Chapter 20: Wasted Tears

I’d say it’s quite a weird feeling when you have two cores in your body. I could compare it to having grown another pair of arms or legs and you got to have mastery over it because they’ll tend to go out of control if you don’t.

I didn’t get up from the cultivating position even after my Virus Qi Core settles down. It took all my strength to keep it that way and I could tell that moving just a little bit would agitate it. I didn’t want to risk it so as long as I’m not confident enough, I’m going to stay in this position.

There was only one problem though and that’s the rabid humans were beginning to come towards me. Honestly, I was beginning to panic but my high-leveled rabid human protected me even though I didn’t give it any orders. A feeling of relief swept over me. Now, I don’t have to worry about those rabid humans attacking me, I could just focus on cultivating while my high-leveled rabid human does all the work for me.

My rabid human roared and plowed the horde of its kin, crushing countless of them in the process. I felt shivers run down my spine as I imagined being in the shoes of the rabid humans who were desperately trying to get near me. It felt as if I just hired a body guard and it gave me a nice feeling, to say the least.

Just as I was concentrating on my cultivation, countless prompts erupted in my brain.

<Stage 1 Low-Leveled Zombie Killed>

<You’ve received 5 exp>

<Stage 1 Low-Leveled Zombie Killed>

<You’ve received…>

<…..>

Although these notifications were so loud it literally rang through my head, it didn’t distract me and my cultivation. I’m starting to get used to the constant pings and for a moment, it pleased me to hear it. After all, the thought of leveling up without doing anything was every cultivator’s dream! Who would’ve thought I would attain it after getting a rabid human subordinate. The System may be useless in giving information but at times like these, I can’t help but be grateful.

There were countless times when I had to break through during a battle and I’ve succeeded in all of them, that’s why I’m pretty confident that this time, I would succeed as well. I’ve already been given a third chance when I was able to control the spread of the virus in my body and I didn’t turn into a rabid human. That’s why, I won’t fail and do all I can to become stronger and more formidable. Even though I’m back in the starting line, I wouldn’t let that affect my goal of reaching the Transcendence Realm!

After a few minutes, the series of pings in my head paused for a little bit.

<Exp 160/160>

<Congratulations, you’ve reached Level 4>

<You’ve gained a free stat point>

<Zombie Master proficiency has reached level 2!>

<Zombie Subordinate Barracks Increased 1/115>

<Blood Element reached level 3!>

<Your Dark Element reached level 1!>

“Sweet!” I told myself as the Virus Qi Core in my body completely settled down. Just like my Qi Core, it was already shaped like a perfect sphere and it wasn’t shaking anymore.

I sighed in relief. The struggle is over and I could finally move again.

But just when I was getting up, I heard another ping in my head.

<Your Stage 1 High-Leveled Zombie was killed>

“What?! Nooo!” I screamed, rushing towards my high leveled rabid human.

Since my overall strength has more or less doubled, I was able to sweep most of the rabid humans away from my high leveled one. And there it was, all bloodied up and its flesh was scattered everywhere. For the first time after waking up, I felt something tug at my heartstrings and my tear ducts opened up like an overflowing dam.

“You can’t die here! We still have more things to do!” I screamed at my high-leveled zombie as it groaned.

Unlike its previous form, my high leveled rabid human became really cool in appearance. It didn’t have the zombie color anymore and instead, it had the black-color all over his body and purplish lines ran through his skin. Well, I said this before but I just wanted to stress out the fact that it looked more like a Knight than a rabid human.

A fat knight of course.

I got too emotional after what it did for me. Not only did it help me reach level 4 in the System, it even almost made me reach level 5 if it didn’t die. This high leveled rabid human gave me a hard time when it wasn’t my subordinate before but it did make up for it when it followed me. What’s more, it was the only thing that protected me when I needed it most. If it wasn’t for him, I would’ve been forced to move and my virus Qi Core would’ve gone berserk. And that process would’ve turned me into one of them.

But it protected me at the cost of its life.

For a moment, I could feel that my high leveled rabid human was on its last breaths and a new wave of tears overflowed from the floodgates in my eyes.

“Um, Yongrui… I hate to bring it up to you but… ” The System trailed off. For a split second, I could tell that the System was fidgeting, hesitating to tell me something.

“What?” I sniffled. The thought of my one and only ally dying weighed heavily in my mind. Am I feeling bad for a rabid human just because it died even though it was already dead? I don’t know, but it certainly grieved me when I saw it fall down.

But as I asked, a purplish haze enveloped my high- leveled rabid human and turned it into an orb of black and violet. That orb then traveled through the air and entered my mind.

<Stage 1 High-Leveled Zombie has returned to your System Storage>

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