Chapter 18: Succumbing To The Other Side
After walking into the building, Ves started looking around. She made her way to the elevator and luckily in addition to the building to still in perfect condition, it still has electricity supply. But Ves wasn't sure how long it was going to last.
Standing in front of the elevator, she pressed the button and it opened up slowly. She would had naturally taken the stairs but since she didn't have to worry about being attacked by zombie, she decided that taking the elevator was faster for her.
The elevator opened up completely and immediately, a horde of zombies poured out of it. They rushed at her and started sniffing her but after a few sniffs, they staggered away.
Ves didn't pay attention to the zombies as she walked into the elevator and pressed button with floor number she wanted, and the door closed.
Few minutes later, she was now standing on the first floor of the building and it was mostly empty with only a few zombies seen hanging around.
She didn't bother with them as she started looking around the apartments on the floor. She went from apartment to apartment, checking for it's safety.
After she had confirmed that there was nothing more than zombies on the floor, she left and went up to the next floor and did the same.
Just like the first floor, there was no other activities except for zombies. She continued with what she was doing, moving up each floors and checking them out.
A few hours has passed since she started and nothing out of the ordinary has happened. The only noteful thing about the building is that it's crawling with undead.
Zombies were everywhere in the building—at least on the floors she has checked and she was currently on the 7th floor. They were in some apartments, some stranded in elevators and was later accidentally released by Ves when she opened the elevator.
Ves walked to the elevator and got inside, taking it to the eighth floor. On her arrival on the floor, she immediately got to work as she started taking care of every zombies on the floor.
She walked to her first target, a zombie that was standing a few distance from the elevator, and snapped it neck.
A cracking wound was heard as the zombie's head was decapitated and it's undead body fell to the ground, limp.
Ves didn't waste any time as she moved on to the next zombie and she went on a zombie killing spree on the floor.
She went from apartment to apartment, rooms to rooms, checked every possible hiding places for zombies and used her enhanced senses to sniff them out, and killed all of them.
She would had done this in the lower floors but there was multiple reasons why she didn't kill them. The first was because of time.
She knew that they were in a time-critical situation, so taking care of all of the zombies would be impossible.
The second was because she didn't want to attract the attention of any mutant creature that might in the building or its surroundings.
This was actually the reason why she went from apartments to apartments on each floor, and the same reason why she didn't take care of the zombies on the ground floor.
A couple of minutes has passed and Ves has already killed more than a dozen zombies.
The zombies were unable to put up a fight due to their limited intelligence compared to Ves, and the fact that stronger than them. But this was only because all of them were normal zombies at level 1.
Something she noticed while making her way up each floors was that the number of zombies on each floors were increasing as she went up.
As Ves' kill score increased, she noticed that she was beginning to become stronger. She was faster than before and her senses had been enhanced further.
Out of curiosity, she stopped to check her status screen.
[Name: Ves Thalor]
[Level: 2]
[Specie(s): Human, Zombie]
[Class: –]
[Title: None]
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[Strength: 45]
[Agility: 43]
[Stamina: 70]
[Intelligence: 24]
[Mana: 100 (Locked)]
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[Skill(s): Regeneration (Innate), Enhanced Strength (Innate), Bone Claw (Innate), Life Force Detection (Innate), Enhanced Senses (Innate), Predator's Sight (Active).]
"Wow. It increased so much," She smiled when she saw the increase to her stats.
She turned to look at the zombies in front of her and instead of their previous disgusting, and repulsive appearance, they looked like more like her beloved loot bags.
With a deathly grin on her face, she rushed at them and continued her killing spree.
Few minutes later, she was done taking care of every zombies on the eight floor and was ready to make her way up to the ninth floor.
She plans to take kill all the zombies on that floor and move upward again, and she only plans to stop after eliminating all the zombies on the 12th floor, as was her original plan.
The residential building has a total of 25 floors and Ves wants to clear out five of the floor, in the mid range zone, so that it can be safe and free of zombies, allowing them to move in immediately.
Just as she was walked into the elevator and pressed the button for it to take her to the ninth floor, she heard that malevolent voice in her again and this time, it was louder and stronger than before.
"Life force!" It hissed loudly like an ancient beast that has been starving for eons.
The next moment, she felt those familiar changes in her body. Her eyes turned milky as before, her nails started extending out of her fingers, sending waves of shearing pain through her pain.
Her throat burned like it hasn't tasted water in ages and her mind became muddled. Her veins felt like molten lava coursed through them, and her mind fractured into fragments. The scent of life force filled her senses, sweet and tantalizing
She was unable to put up a fight as she lost control of her body to her zombie side in matter of seconds.
Now standing in the elevator and completely turned, Ms Ves stared in the general direction of the nearest source of life force; Leo.
Few seconds later, the elevator stopped and its doors opened, and Ms Ves or her zombie figure, staggered out of it.
Still looking in Leo's direction, she roared and bolted towards him.