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5.12% Leveling Up Wives In The Apocalypse / Chapter 21: Jump

Chapter 21: Jump

"Agh!" An involuntary moan escaped from Mathew's lips.

The dull thud of his body crashing into the concrete wall of the building didn't bode well. But the metallic crack that followed and the cold feeling underneath Mat's fingers announced the important thing.

"I did it," Mathew whispered, fighting off the momentary pain caused by crashing into the wall. He then took several deep breaths to calm himself down.

'Well, then, let's not waste any time,' Mat thought, dropping himself as low as he could before taking a look down.

"Damn it," Mathew cursed when he realized the one mistake he didn't account for.

Even stretched out as far as he possibly could, his foot still dangled a few inches away from the window's frame.

'If I just drop, I will likely slip,' Mathew thought, bitting down his lips.

There was only so long that he could spend theorizing while hanging down from the half-pipe. There was no telling when the bolts holding it in place would give up. What was even worse, though, was that Mathew wasn't athletic enough to keep on hanging like that!

'Anything, is there anything...' he thought, desperately looking around to find a spot easier for him to descend.

And there it was, near the middle point of the building length. A drain pipe ran down the entire height of the building.

The problem was that Mathew was near the centerpoint of the entire compound, not in the middle of the wing!

"I don't have much choice, I guess," Mathew muttered under his nose as he came to a decision.

And then, he slid his hands to the side, slowly inching closer to a spot easier for him to use.

Creak...

The pipe let out a long, wailing cry, signifying that it was under a lot of stress. Hardly any drain pipe was designed to support the weight of a human, after all!

'Please, just hold on for a moment,' Mathew begged in his thoughts, slowly moving his body sideways through the outer wall of the school.

And below him... there was nothing. Only a long distance to the ground, and then hard and unwelcoming earth... that was currently brimming with zombies to boot.

'It's better not to fall, I guess,' Mathew thought, trying to make some light of the situation.

Because in the position he was in right now, he could only try to scam himself into thinking positively... as there wasn't a single thing that could make Mat feel optimistic.

Bit by bit, Mathew moved across the wall. He only managed to reach half of his way before the occasional noises made by the drainpipe turned constant.

'It's not going to last for much longer,' Mathew thought, hurrying his movements up.

Sadly, he wasn't athletic at all. Sure, the system would help him grow faster than anyone without it... but he has yet to start growing properly.

'Damn,' Mathew tightened his lips, turning them into a thin line. 'Normally, I don't think I would be able to make it,' he thought while keeping his hands moving.

And then, a bolt came loose. One of the supports on which the half-pipe was held to the wall came off.

'Fuck,' Mathew cursed under his breath as he hurried his hands. But it wasn't a simple task either, as his exhaustion started to get into Mathew's muscles.

Another bolt came loose, causing the entire pipe to wiggle threateningly. It used to be stable support for Mathew's hands, but now it was slowly becoming a challenge just to keep on holding to it.

'Hurry!' Mathew screamed in his thoughts, desperately moving his hands sideways.

He reached out for the vertical pipe...

The third bolt came loose.

The horizontal line that Mathew hung down from suddenly broke, causing the part with Mathew to swing away from the wall and then down.

It was only moments away from breaking off completely.

'HELL!' Mathew screamed out in his mind, terrified beyond any measure. Yet, before panic could take over his body, he just happened to look forward, right towards the window he wanted to reach.

'Huh?' Mathew froze for a moment when he saw more than he expected to in the reflection on the glass.

The pipe cracked again, another bolt coming loose. The entire thing fell down even further, quickly threatening to go below the level of the window Mathew wanted to climb!

'Now!' Mathew forced himself to swing forward, despite how this would clearly compromise the structural integrity of the pipe. But right now, he was simply too far from the window to reach it.

Mathew swung his legs forward, bending the pipe even further as he got closer to the window.

Then, the last of the bolts that kept the pipe attached to the wall gave up.

Mathew let go of the metal piece since it no longer provided him with any help.

He was falling. There was no denying it. Mat's swing gave him some forward momentum, but it was nowhere close enough to offset the force of gravity.

"FUCK" Mat screamed out when his hands struck the frame of the window, sliding past the glass only to end up crashing at the still.

"No, no, no!" Mat milled with his hands, desperately attempting to grasp at something. But no matter how hard he tried, his hands continued to slide down the metal of the window's still.

And then, the fingers of Mathew's right hand hooked against something, giving the young man something to grab.

"OH FUCK" Mathew screamed when the entire weight of his body rested just on the fingertips of his right hand. He could feel his tendons crying out in pain, ready to snap at any given moment.

'One last bit!' Mathew screamed out in his soul, tensing his muscles as he swung his body to the side, reaching for the support with his other hand.

"Uff..." Mathew released a long sigh when he finally managed to stabilize himself on the wall.

His body was burning, exhausted beyond any measure. It was only a matter of time. But Mathew still managed to gather some remnants of his strength to pull himself up.

Only when he safely sat on the window's ledge did Mathew breathe a sigh of relief. Yet, as he looked into the glass of the window, his feelings turned conflicted.

On the one hand, he nearly turned desperate when seeing the monsters crawling all over the classroom he wanted to break into. Yet, as he caught up his own reflection in the window, Mathew couldn't help but swallow a gulp of salvia.

Because now that he could see in his own reflection, Mat could see the same informative windows that he saw above Nadia before, now floating all over himself!


CREATORS' THOUGHTS
MotivatedSloth MotivatedSloth

I know, I know, I'm only posting one chapter for the last three days. The IRL... is going as usual, I just got one of the laziest periods in my life. But to motivate myself back, I will give all the three missing chapters back up to the tomorrow's reset!

