Shooting towards the mutated walker, Michael swung his sword towards its neck. Intending to behead the monster in one go.
Twack!
It would have been an impressive counterattack, but sadly, the sword only managed to do a fourth of what's intended for.
"Hmm..?"
Michael was surprised that his attack barely did any damage and when he looked up to the monster. The walker smacked him flying with his normal hand and sending Michael rolling on the road for a couple before he managed to regain his footing.
"Oof, it's like being hit by a car." Michael chuckled while groaning in pain. He was surprised that such a thin arm would have so much power behind it.
'I think that arm is even more dangerous than that tentacle.' He couldn't help but compare since he felt that the force behind the tentacle is comparably weaker than the one from the arm.
Michael then looked at the sword on his hand which had become a little useless now that it got broken in half from his previous attack.
It goes to show how tough the mutated walker is.
'It just had to fail me now.' Michael clicked his tongue as he discarded the broken sword and pulled out two pairs of pistols from his chest holster. While he was doing that, another attack came flying towards him and quickly dodged to the side with a roll while firing two burst shots in mid air towards the monster.
Bang! Bang!
The mutated walker managed to block the first bullet with its arm, but the following bullet struck home to its face. The bullet failed to pierced through the walker's head but lodged itself in instead, but unlike ordinary walkers who immediately dies when their heads get harmed. This mutated walker was not even fazed and instead counter attacked with its tentacle.
Seeing the incoming attack, Michael's eyes widened and instead of dodging it like the ones from before. He quickly crossed his arms as the attack sent him hurling back. He wasn't able to dodge since he realized that the attack seemed faster this time and could only choose to block it than risk further injuries.
Bam! Bam! Bam!
He has just stabilized his breathing when the mutated walker launched a barrage of attacks towards him, forcing him to constantly dodge while making use of the abandoned vehicles around them to buy more time for him to analyze his opponent.
'It's attack is only as fast as someone swinging a bat. It moves as a normal person would, but hasn't shown if it can run too. Its attacks are heavy and obviously stronger than me in terms of physical strength. It's slightly tough, but still weak against firearms and steel. Most of all, it does not go down even if its head is damaged.' While analyzing the monster in the middle of battle, Michael also kept dodging its follow up attacks while also shooting its head from time to time trying to gain insights from his attacks.
'And obviously with some form of intellect.' Michael concluded his rough analysis with that, but following that, he also thought about something.
'Are Rosita and Andrea, okay? Why am I still not hearing the rifle going off?' He thought as he made a run towards the mutated walker and even slid over a car's hood. Behind him, the hood got almost flattened by the tentacle.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The mutated walker shielded its face the moment the gunshot rang out. Unfortunately for it, the trajectory of the bullets wasn't going towards its head this time and instead struck its chest, causing it to stumble slightly backwards.
'It's chest area is actually tougher?' Michael was surprised to see that the impact of the bullets only penetrated a couple of centimeters into its skin before they fell on the ground, slightly flattened.
"Tsk!" Michael clicked his tongue while thinking to himself. 'I should have brought the grenade launcher with me.'
Meanwhile, on a small cliff edge inside the forest and facing the town.
"Why aren't you firing yet?" Andrea questioned Rosita since she still hasn't fired even one bullet from the moment that monster appeared and had just been watching the clash between the two monsters.
"Shhh! Do you think it's easy to fire when Michael keeps moving around and getting in my crosshairs? Just watch my back, will you? I need to focus.." Rosita rebuked her while watching the clash through the scope. She remained in that firing stance where her left elbow is resting on her left knee and her butt sitting on her right achilles heel. It's one of the standard stances, just goes to show that she has some experience handling that kind of firearm.
Andrea became quiet while Rosita remained in that position, waiting for the perfect opportunity to fire that decisive shot.
'Come on, if you can't kill it immediately. Can you please at least stop moving around?' Rosita thought, a little annoyed since every time she's about to take the shot. Michael would suddenly pop out from out of nowhere and block her crosshairs.
But when she thought it's going to take a while again before she can get another clear shot, she suddenly saw Michael getting slapped by the tentacle and sent flying inside one of the buildings near them.
'NOW!'
Her gaze sharpened and she immediately pulled the trigger!
BANG!
The gunshot rang out like thunder and a bullet came out of the barrel. It zoomed towards its target as the air spun around its tips, piercing through the air with a soft whistle like noise.
Splatter!
Michael was slowly pulling himself up from the wreckage, and while the mutated walker was slowly making its way over towards him. Its head suddenly burst open like a watermelon.
It took two more steps forward before it fell on its two knees and completely dropped down.
"Man, you really took your time." Michael murmured, his body in extreme pain after crashing through multiple shelves.
Ding!
Once again, that familiar ring softly rang in his ears, followed by a system notification that popped up at the corner of his line of sight.
[You have terminated a new kind of Zombie! Gained +100 EXP and +100 Coin.]
[For killing a new kind of Zombie, you have been awarded with the
'That's still considered my kill even when I wasn't the one who dealt the death blow?' The kill suddenly made Michael slightly confused since he thought he already understood how the [System] works, but it seems he still has more things to learn and find out.
'And the Oathkeeper? I wonder what it is? You could have just delivered it into my hand instead of leaving it in the car.' Michael was slightly thrilled since this is the first time that the [System] directly gave him a reward and it made him extremely curious of what it is.
Though for now, Michael deemed this is not the right time to be thinking about it since there's something at hand that needed his utmost attention.
"Whatever shall we do with that body outside?"