A God's Apocalyptic Entertainment

I quickly took a look at both Ella and my status. After crushing the globes, yesterday from the cannibals, we had both leveled.

In the end I had upgraded my SPR and INT again; I was starting to fall behind in physical stats when it came to fighting zombies, so I had to think hard about it for a while. But in the end the enticement of the Ice skill that was still sitting in my ring won out.

Another point to factor in is that I have hyper growth like Ella, I still couldn't bring myself to eat a person. And that was the main ways to have the skill kick in, it even happened before when I had some of Jenna's blood.

If I could cook and kill some animals when I'm outside the hospital it'll probably kick in. It might not be a huge boost but it would be something, I just don't know what the animals outside would be like. They might be like the wolves I ran into before. They had been infected, but this didn't mean all of them would be. If they were it would put a major chink in my plan. But it was the best I could hope for.

If I was right and hyper growth worked, my physical stats would be boosted and I wouldn't lose out on anything. I would basically be the same as Ella, and she's broken as hell.

I put 3 in INT and the rest in SPR, now with it at 15 all I had to do was get SPR to 20 and I would be able to use Ice.

To get it to 20 I would only need one more level, so hopefully everything would work out. My status now looked a bit balanced at least.

Name: Liam Coltear

Race: Human

S.e.x: Male

Age: 18

Level: 7 EXP (8930 - 81920)

Kin :Ella Coltear

Entertainment Points: 616

Attributes: (0 Points)

STR: 19 (21)

END: 19 (19)

INT: 15 (15)

AGI: 21 (23)

SPR: 14 (14)

LUK: 3 (3)

Skills: (Cold Rage (Passive): Lv (8 – 10))

(Imprinted (Passive) LV(4 Fixed))

(Exp Share (Passive))

(Emotional Connection (Passive))

(Skill sharing (Partial)(Passive))

(Ruler (Sharing) LV(3 Fixed))

(Infection Resistance (Sharing))

(Hyper Growth (Shared) LV(Fixed))

(Regeneration (Shared) LV(1 Fixed))

(Analyze (Passive))

Gear: (Combat Vest (White))*

(Combat Pants (White))*

(Swift Blade (Green))*

(Combat Boots (White))*

(Combat Gloves (White))*

What really surprised though was when I leveled the Exp requirement changed. Instead of quadrupling to some ungodly number, that would have taken forever to get, it had only doubled. This would make it a lot easier to level in the future, and it was possible that it might be less than that later on. But that was unlikely.

My status may have been a bit more balanced after the level up, but comparing me to Ella it was almost a joke with how strong she was becoming. Including the amount of infected and the survivors she eats, her stats had jumped tremendously. It was probably even more as I hadn't looked at it since she woke up.

Name: Ella Coltear

Race: Infected (Royal Class Strain)

S.e.x: Female

Age: 5 Days

Level: 7 Exp (5270 - 81920)

Kin: Liam Coltear

Attributes: (0 Points)

STR: 30 (32)

END: 30 (30)

INT: 23 (23)

AGI: 32 (34)

SPR: 20 (20)

LUK: 5 (5)

Skills: (Ruler (Innate) LV(3 - 10))

(Hyper Growth (Innate) LV(Special Conditions))

(Regeneration (Innate) LV(1 – 10))

(Imprint (Innate) LV(4 - 10))

(Infection (Innate) LV(Special Conditions))

(Exp Share LV(Passive))

(Emotional Connection LV(Passive))

(Cold Rage (Shared): Lv (8 Fixed))

Gear: (Combat Dress (White))*

(Normal Sword (White))*

(Combat Boots (White))*

(Combat Gloves (White))*

"...."

I was truly at a loss for words as I looked at it. It was broken yesterday as I added 3 points to her INT and SPR, but today it was too far. She completely outstripped me in every stat, while at the same level. And as we continued it would only get worse and worse. A more disturbing fact was I could see her SPR stat had actually gone up as well.

It would seem hyper growth also affect those stats, it's too much. If I ever met Ella or someone of her class in the future, it would be a nightmare. I wouldn't even stand a chance if we were at the same level from the looks of it.

And why does her luck also increase!?

I let out a sigh before shaking my head, her being stronger is better for me. The stronger she is, the less I have to worry about her and the more zombies we could kill.

She still hadn't evolved though. Even at level 7 Ella hadn't gone through her evolution, I thought it might have happened by now.

What level will she evolve at? What will she turn into?

We packed our stuff up and moved down the stairs, finally reaching the 6th floor. It was a pretty standard floor with about 10 zombies roaming about. The number of encounters with zombies was lower than the infected; the infected had thinned out quite a lot as the zombies showed up.

I think they ate each other to grow stronger, which would be a good development, but I had never seen it before. I would guess humans are the best resource for infected to level

Thinking about this, I was greatly surprised when I actually ran into an infected on the 5th floor. I spent little time clearing out the 6th floor and had no good gains; I had only got some spare gear and entertainment points.

Better finish this quick.

