Chapter 7

What? Just Happened?

Rex Lopiz

5/29/25 8:37pm

Cold . . . suffocating . . . This is how it feels, to take a human's life, it teared at me from the inside.

Looking at the lifeless soldiers bodies, their blood, which is red as wine.

The way there eyes show terror before they died, they way they lay motionless as their radio's goes crazy with radio chatter.

"Kilo 1-5 give us a sitrep . . . Kilo 1-5, report in!'' The radio kept having chatter from different groups trying to figure out what was happening.

I walked over to the soldiers' bodies.

"M1783 and Private move the bodies all next to each other." I said with no emotion

They began to drag the bodies, well except for private he just picked them up and placed them down.

I walked above the line of bodies, I counted 15 dead bodies, it made sense such they all were mounted with 50’s on top, it was an older version as well, the gun did not have a shield to protect them from gunfire or anything.

As I stood at the feet of the bodies I extended my arm over the middle body.

Come Forth And Rise Again ~Raise Undead~

15 bodies located in a 10 feet radius . . .

Raising 15 Zombies . . .

One by one the Bodies of the soldiers Began to have some of their wounds heal, it was not perfect but some of the soldiers who had bullet holes, which began to have the bullets removed and the holes patched.

However, not all of the soldiers' wounds recovered, only the small ones, there were soldiers who still had bullet holes, especially the one who was stabbed in the neck by the skeleton.

It also turned out that if a creature which I raised dies, it can not come back a second time.

After the bodies stopped recovering the first soldier sat up and looked around and then looked to himself and looked at me again, the rest began to sit up and they too did the same thing as the first.

"you all must be curious, you are probably thinking, Did I not just die? To answer that yes you are dead." I said as I gazed at all of the new zombies.

They looked confused and I then spoke again.

"You may blame me for your deaths. . . That is if it makes you feel any better, however you are now under my service everything you once knew, everyone you know, those all mean nothing now." I said bluntly

"W . . . wh . . . why?" A soldier asked

"Because, If you return to your friends, family or even loved one, I think you know how they will react, look at yourselves, you are zombies, you have injuries that killed you." I replied

They then looked at each other, they saw the wounds that killed them still on their bodies, they then looked to me once again.

"From this point forward you will follow my orders, until you once again die." I said as I began to walk over to the Humvees.

The 15 soldiers took the hint and stood up, they then went over and picked up their rifles once again, except the one myself and private carried, those two soldiers just took out their m17 handguns.

"You guys check on the Humvees and grab anything that can be used, and check the vehicles to see if they still are operational." I said as I looked to the private.

"You are going to be promoted Private, how do I let that happen?" I asked the heavy soldier bot

He looked at me and said " There should be an option on your device sir." he said as he kept looking around the area.

I thought about the robotic designer, it appeared, sure enough once I clicked on private HS1 there was a promote option, I clicked it

Promotion Requirements 10/10 Kills or Serve for 2/10 days

I pressed Promote

Promoting Pvt HS1 to PFC HS1

PFC HS1 Must Return To The Factory To Get Upgrades

Next Promotion requirement 10/25 Kills or Serve 2/20 days

The tablet then disappeared, what kind of upgrades would they be?

"Well PVT you are now a PFC." I said as I walked to the zombie soldiers.

"What did you all Find?" I asked

"We have 17 . . . Mags for m4a1 . . And . . 8 . . . For m17 . . ." the zombie paused as it tried to speak again.

Seems like they can't talk fully, but at least they can speak.

"One . . Humvee . . . Works . . ." the zombie finished.

"Alright, which one is that?" I asked

The zombie pointed to the Humvee that the skeleton was using the turret on.

I nodded "Alright We will have to push the other Humvees to the tree line, is that possible?" I asked out loud

"Sir! Leave that to me!" HS1 said confident.

"Alright, the rest of you rearm and position yourselves in the tree line, one of you move the working Humvee to the tree line behind some cover." I was talking when a helicopter rotor was heard.

"Take cover in the tree line now!" I yelled as a MH-60 Blackhawk came into view.

I began to open fire at the MH-60, the helicopter turned to its side, once again the cries of the minigun let loose.

*Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt*

The sounds of bullets crackled all around us, then a new sound was heard.

*Thud . Thud . Thud . Thud . Thud .*

It was the sound of a mounted 50 letting it loose towards the Blackhawk, I turned and saw the skeleton holding down the trigger on the 50.

"Get some people on the other 50's! Remember you are now dead, if you don't wanna get killed another time then fire!" I Yelled as I fell back to the trees

The MH-60 began to let the minigun fire without bursts, they did not care about accuracy, what they wanted was to make sure that we died, no matter what it takes.

*Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt*

The scream of the minigun echoed, all at once gunfire from the tree line fired back at the Blackhawk, even more 50's fired back, as I looked to the other Humvees I saw That HS1 was pushing one, while a soldier sat at the gunner seat letting the 50 loose.

