The Apocalypse Has Been Downloaded – Chapter 13

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: JayM
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With about a minute left on the zombie repellent’s effective time, we returned home. Luckily, or unluckily, there wasn’t a single special zombie in the apartment. They were all normal zombies. But we were still satisfied since we had smashed their heads for two hours.

I entered through the entrance to my apartment. Thanks to my killing the zombified upstairs neighbor, my walls and ceiling were dirty with splattered zombie blood, but Eun-ji’s apartment was still clean, so we decided to mainly live there and use my room as a storage room and entryway.

“Huu… Everyone, you worked hard…”

Ha-rin said in an exhausted voice as she took off her shoes, which were covered in blood. What a commendable girl.

“Yeah, you did well.”

“Oppa, you worked hard. And Ha-rin too.”

“Hehe… But I don’t know how many we killed.”

We had killed everything we saw, so our levels had gone up quite a bit. That was the same for Eun-ji and Ha-rin.

I had leveled up 3 times while Eun-ji and Ha-rin had leveled up 4 times each.

Eun-ji’s level went up quickly because she was so aggressive in smashing zombies. Seeing that, Ha-rin also worked hard as if she didn’t want to lose to her, so she was able to level up just as much as Eun-ji.

We were all in a good mood because our levels had gone up quite a bit. Of course, there were also some regrets, like the fact that my baseball bat was starting to look like it was about to break.

Well, it would have been stranger if it was still intact after smashing all those zombie heads. It wasn’t like it was an iron bat.

It wasn’t just my baseball bat that was about to break. The head of Eun-ji’s hammer was also dangling, and Ha-rin’s crude spear had already broken down a while ago.

I need to kill the hardware store owner later on and steal some tools.

It would have been good if he had just given me a crowbar when I asked nicely. I would definitely take care of him the next time we went out.

“Oppa, your whole body is covered in blood. Haha. You’ve become like a serial killer.”

“It’s the mark of working hard. Hehe.”

As a result of this zombie hunt, I confirmed that both Eun-ji and Ha-rin showed excellent movements.

Thanks to the stat corrections, both of them had unbelievable strength and stamina, especially for women.

I realized that the moment you Awakened and became a player, even women could have the same strength as men due to the randomly assigned stats.

This could be a big deal if you thought that women were weak. If the female opponent was an Awakened, she could become stronger than an adult male. It would be a big problem if you looked down on someone just because she was a woman, especially if they had stats and skills.

Anyway, my muscles were starting to get sore.

“Ugh. My shoulders are stiff.”

“Me too…”

Even though I received stat corrections, my shoulders felt like they were going to fall off after smashing zombie heads for two hours without rest.

My hands also hurt a lot… Ah, I got blisters.

Eun-ji and Ha-rin seemed to be the same, as they also looked very tired.

We had to take a shower and put on some patches. I’d have to focus on putting them on our shoulders and wrists and also give them massages. And of course, I had to receive one too.

“Let’s hurry and wash up so we can rest.”

“Yeah, let’s hurry so we can lie down. Since there are two bathrooms, you two wash yourselves up together today. I’ll clean myself up here and go over there once I’m done.”

“O, okay…”

Ha-rin blushed, probably remembering that I had sex with her in the bathroom yesterday.

How cute. Maybe she was hoping to get fucked while showering? Sorry, but I was too exhausted right now.

“Since there’s a lot of blood on our clothes, should we take them off here and go?”

“Yeah, yeah.”

We had already agreed to wash our bloody outerwear in the washing machine in my house. We would wash our casual clothes in Eun-ji’s house.

This was only possible because the electricity, gas, and water were still working.

“Then, see you later, Oppa!”

“Go shower, Master…”

Eun-ji and Ha-rin, who weren’t even embarrassed anymore, threw off their clothes and crossed over to the next room.

Ha-rin was taller and bigger, but Eun-ji was more confident. She was like an older sister.

I sent those two together on purpose.

The bathrooms here were small, so it was hard for three people to go in together, and if I went to shower with either Ha-rin or Eun-ji here, it seemed like the remaining one would feel left out.

And I also thought that they needed time to talk to each other.

They were already in a situation where they couldn’t betray me, and they had to be together whether they liked it or not. I thought that they needed this time to have a deep conversation.

“Hehe…”

Anyway, even though I had already shot two loads this morning, my groin was already starting to get hard when I saw Eun-ji and Ha-rin’s naked bodies. This was a big problem. I had to raid a rich man’s house next time. If it was a magnificent mansion built in a wealthy neighborhood, it would have a large shower room where the three of us could take a bath together.

While having those thoughts, I took off my clothes and went into the bathroom.

“Huu…”

My muscle fatigue was relieved a little as I felt the warm water wash over me.

I was planning on choosing Eun-ji and Ha-rin’s skills together after I showered. For now, I was going to choose my skills. Before that though, I had to check my status window.

