Invasion

Marcus and the kitty stood just a few minutes behind the side of a house, to avoid the light of the flood light mounted on the gates.

Marcus deliberately waited until the guards changed, since they would still be drowsy from waking up in the middle of the night to work.

As he saw the original guard started to leave the guards position, he ran into the middle of the street and started to shout to the man on top.

"HELP ME PLEASE, CAN YOU LET ME IN?"

The guards who was initially surprised that someone was shouting, he decided to not let Marcus into the settlement as he could be infected and they couldn't take the chance. Since there was blood all over his robe.

"TURN AROUND, WE WON'T LET YOU IN" shouted one of the guards towards Marcus.

"Haahh....You could have made my job easier, but oh well" said Marcus, the guards barely hearing him.

"WHAT?" shouted the another guards trying to make Marcus repeat what he said.

"....."

Silence filled the streets as Marcus just stood there. Not making a sound.

"KKKRAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

A monstrous scream resounded across the whole city, as the hood of Marcus robe fell down as he screamed with his head facing the sky, revealing his face to the guards.

His face looked looked like a mummified human, his skin so tight on his face it showed the definition of his skull. His eyes were not there, but the hole looked like a black hole as if it would sucking in anything near that Marcus looked at.

The guards than quickly brought out their guns and started to shoot at Marcus. Marcus than started to run to cover, from the bullet being rained down on him, he shooed the kitty away to hide for the time being.

[What is your command?] asked HECATE in response to his Horde skill activation.

"K̶̯͗̌̃̽͋͊͊͑̇͒̿͘i̴̧̪̫̰͒ͅľ̷͈̿̿̓l̸̢̛̟̤̞͕͙̻̰̺̿͋͊̋̅̄̾̊̈́̆̇̀́ͅ ̷̞̦̰̤̗̃̎̈́̅̾̆̃̿̅̔̆͆̀͗̀t̴̡̡̛̼̪̲̹̦̱̲̥̩͙̹͎̀͌̇͝h̴̛̛̩̰̪͎̱̲̘͈͉̭ͅe̴̮͔̕m̵͇͖̤̠̠̣̀̇͂͒̉ ̷̨̲̻̞͕̠̮̲̱͍̲̟̼̝̓͐ͅȃ̷̧̦͎͔̼̪̘̦̩̮̲̓̓̆̆̄͌͆͛̕ͅl̸̡̧̘̜͖̩͉͍͝l̶̢̫̥͓̥͓̥͕̻̞͕̳͓̽̀͛̄̕" said Marcus sinisterly.

"...."

Marcus's smile faded as silence permeated.

"what's going on?" asked Marcus wondering why the zombie weren't here, after calling them.

[Wait a minute]

Just as HECATE spoke the ground beneath Marcus's feet started to vibrate, just as dust storm could be seen over the horizon.

The sound of zombies growling and smashing their feet onto the asphalt grew louder and louder as they came closer to the settlement.

They ran and ran with no hesitation towards the gate, only meters from the gates started to climb each other to get over the wall.

The guards started to fire bullets into the huge wave of zombies, the bullets which were just being put into the zombies aimlessly, it simply did not damage them, and they continued to run towards the wall.

*BOOM*

The wall collapsed as the zombies smashed themselves into it.

They mauled any living thing around them, screams and bullets resounded around the settlement as people were being woken up to the guards fighting zombies.

Women and children were not spared, since all people were equal to the eyes of the zombies.

As a source of food.

Marcus purposely starved the zombies so that they were much more rabid than usually.

People were chased by the zombie but some of the human at the back of the settlement managed to grab their weapons and fight back.

Slowly they were being overpowered as the zombie had infinite stamina, and wouldn't stop until they were all dead.

"RETREAT TO JABRAEL'S HOUSE!" shouted a old man, as he ran back into a house that seemed to have large metal fence around it.

Marcus and the kitty were trailing the zombie horde from behind, to find a row of the zombies charred black.

"What the fuck happened here?" said Marcus as he continued to walk over the barely moving zombies.

<The concentration of mana in the area suggests that magic was used at some point> answered HECATE, as Marcus tried to walk past the gate.

As Marcus grabbed the door to the house, a massive ball of fire shoot towards him at incredible speeds.

The brightness temporarily blinding him, as he instinctively covered his face with his hands.

*BOOM*

A loud explosion rang throughout the settlement.

Marcus was flung back by the explosion, causing him to smash against the metal fence behind him, his torso was completely obliterated and left a huge gaping hole.

"THE FIREBALL CONNECTED GET IT" shouted a raspy old voice, Marcus instantly connecting him to the old mam from before.

A group of people with makeshift weapons ran towards Marcus, with confidence as they had witnessed the effect of Gabriel's fireball on the previous zombies.

Thinking that he was no different, and this was going to be relatively easy, they had smiles on their face.

They imagined killing the monster which massacred the people in the settlement.

But there they saw was not the same neglectful being ad before.

This Zombie was clearly enraged, the robe that he was wearing had be burned off, in the explosion revealing a dried up corpse.

"i'll kill you all"

The previously confident group of people, were now stuck in place with fear, as they heard the zombie talk.

Marcus was now completely quiet as he walked towards the group, contradiction to his face.

His tight dried skin was crunched up disgustingly, displaying his immense hatred for these people.

he ran towards one of the men in group and bit into his neck and ripe out his throat.

"URAGAH" groaned the man as he desperately tried to scream in pain, blood gushing out even more when he tried to speak.

Watching in horror as their colleague was slowly dying in pain, quickly snapped them out of their state of fear and replaced with anger.

"AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

They all ran at Marcus with their makeshift weapon aimed at Marcus as they shouted out a war cry, to boost their momentum of confidence.

[Condition for the skill Bite has been achieved]

[Bite (Level 1) unlocked] announced HECATE.

Marcus displayed a disgusting grin from ear to ear, as he heard HECAFE's abrupted announcement.

He lunged towards the nearest person, not even dodging the persons spear.

The spear pierced his shoulder, but Marcus still went in for the kill and bit into their arm and ripped out a chunk of flesh.

The person screamed in pain with blood flowing out of their wound. Marcus grabbed their head and pulled it up, giving him a clear view of their neck.

Marcus swallowed the pieces of flesh in his mouth, with delight.

The man's body from earlier started to stand up slowly, fresh and dried blood staining his clothes and skin. The zombie ran towards the nearest person and started to eat them alive. The bodies started to reanimate, and eat people causing a domino effect of zombification

As the zombie finished eating, all the corpses started to come back as zombies

Marcus removed the spear in his shoulder, and let the zombie finish of the rest of the people.

He walked into the house, as screams echoed all over the settlement.

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Marcus walked into the living room of the house, to see a man chanting something under his breath.

"FIREBALL" shouted man with his palms facing Marcus.

The same ball of light from before appeared in front of him again, slamming itself into Marcus face.

*BOOM*

This time Marcus was not flung back and managed to block most of the damage of the fireball with his arms. Even though his arms mangled by the fireball, he pushed through towards the now visible exhausted man and stood over him.

"What's your name?" asked Marcus staring down the man with eye of bloodlust.

".....My name is Gabriel" responded Gabriel hesitantly looking up the talking zombie.