Infinite Evolution in The Apocalypse

It was a normal day. Lucas would go to his crappy construction job that was mostly brute labor and eat his packed lunch that contained a simple sandwich inside and two energy drinks. It was a powerful meal that most would call unhealthy but it was just the grub Lucas needed to keep going in this hell hole of a planet he called home.

Lucas found himself walking home from work in the busy streets of the nearing night. The stars just started to peak out of the dark clouds that covered the sky. Lucas jiggled the door to his apartment complex to find that it wouldn't budge again.

"Ugh, not again." Lucas sighed before putting his shoulder against the door and letting loose a grunt as he brute-forced the stuck door. His tired body slammed against the wooden door and it slammed open as Lucas walked inside and slammed it shut.

He slowly climbed up three flights of stairs before reaching his crappy one-room apartment. The door quickly opened up as the jingling of keys could be heard resounding through the dark hallway of the apartment complex. But to Lucas's surprise, the door was already unlocked.

"Really?!" He said underneath his breath as he opened the door preparing for the earful he was about to receive.

The apartment was small and as he entered he found himself in one of the two rooms of the apartment, that being the bedroom/kitchen and the bathroom. His bed was squished into the corner of the room and sitting on it was a woman in her late fifties who looked at him with a frown with obvious anger in her eyes.

Lucas sighed again before beginning to speak before rudely being cut off by the old lady whose stark white hair was braided slightly and hanging at her waist.

"Your three days late on rent Lucas. I can't let you live here for free and you know it."

"Susan are you serious? I get paid every Friday and that's tomorrow and you know that. Why do you keep hassling me every other day? I will have your money and you know it." Lucas let out a gruff reply.

"Because I can't tolerate late rent every month. This is the fourth month in a row Lucas. You better have your stuff out of here in two weeks or your toast. I'll call up the boys and they will make your life hell. I already got a tenant ready to pay on time every week almost double what you pay so make yourself useful and clear out of here, will you?"

Lucas let out another sigh before nodding.

'This is the third place this year. I thought things would get better but one shitty landlord after another and all I do is get kicked out.' Lucas thought to himself as Susan left the room with one last mean glance at him.

Lucas tossed his lunch box on the ground next to his bed before sinking into the thick and firm mattress he owned.

It was time for a nap and a nap he would have. But when he woke up the world was much different. Much, much different...

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A pounding on his door woke him up first. Then the rumbling in the ground and the fact that his bed was visibly and physically shaking in its place.

"What the hell!?" Lucas shouted as he stood up, fully clothed.

"Let me in!" Susan's voice echoed out from behind the door.

'Is there an earthquake or something?'

Lucas quickly made his way to the door and ripped it open before Susan came stumbling into his room and slammed the door behind her.

She held a small pocket knife that was covered in a black liquid and was holding her shoulder with a pained expression on her face and after closer inspection, there was a bloody gash that was so deep that Lucas could see bone.

"What's going on out there?" Lucas said with confusion evident on his face and in his voice.

Susan looked at him with pain etched into her face and she let out a sob before answering.

"Monsters. Creatures just started appearing and these screens are in front of our faces and... and... they killed my boys. They fucking killed them!" She screamed and shortly after the rumbling intensified.

Susan seemed to realize what she had done in that instant and her expression turned into one of seriousness... almost as if she was fighting to survive.

"Hurry up and update your status to make yourself useful and grab whatever weapon you can find!" She said as she barred herself against the door as it began to rattle as if something was battering against it.

"What the hell is a status?!" Lucas asked but his answer was quickly received as a strange panel appeared in front of him.

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[Name:]

Lucas Walker

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[Titles:]

None Available

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[Current Classes:]

<Evolution: Infinite: Unique>

Tier 0:

LV:1:

XP: 0/100

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[Current Subclasses:]

<Empty Subclass Slot>

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[Stats]

<Strength: 13>

<Dexterity: 12>

<Endurance: 15>

<Control: 8>

<Intelligence: 9>

<Power: 1>

<Charm: 9>

<Skill Points: 1>

<Stat Points: 10>

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[Common Skills]

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[Evolution: Infinite Active Skills]

<Empty slot>

<Reach level 10 to unlock an additional slot and evolve>

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[Evolution: Infinite Passive Skills]

<Evolving: Tier: 0 / LV: 1>

<Reach level 10 to unlock an additional slot and evolve>

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'What the fuck is this?' Lucas thought before realizing it was almost like a game.

'I guess physical stats would be the best for me...' Lucas thought as he realized his heavy build and strength seemed to pave a path for him that others might not readily have.

'Put 5 points into endurance, 3 into dexterity, and 2 into strength!' Lucas thought hurriedly as he made his way towards his bed before diving underneath it to find a baseball bat he had from his younger years.

"Will this work?!" He asked Susan who nodded in response.

"In three seconds I'm gonna open the door. When that happens beat the living shit out of the creature that comes through it. It's the only way to live. I'll try and stab it as much as possible. I put all my points into dexterity to run away from it so I should be able to get quite a few swipes in before it offs me!"

Lucas nodded in understanding and readied his bat to swing.

"3!" Susan shouted.

The rumbling seemed to intensify as the door creaked at its hinges from the pressure.

"2!"

The door seemed to be on the verge of collapsing as Susan gritted her teeth in pain.

"1!" She screamed as she jumped away from the door and brandished her dagger.

What came from that door was something that was otherworldly...

A creature that was nearly 8 feet tall leaned down and slammed into the room. It had two large mandibles on the front of its face and its body was covered in pitch black chitin. Other than that however was the wriggling worms that made up the inside of its body that was white with some red almost as if filled with blood.

The creature struck decisively and without mercy as it began its attack against Susan. The pincers came down upon her head and in one moment her head was about to be cut off but in the next, she ducked with lightning-like speed and while she did so she even managed to get a few cuts in though the knife didn't do much but seem to irritate it.

'Nows a better time than ever' Lucas thought to himself as he swung down at the creature's head and felt a sickening reverberation echo throughout the room and through his body as he cracked through the hard exoskeleton of the creature dealing some serious damage.

'I'm not even tired!' Lucas thought as he slammed the baseball bat a few more times until the creature was thoroughly destroyed... other than the mass of wriggling worms of course.

<You have gained 80 XP for killing the LV 8 Night Crawler. You require 20 XP until you level up to level 2>

A prompt appeared in front of him after the creature was killed telling him how much XP he had acquired.

Though the 'Night Crawler', as this weird prompt thing called it, was dead Susan didn't look any better as her breathing turned ragged and she slumped to the ground while silently motioning towards the door.

Lucas closed it quietly while shoving the remains of the creature outside... besides the head which was heavily dented into the floor.

A strange clicking noise echoed from outside the door as a rumbling could be heard yet the creature seemed to have moved past them as their door was left intact.

Lucas went and grabbed a spare shirt and used it to try and stem the blood that was oozing out of Susan's wound but it seemed like he was out of luck as she finally slumped to her side silently.

"Fucking Hell" were the last words he got out before a prompt came up in front of him...