In the faculty room, Erix was dressing up Rin's wound on the left of her forehead.
"I knew you would come for me," Rin said with a sweet smile as she wrapped her arms around Erix. "Come on, remove that mask and let me kiss you. You know how much I've missed you."
"Things would've been different if you had slept at my place yesterday like usual," Erix sighed as he almost finished dressing the wound. "Though I don't know if I should call it bad or boon."
"Why are you saying that?" Rin said with a pout. "Aren't we both fine?"
Erix caressed Rin's right cheek with his hand and sighed. But suddenly, his ears perked up as he heard some footsteps.
"Someone's coming. Wait here," Erix said as he stood up. 'But why? Did that coward rat me out?'
"I'll cover for you," Rin picked up one of the guns Erix put on the ground and stood up with him.
"Let me handle it," Erix said as he pressed Rin's chest with his palm and gently pushed her back as he could control his newfound strength. "I want to test my durability."
After saying that, Erix quickly dashed out of the faculty room, causing Rin to curse under her breath with a worried expression.
The two police officers were already cautious because they saw their colleagues' dead bodies and were moving slowly with guns pointing at the front.
However, they were startled to see a man with a face hidden by a mask coming out of the faculty room.
"Don't move, or we will shoot you!"
"Shoot," Erix laughed. "Shoot, or you will die."
*Phat!*
One policeman fired with an angry expression.
The bullet flew quickly and hit his chest. However, it didn't even pierce the robe, making Erix surprised. 'So this Black-Star robe can block bullets? Hmm, but I think there should be a limit. Maybe it can block from small guns but not from big guns?'
The two policemen were shocked after seeing that the bullets did not affect him. However, Erix didn't entertain them anymore and manipulated his dagger to kill them since they were within 10 meters of him.
They managed to shoot two more times, but none of the bullets hurt him.
[+2 Mystic Essence gained. 30/100].
"We can't stay for too long. They will soon know that something is wrong since these two won't be returning to report anymore," Erix said as he turned to Rin.
"But I wanted to kill those trash, Felix and his father," Rin's expression was frosty.
"And you, how long are you planning to wear that mask? I want a kiss!" Rin said as she stretched her hand to remove the mask, but Erix grabbed her hand.
"Close your eyes."
'This is not zombie infection according what i am feeling. This power...' Erix internally nodded. It was safe to kiss.
"Ok," Rin nodded as she closed her eyes.
Erix removed his mask as he looked at Rin with her eyes closed. His face looked pale, but spotless with his usual handsomeness increasing by a notch due to his Hybrid zombie transformation. His eyes looked a bit scary, but he was far cry from the usual zombies.
He leaned forward and kissed Rin's lips after closing his eyes.
Rin then opened her eyes and was startled. "Why is your skin so pale? Did something happen?"
Erix's eyes were still closed, so Rin still hadn't seen his eyes.
"Rin… I am no longer a pure human but something else," Erix said as he slowly opened his eyes, revealing his black eyes with dark red cranky irises. "I am a half-human and a half-zombie."
Rin's mouth was wide open in shock, "No wonder I was feeling your body temperature colder than normal."
She rubbed Erix's cheek and chuckled. "Whatever, as long as you are alive."
Rin then leaned forward and embraced Erix with her head resting on his chest, "Your heart is not beating as well… It's true. You are dead but alive. What is this miracle?"
Rin's eyes shone with curiosity, but she suddenly remembered something and grabbed Erix's crotch. "Wait, don't tell me..."
"Eh…" Erix wryly smiled and shook his head. "It can stand up. I have a life force in me, but it circulates uniquely now. Not with heart and blood but something called Life Orb, which provides energy to my body and maintains all body functions and brain."
"Phew…then we're good. Otherwise, we would have to go on a quest to fix that first in this changing world,"Rin said as she hugged Erix with a peaceful smile. It was their regular routine to have sex after fighting each other for classes.
"Haha," Erix laughed as he slapped her butt, "You are a naughty teacher, but I share the same sentiments."
"Humph, it's your fault. I was an innocent martial artist until you became my student," Rin pouted before she chuckled and kissed him again.
