Chapter 5: Zombie Infection (Rewritten)
Throne room inside the castle
In Kingdom brightest days, this room was a place of great power. It was visited by all of the important guests, so it had to live up to its status. It had beautiful decorations, such as expensive rugs, painting and its aura, ooh its aura, it was a sight to behold. Many nobels enetered this room just to expirience the feeling it provided.
But now, after the undead army conquered the Kingdom all of it changed. The throne room itself decayed to a unreconizable state, with moss growing on marble walls, and rubble that covered the whole floor.
The only source of light in this foresaken place came form the broken down windows, but it wasn't light that gave hope, no, it was falling on the throne itself. This throne was a center peace with something that made destrucion around it, pale in comparison.
The throne room was filled with suffocating aura of death, It spread to every cranny of the room, with its main source sitting on the throne.
Sitting there was a handsome male in his mid twienties, his skin pale like a dead person, his long white hair was covering the throne and a red shining gem was inserted in the middle of his forehead. His look screamed 'Death', with his expression unaffected by all the darkness aroud him.
One look at this person, was enough to see him gazing in the distance, deeply thinking about something. He was like a statue, resembling the famous 'Thinker'.
It was hard to determine if he was really alive, but as if to prove people wrong, he opened his lips, and from inside of them rang out deep and sublime voice.
"Weird."
This simple sentence was meet with another voice, cold as the previous one, but this time it was a female.
"Something wrong?"
Man took little to no notice to the existence of that person, with an answer maybe direction to himself.
"One of my minions died, and this itself wasn't suprising. Thing that picked my interest was unusual breath of the living that came with it."
His reply was the last thing he did, before returning to his dead like state, perfectly blending with environment that surrounded him.
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1 hour later
(Finally!) I thought to myself after pain ended.
Inspecting wounds on my chest, gave me a satisfactory view, with all signs of the infection gone.
(Seems like those race skills are more powerful that I originally anticipated.)
But all of this wasn't important at the moment. I need to continue with the thing I wanted to do before, check shop.
[Shop:
55 Points
- Bottle of water x1 - 5 points
- Beef jerky x1 - 5 points
- Bandage x1 - 5 points
- ...
- Basic Swordsmanship Manual - 100 points
- ...
- Apollo's Golden Bow - 1000000 points ]
"A long list without any op bloodlines or any other of that shit. There are also really powerful things I want to get my hands on, I can't say no." This realization made my grin slightly bigger.
While scrolling through the list, I saw a new window pop up in the right corner of my eye.
[Quest: Zombie Infection
Quest Description: After being hurt by a zombie your wounds become infected, making them hard to heal, and counsantly briging you torment of your flesh rotting before your eyes. You can gain resistance to this infection with specific steps and correct resources.
Quest Requires:
- Heal 4 Infected Wounds [0/4]
- Kill 30 Zombies [1/30]
- Collect 7 Zombie tooths [0/7]
- Collect 5 bottles of Zombie blood [0/5]
Reward:
- New Skill [Poison Resistance Lvl 1] ]
(I wonder how exactly those quests are created? Do I need to fulfil some specific requirements, or there something else involved?) thinking about all of this, resulted in more and more questions appearing in my mind.
"Enough thinking for now, I need to take care of my injuries." I started to dress my wounds with a bandage I bought from the shop.
Feeling cold wind on my bare skin, made me look for my shirt, when I spotted it next to zombie's corpse.
I crouched down and picked it up, but after seeing its state the only thing I could do with it was to throw it in the trash.
Next thing I did was searching for anything useful on zombie's corpse.
I found nothing, so I decided to at least get one thing I could from him, his teeth. "Looks like I will need to do this the old fashion way."
After knocking his teeth out, I got only one tooth acceptable by the quest. Turnes out that condition of the teeth is very important, some of them are rotten and others doesn't posses enough poison in them.
(This quest will take some time, but it's worth it in the end.)
Finished with my business, I threw my punching bag on my shoulder, and delivered it to the cliffside, when I tossed it down, making it fall to the woods below.
In that moment, It hit me "My first kill... This feeling... It's amazing."
If someone were to look at Alexander right now, they would be able to see inextinguishable flame burning deep in his eyes.
It took some time, but I recovered from this feeling.
(What exactly was that? This...) Suddenly, I nearly fell.
Luckily enough I managed to support myself with my sword just in time.
"It seems like my body can't endure anymore physical effort. It's time to go back."
With no other choice I opened my system, and choose the main world, making everything turn black again.
My appearance in my room was a short one, with me collapsing on the bed and falling asleep immediately afterwards.
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Next morning in the dining room
"Where's Alexander? Did anyone seen him?" asked Olivia, seeing one of the chairs missing its usual resident.
Mira took a look at the same empty chair "Yesterday after breakfast he gone to his room and never come out."
"Amelia, can you go check on him?"
"Why me?" Amelia was slightly unhappy with how the things turned out.
Olivia responded in a strict tone "Yesterday, when Alexander heard about what happened to you, he got very worried and checked up on you right away."
Amelia become quiet and lowered her head "Ok, I will check on him."
After getting up, Amelia began going upstairs, while still keeping her head down. Unbeknown to the others, she grew more and more nervous with each step she took. (Alexander, will you be happy to see me?)
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*KNOCK*KNOCK*KNOCK*
".... " *KNOCK* "....." *KNOCK* "Ok, ok, I'm awake." hearing all of this commotion woke me up.
I checked my time, and realized how late it was (I must have been really exhausted.)
After stretching a little, I stood up still half asleep, trying to gather my composure, when I heard the same sound that woke me up *KNOCK* (Looks like someone is impatient.)
I walked up to the door, and saw a person I least expected "Hey, Amelia." and this time I was able to see her whole, not only her head.
Amelia is 1.74 m tall, she has long brown hair and turquoise eyes. Her body is slender, with C-cup breasts, thin waist and nice round butt. She wears red crop top and black pleated skirt reaching little beyond middle of her thighs.
Those clothes suits her well, but there's one thing that doesn't match this pleasant view.
(Her facial expression, still as cold as ever.)
Staring at her face showed me different emotions going through her eyes. Indifference, curiosity, shock and worry?
Following her line of sight, I look down and immediately understood why thoes emotions arised in the first place.
Right in the middle of my chest was a bandage with dried blood on it.
And then it hit me, literally hit me. Amelia pushed me into my room and started doing circles around me, looking for any other injury.
At this point in time all of the previous frost on her face melted, leaving only concern.
Finding nothing else she sighed in relief and said in a commanding tone "Alexander, what happened? How did you get hurt? Tell me." but after realizing how she was behaving, she blushed and froze in place.
I waved my hand in front of her face.
"Amelia, are you okay?"
Amelia regained her composure, and tried to put on her act again, this time failing in every possible way.
"Mom asked me to check up on you and now my job is done. Bye."
After saying her goodbyes, Amelia turned around and wanted to leave.
(Not this time.) I hugged her from behind to prevent her from leaving.
"Amelia, I know that's only an act with whole indifferent behavior. Can you tell me why?"
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