Chapter 175
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They stopped at a place near the river, with flat grass.
While drinking from the river wasn't safe, it was hard for them to find a place with an abundant number of zombies that weren't too difficult for beginners to practice on.
Alec gripped his whip and lashed out, causing a few zombies fishes to fly out and land on the ground, flopping around. The zombie fishes had large, sharply protruding teeth. It was much sharper than the human zombies' teeth.
Unlike the listlessness of the human zombies that were back in the city, the zombie fishes appeared full of life and vitality even when they were clearly zombies. They flopped around powerfully and didn't die even when they were out of the water, further proof that they were indeed zombies.
Karen choked off the shriek that wanted to leave her mouth, standing clear of the dirty fishes. Ugh. Disgusting!
"First thing's first. Copy the aura of the zombie fish."
Karen and Liam stared at Alec doubtfully, but dutifully closed their eyes to feel their magic.
They yelped when a stinging pain was felt from the lash that Alec gave them. For some reason, they didn't feel bad even when Alec gave them a lash.
"Don't close your eyes! Do you think you'll be able to take your time accessing your magic in the middle of a battle?"
Karen's eyes twitched. "Ew, did you just lash us with the same whip that grabbed the zombie fish?!"
"I don't see another whip here," Alec said a bit dryly.
Karen struggled to shove down her disgust. Calm, Karen, calm. She had to get rid of this pesky mysophobia quickly! She couldn't be a burden forever! This was the apocalypse. The apocalypse!
She couldn't allow this damn mysophobia to rule her instincts forever! One slip and she could lose both Lukas and Liam to a zombie, which was just unacceptable.
Lukas, curious, was already copying the aura of the zombie fish. It felt distinctly different from the zombies in the city.
Perhaps it was because the zombie was originally a fish and not a human. To put in in simpler words, the aura felt more… watery as compared to the human type zombies.
Within ten minutes, Lukas had successfully managed to copy the zombie fish's aura. Meanwhile, Karen and Liam were still struggling, one more than the other.
While Liam had already gotten a hang of using his magic throughout his body and was able to direct it to specific parts of his body. It was almost as if he'd obtained another limb and was getting the hang of it quickly. He was currently trying to copy the aura after being egged on by his brother's early success.
Karen on the other hand, was still struggling to find the magic inside her. Perhaps it was because she kept getting distracted by the wriggling zombie fish on the ground near her, but she just couldn't find it!
Splash! Lukas jumped into the river, startling a worried shout from Liam.
"Don't worry. Unless he's directly bitten by a zombie, at the stage your brother is at, he won't turn because he's entering the water. You, on the other hand, cannot! So faster get to the first stage!"
At least, that was how it was in all those novels. Whether it was true or not remained to be seen, but if a regressor was willing to take that risk, then who was he to stop him?
Liam nodded and concentrated harder. Determination filled him at the sight of his brother putting himself in danger. He didn't want to be left behind in safety while his brother was facing dangers.
They were twins! He wasn't willing to be left behind!
Karen was still struggling even after Liam finally managed to copy the aura of the zombie fishes.
Alec studied Karen, thinking. While he'd gotten good at reading people over the years because of his interaction with his master – due to his normally stoic face – he wasn't a mind reader.
All he could see was that Karen was feeling scared, disgusted and apprehensive.
At first, he thought that she was just scared of the zombies in general, which should have been dealt with easily the longer she stared at zombies, which was the reason why he'd picked to stop here in the first place, but that didn't seem to be it.
"What are you so scared of?"
Karen broke the slightly horrified glance she was using to stare at the zombie fish. Even when she was trying to locate her magic using the feeling that Alec had shown her previously, she just couldn't break her horrified gaze.
She felt like she was watching a train wreck in motion, but she just couldn't concentrate when she saw how the fish was flopping around and even causing a bit of mud to be created!
It was disgusting! It was completely filthy no matter how much she tried to psyche herself up!!
"I – ugh. I have mysophobia," Karen admitted in a small voice.
