and sped off to the north, and Ethan followed them easily as many places were broken, and cars were hindering mobility with the motorcycles.

Riding while observing the surroundings, Ethan better noticed the degree of destruction. The buildings were mostly broken, houses were destroyed, abandoned vehicles, corpses, and fires were spreading everywhere.

Some enormous birds sometimes appeared in the sky, but soon flew away. Howls and screams were no longer surprising.

Ethan sighed because a few days earlier the city was cheerful and full of energy, but now it was cold and desolate, but this feeling was comforting to Ethan in a way that it seemed like home.

At that moment when Ethan was distracted, a notification arrived on his interface.

*Your skeletal wolf killed 200 zombies + 1000 exp*

3590/4800

Ethan smiled because this was one of the notifications that pleased him the most, second only to 'Congratulations, you have leveled up.'

A few minutes had passed as they advanced, and the noise attracted several zombies, but they were soon left behind.

Andrew slowed down the motorcycle and approached Ethan.

"Our camp is at a school further ahead. We have many children and women there because most of them were teachers and students. Our leader is the school principal, and he was the first to fight the zombies to defend the children and women," he spoke a bit loudly because of the noise, but Ethan understood perfectly.

"I thought he would be some street tough guy or a RPG nerd, but he's a school principal? That surprised me," Ethan spoke loudly for him to hear.

Andrew and George smiled at hearing this.

"You're right, but what you don't know is that he's also an RPG nerd, but he only plays tabletop RPGs. We even participated in some campaigns he was in," George scratched his head with embarrassment but still spoke, because now, where everything was a game, there was nothing for him to worry about.

"Haha, so that's why you've set up camp and are even hunting zombies, haha, it all makes sense now," Ethan smiled eagerly to see that they shared the same interests.

"Why didn't you say that before? Now I really want to meet your leader,"

Andrew and George just smiled and continued. After a few more minutes, they spotted the school, but the whole street was crowded with zombies, and there were even some different and strange zombies.

"Damn, another horde again, and the worst is that this time there are several zombies that I've never seen before," George was shocked to look at that scene.

Andrew was also observing in shock, especially seeing that the leader was in front of the zombies, trying to stop them.

Ethan observed carefully; he was already prepared to activate his armor and invade that horde to protect the school when a large wall of earth rose from the ground, separating the zombies from the principal.

Just as Ethan was about to turn around to ask what that was, Andrew had already begun to speak.

"This is one of the teachers who has the power of an earth mage. She's very useful, but most of her abilities are support,"

Ethan nodded in recognition when suddenly he saw the principal being lifted on the wall, then he saw armor descend onto the principal, covering his whole body with a silver light.

"The principal has the general class, and one of his abilities is to summon a silver armor," George said this time.

In the next moment, the principal jumped into the midst of the zombies wielding a spear, killing many zombies quickly.

'He's really strong indeed, and that armor looks quite strong too, but it doesn't cover all the points like mine does. It has several openings similar to those used in the medieval period, but it still demonstrates strength and power.' Ethan was excited because each class that appeared was of good quality; he was sure that as long as that principal didn't die in battle, he would be quite strong at higher levels.

Ethan also used his bone armor ability while pulling out the bone blade he had made while hunting zombies and ran directly into the horde of zombies with his skeletal horse.

As he advanced, he observed the zombies that seemed different and used his other ability to inspect.

*Evolved Zombie*

Class: Instigator

Level 10

HP: 80

MP: 400

Strength: 5

Agility: 5

Resistance: 5

Vitality: 4

Intelligence: 30

(Note: before his death, he unlocked the instigator class and after transforming into a zombie, he managed to retain the abilities, being able to guide hordes of zombies in certain directions.)

(Note: while alive, he could only manipulate the minds of people with low intelligence to make them follow a heartfelt desire.)

Ethan was shocked to read the description because the attributes were quite low, and only intelligence was with absurd numbers, and upon reading the notes, Ethan understood why his intelligence was so high because it was the most suitable for his class.

'He was the most suitable for the class, but not the most suitable for survival against zombies.' Finally, Ethan sighed and read the description of other zombies.

*Fighting Zombie*

Level: 5

Strength: 8

Agility: 9

Resistance: 13

Vitality: 15

Intelligence: 1

Fortunately, this one was much weaker. Ethan could easily deal with all the present zombies; he was even happy with the amount of exp he could gain.