In another part of the city, three figures were fighting against thousands of walking dead. At the head of the walking dead was an awakened one. Its brown eyes were shining with maliciousness and he was holding a bloody sword.

The Anemone family took a narrow alley to fight to limit the number of walking dead confronting them at the same time. The alley was only two meters wide, and there was a tall wall at the end of it. It was a death trap for any other person, but the Anemone family was famous for their speed and ability to escape. This narrow alley was a perfect fighting ground for them.

Kostas was at the forefront. He had three pairs of wings on his back. The wings were white and looked like an angel’s. He looked dashing with his brown eyes looking at enemies from the sky. He flapped his wings and many feather blades left his wings to cut the walking dead. He was also keeping an eye on his daughter and son.

Quinn awakened energy not so long ago. Her control over it wasn’t as proficient as her brother and father, thus her killing efficiency was low. But she had good orbs complimenting her abilities. She also didn’t have an ultimate yet, so she wasn’t as quick in the killing. Unlike her father, who was killing tens of walking dead with every flap of his wing, she could only cut them one by one with her superpower.

Demos Anemone, on the other hand, was fighting against the awakened dead. He had just leveled up to E-Tier, and his father wanted him to battle against this strong enemy to gain some experience. With the bow of wind in hand, Demos was sending arrows one after another while evading attacks from the awakened dead. Arrows were appearing out of nowhere, five in a batch and all five arrows were fired at the same time, yet none of them missed.

His superpower was Zephyr’s Will. When a bow was in his hand, his perception, accuracy, and speed were getting enchanted multiple times. When fired an arrow, the wind was bowing to his control and he could control arrows as he wished. When he wanted, he could even accelerate or slow down the arrows to take curves. He was best at ranged attacks, but Kostas wanted him to fight at close range so he could learn from his weaknesses.

Arrows were flying like a wind, and pushing the awakened dead further and further away from Demos. His fighting style was mostly built on ranged combat, so his attacks were either from distance or close-ranged attacks pushing enemies behind to increase the distance. Demos was famous at his time, like how Merlin was a star of the time. His powers were always good, and now he had the ultimate ability to win every ranged battle as long as he had energy, he was like a one-man army.

But what made his ultimate deadly, was its blood-sucking feature. If Demos wanted, he could supply all the energy in his body into a single arrow to create a deadly arrow with the power of hundreds. But the more powerful the arrow, the more energy and time it required to form.

What worried them was the number of walking dead following the awakened dead. The intel was that an awakened dead could boost the other walking dead to make them stronger. But the walking dead followed this awakened dead weren’t any stronger than regular ones. Just that their numbers were enormous. As the best kiting fighters, Anemone took the battlefield, and Kostas was about to deal with the awakened dead but realized that it was weak. Too weak for him to attack, so he let his son take the lead and only helped from the background.

Kostas sent feather blades and killed hundreds of walking dead ever since the battle began. His superpower was Wind Path. In the path he created, he could slow down or speed up anything as he wished. He could even block a bullet with strong wind.

Ever since the fight had started, he created a wind path from his location to his son. Ready to rush up and save him if he encountered any mishap. He was also keenly looking after Quinn, who was sending wind slashes from the sword she was clutching in her hand. Although her superpower was similar to his, it was more evolved. He could only create wind paths to accelerate himself or slow down opposing things when he first awakened, but Quinn had power similar to him and also attacking and slashing powers of the wind element, making her superpower superior.

At first, he didn’t want to send her to the military and wanted her to take over the mantle, but after their relationship with Merlin, he decided otherwise. Not that he had a problem with their relationship, but other families wouldn’t allow heads of the army and Police to be married. He could only let his son take over the family while keeping a good relationship with Cross.

Quinn was doing a good job too. With a sword in hand, she was unleashing attack after another. Wind slashes were cutting the walking dead into pieces. Although she wasn’t anywhere near to creating her own Ultimate yet, she was able to cope with any fighter in her tier.

“Let’s wrap it up,” Kostas said, as he noticed Malcolm and others were rushing back to help. He didn’t want to let the Cross family kill the second awakened. After all, it would seem bad for their family. He also wanted one of the cores to have experiments of his own. Even if he failed, he could use it later to extract skill after Evelyn cracked their secrets.

“Yes, father.” Demos nodded when he heard his father. His hand grabbed the bow harder, and he supplied all his energy into his free hand. An arrow appeared from thin air. At first, it looked simple. But with each second, the arrow became denser. The danger emitting from the arrow also multiplied.

When Demos supplied more than half of his energy, the awakened dead were about to attack him. But all of a sudden, its eyes lost their focus and blood started to drip from the hole appearing in his forehead.

“THUMP!”

The awakened dead fell to the ground lifeless. Walking dead behind him all penetrated by the still flying arrow. The arrow vanished in the horizon after it penetrated a few buildings.

“He is getting stronger.” Malcolm praised Demos, as he looked afar. “Let’s see if this one has the skill core too.” Malcolm approached the body and cut open its head. There was indeed a core, but it wasn’t anything like a skill core. It looks like an elementless monster core, only smaller.