The zombie raises the axe to kill her.

"SYSTEMM!!" I scream, feeling useless

The window appears.

Now updating... Updating progress... 99%

Please wait...

The zombie notices me rotating its 180 degrees.

"M-mom, are you ok?" looking frightened

Until a while ago, in her eyes, despair was read but now they began to get the color of life. She focuses her eyes on me and although she was petrified by fear, seeing me, a greater fear began to bloom deep in her heart. Fear of losing me.

I take a piece from the broken door and I throw at the zombie. He walks towards me with the intention of the kill.

"Take cover!" she shouts

She stands up on the bed pointing her both arms towards the creature and concentrates her mana.

"Dragon's Breath!"

Her arms start glowing and then 3 magic circles appear from the elbow to the wrist and from the fingers, a bright mixture of yellow-red-orange flame starts gazing heat.

...

..

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A powerful jet of cylindrical flames bursts from Mom's palms making a hole through the wall of the opposite room with the creature. At the same time, I jump out of the way to not get hurt.

She comes out and hugs me crying.

"Shin... my angel... you came to mom? You came to save mom?"

"I'm so happy you're alive, mom! I'm so happy!" crying

She hugged me so hard, that I almost couldn't breathe.

"Mom, the village isn't safe, we must hide somewhere."

"Sound of wood pieces falling on the "

We both look back. The monster walks towards us with the ax in his left hand, not being too hurt from the attack sent earlier.

Mom takes my hand and we run outside.

"Wind blowing"

The wind blows with force and the heavy snow makes visibility difficult.

The cold was easily passing through the thin clothes. They were caught. Both of them had no place to hide in the village and to leave the village meant inevitable death by freezing or being killed by strong monsters.

Mom decides for us to go to the village barrack where it's supposed to be my father and other guardians.

Passing by the village center we saw death. Dozens of human corpses were lying on the ground almost covered by a thin layer of red snow.

Swords, knives, pitchforks, and axes were dropped everywhere. Mom approaches a dead man whose sword lies next to him, she bends over, looking at the fallen body with fear and get the sword knowing that she can't use any spell because she used all her mana by attacking the zombie from our house.

"Footsteps on the snow"

From every dark corner, some figures appear. We are surrounded.

"I will protect you, Shin. Don't worry. Just stay by my side." said mom looking at me trying so hard to smile while crying

I'm not stupid. I know the outcome of this.

"I will, mom!" smile back

She drags me by her side with the left hand while taking the sword in attack position with the right hand. Her tears were falling from the cheeks to the snow and her lips were trembling so I tried my best to remain calm.

The only chance of mine was to make time for the System to update.

When the update is finished I will be able to use magic and save us.

Our problem is that I don't know the remaining time for the update to be finished neither if we can keep us alive until then.

The zombies are approaching fast from all directions, having different weapons with them.

"In the honor of this village I, Mrs. Whyte Ann will fight with you!" she screams having a serious look on her face

The zombie movements are slow but strong, with precision and they are also tough and can regenerate every time if you don't hit them in the head.

Her sword skills are not bad, but she's pushed back by the huge number of zombies.

We see an opening and she makes a sign for me to advance. She tries to follow but her left leg is grabbed by a dead body who seems to be resurrected and falls on the ground hitting her knee very badly by a rock.

I stop at a few meters from her and I look back.

She was lying on her back with her left hand pointed towards me while a zombie is stabbing her multiple times in her chest with a spear.

"R-r-ru-run!" her last words

Her body trembled visibly after every stab until it became a lifeless body and beautiful colored eyes became gray.

"MOMM!" running towards her

A window suddenly appears.

System update complete!

Rebooting...

3... 2... 1... Success!

"The System has detected multiple dangerous entities."

"Master's mind is unclear. Proceeding to autopilot."

3...

2...

1...

Success!

All my senses go blank and fall on the snow and I lose my consciousness.

The young Shig's body starts floating going up to 3 meters in a transparent energy bubble on which it is displayed the animation process of combining pieces from hundreds of different magic circles to create a specific magic spell. Some of the magic circles had demonic characters and some not.

"Scanning life forms..." sending at 5 meters in the air a bullet of energy that explodes in three energy waves that extend in all directions

"Success! 362 dangerous entities and 0 humans found."

"Proceeding extermination!"

The bubble displays another combination. Dozens of demonic magic circles appear one after another and disassemble, then the dismantled parts combine forcefully, causing many sparks to jump after blending while the rest of the unneeded piece of demonic circles lose their glow becoming as if they were written in black ink and then they disappear as if the magic circle and all the demonic characters were painted on the water, and eventually it was mixed with it losing its composition.

"A demonic voice could be heard."

The system's voice is changed in a demonic way when it calls the magic spell.

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Red bolts of lightning struck the surroundings. 20 meters in front of the young Shin a door made of stone with demonic letters engraved on it came out of the ground destroying everything in its way. On the left and right side of the giant door, two statues were positioned. Both 3.5 meters high with human form only dog ​​head similar to Egyptian gods from the hero's original world.

The door opens a little and a ghostly smoke comes out of that crack along with a bleeding light. The ghostly smoke extends into every house, elbow, hole in the ground no matter how small it is, surrounding the snowy ground of the village with an unusual speed compared to normal smoke.

Rocks, pieces of wood and weapons were thrown towards the young Shin by the zombies.

Around the bubble, a protective shield appears in front of each attack, counteracts it and then disappears. This shield is made up of a double circle with a star with five corners inside it and characters are drawn in the space of each corner.

A 3-leaf clover that meant luck, a dragon that meant power, a tree with extended roots that meant prosperity, a broken metal heart with a flower that was bloomed from the crack that meant regeneration and the fifth drawing was not in its corner, but it is in the middle of the pentagram, a shield that appears to be made of metal waves which means defense.

Each attack was useless.

Finally, from the ghostly smoke, some arms like a demon come out with black wet skin, claws, scales or little wings like the fish has, catching all zombies from all parts of their body dragging them closer to the opening of the door.

When they get closer enough, the zombie bodies break down and are sucked through the door crack leaving nothing behind.

The crack of the door closes sucking up all the smoke, dead bodies, weapons, houses and everything else that the smoke made contact with, then it sinks into the ground as if it were water causing the soil to shake.

"Scanning..." a bullet of energy is sent in the air exploding again. Three energy waves were created.

"Success! 362 dangerous entities exterminated!"

The bubble displays a warning. "Mana is in decline!"

"Master's mana is very low. Changing to economy mode."

Shig's body gradually decreases in altitude until it reaches the ground unharmed.

The Iron River Village is destroyed. After the door disappeared, the only thing seen in 4km was Shin's unconscious body. Not even the snow escaped, being sucked in after making contact with the ghostly smoke.

He spends a few hours lying there.

Inside his mind, he is crouched drifting into a dark abyss seeing moment's from his past life. Moments with his former father, the things that he promised to do... to make him proud, the personal sacrifices he had to make in order to create a future, moments of his former girlfriend spending time alone and kissing after she promised to be always there for him, the moment of betrayal and the moment making important decisions before coming in this world.

The fire of hatred in his heart ignites causing his blood to boil. His body burns so hard that the soil around him dries and his clothes together, which gradually turn yellow and crumble.

"A high tier magic spell is detected!"

Not too far from Shig's body, sparks are colliding from all directions in one point in the air but close to the soil making a hole and then increases its size of 2 meters high by 3 wide forming the magic gate.