Ability Explosion and Evolution!
Template Progress Increased!
A Play in the Bathroom
9: Welfare Time!
Ability Explosion and Evolution!
Template Progress Increased!
A Play in the Bathroom
Andrew He had previously taken a careful look at the Myriad Realms Chat Group’s rules for earning points.
And the rules were actually quite simple and easy to understand.
Basically.
After a member of the Myriad Realms Chat Group unlocked the storyline of a particular world, they could obtain Chat Group Points by changing their own fate or the fate of other characters within the story.
And.
If a group member felt that they didn’t have the ability to change the course of fate, they could also earn points through daily check-ins and use those points to purchase a Travel Card.
Then they could call upon the other powerful members of the group to come over and help.
Officially, this was called—issuing a mission~
Therefore.
Andrew He was rather curious.
If he directly wiped out the entire protagonist group right now, how many points would he receive?
“Heh”
If a thought occurred to him, then he had to put it into practice!
After all, he had already obtained the [Supreme Template].
If he still acted timidly and hesitated over everything, what fun would that be?!
With that thought.
Andrew He casually curled a finger.
In an instant.
The hundreds of zombies scattered around them seemed to suddenly receive a target, and they all charged toward the school bus at the distant school gate!
And the protagonist group truly lived up to their status as protagonists!
The moment those hundreds of zombies showed signs of movement, they noticed it immediately!
Furthermore.
At this moment!
Takashi Komuro, the protagonist leading the group, seemed to suddenly have an epiphany.
He no longer bothered with morality, righteousness, or any of that nonsense.
He grabbed the remaining members of the protagonist group and rushed onto the school bus!
As though he had already sensed the danger that was about to come!
Even Takashi Komuro, who in the original story was a complete novice who couldn’t drive at all, suddenly planted himself in the driver’s seat!
And like a veteran driver who had been behind the wheel for decades, he slammed down on the accelerator and sped away!
That movement!
That posture!
Those practiced drifts and canal-bank cornering techniques!
All that was missing was the stirring Initial D soundtrack!
Andrew He: “???”
Andrew He frowned.
This situation was genuinely beyond his expectations!
Takashi Komuro’s performance just now was nothing like that of an ordinary high-school student.
And that sudden burst of competence was strange too!
It was as though something had suddenly taken control of his body!
The next moment.
A light flashed through Andrew He’s eyes.
He thought of something that might explain this unexpected scene!
The World Will!
Or, to put it another way, the world’s will!
The World Will was the foundation upon which a world operated.
So protecting the protagonist it had chosen for itself seemed to make sense, right?
“But the World Will?”
“So something like that really exists?”
Andrew He immediately smiled and shook his head.
“Interesting.
Then I’ll change the test subject!”
“Let’s see exactly how far this World Will’s protection of its protagonist can go?!”
As he spoke, Andrew He waved his hand again!
In an instant!
The zombies that had fallen to the ground began standing up once more, like an army awakening from the depths of the abyss!
They immediately pursued the school bus carrying Takashi Komuro and the rest of the protagonist group!
They had been given a command to the death—
Devour every living thing on that school bus!
As for whether Andrew He would spare the other female protagonists, well, there was nothing he could do about that.
After all, he didn’t know any of them, and he wasn’t some simp who would lose the ability to walk whenever he saw an anime heroine.
Although~
What needed to be done still had to be done~
.
.
.
Afterward.
Since the protagonist group was no longer leading the way, Andrew He simply followed the original storyline and headed toward the small apartment together with Shinobu Kocho and Shizuka Marikawa.
After all, even if that sneaky chat group had dragged him into the zombie world to complete a mission, he still had to choose a decent place to stay!
By evening.
Because Andrew He had been frantically devouring zombies along the way, a journey that should have taken an hour had been dragged out until dusk was almost completely falling before they finally arrived.
However, although he had wasted a little time, the benefit was that—
The number of zombies Andrew He had stored had skyrocketed once again, and even his Zombie Body had evolved twice!
“Check.”
As Andrew He removed his clothes and comfortably settled into the bathtub he had filled with hot water.
The Myriad Realms Chat Group’s livestream automatically shut down at this very moment.
Hmm
Even if he hadn’t shut it down, Andrew He wouldn’t have minded.
After all, having the capital to do whatever one wanted was certainly convenient!
[Name: Andrew He]
[Current Template: Dark Doctor Strange]
[Template Progress: 7.1247]
[Currently Unlocked Abilities—]
[Dark Levitation Cloak: The Dark Cloak’s original Levitation, flight, cross-world dimensional summoning, and defensive abilities have been supplemented with dark abilities such as forced control, weakening and suppressing enemies, and biting.]
[Endless Devouring: A forbidden technique once obtained by Dark Doctor Strange in order to break through the Absolute Timeline.
It allows him to endlessly devour living beings and obtain their characteristics, abilities, and power.]
[Zombie Summoning: The zombies you devour and absorb will be reborn in an alternate-dimensional space and will completely obey your summons.]
[Current Zombies: 57,143]
[Zombie Fusion: Two zombies of the same level can be fused into a higher-level zombie.
However, there is a level cap, and special power is required to break through it through fusion.]
[Zombie Body: As long as your head remains intact, you can basically regenerate severed limbs and rapidly heal wounds.]
[Innate Talent—]
[Infinite Adaptation: Andrew He’s innate ability.
He can infinitely adapt to any Template.]
[Tip: Based on the current characteristics of the Doctor Strange Template, devouring powerful creatures can rapidly increase Template Progress.]
“Only two points of progress?”
Andrew He looked at the Template’s progress, which had only reached 7%, and couldn’t help shaking his head.
Based on his devouring throughout the afternoon, he had also discovered that the further he progressed, the slower his Template Progress increased.
“So I still need to devour powerful beings if I want to increase my Template Progress faster”
Andrew He murmured to himself.
His eyes then turned toward the skill panel.
“Something like the Zombie Body is only useful as a transitional ability in the early stages.
Once my Template Progress rises and I obtain the Time Stone, it will basically become useless.”
“If Zombie Fusion has no level limit, though, that could be interesting”
“After all, the last thing the myriad heavens and worlds lack is special power.”
As he spoke.
Andrew He was just about to try out Zombie Fusion.
After all, he had more than fifty thousand zombies available for proper experimentation.
However.
Just as he was about to make his move.
The bathroom door was quietly opened~
Andrew He: “!!!”