Chapter 4: Encounter

I have been moving for almost 4 hours already and I’ve leveled up twice now

And it really is weird that I haven’t encountered any survivors

“Name: Clive       Level: 5

 HP:350/350

Exp %: 15/100

Str: 39                   Dmg: 39 (+ 2)      Class: Novice     Pet: None

Agi: 39                  Def: 35 (+1)

Int: 35                   Luck: 16

Vit: 35”

And there again those bonus stats on my str and agi

Am I an OP character?

Oh well anyways better not dwell on it too much

I mean I’m not really trying to get too absorbed into this

I just want to survived that’s all

As I was talking to myself about my stats I saw a group of 4 people

That was standing in the middle of the street

1 girl and 3 guys

So because I am so smart I sneakily hid behind the car and watched them

Sneak ofcourse

Im not too dumb to just go straight to them

What if they’re psychopaths that are actually enjoying this whole thing?

Who on earth with their right minds will walk in the middle of the street like this?

What if they try to kill me?

I’m pretty sure that they are carrying weapons

Not too sure if I can defend myself against that many

So I observed them first from behind the car

And then I heard a roar from a far

It was very loude]

The group of people were just standing there and then I saw this big black figure

It was the Black wolf that I saw earlier back at the building

And then one of the guys started shouting

“YEAAAAAHHHH!!!! COME ON WOLFIE!!!”

He was tall bald guy with a huge frame

Almost resembled a tank, in game terminologies

Smells like bad news

So I started to get away from the commotion

I don’t want to get caught up to the mess that’s about to happen

As I was about to scurry I heard a voice

“HEYYY!!! You there behind the car!”

The man on the back of the huge guy shouted

“oh shit” I whispered

I slowly turned around and looked at them

I was staring to the guy that called me

Shit this is trouble

“There you are..  Wanna join us? Let’s kill this f**ker”

“Ah, No thanks! I have to go somewhere. Thanks for the offer though”

“Come on! Join us this will be fun!”

Fun?

That thing will kill us all and you’re saying that it’ll be fun?

Is this dude mentally ill?

Then the macho man and the third guy started looking at my direction

It’s like they were threatening me that if I don’t join them they’ll kill me

So yeah, I had no choice but to join them

I walked towards them and asked

“How are we going to kill that thing?”

“Don’t worry about it. We have a Plan. First let me invite you to the party”

I slowly turned and tried to walk away

I wasn’t so sure what level are they because there’re no levels and name floating on the top of their head like the monsters

“Hey! Going somewhere? Come on don’t be such a wuss we can kill that thing”

“Ah yeah”

He said that while showing his gun in front of his pants

What a subtle way to threaten people

With no chance of me from escaping, I just readied myself on the thing that is about to happen

This is a mess

Then the Black wolf arrived in front of us

Back then when I saw it from inside the building,  I almost peed myself

And now that it’s about to kill us

Because of this lunatics I’m about to die

While being drowned with my own thoughts the macho man equipped a shield and a sword from his inventory

Where did he get a shield and a sword? How?

Honestly I thought that he will fight with it bear handed

I’m not a smart man

After the macho man equipped his items other members prepared themselves

The other guy pulled out his sword , the girl pulled out her staff and the last guy pointed his gun at the monster

I’m still quite lost here

Where did they get those weapons?

I mean all I could get is a knife, a kitchen knife, for cooking not for fighting

Well if you think about it I only use knife because it is the most suitable for my skills

It will be strange to use my skill with a bat, I will have to talk to them when all of this end

“Okay! Listen up we’ll do it just like what we did earlier,  Bobcat you will be on the front taking all the hits with your shield, Cycle go cut his legs to reduce his mobility, Lisa support the tank and fighter  and I will go for his eyes”(gun-guy)

Are you guys serious with those names? Only the girl has a normal name

Seems like these people are too into this game

“Ahmmm hey, What will I do”

“Oh right! Just attack and don’t get killed”

Just don’t get killed

Yeah of course that’s what I will do

And then we rushed to the Black wolf altogether

Then black wolf roared at us and made a shockwave

That was really scary

 gun-guy shot the wolf’s eyes and made it go blind in the left eye

the wolf was hurt it rushed towards us and attacked us with its claw but Bobcat blocked the attack

“IS THAT ALL YOU GOT?!”

