SSS Class Awakening: Start With A God-Level Choice System-Chapter 49: Nighttime, Strange Moonlight

After Ainsworth accepted the Road To Zombie King (S) side mission, he also received the choice reward, which upgraded his Evasion (B) skill to Phantom Evasion (SS).

Furthermore, he also commanded Kyle to quicken his pace. Kyle was already his slave because he was part of his Hive Mind, so he didn’t mind commanding him to do unpaid overtime work.

Even his fanatical believers were doing their best and using almost all their time in the day to spread the religion of the Church of Evolution. That didn’t give Kyle, a zombie with limitless stamina, an excuse to slack off.

After deciding on the side mission, Ainsworth shifted his attention back to the survivor group who had taken a rest under his command.

When he looked up at the sky and noticed that it was getting dark, Ainsworth ordered, "There’s a hotel nearby, so we’ll make use of it as our temporary base until daytime."

Waving his hands, countless supplies for fortification like wooden boards, barricades, nails, etc., appeared near the hotel in a neat, segregated pile.

Ainsworth took them out from his system inventory as he wasn’t lying when he had told Rian and Dante that he looted everything he deemed useful.

Pointing to the pile of fortification materials, Ainsworth commanded, "Thomas, I give you the authority to command and allocate the members in fortifying this hotel. My team and I will exterminate all the zombies inside the hotel, but whether a zombie broke in due to faulty fortification, that’s no longer our fault."

"Fortify this hotel even if it’s a temporary base. No need to mind about wasting resources as I have plenty. Treat it as if your life depends on it, because it does. Unless you people want a zombie assaulting you while you are asleep, you better get to it."

Even if there was a side mission based on infiltration, Ainsworth still didn’t plan on letting him, Rian, and Dante do all the work. And besides, it would be better if they were put to work, as they would know not to take his generosity for granted.

It would be suspicious if he gave free supplies, did all the work, and never asked for anything in return. By letting them do their part, they wouldn’t find it odd and would even feel good that they were contributing to the group.

Knowing Ainsworth’s intentions as he was the former leader of this survivor group, Thomas nodded his head and solemnly replied, "Boss, I and everyone here will not let you down. Those zombies will never be able to enter any of the entrances of this hotel unless they are powerful enough to destroy the hotel walls."

After getting Thomas’s promise, Ainsworth signaled Rian and Dante to enter the hotel with him.

The hotel’s entrance door was not closed, so they entered easily from the front door. As soon as the hotel’s door was opened, zombies swarmed towards them.

"[Shield Bash]!"

Dante attacked first by summoning his shield and using Shield Bash (A) to pulverize most of the zombies in front like a speeding truck.

With Dante creating an opening, Rian immediately followed by summoning his sword of light and raising it to the sky, "[Sword Light Rain]!"

Multiple swords made out of light materialized in the air a hundred meters above them and rained down on the zombies, hitting and impaling them accurately.

As for Ainsworth, he just walked leisurely towards the zombies without attacking; both his hands were tucked in his pockets.

When a zombie lunged at him, Ainsworth merely evaded it, and his movements were like those of a phantom. Even when zombies swarmed him, none of them could even touch a corner of his clothes.

Noticing that Ainsworth didn’t attack, Rian raised his sword of light again and sent another set of Sword Light Rain (B) skill to eliminate the zombies that attacked Ainsworth.

After testing his Phantom Evasion (SS) skill against the zombies, Ainsworth shook his head in disappointment, ’These Normal Zombies, no matter their numbers, aren’t enough to test the limits of my phantom evasion skill.’

’Maybe if I encountered a really powerful opponent, I could make more use of my phantom evasion skill. For now, Normal Zombies are only as powerful as the average human, aside from the advantage of limitless stamina, so they could even last longer than humans in a war of attrition.’

Although Ainsworth couldn’t test the limits of Phantom Evasion (SS), he could at least prove that it was indeed useful. He hadn’t even paired it with Freedom of Movement (SSS) yet, he could already move and dodge like a phantom and prevent those zombies from touching him.

