Chapter 4: Take the bus
"Oi, find a safe place." El patted the woman's shoulder. "Let me take care of them" El walked forward, drawing her sword in a front stance.
"Okay!" The woman gasped and immediately ran to find a place to hide. The woman chose to hide in the parking lot trash can.
It didn't take long for the infected to realize their presence from the scent. The infected turned to where El and the woman were with a savage stare.
"Roar!" They roared, staggering towards El.
El immediately moved forward first. Quickly, El cut off the heads of each of them as they approached. It was lucky that El bought a katana. If he had bought a knife, El would have had trouble keeping a safe distance when attacking.
In just 10 minutes, El killed 25 infected. However, El looked very exhausted afterwards. His breathing was labored, and his arm was in a lot of pain from swinging the katana continuously and randomly.
Even the 6 tomoe on Rhinengan disappeared due to overuse of his stamina and eye power. Although Rhinengan contained tremendous Chakra, but if the owner used it too much, Rhinengan's Six tomoe would weaken for a while.
Ding!
[Killed 20 early level 1 infected, +1000 points]
[Killed 5 half-grown level 1 infected, +500 points]
"Ugh... It's a good thing I increased my STR and AGI. Otherwise, I might have been exhausted from earlier. Because my previous physical attributes were quite weak. Moreover, I feel the ability of the eye of insight decreasing. Instead of Chakra, can I use Stamina temporarily?" El muttered.
Whatever the attribute, stamina is very important. Because every attack, every movement requires stamina. Based on the Reincarnation Room information, the attributes that can increase stamina are STR, VIT and AGI. With a ratio of 1:3:2, where if a Beyonder adds 1 attribute point to Vit, then his stamina will increase by 3 points.
But, because El added 2 to STR and 3 to AGI, it means that El's stamina is now 24 points when added up with his initial attribute points.
El took the stamina-restoring potion. El immediately drank the liquid.
Glup... Glup... Glup
After drinking the stamina-restoring potion to the end, the 6 tomoe on the Rhinengan of her left eye reappeared. This meant that El's stamina had been restored.
"Aah, how refreshing. My stamina has been restored like after a nap. My body that felt tired, and my joints that were sore earlier have recovered. Well, I should have completed the third mission. But, I'm still getting point notifications? Looks like I can still get more points."
Just thinking about it made El smile happily. Because from the beginning, the Infected he fought were only level 1. If the infected were level 2, El would definitely have a very difficult time. El remembered, Tian Cheng in his previous life had almost died when he had not evolved to level 2.
El looked around, searching for the whereabouts of the previous woman. "Oi, you can come out. I have killed all the infected."
The woman came out from behind the trash can and was shocked to see 25 dead infected. All of their heads were cut off and their bodies were covered in trash.
"Unbelievable... Did you really kill them all?" The woman walked over to where El was with a shocked expression.
"Who else do you think is here besides me with the sword? Hurry up and get on the bus, don't waste time." El replied curtly.
"Y-yes" said the woman, then she ran into the school bus.
When the woman entered the school bus door, suddenly someone's voice was heard. From the different voices, it seemed that it wasn't just one person. It came from the direction of the road leading to the bus parking lot.
Suddenly, the woman stopped climbing the bus steps and turned her head. Meanwhile, El turned his head in the direction of the voice while gripping the handle of the katana tightly. His eyes stared in the direction of the voice.
Before long, the owner of the voice finally showed his form. There were 15 of them, 3 of them were adults and the rest were young people. "Hmm, another student is it? Good, I don't have to look for them."
El lowered her surveillance when she saw several humans coming towards the direction he was in. Even so, El's eyes were focused and scanned the appearance of the people coming in, making sure they were not injured by the infected attack.
"Hey, are you the new student over there?" asked an older man, wearing a white shirt, black suit and black pants.
"Are you the teacher? And do you know a student named Zhou Tian Cheng?" El answered him in a cold, harsh tone.
"Yes, I am the teacher and know the student Tian Cheng- eh?" Suddenly the teacher and the students noticed many corpses of the infected lying around.
Their faces were shocked to see the corpses in a decapitated state. Seeing a katana that El was carrying, they could guess that El did it.
Moments later, they reached El. All of a sudden, they got a strange pressure when they saw El's left eye in quite a close distance.
As a result, they all fell silent without being able to say a single word.
"Hmm, then you are students of this school huh? Alright, you may board this bus. But, before that I want to ask, did you get injured by the creature?" El said looking at them coldly.
Everyone fell silent at El's question. They didn't understand what El meant at all. They all chose to glance at each other first.
Until not long, one of them walked forward. It was a man with a shaved head, holding his right hand up. "I was bitten by my friend who suddenly became very strange."
El directed his eyes towards the man. then drew his katana towards them. "In that case, anyone who has wounds from the creatures' attacks should not go up."
Hearing El's words managed to make one of the group very upset and angry. Immediately, he walked over to where El was standing and grabbed her by the collar. "What do you mean, asshole!"
"Yeah, right, who are you?" said one of the students.
"Don't you know? I'm the teacher at this school!"
The person who cursed El was a man with a shaved head. However, it was different from the previous man with a shaved head. Because the man was quite big and taller than El.
"Don't act arrogant just because you have a katana! If I have it, then I can face them too!" the man said angrily.
Immediately, the right hand of the man with the shaved head grabbed El by the collar and looked at him angrily. "Who the hell are you? How dare you be so bossy!"
At this, El did not bend his knee or remain silent. El prepared to hold the handle of the katana in his hand. A thought of "wanting to cut off his head" had crossed El's mind. But, suddenly, that thought was immediately denied.
El's face was shocked. But, it wasn't because someone had grabbed his by the collar, it was because of the thought of killing without thought and regret. 'Wait, what was I thinking?'
'Why would I think it's normal to kill those who dare to get in the way? It's so strange, what's happening to me? I don't know why I feel filled with hatred.'
'And, if I remember why the response when communicating became rude, harsh and cold?' thought El who was wondering in her mind because she felt confused.
When El was once again immersed in the dilemma of thoughts, she put the katana back in the sheath without realizing it. El was like a statue, silent and still, staring blankly.
"Oi, don't stay still? You're scared, right?" Then the bald man grinned, glancing at the katana at El's waist. "Then, you hand over your katana, let me finish off the infected."
El shook his head quickly, realizing he had more important things to do at the moment. But, it was misinterpreted by the bald man.
"Heh, you dare deny it!" Quickly, the man snatched El's katana from its sheath. Then the man jammed the blade right into El's neck.
Instantly, everyone in the place was shocked by the actions of the bald-headed man. They were eager to break up any fight that might break out, but seeing the sword in the man's hand, they were too scared to act.
"Haha," the bald man laughed loudly. "Everyone, I'm in charge from now on. Listen to me if you want to stay alive!" the bald man said in a cocky tone of voice.
Inevitably, they had to listen to the man's words if they didn't want to die quickly. With order and fear in their hearts, they entered the bus one by one.