So well, you have a lot to look forward to :D

Chapter 22: On the edge

"What the hell is this?" Mathew muttered, looking at his reflection in the window.

His face was as it always had been, maybe with the slight addition of the extreme exhaustion deep in his eyes. But what sparked the young man's interest flashed behind his reflection in a place he would never be able to normally see.

[WIVES SYSTEM HOST]

[Name: Mathew Karian]

[Age: 19]

[Level: 1/1]

[Race: Evolved Human]

[Class: System Holder]

[Status: Desperate]

[Mathew Karian]

[Level - 1/1]

[Vitality - 13]

[Brawn - 13]

[Agility - 14]

[Mind - 0]

[Arcane - 0]

[Total - 20]

[Accumulated Levels - 1]

It took Mat a short while to decipher all the words he could see in the window, given how distorted and reversed the image was.

'Are those my stats?' Mathew asked, struggling to accept the reality before his eyes.

It was simply easier to assume it was all just an illusion, a mirage of his tired mind. It was easier, even though Mathew was already well aware of the existence of his system.

'No, I can't afford myself the luxury of not believing what I see,' Mathew thought, gritting his teeth down.

'But I can't expect too much from those stats either,' he quickly noticed, his mood souring down.

"Screeee!" the zombies in the class finally took notice, turning their attention towards the weird shadow behind the window. Or maybe it was the noises that Mathew made that attracted them?

It didn't matter.

'I'm running out of time,' Mathew thought, pulling out his sword and bracing himself against whatever he could find on the window's still.

And then, while hoping for the best and praying to his sinful soul's delight, Mathew struck the window with the handle of his sword.

But the pommel of his sword only bounced off the glass, sending Mathew's hand flying far outside of the frame of the window. And with the added weight of the sword pulling his hand down, the young man nearly lost his balance, something insanely precious when hanging for his dear life inside the narrowness of the window's edge.

'As expected of the school's windows,' Mathew thought grimly, only to chuckle a little when he realized the actual benefit of this sort of construction.

'To think that the suicide prevention would stop the undead from claiming the lives of the alive,' Mathew thought, his lips quivering as they formed a small, fake smile.

There was nothing to be happy about in Mathew's situation... But he still decided to press himself for a smile.

If all it took to keep up morale was forcing his body to act as if it was happy and relaxed, a small smile wouldn't be a high price to pay!

'But that doesn't solve the problem of getting inside,' Mathew thought, looking around.

He then grabbed the edge of the window's frame and leaned out as much as he safely could.

"No windows open, huh?" he muttered to himself, disappointed by the situation.

At the current rate, getting back inside the building could prove to be a damned challenge!

"REEEE!" The screeching of the zombies came from just a few inches away. Only the thin panel of glass separated Mathew from the part of the horde that ended up in this part of the building.

A thin panel of glass... That was too sturdy and bouncy for either side to break through it.

"I guess I'm stuck," Mathew muttered, only for the corner of his mouth to quiver as it formed a small smile. "At least I don't have any stepbrothers or sisters to worry about, now," he added, trying to lift his spirits with this silly joke.

And then, a miracle happened. Or maybe a disaster?

One of the zombies in its attempt to grab the shadowy silhuete on the other side of the window... Pushed the window's handle down, allowing for the window to swing open.

'That's my chance,' Mathew thought, raising his sword and just waiting as the second the window opened up, several arms reached out to grab him.

Slash.

Cutting through flesh was easy... but the same couldn't be said about the bone. Or rather, it shouldn't be that easy to cut the bone... But Mathew's sword went through several zombies' arms as if they were made from butter!

'Did they rot away so quickly, or am I actually getting stronger?' Mathew asked himself as he grabbed the edge of the open window and swung his sword inside, cutting right through the zombies gathered there.

This was all that Mathew needed to do to fully agitate them.

Their screeching increased in volume, and soon, the entire classroom filled with zombies to the brim, all eager to get that juicy bite out of Mathew's flesh.

And then, with the path of the least resistance leading straight through the open window, zombies rushed towards Mathew... Only to fall right through the window, slowly clearing the classroom from the enemies.

"It makes me feel like a bully," Mathew muttered, squeezing as far into the corner of the window's ledge as he could. Yet, every now and then, the young man had to swing his sword. After all, with the number of zombies that constantly made their way to the window only to fall right through it, some of them were lucky enough to hook up or something and stay on the ledge.

"ROAR!" a powerful, animalistic scream came from below, shaking Mathew's laziness off.

Even though he had no other choice but to wait for the classroom to clear before he could enter it, the roar reminded him that the clock was ticking.

It was only a matter of time before the rampaging monster or monsters would damage the load-bearing wall of the building.

'I'm no architect,' Mathew thought, watching how the zombies in the classroom neared the state where he would have a shot at barging inside. 'But if the load-bearing walls go down, it will be only a matter of whether a single wing will collapse or if the entire building will go down at once,' Mathew thought grimly.

And then, seeing an opportunity, he grabbed the vertical edge of the window's frame and, using it as a sort of swing, he jumped into the classroom, kneeing the two zombies that were attempting to catch him in the process.

In an instant, zombies inside got even more energetic than before, their prey now right before their rotting hands.

Mathew pulled out his ax and looked up at the zombies swarming the place.

'I need to clean this place quickly,' he thought, swinging his heavier weapon and crushing the nearest zombie's skull with the blade's butt. 'There is no telling how long this building will keep on standing!'


CREATORS' THOUGHTS
MotivatedSloth MotivatedSloth

I hereby solemly promise I won't go to fcking sleep before I catch up with what I consider to be my backlog for this novel. So welp...

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