Moving his wrist, it made a slight bone friction sound, every movement carrying a sense of power.
He stretched out his hand, spread his five fingers and clenched them again, feeling the elasticity of his muscles.
This feeling has been truly long-awaited.
“Is this your talent?” Saya’s voice trembled slightly,
Saya moved her throat, forcing herself to calm down.
A genius’s pride made her unwilling to admit her fear, but the fact that life and death had been separated by only a hair’s breadth earlier still left her terrified.
“Your ability, is it devouring monsters like this?” Saya’s voice recovered a trace of her usual arrogance, but the tremor in her tone still betrayed her.
Akira nodded without speaking.
He walked to the Dormitory door and extended his finger to touch the hole knocked out by the zombie.
[ Wooden Door ]
[ Durability: 0 / 10 ]
[ Introduction: Lacks any defensive capability ]
[ Survival points required for upgrade: 3 ]
“If it’s just a wooden door, there’s no way to fend off attacks.” Takagi Saya took a deep breath, trying to calm her heartbeat.
In the sky outside, the red thick fog had already dissipated, and looking downstairs, one could still see a solitary zombie moving sluggishly.
“Our luck is not good; monsters raided us on the first day.” After recovering her calmness, Saya immediately analyzed the situation,
“Aside from the zombie that attacked us just now, there are at least three more zombies in this sector.”
Three?
Akira looked at his own attribute panel,
[ Name: Akira ]
[ Talent: Infinite Devour (?
Rank) ]
[ Strength: 7 ]
[ Agility: 4 ]
[ Physique: 4 ]
[ Spirit: 14 ]
[ Survival Points: 2 ]
The zombie he killed just now provided him with a full three attribute points and two survival points, while upgrading the wooden door required three survival points.
“Do you have survival points right now?” Turning his head, Akira asked Takagi Saya,
“I have one too.” Saya looked towards her attribute panel.
It clearly displayed “Survival Points: 1”
“My survival points are two points, one more than you.”
“It should be because you were the killer, while I was the assistant.”
Takagi Saya had used her ability earlier to provide Akira with the zombie’s weak spot, thus being judged as the killing assistant.
“Upgrading the wooden door requires three survival points; you have two and I have one, let’s upgrade the wooden door together.” Saya looked at the shattered wooden door in front of her with her brows slightly knitted.
The game mechanics said the Dormitory was the safest place, but she couldn’t feel this at all.
After all, this broken wooden door blocked nothing, and a zombie still slipped in.
She didn’t know whether it could defend against attacks after being upgraded.
And at this time Akira asked her, “Can your survival points be used to improve body attributes?”
“Yes, but it takes two survival points.” Takagi Saya was stunned for a moment and answered Akira.
“Then I have another idea.” Akira’s gaze looked towards the zombie downstairs, “I’ll go finish off that zombie, then use my survival points to upgrade the gate, and your attribute points can be used to strengthen yourself.”
“Why do you want to do this?” Takagi Saya’s brows furrowed slightly, “This is too dangerous, and aren’t our survival points right now already enough to reinforce the Dormitory gate?”
“No, I am just maximizing utilization; I have no way to strengthen attributes through survival points.” Akira shook his head, “To me, survival points are currently of relatively little use, but to you, their effect should be quite large.”
“Every single survival point of yours in the early stage should be used on physical fitness enhancement.”
Because of his talent, Akira had no way to use survival points to strengthen himself, so for him, investing all survival points into the reinforcement of the Dormitory was a good choice.
And Takagi Saya was a girl, and her talent enhancement was not related to combat power, so physical fitness was extremely important to her at this time.
“Tell me, are there any other zombies on this building?”
“No, there is only that zombie downstairs.” Hearing Takagi Saya’s words, Akira no longer hesitated and prepared to set off.
However, just as he opened the door, a soft little hand grabbed him.
Turning his head, it was Takagi Saya with a hesitant expression biting her lips.
“Are you really going to do this?
Although survival points are useless to you right now, the preciousness of this resource is unquestionable, and it will definitely have other uses later.”
“Isn’t it a bit unfair?”
After all, the Dormitory was a two-person Dormitory, but now Akira had decided to face the danger alone to reinforce the Dormitory.
“Fair or not, we are grasshoppers on the same boat, and the most important thing is to survive together.” When Akira acquired this talent, it was already destined that he would choose the most dangerous playstyle, which was to actively seek out monsters.
Saya’s heart thumped violently, and she felt a warm current rippling through her chest.
From then on, she had an extra layer of emotion in her heart for the man in front of her.
