Chapter 48: The Possibility Of Teaming Up

Chapter 48: The Possibility Of Teaming Up

When Ainsworth finished reading the contents of the S-grade side mission, he knew that Rian and Dante would agree with him in accepting the side mission.

If it were only the side mission’s objective, the three of them would be resistant to doing it. After all, no one wanted to lose their humanity and become a zombie.

Fortunately, there was an alternative objective that could be fulfilled by letting a controlled zombie complete the side mission’s objective for them.

It just so happened that there was already a controlled zombie that Ainsworth had, which was Kyle.

Coincidence? Most certainly not.

If any of their teammates became a zombie, whether intentional or by accident, then they would undoubtedly trigger this side mission.

However, the act of controlling a zombie met the conditions for the alternative objective which in turn, triggered the Road To Zombie King (S) side mission.

Due to Ainsworth having a wide array of skills, he could easily meet the trigger conditions of most side missions. Even the Road To Zombie King (S) side mission could only be triggered if an awakener got infected by the zombie virus, or they could control the zombies or enslave them.

No matter what, it would be difficult for most awakeners to fulfill the trigger conditions of side missions, let alone complete them.

When he remembered the alternative objective, Ainsworth couldn’t help but ponder, ’Now that I think about it, Elyndra might be able to trigger and complete this side mission. After all, she could even forcibly order and command that rich young master Caspian to eat shit in a live broadcast, let alone order and command zombies.’

’As long as she exerted her control over a zombie and let it evolve to Zombie King, she could even her class exclusive skill to command countless zombies and let them join the kingdom of the Zombie King, thereby completing the side mission.’



’I wonder what Otherworld her team is in and how they are doing right now. I don’t have to worry about her safety as she could even give me an SSS-rank Abandon Mission Card, so she definitely had enough for her own usage.’

’Nevertheless, Elyndra and Mira teaming up with each other is already an invincible duo that could easily complete Hell Difficulty Otherworld Missions. But, with their personalities, they wouldn’t want to just complete the otherworld mission but also overfulfill it like me. To maximize efficiency, they should have formed a five-person team.’

’Putting aside my crush for Elyndra, it doesn’t change the fact that Elyndra, Mira, and I are rivals. Despite Caspian being Rank 4 and only ranking lower than me, he wasn’t even qualified to be treated as our rival, as he was only Rank 4 because that’s the rank lower than me, not because he is qualified to be one.’

’Due to various factors in determining the school rankings, just like how my rank is lower than Elyndra and Mira due to my background, Caspian’s background is also higher than the students below him, so he became Rank 4. He merely has the background and talent, but his skills can’t back it up, unlike my rivalry with Elyndra and Mira.’

’With how competitive Elyndra and Mira are, they wouldn’t be satisfied with just completing the otherworld mission. So like myself, they must have turned the Otherworld upside down as they would experiment with ways to trigger the side missions and complete hidden missions.’

’If conditions permit, it would be interesting to have Elyndra and Mira on my team.’

Of course, Ainsworth was only thinking about it, but for now, he didn’t care much about whether they were on his team or not.

But even he had to admit that in terms of team leadership, he was lacking compared to Elyndra. Not only because Elyndra’s SSS-rank Tyrannical Ruler class was suited for that, but also due to her upbringing as a royal princess.

She would undoubtedly be able to scheme and manipulate people and coordinate the team better than him. Ainsworth only relied on the god-level talents he received from the system to compensate for his lack of skill in that area but in terms of pure skill, he was no match for Elyndra.

Furthermore, Ainsworth believed that he wasn’t suited to be the team leader as his class was more suited to being a lone wolf.

With his freedom-based class, he could trigger side missions and hidden missions more easily if he were on his own than leading a team.

He only led Rian and Dante because he needed an insurance as there were strength in numbers. Moreover, they were his best friends that he could trust with his life so in case he ever needed assistance, having them was better than not having them.

He also wanted them to become stronger as they were very talented and would greatly assist him in both Earth as well as his revenge against the Eye Organization.

So even if he could have gone solo, he chose not to as it would bring him more benefit if he brought Rian and Dante with him. Even Elyndra had joined forces with Mira, so he also did the same with Rian and Dante.



While the thought of being with Elyndra in the next Otherworld Mission was appealing to him, Ainsworth still focused on the matters at hand as he decided to take on the Road To Zombie King (S) side mission.

Even if Kyle didn’t have the potential and talent to become a Zombie King, Ainsworth could even use his father zombie virus to turn a dog into a zombie dog and let it become a Zombie King, let alone Kyle.

For him, it didn’t matter who would become the Zombie King. With his Pathogen Control (S), if given enough time, he could nurture any zombie into a Zombie King.

He only chose Kyle since at that time, he needed to silence him so recycling him into a zombie was a choice he made to prevent wastage. Otherwise, he could just choose other humans, or even his believers, and turn one of them into a zombie to control the zombie faction of this Zombie Apocalypse World.

Knowing that Rian and Dante would agree with him, Ainsworth didn’t bother to ask for their opinion. He was about to press the button, but he halted his actions after hearing a notification sound in his mind.

-Ding!

[Loading choices...]

-Ding!

[(1) Accept the Side Mission: Road To Zombie King (S)

(Reward: Evasion (B) is upgraded to Phantom Evasion (SS))]

[(2) Refuse the Side Mission: Road To Zombie King (S)

(Reward: Condiment Manifestation (B) is upgraded to Condiment Creation (SS))]

[(3) Choose none of the given options and choose your own path.

(Reward: None)]



Faced with those three options, it was a no-brainer to choose the first choice, so Ainsworth didn’t hesitate to accept Choice 1 and the Road To Zombie King (S) side mission.

-Ding!

[Eleutheron Eclipse has accepted the Side Mission: Road To Zombie King (S)!]

When Rian and Dante saw the system screen displayed by the Voice of The World, they were glad that they encountered another side mission which was now their second side mission in this Otherworld.

They were making good progress, and both of them knew that Ainsworth could easily complete that side mission despite it being S-grade. The only reason why it was S-grade was due to it being based on the average difficulty and it doesn’t scale with how powerful the Otherworld team was.

Furthermore, aside from the difficulty it would pose to average awakeners, it’s also based on how much world origin it would yield. The more world origin the Earth Will could get, the better the rewards it would give in return to the awakeners.

Because of that, the relationship between Awakeners and the Earth Will was a mutualistic symbiosis.

Since side missions’ grading was mostly based on the world origin that it would yield after completing it, it was possible for an SSS-grade side mission to only be S-grade in true difficulty.

A good example of that would be eliminating the Otherworld’s son of destiny. They might become a threat in the future worthy of an SSS-grade difficulty, but if encountered early, such as when they still have just started their journey, they could easily be killed by most Awakeners as long as those Awakeners treated the son of destiny seriously and didn’t overestimate them.

It would be foolish to treat the protagonist of a world lightly. Even a lion uses its full strength to catch a rabbit.

Let alone being cautious, there were even overqualified Awakeners who camped their enemies’ dead bodies for weeks to ensure that they were completely dead and didn’t have any last resorts like resurrection.

Such a trend occurred due to an awakener making a mistake of letting their enemy resurrect when they didn’t even thought of camping the enemy’s corpse and that cost them their Otherworld Mission. If not for that awakener having an SSS-rank Abandon Mission Card, they would have also lost their life.