Their accuracy decently decreased as the bullets missed most of the time, the book did not lie they will only have 10% of their skill, but as they shot I saw some of them Improve it seems that they can relearn their skills.

In the distance the sounds of tracked vehicles were moving closer, I looked to the direction and saw a Bradley driving towards us with three transport trucks full of National guard and militia soldiers.

"Everyone squeeze into the Humvee we got to go!" I yelled as I ran towards the skeleton's Humvee,

*Pssssssssh*

Was all I heard before turning and seeing the Bradley fire a Tow missile right towards me.

The world went slow as I watched the missile make its way right to me, I could run but I would still be in the impact zone, Damn . . . Why did this have to happen? All I wanted to do was go to the city.

Guess that's too much, the missile began to speed up as the world around me came back to normal speed, I closed my eyes and braced for the hit.

"SIR!!!!" said a voice

*Booom*

Everything slowed as I opened my eyes to see HS1 in front looking right into my eyes.

*zzzzzzzap*

I looked to the noise to see a large hole in HS1 and there it was, the beautiful core in all its glory, but it was cracked, and the lasers were making zapping noises as it went over the cracked spot of the core.

"Sir, you have to take care of the new recruits for me, I Shall serve you one last time commander." HS1 said as he turned to face the Bradley and with one step he began to charge like a bull.

I sat there shocked, I'm not dead.

HS1 ran and pulled out the wood axe and threw it into the sky towards the Blackhawk, which was closing in rapidly, next thing I saw was the axe land into the cockpit window.

The MH-60 began to spin while in the air.

That's crazy he hit the helicopter from there?

The Heli then crashed in the distance, there were no explosions but there was a smoke pillar.

The Bradly opened fire as soon as they saw HS1 running at them, as he got hit he just kept running forwards and be started to glow a bright blue glow, the transport trucks stopped as the Bradley tried to stop, it was too late for them, HS1 then was engulfed in blue as a large explosion went off.

*fwoooomp . . . Booooom*

The shockwave sent me flying backwards, I was so far yet it sent me into the sky. . . . .

6/01/25 time Unknown

I opened my eyes and I was no longer on the highway, I did not know where I was.

I looked around and saw nothing but bodies. . . Lots of them, not just humans but orcs as well, my vision is still blurry. I stood up and focused. . . . . . .

"What the actual hell." I said out loud, confused.

All around me were hundreds, maybe thousands of bodies, birds flew all around me eating the flesh from the orcs and humans, there were huge creatures dead as well.

*bleurgh* I puked as the smell hit my nose.

Rotten, and foul smells hit me, I started to walk but no matter where I went there were bodies. Eventually there were more orc bodies than human, and there was when I saw a single Soldier laying on his stomach, an arrow in his chest and a red light came from his helmet.

I walked over and turned him to his back and saw the red light glowing, I took the helmet off and looked at it closer.

"Hmmm strange." was all I said as I looked at the soldiers tag.

PVT Leo United States Army, Is what it read next to him was just orc bodies and a single sword stained in dry blood of all colors, I looked around and saw a female medic and a marine grasping two swords and the medic having a spear in her stomach.

"What happened here? there was a battle that's for sure" I said as I looked to where a hill stood.

There were giant wolves, marines and army soldiers littered all around, there were also orcs, and as I kept looking I saw destroyed vehicles, some simply crushed and others blown up.

I looked around some more and saw hundreds of dead orc mages, I walked back to the dead Pvt

"You seem to be a good warrior" I said as I placed the helmet facing myself and the PVT

Come Forth And Rise Again ~Raise Undead~

58 human bodies and 371 orc bodies and 3 ogre bodies found in a 10ft radius

Would you like to raise them? Y/N

What that many in a 10ft radius should I raise them all? would I be able to?

"Screw it, Yes!" I yelled

Dark mist spread throughout the 10ft radius and just like before they began to regenerate some of their wounds before they began to stand up, I walked over to another portion of the pile of bodies.

Come Forth And Rise Again ~Raise Undead~

78 human bodies, 489 orc bodies and 3 ogre bodies found in a 10ft

radius

Would you like to raise them Y/N?

"Yes!" I replied the dark mist speeded through out again, but this time the others watched me as I performed my spell.

The bodies healed and Words appeared.

Your Simple Raise Undead has been Improved to Basic Raise Undead

Your Basic Raise Undead has been improved to Standard Raise Undead

Your Necromancy Abelites has been improved by %10

Your Necromancy Abelites has been improved %5

New Item: Simple Page Of Necromancy

New Item: Simple Staff Of Necromancy

I grabbed my head as there was too much at once, the other zombies were already standing and all of them were looking at me confused.

