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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: JayM
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We charged forward.
“Uwaaaah!!!!”
“S, save me!!! Kyaaa!!!!”
“F, fuuuck!!!”
Screams of survivors and zombies mixed together in the surroundings.
It was utter chaos.
‘Should I just use Human Sacrifice and kill them all myself instead of letting the zombies get them…?’
The thought crossed my mind, but I didn’t have time to choose a skill right now.
Due to my class, choosing a skill was accompanied by an extreme headache.
If I chose a skill now, I would probably collapse, drool, and become unable to fight.
Since I had used the zombie repellent spray, I couldn’t waste a single second of its effect.
We planned to kill all the special zombies that had come up to the rooftop, so wasting time was out of the question.
“We’re taking down the War Boys first!!! Eun-ji and Ha-rin, break those bastards’ legs!”
“Yes!!!”
“Got it!!!”
There were over ten War Boys on the rooftop.
Those bastards were 3 meters tall and were wreaking havoc on the rooftop, smashing both zombies and humans indiscriminately.
“Hiyah!!!!”
Ha-rin shouted and ran forward.
Her enhanced muscles transferred their power to the monkey wrench she was holding.
Thwack!
Just one blow.
That was all it took to shatter the War Boy’s right knee.
The simple, brutal violence from her overwhelming strength brought down the 3-meter-tall monster.
Thud!
“Uwaaaah!!!!!”
The War Boy screamed as its broken knee buckled.
Perfect.
Its head was lowered now.
“Die!!!”
I grabbed its head with my left hand, which was dripping with green fluid.
Sizzle!!!
With the sound of melting flesh, the War Boy’s head turned into green slime and was ripped off.
“Ugh…!!!”
A terrible stench assaulted my nose.
The stench of the zombies was bad enough as it was, but the stench of the rotting fluid was beyond imagination.
“Gag…”
I felt like I was going to throw up…
Ha-rin seemed to feel the same as her face turned pale, and she started retching.
“Oppa! Here!!!”
Just then, Eun-ji, who was a bit farther away, shattered both ankles of a War Boy, bringing it down.
“J, just a moment…!”
I quickly ran to Eun-ji’s side and melted the War Boy’s head.
Sizzle!!!!
“Ugh… Fuck… O-oppa… the smell… gag…”
This was driving me crazy.
How could such a great skill have such a damn side effect…?
“J-just keep knocking them down! Then I’ll kill them!”
“O, okay!”
“Got it!”
From then on, Eun-ji and Ha-rin mercilessly shattered the knees and ankles of the War Boys, knocking them to the rooftop floor.
This was only possible because we had the spray.
Otherwise, it would have been quite difficult for us to do this.
“Alright!! Leave those five for now! I have a use for them!”
“Yes! Oppa!”
“Okay!”
With this, we had dealt with most of the War Boy bastards.
Of course, more zombies were still crawling up in real time.
But at least we had reduced the number of those messing up the rooftop, so the slaves and non-Awakened should be able to breathe a little easier now.
“Next is the zombie centipedes! Break their arms and legs so that they can’t crawl!!!”
“Alright!!”
“Uwaa!!!”
Eun-ji and Ha-rin, like warrior women, let out fierce battle cries, and struck and broke the arms of the zombie centipedes.
The centipedes thrashed violently.
But they were just cripples without their limbs.
I boldly went in and melted their heads.
My movements felt lighter and smoother after my Magic stat exceeded 100 and Magic flowed through my body.
“O, Oppa! You’re amazing!”
I erased the zombie centipedes one by one while listening to Eun-ji’s cheers.
How long had we been fighting with the zombies on the rooftop?
Finally, this long and terrible night was over.
The dawn air was particularly cold.
Also, as if it were their last stand, the zombies’ resistance grew even stronger.
But we endured.
We ultimately won.
The sun would rise soon.
Had there ever been a time in my life when I had longed for the morning sun so much?
As the sun gradually rose up, the crazed zombies also seemed to be getting tired.
“The sun is rising!!! Fuck!!! The sun is rising!!!! Jin-woo!!! We survived!!! You bastard!!! We survived!!!”
Ha Jin-seong, who had endured the night and survived until the end, let out a tearful roar.
After his brother Ha Jin-woo had stumbled and fallen, Ha Jin-seong, with a demonic look in his eyes, had madly beaten up the approaching zombies and persevered until the sun rose.
Now, even Ha Jin-seong was soaked in zombie blood, and his eyes were half-closed.
He looked extremely exhausted.
“Hyung… sob… fuck…”
Ha Jin-woo was also overcome with emotion, tears streaming down his face as he reveled in the joy.
But it wasn’t the time to cry just yet.
There were still zombies left.
