Surviving the Apocalypse as an All-Time Best Overpowered Necromancer - Chapter 92

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Novels. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————

Chapter 92
92. Apartment Complex (4)
“……there are many.”
A small sound.
“What have you found?”
At Lee Gang-hyuk’s question, Seo A-rin composed herself and explained what she saw.
“There are a lot of children’s corpses. They look like Predatory Zombies similar to Grolla Bear, but because they’re small, it seems they mainly hunted young children. If I had to guess the size? Around one meter? Small frame, short limbs…… Lizard! The thing looks exactly like a lizard!”
“A lizard?”
It resembled a lizard.
At those words, Lee Gang-hyuk’s brow furrowed.
“It might be an animal variant like the one we encountered at Banghak Station.”
Animal zombification.
He had no evidence to support this yet. But given that it resembled an animal, it could be a case similar to the Mutant Zombie that had resembled a wolf.
If perhaps……
If the lizard that ate a zombie had mutated——
Wouldn’t its characteristics be similar to those of a lizard?
He hadn’t seen what techniques the wolf-like creature used in life or how it fought at Banghak Station.
But judging by the marks left on the walls and the options embedded in weapons, the wolf came to mind……
Thinking the lizard-like creature would be similar, Lee Gang-hyuk asked again.
“Do you know anything about lizards?”
“How could we……”
“……not?”
Both shook their heads at the question.
It was understandable.
Lizards were rather an acquired taste, and even among those who liked them, few outside of actual keepers knew their characteristics.
But one thing was certain.
It hadn’t broken through walls to move——it had clearly used already-existing openings to move between the apartments and eat the zombies.
If he went down to the Basement Parking Lot and fought it there, the moment he found himself at a disadvantage, it would climb the exposed walls and flee.
‘Then I need to lure it somewhere it can’t escape.’
A place where escape was impossible. There was such a place right next to the Apartment Complex.
The Baseball Field.
Just as he’d used the Baseball Field when catching the massive zombie before, Lee Gang-hyuk turned to Seo A-rin and asked.
“It seems we’ll have no choice but to overwhelm it with numbers. How many zombies are in the Basement Parking Lot?”
“Just a moment……. I’m checking now.”
At the question, Seo A-rin, having sensed the zombie count, tilted her head as she answered.
“Forty! But they all have one leg missing. It looks like it ate them.”
“So that’s why they were left in the Basement Parking Lot. It heard the roar of the massive zombie and came up, then ate the arm of a zombie that was left behind and returned……”
With the situation clear in his mind, Lee Gang-hyuk nodded and issued his orders.
“A-rin, fill the Basement Parking Lot with water using the Aqua Field. Hwa-rin, if any of them climb up, prioritize attacking them. And if by any chance the lizard comes up, lure it immediately to the Baseball Field and we’ll dispose of it there.”
“Yes!”
“Understood. Aqua Field!”
As the skill activated, a massive volume of water emerged on the slope leading down to the Basement Parking Lot.
“Im Jae-beom! Aqua Field!”
But Seo A-rin deemed that alone insufficient, calling to Im Jae-beom and activating Aqua Field once more.
“Guooaaagh.”
Splash——!
Hearing her cry, Im Jae-beom used his skill, and the water on the slope rapidly multiplied.
Simultaneously……
“Whuff!”
Splooosh——!
As Seo A-rin opened her Core and poured out Core energy, the water on the slope surged like a tidal wave and raced downward.
‘So Im Jae-beom does have a skill that increases the volume of water. How did A-rin know that?’
Though he had tamed them, unlike the Skeletons, their skills and abilities hadn’t seeped into his mind.
That’s why he’d seen Electric and Im Jae-beom use the same skills in life and had kept using only those same ones……. How did Seo A-rin know about this? Because they share the same attribute?
No, setting that aside—if Im Jae-beom had a skill he didn’t know about……. wouldn’t Electric be similar?
“Hmm.”
“Gawk?”
As he suddenly stared at Electric, the creature tilted its head.
Its body reacted as Lee Gang-hyuk’s question was transmitted through the Command Authority.
“Electric. Try using all the skills you have. Ah, except Volt Step.”
“Gawk.”
Crackle.
Crackle-crack.
As the command followed, Spark and Lightning Bolt vanished down the slope.
“Guaaaaaagh!”
Crackle-crack.
Zombie shrieks echoed from the Basement Parking Lot that followed, but unconcerned, Electric used the next skill, and massive claws erupted from both its hands, crackling with electricity.
Crackle.
Crackle-crack.
“Electric Claws?”
Not merely a variant of Spark but something entirely new——
Or rather, a skill it had possessed all along, Lee Gang-hyuk realized, his expression showing surprise, when a sharp breaking sound rang out.
Crash——!
“!!”
The three of them startled at the sudden noise, turned toward the sound, and immediately Electric charged forward.
“Gnarrgh!”
Whoosh——!
Screeeech.
Slice. Slice.
Moments later, Electric slashed with both claws at the zombie bursting through the window, and the zombie’s body was cleanly severed.
‘It must be a skill used in conjunction with Volt Step.’
The power was excellent.
With Volt Step added in, it seemed he could dominate the zombies entirely.
That was probably why, in life, Electric had been able to evade zombies and selectively hunt only Necromancers.
But regrettably, now that it was a zombie, it couldn’t use Volt Step.
‘If only there were a healing-type Awakener……’
Then he wouldn’t have this dilemma, and Electric could unleash its full power.
“Tsk.”
Regretting, Lee Gang-hyuk clicked his tongue and smiled as he watched Electric’s next skill activate.
Not Electric Claws——another skill materialized in the empty air instead.
This one resembled Lightning Bolt, but larger and with visibly greater power.