Summon Item Staff of Necromancy

Summon Item simple Page of Necromancy

I chanted to have those appear and they did, once I recovered from the words, I had a staff in my right hand that was made out of wood, it was just a long stick smoothed out with a skeleton skull at the tip, and a single page that game me three options.

Summon Skeleton

Improve necromancy by 3%

Create Simple Bone Spear

I looked at the page and selected the spear option, the reason is simple weapons could be useful, I can already get skeletons sure I need a body but that seems easy so far.

And my necromancy ability has just risen by %15, so that's why.

The paper turned to ash and I took out the Book of Knowledge.

Classes: 2 Skills: 3 Necromancer

Standard Raise Undead -

Info - Raise a Creature back to life as an Undead in a 14 feet radius which will follow your every order.

The Undead creature will recover from its wound but will keep the type of body it had when raised.

Skeletons: are fragile and do not have their full strength they don't require food

Zombies: keep their Strength and flesh they have at time of death they are like humans but just undead they do need to consume at least 1 food item if they don't they will be weaker

The body of Zombies regress to that of their 20's or 30's if the zombie is over the age of 50 for humans only other races are different

Skeletons and zombies require you to find a body

Skeletons and zombies have 25% of their skills, abilities, and repair to the body done once raised until a higher level

All raised creatures keep their memories before death but can not remember all of there professions and skills besides 25%

Special Undead can be discovered as you raise the undead creatures

Known Special Undead

Zombie Leader -

Info - raise a zombie that held a high rank before death

Zombie leaders can communicate to its horde without sound and can use %5 more of its skills, also can make other zombies learn faster

Simple Staff of Necromancy -

Info - when holding the staff it increases the max skill by %2 and the radius by 2 feet

Simple Bone Spear -

Info - Summons a simple spear made from bone

All raised skeletons now have the option to be raised with Simple bone spears that fit their size

In order to make the spear you need one bone per spear, all spears will be the same size of the person no matter the size of bone

Robotic Engineer

Simple robotic Core -

Info - Creates a robotic core which gives life to a new robotic device

Requires you to make the Shape of the core and the core itself

Robots can only follow basic commands until higher level core is available

Robotic Creation -

Lets you Make Robotic creations Giving you many options to choose from and you may design your own with the robotic designer or pick premade robots

The more you make the better parts or blueprints may become available

your imagination is the limit when it comes to making robotic creations

Robotic creations require materials to make keep that in mind when designing

Zombie Leader? Alright so I have one of those somewhere in this large horde, I kept walking to where there was large amounts of Bodies and kept chanting

Come Forth And Rise Again ~Raise Undead~

161 human bodies, 1,093 orc bodies and 8 ogre bodies found in a 16ft

radius

Would you like to raise them Y/N?

"Yes." I said again

This continued until I got to a part of the battlefield that had body on top of body, from my guess it was the first clash and where the humans held out.

Come Forth And Rise Again ~Raise Undead~

4,127 human bodies, 17,993 orc bodies and 13 ogre bodies found in a 16ft

radius

Would you like to raise them Y/N?

"Y. . . Yes." I said as I felt weird and collapsed to my knees as the dark mist once again filled the 16 ft radius.

"All of you, sorry but can you take me somewhere safe, preferably away from living creatures including your own kind." I said as I placed the rest of my strength into another chant.

Before I could finish I fell to my stomach and blacked out.

*Thump*

Rex Lopiz Information (Note: this is what Rex Has or is under his control)

Rex Lopiz Money $0 Robotic Creations: 0 Raised Creatures: 85,475

x1 Army leader zombie

x1 Orc leader zombie

x48 zombie Ogres

x313 Marine zombies

x12,328 Army zombies

x72,470 Orc zombies

x314 Giant wolf zombies

Spells known: 3

Simple Undead

Simple Robotic Core

Robotic Creation

Summon Simple Bone Spear

Blueprints: 2

Simple Robotic Parts

Simple Robotic Roles

Food To Water: 27:52

consumes 3:3 minimum

27 Canned food

52 Water bottles

Equipment: 23

Book Of Knowledge

Robotic Designer

x2 Wood Axe

x5 Small battery Flashlights

x10 Small batteries

Simple Staff of Necromancy

Equipment Currently Being Used: 5

Private HS1 - Wood Axe, Glock 22, M4A1

Rex Lopiz - Simple Staff of necromancy

Missions Assigned : 0

Private HS1 - Bodyguard

M1783 - Bodyguard

Resources: 0

Property owned: 1

Campground near Great Lakes -

x2 Barracks/Camp Lodges 32 people

x1 Canteen

x1 Main office

x1 Bathroom

x1 Small Wood Shed

x1 Small Converted Factory

Faction Relations: U.S government: Unknown Names of creatures/robots

Skeleton (M1783)

Heavy Soldier A1 (Private HS1 )