“Oppa! There are only a few left!”
“Yeah… Everyone did well.”
I left the regular zombies to the other slaves, and focused on the few remaining special zombies with Eun-ji and Ha-rin.
After fighting them, it became clear.
All the special zombies were too tough to be simply beaten to death.
Their skulls were particularly dense.
They were too tough to be killed by simply swinging a crowbar at them.
Of course, that toughness was useless against the thick green putrid liquid from the skill ‘Unholy Touch’.
The ones touched by the putrid liquid melted while screaming, unable to resist.
Whether it was a War Boy or a zombie centipede, it didn’t matter.
The strategy of letting Eun-ji and Ha-rin break the War Boys’ legs, and then having me melt the fallen ones’ heads with Unholy Touch worked very well.
“Here!!! A centipede is coming up here!!!”
Hwang Soo-min, who had been tending to Lee Eun-hye’s injured arm, shouted urgently.
“J, just a moment! Oh, my back…”
My back felt like it was going to break after killing zombies all night.
It was even more sore and painful than when I had been rolling around with Eun-ji and Ha-rin.
“Our Oppa can’t have a bad back…”
“Master. I’ll take care of it. Please rest.”
They were worried about me because my back hurt…
I was touched…
Eun-ji and Ha-rin were really the best.
Just looking at them gave me energy.
Normally, my lower body would have reacted as well, but I was so tired that my little guy wasn’t responding.
“It’s okay. Oppa will do it. You guys are out of mana, too. Rest for a bit.”
“But…”
“Okay…”
I wanted to pat Eun-ji and Ha-rin’s heads to show my concern for them, but my hands were too dirty right now.
With a regretful heart, I walked towards the railing that Hwang Soo-min had pointed to.
“Sigh… Fuck… I’m really getting old…”
I had thought this dozens of times already today, but there were just too many damn zombies.
No matter how many I killed, more kept crawling out from somewhere.
It felt like catching cockroaches.
No matter how many you kill, they just keep coming back.
The sun had risen, and the rooftop had already been cleared, but these damn things kept crawling up without any sense of the situation.
‘Still… it should get better now that the sun is up…’
A damn zombie centipede was crawling up the outer wall of the supermarket while carrying regular zombies on its back like they were its babies.
Its appearance was so revolting with its many arms that it disgusted and annoyed me just to look at it.
“We stayed up all night, so let us get some rest now… you bastards… I’m tired!”
I swung my hand and melted the head of the centipede crawling up the wall, causing it to fall to its death along with the zombies it was carrying.
“Uwaaaah!!!”
“Uwaaaah!!!”
The sight of the zombies screaming in their stupid voices as they fell was now like some kind of inhumane zombie comedy show for me, and it was quite funny.
As I was looking down at the falling zombies, someone approached me.
“Hyung-nim, you did well.”
It was Ha Jin-seong, supporting his injured brother.
“Ah… You did well, too. You were going crazy out there while protecting your brother.”
“It was nothing.”
“Hey, Ha Jin-woo. Is your ankle okay?”
“Yes! I’m fine! It’ll get better soon with some rest!”
Ha Jin-woo shouted energetically, his eyes filled with fear that I might abandon him.
As I stared at Ha Jin-woo, Ha Jin-seong quickly changed the subject, worried that his brother might be abandoned.
“Hyung-nim. If we kill those bastards, then it’ll all be over.”
I turned my head at Ha Jin-seong’s words.
I saw five War Boys chasing Kim Joon-min and Kim Il-woo, who were running away.
“Argh!!! Fuck!!! Hyung-nim!!! How long do we have to keep running!?”
“Argh!!! Get away!!! You bastards!!!!”
Kim Min-joon and Kim Il-woo were running away with five War Boys hot on their tails.
“Hey! Run faster!!! You’ll get caught at that rate!!!”
I had used my head here.
It was a strategy to use the War Boys to kill the regular zombies.
Zombie centipedes, specialized in climbing, had evolved to hunt humans in high places.
As a result, their combat abilities weren’t that great.
On the other hand, these crazy muscle zombies were monsters specialized for combat.
You could tell just by the fact that the warrior Kim Il-woo was sent flying by one with a single punch.
They were strong and crude.
‘And stupid.’
Fortunately, the War Boys were individualistic zombies with no sense of cooperation.
I realized that when these uncontrollable 3-meter-tall muscle zombies ran wild, they would naturally hit and kill the regular zombies around them.
So, I ordered Kim Min-joon, who was the fastest among us, and Kim Il-woo, who had relatively good stamina, to narrowly avoid the attacks of the War Boys.
The attacks that those two narrowly avoided would hit and kill the other regular zombies around them.
Yeah, it was like a hit-and-run.
