As soon as Hank closed his eyes, he felt a churning in his stomach,Opening his eyes, he came to witness countless undead lurking on the barren streets, buildings left unattended and streets strewn with cars of various sizes.
*shua*
Hank saw two more figures arrive
"Oh! Is this you admin?" Jiraiya asked as he looked at the groups admin, a kid he ignored at first,though after being helped by him, Jiraiya came to respect the boy.
"Its me, you guys can call me Hank"
"Oh! You are so young,little Hank!" Mitsuri immediately pounced at Hank, rubbing his head with affection
"You arent the older then me, big sister Mitsuri!"
*growll*
"How about we take care of these zombies, and contact Dave as well, he might be nearby" Hank advised seeing various zombies, some were slow, but some were already running at them, not to mention the mutated animals
"Haha! Lets see what these guys can do, though i dont have much hope for them"
Needless to say, the three made quick work of the zombies, Jiraiya burned hundreds to ashes while Mitsuri and Hank went into the crowd, beheading each zombie with precision.
After a few minutes, the barren street was filled with the bodies of zombies and animals alike.
"Where is that guy?" Jiraiya asked, looking around.
"Guys! Over here!" Hank and the others heard the voice, turning around, they saw a middle aged man running over to them, behind him was a squad consisting of two men and two women.
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Hank,Jiraiya,Mitsuri and Dave walked ahead, talking amongst each other, while the rescue and collection squad, named by Dave was lurking behind.
"So you are saying that you are the leader of these guys?" Hank asked
"Yeah! I am the vice leader, but the leader is my childhood friend, he is more like a brother to me" Hank replied.
"So Dave, what can you tell us about this Mission, from your words, it can be referred that you have already stopped one invasion" Jiraiya asked
"Yes, we fought one invasion two days ago, our came is fairly secured as we have hundred or so D-Rank awakeners, 10 C- Rank awakeners as well as Five B-Rank and one A-rank!" Dave boasted, flashing a grin.
"Oh! Judging from that, its a pretty sturdy stronghold, i bet you dont even need our help" Mitsuri asked, Dave had already introduced his world's power level to the trio so they easily understood the reference.
Hearing Mitsuri, Dave sighed
"Its not the zombies we need to worry about, with our numbers, we can easily or atleast safely hold them off, but its those damn cultists trying to sabotage us whenever zombies arrive."
"Oh, kind of like Jashins cult from our world" Jiraiya commented, Dave looked at Hank for info
"Immortal cultists sacrificing people to god"
"Haha! If they were immortal, we would be dead already, these cultists do sacrifice to some diety though, and it grants them some form of curse, increasing their power and stuff " Dave laughed, atleast his enemies werent immortal.
While they continued to talk about the problems in this apocalyptic land, Hank became sure this was a world he hadnt read about.
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Dave led them through his stronghold, it was a large estate spanning nearly a mile long ,covered on all sides by sentries and walls.
"So this is an awakener stone?" Hank and the others looked at the crimson colored stone flashing a sinister light.
As soon as Hank held it, a system like window opened up, something all those of this world had.
[D- RANK AWAKENER STONE]
"Yeah, this is the lowest quality, some can awaken their abilities without use of awakener stones or cores, these stones can also be used to strengthen your abilities" Dave replied patiently.
For him, Hank and Jiraiya were his benefecrors, although he awakened an S-Rank ability, he was still a weak human back then.
"Hehe, dont worry, i have saved up three B-Rank awakener cores for you three, you can take them now or after,your choice, it isnt hard for me to synthesize those with my broken ability " Dave giggled
"Sigh! Your ability really is a cheat in this world,and you can probably judge which stones give which ability along with other application for your skill"
Dave gave a thumbs up to Hank,"Yeah! Good one Admin!"
[Ding! The zombies horde invasion will occur in 3 hours]
The sudden call by the system brought silence to the team
"Do you have a map of the estate we are in?" Jiraiya asked, nowhere was the usually pervert Sage, even Mitsuri who was being subtly teased by Jiraiya noticed this change almost immediately
"Uh...i would have asked the captain but he hasnt come back since yesterday, he has gone off to trade with a nearby stronghold...."
Dave then began explaining the situation, it seemed the estates defence was half of its original size right now