Chapter 25 25: I'm Not Leaving Until I Collect All The Undead's Talents!

The Blood Bull's force and lethality was no less on par than Blood Bear and sent the Mutated Zombie flying dozens of feet into the air. The Mutated Zombie's defensive capabilities were on a different level compared to the ordinary zombies as a normal Bull Fist would have popped their heads.

Yet the Mutated Zombie's only suffered with having half its face crushed before standing up and charging at Yoze as if it was nothing but a scratch. Not wanting to keep having to hold back, Yoze tossed Leah to the ground several feet away from anything and charged at the Mutated Zombie.

The Mutated Zombie once again launched a flurry of attacks wanting to tear Yoze apart. But now that Yoze had gotten rid of the dead weight holding him back, he was able to dodge all the Mutated Zombie's attacks and threw another Blood Bull Fist at the Mutated Zombie's head.

This time Yoze was able to hear the satisfying pop of a head exploding as bits of flesh, bones, and brain matter splattered everywhere.

With its head destroyed, the Mutated Zombie's body became stiff before falling to the ground with a thud. The Death Fog Armor that protected the Mutated Zombie quickly disengaged revealing the body underneath.

The Mutated Zombie's body was a headless four armed wrinkled man wearing a bathrobe. Yoze stepped closer to the mutated zombie's corpse and looked at the dry stump where its head used to be.

The Mutated Zombie's flesh was dark red and looked like it had absorbed its own blood.

"It's really dead." Yoze couldn't help but wonder what the hell happened to Emerald Town.

Nothing abnormal had been discovered from the town and news from the town was still getting sent until not too recently. For that to be the case and not to draw any attention from anyone from Jade City meant that what happened to Emerald Town was recent.

This Mutated Zombie's Age also confirmed Yoze's suspicions. It meant that what caused this incident that eliminated a whole town must have happened at least three days ago. It also had to have happened fast enough that no one in the town was able to send a warning.

Something that Yoze wanted to know was why this zombie has Mutated and not the other zombies. What was special about this man that caused him to grow another set of arms and produce an enormous amount of the Stench of death to not only become fog of death but to become death armor.

Leah, who had been tossed aside by Yoze earlier, walked up to the Mutated Zombie's corpse still trembling.

"Let's go and inform the authorities. They will take care of this."

Yoze's eyes glowed as he took Leah's concerns to heart. As long as they returned they could gather the authorities to investigate and cleanse the whole town.

This might slow down their trip by a few days or maybe a few weeks but it was safer and faster than trying to find another route which could have the same thing happening.

However, for that to happen could mean that this town would be locked away from the public and Yoze would not have access to the town. He would lose the opportunity to get the unique talents that these zombies could have.

He already got one Life Attraction which made him feel as if his skin had gotten tighter as if trying to keep his life force inside his body. However, he already had used his talent mark for the day and needed to wait 24 hours for it to refresh.

This gave Yoze a conundrum, he could leave the town and return to Jade City or stay and try to collect more talents but at the good possibility that what had caused this incident to still be around.

Yoze thought in silence for a moment before getting a plan together. He looked at the trembling goat next to him and felt that it should work. Yoze took out a slip of paper he carried in his pocket and wrote a few words down before tying it to Leah's neck.

"Okay let's go."

Even though Leah was confused about why Yoze tied a piece of paper to his neck he was glad to be able to leave this demonic town. Yoze and Leah were able to arrive back at the town's entrance without attracting any more zombies.

Just as they were about to cross, Yoze stopped a step away from leaving the entrance to Leah's confusion.

"Leah, I'm going to stay here and protect the rear as you run back to the carriage and give my father the letter I wrapped around your neck."

"What no! What if there is an undead wandering outside of the town and attacks me when I'm alone." Leah said frightened by the prospect of leaving by himself.

Leah had been wanting to leave for awhile but he didn't want to lose the protection that he had in this dangerous situation. Anything could happen but as long as Yoze is with him he didn't have to worry about being killed.

"Ahh don't worry about it. We arrived without seeing a single undead so the trip back shouldn't be a problem. Plus that's the reason I'm staying behind. If one of those Mutated undead follows us with a horde of undead it would be extremely difficult to keep you alive while fighting them." Yoze waved away Leah's concerns as he was confident he could make it.

"Now go before more undead show up."

Though Leah was still scared out of his mind he still knew that Yoze's logic was sound and if a horde of undead did chase after them along with one of those powerful undead then he would be in more danger than escaping himself.

Once Leah had run far enough, Yoze walked back into town and walked around with caution. He wasn't sure if the zombies chased after the sound, since Leah was quite loud when he screamed, or if they could sense life force energy.

Even though Yoze had a talent called Life Attraction he didn't seem to gain an extra sense to find living things. So he could only assume that they tracked them down by their noise.

Due to Yoze's training in Mindless Legs he was able to reduce his footsteps to a minimum till the point they were virtually silent.

That gave Yoze some confidence that he would be able traverse the town without too much trouble. As long as he was careful, Yoze thought he would be able to stay relatively unharmed throughout this adventure.