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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: JayM
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I approached the crying zombie. Wary of a potential ambush, I kept my distance and drew the sword possessed by Yang Ji-sang before pointing it at her.
A crying zombie… A zombie crying…? It couldn’t be a Field Boss. What is this?
I felt like strange things kept happening to me. Even when I was just minding my own business, I would stumble upon something or get dragged into some incident. It was my twisted fate, and there was nothing I could do about it.
I simply accepted it. Since there was no way to change it, acceptance was my only option.
“Hey. What are you?”
“Hic… Y-yes?”
“Why… Why is a zombie talking? Reveal your identity!!!”
I pointed my sword at her, suspecting that she might be dangerous.
Attempting conversation was a risk. What if she suddenly blew herself up while crying?
I considered just cutting off her head right now.
Only after I plunged my sword into her shoulder did the zombie girl scream and answer my question.
“Kyaaaaa!!! It’s… because… my class is strange!!!”
“What…? Are you Awakened?”
“Yes! Kuaaaaa…!!”
I nodded as if finally understanding as I listened to her hoarse, zombie-like screams.
I had suspected that she might be a catalyst for summoning a Field Boss or a new type of evolved zombie I wasn’t aware of.
But she was just a Player with a unique class. The moment I realized that, she didn’t seem like a big deal anymore.
Well… There are vampires, fallen angels, and even a headless Dullahan running around as a Player… So why wouldn’t there be an undead Player…? I need to broaden my perspective… This world is full of strange individuals.
If my thinking became stagnant, I might be caught off guard by some strange individual. I decided to accept that anything could happen in this crazy world.
Having already been involved in far more strange incidents than others, I wouldn’t even be surprised if a dragon suddenly appeared before me.
Come to think of it, why are all the people I pick up non-human?
As I was thinking of enslaving the zombie girl, it suddenly occurred to me that there were an unusually high number of non-human individuals in my group.
It wasn’t just a feeling. Kang Ha-young was a Vampire, Han Ah-ram was a half-demon, and Merhere was a fallen angel. If even one more of my harem members became non-human, more than half of them wouldn’t be human.
Not to mention the Dullahan.
“Hey. You don’t want to die, do you?”
“Sob… Y-yes… Please… Please… I can’t die like this… Please… spare me… I… I have to get revenge… on those bastards… who killed my mom!!! And dad!!! I have to get my revenge!!!!”
“Don’t shout! Be quiet!”
I pulled out the sword and kicked the zombie girl.
I controlled my strength as I was worried that I might shatter her if I kicked too hard.
“Cough…”
“I don’t care about your revenge or whatever. Choose. Submit to me and live, or die.”
As the zombie girl Son Ha-eun looked at me threatening her with the sword, she thought, ‘This man is no different from those lawless bastards.’
‘Are there… any good people left in this world…?’
And then she realized…
That this damn, unpleasant, filthy world was now inhabited only by equally filthy and despicable humans.
The realization made her want to live even more. She had become filthy and despicable herself. Her body was rotting with her insides spilling out as she became undead. She didn’t want to die before she could get revenge on those lawless individuals. She couldn’t die like this.
‘I’m just a skeleton barely held together by skin… Even I, who struggle to get revenge in this state… Am I any different from them? I’m also living to kill someone… I also felt joy and satisfaction when they died.’
The girl thought that the moment a person decided to kill another person, the moment they found joy in that death, they were already the same kind of sinner.
“I want to live.”
Son Ha-eun bowed her head. She would beg for her life from this man and plan for the future.
Seeing the zombie girl’s submission, I smiled broadly and branded her forehead.
Sizzle!!
“Ugh…!”
Something bound her.
An immense power constricted her soul.
“Hehehe. Picking up a Lich on the street…”
I smiled while checking her class. Although she wasn’t completely skeletal yet, her class was indeed Lich.
And although she only had two skills due to her low level, it was a class with excellent Necromancer potential.
“Hey, Ha-eun.”
“Yes…? How do you know my name…”
“It’s obvious. Now, repeat what you just said. Who killed your parents?”
“T-the lawless individuals…”
“Are they the ones who eat human flesh and kill people indiscriminately?”
“Yes… That’s right… How did you know…?”
“You… You know where they are, right?”
“Yes…”
“Lead me there later. I’m going to kill them all. As you wish.”
“W-wait… There are a lot of lawless individuals in their hideout… We’ll all die if we go there…”
“Whatever. You just watch and enjoy the show. I’m going to wipe them out. Every single one of them.”
I intended to attack them preemptively if I could pinpoint their location.
‘The lawless individuals Ha-eun is talking about must be the ones Moon Geun-o mentioned… If they haven’t hunted a Field Boss yet, it’s better to deal with them first while we’re all still at level 15.’
