Apocalypse Tyrant

“……”

A slender hand trembling badel badel— slowly covering her mouth.

Tears flowed from the eyes of the woman still kneeling on the floor.

The fact that she started crying meant she clearly realized her current situation.

I ignored the woman who started crying without being able to say anything and gestured for the strike team standing behind to come closer.

I injected Royal Authority into the heads of the strike team bastards who quickly ran over at that gesture.

The strike team bastards doing something like stretching while noisily shaking their bodies as if trying to feel the sensation after receiving Royal Authority from me.

I looked at the bastards with pathetic eyes and jerked my chin towards the lecture hall door.

“……”

The three idiots running to the lecture hall door with mouths slightly open, as if finally understanding my warning from just before.

I looked at the remaining Bang Daehwa and jerked my chin at Kim Areum who was still crying snot and tears.

“Seat her again and bring them over one by one in order.”

For now, it was certain that partial immunity neutralized the professor bastard’s ability.

Kim Areum still crying pitifully even though Bang Daehwa supported her body at my instruction.

After she sat in her seat again, she bent over and strongly grasped her head with both hands.

Even so, a stream of droplets still leaking from her eyes as if a faucet was broken.

I placed my hand on the crown of the next female student Bang Daehwa supported and brought over, and released partial immunity.

Exactly 20 female students.

I erased the professor’s ability remaining in their bodies and once again keenly felt the usefulness of partial immunity.

The destructive power of partial immunity I couldn’t feel at all when killing zombies.

In battle with fellow ability users, my partial immunity transformed into a cheat-like skill difficult to find a match for.

It was a result very naturally determining the destination of the remaining points I would obtain from now on.

Wooong—!

I withdrew my hand from the crown of the last female student while recalling the various reactions of the female students besides crying.

“Euheuheuk—! Heuheuk—!”

This time a female student who regained her senses quite quietly to the extent of just crying pitifully.

I quietly let out rough breaths only after Bang Daehwa, who seemed to have lost all energy from the other female students’ struggles, hurriedly took the female student away and turned his back.

Haah— Haah— Haah—

A craving for breath rising to the tip of my chin after a long time and an emptiness as if something had become completely empty.

The sleeve quickly wiping my forehead was full of moist sensations.

My forehead and bangs still wet with moisture even though I wiped once like that.

I vividly felt the Royal Authority that had never been lacking until now had bottomed out.

I slowly raised my head and repeatedly took deep breaths in and out.

The sensation of Royal Authority filling up again was clearly felt only after the water leaking from the pierced jar stopped.

Perhaps because it was Royal Authority that had boasted such a full-body presence, it seemed it would take quite a long time to fill up again.

Heuheuheuheuk—! Heuheuk—!

Delicate crying sounds gradually echoing in the lecture hall again even amid that.

The female students whose entire bodies were scratched from the constantly recalled nightmare were suffering in pain.

I just kept sitting on the podium without saying anything.

The female students in the lecture hall desperately ignoring me like that.

This— was a situation that could never be created by mere atmosphere alone.

I recalled the overwhelming stench of blood all over my body from not washing after killing zombies, and ‘Vulgar Dignity’ that had reached level 5.

[All who watch your actions will feel unpredictable fear and pressure.]

A constantly activated characteristic that allows naturally taking psychological advantage over opponents.

Thud—! Thud—!

I just kept watching the female students writhing their entire bodies and suffering for a very long time like that.

The light source of the scented candles gradually fading as time passed.

A new light source other than scented candles quietly began seeping into the dark lecture hall.

The dawn sunlight clearly felt as daybreak gradually rose.

I calmly took in the eyes of the female students one by one, now a bit dazed unlike their initial gazes.

Naturally, heavy emotions settle in place of highly volatile emotions like anger and disgust that have passed.

Worry about what comes next, desperate regret for irreversible things, etc.

Emotions too heavy and painful for individuals to bear.

I confirmed there wasn’t much craving for drugs visible in their eyes, then slowly stood up from the podium.

Step— step—

Footsteps slowly climbing the podium via the stairs beside it.

Clear footsteps echoed in the lecture hall that had sunk into a terribly heavy silence.

I smiled slightly on the podium where everyone’s dazed gazes were focused, reminded of someone’s words.

Standing on the podium, so many things really came into view.

