The Zombie Tournament

Act 14 : Berserk Mode

(tap-tap-tap)

“He will be missed, that honorable man.” Juno Rumondor sobbed.

Both of them were a stranger to Zeno Gunnar’s aid at the moment, but they have to die in vain by the thrust of Samila’s domineering onslaught. Their captain has no idea of such updated capacity of Damon’s trusted dagger. By the course of their own intelligence, Juno Rumondor pictured that his meat-shield bomb could bloom away in a second, but Samila’s swiftness proved lesser in time than their own presumption of the speed afterwards.

(clang!clang!)

Back to the battlefield, Deino Gunnar raised up from the pile of smacked-up buildings above him. Damon’s surprise tackle has thrown him beyond their stage of battle in more than two hundred meters of distance. Such degree of injury would no longer be the case to the beast’s mindless attitude. He felt no remorse, sensing no bounds of damage to his arm and immersive instances of visible bruise on its rotten fist. Of course, most of the wounds will heal in a full day, but it would be repaired much faster in a full-course feast of human flesh anyhow.

(beep-beep)

‘Rage mode initiated by force. Please be advised.’

Zeno Gunnar’s wristwatch alerted him in their advance towards the main zombie collector of Gorand Industries. However, both of his hands are full in avoiding the flying zombie’s array of missiles, as the beast have no certain opponent that could eliminate him on the air. Tanya Rushdi’s fist-fighter zombie has none of aerial mobility, as well as extensive combat ability, while most of the other zombified warriors have been occupied against their own duty to resolve.

“Graaa!”

The legendary warrior was bellowing along the way of return to the area of warfare. Deino Gunnar’s sprint has shaken its surroundings as his towering physique excels through many variations of terrain on the battlefield.

He was fluent in dirt-fighting as a living general of Numonia in the previous life, because the slipping-induced topography of Hamnos River trained him to be able on tolerating such degree of warfare in many chapters of skirmishes against Thalsmia. The legendary warrior’s feet were planted down in each steps of the dash, and he could pull it out and pushing on running without much burden on both legs.

On the other way around, Sanna Gunnar and Juno’s female zombies have themselves fighting against Damon’s blue-induced hustle power. As their muscle-memory remembered on many previous battle of late, either of them are capable to speed up and attacking their opponent’s one-handed attack with ease.

(swoosh!)

Samila has reverted back to Damon’s palms. In every blood spilled by the keris’ blade, the holder’s power would be enhanced into twice of their current capabilities in the moment of its return, depending on how many person that the steel has claimed at the time.

“Now, it’s my dance, fellas.”

The surge of power seeped into Damon’s barrage of assault. His mystical dagger was lighted up to share a portion of its hunt, and it amplified the caped-assassin’s attack considerably. Based on his former feat to parry most of the speedster’s attack prior to the dagger’s homecoming, Damon could eventually stretched them out and overpowering their pace shortly after the dagger’s arrival to his hand.

(jab!)

One strike, and it dents Sanna Gunnar’s body armor in succession.

(swoosh!)

For a split second after, Damon spun himself up and scratched the female zombie’s light armor subsequently.

(tap-tap)

It was apparent for the female zombie’s automated system to withdraw before the third attack hits. As Sanna Gunnar’s jolt of electricity was also spurted into their battle in random occasion, the flee-away limbic response tickles early and swaying her out from the battlefield immediately.

“It’s you and me now, eh? Bring it on!” Damon clamored to the beast. On the opposite side, Sanna Gunnar’s red-tinted eyes ventured across his foe’s possible weak points to take advantage from in silence.

“....”

(boom! Bwoosh!)

No matter of how sturdy Damon’s cape and armor are, he started to feel the injury of taking too many smashes in a straightforward manner. Sanna Gunnar’s violet flame has incinerated over half of the caped-assassin protection in every blocked attack. It goes much to the other side’s situation, as well, because the speedster zombie’s armor has begun to break by a number of successful thrust towards him at the time.

(tang!bam!)

They are equal in terms of attack speed, but Sanna Gunnar’s random points of area damage has gradually protruding Damon’s superhuman assault by the heat of violet flame. After all, the speedster zombie’s fire element attack stood as the top among any scorching power of a blaze. In nearly 4.000 degree Celcius, It could dismember a golden plate armor by a single thrust of the black blade. Damon’s cape was also torn away by the flow of continuous heat, even though it was coming up only once in a number of attacks Sanna Gunnar has made against him.

To add on the injury, Damon gritted his teeth towards Sanna Gunnar’s unexpected mixture of strength and swordplay. His keris is mostly useless for one-on-one combat. Its wavering shape has provided no exact power to slice, but still deadly for a clean thrust anyway.

“Ugh, you’re indeed a tough one, stranger!” The caped-assassin shouted.

Towards the leering red-tinted eyes of the speedster zombie, Damon felt anxious for the first time. A seasoned assassin would slay their target in a single shot. Back in the headquarters,  the man was assigned by the Gorand Industries’ higher-ups to retrieve both of Zeno Gunnar’s collection, yet failed to do so in his return. Of course, Damon’s failure was happened because Juno Rumondor and the Tonado fighter club were aided the young knight, hence the caped-assassin’s flop on doing such objective afterwards.

