Since he was still in a public area, Zayne wasn’t interested in showing off his Absolute Compass’s abilities.
He had already killed Victor and his entire gang. With nothing left to do there, he released his sealing ability on the remaining students and left with Jade.
Moving in the air with Jade, Zayne decided to just use his Absolute Compass to locate his dorm mates.
While he did so, he felt a warm embrace, noticing that Jade had hugged him.
Noticing his questioning look, Jade spoke out, "I want to thank you for solving my problems."
"If this isn’t enough, I can do more."
Knowing the underlying meaning behind her words, Zayne wasn’t a herbivore. Since the world has already changed, he dared eat meat.
As a transmigrator, who didn’t dream of starting a harem?
However, he also wasn’t someone who let his lower body dominate his mind, so he still temporarily refused her offer.
"I wouldn’t mind, but not now. It’s the first day of the Apocalypse World Update Era, and we should take the first mover initiative."
"On one hand, we need to hoard supplies. On the other hand, you don’t possess any talent or power, and I can’t protect you 24/7, so I can let you gain power."
Zayne had several powerful fairy fruits at hand that could easily grant Jade power without any side effects.
One fairy fruit was a Mythical Ability-Type Fairy Fruit, which was called the Fairy Queen of Division, Epithet: Severance.
However, he wasn’t naive enough to fully trust her.
Although he could check her loyalty with the Absolute Compass, that was for later, as he still needed to find supplies to hoard.
Unlike most survivors, Zayne didn’t need food and water as he could easily create it with his Unlimited Food Creation talent.
What he was looking for were medical supplies, weapons such as guns, fuel, and generators, and other essential supplies, such as but not limited to hygiene supplies, maintenance supplies, and clothes.
After explaining all that to Jade, she agreed with him.
Afterwards, they flew in the sky for a while until they arrived at Zayne’s house.
Zayne felt that the dormitory room was too small, so he decided to temporarily make use of his house as his base until he had better alternatives.
’If only I had chosen that Level 7 Advanced Battle Ship that came with the Survivor Authority. Its defenses would be impossible to destroy by any zombies or people.’
’Moreover, the cabins there are more than enough for people within two digits. And I had even installed a flight module for it that can allow it to sail in the sky for a moderate duration, so relocation isn’t impossible.’
Even with that tinge of regret, Zayne knew that choosing Option 2 for the system inventory feature being unlocked was far better.
Because of that, he could only decide that unless there was another system feature that was added as a simulation reward option, it was better if he chose a movable shelter as his reward.
While Zayne thought so, he created several metal golems and cleared the surrounding zombies with his metal chains before leaving Jade at his house.
After letting Jade stay at his house, Zayne could focus on hoarding the supplies he needed.
"Absolute Compass, find me the nearest mall or any stores and warehouses that have the supplies I need."
Seeing the compass’s magnetic needle point northwest, Zayne headed there.
Since he no longer had to account for Jade’s weak physical body, Zayne moved through the air at an insane speed.
The Leviathan Tempering Path didn’t grant him swiftness. Rather, it was biased towards power, vitality, and an indestructible frame.
On land, Zayne restrained himself since one careless step would pulverize the ground beneath him.
But in the sky, with his chains anchoring space itself, he was no longer bound by terrain.
His only limit was his reaction time and how fast his mind could process.
And so, he traveled in the air at Mach 100 speed!
How fast was that? That was 100 times the speed of sound!
In other words, 34.3 kilometers per second!
He could easily cross a 10 km city in 0.29 seconds, and a 100 km region in approximately 2.9 seconds.
Even circling Terra would only take approximately 20 minutes!
And that was merely Zayne holding back!
He couldn’t understand why, in the novels he read, characters could reach island-level and destroy cities, mountains, islands, and whatnot, yet their movement speed was ass.
Reality was different from fiction. As an island-level (from what Zayne proclaims), he could easily be faster than those slowpokes.
He had already tested in the Global Ocean Survival World, and he had destroyed mountains and even shattered and sunk islands.
That was using a combination of his physical power and metal creation ability.
’It seems it might be due to the suppression of the World Will and the stability of space or durability of the world, as well as the quality of world laws.’
’If Terra ever gains an apocalypse world update that involves high power system like gods or immortals, then the world wouldn’t be as fragile, and I might have my power suppressed.’
’But since the natural laws of the Zombie Apocalypse World are still physics-based, it’s already a playground with my current power.’
In just under a second, Zayne arrived at a mall.
The streets around it were littered with zombies, and he even saw some people being chased by zombies. Not only on the streets, but the mall was filled with zombies and people hiding or escaping from zombies.
His college didn’t have such problems since it wasn’t as densely populated as the mall and streets.
He knew that saving them would greatly inconvenience him, as not only did he not know them (unlike his schoolmates), but he was busy with hoarding supplies.
’Since the government has been taking people’s taxes to raise the army, it’s their duty and obligation to save these civilians. The military can deal with them, and I have no interest in establishing a survivor base.’
Ignoring those civilians’ pleas, Zayne sealed the entire city block, centered around the mall.
Afterwards, he created a huge metal hand, letting it dig the plot of land beneath the mall, taking the mall out.
Yes, Zayne planned to abuse the infinite storage of his system inventory to hoard the entire mall!