An hour later.
The convoy that departed from West Coast City was forced to stop.
A huge meteorite crater that would leave one speechless blocked the road ahead.
The meteorite had a radius of over a hundred meters and a depth of over thirty meters. Not only did it completely destroy the road between West Coast City and Hologest Port, it even affected the surrounding areas.
Especially inside the crater, there was still residual heat. Although it wasn't enough to burn the soles of one's shoes, the exposed skin could still feel the heat.
Kieran slightly frowned as he sized up the crater before him and started to search the surroundings.
The traces on the ground were almost completely destroyed by the shockwave of the meteorite but with his Musou level [Tracking], Kieran still found some suspicious things further away.
A few footprints.
He didn't even need to count the footprints. All he needed to do was compare the footprints with the ones in his mind. He was sure that the footprints belonged to Charles, Raul, and Cidney.
However, other than the few footprints, there was nothing else.
In order to be sure, Kieran walked further away.
However, from the start to the end, all he found were the few footprints.
There wasn't any enemy that he expected.
The strangest thing was, based on the direction of the footprints, after Master Alchemist Charles used his trump card, the group was heading towards Hologest Port.
"What happened?
There was no enemy but he used Meteor Blast? "
Kieran guessed out of instinct.
Then, he shook his head fiercely.
"Not right!
It's not that there is no enemy but the enemy is formless! Not only is it abnormally powerful but it also blocked their escape route. Only then would Master Charles take the risk and enter Hologest Port which was ravaged by the living dead! "
Kieran touched his chin and was in deep thought.
"Then, what is the formless enemy?"
Kieran was recalling the knowledge that he had in his mind.
However, he couldn't find any more clues.
Among the monsters that he was familiar with, none of them fit the criteria of being formless and being able to withstand a Meteor Blast and force Charles and the others to retreat.
Huuu!
After a deep breath, Kieran turned around and waved at Simones and the others.
With such a crater, it was impossible for cars to travel through it. They could only proceed on foot.
The situation that Charles and the others showed absolutely did not allow Kieran to delay.
Therefore, he was prepared to go on his way alone.
Simones and the others didn't object to this.
The strange scene in front of them was enough for them to understand what the best choice was.
…
Kieran, who was carrying a huge backpack, ran faster than a galloping horse.
Grade A Strength and Dexterity allowed Kieran to have a jaw-dropping burst and speed, while Grade S- Constitution allowed him to have persistent endurance.
The journey that was supposed to take two hours was completed in one hour by Kieran.
When Kieran stood outside Hologest Port, looking at the port city that was shrouded in the night sky and listening to the roars of the waves that couldn't even be covered, Kieran quickly took out the potion that Simones concocted.
Part of it was drunk, and the rest was smeared on his skin and clothes.
The deadliest thing about a zombie wasn't its body but the plague that it carried with it.
Kieran was very confident in his own S- Constitution but it didn't stop Kieran from adding an extra layer of defense on himself.
Having confidence and being arrogant were two different things.
More so, Kieran had always believed in being cautious.
After preparing himself, Kieran strode towards Hologest Port.
The moment he entered the port, a loud roar sounded from afar.
ROAR!
A couple of figures were stumbling towards Kieran like a bunch of drunkards.
However, the danger level was a dozen times higher than a drunkard.
Their faces were pale with a tinge of green, their wrinkled skin, their flesh and blood seemed to have melted and their bodies were shriveled up. However, their strength had increased tremendously, they could easily break a wooden stick that was as thick as an arm.
In terms of defense, it was even more astonishing.
A small caliber handgun couldn't even penetrate the wrinkled skin.
Still, their weakness remained!
Bang! Bang! Bang!
[Python-W2] appeared in Kieran's hand. The silver revolver vibrated repeatedly as the trigger was pulled.
The bullets with [Armor Penetration Lvl 1]'s buff easily blasted the zombies' skulls away.
However, the powerful life force of the zombies allowed the newly born zombies to struggle for a while until their brains were flung out of their skulls. Only then did they fall to the ground after twitching a few times.
Kieran carefully approached the zombies.
After he made sure they were really dead, he started to inspect them carefully.
"Other than the fatal wounds I caused, there aren't any real wounds. Which means the first zombies used the air to spread the plague?"
Kieran muttered to himself.
It was Kieran's first time coming across a living zombie monster.
However, in the books, there were no lack of descriptions of such monsters.
It wasn't just because of the strange way the zombies were born, it was also because of the plague that the zombies carried that could turn a normal person into a zombie.
However, it was clearly stated in the books that if the zombies wanted to turn a human into their companion, they had to at least inflict a bite wound on the human.
Of course, most of the people who were attacked wouldn't even have the chance to turn into a zombie.
Food was their only ending.
One needed to know, the zombies were extremely hungry.
Under normal circumstances, unless a zombie had devoured 3 to 5 people consecutively, there wouldn't be any new zombies appearing.
However, the situation now was a little different.
"The excessive amount of zombies has caused the air to be polluted?"
Kieran's heart skipped a beat as he hastened his steps.
Although Simones had given Charles and the others enough potions before they departed, Charles and the others weren't the only ones who needed the potions in Hologest Port.
Kieran's destination was clear.
Wine Cup Inn!
The place where the mystics gathered in Hologest Port.
It was also the only place that they could defend against the zombies' rampage.
As for the other places?
Even the police station with armed forces would be helpless against the plague that was spreading in the air.
Unless the West Coast government had extra preparations.
However, along the way, everything that he saw told Kieran that it was impossible.
The fully armed zombies were much harder to deal with than the common zombies.
The bulletproof vests, helmets and masks provided the zombies with a second layer of defense.
If it wasn't for Kieran's Transcendence level [Firearm Weapon, Light Firearm], which granted him unimaginable precision and special abilities, the bullets wouldn't have been able to penetrate the two layers of defense.
Bang, Bang, Bang!
The gunshots came from the darkness further away, allowing Kieran to heave a breath of relief as he was sprinting forward.
The zombies that had lost their intellect wouldn't be able to use firearms, so it could only be humans.
Since there was someone who resisted, it proved that the situation in Wine Cup Inn wasn't that bad yet.
Kieran strode forward.
But the moment he took a step forward, a voice rang out.
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