367 To the Medical Center, A Bloody Battle Before the Entrance (1/2)
Day 59 - 8:10 AM - Medicine Faculty, University of Perpetual Help System DALTA - Las Piñas Campus, Alabang-Zapote Road, Barangay Almanza Uno, Las Piñas, Metro Manila
A new day. Another weekday which meant that any school should be bustling with activities. Even though it was already the apocalypse, it was one of the few things that did not change. The difference, however, it was the infected replaced the humans instead.
While preparing, Mark looked out of the window from the second floor. The university was in a situation worse than before. There was already a whole lot of infected here inside the university, but the battle between the enemy group and the process of capturing Gifre last night called over, probably, all the infected in the area.
Many mutated infected with the ability to jump leaped over the walls into the campus. Meanwhile, those with enough strength destroyed parts of the walls of the university to get in. Those that destroyed the walls around caused even more infected to swarm the place.
It was not that surprising considering the commotion that happened yesterday.
”So much for containing the infected inside the school field.”
Mark sighed.
While Aephlia stayed inside the vehicle in the parking area yesterday, she was not idling away. Mark tasked her to manage the infected in the school field and make sure that they would not go out of control.
It was not that hard to do so for Aephlia. All she needed to do was to find the [Leader Type] infected in the horde and control it. The one that she needed to find was a mutated infected at the precise center of the horde. That was how the infected behaved during times they were idle.
Unexpectedly, what she found was a little boy that latched onto the head of another bigger infected. No wonder the infected here were kept in captivity, their leader was not that active. It was in the dormant state all this time which caused the other infected to idle around unless something nearby distracted them.
Even if Aephelia controlled the [Leader Type] the commands she could make to the infected that were not under her control were limited. She could not prevent them from attacking people and the like. However, there was one command that the [Leader Types] could transmit to the other infected with the same effect.
The infected under the command of the [Leader Type] rarely acted towards the personal prey of their leader. With Aephelia marking the area as the [Leader Type]'s hunting ground, the activity of the other infected was limited.
Now, however, the invasion of the other infected broke this rule. Each large horde had its leaders. To contain this large number of infected, Aephelia needed to control the leaders of each horde.
Unfortunately, she would not be able to do that. The number of infected she could control was limited. Furthermore, what determined how many infected she could control was not the quantity but the quality of the infected.
Currently, she could control thirty normal infected. Each of those infected could be regarded as slots. A normal mutated infected would take two slots, a level two mutation could take three to five slots and a [Leader Type] would usually take four to six. The alpha from before took only six but Gifre right now, he was taking the whole nine slots for his own.
Because of that, Aephelia had to let go of some of the infected she was controlling leaving only the [Leader Type] child and its mutated ride, Logan and Gifre.
Aephelia had herself full with just the four of them.
”You okay Aephelia?”
Mark asked the little sylph that was not able to get proper sleep last night. Her face was red and she was fidgety all this while.
”M-master, I'm fine... I guess...”
”Here, relax a bit and take those filthy things in your mind.”
Mark smiled bitterly as he let her land on his palm and caressed her head.
”Gege, why is she like that?”
Mei asked curiously. Not only her but everyone here was quite curious.
”Don't mind her. Just some of her innocence was taken away last night.”
Mark answered jokingly as his eyes fell on the captured Vem that was now wearing a uniform of this school. As there was no way to contain her for now, Mark left her unconscious using various methods. If he let her wake up he would not be affected but Edzels chastity would surely be in the line.
”Everyone ready?”
Mark asked in which everyone nodded.
Everyone rushed out of the faculty. Mark's group entered the vehicle while Analynn and Terrence made their way back to their group.
Nevertheless, the sight of the gigantic monster beside the vehicle made the two not help it to look back. The two did not know where it came from or how they managed to tame it but knowing how strong this group was, the two would do everything to convince everyone to grab their ticket out of this forsaken place.
***
”We're going to come back for them, right?”
Karlene asked while watching her friend running away on the roof of the walkway.
”I don't mind.” Mark replied. ”If they join our group, especially your friend, that Edward and also the old man, it will be better.”
”I can understand why you want the old instructor but you seem fixated on that Edward. Why is that?”
”Nothing much, really. It's just I find it interesting that he kept a deranged woman near him even though most people will surely find her a liability.”
”I don't know about the woman you are talking about but Lynn isn't like that.”
”I know, but how about the other people around?”
”...”
In the end, Karlene fell silent. She knew her friend but not the other people around her.
”Alright, enough talk about this. Odel, let's go.”
Mark shook his head. Karlene was still childish.
And for the most childish thing around...
”Miracle, Iola. You two should change the game. Gale will always win rock, paper, scissors against you two.”