Chapter 30 - The next Breakthrough

Garrett was ready.

He woke up energized, rested, and eager to evolve. He wanted to prove to himself that he could handle anything coming their way.

Shiva kissed him as they woke up and gave him a flirty wink after a bit of morning cuddles.

He grinned remembering how playful the Orcess was. He was hoping to shock her once he unlocked his next racial rank. How large would he grow? How would he change? Would he get a new ability?

He was just craving for the chance to learn about it. And break through it.

As far as he could tell 500 was the next possible evolution condition. So he was going to grind enough points from Variants for grow his sense and intelligence stats and buy the rest with the store points.

He would grow and get better. He had to.

Or they would never stand a chance against the General, Mother Make'em, or those possible bandits they saw.

Many enemies were gathering. And he would be damned if he lost his squad, his friends, and the survivors counting on him.

They would survive this.

He got to the lobby where his squad was suiting up. Mboto and Marina were with Betty planning their formation and combination moves. While for Shiva she glanced up from her planning with Hicks and Tomoe to shot him a wink and a pair of Air kisses.

He blushes a bit and sends a wink and an air kiss back.

He looks to the side where he sees another soldier who is staying at the base looking at him with a weird look of confusion as he looks between his commanding officer then the orc girl than back at him.

The soldier shrugs and says, "I don't judge sir. Just please never do that in front of me again. Seeing a serious man like you do that?... It's weird."

Garrett slumps a bit as the soldiers walks to his post as Shiva giggles to herself making Hicks and Tomoe look up at her before waving them off by saying she remembered a funny joke.

They shrug and return to the plan. Garrett gives her a stink eye promising a punishment later and heads off to his assigned dungeons.

He headed to the police car with an empty backseat and empty trunk. He was planning to only be gone half the day to take care of the Hard dungeons and lower. Mostly to test his new weapons and to reach the evolution stat threshold he needed.

He revved up and headed out with aessage over the radio saying, "Good luck and God speed! We will survive this world! Ooh Rah!"

He gets a return call and heads to the beginner dungeon.

He enters the department store and sees the zombies waiting. About 30 regulars and a boss Bulker. He brings up his new gun.

A star wars the clone wars laser assault blaster used by the Republic clone troopers. He unleashes it and blasts holes into the heads of each zombie he hits with nearly pin point accuracy.

The Bulker does way worse as it comes rushing at Garrett. But with a trio of blaster fire through its head then it's chest where it's second core was. It fell like a tree to a chainsaw.

Garrett looks at his blaster and holsters it at his hip with a smile. He was loving this!

The medium dungeon lasted a bit longer. But mostly from the fact of the place having two floors. He blasted through almost 70 regular zombies and cutting up a speedster, Bulker, and bone armor zombie trio as the bosses for that dungeon.

He then looked towards a post office. It was one floor but labeled as a Hard dungeon.

He gulped readied his blaster and other new weapon and entered.

The first thing he noticed was the huge mass of regular zombies crowding the front office. A few hacks with the machete he borrowed and a couple of blaster hits through their heads handled them well enough.

He did need to change the ammo pack for the blaster as he had gone through all 200 charges for the blaster after these dungeons back to back. The machete was also started to dull from the abuse of the blood and bone it was cutting through.

Garrett huffed and readied the blaster and machete when he noticed the loading zone in the back. It was overflowing with zombies. They were groaning and moaning their howls of the undead. And he began to hunt.

He dove over the smallest group where he would be safer on an upper ledge where the mail trolley was put to be sent to another section of the post office. A solid 10ft above the floor giving Garrett a nice upper area to snipe from. And began to behead the zombies one by one with rapid and accurate shots.

The zombies charged enmasse towards him but couldn't climb up the steep slope to his specific spot.

Even the Bulker, Speedster and Armor zombies had trouble reaching him. Especially since the bone armor didn't seem to do much to stop the blaster fire.

Garrett smirked as he emptied the clip once again and changed it out rapidly to continue his firing.

Soon the floor of the post office was devoid am of any moving bodies.

He scanned slowly as he noticed he hadn't gotten the notification for the dungeon being cleared yet.

As he snacked he heard a small sound and dove off the trolley tracks. Barely avoiding the shots from a spiker variant.

He then had to roll hard and dive behind some cabinets as he barely avoided the regurgitated acid of a spider variant.

He got a lock on both as he saw them dashing to new vantage spots but had to dive out of the way when the original basic Variant came over and used it's armored arm blade to slash his cover into pieces.

Garrett glanced between the trio of Variants and smirked.

He brought his machete up and flung it as a flying buzzsaw towards the spider while he took pot shots at the spiker.

The spiker counter shot the blaster fire and barely weakened the lasers to where they only burned and gouged it some instead of outright blasting it to pieces.

The spider swung away using its webs from the machete and reoriented itself for another acid blast. However as it landed it noticed Garrett wasn't on the ground anymore.

He was leaping at it with his new weapon out.

Garrett had bought a blue lightsaber from the Star wars tab for 200k credits.

The spider roared in defiance and got ready to shoot some webs at the zombie hunter. But it's reaction came too late. Garrett sunk his sword into the first head and ripped it off with the energy saver burning and gouging the head right off as it cleared a path through the skull. And then he continues his swing into the second head cutting it right off.

The maw of the torso reared up but Garrett quickly sliced and diced the body into pieces carving it up like a thanksgiving Turkey.

