Path to Riches and Power

"Join our group for the sake of humanity. Join us and reinforce the last bastion of humanity. Leave your love for riches and satisfy the will of God.", a skinny lean guy with the typical handsome Asian hairstyle preaches. Surrounding him are fanatic girls tightly hugging the guy while fighting for his attention. I munch on a fresh apple I grew in the park of my Hub as I deadpan at the guy. One of them looks at me with a jealous scowl. Seriously, why has everyone been so hostile to me since I arrived? First the fat dude now this bitch.

"How dare you eat so casually when everyone struggles to find a bite of stale food. Give us all your supplies, you gaijin". It's because I have the Store duh. With my credits, I can buy stuff you never knew existed.

It's been a little more than two weeks since I arrived in this world. Starting from Tokonusu, I made my way up north all the way to Sapporo in Hokkaido, robbing all the banks I had listed and any secret vaults the AI found. I then made my way back to Tokonosu and from there made my way all the way to Fukuoka in the South. I am grateful for Shunpo as without it, it would have taken five times the time with the electric bike. The harvest was better than expected, and I now have a total of over 5 billion credits or 5 trillion dollars with me right now. I am finally the richest under 30 to have ever existed.

Robbing banks clean isn't the only thing I have been doing. Back in the Hub world I cleared 10 dungeons and have leveled up to Lv 50 because of that. All the exp collected from robbing the banks, the zombies and hostile survivor groups also played a role in this. However as I expected it's getting harder to level up due to the higher exp needed. "Status"

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Jin

Level - 21 -> 50 [1000/5000]

Class - [Electrokinesis]

Alignment - Chaotic Neutral

HP - 2500/2500 [500 per minute]

MP - 3060/3060 [624 per 30 seconds]

SP - 2500/2500 [500 per 30 seconds]

STR: 108 + 145 = 253

END: 105 + 145 = 250

DEX: 111 + 145 = 256

INT: 161 + 145 = 306

WIS: 167 + 145 = 312

CHA: 106 + 145 = 251

LCK: 121 + 145 = 266

Points: 105 + 145 = 250

Credits: 5,200,000,011,176

]

The most important thing is that I have learned what happens after the anime ended. The protagonists whose names I don't really remember, form this huge survivor group network which has spread across apocalyptic Japan. I have had a lot of encounters with these survivor groups who try to force me to join their cults or try to sack me of any supplies I have. Because of these assholes I made a slip up and beat their ass, accidentally revealing my powers. The news of my superhuman abilities then spread to most survivor groups across the country, and since both my powers and the cause of the apocalypse are both unknown, they naturally linked me with the cause of the apocalypse and now I am the most hated person on the island. I honestly don't really care what they think of me but this has made it hard to rob banks since I am constantly targeted by any fanatic survivors who label me as 'humanity's threat'. It's not completely bad though since it's extra exp for me. However not all groups are hostile, well at least until I tell them I have no interest in joining their group. Speaking of such people I look at the guy ahead of me. Shido. I never expected this guy to survive but long behold here he is.

When I approached the last target in this country- the Japanese Reserve Bank of Tokyo, the guy popped up like a porn ad at the entrance, almost like he knew my intention. I watch the guy smile at me with a creepy looking grin. Seriously how the heck do these chicks find this guy hot, his facial expression raises a million red flags. Apparently from the rumors I gathered, he now leads a pretty large survivor group of his cult of fanatics. Looks like he knows of my capabilities and wants to recruit me. Unfortunately for him I bow to no one.

Shido POV:

Shido examined the brown handsome young man of South Asian descent in front of him. This guy was the talk of all survivor groups. He had been reported possessing multiple superhuman abilities from speed to body hardening. At first he dismissed these reports as apocalyptic folk tales. But when multiple minions of his reported being ousted by a man, whose appearance matched the reports, he decided to scout the guy and recruit him. His large network of scouts reported the subject to be robbing banks, which made no sense to Shido, since money was worthless in this new world. Was there a black market that still accepted money? Maybe said market sold superhuman abilities? It wouldn't be impossible given that the world is in an apocalypse, something that was previously thought to be in the realm of science fiction. It could also be part of "their" work. The only way to find out would be from the devil himself.

