Cheat Awakening

"What! What happened?" Myne exclaimed, the first few words escaping his mouth as cold, bloody red water cascaded onto his head, pulling him out of a sweet dream of resolving the mystery of how a mermaid does sex in the depths of the sea.

"F*ck, this water is so cold," Velvet, who also received the same treatment as Myne without discrimination, cursed while rubbing her eyes.

"Old Man do you lose your mind?! F*ck! What are you doing in our room? Let\'s forget that for a moment. How the hell did you come in?" Myne exclaimed in shock, observing Alban with a poker face holding an empty bucket standing beside his bed. He hurriedly looked at the door, showing that there was nowhere it could be seen.

"You two children of donkeys, did you both fall on your heads when you were little? Do you idiots sleep while activating a noise-cancelling device in your room? Do you think you\'re in a luxurious inn or something enjoying your honeymoon?

Does everything happening in this town is a joke for both of you?" Alban grabbed Myne\'s collar, asking angrily before delivering a hammer fist to his head and pointing at the sealed window.

Ouch!

"Look outside before questioning me. And once you both are done, hurry up, move your asses to the living room. We are in deep trouble currently."

Saying such Alban threw the bucket aside, grabbed his battle axe from behind, and hastily ran out of the room.

"What did we miss? Old Man Alban seems very pissed off because of us," Velvet asked while quickly walking toward the window and starting to remove the wooden planks fit on it.

"How do I know? We both slept at the same time. God knows what kind of disaster happened while we were resting. Damn this wretched town, its never-ending mysteries, and people killing surprises making me nuts now," Myne said angrily. He still wanted to take a couple of hours more sleep, but because of damn Alban, now he could only hope that things wouldn\'t get too out of control.

Myne and Velvet worked together and soon removed two or three planks, enough for both of them to poke their head from the window and look outside. But what met their eyes was beyond unsettling; they hoped it was just a nightmare.

The house they were in was completely surrounded by undead-like ants, crawling everywhere, attempting to break into the house but not going berserk, just lazily hammering their arms on every part of the house like playing with children.

"I think they are spy crows, the ones Old Man Alban was talking about, sharing our location everywhere in the town," Velvet said, pointing at a group of 50 or so crows with three eyes each sitting on the house in front of them, staring at them creepily.

"So these damn crows brought all of them here to feast on us? Bastards, don\'t come into my hands; otherwise, I will burn your entire species to ash," Myne angrily screamed at the crows, who gave him no reaction at all.

"Let\'s go down and see what that Old Guy Alban\'s doing; he might have a plan to get out of this trouble," Myne said with a frown. He first put away both his bed and noise-cancelling device before grabbing Velvet\'s hand and running out of the room.

Outside, things were messier than Myne expected. Seals on the windows were almost broken, and a dozen or so hands were trying to break the remaining obstacles. The main entrance door was still trying its best to stop undeads outside, but it was clearly on the verge of breaking. If not for the support of various heavy pieces of furniture in front of it, it might have already bid farewell to its post.

Alban, on the other hand, sat in a relaxed manner on a chair, smoking tobacco from what looked like a wooden pipe—a high-end product. God knows where he got such a good thing. He hummed a tune while the bed he had forcefully laid his evil hands on before was nowhere to be seen.

Not caring about Alban\'s small tricks, Myne made his way toward him and hurriedly spoke, "What the hell is going on here? How did we suddenly get surrounded by so many undeads? And where did you get this thing when you yearn to eat one bit of good food?"

"Kiddo, look outside. Do you think we all can go out from here in one piece? No, right? Then what\'s the meaning of saving this? It\'s not like I can use it after my death, as for where all of them come from, go ask those damn crows, they are the culprit who brought them there right after the rain stopped. Anyway, since both of you are here, if you have any last words for each other, say it now.

Maybe you\'ll get the chance later or not," Alban casually said while standing up from the chair, holding his axe tightly. After taking a deep breath of tobacco, he stood in front of the door, giving Myne and Velvet some privacy.

"Stay close to me, no matter what happens. Don\'t even think about getting more than 2 meters away from me. Here, take it. poke any undead trying to come near you to death. Try not to get injured," Myne said with concern while handing Velvet a spear he got from the Dungeon of Strength.

