The spider’s eyes slowly shifted downward, locking on Nicholas.

[Will_1631: Yeah it’s over]

[Captainman: No! We can’t lose Phantom!]

[AuraNova: Tsk, if he dies like that he’s weak. Hate weak MC’s]

[Wereallyreadin: guys, look bro doesn’t even look fazed]

It was just as he said, Nicholas stared the Bebilith dead in the eye, a small grin cutting across his face.

The Bebilith instantly noticed something wrong, it opened its maw to spit, but it was too late.

Nicholas hands moved this time faster than before, plunging into its red eyes!

BANG!

Blood sprayed out as the beast went into a frenzy, green fluid leaking from its ruined eyes.

’That was a rough gamble, I needed it to lower its guard for just a moment.’ Nicholas said letting out a breath of fresh air.

He’d expected the chitin to be tough—just not that tough. Fortunately, he’d never been betting on the shell.

The eyes had always been his real target.

[Aidan_cote: Bro got me scared for a moment]

[...: I want more!]

Nicholas stood still as the gigantic spider took its final breath, falling to the ground with a loud thud. The earth shook under its massive weight.

Nicholas let out a sigh. The spider was dead, but another problem remained, ’How do I get out of here?’

His eyes travelled through the thick webs around, ’This’ll take a while’

-----

The sky cracked apart as the first glow of the morning sun rose into the horizon.

It was meant to be a refreshing start for a new day, but for the heroes trapped inside the veil, it was a testament to the grueling hours they’d spent facing these monsters.

As soon as the impure had called upon the zombies, their planned rest quickly came to an abrupt end.

The zombies seemed to sniff them out through the air.

At first it was one, then three, then dozens.

Within minutes the entire building was surrounded.

"Raaargghh" their guttural growl echoed through the air as they made their way through the apartment, climbing up quickly.

"This is bad, they’re already covering the floors, we can’t leave the building" One of the heroes said sticking his head out through the window to see the crowd of zombies, struggling their way up the building floors.

The sharp foul odour of rotten flesh permeated the air, as the zombies walked forward, a greenish-yellow substance seeping out from the cracks on their bodies, their teeth brown with decay.

"Someone get me out of here, I don’t... I don’t want to die" One of the heroes said, his eyes wide with fear as he ran his hands through his hair in complete disorientation.

Nobody mocked him. Nobody told him to shut up. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

Because every person in the room was thinking the same thing.

In fact Selena was more worried than the rest, she didn’t even have a single ability to protect herself, unlike the rest of them.

"Calm down all of you, nobody’s dying." Nectron said his voice was calm and steady.

They all turned to him with hopeful gazes, listening keenly as he continued, "We have to work together if we’re getting out of this alive. That said, we can’t allow this mess to continue so we have to attack the impure wherever it is. We’ll face a large number of beasts, that’s true, but if we stay here we’ll still face them either way and risk dying from exhaustion and lack of sleep"

’As much as I hate how bossy and arrogant he can be, he’s right.. we have to work together to deal with this’ Selena thought, taking the weight of his words.

His words carried weight, but it was the true reality of their current situation and they all understood it.

Nectron stared out through the window, catching the number of the zombies below, since a lot of them had already started entering the building, the ones below were much fewer and kept dropping with every second, as more entered the building.

He turned his gaze back to the group of heroes, his gaze falling on Vixen.

"Vixen, you’ll teleport us down to the ground, since fighting here won’t be of any advantage to us" he turned his head to Melody, "As soon as we get down you should try locating the impure so we can get to it as soon as possible"

Melody nodded gently.

Despite their dislike for Nectron’s attitude, none of them argued.

All the heroes turned to Vixen with renewed hope, letting out a sigh she calmly spread out her arms closing her eyes in concentration.

Right now they needed results more than they needed pride.

In an instant, space around them warped and they all arrived right on the tarred road of the street.

As soon as they reappeared there, all the zombies on the ground shifted their attention to them.

"You all should stay close to me, I’ll hold them off while you attack from here!" Nectron ordered as he flew up into the air.

"Stop ordering everyone already you arrogant brat, if you want us to work with you" One of the heroes said with obvious disdain.

It wasn’t just him, all the others had similar thoughts in mind, but none dared to voice it out.

Nectron turned to him, flashing him a cold look, "Then do as you like"

While they were arguing, the sounds of glasses shattering echoed as the zombies broke through the windows falling down to the ground with sickening thuds.

But they didn’t seem to care as they stood back up, bones mangled, but they kept walking towards them with the sickening crunch of their sagging bones and skin.

"We don’t have time to fight amongst ourselves!" Nectron’s voice echoed as he spread out his hands, a powerful wave of energy spread out.

At first it seemed as though nothing happened but they all noticed the Zombies advancement had slowed even as they were walking forward, they never seemed to get any closer.

The heroes didn’t waste any time as they started clearing out the zombies.

Vixen used her abilities, ripping the zombies apart with spatial tears. Pyron engulfed each zombie in flames.

Thanks to Nectron they were gaining the upper hand, but it didn’t last too long.

"Ahhh!" One of the heroes screamed, everyone turned to look at the person and it was the same hero that had been arguing with Nectron earlier, one of the zombies latched onto his arm digging its decayed teeth into his flesh.

He ruthlessly kicked the beast away, then thrusting his palm toward the zombie, he blasted a stream of flames at it. It let out a loud guttural roar as it burnt down to ashes.

The hero turned a furious glare at Nectron, "You! You said you were protecting everyone!" He said gritting his teeth in anger as he stomped forward angrily, "You allowed the zombie to get to me!"

Nectron looked at him indifferently, "I simply allowed you to do as you saw fit, don’t blame me for anything"

"You! I’ll— grrrahhaass" his words became a mumbled mess as his eyes began to glow with a sickly yellow colour. The flesh around the bite blackened, veins bulged beneath his skin.

Everyone froze, "He’s turning!"

"No— wait!"

"Back away from him!"

Selena startled, reacted a bit too slowly.

The infected hero dived straight at her, but before he could make any moves several flashes of black lines cut across his body and his sliced body fell to bits on the ground.

Night Ninja appeared beside the corpse, his blade already sheathed.

His face remained expressionless.

Several heroes unconsciously stepped backwards.

One tightened his grip around his weapon.

Another stared at the corpse in disbelief.

If a single bite was enough...

Then none of them were safe.

Nectron turned his gaze to Selena, "Supervisor please you should stay close to me" he said looking at her.

Selena gently nodded.

Nectron without a care turned to Melody, "Please, locate the impure"

Melody raised her flute and played a single note.

The sound rippled through the air, racing across the town in an instant.

She could sense it as it moved through the walls of the town and eventually hit a powerful maisma obstruction her eyes snapped open, "It’s in the next three streets from here"

"Alright let’s get going!" Nectron said as he slowly descended, with Selena by his side.

’He’s an absolute ass and very annoying’ Selena thought not in the least impressed by what he’d done, everyone knew he’d left the hero to be affected knowingly but no one could complain as they didn’t want to be the next victim, ’Nicholas can be an ass sometimes but he could never do this’ she thought her gaze still fixed on the remains of the dead hero.

’Also, where’s that brat?! That idiot better be alive’

Selena’s jaw tightened.

’You disappear for one night and suddenly I’m worried sick.’

’Just wait until I find you.’