RE:BORN Zombie

Due to the pillar of fire, Victor’s view of the drake was blocked, so he couldn’t exactly see whether his plan was effective or not, he could only hope so. The pillar of fire kept burning up till the ceiling of the room for at least fifteen seconds before it began showing signs of calming down. When the fire subsided, Victor was a bit amazed as to how much damage the fire actually did, and in the process, he had actually achieved an unknown effect.

Victor wasn’t too surprised at the intensity of the flames and the duration, his fire attacks were being boosted anyway. What surprised Victor was the effects the fire had on the drake. For one, as the drake was still a fresh zombie, it’s skin wasn’t dry and hard like Victor’s, so the massive wound Victor created with his skill excavate that completely took the drake’s head couldn’t heal back, simply because it had become impossible for the moment.

With the intensity of the fire, the flesh towards the surface of the drake’s wound was severely burned, and the flesh in this area was charcoal burnt and limited the regenerative ability the drake possessed. For the time being, there was no regenerative function taking place right now, so Victor could add some few extra damages to the drake’s body. The only way he could think of to kill the drake now was to completely destroy it’s entire body leaving nothing behind for it to regenerate.

Looking at his mana, Victor saw that it was possible for him to do just that. Even when the drake was alive, destroying it’s head didn’t do much against it, talk less of now that it’s a walking corpse.

It took 50 points in mana to create a wound the size of a window through the drake, and Victor’s plan was to completely eradicate the drake, so he calculated the cost needed to create such a big area effect of his skill, and though it required quite the number, he had to try regardless.

The worse thing he could do at the moment was to give the drake time to recover, so just like he did the second time he faced it, he was not going to give it any breathing space. Victor dashed to the side and climbed the walls of the room in an instant reaching the ceiling. From the position where he could see everything below, he used his skill Excavate, and this time instead of just aiming at a portion of the drake to excavate, he focused on stretching the skill to reach its entire body.

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Mp: 2,600/3,700 >> Mp: 1,850/3,700_.

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Just the next instant, the zombie drake below was no more, it had completely disappeared. At this moment, Victor knew one thing, this was his strongest skill, and he was incredibly lucky that the team that had the person with this skill was asleep when he killed them all, if not…

It took quite the amount of MP, but he did it.

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(A/N: The skill excavate is like the particle style: Atomic Dismantling Jutsu Onoki uses in Naruto Shippuden. The difference is that Excavate isn’t shot from the hands, rather it just causes the effects on the target. So particle style without projection, just an instant effect.)

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[You have Killed High-rank Zombie Twin Headed Drake ‘Ramok]

+300,000

Level: 37 (7,225,000/7,500,000) >> Level: 37 (7,525,000/7,500,000)

[You have levelled up]

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Mp: 1,850/3,700 >> Mp: 3750/3,750

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‘It’s my luck that I levelled up and regained my lost MP. Now when I exit the dungeon, I won’t be in much of a disadvantage in case I have to face another monster.’ Victor said in his mind. The fact that he might actually be facing humans when he exited the dungeon crossed his mind, but he immediately scratched that off. No one saw him kill the humans, and so naturally everyone would think it the work of monsters. There was absolutely no reason to fear like this at all.

“What happened just now? My consciousness was suddenly sucked away by some strange force.” A voice said.

It was quite evident whose voice this was, as Victor recognized it as soon as he heard it. “I thought you would be dead by now, you actually aren’t.” Victor said.

Since Ramok’s voice just echoed in the room, Victor had no way of knowing where exactly he was, just that he was around.

“I am still here, but it seemed I was brought back to just say goodbye, my soul is already fading.”

‘… Didn’t we just meet? Why the need for this sense of familiarity?’ “Sure.”

Though Ramok would have loved to ask where his body went, it was too late as his self completely faded away not giving him a chance to converse more with Victor.

Victor on the other hand had planned on how he was going to gain a strong form and even possibly evolve his base form again, but it seemed it wouldn’t be possible anymore. From the moment the drake became a zombie, Victor had lost any chance of every gaining any good drake evolution material. It seemed like once something became undead, their original essence completely changes into that of an undead. It was basically a zombie in a different form, so eating such flesh wouldn’t gain him drake evolution material.

According to the human group from before, when a dungeon had been cleared, it would slowly disintegrate and disperse, and if one was still within the dungeon by that time, perhaps they would get erased along with the dungeon. For what they knew, no one has ever returned from an eradicated dungeon that disappeared.

From what Victor could see though, there was no crack in space anywhere like the guys from the group said, maybe not all dungeons start immediately.

By now, the monsters on every floor would have become increasingly aggressive and that was the sign that a dungeon had been cleared. From then, everyone on the other floors will begin heading out of the dungeon in other not to risk being sucked into the crack that eats the dungeon away. But as there was no crack yet, then maybe the monsters would still be normal? Victor wondered.

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“It actually was able to clear my dungeon? Even after I tried so much.” A voice said from a dark room.

‘Does it really think it’s that strong?’ The voice thought. At that moment, something seemed to have tripped off in the creature’s head, and it began acting unlike itself.

‘I can not accept such blasphemy. If it’s truly so, then I should not be living.’ The creature said.

In that instant, something happened as the creature appeared in a large space with lighting, and before it was a humanoid figure with blazing markings on it’s body.

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“What the fuck is that thing?” ‘A beholder? That has to be a beholder, it’s just unmistakable.’ Victor said in his mind.

The creature that just appeared before him was a big ball of flesh with one big eye in the centre of the ball of flesh, and a wide mouth that formed a crescent below the eye, then there were the tentacles that came out of its body with eyes at the end of each.

Confirming that the monster before him right now was a Beholder, a monster Victor knew from earth, well from games he played back on earth, he knew of some of its abilities. Basically, beholders had a very high talent for magic and always possess strong magic. The way their magic worked was a little different though. Unlike other races, their magic was contained in their eyes, and that was also the reason why they had so many eyes.

The way to know how strong a beholder is was to check the number of tentacles the beholder had. Since the eyes were connected to the end of the tentacles, the number of tentacles also represented the number of eyes a beholder had, and in turn determined how many different magic attacks one was to expect.

Another thing was that the lower the number of eyes, the younger the beholder was, and the one before Victor only had four tentacles. This might have not seemed like valuable information, but one had to consider that an adult beholder would have at least ten tentacles, and the stronger ones had more.

“You abnormality, are not allowed to leave this place.” The beholder said.

Victor did not know what the beholder wanted, as he even thought he had defeated the final boss, but after listening to the beholder for a while, he realised what the problem was. Also, he found out something interesting, as it seemed like this monster was the one managing this dungeon. Since beholders were a race that hated others that differ from them, even though it be a fellow beholder, they had natural hate for other creatures, and each of them also thought of themselves as the strongest or in some cases the pinnacle of strength. The fact that he had cleared the dungeon this beholder managed had gotten to it.

‘This one is certainly a younger one, and is not as intelligent and wise as I thought beholders would be, probably because of its immaturity.’ Victor said as he believed he knew why the beholder was even there to begin with.

‘So basically, it’s a case of inferiority complex.’