RE:BORN Zombie

A/N: Yeah, I know, I took a long ass break.. but I’m finally done with exams! Thank you for the kind words, I really appreciate. I’m really sorry for the unhealthily long break, it was just necessary. At least now I have some time, like two weeks before I leave for SIWES(or IT, or Internship, or Industrial Attachment, whatever it’s called, I think the last one’s for engineering students though), so in the next four or five days, I’m going to push myself and write much so that I can try and do a little mass release, it’s much needed. After the mass release, updates will continue like 3 – 4 times a week, as the IT will start in 7 days after tomorrow, and I won’t have lots of time then too. But, at lest it’s not exams, so I can write in my free time.

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By now, it had been some weeks after Victor got to the city, and never did he spend one day without finding a dungeon to destroy. During this time, he also found that he could simply raid dungeons and not kill the boss monster, which was somewhat the core of the entire dungeon in a way, and by so doing he would be able to return to the dungeon after some time to harvest experience points. After finding this out, Victor stopped completing raids and used this strategy to the fullest.

It was actually common sense if he stopped to think about it, maybe influence from fantasy novels and manga from when he was on earth had somehow in a way limited some aspect of his creativity, even though it was also his biggest advantage when it came to creativity…_.

Anyway, he got this idea when he heard of the way the association and other big organisations could make extraction of certain minerals and raw materials possible, as the materials were not available on earth. The materials were a huge factor in the development of the world as it currently was.

During his trip to one of the dungeons he was farming, Victor discovered that the particular dungeon had been found out by one of the awakened organisations, and by so doing branded it as theirs. Good thing he placed his teleportation mark some place away from the dungeon entrance to avoid appearing in the midst of people just like it would have happened that day. The dungeon was somewhat close to the city, so it was only a matter of time really before it was discovered and claimed.

Victor found his way into this dungeon quite easily as he also had a mark within the dungeon, so using it he teleported directly inside. The experiment he had wanted to try was also completed that day as all the conditions for it were met perfectly, and really, it just seemed like a gift.

Now that there were people coming to raid the dungeon, Victor finally had specimens prepared for him for free, just what he had been looking for. The thing now was that he would have to clear the dungeon now as after he does what he planned to do, the entire area might just turn into an investigation area like how the previous one did.

The experiment was simple, Victor wanted to see if it was possible to create intelligent subordinates by combining intelligent species, in this case humans, with the monsters he already had. Of course, this wasn’t the first someone had thought of this idea, as this is usually the way any crazy villain scientist or alchemist starts out in any movie, the only difference this time is that Victor had the system and the others didn’t. Really, the way this wonderful system cheats life…

Victor could always just throw away the monsters he had right now that are not smart enough for his standards and just raise new ones with more brain, but then again he could also do this, so why not.

As the raid within the dungeon began, Victor got to work without wasting anytime. From what he saw, the team that entered seemed to be a team made up of new recruits and two seniors that led them through the dungeon. Apparently, the dungeon wasn’t that high levelled, so it made for a suitable training ground, if not for the super rookies.

The dungeon had at least 10 floors, and Victor was diligent enough to follow quietly until the team reached the second floor where he then acted. He wanted them to at least be out of the first floor so that their screams won’t escape outside. Not like it actually would, but then, he had courtesy to be private. Monster with manners.

Victor eventually attacked the team of 9 including the instructors, and unsurprisingly as it would happen, the team quickly realized that putting up a fight was the wrong move. Seriously, when a guy single handily approaches a team of people and you happen to be in that team, don’t think it too much, just run. The person has to have something that gave them the confidence to even approach your team.. Alas, this lesson the humans learned in the hardest way possible.

Out of the nine, Victor ate seven and left behind the two instructors as they were the strongest. Using the evolution material he got from the humans, he initiated a simple evolution process with one of his legion.

As for now, the ones Victor can afford to lose without feeling a drop in power are Arac, Konda and Gurok. They were the firsts he got into his legion, and to speak the truth, they really didn’t have much going for them when compared to the others, except for their levels. Victor chose Konda for the first test, as he couldn’t imagine what a hybrid between spider and human would look like. He might not feel disgust towards such things, but at least he still appreciated beauty. Maybe if he was in some made up fantasy world it would be ok, as spider queens there can even transform into sexy Milfs or cute lolis that certainly satisfy many purposes. But tough luck, he was in reality. There was no anime graphic filter or artstyle design, the combination of such would just be absolute monstrousity, to a certain degree. Something like a Naga was more preferable though.

With the first process done, Victor turned to the two corpses he left intact and raised one. Both were male, and their levels were the same. For the purpose of what he wanted to test, a man would be better, plus there was the fact that he didn’t want to combine a female and male together, that would just be weird. Victor turned his attention to the system to make some inquiries, while leaving the newly raised corpse to wonder what the fuck was going on. Like any raised corpse, he immediately felt the bond within him and his master, and for whatever reason he didn’t seem to even question this strange bond, as it felt natural and compelling, but apart from that, what wasn’t there to question about everything else?

Of course, unlike the bond he felt, he didn’t instinctively feel that he had been resurrected, but then he didn’t think this was the afterlife, as he could very well see blood everywhere and to his side was the body of his teammate and someone he recognized to be his friend. Though he used to be friends with the dead man, now he had no such emotions towards him, or for any other person or thing for that matter, but even then he was still conscious and aware of his life up until now. Really, the situation with those who have intelligence up to this level.

While Victor left the walking corpse to think while trying to piece in what was happening, he paid him no mind and just questioned the system on a bunch of things through his mind. He wanted to know if it was possible for him to combine his legion members into one organism.. well, as they are no longer living, they can’t really be called organisms since they possess no living cells… Whatever, the answer was yes. Though the process would take longer than normal evolution, it was doable. The other thing was that even the system was not sure of the result of such combination, so Victor would just have to wait and see later.

“Ok, let’s go then.” He said while turning to the newly raised legion.

Really, this guy Victor raised was meant to be a side character, as he got not even the slightest bit of information from Victor or anything like that before he was sucked into the system while disappearing into a black foggy smoke. As for what was going to be the product of the second experiment, as Victor would like to refer to it, he didn’t want to bother himself too much with it. Whatever it would be, it would be completely loyal to him, so that works perfectly.

He was wondering though, would it be a beast with human intelligence? Or a man with the intelligence of a beast? Or something in-between?