"Well, your new look is not bad. You look more handsome now."
[You can add each other to a team to form a party. Would you like to do that?]
"Did you get that?" Erix asked.
"Yep. This is nice," Rin nodded with a smile. She looked at her status and could also look at Erix's status with his permission after they formed a team. "We are both level 5, but you have more stats than me. Tsk, I also want to become a hybrid zombie like you."
Erix ruefully smiled.
"If there's a safe way to do it, then sure. But no need to take the risk of getting scratched or bitten by a zombie. Nothing happened to you even we kissed, so this magic zombie infection seem to spread from scratches and bites from them."
"Also, how much mystic essence are you short of reaching 100?" Erix asked.
Rin checked and answered. "I need 74 mystic essences more for class awakening."
"Mhmm…. Although a bit risky, we have no choice. Let's go out of the campus through the back gate. Kanel told me there are mutated creatures there."
"Yeah, since there's empty land and a forest-like area after that, there are many animals and insects. If they mutated..." Rin grinned and continued, "Let's hunt them and get powerful. After that, we will come back here and kill those bastards. Especially Felix. I'll torture him."
Rin clenched her fist in anger. She wasn't going to leave without killing that piece of trash.
"Alright. I also need to deal with that rat, Kanel. I told him to stay quiet, but he went and ratted out instead."
Rin was ruthless, just like Erix, and although there was an age gap of 4 years between them, Rin being four years older, both had great chemistry between them ever since they met almost three years ago.
"Let's go."
Both of them quickly ran towards the bathroom area in the building and jumped out of the side path since there were three ways to get into each campus building.
Afterward, they sneakily and quickly moved towards the back exit of the campus and left.
After leaving the campus, Erix and Rin soon saw a group of mutated flies flying toward them.
"Take this dagger. Its poison is potent. I'll use that metal pole since I have the skill to control metal," Erix said as he gave the Poison Dagger to Rin while he used his Metal Control to manipulate a metal pole on the ground near the exit gate of the campus.
He had to focus and target the metal pole before he felt it binding to his mind via the Metal Control skill and managed to control it.
*Bzzz….*
The group of six giant flies the size of small dogs flew towards them with creepy eyes. Their wings were black with a green hue, and suddenly, they released a gaseous substance after nearing Erix and Rin.
Erix and Rin knew not to inhale it.
The flies pointed their pipe-like mouths towards them as they zoomed towards them with clear blood thirst.
Rin dashed forward with the dagger and grazed one mutated fly while narrowly passing by it. In front of her was another fly, but a metal pole flew towards it and squashed it before the fly could attack Rin.
[A level 7 Mutated Fly killed. +1 Agility]
[+1 Mystic Essence]
Both heard the notification and got a +1 increment in the Agility stat.
It didn't take long for the remaining five flies to get killed by their teamwork.
[A level 8 Mutated Fly killed. +1 Agility]
[A level 8 Mutated Fly killed. +1 Agility]
…
Each of them killed three flies and reached level 7 from level 5.
"So, you got that metal control skill from a scroll, right?" Rin said as she picked up a dark blue scroll with lightning patterns and got information.
[Lightning Charge (1st-Tier active skill): You can charge lightning using mana that causes your physical and weapon attacks to have a lightning attribute for additional lightning damage. Damage depends on your magic stat.].
"Yep. You can use that scroll to learn a skill and awaken your magic talent," Erix said.
The scroll turned into sparks and entered Rin after she used it.
Erix also looked at her Status through the team function.
[~Rin~]
_Race: Human
_Level: 7
_Class: None
_Vitality: 99/100
_Stat points: 10
--> [ Strength: 13 / Agility: 16 / Health: 15 / Stamina: 16 ]
--> [ Magic affinity: Rank-B / Magic power: 51 / Mana: 150/150 ]
\______Active Skills [1/5]:______/
—> [ Lightning Charge (1st Tier) ]
\______Passive Skills [0/5]:______/
—>
\______Special Skills [0/3]:______/
Rin could feel mana circulating in her body before it gathered in one place. She willed to use the skill she got with a bare minimum amount of mana and lost 20 mana as the dagger in her hand started crackling with faint lightning.
