Chapter 41 A Zombie

Seeing Liam so depressed, Jimmy just sighed and said, "So, in total, you somehow became a vampire, and now that you've bitten me, I became one as well. And since you need to drink blood to maintain your sanity, I need to do the same."

Liam just nodded, still feeling guilty for what he did.

"Sigh, I guess there's no going back now," Jimmy muttered and got up from his bed. He began to collect all the teeth that fell out.

After that, he stored them in his pocket, as he didn't want others to find any abnormality.

"Fortunately, no doctor came to give us a visit, or we would have been in trouble," Jimmy said and began to take off his shirt, as it was already torn.

"That's all; you aren't mad at me?" Liam asked, confused.

"What, you want me to be mad at you?" Jimmy asked back with a smirk. But Liam didn't reply. How could he, when he did something so despicable?

Seeing this, Jimmy just sighed and said in a confident tone, "No need to feel so bad; I don't mind becoming a vampire. On the other hand, it might give me extra benefits."

"But I made you a monster; how can you forgive me like this?" Liam asked back, his face turning dark, not daring to look into Jimmy's eyes.

Jimmy got near Liam and punched him in the face hard. As the punch landed, Liam fell on his bed, with a swollen red face. But he didn't complain, as he felt like he deserved it.

"Why the hell are you bitching about something I told you is okay? Don't be such a pussy, man up. You had no control over what you did, and I am not blaming you for it, so why are you blaming yourself?" Jimmy shouted in anger.

Hearing Jimmy's words, Liam's eyes watered. He blamed himself and even considered the possibility of dying, as he didn't want to cause any more problems for the people around him.

But Jimmy's words made him come back to his senses. Yeah, he had no control over what he did. But still, Jimmy became a monster for his existence, and now he will take responsibility for his actions. There is no point in blaming himself, as it won't help him or anyone.

"T-Thanks, Jimmy; I needed that punch," Liam said as he got up from his bed.

"Haha, don't worry, you have me on your back, and call me if you need more of these," Jimmy said as he showed Liam his fist. While Liam just laughed awkwardly.

What both of them didn't know was that this was all Jin Wei's doing.

To turn others into a vampire or anything similar, one needs to be a Vampire first. A halfling like Liam can never turn others into a vampire. On top of that, just by biting.

For a vampire to turn other living beings, they first need to make sure that the person they are turning is weaker than them. Then they need to get the permission of the person they are turning, and only then, by drinking all of that person's blood and then giving them a few drops of their vampire blood, can a vampire turn others. Also, the one that is turning needs to have the intention of turning others, or it would be just drinking blood for them.

If even one of them is not followed, then the ritual would be unsuccessful. But that doesn't mean if the ritual is unsuccessful they just remain human. They turn into zombies. Zombies are also immortal like vampires, but their strength is even weaker than a halfling. So they are just a little bit stronger than humans. They have their strengths and weaknesses.

Unlike vampires, zombies don't get weakened in sunlight. Their regeneration speed is even stronger than a vampire. And like vampires, they also have limits on how many people they can turn. Most of the time they can only turn one person into a lesser zombie; sometimes, it's two, and it's different for different people. Lesser zombies are mindless and soulless.

They can never evolve, and they are also not loyal to the one that turned them. They just go around mindlessly biting people and also turning them into a lesser zombie. Usually, vampires use them to cause an apocalypse in some weak worlds and take control of them.

And unlike lesser zombies, normal zombies can evolve, but they can never be turned into vampires. They can evolve and become ghouls. But the condition is that they need to devour the person that turned them into a zombie; only then can they evolve and become a ghoul, and that is their last evolution.

A ghoul is as strong as a normal vampire physically, but regeneration-wise they are superior to even some pure-blooded vampire. But the problem is they can never eat anything besides meat. And that meat needs to be the meat of some intelligent species, or they will just puke out everything they eat.

But consuming meat isn't necessary for them; if they don't do much work and don't need to use regeneration, then they can live forever without eating anything.

But the stronger and more in number of beings, a zombie consumes, the faster they progress in their cultivation. And if they don't eat the meat of intelligent species, then no matter how talented one was before turning into a zombie, they can never progress.

So from now on, Jimmy would be forced to eat the meat of humans if he wants to progress, as currently, humans are the only intelligent species on earth. As for Vorax, they are too strong for Jimmy to handle.

In the original novel, Liam just went around beating the bullies in the night and drank blood from their necks, leaving a bite mark on them, causing the military to get suspicious. But because of Liam's heaven-defying luck, he was never caught.

But now that Jin Wei is here, he suspects that if Liam did the same as the plot, then all fingers might point towards his direction as he is also a vampire, and currently, he is acting as a villain. So the world might do some trick and make him the suspect. He knows that he was being paranoid, but that's what he is, no need to take too much risk.

Because Jimmy never agreed to be his loyal subordinate, Jimmy became a zombie.

After this incident, Liam would never even try to think about drinking the blood from others' necks, considering his personality.

So this will prevent the military from being suspicious of anything. Jin Wei also did it so Jimmy's progress would be slower compared to the plot, and even though Jimmy has no loyalty for him, because of the effects of being turned by him, he will still have a certain level of authority over Jimmy. Although it's practically nonexistent, he believes that it will be useful in the future.