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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Xrecker
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“Hah!”
He slashed downwards with all his might.
The blade, spraying droplets of blood, pierced the forehead and cleaved through the skull.
Crack!
Blood slowly oozed from the head, split open like a watermelon.
The severed head lifted slightly.
He immediately turned around.
The horde of human beasts he’d just cut down stood, their heads spraying blood, some in the air, some on the ground.
They slowly collapsed, like frames from a 360-degree video played in slow motion.
He crouched and kicked off the ground.
Streams and droplets of blood in the air splattered against him.
It was almost over.
Accelerate.
[Auto-cast: Accelerate]
The enhanced physical abilities from the HP achievement buff strengthened various aspects of his body.
Running was one of them.
The surrounding scenery blurred into streaks.
A single stride covered the length of a store.
The fountain approached rapidly, then vanished in an instant.
Good.
They wouldn’t be able to see him at this speed.
He stopped abruptly.
Simultaneously, he flicked his swords outwards.
At that moment, Accelerate wore off.
Roar!
Rumble!
Screams and roars mixed with monstrous cries collapsed like an earthquake.
The wave of humans crumbled like a poorly constructed domino chain.
Swish!
Blood finally flew off his flicked swords.
He immediately sheathed his swords and drew his bow.
Shing Click
He couldn’t count how many times he’d repeated this motion.
He could now sheathe his swords without looking.
He swiftly drew an arrow, nocked it, and knelt on one knee.
In an enclosed space like this, aiming slightly upwards was the best way to utilize the bow’s tension effectively.
He raised the bow slightly and drew the string.
Thrum-
Thwip.
The arrow, released from his hand, flew with tremendous speed and pierced through a human beast’s head.
He immediately drew and shot another arrow.
Thrum- Thwip.
His shooting speed…
Was increasing.
With each passing day, with each shot, the time it took to nock, draw, and shoot was getting shorter.
He was now completely used to the transparent circle appearing before his eyes.
Thwip.
Whoosh-
Another arrow found its mark.
He watched the human beast crumple like a puppet with its strings cut and reached for another arrow.
His phone vibrated.
He paused and looked down at his pocket.
The vibration continued.
It wasn’t a message.
It was a phone call.
“Huu.”
He set his bow aside and answered the call.
It was Soo-hyun.
This was strange.
Soo-hyun and the others knew what he was doing. If they had news, they would usually send a message.
A phone call?
He swiped to answer.
Damn, there was blood on the screen.
“Hey, Soo-hyun. What’s up?”
Soo-hyun’s voice was urgent.
“Oppa! Come quickly! Hurry!”
She sounded distressed.
He pushed himself off the ground, stood up, and placed his bow in its case at his waist.
“What’s wrong? What happened?”
“Oppa, hurry, hurry!”
This was really strange.
He’d never heard Soo-hyun like this before.
Someone else took the phone.
It was Jung Eun-seo.
“Sung-hoon. You need to come quickly. Right now… I… haa… please hurry. Okay?”
…Both of them sounding like this meant it wasn’t something trivial.
He turned around and said,
“Alright. I’m on my way.”
He hung up and hurried towards the exit.
The remaining human beasts in the distance…
There weren’t many left.
He’d almost cleared all the way to the subway station.
If he went inside the subway tunnels, there might be more. Perhaps even swarms of them.
If so, he might be able to reach the maximum level again. He’d been thinking that as he swept through the subway these past couple of days.
Besides, he still had 33 arrows left.
He’d come in with one and had shot and retrieved arrows until he had 33. He’d been collecting the arrows he’d shot over the past few days.
It was a shame.
He was so close to the subway station.
The women knew what he was doing here, so what could be so urgent?
He emerged from the subway and looked around.
Nothing.
It was quiet and still.
Just like any other day.
He looked towards the supermarket in the distance and saw people gathered on the rooftop.
They were waving and shouting something.
It sounded like they were calling his name.
He hurried back to the supermarket, and Hoon, who was on guard duty, saw him and opened the shutter.
Rattle-
“S…Sir, Sir!”
“What’s wrong? What happened?”
“G…Go… go upstairs… upstairs… you’ll see…”
Hoon’s face was pale.
What could it be?
He nodded and walked towards the elevator.
The ride up to the 10th floor felt unusually long.
He felt anxious, not knowing what was going on.
Why were they acting like this?
Ding
The doors opened.
He immediately climbed the stairs to the rooftop.
His group.
And the newly arrived men and women.
They were all lined up along the edge of the roof, looking out into the distance.
Ye-eun, noticing his arrival, frantically waved him over.
“Oppa, Sung-hoon Oppa! Quickly, hurry!”
Everyone looked at him.
Their eyes were all…
Soo-hyun and Jung Eun-seo beckoned him over, making space for him.
He went over and looked out into the distance.
“What is going on? What…”
He couldn’t believe his eyes.
…What was he looking at?
The wide road.
Dozens, hundreds of cars, overturned or abandoned, lined the distant road.