‘Let’s see…’

Thanks to leveling up as much as 3 levels, all of my stats had entered the 20s. I wondered why the feeling of hitting with my baseball bat was getting better midway, but it seemed like this was the reason.

The internet said that stats randomly increased from 1 to 5 per level up.

So, if we looked at the strength stat as an example, the 8 in (17+8) was the stat points that were added from leveling up 3 times, like 2, 3, and 3.

But, why did my magic stat increase by 10 when I leveled up the first time?

Well, the information article I read wasn’t perfect since it was based on speculation, so what was written there wasn’t certain. Maybe it was because of my job that my magic power increased so much the first time. Even now, my magic was the highest among my stats.

Anyway, I was very satisfied. I had leveled up 3 times in one outing, and my stats had increased because of it. The sensation of my body becoming lighter was quite addicting. Moreover, I could choose 3 skills now. Summon Tentacles and Slave Brand were already amazing, how strong would I become if I chose 3 more skills?

And since I had Eun-ji and Ha-rin, it seemed like we could raid the supermarket the day after tomorrow.

Because not all the guys who had settled in the supermarket would be Awakened. If we were just careful of the pistols they had, then there was nothing we couldn’t do, especially since we were all hidden class owners. Moreover, Ha-rin had her Heartbeat Tracking skill, so it would be easy for us to figure out the enemy’s movements.

I was very satisfied.

Now, as for the remaining charges on our repellents, me and Ha-rin only had one 1 each, and Eun-ji had 2. Next time we went out, I had to take care of the hardware store owner and steal some tools, then I would need to level up enough to walk around the streets even without the zombie repellent.

‘Secure weapons first, then take over the supermarket after…’

It would be even better if I could capture some Awakened at the supermarket.

While imagining such a happy future, I washed my body. Then, I felt the muscles on my stomach?

‘Huh… I’ve gained some muscle…’

Abs were starting to form on my stomach. Maybe my muscles naturally followed my increase in stats.

Me, Jang Jo-joon, has abs!

My penis was big from the beginning, but my body didn’t have a lot of muscles before. I bet Eun-ji and Ha-rin would like it if I got abs.

“Hehehe…”

My body was also getting better as my stats increased. This was such an easy world.

‘Especially my magic value of 30…’

I could make 3 slaves a day. Even if I used Summon Tentacles consecutively, there was no problem with the amount of mana I now had. I could even shoot out tentacles with both hands.

‘This is the feeling of getting exponentially stronger…’

Assuming that I continued to get stronger like this, zombies would become nothing but a piece of trash for me.

‘The important thing is that I’m not the only one getting stronger…’

Players like me, the so-called Awakened, would all get stronger like this, so wouldn’t future battles be centered on fights with guys like that?

‘No… I shouldn’t look down on special zombies… In a situation where human centipedes are crawling around, there’s no way to know what kind of unique monsters are out there…’

In this kind of shitty world, the first one to die was the one who let their guard down. I almost let my guard down before, drunk on my increased stats.

I had only eaten Eun-ji and Ha-rin twice each, so I couldn’t die yet. I was going to live for a long, long time. I wanted to build a harem with my slaves and live forever while having sex.

“I guess I’ll select my skills now.”

Therefore, I had to select my skills quickly.

I knew about Human Sacrifice, Altered Vision, and Surging Flesh, but Unholy Touch was a new skill that had appeared in the spot where I got Slave Brand.

‘Hoo…’

This seemed quite useful. If I could corrode anything I touched, I could melt locks and door handles, and infiltrate rooms and houses.

“First…”

The wounds on the thumbs of both of my hands hurt too much though. I had to acquire Surging Flesh first.

Tingle!

This time too, my brain throbbed and it was painful. It felt like someone had scooped out a part of my brain with a spoon, and my legs gave out due to the pain. I barely held on to the sink. It was so painful every time I acquired a skill.

“Kuhh… Huu…”

The usage method was being forced into my head. At the same time, I was able to know the skill’s detailed information.

‘Mana consumption is 5…’

Surging Flesh was a skill that consumed 5 mana every time I used it. Still, it was a good skill because it could heal most external wounds.

“This also requires me to chant a spell…”

I decided to heal my right hand first, which I had bitten and torn with my teeth when I first made Ha-rin a slave.

This side wasn’t a wound made by a knife. It was a wound that was torn by being bitten, so there was more pus on it and it hurt more.

“Shud-Sera-Akam.”

As I placed my left palm on my right thumb and chanted the spell, a purple light flashed, and then flesh started to form on the wound.

“Kkuuuh!!!”

Pain surged through me as the flesh formed. The skill description said it was a slight pain…!

“Kkuhuhah!!!!”

It felt like my whole thumb was burning as I sat down on the bathroom floor. It even felt like my wound was being dug into.

“Kuh…”

Luckily, the moment of pain wasn’t that long.

It disappeared the instant all the flesh had formed.

It was like the skill made you feel all the pain you would have continuously felt while the wound healed, and then healed it all at once.

“Huu… Shud-Sera-Akam”

I healed my left thumb too.

