Terror Infinity Side B

Chapter 7, H.O.T.D 2

After the large hand retreated back into the earth and zombies began to climb out, we were surprised by just how few there were. Only a dozen undead. It was negligible number in the face of hundreds of soldiers stationed at the bridge along with our Team Japan which just killed over 7,000 zombies in less than a half an hour of combat, yet the faces of the soldiers paled once they saw a good look at them.

Captain: "Oh no, there's more of those freaks! Everyone watch out!"

The captain roared loudly with a warning, yet it was too late. The twelve enemies turned towards the bridge with bloodlust in their rotted out eyes.

The first to act among them were four below average sized zombies with blueish green skin, powerful legs and claws sharper than their S1 counterparts. Once they started to move casualties instantly began to pile up from the soldier. These monsters possessed ghostly speed near equal to Kisara's own speed and they shot towards one solider to the next like laser beams, ripping out hearts and slitting throats with their sharp claws in a flash. The soldiers didn't just stand there letting themselves be killed and struck back with machine gun fire and slashes of their Kodachi Blades, yet the zombies with nimbleness like the wind effortlessly evaded such attempts on their lives. A few snipers in the distance tried to take them out not daring to get close to them, yet the small phantoms somehow knew the very moment they appeared within the scope of the snipers and evaded to the side just a bullets cut through the air to where their heads just were. To stop such monster would require the combined power of dozens of elite soldiers, coordinated snipping, or powerful heavy weaponry, and even then it would be hard to catch these types of zombies.

Next came them. Four towering dark red skinned zombie bulging with muscles over its body that were ten feet tall took long strides towards the bridge. They weren't agility types, yet their long and powerful legs crushing the earth underneath their feet gave them speed almost equal to S1 Zombies. Gunfire endless hit the bodies of giants bounced off not even leaving a scratch as if this flesh and blood undead creature was a tank. One reckless soldier grew fed up at the waste of bullets which couldn't do anything to them and rushed forward with their Kodachi Blade raised high. This ignited many close range fighter to join him.

The soldiers all swung countless times and slashed every inch of the monsters body, yet the result was the same as before. Their steel armor like skin could withstand insane amounts of damage deflected their swords. Not even the artillery shell of a tank could always break their defenses and weaknesses like the eyes being soft and vulnerable no longer existed, so it was foolish for Enhancers below level 20 armed with only low level equipment to dare to engage these monsters head on.

One of these monster then grabbed the head of one of the soldiers, pinched, exploding his head then and there for all to see. Another monster grabbed a soldier young enough to barely be called an adult and squeezed tightly till his internal organs and blood were spat out. Enraged at the sight of their cruelty a veteran Level 30 Enhancer rushed over while activating a speed enhancing skill. His speed was almost near equal to the freaks currently massacring his comrades right at this moment and he would use this speed to swiftly deal with the four giants and save the rest of his comrades, but-

- *BAM*!

Even his life came to a swift end. The towering giant the solider charged towards saw through his speed for the most part and sent a powerful left hook at him. The man was surprised, yet he wasn't so slow that he couldn't avoid this blow and he side stepped, yet this too was seen through by the enemy and another giant was there waiting for him with a full swing right straight shinning with a deadly light! The godly punch sent the veteran soldier flying over 300 meters in the air without a single intact bone left in his body.

As the veteran soldier then crashed into the bridge limp and lifeless, all the nearby soldiers felt dispirited. They were beginning to think that this was the end for them and that things couldn't get worse, but as if they jinx themselves they did. The last four zombies to climb out of the hole were ready to attack. With yellow skin they had heads twice as large as a normal person's head and were laying down on their stomachs facing the direction of the bridge. It had four short and bulky limbs so it's ability to move was just barely faster than a normal adult, but that's okay. Their specialty was never close range combat, but the opposite. Long Range combat! They opened their mouths wide, wider than they should be able to as former humans, and then a fireball that grew to the size of a mini van was shot out and exploded right onto the fortifications the military setup in front of the bridge. More than a third of their fortifications were destroyed which included a valuable newly installed gun torrent.

