[+1 EXP]
[+0.5 EXP]
Felix stood over the zombie now with a twisted neck and cracked skull, breathing heavily. When the two [EXP] notifications flashed his vision and he stood confused, as to what might've split them and cut one short by 0.5 points.
Then clicked with him.
Jack quickly looked behind in the direction of the bathroom—where Evangeline's should be—only to spot the ethereal blue glow of an item pulsing on the ground just beside a dead zombie, with the illuminated silhouette of Evangeline shivering in the corner.
"Rare grade?" Jack was stunned at the impressive grade of the item which had dropped from the zombie he'd knocked down with the knife—which you could tell from their glow.
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• Gray/White: Common grade.
• Green: Uncommon grade.
• Blue: Rare grade.
• Purple: Epic grade.
• Orange/Gold: Legendary grade.
• Red/Black: Mythic grade.
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But there was a more pressing matter that came with the ethereal glow of the rare grade item: their location has been given away.
Jack could hear the snarling of more zombies from the other end of the hallway, and some shuffling out from the classrooms to the sides of the hallway.
He quickly shot forward towards Evangeline. He was already exhausted from the fight with the five zombies, especially after the last one, and wasn't confident in taking on many at once.
He screeched to a halt just as he arrived before the bathroom, snatched the knives embedded on the spine and skull of the zombie, and with the rare grade item—which turned out to be a dagger—he bolted into the bathroom grabbing Evangeline's wrist and pulling her in with him, and shutting the door tight behind him.
Jack sighed heavily and went into one of the toilet stalls to sit, as he couldn't sit on the bare floor because it was too cold for his balls.
He raised the bone dagger—which has lost its luster soon after Jack claimed it—to the level of his vision and peered at it like he was trying to stare into its soul.
He slowly rotated the dagger, inspecting every nook and corner of the jagged blade with its hilt wrapped in study rags like the bandages of a mummy.
Evangeline stood before the stall staring at Jack in confusion. She wanted to tell him she could see what he could see now. She had received a holographic notification after the zombie had fallen head first into her knife, and wanted to ask him what it meant. But she chose to stay silent as she was smart enough to know Jack wasn't just admiring the strange dagger that had popped from the chest of the zombie that died by her hands.
[Ding! You have unlocked the skill 'Appraisal']
The notification flashed across Jack's vision, drawing a subtle smile from him.
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[Item: Grave Digger]
Grade: Rare
Type: Dagger
Description: A piece of what was once whole, now seeking to make others broken. It hungers for the marrow of the living.
Abilities:
Bone Crusher (Active): A charged attack that has a chance to ignore a portion of an armored target's defense.
Attack: 6 | Durability: 12/12
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Jack nodded his head in satisfaction.
The Lv1 zombies had about 30 health points. The Grave Digger dagger had a fixed 6 attack points, and Jack himself had 4 attack points. This made Jack's damage output now using the dagger a 10—four more points to the chef's knives that only had 2 attack points and made his total damage output 6.
So now, without even hitting the vital spots of the zombies, it'll take Jack only three stabs to kill them.
Impressive.
Jack finally looked up from the dagger, to Evangeline who was standing at the entrance of the stall staring at him.
"I—I just got this holographic interface that said +0.5 EXP when the zombie fell on my knife," Elizabeth stuttered and quickly said.
"Ah," Jack exclaimed softly.
In his past life, after the system wave had hit Earth, it took a bit of time before it fully integrated with the individuals that survived the wave. Those who didn't—or couldn't—had their brains fried and were zombified.
Jack believed the reason he'd been able to access his early on was because of his high perception attribute—12. The limit for humans. And that was only because he's a regressor and knew a lot more than any other persons.
It wasn't a 12 in his past life. Much—much lower than that. Like the rest of his pathetic attributes.
It was the only thing that improved from his regression—not even his luck.
Jack returned his focus to Evangeline. "Say, 'Status' out loud—to yourself," Jack said to her.
Evangeline didn't argue or ask any questions. She quickly remembered it was the same word Jack had said earlier that materialized the holographic interface she'd seen on him, and knew he wasn't kidding her.
"Status!" Evangeline said a bit louder than she'd intended, but it worked.
A curved, bluish holographic interface—just like Jack's—materialized in her vision. And she could see its content this time around.
Jack was as surprised as Evangeline on seeing her holographic interface, but for a different reason: He could see it. He could see the inverted contents of Evangeline's status screen from behind—which shouldn't be so.
The contents of your status screen was exclusive to the individual alone.
Jack quickly stood up from the toilet seat to walk around Evangeline, to verify if he could actually read the fine, small prints of her status screen—and he could.
The holographic interface was split into two sides: one was her inventory space devoid of anything. While the other was her character sheet.
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[Character Sheet]
Name: Evangeline Rose Sterling
Origin: Earth
Class: —
Affiliation: Null
Level: 01 | F-Rank
Title(s): —
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HP: 40 / 40
MP: 105 / 105
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[Core Attributes]: 27
Strength: 4
Agility: 3
Constitution: 5
Perception: 7
Spirit: 8
AP: 0
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Luck: 10
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Physical Attack: 3 / Magic Attack: 8
Physical Defense: 4 / Magic Resistance: 8
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[Skill Tree]:
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Jack's eyes widened inshock as soon as he spotted her luck attribute. Because the luck for the average human was 6, and he's never heard of anyone who started with a 10.