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Taking advantage of his distraction, one of the undead charged at Issei from the side. Evidently, they weren't entirely braindead.
"Whoa!" the boy yelped in shock, dodging the flailing arms of the zombie before reflexively lashing out with his sword, smashing the zombie's head back and making it stumble backwards long enough for him to bring the gun around to put a bullet in it to finish it off.
After that, it was fairly easy to kill the remaining zombies, as two were attacking one another and the remaining three were on the far side of the atrium, shuffling towards him at a crawl. Thankfully they were classic Romero zombies rather than the 28 Days variety, thus a slow, shambling walk was their top speed. The last three may as well have had bullseyes painted on their foreheads, while dealing with the two scrambling zombies was like shooting fish in a barrel.
You have defeated [Purifier Remnants] X10! You receive 4000 EXP!
[Firearms Proficiency (Handguns)] has levelled up! LV1-LV2!
[Headshot] has levelled up! LV1-LV2!
As a result of repeated actions, the skill [Aim] has been created!
[Aim] (Active) [LV1, 00.00]
One of the more basic skills available when using any projectile weapon. Aiming carefully before firing/throwing generally leads to fulfilling the purpose of firing/throwing the weapon in the first place, i.e. actually hitting the target.
Once activated, lasts two minutes or until you either switch targets or your target dies.
- Increases accuracy of all projectile weaponry by 1 when active.
- Increases likelihood of hitting a vulnerable point by 1% when active.
- Increases [Headshot] damage by a further 1 when active.
Useful. Although yet again, Issei got the feeling that his Sacred Gear was snarking at him with that description.
Pressing the Auto-Loot button got him everything he could have taken from them aside from their clothes (thank goodness!) so he decided to explore the level. The first place he looked was the security station, which was a little room barely larger than a kitchenette. It had security logs that might prove interesting viewing, but Issei paid more attention to a notice on the wall for the moment.
'Official Purifier Military Forces Specialties: Know where you can go!
Flints: Internal Security Troopers. This is where you all are right now. Equipped with truncheons and stun guns.
Sparks: Low-ranking troops, specialising in mundane infiltration and investigation. Typically equipped with shock batons and/or Tasers.
Flames: Standard troops armed with modern military weapons. The bulk of the armed might of the Purifiers.
Cleansers: Elite shock troopers wearing powerful magic armour, they are also equipped with flamers.
Judges: Internal Code Enforcement Troops. When someone goes rogue, they are dispatched to neutralise the problem.
Agents: Hidden, unknown people who act as the eyes and ears of Central Command. They could be anyone, even the guy you eat with in the cafeteria.'
Issei's left eye twitched. 'Flamers?! Modern weaponry?! Magic armour?! Ignoring the magic armour, how the hell have the Purifiers gotten any amount of military ordinance through customs? Even I know that that sort of thing is closely monitored by the government! Just what kind of influence or connections do these Purifiers have?!'
The magic armour was much less of a surprise for Issei than the military weaponry; he had figured out quite some time back that the Purifiers were a bunch of hypocrites when it came to magic. They claimed to hate it, but used it when they needed to; Warpstone being the most obvious use of it. The evil green crystals almost had to be made via some kind of magic; there was certainly nothing natural about it!
Taking down the flyer and storing it in his inventory, Issei looked for some kind of roster to tell him exactly how many security people had been assigned to this place. None of the zombies he had killed so far had been dressed differently, so they were likely the scientists.
After a moment, he found the roster he was looking for. According to the sheet of paper, there were ten Flints assigned to this base, so where were they? Issei had killed twenty-five zombies already since coming to this facility, and he very much doubted that there was more than double that amount in total due to the relatively small size of the base.
The most heavily armoured door in the facility was likely the one leading to the third floor and the Purification Room. If any of the staff managed to escape the man in the black cloak, who was almost certainly Flamberge, that was probably where they were hiding.
That said, Issei sat down and rewound the security footage so he could get a grasp of exactly what the hell had happened in this place. There were nine security cameras that this little cubicle recorded footage from; the three dorms, the entrance to the Purification Room, the corridor outside the Project Head's Office, the main lab, the head scientist's office, the cafeteria and the corridor leading to the main entrance. All of them were synced to the same time, which was displayed on the bottom left of each screen, along with the date.
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