1 Sudden Blue Vortex

"Master Gray, there are many kinds of awakening types between awakeners, and most of them show their power as soon as the awakener awake his own power, such as Zack's hard skin, and you father's light attack, while there are some weird abilities that need some conditions to awake... Mostly will be realized by time... But for you, am afraid not..."...

"Your father, the leader, has unfortunately died in the last exploration mission under the zombies' fangs, Gray... your ability has not awakened yet, and we both knew that you can't lead the base like this... So I will act as the leader of the Glory base for now and when you realize what your ability is and reach at least the third level. I will return the leader position for you... After all, this is your father's base..."

"Hahaha... Gray, do you really think that of yourself as the base young master? Let me tell you a secret... this time, the task wasn't just to search for materials, the leader gave me another hidden task you knew... Which is... to make you follow your father..."

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Darkness, heat, thirst, and hunger...

In a dark room with no lights...

In this dark room, a young man with dark hair and normal clothes was lying on the cold ground, with closed eyes and a tired face... But suddenly his eyes twitched and slowly opened his pair of black eyes...

"Dream?" This was the first word the young man whispered in a low voice while looking at the dark ceiling in form of him...

After staring at the ceiling for a few seconds he turned his face and looked at the small window that didn't give any light to the room...

"Night already..." After seeing this, Gray whispered again...

Gray... This was his name... A very weird name if you asked him...

It has been three years since the end...

What end do you ask?

It was the world end that could only be seen in movies...

A Zombie Apocalypse!

Three years that were enough to bring down everything humanity has built through ages...

As the world end come, the countries of the world have fallen at a laughably fast speed and the order has disappeared.

The cities have become dark lands for zombies, and the survivors were forced to find new homes for themselves...

Gray slowly moved his rusty and tired body and stood up, then slowly moved to the blocked window and took a look at the outside...

It was hard to see the situation outside since it was already at night... Besides he himself was inside a small store in a huge mall in an abandoned small city...

Looking artfully outside, Gray was able to see a few shadows moving slowly in a rigid way... While the mall was very dim at this moment...

Without thinking much... these shadows were the zombies that brought the end to this world...

This mall can be called a big one that has almost everything... If it was before... It would have been a lively mall... But Unfourntly now... Other than Gray... There was no living being here...

*UGHH* While looking outside, a strong sense of hunger struck Gray's stomach... Which made it cry for help...

But Gray didn't care about this feeling and kept looking outside with a calm face trying to gather as much as information he could from what he can see...

As much as he could see... The situation outside has finally calmed down...

Two days ago, Gray was forced to come into this city with a group of survivors of the same base he belongs to in a mission of searching for materials...

How to say it... Gray was a special existence in the team he was with... The only one who had no power at all...

Why going out with no power you ask? Hmmm... The weak have no rights in this out of order world...

The leader of this team simply took him out to join the so-called mission...

Then... Searching for materials, why should those guys enter the mall? Even though Gray opposed this so hard, his words have no effect at all.

So Gray could only follow helplessly... Resist? Runaway? Hmmm... This won't work either... Each one in the team was an awakener who can kill him easily... As for running away... That was more like volunteering to be feed for zombies...

So what were the results of the team action?

Naturally, there was an accident.

Even though they knew that there were many zombies inside the mall, but the number was much higher than what they expected...

So it turned into a struggling retreat... And Gray? He was directly left behind... And the funny thing was what he heard from the team leader before he abandons him... Apparently, he was brought here to die from the very beginning...

But Gray was somehow glad that such accident happened you knew... And even lucky...

Because a rather ironic accident happened after this...

In this mall, there weren't only normal zombies... But even a second-order zombie appeared!!!

The place was already dim... And the second-order zombie that appeared apparently to be a speed type zombie... So the entire team was slaughtered one by one and turned into dog food... Nah... It should be zombie food...

Gray who was abandoned by the team, took the chance before the zombies notice his existence and slipped into this small store to hide...

Well... That was the reason Gray felt lucky... If he stayed with the team and didn't encounter this accident, he would have been killed by them in a way or another...

But... Lucky or not... He survived this, but was waiting for him wasn't much different...

No Power, no food, no water, how much can he survive?

What awaited him was one of two... Be found by zombies, or die from starvation while hiding here...

Life was already dark... but after realizing this, Gray felt it was darker...

"It's not the time to think negatively" Gray shook his head, throwing all the useless thoughts out of his mind.

He hasn't eaten or drunk anything for three days already... His stomach already started fighting with itself...

Starving for a few days, Gray can handle this... Actually, he was used to starving for a few days...

But he needs to find water at least. Or he won't last long...

Two days should be enough for that scary second-order zombie to leave the place.

So Gray decided to go out and try to find a water source and maybe some food if he was lucky.

Even though it was so dangerous, Gray wanted to gamble while he has some energy left in his body.

