Whitebonez 1.

Nate noticed the presence of the three people now standing before him. One was a man he saved from the hands of the beast while the others he assumed as the people the man was yelling out their name.

"He's just a teenager...," one of the men said with his mouth wide open. This was Zuni.

"Yeah, and we all just saw him killing the frost head deer," the one covered in fur chipped in.

After going through the struggles of running around the woods, Nate's cloak wasn't covering his head anymore and the others could see his white young face.

Although it was already dark, some of the ice in the areas were glowing in azure light illuminating the surrounding and that was the reason the three people were able to see Nate's face despite the darkness.

"I'm Cab and these are my friends, Zuni and Max," Cab stepped forward to introduce himself. Since he has met Nate before, though it was briefly, he still felt like he was to take the lead when speaking to him.

"I'm Nate," Nate replied without saying much.

It was about to become awkward, but Zuni suddenly barged in. "How did you do that, are you some sort of a superhuman?" Zuni asked. Although he was superhuman and when working for his previous boss, they were well trained in fighting, he did not dare to go against the deer beast.

"You can say something of that sort, by the way, who are you guys? I never thought to see someone else out in this place," Nate said. The environment was not present to stay, and with the amount of coldness in the place, no human will like to stay there.

"Well, we are nobody, just people that humans the beast around here to survive daily," Cab said.

Meanwhile, some sounds were heard from the midst of the woods.

"We have to get out of here," max said as he started sniffing the air. "They are coming," he said.

Meanwhile, Nate did not understand what he was talking about but the others do. "Will you come with us to we hid out?" Cab offered to Nate.

"Whatever you are doing, just let's get out of here," Max urged them. It was clearly written on his face, whatever might be making those strange noises must be some trouble.

Nate of course accepted the offer and was ready to go with them. "Wait, what about the beast meat, we don't have anything to eat," Zuni said.

They were about to leave when he remembered that. "Are you stupid, the scent of blood will lead them right straight to us, can't you go a day without eating," Max said as he was already ahead of them.

Nate seems to understand what was happening and decided to help. He walked to the dead and place his hand on it and with the mist appearing around the body, it disappeared.

Zuni and Cab were stunned by this sight but decided to not ask any questions since they have to leave the area that instant.

Not long after they left, some groups of white-skinned creatures appeared on the spot the deer blood was spilt. However, not seeing any flesh on the spot, they started to cry out weirdly.

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Meanwhile, with the glowing ice on each tree, it was easy for them to locate their hid out.

Nate was surprised to know that it was a large tree that has some of its, branches linked with others trees. As they left the area, Nate noticed that it was leading straight to his new territory.

On reaching the tree, some part of it has been chopped off with a cutlass, this was serving as a stair to climb up the tree.

On reaching up on the tree, Nate could see a house made of wood hanging at the apex of the tree. 'How did they get such a thing up here, ' Nate wondered.

"Welcome to our humble aboard, this place is where we call home, at least for now," Cab said.

Soon, they all were inside the house and a fire was set in the middle. With this, Nate fully took off his cloak and placed it in his inventory space. He then went ahead and place his hand on the house floor and the deer's body appeared.

"I thought your power was meanly based on strength," Zuni said as he went forward to cut the deer's body. The deer's blood was already frozen and it didn't mess up the floor.

"I have so much power that I won't want to display," Nate said. Honestly, he does not know how to refer to his skills as. Some of his skills were just too powerful to be a skill rather than a power. One of these skills was death control.

"Well, I and Max are also superhuman, my power is based on self-healing and pain immunity, while Max's power makes him turn into a beast with too much fur," Zuni explained.

"Let me introduce myself by myself," Max said.

Nate already knows that Max and Zuni were superhuman through the system's annoying skill. Cab was a normal human and even the system didn't tag him as someone still under evolution. Regardless, this was what Nate needed to complete the other answer quest.

But before that, he needs to learn something first. "What was that back there? I mean the noise that you heard before head here,"

On hearing nates questions, they seems to be shocked and were weirdly looking at Nate. "Are you saying you haven't had an encounter with the 'Whitebone's?" Zuni questioned.

"'Whitebone...? I haven't heard of that," Nate replied. The name sounds new to him.

"How long have you stayed in this wood?" Cab asked.

Although Nate has no idea why Cab was asking, he still answered truthfully. "Just today," he replied.

Cab, Zuni and Max glanced at each other. "It seems like we saved your ass today by inviting you to come back with us," Zuni lamented. Nate could only look at them in confusion.

"The Whitebone is a monster with white skin colour that usually blend themselves with the snow, giving them the perfect advantage of surprise attack when launching an ambush, they have every sensitive nose that could smell types of blood from miles ahead of us," Cab said.

"One thing about them is that they like laying ambush in the day, while coming out fully in the night to fight for their meal, and trust me, they are dead strong that even the beast you killed will run away at the sight of one," Cab explained.

"Those things are zombies," Max said.

"They are not zombies, one is that zombies eat only humans, but that thing eats anything that has blood flowing in, and besides, they are no human city or settlement close that those zombies will come from," it seems like Cab and Max were about to engage in an argument when Nate suddenly called them out.

"Enough! I need you guys to tell me all you know about this place," he said going straight to the point.

One particular thing caught his awareness, and that was what Max just said. At this point, Nate wants to know how many zombie classes are out there.