"Entering Floor 2."
The elevator shifts with an uneasy smoothness before the cold silver doors shift open with a light gust of air. I shiver in anticipation as I catch my first look of Floor 2.
My first thought is that I've just walked into some sort of miniature zombie night club. There's a blaring sign in one corner that says exit, so I'm assuming that's where the elevator will be. But something tells me I won't be able to pass all these zombies and go towards the elevator. I heave a massive sigh and step out.
"What?!" I nearly shout, as I see 5 of the zombies that were before dancing along to some sort of techno music run towards me. When I said miniature I meant it. These guys look no taller than 1 foot. But I still can't ignore their sharp looking teeth, and malicious eyes. They are green, and most of them have bald heads, although some of them have stringy, balding purple hair. They all wear what looks to me to be a brown potato sack. Whew, these guys need to work on their fashion sense!
But then something happens that makes me jump nearly two feet into the air. "Well…I guess the zombies notice me now." What looks to be 30 more mini zombies notice me, and begin to sprint towards me, their stubby legs tripping over each other.
I look at the closest ones stats.
[STATUS]
Name: Miniature Zombie
Age: Undead
Race: Zombie
LVL: 1
HP: 1/1
ATK: 1
MP: 0
STA: 4
DEF: 1
LUC: 0
INT: 0
Skills:
Dash
Zombie Scratch (Weak)
I look over a few of the other zombies just to confirm that they all have the same stats.
Well that's a breath of fresh air. They have lower stats than me! This should be easy…except for the fact that they're around 50 of them. But this is good at least. I suppose it's to be ected with lower level monsters like this, but this still will be difficult. They are still Level 1 while I'm Level 0.5 but I can't imagine that will make too much difference? Well whatever…this isn't going to be easy. But luckily I have an attack of 1, and the zombies just have 1 HP. I should be able to insta-kill them one on one. The trick is, I'll have to fight them one on one. But not getting hit once is a loss easier said than done when there's lots of mini zombies sprinting towards me at break neck speed.
I run away from the zombies, biding my time, repeating in my mind that one hit equals my death. 7 Zombies quicken their speed and try to overtake them…but I'm faster. I trip one zombie and the other zombies fall over it. 7 Zombies down….many more to go. And something tells me those zombies were especially stupid. But I'll have to get used to running, that's all I'll be able to do in this fight.
Now, more than ever am I wishing I could get those Level 100 stats back.
I run towards the biggest crowd of Zombies, unsure what else to do. I block they're punching and kick off the ones that try to grapple onto my back.
"Punch!" I say, using my one skill. To my surprise the miniature zombie immediately falls down. "Okay then! Guess I'll be using my Punch skill a lot in this room!"
I take a jump backwards and slowly start to circle the 32 zombies left, finding my bearings. I quickly appraise both of the skeletons.
They're not strong or high in defense, but they are fast…and there's a lot. There's no other way to fight them but just not give up using my Punch skill, and slowly taking them down. It will be slow….but I gotta do it!
I smirk as I quickly run towards the zombies. Punching them from all sides. Zombies fall around me easily. I run towards a zombie.
I'm close enough to the zombie now that I can smell its disgusting breath…what did it even eat last? Whatever, I don't have time for random questions like that right now. I swing my arm back and deliver what should have been an amazingly powerful punch. It has the same effect though, because the zombie instantly falls onto the floor- but then!
A zombie flings its arms towards me in a Zombie Scratch…that was a close one. If I hadn't jumped away at the same time it would have got me for good!
I dodge the Miniature Zombie's dash and then, when it's still recovering from its attack, run behind it…
"Eat my fist Zombie!"
BAM!
The Zombie rattles underneath my fist and it quickly falls to the floor, luckily for me I see green writing in the corner of my vision! That must mean I've gained erience! But before I can look more closely at my gained erience I hear a very scuffling.
I slowly turn around, and find myself face to face with all the rest of the 10 Miniature zombies climbing on top of each other. They are now about twice my height, and look to be a lot stronger.
"Oh. Great." I mutter under my breath before checking the Zombie's stats again.
[STATUS]
Name: Miniature Zombie (Tower)
Age: Undead
Race: Zombie
LVL: 1
HP: 2/2
ATK: 1
MP: 0
STA: 4
DEF: 10
LUC: 0
INT: 0
Skills:
Zombie Tower Fall (Deadly)
My day just got a whole lot worse. The Miniature Zombie (Tower) just got a defence of 10! That's the highest defence I've ever seen!
I check to make sure it has a weak spot on its back…
"Damn it!" I curse.
It has no noticeable weak spot!
I jump backwards, something tells me that the more space I have between me and this Mini Zombie tower the better!
I take advantage of my newfound space to look around the room. Maybe there's something I can use to fight the zombies? My eyes narrow… In one corner is a stack of chairs. If the bottom chair is kicked, the rest of the other chairs will fall, and most likely break. So that means, if I fight the bottom zombie the other zombies stacked up on it will fall too. Now the hardest part is dodging the other zombies attacks to get to the bottom zombie.
"Guess I'll just have to punch my way through!" I run at the zombies with a shout. "Punch!"
The zombies wildly flail their arms trying to reach me, but lucky for it I'm faster…not by much though…
"Oof!" One zombie managed to kick me in the stomach with so much force I nearly fall on the floor. But not quite enough force! I frantically run away, but the zombies are quickly catching up to me. Before I know it…he's right in front of me.
"That's all according to my plan!" I smirk. I quickly punch my fist towards the Zombie's head and it quickly falls to the floor. It's like a chain reaction of zombies. They all fall to the floor with swirling eyes, clearly very confused and very dizzy. I use this to my advantage and am easily able to pick them off one by one with my Punch skill.
"Gotcha!" I yell, pumping my fist into the air. Another green light flashes in my vision that says new skills unlocked and I eagerly check my stats.
[STATUS]
Name: Se Jun Park
Class: Weakling Hero
Age: 18
Race: Human
LVL: 1
HP: 5/5
ATK: 4
MP: 0
STA: 2
DEF: 3
LUC: 0
INT: 1
Skills:
Punch (Extreme weakness)
Dizzy
Level 1 lets go!
I check my stats again.
What's this new skill? Dizzy…I wonder what that does… I look at the details of the skill to see what it does.
I look over the description…It gives enemies a dizzying effect so their momentarily stunned…not bad! I guess I unlocked it when I kicked that zombie tower. But that will definitely be useful on the other floors. Of course not as useful as a normal stun, but something tells me I won't unlock that for a very long time..
Suddenly the metal wall in front of me peels back to reveal a silver elevator door behind the red exit sign. I smile and walk towards the door.
The silver walls close around me and I'm left inside the quiet elevator. I cast a wary glance at the one small, black security camera in the corner before staring fixedly at the elevator doors.
The automated voice turns on with a low beep.
"Leaving Floor 2."
The elevator slowly shakes, and begins to sluggishly rise up. I lean against the wall of the elevator, waiting. After a couple minutes, the automated voice turns on again.
"Entering Floor 3."