Manuke FPS

pe like a drill, and was much larger than the regular rabbit’s horn.
I was fascinated by its unexpected size, but it had already noticed me.
It roared as if that was the only thing it knew.
It should have closed the distance before trying to threaten me like that.

First, I placed my crosshairs on the two red bears and aimed for their chests where they couldn’t doge.
Sometimes in battle, you couldn’t get a clean hit if you aimed for the head due to the reaction to the shot.
Since I had sufficient offensive power, I changed where I aimed since the head could avoid the shot with a small movement.
A chest shot, if hit, meant immediate death.

I glided the crosshair and shot in the semi-auto mode at each bear.
They tried to dodge in response to my shots, but they couldn’t evade my shots with such huge bodies.
They sank with big holes in their chests.
When the red bears were killed, the rabbit’s red eyes seemed to burst into flames.
It let out a strange sound like a roar and spit out a fireball.
But I had already encountered an attack like this when I fought against the higher-ranked glass wolves, the dire wolves.
Of course, I remembered it and was on guard against it.

“Easy!”

I did a slide-jump forward to the left to dodge the fireball then turned and jumped more to the left side, passing the rabbit.
It moved its head to follow my movements, but it couldn’t match my speed.
I switched my rifle from semi to full-auto and squeezed the trigger while guiding the crosshair along the rabbit’s body.

A continuous burst of fire along with the metallic clangs of shells being discharged echoed throughout the underground passage.
With bullet wounds all over its body, the long-horned rabbit exploded without leaving a trace of a rabbit behind.
I landed from my jump, crouched down, and looked at the lump that used to be the rabbit through my iron sights.
Did I overdo it? I didn’t think so, but I couldn’t help feeling that what I did was over-kill.
However, if I made a mistake, that meant death…

From then on, whenever I came across a long-horned rabbit, I would check how many bullets were needed to kill them and what their vital points were.
In the end, I was able to conclude that if I aimed for their chest and the area around the base of its horn, that would be effective enough.

“This 5th level is full of huge beasts…”

The number of red bears increased here and the long-horned rabbits would always appear in big and small rooms alike.
But there hadn’t been any big trouble up until now.

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I finished up the 5th level and headed down to the 6th level.
I noticed that the atmosphere had changed a little.
First was the smell.
There was a rotten smell, like some creature was decaying.
Then there was the ceiling.
This was underground, but the ceiling was almost 10 meters high…

Labyrinths were underground, but they were not created by digging tunnels in the earth.
They were in a different dimension and if you dug down into one level, you wouldn’t get to the next level.
You could get into the next passage by destroying the wall, but the wall was said to be restored by the labyrinth’s magic.

From the information that I had gathered beforehand, levels six to ten were the undead zone.
There would be zombies, skeletons, and labyrinth bats, a bat-type monster.
I switched back to using my P90 as my main for now and moved on with caution.
A little while later, my headphones picked up the sound of something being dragged along with moans.

“This is… zombies?”

I stopped and crouched down.
I waited for it to appear in my sights and before long, a zombie came into view.
Half its face had turned into sludge and its skin black.
The clothing it wore had become rags and were extremely dirty.
It walked very slow as well.
I placed the crosshairs over its head and shot.
The bullet blew its head away, but… it didn’t stop walking.

“What? The headshot didn’t kill it!”

I knew a lot of FPS games with zombies as the enemies, and most could be disabled with headshots.
However, the zombies in this world were different – this one continued to move.
I quickly shot at both its knees to stop the legs.
The bullets didn’t just pierce the knees, they burst, and the zombie fell face down on the ground.

“What…?”

With no head and half its legs from the knees down gone, it stilled crawled forward.
I then shot its shoulders and blew away its arms.
Yet, it still didn’t sink and continued to wriggle forward. Was it really immortal? No, it was already dead, so it couldn’t be immortal. There must be something, a core that animated the corpse… A mana stone?

I didn’t know where a zombie’s mana stone was, so I tried for the heart.
The bullet made a large cavity on the chest where its heart should have been, but it still kept moving.

Was it in the stomach?

I continued to shoot until it sank into the floor.
I had finally found out that the mana stone was in its lower back.

“So the mana stone is at its waist…?”

This zombie’s stone was at the waist, but I didn’t think it was the same for all the zombies.
I was a bit worried, but then I recalled the illustrated book about monsters in the Archive and searched for information about zombies in the captured files on the TSS.

[E/N: That should have been your first move bro.]

In the end, I did confirm that the undead could be killed if I separated the mana stone from its body.
The stone’s location was not fixed and I basically just destroyed it with my weapon.
It seemed like adventurers usually used weapons to knock the stones from the bodies.
Should I do the same? But for melee weapons, there were only batons and the like and… What about burning?

Speaking of killing zombies, it was either headshots or burning, that was it!