Magus: A Supernatural LitRPG Saga (Apocosmos Book 2) by Dimitrios Gkirgkiris (ebook offline reader txt) 📗

"Don't open it," Louie said, and I stopped in my tracks. "It might be a monster."

"But we need to take care--" I started but he interrupted me.

"I know. Just get ready and I'll open it from here."

We all took out positions around the closet.

Louie flung the double doors open and we finally saw the source of the disgusting sound.

Name: Jason Smith

Race: Human (Reanimated)

Class: N/A

Level: N/A

The man was wearing a long lab coat that was dripping with blood. His head was almost parallel to his shoulder, and an ugly gash on his neck seemed to be the source of all the blood. His eyes slowly locked on me and he moved his head with a disgusting cracking sound, bringing it to a relatively natural position. The sound he was making now changed pitch to that of a beast thirsting for a kill.

As soon as he stepped out of the closet, I thrust my left sword forward, piercing his belly all the way through to his back. He'd looked terrifying, but his movements were slow.

"What the fuck is this thing?" I said.

Then I realized that instead of falling limp, the man took another step forward, pushing my sword further in and widening the wound it had caused him. He raised his arms and tried to get a grip on my face. I struggled against it and Rory stepped forward to strike, but before he could, I wrestled myself out of his almost skeletal grasp and brought my right sword up from below, piercing below his chin and thrusting my sword up to the top of his skull. The moment the blade hit bone, his eyes froze in place and his jaw fell open, now slack.

"A zombie," I said, taking a step back, and letting the walking corpse fall to the floor. "It's a fucking zombie."

"That's definitely not something the DiFiores would use," Rory said. He kicked the corpse with his boot.

"Are we not gonna talk about the fact that a zombie just tried to bite me?" I exclaimed, not quite believing that everyone could be so casual about it.

"What do ye wanna say?" Rory said. "Do ye want a pat on the back that ye didn't get bit?"

"Well for starters, yes. I didn't know that thing would go on after I impaled it."

"That's kind of the whole thing with reanimated creatures," Viki remarked.

"Wait, so zombies are a real thing?" I asked.

"Lad, there are all kinds of bad things in the Apocosmos. I don't know why ye're getting so worked up about this one."

"Only 'cause..." I started saying, but then I thought about it again. This wasn't the place or the time to express how excited I was when slicing my way through zombie hordes in games and how many times I'd thought about what I would do if I was in the place of the characters from The Walking Dead. "What would have happened if it bit me?"

"Oh, that would've been bad," Viki replied. "I mean, for you it would. With enough time, I would just have shapeshifted and shed the sickness. But you'd have to search for a high-level healer."

"So it's reversible?" Louie asked in turn.

"Everything is," the doppelgänger replied. "For every force, every phenomenon, there is something that can counter it or reverse it."

"Enough of yer yapping," Rory whispered, keeping his ear on the door we'd entered through. "Sounds clear out there. Let's move."

"Wait. Rebuff!" Louie said and renewed the countdown of our buffs.

We opened the door and Viki popped her head out, looking both ways before signaling for us to follow her. She moved forward with the elegance of a silent predator, the rest of us falling in line behind her as quietly as possible.

Right before we reached the corner where the huge cockroach had come from, she took out a piece of parchment from her pocket. It was the makeshift map she had created. She signaled right with her hand and then left, proceeding to point at a room on the map. We nodded and resumed our walk down the hallway.

Viki peeked right and then left again before moving forward. This corridor looked even worse than the ones we'd seen so far. Now there were monsters beside the human bodies including the body of a creature identical to the one we had just avoided a few minutes ago. It was a gigantic, black, disgusting cockroach. The only difference was that its legs looked like long needles and reminded me of an arachnid more than any of the smaller insects. In fact, now it was dead, it was lying on its back with its legs all curled up to meet its scaly belly.

Next to it was a woman who had a similar mark on her neck to the reanimated corpse I'd just escaped but she wasn't moving at all. Having seen enough zombie movies to take it for granted, I placed one sword on the side of her head and pressed it down swiftly, making a cracking noise followed by a wet squish. At that exact moment, the feet of the black insect next to me twitched.

"Motherfuck--" I said and jumped back, scared out of my mind.

The other three all turned around and opened their eyes as wide as possible, trying their best to tell me to shut up without actually saying the words. I could only hope my little startle hadn't been loud enough to be heard by any of the roaming monsters. We moved down the bloodied corridor as swiftly as we could without being too loud, Viki and I piercing the skulls of all the human corpses on the way.

Once we reached the end of the corridor and checked that nobody was coming, we rushed down the last corridor and prepared ourselves for the battle that would ensue once we opened the door to where Leo was being held. Louie telekinetically turned the handle but the door didn't budge.

"Locked," he said in my head, and immediately I looked down at