Soon the spider is no thought as the Colonel has lost count after his 10th cut.

He turns and begins to cut through the Spikers shots while the basic Variant charges him from below the loading lift he landed on to handle the spider.

The variant managed to begin lifting the machine only to not think any further as Garrett slices both its arms off as he lands behind it. Then with a spinning flourish he slices it's head clean off.

The spiker goes to run only for the blaster fire to return. Shooting its legs off and then shredding the rest of its spikes and body to bits.

Garrett turns quickly to the Variant that has the second core in its chest as he slices it in half down the middle.

He grins as he saw his points shoot up from clearing the hard dungeon and getting the bonus points from. Soloing a trio of bosses.

He grins at the Star wars weapons he grabbed. Misses the points he lost to grab them. But knew at this rate he would do well in getting them all back in a surplus.

He went about clearing and selling everything they didn't need and left the rest of the stuff they could use at their base. Such as the loading lift and various carts for moving supplies more easily.

Those items would help out immensely for their survivors.

He went on to hunt down the other hard dungeons. The remaining 8 dungeons of Hard mode were much easier with his new weapons.

Adding up all the dungeons Garrett grinned at his points and his stats shooting up after grinding through so many difficult and powerful dungeons.

His new abilities were as such.

Garret Grimsborne (Super Human):

Str- 581 +30 (Mutant) +81 (Variant) =692

Agi- 568 +42 (Mutant) +81 (Variant) =691

Sta- 553 + 45 (Mutant) +81 (Variant) =679

Int- 329 + 81 (Variant) =410

Sense- 331 +81 (Variant) =422

Store points - 64,960 + 228,200 (zombie/dungeon) + 70,000 (sold items) =403,160

Companions:

Shiva Orc Captain

Betty Minotaur Sergeant

Upgrades to base:

Training room lvl 2: For every two hours spent training inside you gain +2 str and Sta to a maximum of 4 points in each stat daily. Maximum stat affected is up to 100. Once user has exceeded 100 then the stat will no longer grow in that room. For next Max stat please purchase to level 3. Cost for upgrade: 200k

Shooting range = Agility

Medical room = intelligence and Sense

He grinned at the growth then eyed the next dungeon.

A nightmare dungeon stares back at him.

He huffs in pride as he hears over the radio how his two trio squads are tackling their third medium dungeon each.

He grins at this new hope and grabs his light saber and blaster and charged into the next nightmare dungeon.

This one was based on a warehouse.

He crashes through the doors and sees at least 500 regular zombies, 60 mutants, 20 variants, and one alpha who roars out, "Kill the intruder!!!"

Garrett grins and goes, "Time to rip and tear!"

He charged in lightsaber humming and blaster firing off as he rips right through the front 20 zombies in under 15 seconds.

The rest rush in.

The alpha is stunned as it beholds a zombie hunter so brutal and efficient. The lightsaber carved up zombies left and right. The mutants make a valiant stand but are sliced right through. Even the bone plate zombies only last an extra second as the thick bone plates hold against the energy sword for that single moment.

Soon enough the Variants and Alpha are the only ones left.

The 20 Variants come at Garrett but are torn apart by blaster fire and a few grenades. The alpha panics and raises a weapon it found somewhere.

He loads the bazooka and levels it at Garrett with an ammo belt full of grenades across its chest ready to be thrown.

Garrett smirks and lets out two blaster shots while bisecting a spiker variant.

The blasts go into the bazooka and the belt middle grenade making it light up.the alpha screams, "OH SHIT!!!!"

Before a large explosion hits.

The alpha is seen coughing and sputtering as he manages to survive the explosion. Now just missing a left arm and most of the skin on his front torso and face.

He barely begins to heal from the wounds when he feels a hot blade suddenly embedded in his chest. He looks down to see he flesh searing off around the blade of the light saber.

He looks up to see Garrett holding the blade and smirking before bringing it up and through his head then through the Alphas body a few more times.

He turns it off as the alpha falls to at least 20 pieces.

He huffs and looks at the blood bath that erupted in this warehouse. Feeling happy he took down such a large army by himself thanks to his recent weapon upgrades and his new stats aiding him.

He suddenly feels his body pulse. He looks at his stats. And smirks.

He hides in the managers office nearby and barricades the door. Barely ensuring he won't be attacked in his evolution coma before he blacks out.

Happy knowing he was ready for the next step in their survivor plans to ensure they could make it long term in this crazy world.

~ARC 1 END~

Current stats of Garret Grimsborne (Super Human currently evolving):

Str- 692 +60 (Mutant) +60 (Variant) +10 (Alpha) =822

Agi- 691 +60 (Mutant) +60 (Variant) +10 (Alpha) = 821

Sta- 679 + 60 (Mutant) +60 (Variant) + 10 (Alpha) = 809

Int- 410 + 60 (Variant) +10 (Alpha) =480

Sense- 422 +60 (Variant) +10 (Alpha)=492

Store points - 403,160 + 138,000 (zombie/dungeon) + 100,000 (sold items) =641,160

Companions:

Shiva Orc Captain

Betty Minotaur Sergeant

Upgrades to base:

Training room lvl 2: For every two hours spent training inside you gain +2 str and Sta to a maximum of 4 points in each stat daily. Maximum stat affected is up to 100. Once user has exceeded 100 then the stat will no longer grow in that room. For next Max stat please purchase to level 3. Cost for upgrade: 200k

Shooting range = Agility

Medical room = intelligence and Sense

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