SSS Class Awakening: Start With A God-Level Choice System-Chapter 43: Encountering A Group Of Survivors

After witnessing Rian obliterate multiple zombies in a single sword slash, Dante’s first reaction wasn’t to praise him but to scold, "Yo bro, leave some kills for me! You already improved your KDA before, leave most to me this time."

It wasn’t that Dante was kill hungry, but aside from setting up the Fortress: First Form, he wasn’t even the first to harvest the fruits of his hard work.

He wouldn’t mind Rian’s assistance in a life-and-death battle or a serious situation, but this was clearly them practicing their skill usage so he couldn’t let his practice dummies be wiped out before he could make a move.

In response to Dante’s scolding, Rian laughed and apologized, "Hahaha, sorry bro. Whenever I see targets and get a hold of the Sword of Light, it gives me the urge to cut them all off."

Since Rian apologized, Dante no longer minded. He never planned to hold him accountable; he was only reminding him not to wipe all the zombies out and leave some for him.

Soon after, Dante still maintained the Fortress: First Form as it was barely reducing his aura due to the zombies’ weak attacks or lack thereof, as the zombies merely caused collision damage.

Forwarding his right hand, brown-colored aura surged from his body as he called out, "[Immovable Shield]!"

In front of Dante’s right palm, his aura gathered and materialized a brown shield that was as huge as his body and wider than his body.

Immovable Shield (SSS) was one of Dante’s class exclusive skills, and it allowed him to summon a shield with five times the defense proportional to the aura he inputted.

Furthermore, it had four powerful skill effects.

The first was that his shield would never get removed from his grip, and his grip would never become unsteady. The second prevented him from being thrown off his position as he could ignore and be immune to knockback and momentum.

On the other hand, the third allowed him to shift 50% of the damage he received into rebound damage against his enemy, as his shield would work like a mirror. For example, if Rian slashed a light sword slash at him, 50% of the power of the light sword slash would be reflected back to Rian, while Dante would only receive 50% of the damage.

As if that wasn’t enough, his fourth skill effect caused him to transfer 50% of the remaining damage he received into his surroundings. Because of that, the damage he received after skill effect reductions would be drastically lowered, and be easier for him to tank the damage with his shield.

Moreover, that was excluding Dante’s class traits as one of his literally gave him the passive buff of having an all-round defense, and if he had a shield present, the damage would be transferred to his shield.

Even if someone snuck behind his back and stabbed a spear into his butt, it wouldn’t pass through his butthole and would collide as if hitting metal as it would face not only Dante’s defense stat but also his damage reduction skill effects.

The same would happen if Dante’s eye were hit, as any vulnerable parts of his body would no longer become vulnerable due to his class trait. His highest defense stat would be the defense of any part of his body.

Because of that, Ainsworth couldn’t even find any weak points in Dante’s body, much to his surprise. If he were to go all out and fight him in a life-and-death battle, Ainsworth still felt he wouldn’t lose as he could bypass Dante’s defense and cause penetration damage and true damage because he had the freedom to do so.

But other than an exception like him who had the freedom to do that, a main damage dealer like Rian wouldn’t have any upper hand against Dante, as his skin and flesh would be too thick to penetrate and cause substantial damage.

After Dante summoned his Immovable Shield (SSS), he used a regular skill he got from a skill book to perform his attack.

Positioning his shield towards his shoulder as he held it in both hands, Dante charged towards the zombies and, like a speeding truck, he rammed towards them, "[Shield Bash]!"

When the zombies took the brunt of Dante’s Shield Bash (A), their bones and flesh were pulverized and flattened. However, some of them were still alive, albeit being sent flying by Dante’s attack, which caused a lot of knockback damage.

Although some of those zombies lived, they were only alive as Dante’s shield bash didn’t bash their skulls. Nonetheless, they couldn’t move as their bodies were crippled by his shield bash.

When Dante had attacked, it didn’t drag his Fortress: First Form with him, as he could freely choose whether to set up the fortress in a fixed location or let it follow him.

After Dante showed off his attack and got to kill zombies, Rian no longer held back and competed with him to eliminate the zombies.

In just under a minute, all the zombies were cleared by both Rian and Dante, with the majority being killed by Rian.

The streets, which used to be littered by zombies, were now filled with zombie corpses as Dante had already withdrawn his Fortress as they no longer needed it.

After observing Dante and Rian’s attacks without interfering, Ainsworth spoke out as he concluded, "Unless we face a much tougher battle than this or even a life and death battle, I don’t think we can fully portray our real combat power and teamwork. Fodders like Normal Zombies are just mobs that we can easily slaughter."

Dante agreed, "We have a much easier time in our Otherworld Mission despite choosing an unknown sixth difficulty merely because of both this being our first day here and the fact that our team consists of awakeners with one SS-rank class and two SSS-rank classes."

"If it were other awakener teams, they might not necessarily have such luxury as even having a team leader with an S-rank class is already top-notch, let alone have classes above that rank."

Dante wasn’t lying, as although the three of them were blazing the Otherworld, it was ultimately because of how powerful they were, as they were all top students in Edenbridge High School.

The average awakener teams will have members with D-rank and C-rank classes, while the leader would have a B-rank class. Those were the usual team compositions of average awakener teams who harvest resources from the Otherworld for a living.

Only awakener teams from top schools like the three of them had the luxury of having a powerful line-up. But even then, that was due to Rian, Dante, and Ainsworth being top students. Even other students would be lucky to have a schoolmate with an S-rank class leading their team. freёweɓnovel.com

Although almost everyone on Earth could awaken a class after they become 16, that didn’t mean everyone would awaken powerful classes. Only those with great luck, talent, genetics, and birthright could have powerful classes.

The world wasn’t fair to begin with as even Ainsworth not only awakened a class but also a system so not everyone would be on the same starting point.

Ainsworth didn’t care much about those, as what mattered to him was that he could fulfill his goals and gain enough power to take revenge against the Eye Organization.

While they were chatting, Ainsworth took the time clean up the zombie corpses and teleported them to the Church of Evolution. He didn’t want to waste those zombie corpses as they could be transformed into divine wine and therefore, convert more believers for his religion so he didn’t put it to waste.

Although he didn’t want to micromanage every action of the Church of Evolution, he still cared about the Church of Evolution in his own way. Since they followed him due to his charisma and charm, he would let his subordinates prosper in this lawless world.

After he cleaned up the streets that were littered with zombie corpses, Ainsworth led Rian and Dante to leave, but before they could, they heard a loud shout:

"Wait!"

When someone yelled that, a group of survivors came out of hiding from a building as a tall man with a muscular build led those survivors and raised his hands in the air, saying, "We come in peace."

Hearing that man’s words, Ainsworth inwardly complained, ’Sure, buddy. You definitely came in peace and weren’t being opportunistic as you let Rian, Dante, and me clean up the zombies in the streets and do all the work before you all came out and didn’t even bother helping.’

Although Ainsworth could kill them all and approach it like a murderhobo, he felt that killing them wasn’t enough.

He was bored with not being able to move his muscles when Rian and Dante were the ones who killed all the zombies for target practice.

Since one of the reasons for leaving the Church of Evolution was in order to trigger side missions, Ainsworth decided to interact with the humans in the Otherworld to increase his chances of triggering side missions rather than just outright killing them.