“Kuuu…”

It seemed that the bigger the wound, the more painful it was. My left thumb, which had been cut by a knife, healed with less pain than my right thumb, which had been torn by biting.

‘Huu… Anyway, I can heal external wounds now… I can use it on Eun-ji and Ha-rin too…’

In times like this where there were no hospitals, a healing skill like this was very useful. Even though there was some pain that accompanied the healing process, if you could withstand it, you could heal even a torn stomach and save someone’s life.

“Then, I’ll continue to select skills…”

A strange skill caught my eye.

Abyssal Observation… A very dangerous-looking skill had appeared. And Human Sacrifice was even a prerequisite to it.

‘I can communicate with the beings of the abyss…?’

The description itself smelled dangerous. There was also that saying, wasn’t it?

That when I looked into the abyss, the abyss would also look at me… Damn it.

‘Shit… Dangerous-looking skills keep appearing, befitting a Cultist…’

Human Sacrifice also said that you would get closer to an unknown “god.” This one was one step further, telling me to communicate with beings of the abyss. I couldn’t even imagine how evil and dangerous they were.

“Haa…”

I didn’t feel like choosing it at all. A sense of unease washed over me, as if I could fall into the abyss if I made the wrong choice, and I would become something that wasn’t me anymore.

‘I don’t want to lose my humanity yet… Unholy Touch’

“Kuaaa!!!”

The pain felt like having a needle jabbed into my brain, forcefully injecting knowledge into me. Two drops of saliva dripped down from my mouth. I was getting scared of skill acquisition because of the pain that I couldn’t adapt to.

“Huu… Huu… Huu…”

The spell was Ras-Jakun. Mana consumption was 3. It was a usable skill. Anything that touched the mucus secreted from my palm would rust or rot.

“The last one…”

Somehow, skill acquisition was more difficult than zombie hunting. Would Eun-ji and Ha-rin be this hurt and in pain?

“Mana Eye of Egolessness…?”

Even a mana eye was appearing now. Was I becoming more and more inhuman?

This skill also required a prerequisite skill, like Abyssal Observation.

‘It makes the target who meets my eyes dumb… If I used it during a battle, I would just win overwhelmingly…’

This was unavoidable. I had to acquire Altered Vision. I couldn’t miss out on a mana eye skill with this good of an effect.

And my gut feeling was telling me that there would be more mana eye skills besides this one.

‘Select Modified Vision.’

I wondered how painful it would be this time.

“Hup…!”

I inhaled and prepared for the pain that was coming.

But this time, the pain that was inflicted on my brain every time I acquired a skill was a little less.

“Kuaaaaaaaaaa!!!!”

Instead, a terrible pain was inflicted on both of my eyes.

It felt like my eyeballs were being pulled out and burned as I rolled around on the bathroom floor.

I couldn’t stand the pain, so I laid down and thrashed about.

I had no choice but to grab my eyes with both hands and scream!

It felt like my eyes were being crushed and dug into with a branding iron!!!!

“Kiah!!! Kuaaaa!!!!”

“O, Oppa!!! What’s wrong…!!!”

“Master!!!”

I heard Eun-ji and Ha-rin run over.

Soon, the bathroom door opened with a clunk, and I felt either Eun-ji or Ha-rin hugging me.

“O, Oppa!!”

“Master! What’s wrong!”

I didn’t have the strength to answer. It still hurt so much that I felt like I was going to die. In the end, Ha-rin and Eun-ji dragged me out of the bathroom as I was thrashing and rolling around.

Judging by the feeling of bare skin rubbing against mine, it seemed like both of them had rushed out while they were still showering…

“Haa… Haa….”

The pain of my eyes being torn apart was gradually subsiding. Then, it disappeared completely.

Something soft was touching my head. Judging by the feeling, I was being held by Ha-rin right now…

“Kkuh…”

I barely opened my eyes.

“Huh… Oppa…”

“Master… your eyes…”

It was bright. The dark room looked especially bright. And Eun-ji and Ha-rin looked much more detailed than before. My eyesight had improved by quite a lot.

If both of my eyes were only about 1.0 before, now they were almost 3.0. Everything was so clear and without any blur.

As I was looking around, Eun-ji pointed at my eyes with a flustered voice.

“Oppa, your eyes. The color of your eyes have changed…”

“Huh? Changed…?”

“Yes, Mster… Oh my god…”

The color of my eyes changed? What did that mean?

I got out of Ha-rin’s comfortable embrace and looked at myself in the bathroom mirror.

“Wow… Oh my god…”

My black pupils had changed to purple.

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T/N – I find it quite funny that the scumbag MC feels pain when he learns his skills, especially when compared to the next chapter. The skills he is getting are pretty good though, but some of his skill choices are getting pretty dangerous too. Eye skills are pretty much classic, but Abyssal Observation really looks like a red flag that the MC will have to raise sooner or later.

If you find any mistakes, feel free to point them out in the comments.