Karen looked ashamed, and depressed. She'd probably been hiding it from both Lukas and Liam, if the way she said it was any indication.
"Ah." Alec looked at her seriously, seeing how down she was about admitting her fears. He wasn't good with words, so he would just tell it to her straight up.
"So what if you have a phobia? As long as you are willing to work on it, one day you will manage to overcome your fear. Did you choose to have that phobia? If not, then why are you blaming yourself? This can't be controlled but has to be slowly cured. It won't suddenly disappear overnight no matter how much we want it to."
There was a pause in their conversation, but Karen seemed more settled after hearing Alec voice his thoughts regarding her mysophobia.
She looked like she'd let go of a heavy burden within her, allowing her to breathe more easily even when she didn't feel perfectly fine.
"How do you feel now?"
Karen thought about it, and her face slowly changed as her real thoughts came to the surface. "I feel disgusting! Like there are a thousand ants crawling over my body. I want to wash up so badly – even just my hands are fine – but I can't do that. What if we don't have enough water? I can't be a burden any more than I already am –" she voiced her frustrations, finally giving word to them after having sat on these feelings for so long.
At this point, Liam had overheard their conversation.
"Karen," Liam said sternly. "You are not a burden. You are our friend. Would you think we were burdens as well if we did something that wasn't productive? You should have said something! We won't miss a few bottles every once in a while!"
"No. I refuse! I can just bear with it until we get to base and manage to secure a place for ourselves. I'll learn how to purify water so that I can use it, but not until then!"
Liam and Karen glared at each other, neither of them were willing to back down.
Alec looked at them dryly. He wanted to speak, but they argued so fiercely that he couldn't get a word in edgewise. It wasn't until they started glaring at each other as if the one with the fiercer glare would be able to cower the other into submission.
"I have a solution."
Both heads turned to him, confused.
"All you have to do is awaken to stage one. If you're lucky enough, you'll get a water-type power which you can use at any given time. If you're not, there are other ways you can keep clean with magic."
"WHAT," Karen shouted, then made to engulf Alec in a hug that he avoided. Karen pouted, but then cheered up at his words. He should have said that sooner!
There was a way for her to be clean! Everyday! Everywhere! In this filthy world! She almost felt like Alec had been shrouded in a holy aura the moment she heard his words of enlightenment. She could have converted to the Alec religion right there and then.
Say no more!
Karen threw herself into it with dogged determination, managing to access her magic and even copy the zombie fish in record time.
Right as she finished, the current of the river surged and waved, splashing over to the sides. Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click www.webnovel.com for visiting.
They caught sight of Lukas fighting against a giant zombie fish with his bare, lightning covered hands.
The place fell silent in astonishment.
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They stopped at a place near the river, with flat grass.
While drinking from the river wasn't safe, it was hard for them to find a place with an abundant number of zombies that weren't too difficult for beginners to practice on.
Alec gripped his whip and lashed out, causing a few zombies fishes to fly out and land on the ground, flopping around. The zombie fishes had large, sharply protruding teeth. It was much sharper than the human zombies' teeth.
Unlike the listlessness of the human zombies that were back in the city, the zombie fishes appeared full of life and vitality even when they were clearly zombies. They flopped around powerfully and didn't die even when they were out of the water, further proof that they were indeed zombies.
Karen choked off the shriek that wanted to leave her mouth, standing clear of the dirty fishes. Ugh. Disgusting!
"First thing's first. Copy the aura of the zombie fish."
Karen and Liam stared at Alec doubtfully, but dutifully closed their eyes to feel their magic.
They yelped when a stinging pain was felt from the lash that Alec gave them. For some reason, they didn't feel bad even when Alec gave them a lash.
"Don't close your eyes! Do you think you'll be able to take your time accessing your magic in the middle of a battle?"
Karen's eyes twitched. "Ew, did you just lash us with the same whip that grabbed the zombie fish?!"
"I don't see another whip here," Alec said a bit dryly.
