The World Cataclysm

Chapter 6: Library

"There is a zombie on our path."

Brian checked their route with the Life Pulse and noticed a zombie wandering alone on their route. Leaving the dormitory, they avoided zombies too close to each other and left to the library.

Dave wanted to test his rusty sword on the flesh of a zombie. It was a dull sword, so it may be not effective on other monsters, but zombies are less robust than others. Their bones are fragile and their skin is more fragile than that of humans.

Stealthily approaching a zombie, Dave slashed the neck of the monster beheading it in a swift movement. Dave felt that killing them became much easier than smashing their head.

[You have reached level 2]

[You have earned 2 free points]

It cost him killing 5 zombies to increase his level to level 2, while he needed to kill only one zombie to reach level 1.

'1 point to the strength and 1 point to the agility.'

Dave had enough strength to kill zombies in one movement but when he was attacked by two of them, he wasn't able to dodge the second one.

If strength increased the power of your muscles, agility stat strengthened your nerve cell speeding the impulse in them.

Even with 1 point increase in agility, Dave witnessed how the world started moving slightly slower than before. It was a strange feeling for the first time, yet Dave learned to quickly adapt to the changes in reaction in his previous life.

Along the way to the library, Dave and Brian hunted single zombies on their pathway. Dave had killed another two, while Brian killed three of them.

Dave wanted to quickly level him up since his Life Pulse was too important for their survival. On their way, they were close to using up all Life Pulses, so they need to increase his level.

With another point in spirit stat, Brian had another 10 mana points to use. Had 11 mana points, 1 from before, and 10 points from the stat increase, Brian was able to use another 11 Life Pulses. Leveling up didn't restore mana and health of the user to the maximum as in the games.

After several minutes, Dave had reached a library. It was a common library in our city with a rectangular-shaped building and tall wooden doors. The shapes of different animals were engraved on the door and the picture of a scholar was drawn on the wall of the library.

Approaching the 3 meters tall doors, Dave grew excited to see Adam again. It may be only one day for Adam but it was 5 years for him.

"Adam! Are you there? Open the doors!"

Banging on the wooden doors of the library, Dave tried to call out Adam. With every second his heart beat faster and faster as the loud shout sounded from the other side of the door.

"Dave! Are you okay? Wait a bit"

It seemed that Adam was also happy to meet him when the apocalypse had descended on the world.

"Adam, don't open the door! It is dangerous outside and you know it. What will we do if they are infected?"

Commanding voice rebutted Adam. Hearing it, Dave was irritated by the owner of the voice.

"Lucas, Dave is my friend. I am opening the door and if you are so frightened, you can hide somewhere inside until the door is closed."

"Tsk"

Lucas responded to Adam only with a "tsk".

Lucas Wade, son of a rich businessman, and a person who was partly responsible for Adam's death. Dave didn't like him at all since he was a spoiled brat with an inflated ego. If it hadn't been for him, Adam wouldn't have died in the past.

When the world had ended in his past life, Dave was with Adam in the library. They feared to leave it, especially after what had become with a senior student.

The senior student decided to leave the library but, after several minutes, he returned scared to hell and with the wound on his arm. The chunk of flesh was torn from his left arm.

10 minutes later, he turned into a zombie and killed several of them. Adam was the one who killed it increasing his level. The wooden club was the only weapon.

Shortly, after that, a monster banged on the doors of the library. It was able to crash the doors of the library with several hits.

It was a humongous monster 2 and a half meters tall. It had a big stature and thick muscles covered all his body.

To save his life, Lucas pushed Dave on his way and ran away from the library. By comparison to ordinary zombies, it was much slower than any of them.

Lying before it, Dave despaired and feared for his life, but Adam attacked it attracting its attention. Shortly, he was killed by the giant as Dave saw how his friend had turned into a bloody mess.

As Adam died, Dave was able to escape from the monster. From that day, he found an empty supermarket and hid in its storage room. He had enough food and water to survive for more than a year.

It was how he lived in his past life, hiding from the zombies and being safe in an enclosed room.

'This time I won't make the same mistake.'

Only later did Dave learn that the monster was a special strength type zombie. It was extremely strong as it was extremely slow.

When he finally left the storage room, the university campus was a bit safer place to live, while the world was harsher and more dangerous than before.

The doors of the library opened slowly as the face of Adam can be seen in the library. He was the same as Dave remembered him.

He looked extremely handsome with his pale face and black hair outlining his facial expression. As always, he had a charismatic smile brimming with confidence. Even in such situations, he was able to keep his calmness.

Seeing his best friend first time in 5 years, Dave was extremely happy. He hurried to hug Adam hiding his teary eyes. Talking with Adam on meaningless topics, Dave noticed other 5 people in the library including Lucas.

Except for Lucas, there were 3 males and 1 female. All of them looked like scholars with their weak and fragile bodies wearing glasses.

"So, Dave, what is going outside?"

Adam decided that it was a time to ask a question that tickled the nerves of every person in the library. Instead of him, Brian started blubbering about the dangers there.

"The world outside is hell. Zombies are wandering everywhere attacking and eating people. It looked like the apocalypse descended on the earth."

Because of Brian, people in the library became much paler, even Lucas looked as the blood left his face.

In contrast to them, Adam looked like he was pondering about their situation. As far as Dave remembered, Adam was always like that, calm and wise.

Indeed, Dave was extremely happy to meet Adam again, but he never forgot a monster who will crash the doors of the library.

"You there, I will pay you if you protect me and lead to my father"

Dave heard an extremely arrogant familiar voice. It was Lucas. He had blonde hair and smooth skin putting even women to shame. As always, he had an arrogant and prideful facial expression just because he was born in a rich family.

Dave knew that Lucas was an idiot judging by the fact that he tended to solve all his problems with money.

"Adam, we should quickly leave the library and head to the other place. It is too dangerous here."

Ignoring Lucas, Dave wanted to quickly leave this place.

"Do you dare to ignore me? Know your place, bastard."

Enraged by Dave, Lucas tried to grab his collar but Dave sidestepped causing Lucas to stumble on the floor.

"Try again and I'll kill you"

Dave pointed the tip of his rusty sword and threatened Lucas. He always wanted to kill Lucas with his own hands but, in his past life, he never saw him again, even after leaving the storage room.

Bang! Bang! Bang!