A dark cloud hung over it.
No, it wasn’t a cloud.
It was heads.
A writhing mass filling the entire road, slowly approaching like a black centipede with countless legs.
…It was a zombie wave.
“…Holy shit.”
He had only ever seen it on YouTube; this was the first time he’d seen it in person.
It was hundreds of meters, no, kilometers away.
But it wasn’t far at all.
It wriggled and writhed, a single entity of tangled, pushing bodies, consuming the road, the buildings, the city.
He couldn’t hear it from this distance.
The sound of shattering glass.
But it was definitely happening.
The buildings in the path of the zombie wave…
Glass windows, high and low, shattered as human beasts poured out.
There were too many to count.
Hundreds of thousands, maybe even a million.
It seemed like it would engulf the world.
He stood there, frozen, overwhelmed by the sight of the zombie wave.
This wasn’t something he could handle.
Hundreds of thousands, perhaps a million human beasts.
Could he… possibly deal with a zombie wave that threatened to engulf the entire city?
…It was impossible.
…Wait.
“…What’s that?”
At the forefront of the zombie wave…
There was something.
A person.
It looked like a woman.
The woman was riding a bicycle.
And she was holding something red in one hand.
It was too far to see clearly.
But he quickly realized what it was.
What the woman on the bicycle was holding…
It was a megaphone.
The woman pedaled furiously, screaming at the top of her lungs.
He couldn’t hear her yet.
Just a faint, muffled sound carried by the wind.
…He knew who it was.
The female Cockroach.
That bitch…!
“O…Oppa…”
Soo-hyun called out to him, her voice trembling with fear.
Ye-eun, So-eun, Jung Eun-seo, Jun-hyuk, Tae-young, everyone…
They were all looking at him.
And at the zombie wave.
“…Ugh…”
A faint moan.
Thud.
He looked to his side and saw the grandmother had collapsed.
“Grandmother! Grandmother!”
Ye-eun and So-eun rushed to her side, shaking her.
But the grandmother just moaned, still unconscious.
She had fainted at the sight of the zombie wave.
He grabbed Tae-young’s arm and pulled him closer.
“You, take the grandmother downstairs.”
He left a bloody handprint on Tae-young’s arm.
But Tae-young didn’t seem to mind.
“Yes, hyung.”
He nodded and went to the grandmother.
He turned and walked to the edge of the roof.
That was the spot with the clearest view of the road.
As he walked, he drew his bow.
Swish.
He took an arrow with his other hand.
Jung Eun-seo, realizing what he was about to do, asked in alarm,
“Sung-hoon, it’s impossible. You can’t… It’s too far.”
He gritted his teeth and muttered,
“Don’t worry.”
He stood at the edge of the roof, nocked the arrow, and raised his bow.
The transparent circle appeared before his eyes.
The black wave.
The massive zombie wave.
And at the front, the crazy bitch pedaling furiously on her bicycle.
She wasn’t glowing red.
He slowly raised his bow.
The circle moved upwards with it.
The circle was about the size of a plate.
He couldn’t hit anything outside of that range.
He continued raising his bow.
Almost to a 45-degree angle.
…She was outside the circle.
“…Damn it.”
He looked around.
Everyone was watching him.
He didn’t care if they were watching.
He should have killed her when he had the chance.
His misplaced mercy had caused this zombie wave.
He should have killed her when she’d attacked him with a knife.
He gritted his teeth.
That crazy bitch.
He had to kill that bitch.
Right now!
Near the vegetable garden…
There was a chair.
A wooden chair that seemed to have come from the calligraphy academy.
They must have brought it up here to rest while gardening.
He immediately walked over to the garden and picked up the chair.
Tae-young, Ye-eun, and So-eun hadn’t gone downstairs yet. They were watching him.
Waiting to see what he would do.
He ignored them and walked back to the edge of the roof, carrying the chair.
If he were on the ground right now, he would have used Accelerate, run towards her, and cut off her head with his sword.
He wasn’t sure if he could make it back with only 14 Accelerates, but he would have charged recklessly and hacked that crazy female Cockroach to pieces.
But he couldn’t do that now.
Even the time it would take to wait for the elevator was precious.
Thud.
He placed the chair down and stood on it.
…Damn it, he couldn’t get the right angle.
He placed one foot on the edge of the roof railing.
That was better.
He raised his bow, nocked arrow in place, and drew the string.
Thrum-
The circular frame appeared before his eyes.
She wasn’t glowing red.
He slowly raised his bow.
The circle moved upwards.
He still couldn’t target her.
He held the drawn bow, barely managing to position the female Cockroach at the bottom of the circle, and waited.
…Not yet.
Not yet.
The blaring sound of the megaphone.
Faintly carried by the wind.
All of you are going to die—
Die—
You sons of bitches—
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Well, that was unpleasant, there is vast gulf between not being a savior and letting Children getting eaten alive so you can have sex, that was digusting on several level.