Return of the last survivor Chapter 70: Impending Battle

With this incident out of the way, rlin began to recover his mana as he left the conference room.

He had already been inford of all the past events, which now gave him ti to think about the future.

'The mana burst will happen in about an hour. And within a few minutes after that, most zombies will evolve to Tier 1 or Tier 2, and will likely create hordes of zombies with Class 2 threat levels.'

Just as these thoughts raced in rin's mind, he announced throughout the now much larger Sanctum through Phillip,

"There will be hordes of Tier 1 and Tier 2 zombies incoming within an hour. Class 2threat levels. I want 80% of Peak Tier 1s to assemble at the outer walls, while the rest should remain inside the inner walls for managing, and neutralising possible threats."

"Kill every zombie and human that may be a threat. The rest of the Tier 1s assemble at the outer walls, and the others move to the inner wall. There will not be enough space for you all, but you will have to make do. Once we overco this wave, most zombies should revert back to Class 1 threats, and only reach Class 2 threats once they form hordes of Tier 2 again."

With that said, rlin telepathically called out to Foveros and cha, while still soaking up the mana from the air.

Currently, he was in no rush to replenish his mana, and so did not bother wasting mana stones for now.

Mana stones could be used to quickly replenish one's mana, but it would not work for everyone. This was because the mana in mana stones had many impurities which would cause one's mana to slowly degenerate. The only way to safely use a mana stone is to filter out the impurities from the mana while absorbing it and throw it back into the mana stone.

However, one needed incredibly high intelligence, Sense, and soul stats, which only a handful people had up till now.

Once they evolved to Tier 2, many more would be able to absorb mana stones, and rlin would gladly inform them of the thod of filtration. This way, they were more likely to survive in harsher conditions.

At this mont, the Foveros clad in the black cha, arrived in the air through a spacial crack.

'How much mana do you waste in bending the space to travel everywhere?'

'Not much to begin with rlin. Also, for so reason the space here has beco incredibly weak, reducing the cost even more.'

'Ah! So the weakened space is to bla'

'Yes'

'Anyway, I wanted to tell you both that the mana will drastically increase, allowing both of you to Tier up. Be prepared-'

Just as rlin was thinking, he stopped and asked in his mind,

'cha, you can consu elental candies right?'

'Yes Master!'

Nodding slightly, he let his soul enter the library once more, and found the book rather quickly, since he had already skimd through it earlier while finding the [Mana Spur].

This was [Elental Compression]. Although he might have known any spells in his previous life, none of them compared to the treasures in the library.

A spell used along with a few runes, which can use abundant elental energy and compress it into elental orbs.

Currently, cha had consud the water orb right after its birth, one of rlin's 4 elental orbs, and had gained a large amount of water affinity thanks to that. Therefore, rlin had decided to feed the rest of his orbs which gave cha a boost in his Water, Fire, Earth, and Air Elents. It was all peaceful until the cha Nation attacked

rlin had also nad this 'The cha State', which caused no one to laugh, since he was alone in the room when he nad it.

Using [Elental Compression], rlin reached out his hands and began drawing multiple runes in the air using mana.

It took him nearly 10 minutes to complete this, but taking longer helped by reducing the amount of mana used. rlin knew he would have to face an incredibly difficult battle in 50 minutes and so decided to conserve as much mana as possible.

But what he was doing was to increase the overall strength of the Sanctum.

Once he completed the rune circles, he let the mana within the air be frantically absorbed, along with the laws present.

Most predominant of all was the law of void, which existed in the void between dinsions, and also the place to where Foveros went while tearing through space.

Due to the weakened structure of the space in earth's dinsion, rlin could access the elental energy of the void, and compress it into a single elental orb. He looked over at cha, who had detached from Foveros and was floating in the air.

'Eat this before you evolve.'

With that, he threw the black bead sized orb, containing seemingly endless darkness and emptiness, over to cha.

He did not waste more mana to create more, and instead focused on recovering his spent mana for the battle to co.

With that, he looked over at both Foveros and cha and said,

'Take care of the sanctum.'

With those words, he flew away to strengthen so people and artefacts to increase the survivability of the Sanctum.

What he rembered from his previous life was that every mana surge led to a drastic increase in the activity of zombies for a short while. Sort of like a temporary buff, which causes them to target large settlents of humans, and more or less ignore smaller groups and individuals as long as they are running away from the zombies horde.

This was bad for rlin, since his Sanctum was like the largest lighthouse to all zombies for miles in every direction.

However, if he could survive, the benefits would far exceed his expectations, because all Tier 2 creatures possessed cores!