Chapter 2 - Arther POV

Same time inside the tent.

The tent is built on the bare ground with some dried leaves and dirty paper laid on the ground. It doesn't contain anything except a disproportionate cooking vessel placed on the rocks with a place for the fire below.

Light permeates through the torn-out cloth of the tent.

On one side of the tent lays a boy at the age of 19, with blond hair, black pupils, and a thin body without any strength. His skin has formed blisters with greenish-black fluid inside. His name is Arther.

(Arther POV)

I can hear the things going outside the tent, the sunlight is shining but can't provide me with any warmth. I can hear her getting molested by those fuc*kers but I can't help it..

It has been 3 years since the apocalypse. Humanity is no more the top of the food chain, we have fallen to point of surviving in the cracks as worms. The world no more has law and morality, everyone lives without any hope of tomorrow. The world now follows only one law Survival of the fittest, strong eat the weak and no one will help them, those who tried are already walking as undead in the once-prosperous cities.

This world doesn't allow you peace even after death, I still remember seeing people dead for decades walking out of the tombs and spreading the virus.

It all started with an unstable solar wave due to the formation of the new star named by the scientists of the world as death star as it brought the took the death from the world.

City X

Morning 9:00

It was the happy day of my life, our family was going on a vacation to the snow mountain but, the governments around the world announced a lockdown throughout. The common people were not notified about anything we stayed at home for 3 days. Then came the light that shrouded the whole world and we lost consciousness. My parents were in the backyard doing some work, and my sister was with me. After a few minutes when I gained my consciousness, the world was no more what it used to be. The TV was still playing the news that stated that due to unknown reasons there are undeadly sprouting out of the tombs. I saw the footage and the first thing that came to my mind was 'Zombies'

Being a shut-in otaku it was not an unknown term for me, While I was still in shock I heard crashing sounds coming from the backdoor of the house, I went to check it out with a faint headache only to see my mother lying in a pool of blood and my father with one bloodied hand holding onto an old skeleton with sharp nails on fingers and long canines biting on his neck when he saw me there were tears in his blood-filled eyes, blood flowed out of his mouth as he used his last strength to topple over the skeleton using his body to provide me time to run. I wanted to help him but my legs gave up, tears filled my eyes as I saw my dad die in front of me.

As I was still in the pain of losing my mom and dad the skeleton spotted me a chill ran down my spine as it pounced over me, I was able to smell the bloody smell from its mouth closing over me as I can feel death coming closer, I closed my eyes shut waiting for the pain to come it didn't come instead I heard something crashing on my side. Then I felt a grip on my hand as someone pulled me out of there. I opened my eyes to see the skeleton standing up from a wooden chair crashing on it.

"What are doing run!", the voice brought me back from shock,

it was my elder sister Jessy she leads me through the front door as she locked it from outside to lock the skeleton inside.

We ran from there losing the warmth of family, survived in the cracks until reaching the base city, my sister was a strong survivor, and using her strength she joined an exploration squad to earn food for both of us, in the base we met Daisy she was rescued by my sister and thus helped her look after me when she(Jessy) is out. It was all going well, I was also working in a bar in the outer city to earn something and Daisy was good at making leather armors from the beast skins.

But one day the outer city received the news of a beast tide and all the able people were to participate in the war on the wall for the base city. Though it was ordered only for the common and weak people, the people with strong backing and inner-city people didn't participate.

On that day the entire city was surrounded by thousands of beasts, everyone fought bravely but due to fewer ammunitions and weak weapons, and no support from the officials the wall was breached, thousands of people died while the supporting troops were sent by the inner city withdrew even before fighting.

On that day I lost my sister, what I had left with was Daisy as my only family we weren't allowed into the inner city so all those surviving had to leave the city to make a breakthrough from the encirclement. We also survived and came here to City S after traveling for months on the zombie-infested land.

But here common people didn't get any beast material and I was injured in my leg hence Daisy was forced into prostitution for curing me but my health kept deteriorating.