Massacre in the Camp

I flashed inside the room and saw a man with a rifle sighing in relief but, just as he turned towards me a second later, intense fear gripped his very being. He was rooted on the spot.

I stepped forward which made him come out of his trance. He started trembling and abruptly threw his guns aside and kneeled in front of me while touching his forehead to the ground.

" Who are you?" My demonic voice made him shake. He said with his voice shaking, " I..I am T.. Thomas Shephard. I am sorry for attacking you M..my Lord. I didn't m..meant to. I..it was a..accidental."

" Hmph! Did you think a puny mortal could harm me with your toys? Tell me, what were you doing here and what is happening?" I tried acting like a god to make the interrogation easier as he already believed me to be some kind of God.

"We are being overrun by these abominations that eat humans and turn them into zombies. There are only some of us left which are divided into groups due to scarcity of fresh food and water. I was camping here to look out for zombies so that I could inform my camp if a horde is near." His voice recovered and he was now speaking clearly. I understood that this was a scenario like the movies with the world overrun by zombies and a handful of human survivors left alive.

That meant, there might be a strong camp filled with criminals and people who hoard stuff, I need to ask him about this, "Tell me, do you humans have any strong camps left? If there is, why don't you go there?". 

He flinched at that, " My lord, there is a strong camp but they are evil. They rape women for amusement and so..some of them even ra..rape k..ki..kids. They rob us of our provisions and use us as baits to lure zombies and hunt them. They are 5km northeast from here. They have a big red flag with the drawing of a skull crossed with guns on it. There are about 100 humans there."

That means criminals have banded together and the people who can't fight have to live in their shadows, either becoming their playthings or baits for zombies. Well, it's not like I am a Saint or something and this is just a dungeon. They were doomed to die the day they surrendered to fight. As for this guy, " You can go, I have got what I wanted. You have no more use for me. "

Thomas POV…

I was terrified of him, but gradually as he asked questions, I started to believe that he came to kill those evil people who tormented us. And maybe he will kill these zombies and we will survive. As I stood up to walk out and give this good news to my camp, my vision started to tilt and I could see my body taking a step forward. But then my vision went towards my neck and I saw…

MC POV…

His head dropped to the ground with a fountain of blood sprouting from his neck. His eyes were still wide open as he died in surprise at what happened? I couldn't let him live after he knew about me, after all, Humans have a frightening ability to unite in the face of a single overwhelming danger and I have to kill all of them eventually so why let them join together. After that, I used "Corpse Absorption" and his body turned to dust.

I got an exp notification and an uncommon card in my inventory. It was the sniper rifle with 500 bullets. I could use it in an emergency, so I kept it. But, I was starting to have a suspicion about these dungeons and how they were made. So I asked The System about it.

" System, can you tell me how these dungeons are made?"

" There are different universes and timelines with different planets and different lifeforms all over the multiverse. The dungeon is just a copy of a part of it. A place is copied and placed inside a dungeon with the creatures also being copied. So if you pass this dungeon, this dungeon will be destroyed with all the beings left inside it. Whatever you do here doesn't affect the real world of these place origins."

' So that means, even if I save humans, they are already doomed to die. So why not farm them or manipulate them and use them as meat shields against the final boss. Yes, that's a good idea. I can first eliminate the evil camp and then manipulate them in my favor. So that means this dead guy could have become a good preacher from my side. Hais! What a waste? Sometimes I am an idiot. Whatever there might be a different way.

I could use the people I saved from the evil camp as my preachers. Hmm! That's a good idea. Let's go with that. '

After making my plan, I used "Stealth"  and sped towards the direction of the "evil camp". After 5 minutes of running at full speed, I reached the camp. It was a big complex, which was barricaded from all sides with 12 ft high walls to prevent zombies, and was barbed on the top to prevent human intruders. 

There were towers with human snipers on top of them, monitoring the area. The camp looked more like a military settlement instead of a normal human-made camp. There were guards patrolling the area with Ak-47 and Ar-15 guns. 

My dark magic worked better at night, so I waited. It was already sundown, I just had to wait for a few more hours for it to be entirely dark. After a few hours, Searchlights started to light up and I used this opening to easily jump over the wall and sneak in.

I used " Stealth" and "Silent steps" and slowly started to sneak in the shadows. It was like playing a stealth game but me having superpowers and enemies being normal humans, it was like in super easy mode. I slowly searched around for a map that could show me where the generator was. After all, hunting in the dark was my specialty.

After shopping around for some time, I reached a room on the ground floor. There were two guards with guns sitting there. Inside that room was the generator. I bought some common throwing daggers and threw them towards the lights. And before the guards could react I slashed their throats and then plunged both of my daggers in their brains. 

I used "Corpse Absorption" and walked inside the generator room. After silently cutting the wires, which caused the lights to go out, I made my way towards the backup generator. There was not much commotion, showing that there were generator problems before. Some of the guards were running towards the original generator room while some were going towards the backup ones. 

I followed them silently and was able to reach the backup generator. As soon as I arrived there, I silently killed two out of three, while the third one turned towards me due to the sound of their bodies dropping on the floor…

Random goon POV…

Today was quite a good day, I got lucky and was able to find a stash of food on our mission. Boss rewarded me with a woman for a night, I was going to enjoy myself when the lights went out. " Dammit! Why did this happen now? This piece of crap generator keeps going out every second day." I heard a knocking on my door, " Anthony! come with us. We have to start the backup generator. Let's go, then you can enjoy yourself as much you want."

"Yeah, yeah I am coming. Let's go." I opened the door and said. Now, I and two others were running towards the backup generator when I heard the sound of something dropping. I turned around to see two sockets with blue fire burning inside them. I could see my own death in those eyes and the next second my vision turned black…

MC POV…

Before he could utter a word, I used "Gaze of Death" on him, making him rooted on the spot, before beheading him. After taking care of their bodies with corpse absorption, I sped towards the backup generator. After disabling it, I started walking towards the nearest goon.

Thereon, the slaughter began. I started cutting down the thugs left and right like cabbages. The commotion spread through the whole camp, everyone was getting agitated. 

I was constantly changing my place, but the goons were coming from every direction. Still, it was easy for me to win. I was using my AoE skills and fast speed. Bullets were flying everywhere, due to the muzzle flashes some of them saw my appearance and started screaming "Monster", " Devil", "Demon", etc. Some threw away their weapon and started to pray to the gods. The Zombie apocalypse was already pressuring on their sanity and my appearance broke the camel's back.

Suddenly, I heard a continuous "thump" sound and, few objects flew towards me. I could see it was a grenade launched from grenade launchers. I was able to dodge them...almost.