Chapter 24

'Instead of making an armor that will last me forever, I should make an armor that will be useful only for this situation, which means an armor that can max my survival in a world filled with zombies.'

As soon as that idea came to my mind, I created a list of all the additions that the armor must possess.

1. Must cover all the body, so that no blood, saliva, or any type of zombie body liquid can come in contact with my body.

2. Filter for the air, I don't know if some zombies might have evolved to eng able to spread the virus through the air, so I will need something to make the air breathable.

3. Constant production of an odor able to cover my scent, it has the same rotting smell as those zombies.

4. I can't block the pressure, but I can make it so the bite of the zombies, and also their slash with either nails or blades, won't go through my armor.

5. From what I saw, most zombies are blind and move according to scent and their hearing, so I need to make my armor as silent as possible, which took a ton of my mana, to create two soundproofing armored shoes.

Finally, after 3 days of nothing but building this armor, I was able to create exactly what I was aiming for.

The headgear of the armor is the mask of a pestilence doctor with on its side two air filters, and a hood to cover my head, with also two headphones for the ears that can either improve my earing or dull it in case of a high pitched that could injury my ears, the mask also has a night vision and X-ray vision added to it.

The rest of the armor, apart from some special adjusting, was what someone could find if they searched for the steampunk version of a pestilence doctor's armor.

And finally, to show my success the notification of the stats of the armor showed.

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Armor of Hope

Rarity: Unique

+20 in all stats

Effect:

Slash proof: Reduces all slash damage received by 25%

Blunt proof: Reduce all blunt damage received by 25%

Pierce proof: Reduces all piercing damage received by 25%

Elemental Protection: Reduces all damages caused by elements by 15%

Acid resistance: Can't be destroyed by acid

Air cleaner: If poison is spread through the air, you won't be affected.

Augmented vision: Through mana, you can change the googles that cover your mask eyes, going from normal vision to night vision, to x-ray vision.

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As soon as the notification appeared I moved away from the table where I had been staying moving for 3 days, the number of migraines I had to resist slowly corroded my mental stamina, but I pushed through until this point.

Through all the building and focusing on the armor, I had gained a whopping 15 levels in craftmanship, 20 in technomancy, and 7 in focus.

I moved my hand towards the armor, pushed it inside my inventory, and moved towards the upper floor of the house, strangely craving some rest, maybe even some food?

I got out of the laboratory closing it behind me, and headed upstairs, heading for the door of the house.

I get out of my house, and then realization hit me.

'... I have no idea about what there is around me.'

Well, I do know what is around me... in a 100 meters area, if something moved in the area around my house I receive a message that popped in the glasses that I am wearing, which are connected to my phone, and they work through technomancy, for the technological part, and telekinesis, so that I don't have to use my hands to swipe left and right.

But apart from this, I don't know where I can go for something, or even buy some water.

But that wasn't a problem, what I needed right now, is to rest, and MAYBE eat something, the eating part isn't a must, only the relaxing one.

I close the door behind me and head outside of what I defined as my safe zone, always ready to go inside the mirror dimension just in case.

My eyes, which usually looked at the world only with a tint of grey, due to my constantly rasing of Per, weren't able to stop me from actually appreciating the scenery, the colors becoming more vivid, the smells becoming stronger, the sounds fusing in what could be called a city song, and my mouth watering due to the smell coming from the food stalls.

'When was the last time I relaxed?'

When those words came out inside my mind, a very vivid memory came out.

Her smile was as bright as the sun, her eyes blue as the deepest part of the see, her hair as dark as the darkest night, but even with all these qualities, she couldn't be defined as beautiful, due to all the tubes attached to her body, and her being as thin as a skeleton.

"Jack, you have to know this, it doesn't matter how hard life will get, it doesn't matter how hard life will push you, it doesn't matter if you lose everything and everyone, I will always be on your side, watching and cheering you, because you are the most important things in my life." Just as those words came out of her mouth, her eyes slowly lost her light, her smile not as bright as before, and her head slowly moved towards my head for the last kiss before she died.

When she died, something broke inside me, something that couldn't be repaired and only further destroyed, my belief in the world and even in God himself, if he even existed, disappearing when the scene of the life of my... mother, getting grasped away from her.

That was the time I had to decide to stop relaxing, living every day with anxiety and fear of my possible sudden death, every day thinking about her death.

Seeing the scene thousands of times, didn't help my already broken mental stability, only further bringing it to the wrong side, but I ignored it and continued to watch it, whenever I felt sad, angry, or happy, that memory always popped up, thus bringing me to a state of emotionless, scared that if I ever felt any type of emotion she would appear again.

Before I could continue my therapy session, an explosion brought me back to reality, and by the smoke created by the explosion, I recognized who had caused it.

*HAHAHAHAHAHA

*SWOOSH

Suddenly what looked like a goblin on a hoverboard, and Tarzan in blue and red moved towards my direction.

I was about to go inside the mirror dimension, but the sudden appearance of the notification stopped me.

'...Might as well.'