Chapter 18: Mutating?
Mutating?
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[Third Person POV]
As Anna and Ace hid behind a wall, trying not to be noticed as they watched the humans in front of them fight a monster in front of a store, they watched.
"Should we go over there and help them?" Anna questioned Ace, who responded by saying;
"Wait a minute, I feel like what is happening now is different from what it appears," he said as Anna remained silent and obediently observed while commanding the shadow crow in the sky to prepare to attack at any time while scouting the area.
And, as Ace had mentioned, something wasn't quite right here, and it didn't take long for him to realize that when he aimed the nocked arrow on his bow at the monster the people in front of him were fighting and said;
"Anna, is it just me, or does the monster those people are fighting with appear humanoid?" He inquired.
Although the monster that the people in front of him were fighting resembled a black humanoid, he still decided to shoot the nocked arrow on his bow because he couldn't see the appearance of whatever they were fighting but he knew whatever they were fighting wasn't human.
Because the people in front of him were fighting the monster, Ace couldn't directly shoot and had to aim well so he wouldn't hit any of them by mistake, and the reason he was sure they were battling with a monster in the first place was that while the thing they were battling with had a humanoid shape, Ace had reason to believe it was a monster and if it wasn't, well, he made a mistake.
Ace shot his arrow without hesitation after getting the correct aim on the monsters, but he did not use the spell gem to cast a gale spell to avoid unnecessary destruction.
When the nocked arrow was released from the bow, it flew through the middle of the people fighting without hitting anyone, and when they finally noticed the arrow, it had already hit the arm of the humanoid monster, forcing it to take several steps backward.
Ace emerged from behind the wall at this precise moment with another arrow nocked on the bow, ready to shoot at any moment, as Anna behind him had already spoken to the shadow crow in the night sky and instructed it to be prepared to help at any moment.
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[Ace POV]
I rushed out without hesitation after shooting the nocked arrow on my bow and nocked another arrow to my bow, ready to shoot at any time.
Though I knew that leveling up would gradually make me stronger, I had no idea how slow the progress would be. It appears that I was incorrect, which is unsurprising given that I have no knowledge of what is going on right now.
It appears to me that as we progress through the levels, we change or, more accurately, something changes within us.
What is changing is unknown, but my impression is that we are being transformed into something higher or evolving.
At least, that's how I feel when I level up.
A distance that would have taken an athlete at least 14 seconds to cross at full speed before the strange phenomenon occurred to the world was cut in half by my current body, and this was due to my recent level up.
Think about being at a higher level.
Though what appeared to be a long thought process was nothing more than a flash of thought as I appeared beside the stunned and startled humans who were battling the monster now with an arrow aimed at the monster in front of me.
For my own safety, I avoided approaching the unknown people.
Call me paranoid, but I'm simply being cautious.
I looked at the creature in front of me, ignoring the people around me.
[Zombiefied Mutated Human level 6],
Zombie?
Mutated human?
And why the hell are these monsters growing so fast?
My progress can be explained by the number of monsters I've killed but do monsters have to kill as well?
And, based on the name of the monster, it appears it was once a human.
'Well, it does have some similarities with humans,' I thought as I observed the monster's appearance.
With a height of slightly more than 2 meters, black skin, a huge hole in its stomach that looked like it had been eaten by something, and half of its face destroyed and looking quite ugly, I wondered how this monster that looked like a monster was still able to move with a body like that and how it got this way in the first place.
And based on the clothing remnants on its body, I'm almost certain that this monster was once a human before transforming into its current form, and what happened to cause this transformation was unknown.
My thought process was disrupted when I saw the monsters charge at us, and while it was faster than any of the humans before the strange phenomenon, it was slow for the current me.
It's not surprising, though, because, with such a large body, it was clearly not designed for speed.
I'm pretty sure it's stronger than anything I can tank right now.
I let go of the nocked arrow on my bow and shot it fast towards the monster's head, penetrating it as the monster came to a halt.
I would have lowered the bow in my hand if I had received notification from the primordial chronicle that the arrow I shot had penetrated the monster's head, but I didn't because I hadn't received notification from the primordial chronicle that I had acquired the primordial records of the mutated human in front of me.
I quickly nocked another arrow on the bow and aimed at the monster, perplexed as to how it could still be alive.
And sure enough, I didn't have to wait long before the monster regained consciousness and began charging in our direction again.
When I saw this, I released the nocked arrow on my bow, but this time I used the spell gem and added a gale spell to the arrow I had just shot.
I was able to penetrate the head of the zombie monster in front of me with the gale spell, bursting its head as I watched the monster's body fall.
'It should end with this,' I thought before waking up to reality and discovering that I still hadn't received a notification from the primordial chronicle.
I immediately nocked another arrow to my bow as I wondered what was going on when I suddenly saw Anna summoned crow dive down to the zombie body before using its peck to dig deep into the monster's chest and after a while before bringing out a tiny blood red crystal from the monster's chest and eating it in a hurry.
I was perplexed by the strange act of the shadow crow and wondered what the tiny blood-red crystal I saw the shadow crow dig out was before my thoughts were interrupted by the primordial chronicle in my head as a blue panel with notifications appeared in front of me.
[You have acquired the primordial record of Zombiefied Mutated Human level 6],
O.O
'Well, call me stupid if I don't recognize that the blood-red crystal taken from the monster's chest was related to the zombie's long life,' I thought as I looked at the people beside me with a blank expression.
I also saw Anna approaching me with a crow in her arms, but it was not the crow that had taken the strange blood-red crystal from before because it was still on the monster's chest standing still.
Her eyes were also pure silver, which I noticed always happens when she is sharing the vision with the summoned shadow crow.
'What did she do this time?' 'I believe she said it was because of a connection,' I thought as I noticed someone from the group of people beside me emerge as I refocused my attention on them.
Before I arrived, four people were fighting the monster.
Three males and one female
If I were to judge by their appearance, they were all over the age of 27. From the equipment they had, I could tell they also participated in the first kill event, but I'm not sure why their equipment seemed to be worse than Anna's and mine.
'Were there conditions that had to be met before an individual could receive a rainbow orb that could produce an item that was above rare grade, or were we just lucky to receive one that could top the blue orb?' I thought as I focused on the man who was only a few meters away from me before he stopped and I thought that perhaps the people in front of me could at least provide some answers to my questions.
As I listened to what the people in front of me had to say, Anna was already beside me, her eye color returning to normal.
'I'm curious as to how that human became mutated and transformed into that.'
Gifts
-- Gift
received Weekly Power Status
-- Power
Ranking 
-- Power
stone