Chapter 11 - One hell of a battle

Garrett roared out as he hit the 200+ horde dead center in their front line. The zombies there were all regular units and reached for him mid stride. But Garrett gladly helped them remove their annoying heads from their shoulders with a swing from his knife and sword.

And all of the sudden, the horde was 10 zombies smaller.

The Zombies all rushed at him hands out and mouths wide.

Garrett smirked and continued to fight and hack and slash at them all. He knew he would have to try and keep them at a distance as best he could. But with how badly he was outnumbered, and how they were on a wide street, he had very few options.

He leaped away as he noticed a shadow loom over him after his 40th beheading. The zombie that was about to bite at him suddenly had its head turned into paste by one of their own bulker units. The bulker stupidly looks confused at how it crushed an ally before both arms are suddenly missing from its sockets. it roars out as Garrett stabs through its back and out through the center of its chest where its mutation eye had grown. It gurgle as his knife swings with enough force to cleave through the bulkers thick neck. It flops down now that its core and its brain are gone.

The other zombies, upon seeing a mutation go down, rush and try to overwhelm Garrett. In response he begins to kick, bash, punch, and try to shred every one of the zombies in this horde. He manages another 25 kills before the speedster zombies recover from their impromptu nap in the brick buildings wall and have gone to his flanks to try and claw him from behind. Garrett turns and quickly swings his sword in a deadly arc.

The slash takes off all the arms of the speedster mutations. All 5 grunt or growl in confusion about being liberated of their arms. Before Garretts follow up swing relieves them of their heads. The zombies all roar out in anger as more of their mutation commanders are destroyed. They rush Garrett once again.

Garrett grins, but he also notices one problem as he readies himself for the next rush, "Damn it... I'm running out of stamina here. Constantly using all my reflexes, leaping around, using the strength needed to keep out of their jaws and also putting the power and angle I need into every swing is exhausting! If I don't use a little somthing to help... I guess it is a good strategy."

Garrett swings and behead another 10 zombies before rushing into a nearby store.

The zombies pursue at full speed, all 75 remaining regular zombies come chasing at him and crash through the windows of the company... That is filled to the brim with oil and gasoline for the machines they rent out to construction projects. The zombies all look down at the sound of clinking metal. Only to see a trio of grenades land in between some highly explosive fuel that needs to be mixed with other chemicals that are also highly flammable. The zombies all roar out in shock before they are burnt to a crisp two seconds later.

The store explodes outwards as Garrett barely manages to dive into a metal dumpster nearby just in time. He pants hard using this chance to catch his breath. "Phew... Those zombies went up well. At least I can take cover here for now- What the?!"

He cries out as he notices the dumpster is being lifted and thrown. It crashes against another building making him roll out with a groan from banging his head against the side. Thank goodness he kept his military helmet on for this mission. He shakes the ringing from his ears and sees the incoming bulkers. All 9 of them have revealed their mutation eye core and are in full hulking mode as their muscles are doubled in size and all of them are now suddenly 9ft tall.

Gulping in concern Garrett readies his trusty pistol and unloads two full clips into their eyes and head. 3 go down from the onslaught of 10 bullets per target. But the other 6 reach him.

With a clicking of his tongue in annoyance Garrett pulls out the sword and goes double handed. He raises it up high and brings it down to bisect the first one that reach him. And while it dies the remaining 5 all come in with punches or grabs aiming for his arms and body.

Garrett leaps up as high as he can with his current capabilities and with all his force helping him he manages to reach a shocking height of 25ft. While up there he pulls out his pistol reloads it and fires upon another one of the bulks. With another one joining its comrades he uses the remaining5 shots to shred the eye core of another one. Then lands with his knife now embedded into their brain.

With only 3 left he readies his sword. Only to shift to a block as a leg covered from hip to toes in bone lashes out and clams into him. Garrett skids back about 18ft and looks up to see in shock the 4 bone plated zombies gathering by the sides of the remaining bulkers. They are wearing bone plating that look like half plate armor and that uses full plate armor for their arms and legs covering their limbs up fully from toes to shoulder and toes to hip. The bone zombies growl and grin at him revealing their sharp serrated teeth to the colonel showing him that they are ready to tear and shred flesh and armor.

They all rush him as he gulps at this. He clicks his tongue in annoyance as the bone plated zombies seem to have a good balance of strength and speed as they are keeping up with him. Garrett has started to sweat hard as his body and stamina are feeling the strain. He grunts as he swings hard at a chance. But is shocked and stopped cold as the bones do stop his blade. It sinks in 1 inch deep but goes no further.

He tries to pull the sword out but the bone plated zombie grins evilly at him as it grips his blade and holds him there. As it does so the other zombies and bulkers all rush at the colonels now unprotected back. They get closer as the bone zombie grins at Garrett hoping to see his face of fear. But its taken aback at seeing Garrett look up at it with a smile on his own face.

He summons his store and activates his previously unused 50% off voucher in the game store tab section. And using his stocked up points so far he summons up a new weapon from Dragon Quest. He summons a war hammer. It went from 15,000 points down to 7,500 points. With his stockpile from the police raid and his hunting of this horde he had just enough. He grins as the bone plated zombies go wide eyed at their natural enemy weapon type being summoned out of nowhere like that.

The one holding his sword screeches in wanting help before it goes silent forever as Garrett smashes his new war hammer through its neck and jaw. The bone zombie, now missing half its head, gurgles as Garrett wrenches its sword free and uses the momentum from that to swing his hammer again and smash the zombies head open.

The other zombies finally reach Garret but he reacts faster. Soon enough the bone zombies have crushed arms and legs with shatter skulls, while the bulkers are now being shredded by quick and efficient sword cuts that remove their hands, shoulders, knees, and heads from their bodies before their eye core is stabbed straight through.

Once another 2 minutes pass. Garrett stands in the middle of a puddle of glowing blood that the mutants all spilled from his hacking and slashing.

He checks the notifications and sees.

Congratulations! You have cleared the medium tier quest: Survive against the zombie army that would have taken over the police station and turned it into a mid level dungeon! By clearing a medium level quest solo you have had all rewards doubled! Rewards: 10,000 points, +10 to all stats, +1 10,000 or less weapon/armor from the shop

Garrett pants hard as he drags his aching and cramping body into a nearby store with a metal shutter. After checking and making sure he was alone he collapsed onto a couch in the waiting room of what looks to be a clinic and faints from exhaustion as his weapons clatter to the ground from his now numb fingers as his body aches and changes while he is out.

Missing the initial notification: Mutation activated! Evolution!

Current stats of Garret Grimsborne:

Str- 57 +10 +30 (Mutant) = 97

Agi- 50 +10 + 15 (Mutant) =75

Sta- 56 +10 +12 (Mutant) = 78

Int- 46 +10 = 56

Sense- 48 +10 = 58

Store points - 14,600

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