Hence he decided to recruit the target or force him if rejected. However the guy was quick in robbing every bank. According to his intel, all the major banks in Japan were robbed and only one significant bank remained- the Reserve Bank of Tokyo. Deciding to gamble on meeting the target in said location, he gathered his best men and weaponry and hid them around the entrance of the bank, ready to immobilize the target given the signal. After waiting for a few hours his patience proved to be fruitful as a caramel skinned man appearing to be around 20 appears. He gave the usual speech he uses to attract fools to become his bitch, but an ugly looking bitch just had to ruin it by trash talking his soon to be recruit. He would see that she is 'disciplined' later on. Unfortunately before he could apologize the bastard replies with a "Fuck off" and nonchalantly continues towards the entrance. Who does this cunt think he is? He straight up rejected Shido, the son of Ichirou Shido- the man next in line to be the Prime Minister of Japan. The turban head was probably a poor refugee, who was here living by the grace of his dads policies. And he refused his obligation. It was time to put him back in his place.

Jin POV:

"SHOOT THE BASTARD !" four eyes screeches. I quickly create a shadow clone to take my place and use Shunpo to hide behind a few bushes. The machine guns assault my clone but aren't one bit effective on it due to Armament Haki. I still decided to play their little game and ordered my clone to play injured. Of course I knew of that bastard's plan all along, since my Observation Haki alerted me of multiple presences with ill intent, when I approached the bank. I have survived much better thought out assaults while robbing other banks, that makes this look like childsplay.

Four eyes then walks towards my clone and gives it a kick in the head. Even though I am not said clone, my blood boils of anger. This cunt will want to die when I am done playing with him. I watch the guy continuously kick my poor clone, slightly angry that his kicks aren't causing *me(the clone) to die. It hurts watching my clone get disrespected like that but his soon to be torture makes it worth the wait. I am going to tear this guy's limbs and muscles one by one, after this. A superior predator always plays with his prey after all.

"You think you low class scum can avoid the orders of us high class elites, just because you have some powers huh? The weak should always bend to the strong.", the skinny freak screams. Yeah he is right, the weak should always bend to the strong. Which is what will happen to him once I'm done toying with him.

"Now that your third world brain has understood that, do your duty and serve the strong. Spill where you obtained such powers from" he squeals while furiously kicking my clone's head. My clone then uses Armament haki on its head and four eyes shrieks, as he breaks his ankles in the next kick. He rolls over screaming, clutching his ankles with tears flowing through his bloodshot red eyes. "SHOOT HIM! KILL HIM! WIPE HIM OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH!!". The joke of his forces started firing multiple rounds of ammunition from the machine gun. I then use Shunpo to appear behind the bastards and using Electric Manipulation, jam the electric signals in all the militia's heart nerves, killing them instantly.

[Lvl up x1]

I walk up to my clone. "Sorry for what you had to go through. I'll make sure the guy experiences the worst possible death." My clone smiles and dispels. Shido freaks out from watching the tables flip on him, with fear in his eyes.

"S..Sta.y away from me. You.u m.monster !!". He tries to run away but his broken ankle doesn't allow him to stand up. I walk up to him and kick him in his ears and head multiple times, using very little of my strength. He lets out an ear deafening scream. As much as I would love to use my full strength, Observe shows his strength to be a mere 15 points. However his charisma is extremely high hence the reason I am leaving him alive for a bit as I will need it for something shortly. He still has a few purposes after all. Looking at the pathetic whimpering creature I scoff. A broken ankle and a few light kicks to the head, have already got him to this state? He is sure not going to be ready for the real fun. This is what you get for fucking with me and treating people like some possession you sick bastard. I will be doing this world a favor by getting rid of this scum.

I give a kick to his nuts and the guy screams, puking his guts out, before passing out from the pain. Disgusting. I grab the guy and shunpo to the headquarters of his cult, using the location I got from some survivor groups. Not all survivor groups were hostile and some were glad for the fresh food I gave them in exchange for information. I reach the headquarters and take care of all his goons and hostile bitches without any trouble. I looted the building of anything valuable I could find, adding any valuable information I found to my phone. After looting most of the building, I head down to the basement.