No, it wasn’t a hit-and-run since they were already dead, so it wasn’t murder.
Anyway, those two were faithfully following my orders, luring the War Boys and clearing out the remaining regular zombies on the rooftop.
Thanks to them, a few non-Awakened also seemed to have survived.
“H, here! Ugh… huff… huff… How long do we have to run!? I… huff… I can’t do it anymore…”
Finally out of breath, Kim Il-woo collapsed to the ground.
“Hey! Fuck!! Why would you fall there!!!”
True to his loyal character, Kim Min-joon turned around and tried to help the fallen Kim Il-woo.
“Al-la-kum-R’lyeh.”
Splat!!!
A bundle of tentacles shot out and turned the War Boys that were about to tear Kim Min-joon and Kim Il-woo apart into mincemeat.
At the same time, the exploded flesh of the War Boys rained down on the two.
“Ugh… Ptui! Ptui! Fuck… I think some got in my mouth…”
“Ugh…!”
Kim Min-joon was covered in the blood and flesh of the exploded War Boys as he frowned.
He wiped his face and flicked off the flesh that had gotten on his hands.
Kim Il-woo, on the other hand, was on the ground, throwing up.
How disgusting…
“Oppa! You did well!”
“Master!”
Eun-ji and Ha-rin ran up to me.
It was really over now.
We had killed them all….
“Uwaaaah!!!”
“There’s still more?!”
Just then, the last remaining zombie on the rooftop walked towards me.
It must have been buried under the dead zombie centipede.
“Uwaaaaa!!!!!”
“Ugh… Is there no end to this…?”
Squish!!!
I unconsciously used Unholy Touch.
Then, the head of the zombie that I touched with my hand instantly turned into green slime and melted.
At the same time, acrid smoke spread from it, and a stench so bad it made me want to rip my nose off filled the air.
Unholy Touch was truly the best skill in terms of effectiveness.
Anything it touched rotted and melted, so I could defeat anyone just by touching them.
Its mana consumption was also quite low.
But there was one problem: it created a terribly awful smell when killing zombies.
The green slime secreted from my palm when using the skill already had a disgusting smell, but the smell created when this slime touched a zombie was unbearable.
“Gag…”
It was the twenty-ninth time I had gagged from the unimaginable stench.
No matter how much I smelled it, I couldn’t get used to it.
You would think my nose would become numb by now, but my stats were so high that it didn’t seem likely, and it was killing me.
‘Damn it… I didn’t know it would have a side effect like this…’
The worst part was that I wasn’t the only one suffering; Eun-ji and Ha-rin were also affected.
“Ugh… O, oppa… that, um…”
“I, I’m… ugh…. fine.”
“Ah, um… What was it? I’m sorry. I used it unconsciously…”
“I, it’s okay… Master… ugh…”
“No…”
Don’t try to act okay… when you’re about to throw up…
“B, but… it’s good that we killed them all…. right?”
“Y, yeah. I can probably turn off the skill now.”
The zombie I had just killed was the last one on the rooftop.
I think we killed about 30 War Boys and 27 zombie centipedes.
There were also many other unknown special zombies mixed in.
The three of us really killed a lot.
As a result, I leveled up 5 times while Eun-ji and Ha-rin leveled up 4 times each, and the Ha duo and the other slaves also leveled up quite a bit.
‘Moreover, killing special zombies drops items…’
After killing special zombies all night long, there were some shiny items scattered around.
I realized during the battle that killing special zombies had a chance to drop weapons or armor.
I think it was mentioned in the announcement earlier, but I was in such a hurry that I didn’t have time to read everything carefully.
“Everyone, pick up the items on the ground!”
“Yes!”
The equipment that had fallen to the ground were all ‘items’ like the ones the peddler was selling.
Items had descriptions.
For example, this dagger.
Ceremonial Dagger: Features a curved blade.
It didn’t have any special effects, but it looked quite menacing.
I should use this.
“We gathered them all.”
“These five are all of them?”
“Yes. We searched, but there weren’t any more.”
The dagger I had picked up, two short swords with ambiguous lengths, an axe, and an iron helmet.
They were all ordinary items without any special features.
I kept the dagger, gave the two short swords to Eun-ji, and gave the axe and helmet to Ha-rin.
“Alright… It’s all over…”
It had been about an hour since the sun had risen.
The zombie wave seemed to have completely ended, and the rooftop of the supermarket was in a lull.
“All survivors, come to the peddler!”
There were a few non-Awakened who had survived.
I called them over.
But…
“Cough… I, I think I’ve been bitten…”
“Fuck! He really got bitten!”
This shameless bastard.
Why would he come here if he was bitten?
He should have just stayed put.
“Ah, right.”