After blocking the attack Cycle rushed on the left side of the wolf and tried to cut the wolf’s leg from behind

The black wolf jumped to the building and pushed himself and attacked Cycle with its claws

Cycle wasn’t able to parry it, the attack was really fast

Cycle was blasted off to the store and broke the windows 

Cycle received 30% damaged to his HP

“HEAL!”

 Lisa made Cycle’s HP back to 85%, It really is nice to have a healer in your party

It reduces the risk of dying many times over

I also joined the attack wherein I go behind the wolf and attacked from behind

We attacked it with the same pattern as earlier wherein Bobcat was blocking the wolf's attack, Lisa supporting, Cycle and I deal damages and gun-guy taking out the wolf's sight

It kept on for quite a while and then we manage manage reduced its HP to 10%

And then something strange happened

The wolf’s appearance began to change

Its heads started to burst in flames and all of its paws were engulfed with red flames

It was scary but amazing at the same time,  He seemed like the movie that I saw where the guy’s head is engulfed with flames while riding a motor bike

“IT’S COMING!!!”

“BRING IT ON!!!”

The wolf's two heads opened both of its mouth in unison and started charging

“DODGE IT! I CAN’T GUARANTEE YOUR LIVES IF YOU DON’T!”

The wolf release fire from his mouth, It went on for like 5 seconds

Good thing gun-guy was able to blind both of the wolf’s eyes and we were able to dodge it by running behind the wolf

It was pointless , He released a very powerful attack but he couldn’t aim because he is blind

“FINISH IT!”

“”OKAY!””

so we attacked the wolf until it died

And we’re able to get lots of Exp, gold and some items

I didn’t asked them what they got but I got a Combat Knife

Getting a Knife again feels like I’ll be using knives from now on

I actually don’t really care, as long as I can use the weapon properly.  

It would be bad if I got a sword and was not able to wield it.

Come to think of it

 If I got a weapon from a monster, maybe they got it from them also

 They must’ve had a lot of battles from these creatures

Maybe they aren’t lunatics after all

They’ve got confidence because they know how to deal with it

So I asked the gun-guy

“You must have a lot of experience dealing with these huge monsters. At first I honestly thought that you guys are planning to die”

“But it’s the first time we dealt with a boss”

“But where did you get those weapons? Must be from lower level monsters, right?”

“Nope, We got it from the blacksmith”

“Blacksmith?”

“Yeah, from the town”

There is a town?  But this is a city

It was really mind blowing so I asked more questions from him

He told me everything that he knows and it seems like when the apocalypse started the lands transformed

About 1 kilometer south east from here there is a town called Leboa that rose from the ground

Wait that’s near my house

He was there when the town emerged from the ground and he saw the whole thing happened like magic

That night when the city was filled up with blue flames, the ground started shaking but it was a weak tremor and was almost unnoticeable he said

So that’s why I didn’t notice

First thing that happened was the walls formed from nothing then the houses and the NPCs

“NPCs? Are you sure about that?”

“Of course, see the icon that floats on the top of the monster’s head. The NPCs had a similar one and it’s in a [<NPC> Name]  format”

Off all the strange things that happened, the strangest one was the NPCs.

I mean where did they come from?

Are they individually intelligent? Or are they just like NPCs just like in the games wherein if you talk to them they will respond with the same dialogue

“If you really are that curious then go see for yourself. Good timing we will be heading there to make some upgrades"

“Okay, where’s your car?”

“You really don’t know anything, do you?”

“What do you mean?”

“Cars don’t work for some reason, you can start the engine but when you step on acceleration it won’t move. It really is weird but we have to deal with it so we move by foot”

Oh great, I really freaking hate what’s happening

I miss my comfortable chair, my bed and my laptop

I miss my lazy life

“Oh yeah, I still don’t know your name”

“The name’s Maximus”

“Is that your real name?”

“No no no, it’s my IGN.”

“Seriously?”

“Ofcourse,I will tell you something. We have our own ways of coping up with the situation and this is my way so you just have to deal with it. Okay?”

“Yes”

He certainly is right on that part

To survive, you need to have a way of dealing with things

I guess I could learn a thing or two from this guy