Everyone felt helpless in the presence of such monsters and even Team Japan was shocked by the power that just a dozen zombies made of the battlefield.

Shin: "Four L2 power type zombies! Four S2 agility type zombies! And lastly, four of the long range magic branch of zombies H1 Zombies! So they finally appeared. Hey, Shuai, you killed a S3 earlier, so do you want to give them a shot next?"

Shuai: "What the hell is this! They are so more overpowered than the ones before. Just how powerful was the S3 I accidentally killed? Nope! I'm taking a step back here. I used all my Spiritual Energy earlier with Gnome to collapse the tunnels. I'm in no shape to fight those freaks, and even if I was I'd have to go all out which doesn't fit with our plan."

Shin: "Don't shamans become more powerful in death? Really, what a third rate shaman you are."

Shuai: "Asshole! Go to hell yourself if you want to give it a go. Check it out for me!"

Jin: "Knock it off you two! Also, you were right about the power of these undead and we can't manage to defeat them by holding back so much... but we don't have a choice in showing off here. If we do nothing all these nice soldiers we just impressed will die and who will be able to tell our tale of bravery? Shin and Aqua, like we planned you two will deal with our first encounter with the newly evolved zombies first. The two of you can use all of your power except for sci-fi weapons and the Thomson Contender Mystic Code. Aqua, the latter is our trump card which will we will save till a critical moment. Connor, switch to the Anti-material rifle with Medium Grade Magic Enchantment and take out the long range H1 Zombies. The rest of us will sweep the area and get rid of the normal THEM plaguing the soldiers."

Shin: "Then let's do it. Hikari, keep a constant connection with Soul Link between Aqua, Jin and myself so we can speak to each other incase something comes up. And also give the two of us, no give the entire team the speed and stamina buffs for now."

Hikari: "Alright! Wind Spirit and Lightning Spirit!"

As soon as the green and blue lights for the buffs for stamina and speed veiled Shin and Aqua, the two of them rushed out with neck breaking speed towards the enemy. Hikari buffs greatly enhanced their movement speeds and combined with their own skills and the Unlocked Mode they reached the powerful evolved zombies in seconds.

With Instant Movement Shin flickered out of sight and reappeared every dozen or so meters before arriving in front of S2 Zombie. As for Aqua, with her newest werewolf movement spell Wind Chaser, she experienced zero wind resistance as she ran and the wind pushed her forward to move even faster, and with speed surpassing Shin she arrived to the side of a L2 Zombie that had just finished squashing a soldier with its foot.

Aqua: "Disappear!"

Aqua waved her hands at the leg stomping on the corpses of the soldier and the next moment from the knee cap down the leg was severed and ignited in flames. Three adamantium blades extended from the back of her hands and radiated with a fiery Nen aura. The L2 seemed unfazed by its missing limb or the flames burning its flesh. The L2 stood perfectly with just one leg to balance on and then lunged at Aqua with a thrown punch. The L2 Zombie had eyes that could grasp Aqua's speed and even if she dodged it would be able to follow her our counter attack the next time she closes in, but to his shock Aqua stood her ground and accept the blow with a one arm guard. No one would normally dare accept the fist of a L2 Zombie or a zombie with a viral infection, but the shock didn't end there. Aqua braced herself as the punch came and in the end didn't move a step. Aqua then stepped in closer to the L2 Zombie, her hands swayed and swiped around the L2 Zombie, shredding it into small fleshy chunks.

- SIDE QUEST REWARD 4, EVOLUTION TYPE 2 ZOMBIE. ONE L2 ZOMBIE KILLED. THE WHOLE TEAM IS REWARDED 5 POINTS!

