“You wait, you fucking piece of shit! Just you wait, let him arrive and we’ll see who will have the last laugh.”

I could have retorted to her… him by saying, ‘let me disable you and free the colonists from your rule. Then we’ll see who will have the last laugh.’ But I didn’t. Why? Because I am civil and educated, unlike someone who had lived his entire life hidden in a closed of tunnel.

Yes, I had already found where that piece of shit was hiding at. Those invisible threads I could see thanks to my mana vision had a clear place of emergence, as much as they had a destination.

And the main thing to note was that he wasn’t hiding too far, he was actually too near.

Though I didn’t retort to her, I did indeed snort, which was my body’s natural reaction on hearing someone make a joke of his own fucking self.

Looking at the writhing, half dead… undead… I decided to give him mercy and kicked its half burnt face. It was so in pain that the even the other zombie were affected by it.

“Seems like they can share their thoughts with each other.”

I raised my leg and converted the tip into a spike.

“Good bye.” I said with a bright angelic smile on my face and dropped the nail.

*Slip*

It pierced straight through its skull and the zombie stopped crying. In the next second, Its body went limp and it died just like that.

“Only thirty more left to kill.” I counted and having found their poison, I started the massacre.

Well, not really. More like the fear that I felt from them decreased to sustainable limits, and I was able to deal with them more easily.

But they didn’t stop attacking me. Though the shared pain and thoughts might have shaken them a little, but in the end they were zombies after all; Emotionless, feeling less zombies.

I bound the group closest to me with [Root] and [Healed] the one who was running toward me with all of his might.

{Root has risen to lv 10}

The roots didn’t hold for long, but binding five zombies, at one time, for a second was enough time for me to get out of their circle.

Unfortunately, after doing so, I was once again away from the queen, and standing on the other side of the chasm with zombies in the middle parting me from my… target of affection.

The zombie I had healed didn’t fare well, and unlike the first zombie who had somehow survived the ordeal, this one didn’t. The original [Heal] was much more powerful than its [Echo] and unlike that, the zombies body started melting, as if it had just come out after skinny dipping in a pool full of hydrochloric acid.

Bubbles didn’t form on its exoskeleton and instead it directly caught fire. His eyeballs melted and added oil to the fire. Its antennas crumbled and became ash, its legs exploded directly and the fluids evaporated which once again fueled the fire burning its body.

A second later, the last of its movements stopped and only ash remained where once its body lay.

Even the worm controlling its body didn’t survive the ordeal and died while I received 30Exp and a level in [Heal].

{Heal has risen to lv 8}

“Oh!”

I remembered that every 10 levels a second tier skill unlocks a special skill.

“Wonder what [Heal] will give.” I mumbled in anticipation.

I did think the zombie would have become scared after seeing the golden glow glowing stronger than ever, but that didn’t happen. And instead they started attacking me with fervor.

But before anyone could reach me, the closest one to the crisp burnt zombie got caught in the [Echo] and dropped to the floor.

I maneuvered through the thick zombie gangs attacks and when I saw that the zombie was fried and ready to be destroyed, I fired an air bullet at its head, which easily penetrated its exoskeleton and killed it. I got another level in Air bullet and 15 Exp.

This one wasn’t a strong one and was only hanging around at root levels of first rank.

“Twenty nine left.” I declared and dodged a tackle from a big brute. I Quickly turned on my left leg and tied to puncture its back with my spike turned front right leg, but I failed and it punched on my chest instead.

*Bang*

It hit me and I flew through the air.

I did dodge the punch by jumping backwards, but the air pressure from the punch got me, and I got sent flying toward a group of zombies coming toward me.

{Equilibrium has risen to lv 11}

“Fuck this shit…!”

Did the punch hurt? It didn’t actually hurt. I had too many skills to count, working in the background taking care of such lousy hits. But it really pissed me off.

I activated slipping steps of the ghosts and passed through the lot. Dropped on the ground just behind them, and produced a [Mend wave].

*Swish*

“Raaaaa…!”

The group got knocked back and I [Healed] the dumbass who had punched me in the gut.

While it cried in pain lying on the ground, trying to roll and extinguish the fire burning its body, I made my way toward the queen.

“Stop him…! Don’t let him reach me…!” She cried and the zombies got serious. Maybe she had hit the panic button, because the zombies changed as if they had been playing until now and now they meant business.

She was just fifteen or so centimeters away from me, but alas she was too far away. Two zombies caught up to me. The open and direct window that I had toward the queen closed in that single moment, as I dodged the zombies falling like meteors by rolling toward the left.

[Dodge has risen to lv 16]

Shaking my head I stood up and looked at the wall that had formed in front of me in the mean time.

“When is this going to end!?” I lamented, punched the ground in rage and activated [Haste].

I didn’t stop at that and fired an [Air bullet] at the big brute who was being healed or burning to ashes. Then I bound the zombies at the center of the wall with [Root] and started charging wind to perform a [Wind Cannonball].

Surprisingly the zombies opened their eyes wide seeing me getting into the motion. And even the queen started shivering with fear for some reason.

“STOP HIM…!” She shouted and I felt good.

But I had to stop charging the wind cannonball, not because of the queen or her zombie army, but because my perception caught something, something big, very big coming toward me from directly below me.

I jumped to the side and just as I did…

*Bang*

The floor exploded into smithereens as a huge worm like thing came roaring out of the ground.

A mouth covered in five layers of teeth. A black body which looked hard as iron. It was so long that its head touched the roof and its tail was nowhere to be found. It was about a centimeter thick and had ribs like sections design on its outer skin.

“GRRaaaararaaa!”

“WHO,IS,DISTURBING,MY,SLEEP!” It roared in anger.

*Ting*

[Skill: Worm language gained.]

“What the actual fuck?”

I appraised the thing and it turned out to be a worm of some kind. But then a strange memory hit me and I remembered the day when I had passed through the dark tunnel leading toward the pit and passed by a puddle.

Tiny had warned me to not enter the puddle and I had seen something come up to the surface before going down again. And now seeing the worms still wet body and the same metallic shine, I promised myself to buy Tiny anything he demanded once this zombie apocalypse thing settled down. He had saved my life.

Spoiler: Nemo (The Devourer)

Nemo (The Devourer)

28/35

Species

Gigantic Myrmeconema

neotropicum (Unique)

3

Job

Fighter

82/155

Stamina

155/155

31/31

Gender

Male

Stamina Reg. (+36/hour)

Mana reg. (16/hour)

Conserves (50)

Stat Tier: E

{Appraisal has risen to lv }

But unique? I had never seen that tag before. How many ants were there in the colony? And I don’t think there was a single ant who was Unique.

There were many rare ants like ‘The Brute’ and ‘The destroyer’ but no one was unique.

I thought the parasite infesting our mound had even gotten its hand on this stupidly amazing thing and it was this amazing creature that the queen was waiting for, but upon seeing her expression I realized, even she hadn’t anticipated its arrival. And the result was that she wasn’t the one who had called it.

And that only meant one thing.

“Haaha… and the third party intervenes!”