While Ainsworth was testing his skills, Rian and Dante were busy dealing with the zombies.

Since the hotel being intact was needed, the two of them had to use non-destructive attacks, which reduced their efficiency in clearing out the zombies inside the hotel.

Nevertheless, it didn’t take them that long, as Ainsworth later on split up with Rian and Dante inside the hotel to clear up the zombies.

With the zombies being taken care of, Ainsworth, Rian, and Dante had already chosen their hotel rooms and cleaned them up while leaving the rest of the work to Thomas and the survivors.

Resting in their respective hotel rooms, Ainsworth lay down on his bed and reached his hand towards the ceiling, looking at both his outreached hand and the ceiling.

Gazing at it, he sighed, "The unfamiliar ceiling has been a glaring proof that I’m staying in a world different from my own. There’s no sister to cook for me when I wake up and no class to attend to."

"Aside from feeling a bit homesick, the Otherworld is still a place best suited for me."

’After all, the system has been active since I entered the Zombie Apocalypse World with Rian and Dante. It’s the best place to trigger choice events, and I’ll be able to become stronger faster in the otherworld than on Earth.’

’Even if my family is incomplete in this reality, I can fix it by becoming stronger. When I become the strongest, I can just manipulate reality and see through the truth behind the misfortune that fell upon my family.’

Clenching his outreached hand into a fist, Ainsworth muttered, "I need more power..."

Nevertheless, he wasn’t in a hurry, as haste makes waste. Even those overpowered protagonists in the novels he read would still take a hundred years to reach omniverse-level power.

It hasn’t even been a week since he had been transmigrated to this parallel Earth, and it has only been his first day since he started the Otherworld Mission in the Zombie Apocalypse World.

The Eye Organization wasn’t a looming threat, considering that his sister Kyla had ensured they wouldn’t find any reason to threaten Earth. However, he still wanted to gouge out the eyes of every member of the Eye Organization, like what they did to his sister, and return his sister’s eyes to her.

While Ainsworth was resting on the bed, the night fell, and the white crescent moon shone brightly in the sky.

When moonlight entered through the windows and landed on Ainsworth’s skin, he felt the virochondria and zombie virus in his body becoming stronger and more efficient, albeit at a slow pace. The viral energy in his body was becoming more abundant in terms of capacity as the moonlight kept feeding it.

Feeling the change brought by this world’s moonlight, Ainsworth pondered, "So this is the strangeness of this world’s moon? I’m considered an evolver, so I could feel the improvement brought by it."

"However, it does have its downsides. If an evolver greedily absorbs more moonlight than they could handle, the zombie virus in their body will become more restless, and the difficulty in keeping it controllable will increase. In the worst-case scenario, they might even turn into a zombie."

"My father zombie virus is unlike the regular evolver’s zombie virus, as it’s completely obedient to me, and I can even infect others and control them with it. Because of that, absorbing the moonlight has all the advantages while ignoring the disadvantages."

"As for how the zombies would benefit from this..." freeweɓnovēl.coɱ

Curious about the strange moonlight’s effects on zombies, Ainsworth spied through Kyle’s senses via the Hive Mind and noticed that a lifeform filled with zombie virus like him was like a fish in the water during nighttime.

The moonlight greatly strengthened Kyle’s power. Even the speed of Kyle’s evolution was greatly increased, and as long as he hoarded the places with the most moonlight, it would greatly decrease the time it would take for him to evolve into a Special Zombie.

Furthermore, from Kyle’s perspective, Ainsworth saw that zombies at night would go outdoors and would bask in the moonlight like a plant would eagerly do when performing photosynthesis.

The stronger zombies would even stay on the rooftops and sit in meditation to absorb the moonlight faster.

Noticing the speed of Kyle’s evolution as well as the behaviors of other zombies, Ainsworth couldn’t help but comment, "Aren’t the humans of this world screwed?"