Karen struggled to shove down her disgust. Calm, Karen, calm. She had to get rid of this pesky mysophobia quickly! She couldn't be a burden forever! This was the apocalypse. The apocalypse!
She couldn't allow this damn mysophobia to rule her instincts forever! One slip and she could lose both Lukas and Liam to a zombie, which was just unacceptable.
Lukas, curious, was already copying the aura of the zombie fish. It felt distinctly different from the zombies in the city.
Perhaps it was because the zombie was originally a fish and not a human. To put in in simpler words, the aura felt more… watery as compared to the human type zombies.
Within ten minutes, Lukas had successfully managed to copy the zombie fish's aura. Meanwhile, Karen and Liam were still struggling, one more than the other.
While Liam had already gotten a hang of using his magic throughout his body and was able to direct it to specific parts of his body. It was almost as if he'd obtained another limb and was getting the hang of it quickly. He was currently trying to copy the aura after being egged on by his brother's early success.
Karen on the other hand, was still struggling to find the magic inside her. Perhaps it was because she kept getting distracted by the wriggling zombie fish on the ground near her, but she just couldn't find it!
Splash! Lukas jumped into the river, startling a worried shout from Liam.
"Don't worry. Unless he's directly bitten by a zombie, at the stage your brother is at, he won't turn because he's entering the water. You, on the other hand, cannot! So faster get to the first stage!"
At least, that was how it was in all those novels. Whether it was true or not remained to be seen, but if a regressor was willing to take that risk, then who was he to stop him?
Liam nodded and concentrated harder. Determination filled him at the sight of his brother putting himself in danger. He didn't want to be left behind in safety while his brother was facing dangers.
They were twins! He wasn't willing to be left behind!
Karen was still struggling even after Liam finally managed to copy the aura of the zombie fishes.
Alec studied Karen, thinking. While he'd gotten good at reading people over the years because of his interaction with his master – due to his normally stoic face – he wasn't a mind reader.
All he could see was that Karen was feeling scared, disgusted and apprehensive.
At first, he thought that she was just scared of the zombies in general, which should have been dealt with easily the longer she stared at zombies, which was the reason why he'd picked to stop here in the first place, but that didn't seem to be it.
"What are you so scared of?"
Karen broke the slightly horrified glance she was using to stare at the zombie fish. Even when she was trying to locate her magic using the feeling that Alec had shown her previously, she just couldn't break her horrified gaze.
She felt like she was watching a train wreck in motion, but she just couldn't concentrate when she saw how the fish was flopping around and even causing a bit of mud to be created!
It was disgusting! It was completely filthy no matter how much she tried to psyche herself up!!
"I – ugh. I have mysophobia," Karen admitted in a small voice.
Karen looked ashamed, and depressed. She'd probably been hiding it from both Lukas and Liam, if the way she said it was any indication.
"Ah." Alec looked at her seriously, seeing how down she was about admitting her fears. He wasn't good with words, so he would just tell it to her straight up.
"So what if you have a phobia? As long as you are willing to work on it, one day you will manage to overcome your fear. Did you choose to have that phobia? If not, then why are you blaming yourself? This can't be controlled but has to be slowly cured. It won't suddenly disappear overnight no matter how much we want it to."
There was a pause in their conversation, but Karen seemed more settled after hearing Alec voice his thoughts regarding her mysophobia.
She looked like she'd let go of a heavy burden within her, allowing her to breathe more easily even when she didn't feel perfectly fine.
"How do you feel now?"
Karen thought about it, and her face slowly changed as her real thoughts came to the surface. "I feel disgusting! Like there are a thousand ants crawling over my body. I want to wash up so badly – even just my hands are fine – but I can't do that. What if we don't have enough water? I can't be a burden any more than I already am –" she voiced her frustrations, finally giving word to them after having sat on these feelings for so long.
At this point, Liam had overheard their conversation.
"Karen," Liam said sternly. "You are not a burden. You are our friend. Would you think we were burdens as well if we did something that wasn't productive? You should have said something! We won't miss a few bottles every once in a while!"