He wasn’t sure of the name of this lightning-attribute skill, but based on his experience writing fantasy novels, he could hazard a guess……
‘Call Lightning? Or Chain Lightning?’
Lee Gang-hyuk recalled an advanced electricity-type spell, one tier above Lightning Bolt, and blinked.
The sphere hovering in midair vanished.
‘What——’
His confusion lasted only a moment.
“Guaaaaaagh!”
“Gaaaagh!”
As zombie screams erupted from the Basement Parking Lot, Lee Gang-hyuk understood what had happened and shook his head.
“I’ve truly known nothing about you all this time.”
“Guaagh.”
And he realized anew that Electric had been careless in life, and that his own luck had been exceptional.
‘Putting that aside……. if we’re making this much noise, it should be coming out soon……’
While confirming Electric’s skills, he’d tried to lure it with the characteristic loud sounds of electricity-attribute magic, but it still hadn’t emerged.
Or had it already come out?
“Can you confirm its location?”
Uneasy, he asked about its location, and Seo A-rin spoke reassuringly.
“It’s been sitting in the same spot since earlier. It seems to think the attacks don’t concern it.”
“Don’t concern……?”
The moment he heard that, Lee Gang-hyuk’s expression hardened.
This was not behavior a zombie should display.
Look at the massive zombie they’d captured before——even when stuffed and rolling on the ground, the moment it sensed their presence, it rose to its feet, stared intently, and rushed toward them without hesitation.
Yet this one takes no damage and remains still, choosing not to attack?
‘Why?’
Unable to make sense of it, Lee Gang-hyuk tilted his head in confusion, but soon, remembering that these were animal-type variants, he grasped the reason.
‘It’s being cautious of humans the way it was before mutating.’
When they passed Banghak Station, the wolf-like creature had howled without revealing itself——perhaps it had caught their scent and grown wary.
“It seems to fear us, actually.”
Even checking Electric’s skills in sudden fashion, then its location without warning——
The moment he heard the location, he’d stroked his chin and begun muttering strange things.
Was that why?
The two women asked incredulously.
“Pardon? A zombie? Fearing us?”
“That’s impossible. It’s a zombie, isn’t it? So why……”
“It’s only speculation, but it might be due to memories from before it mutated.”
“Memories from before mutating, as an animal……. I see.”
“Animal? Ah! Now I understand what you mean.”
Seo Hwa-rin understood immediately, and Seo A-rin, grasping it as well, nodded before suddenly looking flustered.
“So what do we do now? We need to lure it to the Baseball Field, but surely we don’t just walk into the Basement Parking Lot like this?”
“We can’t just leave it, so……”
“Ugh.”
When he’d made a weapon from the wolf-like Mutant Zombie’s Core, its performance had exceeded expectations.
So the lizard variant would be no different.
Thinking it was fortunate timing, given his shortage of usable materials, Lee Gang-hyuk’s eyes lit up as he spoke, and Seo A-rin released a small sigh.
“Since the leader has decided, it can’t be helped. I’ll fill the basement with more water then. Im Jae-beom, help me! Aqua Field!”
“Guaaaaaagh!”
Splash——!
They would deal with the Basement Parking Lot in the process.
With a resigned shrug, Seo A-rin and Im Jae-beom summoned massive quantities of water and sent it flowing into the parking lot.
“The zombies at the entrance are dead.”
“What about it?”
“The lizard is huddled in the corner of the basement level. There are two zombies on level two, but we can probably ignore them.”
“Good. Then let’s head down immediately.”
Thanks to the massive zombie, all the healthier zombies had been herded to the Baseball Field.
And since the ones in the Basement Parking Lot had been weakened from being eaten by the lizard——
They couldn’t withstand the combined assault of Seo A-rin, Im Jae-beom, and Electric, and they perished.
With that, Lee Gang-hyuk sent the Skeletons down into the Basement Parking Lot, then descended the slope with the two women.
“Burst Burn!”
Whoooosh——!
“It’s over there.”
As they entered the Basement Parking Lot, Seo Hwa-rin instinctively summoned flame to illuminate their surroundings.
The space brightened instantly, and Lee Gang-hyuk, thanking her, turned to where Seo A-rin was pointing and shook his head.
“……That’s not just resemblance——it looks like an actual lizard?”
He’d thought the wolf-like Mutant Zombie was only resemblant in the face.
But seeing it directly, the body was a lizard too.
Or more accurately, it felt like something that had tried to evolve into human form and failed.
‘I wonder if Lizardmen from novels feel like this?’
The thought suddenly surfaced.
The lizard’s appearance was that grotesque.
‘Wait a minute——’
But soon the thought shifted to a question.
The Mutant Zombie resembling a wolf.
The lizard strangely resembling a human.
When he thought about it, both resembled monsters frequently seen in fantasy novels.
‘Werewolf, Lizardman. Could it be that these weren’t animals but monsters that became zombies?’
He didn’t know why the thought had occurred, but as the possibility surfaced, he shook his head as if in denial.
‘Surely not.’
No.
That couldn’t be.
As he’d just said, werewolves and Lizardmen were fictional creations of human imagination, creatures from novels.
‘Such beings wouldn’t exist in reality…….’ Having reached that thought, Lee Gang-hyuk immediately furrowed his brow, thinking, ‘But then, the zombies originally existed in reality……?’
“Whether we meet it again or not, I’ll call this one a Lizardman.”
“Lizardman? Why suddenly……”
“Isn’t that a monster that resembles a lizard?”
Naming it in the middle of confrontation——
The two women expressed their bewilderment, and the Lizardman’s eyes gleamed as its mouth stretched wide to both sides.
“Ssssssh, shriiiieeeee——!”
That was unmistakably a smile.

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Novels. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————