I had learned a valuable lesson from the surprise attack on Our Heart Church.
In this world, if you know the enemy’s location, you should attack immediately without giving them time to prepare.
‘The longer you wait, the stronger the enemies become. I have to strike first while I have the advantage.’
Even though the world had changed strangely, like a game, that didn’t mean that the other people had become game characters.
The other Players were just like me. They wouldn’t just wait around to be attacked.
“Follow me.”
“Yes… I understand.”
I took Son Ha-eun, the zombie girl, and headed towards where the Dullahan and Kang Ha-young were.
I had told them to leave some survivors alive, so there should be a few remaining. I intended to get information about the group from them and ask if they had hunted a Field Boss yet.
And if they had already hunted a Field Boss and were ahead of us…
‘Even then… I’ll kill them before they get any stronger.’
I was determined to kill them, even if it meant using all the shots from Totzmir’s Trumpet Gun I received from the Dragon Slayer.
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“Kyaaa!!! What is that!?”
“Shut up and run!!!”
The lawless individuals screamed and fled.
The Dullahan, who was riding its skeletal steed, pursued them.
“I must… tear off their heads!!!”
The Dullahan swung his massive sword mercilessly, accompanied by its strange cries.
It seemed to have no intention of sparing any survivors.
It simply kept muttering about tearing off every head it saw while killing even those he could have spared.
Jang Jo-joon had told it to capture them, and not kill all of them. But the Dullahan, with its severely impaired intellect, reinterpreted his order as a command to kill.
“Uaaah!!!”
Crash!!!
The asphalt shattered as the massive sword slammed into the torsos of two running men, crushing them like tofu.
The overwhelming mass of the greatsword combined with the momentum of the skeletal steed created an absurdly destructive force.
As the two men were crushed, debris from the shattered asphalt and what were once humans rained down, piercing the backs and legs of those fleeing in panic.
“Kyaa!!!”
“Gah!!”
The lawless individuals screamed and collapsed.
The Dullahan raised its sword to strike down the three fallen individuals, but a woman suddenly appeared and grabbed the Dullahan before throwing it backward.
“Kyaaaaa!! I must tear off their heads!!!”
“Shut up! You crazy monster!”
As the Dullahan was thrown back, the skeletal horse snorted and ran after its master.
A new death approached the three surviving lawless individuals.
“Hey. You guys. Don’t you want to avoid being smashed to bits by that thing?”
It was a woman with decadent beauty, white hair, and red eyes.
“P-please spare us… Please!!”
One of the lawless individuals prostrated himself while begging for his life.
Kang Ha-young smiled as she looked down at him.
Although her intelligence had temporarily decreased after Awakening as a Carnage Vampire, she had regained it after becoming Jang Jo-joon’s servant. However, her personality had become somewhat twisted, and her sadistic nature had intensified.
She was overcome with the urge to toy with these three weak-minded fools.
“Then how about… you three kill each other until only one remains?”
Kang Ha-young smiled as she urged them to kill each other.
Jang Jo-joon was currently busy talking to his new toy, so she decided to indulge her sadistic desires.
“Kuaaaaa!!!”
One of them immediately drew a knife from his waist and stabbed the lawless individual next to him in the stomach.
A chaotic brawl ensued. The lawless individuals swung their knives and stabbed each other, desperately fighting for their lives while wishing for the others to die.
“Hahaha!!!”
The villainess laughed as she watched the pathetic struggle of the lowly scoundrels.
If one had to choose the most cruel woman among Jang Jo-joon’s companions, it would probably be Kang Ha-young.
Having Awakened as a vampire, who fed on humans, she now perceived all humans, except for her one and only master Jang Jo-joon, as beings lower than livestock.
“Kyaaa… Die!! Die, you bastard!!!”
Crack!!
A scream, followed by the sound of something breaking.
And one of the lawless individuals died, his neck snapped.
“Ah… Aaaaaaa!!!!”
The lawless individuals, just like the survivors they had captured, had become mere playthings. Their lives were being consumed for Kang Ha-young’s amusement.
The sanctity of life? Human dignity?
Human rights, morality, equality, ethics, and all other such concepts were now the exclusive possessions of the powerful.
Wicked individuals were devoured by even more wicked villains, and even those villains would eventually be buried and die in the approaching disaster.
This was the apocalypse.
This was the disaster.
“Cough…”
Only one of the three lawless individuals remained.
The surviving lawless individual laughed.
He couldn’t stop laughing, overjoyed that he had managed to survive by killing his former comrades.
He hadn’t cared about the lives of others since the world ended.
As long as he could live another day by stepping on others, he was content.
Of course, this man hadn’t always been like this.