As for today, the man might be fallen flat in a chain-streak. Sanna Gunnar’s daunting randomness has instilled fear of defeat within Damon’s heart. Yet, the voiceless controller on the back has responded in different tone of choice.

To initiate red-induced vigor as an ultimate assault for the zombified human before him.

(clang!)

Damon’s immediate increase in force promptly draw away the speedster zombie’s overhead strike by a sweep of the dagger. He has to do so, as an unspoken drift of pain was bursting up in an instant, therefore resulting in Damon’s decision to step aside and retreat.

(beep-beep)

‘Red-berserk initiated.’

The obscured-collector on the back started a massive surge of energy to Damon’s veins. Adrenaline rush, as everyone of the game has known and agree, was filling up the caped-assassin’s inferior firepower before the speedster zombie’s rapidity.

“Haaaaaa!”

His muscle got buffed up by the swelling blood in sections of the strain. Both of his calves and thighs bolstered a mass of brawn to support. Damon’s eyes painted in red-boiling manner of an enraged living dead.

And thirty seconds later, he is ready to battle once more.

(bam!)

Damon runs faster than ever before. In his common blue-powered might, he could run on the par against Sanna Gunnar’s piston-generated energy, yet he could supersede Sanna Gunnar’s maximum sprint at the moment. For a living human in mind, the caped-assassin’s feat was meant to be applauded, as a regular person should fade in the wake of such atrocity to beckon.

(swoosh!)

For the beginning of his improved stance, the caped-assassin goes on pummeling a flying kick towards the speedster zombie in short after transformation. As a feedback to the attack, Sanna Gunnar instinctively dodged them out by leaning down to the ground in response.

(tap-tap-tap)

(bash!)

However, a relentless return appeared almost immediately for Sanna Gunnar and his reflex. Damon wrestled Sanna Gunnar’s upper body and curled it up in his spring towards an abandoned building on the southern area of their battle ground.

(smash!)

The caped-assassin bashed the speedster zombie’s head to the concrete wall. He has to do it in due care, though, as too much damage would be difficult to fix up. Most of the living dead’s brain could be replaced, but their flexibility and prior experience would be erased accordingly. That’s the main reason of many zombie collectors to immobilize them first before bringing them home, as aplenty of memories were deemed worthy to be amassed.

(bam!)

Rightfully so, the second instances of Damon’s immediate crush has brought Sanna Gunnar to shut down by force.

“Okay, now I have to get rid of your limbs.”

(s***h!)

In the twinkling of an eye, Damon ripped off the speedster zombie’s arms. He goes on doing so for both legs, then throwing all of them to somewhere far away from reach.

“Sanna!”

(click-click-click)

The speedster’s body was unresponsive to the chain of command. No matter of how hard Zeno Gunnar pressed on the floating buttons, none of immediate reaction has coming up from Sanna’s side. Amidst their endless battle against Gorand Industries’ armored-flying zombie, Zeno Gunnar has seen them all in place. His father’s defeat was bitter to the young knight’s heart in the past, but Sanna’s natural frail body has been concerning to the man ever since, hence his reason to reinforce highest-quality armor for the speedster zombie’s body frame.

Zeno Gunnar was also added two-layers of chainmail within titanium armor of the young man, for the qualms to his brother’s capacity was too overwhelming to be ignored.

(bam!bam!bam!)

Suddenly, Deino Gunnar has entered the domain of warfare. The young knight was smiling after looking at his father’s arrival, but then realized of some issues right after gazing at the red-eyed pattern of the man.

In agreement to Zeno Gunnar’s hints of peril on the legendary warrior’s problem, Juno Rumondor screamed an instruction to his group at once, “Move away from him, everyone! He’s in state of berserk right now!”

(jump!)

Without further delay, The legendary warrior commenced an opening of his attack towards armored-flying zombies of Gorand industries. Deino Gunnar scanned the first threat to eliminate, and its own primitive impulse estimated the flying zombie to become one head to kill. For that reason, He bounced up a few times on the ground for extra momentum. Each of the jump has a further power input, therefore snowballing the next output of Deino Gunnar’s leap towards the flying zombie up above.

(swoosh!)

No one could predict his exact move at the moment, and most of them were astounded by the beast’s decision to comply. Rather than stabbing the beast directly to the head, Deino has chosen to fling away the Golden Greatsword in a parallel position, as he puts on the hilt above his head prior to the attack.

(zuuu-zuuu-zuuu)

Meanwhile, as the vibrant metal sensed a wave of distress and fright on both sides of the battlefield, its length and width goes twice more fatal than the common dimension of the blade. From merely sixty-five centimeters at most, the blade now could annihilate halfway of normal human’s standing in a single s***h.

(jab!)

“...”

The flying zombie’s head and torso was sliced open in parallel by the sharp edge of the Golden Greatsword’s immense speed. Its entrails were splurged out from the stomach and showered Tonado warrior’s head with a spray of blood.

Nonetheless, it was never intended as an ultimate attack for the legendary warrior. The beast followed on the next trail towards the unguarded zombie collector of Gorand industries’ group of hunters. Deino Gunnar has no need of weapon for finishing him out, as the man just solely needed to pile up a brute force on its palm to begin with.

(smack!)

A bold strike was planted to the main controller’s head by Deino Gunnar’s left knuckle, and its entire skull are shattered immediately by such impact.