The World Cataclysm

Dave and Brian moved downstairs to the 3rd floor as they checked it for the presence of zombies. Fortunately, there was only one of them, so both of them quickly dealt with it. Dave decided to help Brian to kill it.

Descending to the second floor, they met no zombies at all. All the rooms on the floor were tightly closed as there were no blood trails in the corridor.

Finally, getting to the ground floor, Dave shushed Brian as he wanted to check the surroundings by the Life Pulse.

Fatty sent a mana wave and sensed every living creature in a radius of 100 meters. Regretfully, his innate ability was limited in width.

"There are 3 zombies on the 1st floor and several of them are scattered nearly 70 meters away."

Dave saw three open rooms as the blood may be seen on their doors. Zombies had a weak sense of hearing, yet they were not completely deaf. The loud commotion as Brian had done will definitely attract unneeded attention.

"Brian, I'll take one on the left, while you will take care of one on the right. The last one at the end of the corridor will also be mine. Good luck!"

It seemed that Brian was quite scared since in all cases Dave helped him to kill zombies. Now, he needed to take care of one of them alone.

Dave can't help with it since he knew that the fear will grow lesser after several kills. He wanted to make Brian understand the abilities of zombies and show him that they can be killed.

Silently approaching his target, Dave saw a zombie standing near the corpse of a student girl. It seemed that the zombie was sleeping in the standing position, but Dave knew that it was hibernating.

Hibernation was a state of a zombie when it stood still or moved slowly from one place to another. At the sight of the prey, they will leave such a state and chase after their target. Zombies were sensitive to the warm blood and can smell it from afar.

In such states, they were easy to kill with a sneak attack. Most of the zombies enter into the hibernation state to conserve their energies which is quite limited due to their dead body.

With a swift attack to the head, Dave killed it in one move to the head as before. White brain substance was dripping from its head as it dropped a survival coin.

Taking the spoils, Dave quickly left the room to kill the second one. It was standing close to the exit. Slowly wandering from one place to another, zombie wandered near to the entrance point.

Approaching it from the back, Dave killed another zombie. However, instead of other killed zombies, shining with a light bright enough to force a person to close the eyes, it dropped a white chest in addition to the survival coin.

'Treasure Chest!'

At the sight of the white chest, Dave grew extremely excited since even the white chest - the most common of the Treasure Chests - was extremely rare. After killing the monster, it had a chance to drop the Treasure Chest.

At the beginning of the apocalypse, a lot of survivors got their hands on the Treasure Chests, but as time passed fewer treasure chests dropped from the weaker monsters enticing people to hunt and kill stronger monsters.

One of the goals of Dave was to collect as many treasure chests as possible since they will boost his ability to survive and kill stronger opponents who might drop another chest.

Taking the white glowing chest into his hands, a transparent message had appeared before his eyes.

[Do you want to open Treasure Chest (White)?]

'Yes'

The bright light escaped from the white chest as it started to slowly disappear into the air. Instead of it, a sword full of red-brown rust lay on his hands.

[The Rusty Sword was received.]

[Rusty Sword

Attack: 8-10

Durability: 10

Description: The iron sword full of rust.]

It was a dull sword with a low sharpness of the blade. Dave was quite happy when he sensed a familiar feeling of holding a sword. Dave recalled how he finally got this rusty sword and trained with it to kill monsters far stronger than him in his previous world.

He was late to get his hands on the equipment from the system at that time and started later than other hunters. Left far in the back, he was weak and hunted monsters far higher than his level.

Gripping his new weapon, Dave went back to the room of Brian.

He was panting heavily close to the body of the dead zombie. Brian was relatively paler than before as sweat dripped from his forehead. It was scarier for Brian since there was no Dave to insure him in the case of a mistake.

Zombie lying on the ground was a bloody mess as the chest bone and the head of it was smashed to the mix of blood, flesh, and brain.

"You did a great job, Brian. Can you activate your Life Pulse again?"

Dave asked Brian to check their surroundings another time to be safe from any surprises. Getting a negative response from Brian, Dave shared with him that he intended to go to the nearest library which was on 10-minute from this dormitory.

"If you want to, you can wait for me here in one of the rooms. I won't force you to go with me since he is my friend and you haven't to risk your life to it"

"Nah, I will go with you. I have a hunch that I will live longer if I follow you. And how can you get there in one piece without me?"

In the eyes of Brian, Dave was more a monster than a human. He was able to kill a zombie in one-on-one and survive an attack from two zombies.

"Then, lead the way."

Dave smiled lightly since it made his trip to the library much easier. With Brian, he can avoid most of the dangers and hunt zombies wandering alone.

"By the way, who is your friend you want to reunite?"

"My best friend, Adam White."

"What? A new student who enrolled this year and quickly became popular, this Adam White? And you are his best friend?"

Dave recalled that Adam was quite popular in his university. His pale face combined with his curly black hair and cool personality made him a hot topic among girls. How was he called? 'Ideal man, Adam!'

He knew Adam from his childhood since both of them attended the same elementary, junior, and high schools. He always attracted attention from other people making Dave around him outshined.

From the appearance, Dave had ordinary looks. Small stature, pale face as of the sick person, and a scar on his forehead as it was slashed by the knife made the looks of the Dave mediocre if not slightly uglier.

In his junior school, Dave and his parents got into a car accident resulting in the early death of his parents. After the catastrophe which took the life of his parents, he obtained that hideous scar on his forehead.

Shortly after the operation, Dave was taken care of by the little brother of his father and his uncle, John Murckly, and his wife, Alice Murckly. They helped him to rehabilitate from the loss of his parents and took him under their wings.

Adam was also there supporting him in the school and visiting him when he was in the hospital. He was the one who recommended Dave to enroll at the best university in their city. He helped him with preparation for the exams and with the preparation of the necessary documents.

The university he is attending was prestigious in their country. A lot of people from high and low classes attended it to ensure a bright future for them.

Both of them chose to study economics. Dave decided to follow the career of his father, while Adam was obliged to study it since he was from a rich family owning a big company in the city.

Recalling the Adam, Dave wanted to quickly get to the library.

'Adam, this time I will be the one to save you.'