Aqua: "When you have a high healing factor, and an adamantine skeleton that won't break or bend, and the claws to tear through your steel like skin, what's to fear from mere L2 Zombies?"

As Aqua triumphed over her foe Shin was still engaging the cunning S2. When Shin confronted S2 Zombie it clawed at him with sharp claws and he swung back with his Gravity Blade with increased weight dozens of times heavier than it should have been. Shin's blade and the claws of the S2 clashed and they repelled each other, and in the span of three seconds they clashed dozens of times. The S2 Zombie was both lightning fast and agile which gave Shin some trouble, yet he felt with just a bit more he could overpower the evolved zombie, but just as he was about to a second S2 arrived silently with the speed of a phantom slashing at his back. The First Stage bestowed Shin enough perception of danger to sense the threat and he rolled forward, kicked the S2 in front of him and used that momentum from the kick to jump away from the zombies. The back of his shirt was torn with five claw tear marks. The soldiers nearby brought up their guns about to gun him down thinking he was infected, but one veteran soldier with a keen eye told everyone to stand down noticing that the skin of his back had a strange silver tint without a single scratch to be seen.

Shin: (Close call! Silver Dragon Scales saved me. Just my luck. Aqua got a enemy she had a high affinity for with her claws, not that I couldn't do the same with my Dark Walker skills... like this! Eyes of the Cat!)

As soon as the skill was activated, Shin’s eyes were colored with golden light. The life force and energy circulating through the S2's bodies were perfectly visible to him. More so than just reinforcing his eyes with Ki, it did everything Ki enhanced eyes could do and more. Red dot points formed on places here and there on their body. These were the weaknesses that he had detected with Eyes of the Cat. If he focused his attacks on the red points, additional attack power would be applied, as well as a high probability of critical hits which could cripple his enemies. It was inferior to the magic skill to see one strike fatal points possessed by Shinnosuke Arisu from Apocalypse Alice, or the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception from the Type Moon multi universe, yet it was still a skill perfectly suited for those like Shin who fought at close range.

Shin: (The base of the claws and the right hip. Those are their weak points and both S2's have them!)

Shin knowing where to strike rushed forward without hesitation. The two S2 Zombies moved as well with ghostly speed. With amazing coordination the two S2's tried to attack from the front and back again, but Shin was prepared. He grew used to their speed and movements and no longer feared light grazes of their claws. As a claw came swiping at his throat from the front, Shin with lightning fast reflexes hacked at the base of the claws and they snapped like toothpicks. Shin then went on to behead the S2 before it recovered and without a moments rest sent a roundhouse kick behind him. The soles of Legacy crashed into the right hip of the S2 behind him with both claws raised smashed the bone to pieces. With that critical damage the S2 Zombie grew limp, and losing its mobility and could do nothing as Shin slashed Gravity Blade from the top of its head and straight down cutting the undead perfectly in half.

- SIDE QUEST REWARD 4, EVOLUTION TYPE 2 ZOMBIE. TWO S2 ZOMBIES KILLED. THE WHOLE TEAM IS REWARDED 10 POINTS!

Shin: "Nothing to it once you get over their speed."

- *BANG*!!

- SIDE QUEST REWARD 4, EVOLUTION MAGIC TYPE ZOMBIE. TWO H1 ZOMBIES KILLED. THE WHOLE TEAM IS REWARDED 10 POINTS!

At the same time Shin slayed the two S2 Zombies Connor opened fire a bullet from the anti-material rifle traveling faster than the speed of sound and piercing the eye of a H1 Zombie about to fire off another fire ball. Shin recalled that in the original God Devil World H1 Zombies needed a whole fifteen minutes to reload and form another fire ball, but now both their power and cast time have been improved, just thirty seconds to shoot another giant fireball, but even with that it wasn't good enough to match Team Japan's child soldier and sniper. The other H1 Zombies didn't seem to care about their lost comrade and were about to fire another fire ball as well, yet in quick succession another H1's head was blown open. The H1 understood the threat of Connor's sniping and quickly hid back into the hole in the earth they crawled out of.