“I understand.” Saya raised her head, her gaze regaining its sharpness, “Since your ability is Infinite Devour, then strengthening your body is only a matter of time for you.
And I need stronger reconnaissance capabilities to assist you.”
“Is that so?
Then wish me luck.” With a slight smile, Akira picked up a sharp wooden stick and walked out of the Dormitory door.
…
The Dormitory where Akira was located was situated in a corner on the second floor of the Dormitory building.
When walking through the corridor, he discovered that on the first and second floors, there was only their single household, and the remaining rooms turned out to be completely empty.
Raising his head to look at the higher floors of the Dormitory, the entire Dormitory had a total of four floors, and in those upper tiers, he didn’t feel any aura of anyone living there at all.
Could this building have only the two of us, me and Takagi Saya?
Thinking this, he came outdoors and saw that target of his, that zombie wearing tattered clothes and walking unsteadily.
[ Rotting Zombie ]
At a distance of about thirty meters or so, Akira noticed that the zombie hadn’t discovered him, so he continued to move closer.
Until he was ten meters away from the zombie, the zombie still acted on its own accord.
It seems daytime is indeed the best time to act.
Akira took a deep breath, lowered his posture, and tightly gripped the sharpened wooden stick in his hand.
Ten meters, nine meters, eight meters…
Just when they were only five meters away from the zombie, the zombie’s sluggish movements suddenly stalled.
It slowly turned that thoroughly rotted face, its hollow and turbid eye sockets locking tightly onto Akira.
“Roar——!”
With a hoarse roar, the zombie strode its stiff legs and fiercely rushed over at a speed inconsistent with its appearance!
A foul, putrid gale blew directly into his face.
Akira’s gaze, however, was exceptionally calm.
Unlike the panic when facing them for the first time, this time, he could clearly capture every movement of the zombie.
Clumsy, direct, and completely devoid of any skill.
Just at the moment when the zombie lunged forward waving its Sharp Claws, Akira did not retreat; instead, he fiercely stepped forward and to the side.
The reaction speed of his body was even faster than the brain’s commands!
The zombie’s clumsy lunge missed by grazing the corner of his clothes, and the huge momentum caused its body to stagger, completely exposing the vulnerability on its back.
Right now!
A cold flash flickered in Akira’s eyes, and his body instantly twisted.
With both hands tightly gripping the sharp wooden stick, he poured all the strength he had just recovered not long ago into his arms, using all his might to fiercely stab toward the back of the zombie’s neck!
“Squish!”
The sharp wooden stick met no resistance as it precisely pierced into the weak point location hinted at by Takagi Saya last time.
The zombie’s forward-rushing body suddenly stiffened, and its violent roar stuck in its throat, turning into meaningless rattling sounds.
It struggled wanting to turn back, but its vitality was rapidly flowing away along with the wound on the back of its neck.
“Bang.”
Its massive body crashed down heavily, splashing up a cloud of dust.
[Killed low-level monster ‘Rotting Zombie’, obtained Survival Points x2]
Akira’s chest rose and fell slightly as he panted, but it was far from the near-collapse powerlessness of the first time.
He lowered his head to look at his hand gripping the wooden stick, feeling the solid strength transmitted from his muscles.
This time, it was indeed much easier.
Without the slightest delay, he locked his gaze on the still-warm corpse on the ground and chanted silently in his heart.
“Devour.”
The familiar black-red light stream surged forth once again, like hungry tentacles, instantly wrapping and decomposing the zombie’s corpse, and finally turning into a pure torrent of energy that poured entirely into Akira’s body.
[Devour successful!]
[Strength + 3!]
[Your physical fitness has been slightly enhanced.]
A warmer current clearer than last time flowed within his body, the soreness in his limbs and bones was quickly dispelled, replaced by a more abundant sense of strength.
Akira opened his attribute panel.
[Name: Akira]
[Talent: Infinite Devour (?
Grade)]
[Strength: 10]
[Agility: 4]
[Constitution: 4]
[Spirit: 14]
[Survival Points: 4]
Could this reinforcement actually be three points of strength?
Squeezing his fists, Akira felt that his strength had grown significantly larger, already reaching the standard of a healthy adult male.
He did not linger much in place and immediately turned back to return to the Dormitory building.
When he pushed open that tattered door of the Dormitory, Takagi Saya was anxiously pacing in the room.
Seeing Akira return safe and sound, she obviously let out a sigh of relief, but her mouth remained unrelenting.
“Hmph, I thought you died outside.”
In her eyes, however, there was joy.