The Soul System in the Apocalypse
Chapter 289: Critically Injured

Chapter 289: Critically Injured

In the next moment, the speed at which they were moving forward suddenly increased drastically. And even without giving the zombie the time to react, the two halves finally arrived before the zombie, and they struck towards its chest.

The zombie was also fast to react. Although it was not capable of summoning the shield that it was using before, it still used its arms to block the two halves of the staff that were about to hit it.

Bang! Crackle!

The moment that the two halves of the staff connected with the zombie’s arms, and explosion occurred. The zombie was forced to halt its movements, although it was initially moving at an incredible speed, before its feet slid on the ground backwards.

The intensity of the flickering red light within the pupils of the zombie’s eyes intensified at this moment. The muscles on the hands of the zombie were currently bleeding with dark blood while at the same time, several burnt marks appeared on the arms of the zombie.

The two halves that had collided with the zombie, currently no longer covered in lightning, flew back to the hands of Nancy. Nancy looked at the zombie, her expression became even more grim.

The attack that she had used at this time was a move that she had been saving, a trump card. This was the combination of an attack from her and the companion beast that she was riding. But even with the combination of the two attacks, which multiplied the damage power that could be caused by the attack, the zombie was not much injured at all.

It might be true that It was forced to stop and at the same time pushed backwards, with several injuries appearing on its hands, it was not as if Nancy could continuously launch such attacks.

If it was so, she would have definitely began using this attack from the very start. It was just that this attack consumed a lot of energy.

It might seem like she was the one who was not consuming the energy, but it was actually a combined effort of the two, something that strengthened the speed at which the two halves of the staff moved, and the intensity of the lightning that was surrounding them.

At most, she could attack three times. And after the last attack, the amount of energy in her body would have been completely drained. At that time, she together with her companion beast would be helpless to defend themselves.

Although she had not used it many times, but every time that she used this skill, whoever it was that she was facing against would be completely dealt with. But right now, the zombie was not only still standing, but it was also infuriated even more than it was before.

Adam and the others looked over with a little surprise in their eyes. To say the truth, they were quite amazed by the skill that Nancy had used. It seemed that she was possessing several more secrets other than the fact that her information was kind of hidden, not fully revealed.

This made the group completely curious about this lady. She was the leader of this territory, and that implied that she was not simple. And now, with the power level of level 9 silver rank, she was actually capable of holding back the zombie, although she was not facing it directly.

One had to know that there was a big gap that existed between level 9 silver rank and level 1 gold rank. It might be that there was only a single level in between them, but the gap was not something that could be easily ignored.

It was also quite difficult for a person like Henry who possessed a unique profession and a title to be able to cover that gap. So, it was amazing that Nancy who possessed an SS grade profession was capable of doing that.

Rooooar!

Having been injured, a bigger injury as compared to the ones that it had suffered before, the zombie could no longer hold it anymore. It stomped onto the ground in anger as it roared.

Booom!

Nancy who had just retrieved the two halves of her staff looked at the zombie with cautiousness in her eyes. She was not sure on how she was supposed to deal with this zombie, but what she had to do was to make sure that the zombie did not attack the territory.

Suddenly, the companion beast that she was on top of made erratic movements. Due to the sudden movements, Nancy almost fell off the back of the crow, but it was due to her speedy reflexes that she was able to maintain her grip on the belt that was around the crow’s neck.

At this moment, Nancy’s heart skipped a beat. After the crow flew into the air, she finally realized the reason why the crow moved in such a way. It turned out that during the time that the zombie stomped onto the ground, a pillar suddenly erupted from the ground and charged into the air.

The pillar had immediately come out of the ground just below the crow. Since the crow was not flying that high, the pillar almost reached it. But due to the fact that the crow was one that possessed lightning element and it was a bird, it was capable of getting out of the way faster.

Just then, Nancy noticed another thing that surprised her. The zombie did not stop stomping onto the ground, but it continuously did so. Nevertheless, there were no more pillars that were coming from the ground.

She was wondering what was the zombie doing? But nevertheless, she understood one thing, whatever it was that the zombie was doing, it was definitely not a good thing. So, she decided to risk it, using the second chance that she possessed to launch the same attack as the one that she had launched before.

With her eyes narrowed, she looked at the zombie below her. Since there was a link between her and the companion beast, the companion beast immediately understood what she was trying to imply. So, the crow began flying towards the zombie.

At the same time, Nancy kept her eye on the zombie while at the same time, preparing herself to launch the two halves of the staff.

As they finally approached, just about 10 or so meters away from the zombie, Nancy raised her hands, preparing to launch and attack. But before she could do so, abruptly, the ground beneath them suddenly shook.

In the next moment, several pillars erupted from the ground at the same time. This time, even with its monster instincts, the crow was not capable of detecting the danger early enough.

As for trying to avoid the attacks, although it avoided several pillars that had erupted from the ground, but it was not capable of avoiding more than 10 of them that had suddenly come out of the ground from different locations at the same time.

It seemed that this zombie also possessed a strategy that it was using. It was not a fool after all.

Bang!

One of the pillars managed to hit the crow directly from below. This made it to get blasted into the air. Although it was already flying in the air, but the force at which it was launched into the air was tremendous.

Of course other than that, the crow was also injured severely. The crow was a bird. And due to that reason, it did not possess the best defensive capabilities. So, the moment that it was attacked, it actually passed out.

Nancy on the other hand was not capable of remaining on top of the crow anymore. So, she was forced to fall. The height at which they were launched by the pillar that had risen in the air was about 20 m or so. Nevertheless, Nancy reacted quite quickly, managing to land steadily on the ground.

But looking at the crow that had fallen not far away from her, she could not help but feel a little scared for the crow. Without caring about anything else, she immediately rushed towards the crow to check on it.

But of course, the zombie was not going to let a chance like this go. Since it had finally managed to bring that annoying fly that was in the air onto the ground, it was going to make sure that it took care of it.

So without hesitation, it suddenly charged towards Nancy. And at this moment, a comic scene could be seen as a lady ran in front while being chased by a giant. It looked like a little girl who was running away from a giant bully.

Of course Nancy did not care about the impression that other people were getting at this moment. She was completely worried about the crow. It was her companion beast, so, she was not willing to see it dying.

When she arrived where the crow was, she checked on it, and she was relieved when she realized that it was actually alive. But at this time, she felt the ground shaking, and realized that she had lost her focus, forgetting about the fact that she was in the battlefield.

It might be true that she was worried about her companion beast, but that did not mean that the zombie cared. To it, since it was irritated by her and her companion beast, it was definitely going to take this chance to strike at them.

Reacting as fast as she could, she turned around as she stood up. At the same time, the two halves of the staff that she had already placed on the ground rose and flew into her hand.

When she grabbed them, the zombie had already arrived before her, and it was launching a punch towards her. Although she was not sure if she could block this attack, there was no way that she was going to evade it. If she did so, the crow that was behind her was definitely going to be the one that was going to be attacked.

Currently, the crow was already vulnerable. So, if another attack from this zombie that was at the gold rank landed on it, it was definitely going to die. But that was something that she was not willing to see. So, at this point, Nancy braced herself as she raised the two halves of the staff to block the punch that was launched towards her.