Female students gradually being consumed by fear unbearable as individuals.

It was vividly visible from the podium how desperately they were trying not to look at Sung Jonghyun’s corpse pierced into the wall.

Not much noise would burst out even if I just dragged them all to the library like this.

But I already know from experience.

That if I do that, I’ll eventually have to make an example of someone who refuses my orders and show everyone.

I chose a much more economical method than such troublesome things.

Thud—!

The podium spewing a heavy sound at my lightly tapping foot.

“As you all know, the world you knew has ended.”

A tone of even pitch echoing in the lecture hall.

A monotonous tone as if making casual conversation, not for the purpose of lectures or speeches.

“It’s properly fucked up.”

I slowly continued speaking while looking around at all the female students and prospective strike team members.

“Now there are no reporters, parents, police, or soldiers to listen to your whining.”

“Just zombie bastards who will run like crazy at those crying sounds and psycho bastards like that.”

I quietly jerked my chin to point at Sung Jonghyun’s corpse.

Everyone in the lecture hall quietly taking in Sung Jonghyun pierced into the wall at my chin jerk.

“I’m not much different from that bastard either.”

“It’s just that I won this time in a fight between psycho bastards.”

So—

I quietly stared at the pupils of the female students looking back at me again while drawing out the last words.

Eyes swollen from crying for a long time and bloodshot pupils.

“I can’t understand your whining cries at all.”

“To me, that bastard hanging there seems quite generous among bastards.”

A mental ability user who subordinated students through drugs and ultimately turned them into dolls.

But ironically, their condition was much better than the endings I had seen of others.

Because they’re alive.

“You who have now woken up from the drug are at least crying snot and tears like tragic heroines, but outside there are too many dead bastards who couldn’t even do that.”

From hunger, being bitten by zombies, no longer having the will to live.

“Even at this moment as I’m saying these words, someone is probably dying somewhere.”

I calmly stated facts and tilted my head slightly.

But—

“If there are bastards dying somewhere, there are bound to be bastards surviving on the opposite side.”

“Those are the survivors of the camp I lead.”

Thud—!

I rolled my foot again on the podium where everyone’s attention was already drawn and gathered their attention.

“At this point, I’ll give you a choice.”

“Either stay gathered here or find a safe place on your own as you wish, or come under me.”

Step— step—

I slowly walked across the podium and continued the monotonous explanation.

“If you come under me, you must diligently carry out whatever I order for the sake of the camp, no matter what it is.”

Instead—

“I’ll be responsible for your lives.”

“I won’t say nice words that you can live like the past if you just endure a little.”

Because that’s now eternally impossible.

“You just need to know that I have sufficient food, a safe shelter, and about thirty survivors in the same situation as you.”

Thud—!

I stopped in the center of the podium and opened my mouth to everyone again.

“Exactly 5 minutes from now.”

“I’ll go deal with the zombies that may have gathered from your hysterical outbursts for 5 minutes.”

During that time—

I pointed at the lecture hall door.

“Those who want to leave, leave on your own, and those who want to stay, stay on your own.”

It was quite a necessary process even for the future.

The process of rationalizing that they had choices, and they made choices with them.

People very much dislike admitting their choices were wrong.

Because it’s blatantly revealing their own inadequacies and shortcomings, even more so.

They somehow rationalize that their choices were right and put themselves under self-hypnosis.

Then, it will become much easier to rule the camp.

Because they’ll put themselves under hypnosis on their own.

“When I come back to the lecture hall after 5 minutes, I’ll understand that the bastards remaining here have fully understood my words and treat them as my camp members.”

Step— step—

I finished speaking like that, lightly jumped over the podium and headed towards Sung Jonghyun’s corpse.

“This may be the last choice of your lives, so I hope you make your choice after sufficient careful consideration.”

Splat—!

Sung Jonghyun collapsing to the floor as soon as I pulled out the iron pipe stuck in the wall.

I examined the iron pipe not soaked in blood as much as expected while turning it this way and that, leaving Sung Jonghyun sprawled right in the aisle beside the lecture hall, and opened the lecture hall door.

Squeak—!

The prospective strike team member hurriedly moving from his spot and the lecture hall of dawn opening wide.

Thud—!

“……”

No sound was heard from inside the lecture hall until the lecture hall door closed again like that.