[Name: Michael Aroa
Title: Survivor; Zombie Hunter
Race: Human
Class: Unclassified
Level: 5 (850/2500 Exp)
Status: Dying (You have 117 days left to live.) (All stats will be reduced by 1 every 4 days.)
Health Points: 290/290
Time Points: 1000/1000
Strength: 42
Constitution: 29
Dexterity: 58
Intelligence: 100
Wisdom: 82
Charisma: 57
Stat points: 5
Skills: [Eyes of the Time Keeper] [Inspect]
Skill Points: 5
Quests:
Main Quest*
Side Quest*
Daily Quests*
Store: Locked*
God Powers: Locked*
???: Locked*
?????: Locked*]
Despite being in pain just a few moments ago, now I felt as if I could run a mile and still be fine. Honestly, I didn’t feel this healthy even during my college days, making me wonder if this is how people normally lived.
All that pain and exhaustion, I thought it was just because of the workload.
Ah! Zombies!
And then, recalling that I could get surrounded by zombies any moment now, I stood up from there, looking around for anything coming in my direction. I focused on anything I could, trying to see any moving entity I could see. Only after I confirmed it was all fine did I take a sigh of relief.
Though it made sense for there to be no zombies on this floor. It was under renovation as a ward for patients with disabilities was going to be built there. The only ones here would have been the construction workers, but if I had to guess, they would have tried leaving this floor in order to escape this apocalypse.
At a distance of about 50 meters from here, I can see a closed cafeteria near the corner, with food items still inside it. From the looks of it, there didn’t seem to be any zombies there, but I still didn’t want to take a chance, so I cautiously moved towards it while checking the surroundings.
I also kept my eyes down at the mess that I had just created, and sure enough, more and more zombies were being collected around there. Perhaps the zombies from other floors were also slowly moving towards it.
I wonder if Eva survived. I thought, recalling that she would have been on the 18th floor in the medicine department tonight.
"Maybe I can go and check?" I mumbled, as there was no harm in checking. If she had turned into a zombie, I guess it’s my responsibility to kill her, and if she had survived till now, perhaps I can help her out.
Reaching the cafeteria corner, I saw a few dead bodies that were not moving. Giving them a nudge, I checked if they were zombies or not, but fortunately there wasn’t any movement in them. Though just for caution, I moved them a bit more from one point to another, pulling their legs. If they were to become zombified out of nowhere, I would be a walking human kebab without sauce for them.
"Safe," I sighed as I checked thrice before taking a few sandwiches and filling my hungry stomach. I also ate a few muffins before picking a carry bag and filling the rest of the items I could carry into it.
Once I was sure that zombies were still not coming in this direction, I checked my system for the changes in that.
[Title: You can have only one Title at a time
Current Equipped Title: None
Survivor: Increases your resilience against dying. You take 20% less damage against enemy attacks.
Zombie Hunter: Zombies take increased damage from your attacks. Higher chance to land a critical hit.]
With a bright smile on my face, I put the [Zombie Hunter] title on before moving to the next.
[Status: Dying (You have 117 days left to live.) (All stats will be reduced by 1 every 4 days.)]
"How motivating... nom nom..." I ate one of the muffins while looking at the increased stats I had. If I had to make a guess, 100 was the average.
Hmmm... Intelligence should have gone beyond 100 based on how much it was before. Is 100 the cap? I pondered before looking at the similarity between Intelligence and Time Points. Also, between Constitution and Health Points.
I guess for each point in Constitution; I got 10 points in Health. Same goes for Intelligence and Time Points. Strength and Dexterity seemed pretty self-explanatory, and the same goes for Charm.
"I wonder what Wisdom does," I thought, taking a bite out of an apple and moving to the skills section. As for the extra 5 stats, I saved them for later.
[Eyes of the Time Keeper (Level 1)
Effect: Allows the user to see the time duration of all inanimate activities.
Cost: 1TP/sec
Skill points required to upgrade the skill: 1]
"Duration?" I was confused.
What did it mean?
I looked around, trying to figure out the way to use the skill, but honestly, I had no idea how to do it. What does it mean by duration?
"Will it tell me how long it will take for a body to move from one point to another? Or a change-"
And then I paused.
Something clicked in my mind.
Recalling a crucial piece of information that I had missed, I looked around to test this skill. Then, looking at the almost-eaten apple in my hand, I took the last bite, leaving the roughage part. Moving towards the ceiling, I raised my hand as I put it in the air.
How long will it take before the apple falls to the ground?
[3 Seconds!]
Then, as I let that apple fall.
[2 Seconds!]
[1 Second!]
-Thup!
It was the same timer that told me the time it would take the zombie to break the door and enter the bathroom. Though unlike the quest, now I can use it to find out the time for anything.
"Perhaps..." I pondered before trying to check something else.
How long will it take for the zombies to reach here?
[1 Hours 47 Minutes 23 Seconds!]
"Prep Time!" I smiled as I found this skill quite useful now. Though it has its limitations, if I can find out the time the zombies would take to reach me, I can plan my way through the entire hospital, most probably finding a safe route to any location I wanted to reach.
With a skip of heartbeat...
"How long will it take for the zombies to reach Eva?" I asked.
I waited for a few seconds, but nothing happened. I also tried saying the same thing in different words; however, there was no result.
"Is the skill limited to my surroundings?" I questioned with a slight sigh before checking a couple more items to check its full capabilities. I checked my own movements, and things related to me.
How long will it take me to meet Eva if I walk to the 18th floor from this direction?
[45 Minutes 24 Seconds!]
It seemed to work nicely as long as it’s related to me.
"All right, next is."
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