Possessed a Healing Game, but It’s a Zombie Apocalypse - Chapter 17

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Episode 17

The Eastern Forest is a place that every user playing Masfarm must visit at least once.

For combat character players, it was a shortcut to reach dungeons, and for users enjoying farm play or other gameplay styles, it was a treasure trove where they could obtain herbs or seeds and seedlings of wild crops.

Though it had now become a desolate place with only dead trees and barren earth, black and withered branches densely covered the sky, proving that this had once been a lush place.

Nana and Ishanka had entered the Eastern Forest. Nana used her ‘Land Grabbing’ skill once more.

If a message appeared again saying it couldn’t connect to a Quest, she planned to burn everything down with fire, eliminate the Eastern Forest entirely, and declare the empty land as farmland.

Then she would plant trees on that land to create a new forest and attract animals.

It would take a long time, but the zombies would be doing the work anyway. Though she only had about ten workers, if she proceeded steadily, she could eventually create a new forest.

It was an absurd idea, but Nana wasn’t rational enough to consider such things. And this was a kind of threat. I’ve come here thinking this far ahead. Wouldn’t it be boring if you respond like last time?

Perhaps sensing Nana’s madness, the system displayed a different message window before her eyes with a ding sound.

【Conditions met. Hidden Quest: ‘Conquer the Eastern Forest’ will now proceed. The Quest’s objective is to absorb the forest’s energy possessed by the World Tree at the center of the forest.】

【Warning! Warning! Due to the occurrence of a hidden Quest, zombie hordes are swarming from the Eastern Forest. You must reach the World Tree without being caught by them.</p】

If you fail, you will be unable to enter the Eastern Forest for one year. You won’t be able to set fires either. But you can succeed. Fighting!>

After reading the Quest contents, laughter escaped her. Hahahahahaha. This is really ridiculous.

“You can’t even fix bugs properly, yet you’re good at creating Quests like this? It’s a forest that’s all withered and dead—what’s wrong with just giving it to me?! Is giving away land for free that annoying to you?!”

Ishanka watched with a calm expression as Nana screamed like she’d lost her mind.

‘Seeing her gesticulating at thin air, she must be talking to a god again. It’s not common to speak so rudely to a god.’

It was a familiar scene that no longer surprised him. But it was always fascinating to watch. Being able to act like that toward a god also meant they had no pretenses between them.

Ishanka wasn’t on such intimate terms with his own god. Aibanu had wanted to descend to earth and happened to find a vessel to his liking.

So Aibanu came to him when he had lost his parents and was about to lose everything. He accepted the god without hesitation. Because he needed power.

People both respected and envied Ishanka, who became Aibanu’s avatar at a young age and became the chief of Nanuk. No matter how much of an avatar he was, there were always people everywhere who tried to bring him down, saying what could a child possibly know.

To silence such people, he restrained his emotions even in situations where he wanted to throw tantrums, secretly imported governance texts from vanished ancient empires to study, and trained his body daily to keep up with other chiefs.

He had lived diligently like this for over ten years. Now such a lifestyle had become familiar, and not showing emotions in front of others had become a habit, but recently that habit was gradually crumbling before one person.

Before the woman over there who was huffing and expressing various emotions. Ishanka covered his mouth with one hand to stop laughter from escaping and approached Nana.

At that moment, he sensed an unclean aura from not far away. Unpleasant yet familiar magic power. It was the aura of wandering undead, what Nana called zombies.

“Zombies seem to be coming this way. Judging by their magic power, it’s not just one or two. Excuse me for a moment.”

Before Nana could even begin to speak, he hurriedly slung her over his shoulder and leaped up to the high branches of a tree in one bound.

The tree they climbed was fortunately not completely rotten and crumbling to its core. The two settled themselves in the tree and looked down below.

Soon after, zombie hordes swarmed to where they had been standing. The ground was packed with zombies without a single space to step.

“The ones that get pushed around by wild boars on the farm are quite quick when it comes to times like this.”

“There were fewer zombies in this area compared to other places. But seeing them suddenly swarm in groups like this, it seems somehow related to you, employer.”

“Yes. That’s right. The damn sys… the divine one has bestowed a trial upon me.”

Haha, well now, the more I speak, the more my teeth grind, don’t they?

“May I know what kind of trial it is?”

Since they had come to the forest together anyway, Nana had to move with Ishanka. She didn’t hesitate to explain the whole situation to him. Of course, she appropriately modified or omitted unfamiliar terms like skill usage and Quest.

“So we need to avoid them and go to where that World Tree is located.”

He took something from his chest and unfolded it. It was a map.

“We’re probably around here right now. I don’t know the geography of this place well, so I can’t get a sense of where the World Tree is. Do you happen to know where the World Tree is located?”

Nana tapped her lips with her finger and frowned. It meant she was concentrating on thinking.

She diligently searched through the gameplay tips in her head. She had seen posts about the World Tree before. There had been Quests related to the World Tree in the main story, so she was certain.

But no matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t recall the details clearly. As if only that part had been partially cut out. However, she hadn’t completely forgotten, so she could barely remember the World Tree’s characteristics and location.

“The place we need to go is here.”

Nana pointed to one spot with her finger. It was a distance that would take about 30 minutes on foot from where Nana and Ishanka currently were.

“Since zombie hordes are swarming below, we’ll have to cross between trees.”

“But we can only go about 200 meters that way. The direction we need to go is over there, but the gap between that tree and the next one is too wide.”

As she said, there was a section that couldn’t be crossed in one leap with ordinary human strength.

However, if they had to go around to avoid that spot, they would have to take too long a detour, and an even worse situation might be waiting for them. Taking risks in the current situation was no different from gambling.

If Ishanka were alone, it might be possible to cross that gap. But Nana had to go with him too. Even for Ishanka, it was impossible to leap that far distance in one bound while carrying a person.

In the end, there was no other way than to go down below and climb back up to the tree on the other side.

But going down from the tree without being detected by so many swarming zombies was nearly impossible, and even Ishanka, Aibanu’s avatar, couldn’t handle all these zombies.

Ding!

【Sub Quest Occurred】

What’s this now?

【Sub Quest: I Can Hear Your Voice.</p】

There should be a very useful item in your inventory that you can use in this situation. Use it to lure the zombies. Zombies have dull hearing, but they’re not deaf.

Quest success reward: Experience points and a hint to clear the hidden Quest.

Upon failure: No penalty. But be careful not to die.>

This damn game always pretends there are few penalties while driving people to extremes.

Nana had a headache. She could guess what useful item was written about in the message window. If she used this, she could reach the World Tree without clashing with the zombies.

But she didn’t want to use it if possible. Because it was obvious it would deal a tremendous blow to Nana.

But with no other viable option right now, this was the only way. Sigh, when I meet the system and operators, I won’t let them off easy…

“Isha. Can you promise not to be surprised no matter what I do from now on?”

“Something seems to have occurred to you.”

“Yes. But I’d like you not to ask me anything about what I do. Can you do that for me?”

“I don’t know what you’re thinking, but it’s better than staying put here. Alright. I promise.”

Having secured Ishanka’s promise, Nana took out something from her inventory with a resolute expression.

It was a black, shiny, square object. It was a speaker.

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