The World Cataclysm

Chapter 14: Fighting with Mana

As Dave rushed at zombies, he enhanced his body and sword with mana. 'It is certainly different to fight with mana.' He immediately felt how strength surged through his body.

Mana Enhancement (LVL 2) increased his strength and agility by an additional 10% making him stronger and his body sturdier.

With strengthened stats, he cut through the group of zombies as a knife and slaughtered all of them before him.

As he beheaded another ordinary zombie, his instincts, continuously honed for 5 years, screamed inside him. Dave used Flash Step as he burst forward dodging a sudden attack to his head.

His mana enhancement increased his strength by another 2 points and his agility by another point making him invincible even against 2 hunters. However, their sudden attacks were still dangerous to him.

'I'm able to follow the movements of low-rank hunters due to my enhanced agility, but I couldn't allow being surrounded by them.' Dave killed another batch of zombies as he distanced himself from other monsters.

Opening a space around him, he baited hunters from the crowd of zombies. As two shadows emerged from the group, he clearly saw 2 hunters with their sharp claws and black armor covering their bodies.

When both of the shadows rushed at him, he formed Mana Barrier surrounding his body. When their attacks were blocked, 2 hunters wanted to swiftly retreat towards their back-line.

However, when one of the hunters retreated backward, thin mana threads were wrapped around its legs as it fell on the ground. Following thin blue threads, it can be seen that they were attached to Dave's fingertips. It was his skill, Mana Threads.

Dave quickly rushed towards that hunter and slashed his head in 2 halves. Hunter's body, now dead, rested on the ground with rotten flesh and white brain matter falling out of his head.

He didn't have time to be happy for a white chest, which was dropped from the killed hunter, as a second hunter followed with its next attack. Left only with one hunter and with his enhanced agility, he swiftly dodged and killed the next hunter.

[You have reached level 4.]

The system notification had appeared before his eyes. 'Right, it is already a time to increase my level. I've killed 3 low-rank hunters and dozens of ordinary zombies.'

After killing both of them, it was an easy task to slaughter other ordinary zombies. The blood and gore were scattered on the ground as dead bodies of zombies lay on the ground.

Panting lightly, Dave was satisfied with the result. 'Fighting with mana is much convenient. I was able to rival a low rank 1 hunter in agility. And the spoils are good. I increased my level by one and got 2 white chests' Indeed, he got 2 Treasure Chests; one from each hunter.

'I'm not sure why, but the drop rates are higher than in my past life. Maybe, they will get lower in the future.' Dave was still surprised that evolved zombies had a 100% chance to drop a Treasure Chest. 'All evolved zombies dropped a Treasure Chest. It seems that I should kill more of them before the drop rate is lowered.'

Searching the battleground, he, excluding the 2 white chests he got from killing hunters, collected 37 Survival Coins. 'They will show their worth in the future.'

As Brian watched how Dave slaughtered 2 evolved zombies and more than 30 ordinary zombies, he was scared to death. He saw how Dave barged in their ranks and killed all of them. 'Monster! He is a monster.' Brian never saw someone as frightening as Dave.

He stood there, among the corpses of zombies, with the bloodstains on his white T-shirt. In addition to everything, he searched the corpses of zombies gathering black coins from the ground.

However, he wasn't a bit flustered by his out view. He had faced much bloodier battles and knew the true purpose of Survival Coins.

Not waiting for Brian, he quickly opened 2 white chests. As usual, they disappeared from his hands with bright light. Instead of them, the loaf of bread and a small vial of blue liquid appeared on his hands.

[Restoration Bread

Description: Restores stamina of a user in 5 minutes. ]

'Restoration Bread! Let's save it for the future.' Not interested to take it now, he threw it in his bag.

[Basic Mana Potion

Description: Restores 10 points of mana upon drinking.]

Seeing the item, Dave got interested in how much mana he had left after the battle. He had used all his skills in the battle. But before that...'Allocate 2 points in stamina.'

'Status'

[David Murckly

Level: 4

Class: None

Survival coins: 78

Mana: 3/7

Strength: 16

Agility: 10

Stamina: 11

Intelligence: 11

Spirit: 1

Free points: 0

Innate ability: Regression

Skills: Elementary Cooking (LVL 2), Gaming (LVL 8), Mathematics (LVL 7), Leadership (LVL 1), Meditation (LVL 3), Flash Step (LVL 1), Mana Application (LVL 3), Mana Threads (LVL 3), Mana Barrier (LVL 2), Mana Enhancement (LVL 2)]

'I spent 4 mana points in a 5-minute battle. My mana pool is too small for prolonged battles.' Sighing lightly, Dave thought that he still had a long way to the top. He was definitely stronger than other survivors, but if he fought with a battle-type Awakener, he would have difficulties with winning.

"Man, you're a monster! How did you even get that strong?" Brian looked paler than usual. Even though he had been killing zombies past few days, he never saw so much blood and dead bodies in his life.

Shrugging at his words, Dave pretended to know nothing. He never intended to tell about his innate ability to anyone.

"Let's go inside the building. I doubt that Adam will last any longer." He noticed that Adam was already at his limit. Adam leaned with all his body weight on Brian as he walked weakly. Everything was a blur for him as he was burning from inside.

They quickly found an open room on the first floor and settled inside it. It was a common double dorm room for roommates except for blood splattered on the floor. There was no corpse, so Dave quickly understood that it had already turned into a zombie.

"Brian, look after Adam. I'll check the upper floors and barricade the entry point." He wanted to check the building for the presence of other zombies. He closed the doors of the dorm and blocked it with a sofa from a lounge hall.

Every floor of the dorm building always had a lounge hall, where students from the same building were able to communicate and gather together. It had several sofas for students to sit and small decorations to make them comfortable, even though it looked like a mess now, blood covering the walls and floor.