I thought that as I sprinted towards the infected; I hadn't seen one in ages. The body size of it was smaller than regular zombies. I left Ella behind as I thought it would be a quick fight.

I was stupid again. Even though I had come across this situation a few times before, I didn't seem to learn as I sent a casual swing towards the infected that finally noticed me.

To my casual swing I was surprised to find that the infected had dodged. In my shock I slightly cramped up as I tried to quickly regain my form and defend, but the infected was too fast. Before I could regain my blade, it had sent a hand swinging down towards mine.

I didn't think much of it as I saw the swing, its strength shouldn't be too strong but after the first blunder I didn't want to take a chance. I tried to pull my hand away but was too slow as the hand came down in a swooping motion.

A searing pain shot through me and my voice dried up, I couldn't even scream out as blood started to squirt out of my missing fingers.

Yes my fingers were missing!

"Father!!"

3 of my fingers had been sliced cleanly off!

The pain threatened to black me out as it traveled up my arm and activated cold rage. My mind cleared up instantly as my legs wobbled.

I couldn't hold onto my blade anymore as it dropped to the ground. I fell back as quickly as I could as the infected dashed in for the kill.

I had to use analyze at the moment as I realized my blunder, there was no way it could be an infected. It had to be something else!

I had screwed up big time, as I tried to glimpse the information while retreating.

Name: N/A

Race: Zombie (Agility Evolution)

S.e.x: N/A

Age: 0

Level: 5

Attributes:

STR: 20

END: 18

INT: 7

AGI: 26

SPR: 3

Skills:

Infection (Innate) LV(Special Conditions) - User is infected with a virus that promotes growth and strength depending on the strain of the virus. Can infect others with virus strain. ??? . ??? .

Claws (Innate) LV(Special Conditions) – user has grown sharp claws to render attacks. Instead of gaining strength to attack, the claws are the main weapon used to kill prey. Great Slicing power.

Claws!!!

Just as I caught a glimpse of these words I finally saw them with my own eyes. The hand of this 'Agility Zombie' was closing in on my face. I pulled my face away as fast as I could, but wasn't in time as my vision was filled with its menacing gleam.

*Puik*

The blue box was instantly gone as pain racked my head, a claw had dug in a popped one of my eyes. The pain was unimaginable as I fell backwards, blood squirting out over my face.

The claw couldn't continue to move forwards and reap my life as an aura engulfed the thing and stopped it from moving.

A cold aura sprinted above me and ruthlessly split the agile in two.

Ella's' figure materialized in front of me as she cried over my face. The only thing keeping me awake right now was the cold rage I was feeling.

I wasn't angry at the agile though, I wasn't even angry at that damn god!

I was angry at myself!

I had done this so many times! Jumping in to a fight and not assessing the threat! I should have learned! I should have at least checked!

I had not seen an infected for a full 2 days and the instant I see one, I jump right in to kill it. What a stupid thing to do!

And now because of that stupid mistake I had lost 3 fingers and a dam eye!!

It was almost karma to have lost an eye. I didn't look and assess the situation and now I would be blind in one eye!

I know I had regeneration, heck, I prayed that I could get my 3 fingers back. But with the cold rage skill raging on at myself, I felt that I wouldn't mind losing the eye.

I needed a reminder, something that would always tell me how I screwed up!

I couldn't be dumb like this again!

I raised my hand and slapped myself. Ella who had been crying above me was shocked at my actions and grabbed my hand as I was about to slap myself again.

I stopped and looked up at her pitiful face. She looked very scared right now. The guilt of the matter made it easier to hate myself.

I'm an idiot!

I stopped what I was doing and instead rubbed Ella's head. She started to calm down as I did this and raised her own hand to my face. The bleeding started to slow down and disappear and the pain stopped after a good few minutes.

I tried to ingrain this experience in my head, even if I did grow back an eye in the future, I wouldn't forget.

This had ruined my plans for the day as well.

Giving myself a good hour of rest, I finally picked myself up and went to get my blade. Ella wanted to help me and rushed ahead to grab it herself, but I stopped her. I needed to learn a lesson with this. Grabbing it with my left hand I gripped it tight.

I forced myself to continue the floor and also cleared out 2 more floors, we even ran into a few more agile zombies. Ella took care of them the moment she saw them, I could see the rage in her slashes. She didn't even eat them when we were finished.

I had finally finished the 3rd floor before I thought I couldn't continue. Ella had been helping me stop the blood flow and I had to let her do most of the killing, but I forced myself to do it.

The pain was searing and I couldn't see anything from my left eye, but I did it.

I had Ella help me on our way back to the top floor, before I let fatigue set in. My cold rage skill also finally turned off, I had kept it up the whole time. It even went up to level 9.

Laying on the bed and feeling the itchiness of my hand and the itchiness of my left eye, I was pretty sure they would regenerate. To what degree I wasn't sure, I probably couldn't continue without using my right hand, I couldn't use my left hand to do much.

I lay down and Ella continued to help absorb the blood I was leaking.

The pain set in once more as I forced myself to go to sleep.

I gave Ella a reassurance, by patting her head, before fading into darkness.