When I entered the basement, I felt chills run down in my spine. Multiple dissected bodies were laid across multiple surgical tables, the stench was absolutely terrible. One of the dissected bodies with its guts spilling out looks at me and cries for help while vomiting blood. I would have lost my sanity and thrown up without Gamers Mind. As much as I would love to help, I don't have any healing skills. I walk towards the body, the gender not identifiable due to severe mutilation, and ask if I should painlessly end its suffering. The body nods to the best of its ability. Using Electric Manipulation I destroy all the pain receptors in the body and cut the flow to Thalamus- the part of the brain responsible for maintaining consciousness. I have been studying a little bit of human anatomy to make Electric Manipulation more effective on controlling the body. Cutting the signals to the Thalamus, knocks out the person's consciousness, allowing me to use Electric Manipulation to fry the heart without any pain. I purchase a blanket and some flowers from the [Store] and place the blanket and flowers over the mutilated corpse. I take a moment of silence before exploring the rest of the basement.

While further exploring the multi-story basement, I stumbled upon something really shocking. A logo containing an umbrella with red and white stripes. Underneath said logo were the words "Umbrella Corporation".

…

I could have never guessed that HOTD took place in the Resident Evil world. But thinking about every detail, it made sense. The cause of the zombies was never explained in the anime, but the zombies I had seen all exhibited symptoms of the T-virus. This world is more interesting than I thought it was. However I have no interest in defeating the Umbrella corporation, since my goal in this new life is to slack off, not play hero. I will continue sticking to my initial goal of robbing every bank in the world for credits and getting out of here.

Reaching the last floor of the basement, I found around 100 prisoners, probably in line for becoming new experiments. The 'prisoners' looked like the average person you would meet in the street, none of them looked like they actually deserved to be captured. They were probably lured in by that scumbag's charisma promising them a place to call home and then stabbed in the back. I unlock all the prison cells and the people tense, thinking I am about to send them to be the next guinea pigs.

"Please calm down, I am not here to hurt you. From this moment on you are all free. I will be providing you with information, food and the weapons required to set up a base elsewhere."

Some people cry of relief and joy after hearing this, and multiple people rush towards me to thank me. It's probably my 251 CHA at play. I directed them to another room where I stored a ton of weaponry and other useful supplies I brought from the Store. I also inform them to stay clear of and not trust Umbrella Corp. After leading everyone to the entrance, I part with the new survivor group. Now that that has been taken care of, I need to take care of Shido.

I head back to the prison cells in the basement and enter the most reinforced cell, in case the bastard tries anything sneaky. I retrieve his unconscious body from my inventory. Apparently I can store human beings in my inventory, if they are either dead or unconscious. I strap him to an electric chair and tie all his limbs up. Sending a kick to his gut to wake him up, the guy screams when he sees me. He squiggles around trying to break free of his restraints.

"If you want to get out, answer all my questions and I will let you free". Of course I am lying, but he should have a taste of his own medicine.

"How can I trust you?" he says with skepticism and doubt in his face. His concern is valid, but he doesn't need to know that.

"Because you have no other option. If it satisfies your doubts, I need you to relay information back to your boss hence I need you alive" I am bullshitting right now, but since I need information I temporarily need his trust. I am also monitoring his pulse using Electric Manipulation, to check for any lies.

"I don't know of any 'boss' you freak.". His pulse says otherwise. I manipulate all the electric signals in his nervous system to assault his brain with pain signals. He screams loudly, with both expressions of rage and fear evident on his face. I continue screwing with the signals in his nerves for an hour until he finally submits. "Fi.ine, Fine, P.please stop. I will answer anything you ask". "The faster you spill the truth, the easier it will be okay?" I lied.

After the torture, he answered all my questions truthfully. What I found out was shocking. Shido here was responsible for spreading the T-Virus in Japan. His family was paid handsomely for the job and promised a life of riches in a sanctuary, after the deed. After completing the job, Umbrella kind of backed out on the deal and laid out another requirement, in order to get the promised reward. Once the apocalypse hit, they were to gather as many survivors as they could and run a survivor group, its main purpose to be the headquarters of Umbrella's Japanese branch. However there was a more sinister purpose to the 'headquarters'. The overall goal of the T-virus wasn't to just start an apocalypse for fun, but to create superhumans from humans whose genetics were strong enough to overcome the virus. Hence the ulterior goal of this headquarters or more accurately research facility, was to extract the 'superior' gene that survived the test of the T-virus and merge all the superior genes into a survivor to create a superhuman. Unfortunately only a very small minority of the survivors survive the 'merge', and the majority die a gruesome death as seen from the victim I previously euthanized. Shido was chosen for this job to collect survivors by his dad, because of his silver tongue.