He was once an ordinary person.
An ordinary youth.
An ordinary office worker.
An ordinary citizen.
The world had simply changed him.
He had adapted after witnessing countless meaningless deaths.
He simply realized that the lives of others except for his own held little value.
Kang Ha-young smiled while looking at the remaining lawless individual.
“Are you happy you survived?”
“Yes… Hehe… Hehehe… I’m happy…!”
“You idiot.”
Kang Ha-young stomped on the head of the surviving, bleeding man. His body was covered in wounds and was dripping blood.
But Kang Ha-young wasn’t interested in his disgusting blood. She now only craved the sweet blood of her master.
‘I lived… again… I survived again… I’m lucky… Hehehe…’
The lawless individual, crushed beneath her sneakers, was simply happy that the monster before him hadn’t killed him.
The woman before him was a monster who could obliterate the approaching zombie horde with a wave of her hand. He considered himself incredibly lucky to have survived without being killed by such a monster.
As the foolish lawless individual was rejoicing in his survival, Jang Jo-joon approached them.
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“Ha-young, is this the only one left?”
“Ah… Oppa… That’s…”
“You killed the others for fun again, didn’t you?”
“No… It’s that headless bastard who already…”
“I thought there were at least three alive?”
“Yes… I… told them to kill each other…”
Kang Ha-young couldn’t lie to her master.
The truth just spilled out whenever she looked into my eyes.
“How many did I tell you to keep alive?”
“I-I’m sorry…”
“You’ll be punished when we get back.”
“Hehe… I like that…”
I didn’t really care how many of the lawless individuals survived.
I had already captured one who knew their location.
I just needed an excuse to punish Kang Ha-young.
“Hey.”
“Sob… Yes! Yes!!”
“Tell me everything you know. The location of your hideout and everything else. Everything you can remember.”
I placed a Slave Brand on the lawless individual and ordered him not to lie, then obtained information about the location of their hideout, the number of Awakened inside, and the Hidden Classes in their group.
“I-if I tell you… will you spare me…?”
After extracting all the information I could from the lawless individual, I used Unholy Touch to melt his head before he could finish his sentence.
“Kyaaaaa!!!!!”
“I offer you this.”
I frowned at the unpleasant smell and offered the man to Kashnax.
“[Soggy…]”
I only removed my hand from the melting head after hearing Kashnax’s gloomy assessment.
“Ha-young, let’s go back.”
“Yes!”
I postponed my original objective of searching for a Field Boss and tracking down the four remaining members of the Focused Raiders.
I had learned that the lawless individuals hadn’t hunted a Field Boss yet. They were also desperately searching for one. Now was the perfect time to strike.
‘And… seven Hidden Classes…’
The lawless individuals, also known as the Bandits, had more Hidden Classes than the good gods’ followers who attacked my supermarket or the Our Heart Church group. Even more than the four remaining members of the Focused Raiders.
‘I need to be fully prepared.’
They were a large and powerful group.
‘Tomorrow… When I can summon the Abyssal Roach, we’ll attack…’
I could use the Abyssal Roach to deal with most of the enemies.
The problem was the six Hidden Classes.
‘Blade Master, Possession Warrior, Barbarian, Rover, Sharpshooter, Beast Tamer. Another Barbarian… Is it a relatively common special class…?’
Wondering about the other Barbarian, I thought about the leader of the group, a man whose class was the same as the organization’s name.
‘Lee Chan-seong, the Bandit. A powerful individual who wields both guns and daggers…’
They were on my radar.
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Meanwhile, at the sports center, the lawless individuals’ hideout…
The pile of burned corpses, the remains of countless victims who had become playthings for the lawless, stirred.
Wiggle…
The resentment and grudges of the countless dead coalesced and merged.
One of the three methods to summon a Field Boss was realized at the sports center.
Soon, an undead monster would emerge from the pile of corpses.
And the entire surrounding area would become its domain.
Of course, no one there was aware of this.
They simply continued their filthy and despicable games as usual.
No one noticed the stirring pile of corpses.
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T/N – Hello guys. Sorry about not being able to post last Tuesday and Thursday. I was sick these past couple of days, and in fact, I’m still not doing too hot right now (Or maybe I AM too hot right now. Get it? Cough Cough). I’m getting better, but I wanted to post these chapters before the weekends to give you guys something to read. I should be able to post as usual on Sunday, so no worries.
Of course, a Field Boss will pop up at the place he is about to raid. Can’t even argue with that because his luck just works that way. Also, I think this zombie girl was the one who summoned the skeleton army that attacked his supermarket in his premonition. Then, the genderbent monk became the Dullahan in the middle of the attack due to the choker.
If you find any mistakes, feel free to point them out in the comments.