"Is it an enhancement sort of skill?" Erix asked in surprise. "But why do you have no skills or items? I heard that you killed several mutated insects and critters?"
"Don't know. I also only leveled up until four since all mutated creatures here were around that level when we arrived here."
"I see."
"Anyway, let's find more creatures. I want to see how many strikes I can use with this 20 mana-consumed lightning charge."
They continued walking cautiously towards the forest area approx 100 meters away from them.
However, Erix suddenly stopped after walking halfway.
"Rin, wait!"
Rin also paused and turned to him with a confused expression, "What's the matter?"
Erix's eyebrows creased as his instincts were tingling. He could sense and hear something…something under the ground.
Soon, the ground under their feet started trembling as well.
Rin also noticed the anomaly and looked at Erix as both nodded to each other.
*Swoosh…*
Both of them jumped away from each other after two seconds, and right after that, a giant centipede came out of the ground.
*Srrrrrr!*
The Centipede was 4 meters long and half a meter thick!
[Anomaly detected! This is a rare encounter in which you have to fight something far stronger than you. Defeat it by forming a group and receive a treasure crate]
Rin scoffed.
"Group? Heh, we have to kill it ourselves."
She quickly backed away as the Centipede slithered towards her.
"Rin! Throw the dagger in the air," Erix said before he used his Metal Control with maximum force and shot the metal pole towards Centipede.
*Srrrrrrr!*
The metal pole didn't pierce the tough carapace of the giant mutated Centipede, but Erix did attract its attention after that attack.
"Erix, that Exo-skeleton on its body doesn't cover its stomach part!" Rin shouted as she picked up a stone from the ground and infused the lighting charge from her hand into the stone before throwing it towards the Centipede.
*Boom…*
The Centipede released a strange cry in pain as the rock that exploded with lightning charge after hitting it damaged it and slightly cracked its carapace.
On the other hand, Erix manipulated the Poison Dagger that Rin threw into the air and stabbed it into the Centipede's head. But it was only a swallow stab!
"We can kill it!" Rin chuckled and picked up another rock before infusing Lightning Charge in it—with 25 mana this time.
*Swoosh…*
Rin's lighting exploding rock again damaged the Centipede, and Erix also attacked it with the dagger again, making it furious.
The Centipede rose up and towered three meters tall before opening its mouth to release a sharp cry.
In the next second, a dark green poisonous cloud formed over its head as some black energy came out of its mouth.
"Watch out. It's doing something," Erix said with a slight frown as he manipulated his dagger and took this chance where the Centipede was exposing a part of its belly to attack there.
*Shiiiiiiii….*
When Erix's dagger slashed its exposed part of the belly, the dark green cloud on top of Centipede glowed before it shot acid drops toward Erix and Rin.
Rin quickly dodged since she was a bit far, but Erix was near, and since Centipede was targeting him, most acid drops shot toward him.
Naturally, his agility stat was very high, making both his thinking process and physical mobility powerful as he dodged the acid drops.
While dodging and backing away, but not going 10 meters away as he controlled his dagger, Erix continued attacking the Centipede. At the same time, Rin also damaged it using her Lightning Charge skill combined with stones.
However, the acid drops released from the cloud were a large area attack, and Erix couldn't dodge them all as several acid drops hit him, and he got injured.
But he didn't feel much pain and continued attacking while trying his best to dodge.
After six seconds of struggle, they finally managed to kill the Centipede, with Erix sustaining moderate injuries.
[Congratulations! Your team has killed a level 19 Venomous Centipede. +4 Health, +3 Strength]
[+10 Mystic Essence gained].
Both of them received a similar stat boost and +10 Mystic Essence. They also reached level 10 and gained 6 unassigned stat points.
"So that's the reward, huh? I guess we can expect something good," Rin said with a smile as she saw a big cyan-patterned crate materializing after the dead Centipede's body turned into motes and disappeared.
[Treasure Crate (Uncommon): Contains multiple rewards]
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