Game, do I have the T-virus inside me?

[Negative. Gamers Body negates any foreign infections]

That's a relief. Even though the T-virus has the ability to make you stronger, it also works as mind-control for Umbrella to use on you. Fortunately even without Gamers Body, Gamers Mind would negate any sort of mind-control. The Gamer's Ability is really overpowered. Unfortunately this means that any survivors are eventually going to be mind-controlled into submission, in probably less than a year according to Shido. I need to quickly complete the world quest and dip out of here. I don't think I am strong enough to compete with Umbrella's best superhumans. I should aim to rob every bank and explore that CERN facility in around 6 months to be safe. A squeak from the scum in front of me, breaks me from my thoughts.

"You will now let me g--", I send a kick to his nuts before he completes the sentence and faints. Before robbing the last bank in Japan, I need one last thing from Shido. His charisma. It's a bloody 500. That's pretty high even based on supernatural standards. And I have the perfect skill for this. I head to the [Store] and buy the skill [Plunder]. It's really expensive with a price tag of 500 million credits or a tenth of my total wealth. The cost is totally justified since according to the store, I can not only absorb the attributes of anyone but also their skills. The closest example I can think of would be Rimurus predator skill from the Slime isekai. As I complete my purachase, a skill book appears from thin air and I learn the skill.

Skill Learned: Plunder || Lvl MAX

Absorbs all the skills of the target and some attribute points of the user.

Amount of attribute points stolen increases the lower the target's HP is.

Targets HP must be less than 10% in order to be used

Target dies once skill is used with no traces of a body left.

Cost: 100 MP * Level of Target.

I see, the high cost of this skill is what prevents me from spamming it. Shido is at Lvl 10 so the skill will cost me 1000 MP to use on him. Due to its high mana consumption, I can't use it on extremely high level opponents or even opponents my own level during mid battle, as I would be left with very little to no MP to continue fighting. My best bet would be to use it on low level opponents or as a finishing move for stronger opponents. The skill steals more attribute points if the HP is low, so using it as a finishing move makes more sense. Now that that's taken care of, I need to bid farewell to Shido.

I slap him on the face and he wakes up groggily, his face turning into fear upon my gaze.

"Sleepy time is over. Time to pay for the nap"

I still haven't forgotten how Shido berated my clone. And I need his HP to be as close to death as possible to maximize the amount of CHA points I will gain. Smiling, I use Electric Release to add a little extra electricity to his nervous system. I watch as he spasms from his nerves being overloaded with electric currents, reminding me of how the fucker beat up my clone, hurling racial insults. The electric currents then pour into every muscle group of his body and Shido lets out an ear piercing scream as I increase the voltage. His HP drops to less than 2% after every muscle in his body is fried. The voltage of the current then drops as it makes its way to the brain and overloads the pain receptors in the brain with electric signals. Shidos scream intensifies until his larynx bursts. As the electric currents begin to fry his pain receptors, his HP drops to 2 points and I cut off the current.

He slumps to the ground with a soft thud. Though his body is in a vegetative state, he still has consciousness as evident by the fear in his still eyes. Well this HP level should be enough to gain the most stats out of him. I use [Plunder] on Shidos vegetative body, and watch as his body disappears into millions of shiny particles of yellow light that enter my body.

Plunder looks beautiful on the outside but is truly terrifying once you see it 'destroy' the body. As the particles enter my body, I feel a slight increase across all stats but an astronomical increase in my self-confidence and the air surrounding me. Looking at my reflection on the glass window, my own presence was godlike. It was like seeing a popular celebrity amongst a crowd of thousands of people- the celebrity's personality overshines the rest. That celebrity is me. My self-esteem issues have disappeared. I feel I could charm the prettiest girl in the omniverse, in a room full of 6'5 SSS-grade Hollywood actors. No longer am I the guy who felt like a helpless cub in a group of dragons. I am the dragon- the god of them. No longer am I the guy who is "just there" . I am the presence. Looks like the charisma stat is correlated to the inner and outer image of the gamer. It's honestly underrated.

I look at the window that appeared before me.

[+500 CHA]

[Passive Skill Plundered: Silver Tongue

People are 200% more inclined to trust and admire you

Percent increases depending on CHA stat. ]

Here I come multiverse