"Don\'t worry too much. I\'m not as frail as you think. I can deal with those undeads myself as well," Velvet said with a pout, feigning dissatisfaction while taking a spear from Myne. In response, Myne chuckled, rubbed her hair, gave her a deep passionate kiss, and walked toward Alban.

"Any plan?" Myne asked, taking a deep breath.

"Only one: smash everything in your way and get out of this trouble alive if possible. By the way, have I mentioned that no matter what happens, never let those undead bite you?" Alban spoke after a moment of thinking.

"I don\'t think so. Why? What would happen if they bite us?" Myne asked with a frown.

"Nothing much, because those bastards out there have been dead for who knows how long. Their entire bodies are filled with various dangerous parasites and viruses. One bite from them, and you\'ll get seriously infected by them. Unless you have a very powerful antidote or something, you won\'t live more than 2 hours.

One of my comrades at the start got bitten by them because of his foolishness, and it only took 20 minutes before his body started rotting from the inside... His death was very horrific."

Finished saying that, Alban fell into silence and didn\'t speak again, maybe falling into a flashback.

"Bang!"

Suddenly, the upper half of the door couldn\'t withstand the crazy attack from undeads and broke apart, revealing the ugly faces of undeads trying to crawl inside the house from the small opening they had made.

"Okay, get ready. I will count to 3, and shoot a big attack at them, and make a small opening for us. Remember to stay close, don\'t let them bite you, and no matter what, just keep moving at the West direction. Once we break this encirclement, follow me at your full speed to my hideout. There, those undeads couldn\'t come."

Saying this without waiting for Myne\'s reply, Alban put down his axe in front of him and clapped his hands together with his eyes closed. Soon, to the surprised eyes of Myne and Velvet, a black flame started gushing out from between Alban\'s palms.

"Ahhh... Die, you motherf*ckers..."

Alban screamed at the top of his lungs, opened his arms wide, and delivered a thunderous clap at the entrance door from which some undeads finally managed to enter.

"THBAAMMMMM!!!!"

Accompanying the loud thunderous, ear-piercing booming sound, black flames rushed out of Alban\'s palm like a tsunami in front of him, burning everything in its path.

When Myne and Velvet opened their eyes again, what they saw sent a chill running down their spines. The entire entrance part of the house, along with perhaps hundreds of undeads, vanished out of thin air, leaving only dark ashes behind and a big half-moon-shaped empty area in front of them.

Fuck! What kind of OP skill is that? Most of his skills are supposed to be sealed, so what the hell is this? Myne thought, dumbfounded.

If I had to fight with him, can I block this weird attack, and those black flames—what are those?

"Oye, kiddo, what are you dreaming about? Quickly move your ass; we have to get out of here fast!"

Only after hearing Alban yell did Myne come back to his senses and quickly start following him while holding Velvet\'s hand tightly.

Although Alban\'s ultimate attack did a lot of damage to the undead and created an opening for them, it was still not enough. The undead were many times more than they expected, and this level of loss was still acceptable for them. Soon, Myne and his gang found themselves surrounded by thousands of undeads from every direction.

"Kiddo, now it\'s time to see how you\'re going to protect your little wife from all of those things. And focus on the ground as well; I just noticed a tentacle dude. It will surely try to surprise attack us, hiding in the middle of other undeads. Don\'t let it grab your legs and make you fall; it can cost you your life. Also, missy, take this. There are some bombs in it.

Just activate them with your \'MANA\' and throw them in the middle of the undead to see fireworks."

For the first time, Alban showed his generosity and handed Velvet an old-looking storage bag while effortlessly cutting two undead running toward him in half.

"Okay, but what is \'MANA\'?" Velvet, who heard the word MANA for the first time, asked confusedly while taking out a palm-sized black ball-shaped object.

"Sigh, you country bumpkins. MANA is the term our ancestors referred to magic energy. Now, for my old bones\' sake, don\'t ask me about magic energy," Alban angrily replied, cursing Velvet under his breath.

"I know what magic energy is," Velvet mickily replied. She did what Alban told her, and when the ball in her palm started shining in red colour which indicates danger, she hastily threw it into the middle of the undead horde.

"BOOOM!!!"