If he stayed here like this, he won't even have the chance to think about trying!

Since that was decided, Gray didn't hesitate anymore, and with careful quiet steps, he came out of the store he was hiding in while looking around him with wide eyes.

He didn't dare to move fast and kept moving at a very slow speed, so he won't make any sound.

What attracts zombies the most was the sound!

Relative to vision, Zombies' ears were their strong point.

Gray was so clear about this fact. And that was the reason why he was so careful with every step he takes...

So like this, Gray started moving slowly through this dark mall while moving his eyes searching around...

Luckily for him, things went well and soon he saw a sign of a supermarket on top of one of the stores around.

This made him feel happy, there might be something left inside this market!

Although the food that might be there should be expired, some canned food should still be edible...

But soon he calmed the hope inside his heart... After all, it has been three years already... Maybe someone already took what can be used from inside...

If not, then he will accept the reality and search for bugs around...

For now, he only wishes that he could find some water inside...

Gray didn't move faster because of this and kept his slow pace while looking around with an uneasy heart...

Somehow... How to say it... Things shouldn't be so easy like this right?

Even though he walked all the way here and didn't encounter any accident. But he always wrong as if something might happen anytime...

And his feeling was quite right...

Beside this store's door, there was a narrow tunnel that was hard to notice... Because of the darkness around Gray didn't notice this small tunnel at all...

Till he reached the door, something also came out from this tunnel...

A thin zombie missing one hand came out and stepped in front of Gray, who just turned his face and looked at it...

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One zombie, one human looked at each other face to face.

"WHAT!" Gray was frightened by the sudden appearance of this zombie and reflexively took two steps back.

Which made his body lose its balance and fell to the ground.

What Gray didn't notice at this moment, was that there was already a scar on his hand because there was a sharp iron piece on the ground that hurt him as he fell...

Can he notice such a small thing when his mind was completely placed on the zombie in front of him?

Even though zombies have poor insight, but it was able to see Gray who suddenly appears in front of it...

Seeing Gray on the ground, the zombie's action didn't stop and even accelerated a lot and ruched Gray directly...

Anf Gray also didn't stay on the ground, and rolled to the side, not knowing where did his strength come from, as soon as Gray did this, he directly stood up and turned back running away!

But his actions were also very loud... His footsteps were like a drum in this silent mall, with every step the sound became louder and louder, resounding all over the place...

"UGHHAAAAA" With the sound of Gray's footsteps, the zombies around were attracted and started moving in Gray's direction from everywhere around the mall...

And like this, the mall became noisier, because of the sound that the mad zombies themselves have made hitting whatever in their way while moving fast toward Gray...

Gray's heart already reached a freezing point from fear, but what made him more scared was that he was able to see a shadow shifting between the zombies coming here very fast...

Gray's struggle didn't last long, and he was soon surrounded by a group of zombies from all directions, leaving only an electrical store on his left side.

While he thinks much in such a situation? Gray directly entered the electrical store...

As soon as Gray entered, he wasn't able to see clearly because of the dark around, but it was enough to see what was close to him...

"UGHHAAAA" But what he didn't expect that another zombie will appear in front of him just as he came in...

Gray panicked and took the closest thing beside him, which was a laptop on the roof beside him, and smashed it with all his toward the zombie's head!

Well.. That how it should be at least...

But what Gray notice that the moment he touched the laptop, the scar on his hand started glowing a dim light while the blood that stained the laptop from the scare also glowed!

And then...

"Huh? Disappeared?" While Gray was in the process of attacking with the laptop, he found that the laptop suddenly disappeared!

Gray looked at his empty palm stained with blood and wondered where did his life-saving laptop disappear?

He also just realized that his hand was wounded.

But he didn't have time to panic because he won't be able to defend himself or think about what was happening because he felt the back of his hand became hot all of sudden, followed by a blue vortex appeared from his hand!

As soon as this vortex appeared, without giving Gray the chance to respond, his body was sucked away, and then disappeared as if it wasn't there from the beginning!!!

*UGHHAAAA!* AS he left, many zombies rushed broke into the electrical store together and even the slender black shadow that was flashing in the darkness before showed himself.

It turned out that it was the second-order zombie that killed the team that abandoned Gray before!

If Gray saw this, his face would be incredible!

This nasty creature was still in the mall and didn't leave as Gray as he thought!

However, this wasn't important anymore... Because Gray himself wasn't here anymore...

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"UGHH" Gray who just came back to his mind, felt the world was spinning around him, and felt very sick...

But the feeling of nauseous came and left in a flash.

After clearing his mind Gray shook his head and looked around confusedly...

But what he saw dumbfounded him...

He found that he was actually in a bar, and.... he wasn't alone here...

Several figures in the bar were staring at him in the same dumbfounded manner...

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