Book One: Alpha World

Epsu 27. A Different Zombie

We're still in the dome. For a moment we took a deep breath, trying to set our originally roaring breath back to normal. The protective dome that Rheda made did not shake in the slightest as the zombies surrounded him. Even the vanguard tried to destroy the dome made by Rheda in various ways. But the dome remained silent.

The key to the dome is in Rheda. He stood in the center of the dome with his hands raised and the legs of the horses. His body trembled every ten seconds, then regained its calm. Sweat on his forehead. We could only see him struggling while adjusting our breath and re-structuring our energy.

A few minutes later Rheda's horses began to falter. His feet were trembling and sweat was pouring all over his body. He has looked at us many times. I immediately command the others to prepare, the Rheda dome will soon be gone.

Ten seconds passed but the dome was still solid. I just stared at Rheda.

"Rhedas.....Are you really still strong?" Ella asked in an anxious tone. His face looked the most worried among us all. Sweat dripped from his forehead.

Rheda shook her head with eyes still staring at those zombies. His raised hand continued to tremble. But a few moments later the vibration disappeared, changing the bright face of Rheda. We looked at him in wonder.

'Cling...' Just like Gina, Rheda's body also glowed, but a moment later dark smoke enveloped her. His strength also increased. That black aura added to his magic ability. The vault strengthened. Thickens.

As Rheda slowly drifted, the earthquake around us strengthened. Ella, Kapi, and Rais were still holding on with their bodies shaken, while me and the others had fallen out of balance. Suddenly the ground below us appeared cracks of various sizes. The biggest crack appeared under Rheda's body that was still floating. At that time the black smoke in Rheda's body began to thin. His body slowly descended and touched the ground.

But that was when, a split second before Rheda set her foot back, her body suddenly lifted up by a shadow. Black blood spread around Rheda followed by a hole appearing below Rheda.

The shadow carries Rheda around inside the dome. We prepared to go back and get up in the middle of the earthquake that was still shaking. The shadow continued to spin around the dome and moved indeterminate direction. Her shadow was so fast with Rheda still on her shoulders. Rheda lost her focus and the dome that protected us from the zombie encirclement dwindled. The zombies outside the dome are getting stronger hitting the protective dome. We immediately tried to give an attack to the shadow of Rheda's body carrier. My sword is heading in any direction. The shadow was so fast for me to catch.

"Tolooong!! Help!!.." Rheda shouted very loudly. His hands floundered trying to break away.

Only a rombeng outfit full of blood spots and a necklace with golden bells that are always clinking can be a clue to where he is. Minutes passed as we always gave out directionless attacks. The enemy body in front of us can always dodge the attack. Only after a series of attacks, the dome was almost destroyed, and the endless screams of Rheda made Rais pat the surface of the ground with his hands. The ground fifty meters away from him froze. The shadow that brought Rheda also stopped suddenly. He was beside us. His body somewhat looked bigger and stronger than other zombies. His feet were covered in very hard ice. He tried to take it off.

"You can't run anymore!" Rais shouted with his cold. His enemy's body slowly froze from below and spread rapidly throughout his body. Rheda immediately forced her to break away. But the enemy's grip is very strong. In various ways Rheda tried to escape, including by removing toxic fumes from her hands and making her enemies relax for a while. Rheda jumped up and broke away. His body was soon able to come off and fall next to their new enemy. Rheda immediately approached our horde. Other zombies also appear to be trying to escape from the ice bonds in their legs. Their eyes cannot be separated from staring at us. A killing intent radiated strongly from their eyes.

But a moment later, not a hard attack that we got, but the big zombie in front of us bent his back instead.

"Greetings..." The zombie said in a deep hoarse voice. His eyes looked at us before smiling. We remain in standby position. Not only on the zombies in front of us, but other zombies began to be able to escape from the ice bond at their feet. Some of them have already started attacking us.

But before they could get close, the zombie assailant raised his hand and shouted in a language we did not understand. The zombies that originally wanted to attack immediately stopped but still stared at us with a strong killing intent. The big zombie came a step closer to us keeping us on our toes.

"Calm down! I just want to say a few things.." The big zombie said in a polite tone. We lowered our weapons a few inches. The big zombie smiled.

"First, I want to introduce myself first, my name is Mora, the leader of this sea of zombies in front of you. I'm a level 1.5 zombie or a zombie that has the power among first-rate zombies like them." The huge zombie pointed at the sea of zombies in front of us.

"They're level one zombies." Mora smiled and fell silent. We remain on standby.

"The second and last time I want to ask you where you came from and what are you here for? Why are you bothering us?" Mora looked out at his slightly reddish eyes staring angrily at us. We were on alert and immediately took up arms.

"Relax..." Mora raised his hand to calm us down. I'm stepping forward.

"We want to raise our level. We were instructed by our teacher to increase our level here, exterminating the zombies is our current task. We're Alpha team."

Mora smiled with satisfaction. His head nodded in understanding.

"All right, I get it. Then that rotten Alpha sent you here, didn't it?" Mora stared hard at us. Both of his hands moved quickly to his right waist. Suddenly his hand was raised with a blackish large machete.

"That means you are destined to die at my hands." Mora swung his machete fast. We had actually already picked up the weapon as Mora galloped towards us.