"No. I refuse! I can just bear with it until we get to base and manage to secure a place for ourselves. I'll learn how to purify water so that I can use it, but not until then!"
Liam and Karen glared at each other, neither of them were willing to back down.
Alec looked at them dryly. He wanted to speak, but they argued so fiercely that he couldn't get a word in edgewise. It wasn't until they started glaring at each other as if the one with the fiercer glare would be able to cower the other into submission.
"I have a solution."
Both heads turned to him, confused.
"All you have to do is awaken to stage one. If you're lucky enough, you'll get a water-type power which you can use at any given time. If you're not, there are other ways you can keep clean with magic."
"WHAT," Karen shouted, then made to engulf Alec in a hug that he avoided. Karen pouted, but then cheered up at his words. He should have said that sooner!
There was a way for her to be clean! Everyday! Everywhere! In this filthy world! She almost felt like Alec had been shrouded in a holy aura the moment she heard his words of enlightenment. She could have converted to the Alec religion right there and then.
Say no more!
Karen threw herself into it with dogged determination, managing to access her magic and even copy the zombie fish in record time.
Right as she finished, the current of the river surged and waved, splashing over to the sides. Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click www.webnovel.com for visiting.
They caught sight of Lukas fighting against a giant zombie fish with his bare, lightning covered hands.
The place fell silent in astonishment.
They stopped at a place near the river, with flat grass. While drinking from the river wasn't safe, it was hard for them to find a place with an abundant number of zombies that weren't too difficult for beginners to practice on. Alec gripped his whip and lashed out, causing a few zombies fishes to fly out and land on the ground, flopping around. The zombie fishes had large, sharply protruding teeth. It was much sharper than the human zombies' teeth. Unlike the listlessness of the human zombies that were back in the city, the zombie fishes appeared full of life and vitality even when they were clearly zombies. They flopped around powerfully and didn't die even when they were out of the water, further proof that they were indeed zombies. Karen choked off the shriek that wanted to leave her mouth, standing clear of the dirty fishes. Ugh. Disgusting! "First thing's first. Copy the aura of the zombie fish." Karen and Liam stared at Alec doubtfully, but dutifully closed their eyes to feel their magic. They yelped when a stinging pain was felt from the lash that Alec gave them. For some reason, they didn't feel bad even when Alec gave them a lash. "Don't close your eyes! Do you think you'll be able to take your time accessing your magic in the middle of a battle?" Karen's eyes twitched. "Ew, did you just lash us with the same whip that grabbed the zombie fish?!" "I don't see another whip here," Alec said a bit dryly. Karen struggled to shove down her disgust. Calm, Karen, calm. She had to get rid of this pesky mysophobia quickly! She couldn't be a burden forever! This was the apocalypse. The apocalypse! She couldn't allow this damn mysophobia to rule her instincts forever! One slip and she could lose both Lukas and Liam to a zombie, which was just unacceptable. Lukas, curious, was already copying the aura of the zombie fish. It felt distinctly different from the zombies in the city. Perhaps it was because the zombie was originally a fish and not a human. To put in in simpler words, the aura felt more watery as compared to the human type zombies. Within ten minutes, Lukas had successfully managed to copy the zombie fish's aura. Meanwhile, Karen and Liam were still struggling, one more than the other. While Liam had already gotten a hang of using his magic throughout his body and was able to direct it to specific parts of his body. It was almost as if he'd obtained another limb and was getting the hang of it quickly. He was currently trying to copy the aura after being egged on by his brother's early success. Karen on the other hand, was still struggling to find the magic inside her. Perhaps it was because she kept getting distracted by the wriggling zombie fish on the ground near her, but she just couldn't find it! Splash! Lukas jumped into the river, startling a worried shout from Liam. "Don't worry. Unless he's directly bitten by a zombie, at the stage your brother is at, he won't turn because he's entering the water. You, on the other hand, cannot! So faster get to the first stage!" At least, that was how it was in all those novels. Whether it was true or not remained to be seen, but if a regressor was willing to