After getting to know each other further, Takagi Saya considered Akira as her teammate, and her tone became much calmer.
“Although our first meeting wasn’t very friendly, I will be spending the future with you from now on.”
Thinking of how she had exposed herself in front of this man, Saya’s face had a trace of shyness, but fortunately Akira didn’t look like any lewd scoundrel, and he also had a very calm temperament about him, which gave the girl a few more points of security.
As soon as her words fell, the subtle atmosphere between the two was completely torn apart by a loud bang.
“Bang!”
That already crumbling wooden Dormitory door suddenly bulged inward at the center, wood chips splashing everywhere!
The next second, a rotting arm covered in corpse spots and with blackened fingernails aggressively pierced through the door panel!
“Roar——!”
Accompanied by a non-human roar, a figure exuding a strong stench all over and with extremely turbid eyes was crazily ramming the hole with its shoulders, trying to squeeze into this narrow space.
[Rotting Zombie]!
Its target pointed directly at Takagi Saya, who was closest to the door!
“Ah——!”
Takagi Saya’s scream pierced the dead silence inside the Dormitory.
Her genius brain instantly crashed in the face of absolute fear, her face turning pale as she retreated repeatedly, her high heels twisting, almost causing her to fall to the ground in a clumsy manner.
The shadow of death rushed straight at them!
At a critical juncture, Akira moved.
His body was still weak, but the survival instinct honed by being bedridden for a long time overwhelmed all physiological weakness at this moment.
Without the slightest hesitation, he backhanded and picked up the iron chair with metal chair legs beside the bed, using all his strength to smash it fiercely toward the zombie’s head that had already squeezed into the door crack!
“Clank!”
A harsh sound of metal collision.
The iron chair was smashed into severe deformation, the chair back bent into an eerie angle.
However, that zombie’s figure only swayed, and its offensive didn’t weaken in the slightest; instead, it became even more violent due to the pain!
Before Akira’s eyes, a line of illusory panel quietly popped up.
[Name: Akira]
[Talent: Infinite Devour (?-rank)]
[Strength: 5]
[ Agility: 4 ]
[ Physique: 3 ]
[ Spirit: 14 ]
(The baseline for a normal adult male is ten in all stats)
With this terminally ill physical condition, he couldn’t even shake the lowest-level zombie.
Akira frowned, his hand holding the deformed chair throbbing with numbness from the massive recoil, staring intently at the monster in front of him.
“Use my talent!”
At this moment, the voice of Takagi Saya carried a hint of a tremor, yet rang out exceptionally clearly.
Awakened by Akira’s decisiveness, she forcibly suppressed the fear in her heart and quickly calmed down.
She adjusted the glasses on the bridge of her nose, her eyes locked firmly onto that zombie, activating her A-rank talent.
[ Tactical Reconnaissance ]!
Instantly, in Takagi Saya’s field of vision, streams of data flashed past like a waterfall, precisely converging on that zombie to form a detailed information box that only she could see.
[ Monster Name: Rotting Zombie ]
[ Monster Level: Low-level ]
[ Monster Characteristics: None ]
[ Weakness: Third cervical vertebra of the back of the neck (structural vulnerability) ]
The information was clear at a glance!
“Its weakness is on the back of the neck!
The third cervical vertebra!” She immediately shouted at Akira, her voice no longer a simple scream, but an order filled with tactical meaning.
Obtaining the key information, Akira’s gaze suddenly turned sharp.
Utilizing the narrow space inside the Dormitory, he violently pushed the already scrapped chair in his hand toward the zombie, obstructing its advancing pace, while simultaneously stepping back and to the side, widening the distance between himself and the zombie.
His movements appeared somewhat sluggish and even staggered due to weakness, but under the command of his extremely calm mind, he was always able to narrowly use the tables and chairs as cover just before the zombie lunged to bite, barely dodging it.
“Roar!
Roar!”
The zombie’s roaring sound grew closer and closer, and its foul breath almost sprayed onto Akira’s face.
The huge consumption of physical strength made his breathing extremely heavy, and his lungs burned with pain like a broken bellows.
The physical pain intensified, but Akira’s brain became increasingly clear-headed.
A cold glint flashed in his eyes, and seizing an opportunity, he no longer dodged, but fiercely hurled the completely deformed chair in his hand toward the zombie’s face!
This move was unexpected, and the zombie subconsciously swung up its Sharp Claws to block.
Right now!
Taking advantage of the moment when the zombie swung its arm to block and its vision was obstructed, Akira staggered, erupted with his final strength, and rushed from the side of the zombie to its back.
Holding tightly with both hands a chair leg that had snapped during the previous impact and had a sharp tip, he used his entire body weight and fiercely stabbed toward the position prompted by Takagi Saya!
“Puchi!”
A muffled sound of flesh being pierced.
The broken chair leg accurately and flawlessly sank into the back of the zombie’s neck.
That berserk roaring stopped abruptly, the zombie’s forward-rushing motion instantly froze, and the last bit of luster in its turbid eyeballs rapidly dimmed.
“Boom.”
The huge body crashed to the ground.
Dead silence.
Akira slumped powerlessly onto the ground, his chest heaving violently, panting heavily as sweat soaked his back.
At the same time, a cold mechanical prompt tone sounded simultaneously in the minds of the two.
[ Cooperatively killed the low-level monster ‘Rotting Zombie’, each obtaining survival points x1 ]
Looking at the newly added “Survival Points: 1” beside her attribute panel, a trace of realization flashed through Takagi Saya’s eyes, and she muttered to herself, “So this is the method to obtain survival points…”
She immediately clicked open the Dormitory panel and found that among a pile of grayed-out options, the option [ Repair and Reinforce Dormitory Door (Requires Survival Points: 1) ] had just lit up.
However, just as Takagi Saya was studying how to use this precious first survival point, Akira, who was slumped on the ground, stared at the zombie corpse on the ground that still retained some warmth.
He activated his own talent.
[ Infinite Devour ]!
“Hey, you…”
Takagi Saya had just wanted to say something, but in the next second, her words were stuck in her throat, her pretty eyes rounded in shock.
Only to see that under her gaze, the zombie’s corpse seemed to be attracted by an invisible black hole, rapidly decomposing and dissipating.
Wisps of black-red light streams stripped out from the remains, like guided streams, swirling and converging, and finally surging entirely into Akira’s body like a hundred rivers returning to the sea!
The whole process took only a few short seconds, leaving only a pool of pitch-black blood on the ground, and that huge corpse had already vanished without a trace!
Takagi Saya subconsciously took half a step back, looking at Akira with eyes full of disbelief.
Is this the devouring ability?
And Akira at this moment experienced an unprecedented sense of comfort.
[ Devour Successful!
]
[ Strength + 2, Physique + 1 ]
[ Your physical fitness has been slightly improved.
]
A warm current suddenly surged from deep within his limbs and bones, instantly sweeping across his whole body.
That weakness, illness, and sense of powerlessness that had lingered in his body for a long time were actually dispelled quite a bit under the scouring of this warm current!
He could clearly feel that his muscles were regaining strength, his bones were becoming tougher, and even his breathing had become much smoother!
Akira slowly propped up his body and stood up.
Although his body still could not be called healthy, it was enough to make him feel comfortable!