SSS Class Awakening: Start With A God-Level Choice System-Chapter 54: Moon Crystal

Although Ainsworth didn’t fully dismiss the plausibility of the theory he made, he didn’t let it get to him as he was too weak to solve it.

If his theory happened to be false, then that would be for the best. Otherwise, he would have another reason to surpass the SSS-rank Awakeners and reach a power no one on Earth has ever reached, to solve the mastermind behind all of this.

After Ainsworth made his theory, he then shifted his attention back to Howard, Judy, and the survivors.

They all had become zombies and interestingly enough, their intelligence and personality when they were still a human were retained due to the Hive Mind preserving it. Of course, the preserved intelligence and personality were already modified by the Hive Mind to be loyal to him.

From his estimation, only Special Zombies would be able to retain human characteristics but not only Kyle from before, but even the new survivors he infected still retained them.

Although they couldn’t speak, they could still convey their thoughts via the Hive Mind.

He planned to let Howard, Judy, and the survivors follow Kyle to establish his Zombie Kingdom. Howard and Judy might be currently stronger than Kyle due to being evolvers before they became zombies. Depsite that, Ainsworth still didn’t let them replace Kyle for the position of Zombie King.

After all, when the father zombie virus infected them, he could determine the talent and potential of the newly infected zombie in the path to evolution. So far, Kyle’s potential and talent were still far superior to any of the humans he had infected into zombies.

He even had a feeling that if he didn’t interrupt Kyle, who was previously bitten by a zombie, his body could have resisted the zombie virus, and he could have became an Evolver.

Since Kyle was still more talented than Howard and Judy, he let Kyle become the Zombie King of the future Zombie Kingdom that he would control from the shadows, while Howard and Judy would be his subordinates.

After making all those plans, Ainsworth asked Howard, "Why did your survivor group cause such a loud explosion? It not only caused a fire, but it even woke me up from my nap, and I dislike being woken up for no reason."

Hearing Ainsworth’s question and seeing that he was in a bad mood, Howard and Judy immediately knelt on one knee to Ainsworth like knights being punished by their king.

Howard and Judy, and even survivors from the back, followed Howard and Judy, shouting in unison, "Forgive us, Your Majesty!"

Seeing Ainsworth’s indifferent nod, Howard immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Their words weren’t spoken in the real world but conveyed to Ainsworth via the Hive Mind, so if a passerby saw this, they would only see a group of pale-skinned "humans" bowing to a handsome man, with reverence and fervor in their eyes.

After they received Ainsworth’s forgiveness, Howard immediately answered Ainsworth’s question, "We caused an explosion since a horde of zombies had gathered and we wanted to clear up the area if we could, to make it easier for us to leave our hideout in the morning."

Feeling that his answer wasn’t enough, Howard continued, "Of course, we didn’t just do that for no reason. Aside from clearing up a path and reducing the number of zombies, it’s also due to the strange crystal we saw a zombie holding."

"The zombie at that time looked to be defending it and holding it as if it was a piece of treasure he didn’t want to lose. Because of that, we felt that the strange crystal was valuable, so we caused an explosion to kill most of the zombie’s minions and snatch the strange crystal from the zombie."

"Fortunately, we succeeded, but before we could flee safely, the fire we caused was extinguished by a rain that suddenly appeared."

Knowing that the next topic would be what caused their king’s ire, Judy interjected with Howard by apologizing first and explaining, "Forgive us, Your Majesty! We attacked you since our leader and even we had seen you sleeping from above the sky."

"We knew you were a powerful evolver, and normally, we wouldn’t dare attack you. But we were holding the strange crystal and didn’t want you to extort it from us, so our leader ordered us to eliminate you before you could ask us about the strange crystal."

"We had assumed that even if you were a powerful evolver, you must have been drained and exhausted from summoning rain, so we thought we had a chance to kill you before you could respond to our attack."

"Fortunately, we failed, or else we couldn’t have gotten Your Majesty’s favor in becoming one of the founders for the Zombie Kingdom. I thank Your Majesty for your magnanimity!"

To further gain Ainsworth’s forgiveness, one of the survivors who was entrusted with the strange crystal took it out of his pocket.

The strange crystal was wrapped in black clothing, and when the survivor unfolded the cloth, it revealed a glowing white crystal that was both crystal and gem-like in nature.

After the survivor took it out of his pocket, the survivor then knelt again and offered it to Ainsworth like a knight offering the treasure he had acquired from his expedition.

"Your Majesty, this is the strange crystal we found. Before, when we were humans, we didn’t find any use for the strange crystal. Only Howard and Judy discovered that it seemed to be condensed from the essence of the moonlight."

"Now, after receiving Your Majesty’s grace, we could now feel that using the strange crystal would hasten the evolution of the zombie virus in our bodies. Evolvers like Your Majesty can use it to further strengthen your superpower and the viral energy in your body, while zombies like us could use it to improve our power and evolution speed."

Looking at the strange white crystal offered by one of the survivors, Ainsworth took an interest in it and when he received it from the survivor, he noticed that the progress of his Main Mission 2 had increased, specifically the requirement to get 10 moon crystals.

The Earth’s Voice of the World had deemed that he took ownership of the moon crystal, so it increased his progress in the main mission. Otherwise, if he gave it back to other people and didn’t keep it, the progress would decrease.

After confirming that the strange white crystal was indeed the moon crystal he was looking for, Ainsworth immediately took a picture of it using the Hive Mind and let all the believers of the Church of Evolution as well as Kyle see it, commanding them to find such crystals.

Ainsworth didn’t know how scarce or abundant moon crystals were but he didn’t have to worry much since he has an entire religion assisting him in his search. It won’t be long before his Zombie Kingdom would be successfully established as well as making the Church of Evolution the main religion in this world.

Kyle had already infiltrated a survivor group and even infected them with the father zombie virus, which was remaining dormant in the bodies of those infected survivors.

When it reached an amount enough to transform them into zombies, Ainsworth’s Zombie Kingdom will have more subjects and world domination would be within reach.

’There should be a hidden mission for changing the main religion of this world. Even if there aren’t any, I’m quite certain that world domination would be included as a hidden mission since most awakeners who achieved that had completed a hidden mission related to that.’

’After all, the goal of Otherworld Missions is to plunder the world origin of the Otherworlds. If an awakener disrupted the world to the point of dominating it, there ought to be a lot of world origin plundered, which would in turn trigger the completion of a hidden mission.’

’Since I have the power to dominate this world, I might as well start scheming for it. The Church of Evolution and the Zombie Kingdom are both crucial chess pieces for my plan, so I have to spend some effort on letting them prosper in this world.’

With that plan in mind, Ainsworth asked Howard and Judy if they found any sun crystals or artifacts but much to his disappointment, they didn’t find any.

Nevertheless, he wasn’t discouraged as he had already found a moon crystal, which solved the problem of identifying what it looked like.

After commanding Howard, Judy, and the members of their survivor group to start spreading his father zombie virus to other survivor groups, Ainsworth left them to their own accord.

He headed to the nearby rooftop of the tallest building he could find in the city and killed the Normal-rank Late Stage zombie staying there.

"There are only thirty minutes left until midnight, so that would be the time when moon crystals would form more abundantly. Howard and Judy had already found a moon crystal way before midnight, so it’s worth the try to search during midnight and plunder from zombies who owned them."