Reaching the grocery store, Luna realized he was right on the money, 20 VIT seemed to be a sweet spot before they can start investing in other stats.

All of a sudden, Luna pulled Boni behind a kiosk and whispered

"What's that?" pointing towards the store entrance they noticed a zombie that would have looked like the rest, except for the fact that, after looking closer, it's muscles seemed more defined, less damaged.

Taking this into consideration, Luna knew he had to treat this as he would a boss fight or a mini-boss fight, even if it wasn't, it was still better to be safe than sorry.

After cooking up a plan, it was decided that Luna was going to lead the charge and aggro the monster, while Sura and Boni would take care of both flanks. Originally, Boni wanted to be the one to draw aggro due to his high VIT, but after much consideration, Luna said it would be safer if he went, due to the fact that if the zombie was too fast for Boni who had lesser Agility, he might get hit, and even with his 19 total VIT, he only had a 19% resistance against infection, also, they didn't know if levels or maybe just the evolved zombie's own innate skill, had any type of penetration against resistances. Luna was confident that he wouldn't have had too much of an issue with his endurance against one foe.

"Alright, let's go, I'll walk towards him, the moment I say go, be ready to flank him."

The moment Luna fell within the creature's vision, it suddenly crouched down, looked at him, and screeched as it ran towards him, sending one claw hurtling towards his head, parrying this attack with his wooden club, Luna quickly realized that his creature's strength far surpassed his own.

He was using both hands when he parried that swipe, yet he felt as if his arms were going numb. Quickly, he signaled for the other two to come out, but Sura had been quicker than him, the moment she felt within her soul that Luna was in grave danger, she had already acted.

"Don't take it's attacks head-on!" Luna gave a quick warning, hearing this Sura dodged the monster's swipe, landed behind it, and slashed towards its arm. Much to her surprise, it only went halfway in, Boni caught up at this time, as he swung his wooden club from behind the zombie's feet, sweeping it, and having it land hard on it's back.

This obviously angered the zombie, as it did a kick-up while swiping its claws towards the front, attempting to hit Luna, but before it could even get completely up, Luna was already in mid-swing as if he was trying to hit a home run, which made the zombie's head cave in, even after this, it was still not dead, but barely able to move after it's brain suffered from quite the hit, Luna then proceeded to smash his wooden club on its head with its arms shaking with every hit, until it faded to black dust, to nothing, signaling that it had died.

This time, instead of a wisp, it was an orb of experience that went into Luna's body as he instantly went from level 5 to level 7.

On the ground was a chest covered by a glowing, golden membrane, a skill book, and a VIS coin with the number 100 on it, which automatically went to his inventory.

"Luna, let's see what's inside the chest!" Boni said as he reached to open the chest, he was already burning with curiosity as to what rare item it held, but to his surprise, the moment he reached within the vicinity of the golden membrane, he couldn't go further.

With an awkward look on his face, he looked towards Luna "Uhh, bro, why don't you try?"

Sure enough, as Luna reached towards the chest, the golden membrane dispersed naturally as he opened it up allowing a pair of blades to float towards Luna. He checked the description on both, and they were basically the same.

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Item: Itak Tagalog*

Once a bladed tool designed for cracking coconuts and harvesting root crops, this modern version has been evolved to become a deadly weapon with increased sharpness, length, and size.

Attack DMG: 30

Weight: 50

Bonus stats if used as a set:

Strength + 5

Agility +3

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Luna tossed them both towards Sura.

"Out of the three of us you're the only one without a <system> weapon, also, you're the one who benefits the most from using sword type weapons."

Sura caught the pair of swords and gave Luna a meaningful glance "Thank you, Master. I will make good use of this gift."

"Oh, and stop it with the whole master thing, it feels awkward. I want you to treat me as an equal and call me Luna."

"Yes, M--- Luna. Thank you." it seemed like it was something that would take some getting used to.

"Don't sweat it, the stronger we are as a team, the higher our chances of survival. Speaking of which, Boni, catch!" Luna took out the skill book he received and tossed it over to Boni as he instinctively caught the book.

"Seems like this new world has improved your reflexes quite a bit."

"Every level nourishes the body and strengthens it on a fundamental level. It's only normal. Hehe." Boni read the description in the book.

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Active Skill: Holy Aura.

Increases physical and magical damage mitigation against the undead/evil by 10%.

Generates 50% more enmity from undead/evil property monsters.

Immunity to zombie infection when skill is active.

MP Cost: 50

Skill will persist unless toggled off, turning this skill back on will cost another 50 MP.

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"BRO! You really love me! This skill was made for tank classes like me!"

Boni was almost in tears with how happy he was.

"It's not a problem. It seems this world has no specific classes, just how you build yourself. At least now, you can aggro monsters in fights more effectively without having to fear getting infected. Now, let's go and gather supplies. We need to hotwire a truck to carry all the goods right after."

The group proceeded to head into the grocery store after spotting a truck they'd load the supplies into.