Apocalypse Day 3:
The team cautiously went up the flight of stairs to the fourth floor, preparing for any attacks from the nulls, but as they reached the fourth floor, they were surprised. They saw nothing.
No nulls wandering around aimlessly, no piles of dust, nothing. The floor was eerily quiet, like horror movies when something bad was guaranteed to happen.
"This is unexpected," Tyrel said, "No nulls." "Maybe there are some survivors here that cleared the nulls just like us," Dare said
"I don't think so," Zayden said as he slowly walked through the hall, his hand tracing along the wall, when he suddenly stopped. "Claw marks," he said to the surprise of everyone.
They walked up to different parts of the hall, and just like he said, they could see three claw marks on some parts of the wall, as if made by a wild animal.
"I'll scout ahead," Dare said as he sent out his nanobots in the form of five spiders into the hall. The holographic screen appeared in front of them. It was broken into five different screens, each for a different spider.
Seeing the feed from the bots, the team couldn't help but frown. The whole floor was cleared of the nulls and small puddles that seemed to look like drool could be found on the ground.
"I think I know what happened on this floor," Zayden said as the rest of the team looked at him, their eyes demanding an explanation. "Someone brought a pet into the dorm," Zayden said
"What does that have to do with what is going on?" Lucas asked, "I think that the energy that made the nulls mutated the pet that the person brought into the hall." Zayden said, "And with the fact that the floor is cleared of the nulls, this mutant beast is pretty high levelled."
"So you are saying that animals also level up?" Dare asked, "That is what I deduced based on the fact that everything that we've come across up to this point had levels, so it won't be out of the norms for animals, or rather, mutated beasts to have levels."
It was at this point that they saw a shadow run across one of the cameras. "How far away was that camera?" Zayden asked, "Right in front of us," Dare said with a frown on his face.
"Get ready, guys, we're going to be facing a high-level mutant beast," Zayden said. "Hold nothing back, cause you might just die without knowing how. "I wonder how many EXP the beast would give us?" Tyrel said with a grin on his face while Darian was as indifferent as ever.
Suddenly, they could see the mutant beast slowly walking up to them on all fours. It was an abnormally big dog with brown fur, extra-long and sharp canines and claws, disgusting drool falling from its mouth, and what looked to be headgear made out of stone.
[Armored Canine (Mutated Dog) Level 6]
[HP: 350/350]
[Energy: 100/100]
"Based on the stats that we can see, this mutant dog should be innately stronger than us physically. But the fact that its energy isn't up to par means that we should be able to defeat it," Zayden said when the beast suddenly left their line of vision.
Zayden narrowed his eyes and jumped in front of Dare, his blade clashing against the claws of the mutant dog. "Argh..." Zayden groaned slightly as he was pushed back a few steps, almost crashing into Dare while the mutant dog jumped back to gain some space.
"It targeted the person with the lowest attack power," Zayden muttered. "Everyone, be on your guard, this is going to be harder than usual."
It could be said that Zayden had taken on the aggro of the beast, so the red eyes of the beast were now focused on him. "I'm not one to back down, so come at me, you beast," he provoked.
Since it was still pretty low leveled, Zayden's taunt, which wasn't a skill, worked pretty well on it. It lunged at Zayden with its mouth ajar, drool falling from it, hoping to chomp off the head of Zayden. But Zayden countered with his energy blade, making the beast chomp on the blade.
They were in a stalemate for a few seconds as they stared into the eyes of the other. "Use this chance to attack!!" Zayden yelled.
Tyrel, being their only long-range fighter, aimed his submachine gun at the beast and pulled the trigger.
The veins on the gun lit up a golden color as he activated his electric charge on the gun. A volley of bullets crackling with golden lightning slammed into the body of the mutant beast.
[-5HP]
[-5HP]
[-5HP]
[-5HP]
"Awooo!!..."
The beast howled in pain as the aggro was effectively taken off Zayden and put on Tyrel.
The beast leapt off the body of Zayden, its body going toward that of Tyrel, who was at the back, smirking at it mockingly. Before it was able to get to Tyrel, Darian got in the way, his two battle axes glowing a fierce red color.
[Bullish Charge Activated]
While in the air, there was no way that the mutant beast would be able to change its direction, so all it could do was take the brunt of the attack.
The two battle axes slammed into the body of the beast, effectively sinking into the skin, drawing a lot of blood
[-10HP]
[-10HP]
Both Darian and the mutant beast landed on the ground as Darian jumped back to gain some space. At this point in time, the beast was seeing red.
In a quick attack, it swung its clawed paws at Darian. Even though Darian was able to bring his axe in front of him to block the attack, he was still sent flying. He fell down the stairs back to the third floor.
[Phantom Slash Activated]
The three shadow-like sword arcs were flying towards the beast, its attention focused on them, when it suddenly felt a sense of danger behind it.
Tyrel could be seen with his pistol pointed at the beast, glowing a bright golden color, and the crackling of lightning could be heard by Darian, who was a floor below them. "No hard feelings, we all just want to survive," Tyrel said
[Lightning Charge Activated]
[Double Effect Activated]
[-100 Energy]
"BANG!!!"
The sound of the gunshot echoed throughout the whole dorm building and even outside the building, as a very scary amount of energy was released in the form of a bullet, landing on the body of the mutant beast.
[-50HP]
[-20HP]
One shouldn't forget that Zayden also attacked. But he was pleasantly surprised. "Wait for it..." Tyrel said, smirking slightly
"BANG!!!"
[-50HP]
Another explosion echoed through the hall, this time causing the building to shake slightly. Looking at the beast that was on the floor, one would almost feel pity for it. There was a large hole in its body, through which a few of its organs could be seen.
[Weakened Armored Canine (Mutant Beast) Level 6]
[HP: 190/350]
[Energy: 100/100]
Zayden was surprised at the attack power of Tyrel's attack, but there was no time to admire now; they were fighting for their lives at the moment. And he needed to take hold of every opportunity that he got.
Seeing the exposed organs of the beast, he charged at the beast and stabbed his blade into the exposed lungs. An agonizing howl escaped the mouth of the beast, and its hp was reduced by ninety in one attack.
"Let's finish this," Zayden said.
Under the gaze of everyone present, Zayden dipped his hand into the hole in the body of the beast, his hand moving towards the area where its heart was supposed to be.
The beast was howling in pain and trying to claw at him when Tyrel and Dare quickly pinned it to the ground. Lucas was watching everything with a disgusted look on his face, not having any plans of helping out.
Even though it was hard on them, because the beast had higher stats than they did, Tyrel and Dare managed to pin the beast to the ground as Zayden quickly yanked out a crystal from the body of the beast.
The beast slowly stopped struggling until it lay unmoving, lifeless on the floor.
The Exp gained from a mutant beast was so much that every single person managed to level up. Both Tyrel and Zayden were level seven, Darian was level six, very close to level seven, while Dare was just level six.