take that risk, then who was he to stop him? Liam nodded and concentrated harder. Determination filled him at the sight of his brother putting himself in danger. He didn't want to be left behind in safety while his brother was facing dangers. They were twins! He wasn't willing to be left behind! Karen was still struggling even after Liam finally managed to copy the aura of the zombie fishes. Alec studied Karen, thinking. While he'd gotten good at reading people over the years because of his interaction with his master due to his normally stoic face he wasn't a mind reader. All he could see was that Karen was feeling scared, disgusted and apprehensive. At first, he thought that she was just scared of the zombies in general, which should have been dealt with easily the longer she stared at zombies, which was the reason why he'd picked to stop here in the first place, but that didn't seem to be it. "What are you so scared of?" Karen broke the slightly horrified glance she was using to stare at the zombie fish. Even when she was trying to locate her magic using the feeling that Alec had shown her previously, she just couldn't break her horrified gaze. She felt like she was watching a train wreck in motion, but she just couldn't concentrate when she saw how the fish was flopping around and even causing a bit of mud to be created! It was disgusting! It was completely filthy no matter how much she tried to psyche herself up!! "I ugh. I have mysophobia," Karen admitted in a small voice. Karen looked ashamed, and depressed. She'd probably been hiding it from both Lukas and Liam, if the way she said it was any indication. "Ah." Alec looked at her seriously, seeing how down she was about admitting her fears. He wasn't good with words, so he would just tell it to her straight up. "So what if you have a phobia? As long as you are willing to work on it, one day you will manage to overcome your fear. Did you choose to have that phobia? If not, then why are you blaming yourself? This can't be controlled but has to be slowly cured. It won't suddenly disappear overnight no matter how much we want it to." There was a pause in their conversation, but Karen seemed more settled after hearing Alec voice his thoughts regarding her mysophobia. She looked like she'd let go of a heavy burden within her, allowing her to breathe more easily even when she didn't feel perfectly fine. "How do you feel now?" Karen thought about it, and her face slowly changed as her real thoughts came to the surface. "I feel disgusting! Like there are a thousand ants crawling over my body. I want to wash up so badly even just my hands are fine but I can't do that. What if we don't have enough water? I can't be a burden any more than I already am " she voiced her frustrations, finally giving word to them after having sat on these feelings for so long. At this point, Liam had overheard their conversation. "Karen," Liam said sternly. "You are not a burden. You are our friend. Would you think we were burdens as well if we did something that wasn't productive? You should have said something! We won't miss a few bottles every once in a while!" "No. I refuse! I can just bear with it until we get to base and manage to secure a place for ourselves. I'll learn how to purify water so that I can use it, but not until then!" Liam and Karen glared at each other, neither of them were willing to back down. Alec looked at them dryly. He wanted to speak, but they argued so fiercely that he couldn't get a word in edgewise. It wasn't until they started glaring at each other as if the one with the fiercer glare would be able to cower the other into submission. "I have a solution." Both heads turned to him, confused. "All you have to do is awaken to stage one. If you're lucky enough, you'll get a water-type power which you can use at any given time. If you're not, there are other ways you can keep clean with magic." "WHAT," Karen shouted, then made to engulf Alec in a hug that he avoided. Karen pouted, but then cheered up at his words. He should have said that sooner! There was a way for her to be clean! Everyday! Everywhere! In this filthy world! She almost felt like Alec had been shrouded in a holy aura the moment she heard his words of enlightenment. She could have converted to the Alec religion right there and then. Say no more! Karen threw herself into it with dogged determination, managing to access her magic and even copy the zombie fish in record time. Right as she finished, the current of the river surged and waved, splashing over to the sides. Find authorized novels in Webnovelfaster updates, better experiencePlease click www.webnovel.com for visiting. They caught sight of Lukas fighting against a giant zombie fish with his bare, lightning covered hands. The place fell silent in astonishment.