Now was the perfect time to use Human Sacrifice.
Instead of turning into a zombie, become my ‘karma’.
“Skill Selection!”
Select a skill:
1. Human Sacrifice
2. Favor of the Myriad Demons
3. Abyssal Observation
4. Mana Eye of Egolessness
Favor of the Myriad Demons: Gains the interest and favor of otherworldly entities. Contract conditions are eased.
‘Another strange skill… But for now, Human Sacrifice!’
Throb.
“Ugh…!!!”
As expected, my body swayed from the immense pain that felt like my head was being crushed.
Naturally, drool dripped from my mouth.
Eun-ji and Ha-rin immediately supported me.
I endured the pain by leaning on them.
“Sigh… Fuck…”
Information about Human Sacrifice flowed into my head.
‘It doesn’t… consume mana… That’s great…’
The target of the Human Sacrifice skill had to be a ‘sapient being’.
It couldn’t be used on beings without intelligence like zombies, and it was also impossible for animals with low intelligence to be sacrificed.
‘But… this… It says it can be used on… other species besides humans… What the fuck does that mean…?’
Was it a hint that there would be alien species or something beyond zombies coming in the future?
My body swayed.
Zombies were enough for us to deal with, you bastards…
‘Anyway… I need to perform a specific act of offering… What was it…? Do I have to say “I offer this” and kill them?’
It seemed like it was exactly that.
It said I needed to make a gesture or statement to clearly indicate that I was offering someone to ‘god’, like the religious act of making the sign of the cross in church.
“Wow… This is serious…”
I would create my own signature sign of the cross later, but for now, I needed to send this guy who was about to turn into a zombie to ‘god’s’ side.
“Argh! I-it hurts!!!”
“Yeah, you bastard, of course it hurts since you’re turning into a zombie!”
Eun-ji and Ha-rin rushed at the guy without hesitation and pinned him down.
“I offer this!!!”
Then I immediately plunged the dagger into his head.
Stab! Crack!
The non-Awakened died instantly, warm blood and brain matter flowing out of his head.
Was the Human Sacrifice successful?
I waited for a moment.
But nothing happened…
[Ah. Sweet.]
“Kyaa…!!!!!”
Something… Something entered my head…!
[More. Bring more.]
“Ugh….!”
It felt like a huge mass of malice was rummaging through my tiny brain as system messages popped up one after another.
You have encountered the evil god ‘Kashnax’!
Congratulations! You have become a servant of the evil god!
You have taken one step closer to the evil god!
The Mark of the Myriad Demons is branded upon you!
All players aligned with good gods will feel a sense of disgust towards you!
Achievement unlocked! ‘Encounter with the Unknown’
Achievement unlocked! ‘The Unforgivable One’
Achievement unlocked! ‘Servant of Kashnax’
Achievement reward is given.
Achievement reward is given.
Achievement reward is given.
“Kyaaa!!!!!!”
Along with the burning pain, something was engraved on my forehead.
It felt like a thin nail was tearing through my flesh….
Was the Mark of the Myriad Demons being engraved on me?
Along with the pain, I felt like I was totally fucked.
Fortunately, the pain didn’t last long.
And thanks to Eun-ji and Ha-rin, who were calling out to me with worried voices, I was able to regain some of my senses.
Mark of the Myriad Demons: Your body and soul now belong to the evil god Kashnax. As his servant, you can communicate smoothly with the myriad demons.
Those with other marks will be hostile towards you.
“F, fuck…”
I never imagined something like this would happen…
Was I too complacent?
Did I let my guard down too much…?
What did ‘Those with other marks’ mean?
It seemed like there were other classes that received the attention of gods like me…
Other marks…
So, the Mark of the Myriad Demons was also a mark?
I didn’t know.
I was filled with anxiety at the thought of how screwed I was.
The skill ‘Summon Tentacles’ has been improved!
Tentacle Eruption: There is no limit to the number of summons. A pentagram is engraved on your palm. The incantation is shortened. Magic consumption is increased to 10!
“Oh, that’s great.”
This was amazing.
‘God’ really didn’t disappoint me…
Now I didn’t have to draw a complicated pentagram.
The incantation was just ‘R’lyeh’ now too.
And the number of summons was unlimited…!
‘Yeah, what’s there to be anxious about? I’ll just capture everyone, whether they have marks or not, and make them my slaves… Kashnax is a god backing me, so I’m invincible.’
Let’s think positively.
Anyway, the sun had risen.
And I survived another day.
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T/N – Well, that went well. Honestly, I think the MC rushed into this one too soon, but at the same time, this felt inevitable, so I guess it was better to get it out of the way now. At least the MC got a free skill upgrade. Unlimited tentacles ftw!
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