After a few hours, it was already past midnight. Burnok's wounds had mostly healed, except for the more lethal ones.

A level two human's recovery rate may not be as good as healing instantly, it was still something that one couldn't look down upon.

There were still some pinkish cuts around his body, but compared to before, his appearance had already become a little better.

He rolled his shoulder and his shoulder joints produced a bone-cracking sound.

'I think I have already rested enough!' Burnok said after inspecting his body.

He got up from the floor and went towards the sole window of the room. He took a glance outside and as expected, it was dark.

Seeing the surroundings, he instantly changed his mind as he went back to the corner of the room to rest more.

Previously, he only needed to be wary of the hybrids during the night, but after the incident yesterday night, he no longer thinks it was the case.

'I don't have any weapons right now, I doubt these rusted metals could last a few minutes during a fight.' He said while taking a peek towards the car parts lying around him.

'It's better to stay here first, I'll move when the sun is already out.' He then sat in a lotus position and took out a small bottle from inside his underwear.

'Fortunately, it didn't break!' He exclaimed as he opened the lid of the bottle. He poured a little amount of it on his palm. He then closed the lid and proceeded to insert it once again on his underwear before he rubbed his two palms together.

After feeling the hotness on his hand, he instantly closed his eyes as he began to meditate to absorb the apocalypse virus spread on his palm.

When a human reaches the level two-stage, absorbing the Apocalypse Virus will no longer be as easy during the level one stage.

Aside from controlling the right amount of level two apocalypse virus that they need to pour in their palm, they would also need a longer time to absorb the apocalypse virus before they could assimilate it into their body.

It was a long process, but if you let Burnok comment about it, he would definitely say, "It's worth it!"

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After the incident of the level two zombie subsided, the hybrids no longer felt the impulse to hunt anything that night. It had already been confirmed that level two zombies had become active during the night, so they no longer dared to squander around the town fearlessly.

If they did, they would now act carefully, unlike before that they roamed the dark street as if it were their garden.

And due to that, Nile finally had a few hours of peaceful sleep.

Inside the root cave, Nile suddenly lifted his arm to cover his eyes from the sunlight that came from outside. After a few seconds, he slowly opened his eyes before making a yawn.

He stretched his body and inspected his surroundings thoroughly.

He recalled where he was and why he is here. He looked around and noticed that Maximo was sleeping soundly beside him in one corner while Croco was at the other end of the cave

He stood up slowly and went towards where Croco was at.

'It looks like he already finished his evolution. It took quite a lot of time, I must take note of this.' He thought after seeing Croco's body.

Unlike before, it was no longer shivering as if it was experiencing pain.

Croco's body had become slimmer. Compared to before, his body had definitely shrunk by at least one-fourth of his original and massive size. After inspecting it thoroughly, he also noticed that Croco's legs had become muscular. The spikes on his back had also shrunken in length, they were arranged neatly on his back as if it was combed.

He also observed that his legs had become longer. The arm blade was not noticeable as it was also pressed deeply into the crocodile's elbow. Nile guessed that he could retract and elongate that blade at will.

The crocodile's color had also changed after evolution. It was now donning a deep shade of green with some patches of brown plastered all over it. If Nile wanted to compare it to something, the camouflage uniform of the army from his previous life would be the thing that will pop up inside his mind first.

Overall, he felt that Croco had really overdone it this time. 'No wonder it took him too long to evolve. It looks like he changed his color scheme.' He thought with a laugh.

'Well, as long it's not downgrading, I absolutely accept changes.'

[Croco(Pet): Peak Stage Level One° Mutated Crocodile°

Reinforced Back Spikes

Metallic Camouflaging Scales

Reinforced Front Arm-Blades

Enhanced Innards

Swift and Strong Body

Status: Successfully evolved to Peak Stage Level One° animal. Adapting.

Upgrade Requirement: Requirements not fulfilled yet.

]

He inspected Croco with the stats function and nodded his head in understanding after seeing the animal's profile.

'Enhanced Innards, huh! It looks like what they consumed really did affect some of their evolution.'

Maximo consumes items that have hard shells or something like that. Nile assumed that it was because Croco knew that it could strengthen his defense.

It's not that Nile was against the action of two reinforcing their defense. Up until now, all of their battles had always ended fast. They still hadn't experienced a fight that last's by more than half an hour. It's good to reinforce the body early on, it's the main goal anyway, to make the body strong enough to withstand lethal blows that normal humans couldn't.

Still, he thought that focusing on defense is a waste of time. If you can only defend well and couldn't damage your enemy, you will just become like a dead chicken on a chopping board for the enemy to chop.

'Well, Croc and Max definitely have something that they could inflict lethally, so I guess it's alright even if they focused on strengthening their defense for now.'