Chapter 4: Fight to the Death
"So, how does one win a fight against a human?, Well, even before fighting a fight's outcome is usually decided. In a fight what matters the most is not your skills but rather, our mindset."
As the martial arts teacher was talking a young boy who looked about 10 years old was listening keenly.
"Why am I remembering this now?" murmured Sumit.
"IS my mind cheering myself to find a way to survive?", he thought to himself.
"Well, considering the fact that I am going to literally fight it out with my life on line, I am not complaining." as Sumit searched through the utility room he finally gathered everything he needed.
Looking at the materials in front of him, he started to implement his plan.
4 bottles of alcohol, 2×3L bottles of Isopropyl Alcohol disinfectant, bedsheets and empty vinegar bottles.
"Since I can't face it head on this is my best bet." as Sumit thought of this he started to assemble Molotov Cocktails.
"Thank me that I did not bunk those Forensic classes back in my 3rd year." but of course since Sumit was not trained in this he was not able to make perfect ones.
"But what I made will be sufficient." As Sumit was going through the combat plan one more in his head, he was not afraid but was feeling quite excited.
At this moment again a huge roar came from the stairway and heavy footsteps could be heard that were descending downstairs.
Sumit carefully picked up 3 of the 10 cocktails he able to make and lit their fuses, with a lighter he found in the room.
With this he walked out of the room.
"It's do or die now." Sumit whispered.
The flame from the Molotov made the surrounding a little bit brighter. And Sumit was now able to see the abomination properly.
[Update: Abomination level 5>>6]
The System chimed in.
"What the—?"
[Looks like letting the abomination handle the other zombies was a bad idea.
It seems to have levelled up using their Life Pearls.]
"Man, I really have the worst luck." Sumit said as a sweat drop rolled down his cheek.
"System use the two attribute point into vitality."
[ARE YOU SURE HOST?]
"Yes I am, moreover it's not like I can expect to win in a battle of pure strength, and in this narrow corridor, Agility would be useless."
[DING!! VIT: 9>>11]
As the system chimed, a pleasant sensation flowed inside Sumit's body and he could see that his wounds were regenerating at an inhuman speed.
[SINCE VITALITY NOW EXCEEDS THE PEAK HUMAN VALUE OF 10
HP IS FULLY RESTORED!
HP: 110/110]
"That was a pleasant surprise." Sumit grinned and finally threw the first bottle of Molotov towards the abomination.
The bottle travelled in a straight line and landed on its body setting it aflame.
Now, since it was on flames. Sumit could clearly make out the details on its body.
It was missing many chunks on its legs and abdomen.
"Looks like the zombies did quite a number on it. Well, good news for me."
Due to the wounds it was having trouble walking properly, and that was the reason why it could not charge and attack Sumit.
"But I guess it cannot fell pain. That is going to cause complications."
Suddenly the abomination raised it's hand and punched towards Sumit, even thought it was over 7 metres away from Sumit.
His instincts screamed at him to duck and he was just able to duck down in time.
Because in that instant the wall behind him was broken due to a gust of wind.
Even though the damage was minimum as compared to before, but Sumit estimated that it would have shave off about 50 HP.
"And this bustard put off the fire as well." Sumit looked at the Molotov bottle that he had lit before and towards the zombie who had extinguished every fire source in the surroundings.
Sumit could aging hear the whistling sound and this time he quickly rolled inside the room.
"System mind explaining what's happening because it does not like it's all pure strength from the abomination." Sumit hurriedly asked the system while doing his best to control his emotions.
[Host I believe that the Abomination was able to acquire a Skill from his fight with the zombies. Whenever a living organism fights with its life on the line, there is always a chance of the dead one's Life Pearls to take the form of Skill rune.]
"So it's like those skills from RPG games, huh? which means it must have a cooldown, otherwise it would have been continuosly spamming it." Sumit quickly analysed this information while setting ever single Molotov on fire.
"I did not want to use this, but I guess it's either I take the risk or die." Sumit thought as he pulled over a mini propane stove from the side of room, he swiftly detached the cylinder from the stove.
"Thank god, that the warden was liberal. He even allowed these in case the students wanted to celebrate." Well, the truth was something else but Sumit could only thank him at this moment.
At that instant the wall in in front of Sumit exploded. Sumit had anticipated this move and was preparing at a corner of the room.
"This is my chance, it must have already used it's skill." and with this thought Sumit threw 3 Molotov in swift succession.
The area was lit ablaze and the heatwave made Sumit uncomfortable.
Sumit could see the zombie raise it's arm again to use the skill but he was prepared this time and quickly picked up the remaining 4 bottles and made a run for another corner of the room.
BOOOOOOOMMMM!!!! With this the abomination destroyed half of the utility room.
Again the fire was extinguished but Sumit taking the advantage of the opening quickly threw another 3 bottles leaving the last 1 bottle.
The fire was again lit up but this time, Sumit quickly threw the propane cylinder towards the punch.
BOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMM!!! An explosion way larger than the previous ones happened right then and Sumit was thrown to the ends of the room and slammed on the wall.
[WARNING: -90 HP, HP: 20/110]
Huff….Huff…. Pain was the only thing that Sumit was able to feel now.
He could not open his eyes and could not even hear anything. This damage to his body only occurred due to the shockwave.
He was fortunate that in the same instant of the explosion the wind gust was able to extinguish the flames leaving only the Shockwave.
"If the Skill had been a little bit weaker, I would have been roasted by the fire it spread towards me, What an irony." murmured Sumit as he felt his consciousness fading.
He stilled forced himself to open his eyes, because he knew he could not allow himself to lose consciousness right now.
What he saw made his blood freeze.
"This ba*tard is still alive." Sumit while gritting his teeth looked at the abomination which was missing the entire right half of its torso and was leaking blood.
It's body was covered in burns and it looked like it came from an oven.
Slowly it raised it's left arm and prepared to punch towards Sumit, who could only lay down and watch his doom.
"IS this really the end?" with eyes of unwillingness Sumit looked towards the abomination
And the abomination finally punched out. At that instant it had seen Sumit smirking and was unable to understand it's only thought focused on taking him down.
"Heh." Sumit smirked and then…
BOOOOMMMM !! What exploded was not Sumit neither it was the air, it was Abomination itself.
[DING YOU HAVE DEFEATED THE MANA ABONIMATION LEVEL 6
LEVEL DIFFERENCE: 5
TIME OF BATTLE: 18:22HRS
NIGHTMARE CREATURE BONUS: 20%
DING YOU HAVE BEEN REWARDED: 1500EXP
CONGRATULATIONS FOR LEVELLING UP
LEVEL 1(90/100)>>>LEVEL 5(0/1600)
DING!! YOU RECEIVE +8 IN ATTRIBUTES
DING!! YOU RECEIVE 8 FREE ATTRIBUTE POINTS
AS BONUS REWARDS YOU RECEIVE
1 MINOR HEALTH POTION (Common)
1 MANA ATTRIBUTE ORB (Epic)
CHECK OUT YOUR STATUS FOR INFO ON THESE…]
As the system notifications sounded Sumit started to crawl his body out of the rubble towards the zombie corpse.
This was only possible due to sudden increase of +8 in all attributes, so Sumit made sure to finally reach there and consume the healing potion.
After consuming it Sumit fell unconscious.