Chapter 2

Foot steps were heard as it showed Sebastian walking down the stairs leading into the kitchen. He pulled open a drawer and took out 3 kitchen knives.

Sebastian :Do I have an inventory ?

He then suddenly heard thudding against the back door.

Slowly he turned around and saw someone banging against it, he cautiously walked towards the window next to the door, one knife brandished in his right hand. He knew the person well, when it was a person it was his next door neighbour Stan. Stan was a middle aged plumber that greeted Sebastian every now and then. The man was a deathly pale white and had red cracks that appeared on his skin. One of his arms where missing and a huge chunk of his throat was missing. He twitched suddenly and turned directly towards Sebastian and with a quick burst of speed bashed through the window onto the teen. Taken by surprise Sebastian Dropped his knife and was tackled on the table, breaking it in the process.

Sebastian was dazed for a second but reacted quickly to Stan trying to chomp down on his neck. Sebastian put all his strength in a punch that went flying to the head of the zombie, bone crunching was heard as the poor man was sent blasting of Sebastian and into a wall bleeding heavily from its head. The teen quickly jumped up and took out another one of the knives from his inventory. Stan was not yet dead and lunged again towards Sebastian. He quickly jumped to the left but got scratched by the zombies remaining arm.

HP:100-20=80

Sebastian: Bastard he growled.

Then acting on instinct, he charged at the zombie and with a quick downwards strike he cut the zombies back. Blood spraying out like a fountain, some blood spattered onto Sebastian's shirt but he didn't care as his eyes glowed softly red.

He gripped the knife's handle hard and with all his strength plunged the knife deep in Stan's head, tearing it off in the process.

Stan's body finally stopped moving and with a soft grey hue his body dissolved.

Sebastian fell on his behind and panted from exhaustion. He looked at the small screen in front of him as he read its content.

System: You have leveled up!

The same message appeared twice so he guessed he must have leveled up twice.

Sebastian: Stats please System.

Name: Sebastian Topaz Age:18

Title: NONE

Money:9100$

Level:3

Fatigue:10/20

HP:130/130[regen 1 hp per minute]

MP:150/150[regen 2 mp per minute]

Strength:45+2

Intelligence: 120

Dexterity:40+3

Vitality:50+5

Luck:33

Stat points available: 15

Skills: Power Shot lvl 1/5 [cost 10 MP] {User puts all his strength in one move unleashing a devastating attack}

Skill Points Available: 10

Sebastian: Skills huh? cant believe I'm saying this but this is definitively not boring he said as a grin appeared on his face.

Sebastian's eyes stared at the glowing things on the floor. So with a puff he stood up and walked towards it, his eyes grew wide when he saw what it was. There on the floor were two objects, they were a short sword and a pair of arm guards. Without hesitation he equipped both items and saw that he had the sword in its sheath on his back and the arm guards resting snugly on his fore arms.

With a quick thought he opened his inventory and looked at the items.

Short Sword= ATK: 13 per hit[rating is C]

Arm Guard= DEF: 10 [rating D]

Sebastian smiled at this, impressed that he was now stronger; that was until he heard an explosion outside drawing his attention away. Outside a car had just exploded as it was attacked by a few zombies; probably looking for the poor bastard inside it.

With nothing he could do he ignored the crash site and walked up to his room, put on his best running shoes, a black hoodie putting the hood up and made his way to the back door again.

Sebastian: This place is going to get overrun soon; I have to make it to higher grounds for the night.

So with that he began walking towards the nearest city, knowing that it probably wasn't the best idea as there were a lot of people, well most likely zombies by now.

Suddenly he realized the city was in actuality a very good place to spend the night as healthy people who haven't been turned would avoid such a dense area of zombies. So he started heading in that direction.

He was stopped in his tracks as there was a big zombie in front of him, it still had all its limbs and it looked like the person before the plague went to gym a lot. Sebastian was going to attack the zombie but stopped when 2 more appeared next to him. Being level 3 was bad as he wasn't prepared to take on three of the zombies.

He quickly hid behind a wall and made slowly made his way around them, every noise he made by accident felt like a death sentence as he checked on them. When he was finally past them he got a notification.

System: Due to user doing a certain action a skill has been awarded!

Skills: Power shot: lvl 1/5

Sneak lvl: 1/5{skill allows user to escape a enemy's detection}

Seeing as that was a useful skill Sebastian put 2 skill points in it leveling it up to level 3.

He was quickly interrupted when he heard clicking right next to him ,he slowly turned to his right and saw something creepy, it wasn't a normal zombie it had long arms that dragged on the floor.; It was a light brown color and had a piece of flesh covering its eyes, the mouth contained rows of teeth and when it turned to Sebastian it sent him a creepy grin and lunged right at him very fast. On pure instinct the teen quickly pulled out his sword and blocked the claws from the creature.

Recovering quick from the attack he moved backwards and gripped the sword hard in his hands and ran forward, bringing the sword high up but just as he slashed down the creature dodged to the left only getting a slash against the shoulder. Sebastian tried to hit it again but it was too fast. To make the matter worse it was also scratching Sebastian every now and then depleting his HP slowly.

HP:95/130

Sebastian: Damn fast bugger.

Sebastian stopped swinging, his fatigue growing more with each swing. He stood still and rested on the sword. The creature seeing this as its chance screeched and lunged right at Sebastian.

Sebastian: Gotcha,

He grinned and activated Power strike and with all his strength swung upwards cleaving the creature straight into 2; killing it instantly.

The creature turned into pixels and Sebastian let out a breath of relief, sat on his haunches, closed his eyes trying to calm his breath and wondered why he doesn't feel anything when killing these zombies. They were human once...

He just shrugged and moved on. When he opened his eyes he saw there were 2 pop ups in front of him.

System:You have Leveled up!

System:You have Leveled up!

System:Due to user doing a certain action a skill has been awarded!

Sebastian opened his stats to see what changed.

Name: Sebastian Topaz Age:18

Title: NONE

Money:10100$

Level:5

Fatigue:30/40

HP:150/150[regen 1 hp per minute]

MP:180/180[regen 2 mp per minute]

Strength:47 + 3

Intelligence: 120 + 2

Dexterity:33 + 4

Vitality:50+ 4

Luck:33

Stat points available: 30

Skills:

Power Shot: lvl 1/5 [cost 10 MP] {User puts all his strength in one smove realsing a devastating attack}

Sneak: lvl 3/5

Swordsmanship: lvl 2/5

Skill Points Available: 10

Feeling way to tired to even attempt to fight another zombie of the same caliber, he added 2 more skill points to sneak and maxed it out for now. A pop up appeared

System:Due to the skill Sneak reaching its current maximum the perk Predation was achieved.

Sebastian: Predation, what the hell that do? He pressed predation and another pop up appeared.

System: Predation [permanent boost of 5% movement speed and footsteps make less noise]{the user has proved himself to be silent and deadly just like a predator hunting its prey}

Being satisfied with this result he started looking for the main reason he came to the city; a roof to stay on. Quickly spotting one that was close and had a ladder leading up, he activated sneak and quickly ran past a group of zombies that were close to him. On the roof there were 2 zombies that Sebastian swiftly took care of, leveling up again but he didn't care by how much as the fighting made him even more tired.

On the plus side the roof had a great advantage view that he could see a lot of streets and nobody could sneak up on him. The fatigue finally caught up to him and he went to go rest up against the wall. Sleep finally catching up to him.