The remaining three L2, two S2, and other evolved zombies looked over towards Team Japan's members who weren't even challenged by those power Type 2 Zombies and gave up on the JSDF soldiers once and for all and all charged towards their human enemy. The one behind the zombies gave the order to just occupy the military's attention even if it meant wiping out so that the evolved zombies could kill Team Japan. Shin and Aqua both retreated back towards their teammates as they saw almost hundreds evolved zombies stampeding towards them and prepared to greet them together.

Shin: "Wipe them out! I'll use my newest spell to keep blasting them, and if any get close kill them! Aqua and I will take out the type 2 zombies and-"

- *VRROOOOM*!!!

Just as Shin and the rest of Team Japan were preparing the face the zombies last desperate struggle, the sound of a car approaching at high speed could be heard by everyone. From the direction of the survival camp and crossing the bridge towards the battlefield a black armored Humvee stained with blood and with cute dog pictures painted on the side of the doors crashed through the barricades set during the battle to hinder the zombie's advance. The Humvee then drove past the assigned soldier by the bridge and right through a horde of zombies.

The Humvee crashed into and trampled over hundreds of zombies, yet defying all logic it continued to drive steady and without losing speed towards their main target. The hundred evolved zombies stampeding towards Team Japan. Everything had happened so fast that the soldiers just blanked out, but seconds later yelling, no cheers of joy resounded throughout the battlefield. For THEM who arrived to harass and devour the human race as the apocalypse began, to oppose THEM, they appear to save the day. The pride of the human race.

Soldier 3: "Thank God, it's the Walking Dead Unit!"

Captain: "Well, I'll... Men get your act together! Don't show your previous unsightly performance to our heroes!"

All Soldier: "YES SIR!"

The Walking Dead Unit.

The Humvee carrying these heroes with such a ominous name finally came to a stop thirty meters behind the stampeding horde of evolved zombies, and as it was coming to a stop he appeared. Jumping out of the roof hatch of the Humvee wielding a mighty war hammer, the leader of the Walking Dead Unit, flew towards the center of the horde of evolved zombies. He saw that his predicted landing spot was occupied by none other than a powerful L2 power type zombie, yet he just smiled without fear in his heart. His eyes defocused as he raised and twirled the hammer in his hands before smashing down on the skull of the L2 Zombie. The mighty L2 Zombie which could even resist cannon fire found its head smashed in by the man's hammer, and was nailed into the earth like a nail. The man, not even a adult but a youth that should be in high school was now surrounded by countless evolved zombies, yet without missing a beat he slammed his free hand against the earth.

Takashi: "Devil Flame skill, Devil's Tidal Wave!"

A deep crimson flame as if surging up from hell erupted under the palm of Takashi's hand and spread waves of Devil Flame outwards. The zombies felt the threat, but it was too late for most of them and one-third of the evolved zombies were swallowed up by Devil Flame and were burned to death. Not even ashes were left behind yet Takashi at the center of this hellish killing field was unharmed by his own skill. The flames finally extinguished as Takashi ended his skill and as he eyed the remaining evolved zombies he caught sight of a white box by his feet and a few coins of unknown origin. They appeared out of thin air left where the zombies just stood, yet as if it was a practiced action that had become second nature Takashi swept up all the items into a subspace ring.

Takashi: "Tch, at this stage even white boxes are now invaluable treasures. Hey, you new Enhancer to our home. I'm Takashi Komoru, leader of the Walking Dead Unit. I heard the situation from the buses that passed by. My team is here now, so stay back and just assist from a safe... Ah, Shin! You're Shin! Also Aqua and Hikari! Why are here? So you really did escape on foot that night."

Takashi Komuro half in shock and half excited gazed at the figures of his long lost friends from the early days of the apocalypse.

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