Is it Wrong to Copy Abilities in Apocalypse?

The humans inside of this particular final zone—the one where people had been constantly hearing an enraged roar that sounded like the worst horrors of their dreams—grew more and more tense as they heard the roars nearing them.

It has only been a while since it started, but for some reason, even the humans inside the green zone felt chills going down their spines.

The ones on the outside, however, had it worse as those roars were causing their bowels to loosen.

No one knew what it was or why it was coming toward them, but they knew one thing: it was anything but a good being.

"I W-WILL K-KILL YOU!!!"

They heard the same distorted voice that had been haunting them for a while, but this time it felt like it was coming from just one or two walls away.

The young man with the iron rod, on the other hand, was still on his knees, staring at the rod with a dumbfounded look on his face before his lips trembled, morphing into a grin.

*Grab*

He grabbed the rod and started to walk away from the barrier with slow steps; his head turned toward the floor, and his eyes quivered as he thought about what he was trying to do.

"That's good, young man.

You should just go; go and look for a new final zone, maybe you'll still make—!"

The old man, however, just grinned wider as he saw the man walking away.

He tried to give some words of mocking consolation to the man, but his words got stuck in his mouth, and his eyes went wide the moment he saw the man turn around with a snap and throw the rod right at him.

The old man was weak; he hadn't even killed a single undead till now, much less a beast, and his status was still what a normal human would have.

So, all he saw was the guy staring at him with a wild, frenzied grin on his face. Then, in a blink, the iron rod—blocked by the barrier in every previous attempt of the guy—slipped in with no resistance whatsoever.

'Ah...'

The old man didn't even get a chance to scream or say something.

*Splatter*

His head was burst open by the rod that was now stuck in his bashed-in head.

"..."

The blood was sprayed on many people, and as if in a tendon, one after another, everyone paused, their eyes turning toward the old man, who was now dead with blood flowing down his cracked skull.

'W-What just happened…?'

It was too fast for their minds to register what had happened, but some did, and their eyes, with a sharp light shining within, turned toward the ones in the green zone/final point, closest to them.

*Grip* X n.

Their grip on their weapons tightened as they made up their minds.

But before any one of them could even move...

*Boom**Boom**Boom*...

All of them, the ones inside the final points and the ones outside of it, had their heads turned toward a single point.

The top of the wall that was just next to them.

They could hear loud, heavy—so much that it shook the ground below them—steps from over there until they saw something...

A young man with blood-red hair and cold golden eyes, jumping down from above, ready to dive into the final zone—that's what they saw.

It was Alex, and he couldn't help but squint his eyes the moment he saw the scene playing out in front of him.

But he didn't waste any time.

*Strain*

A bow and an arrow appeared in his arms, already knocked and ready to shoot.

*Boom**Boom**Woosh*

He ignored the beast that had jumped down the wall after him.

"I-I WILL KILL YOU!!"

Multiple faces of humans kept appearing and disappearing on its body, roaring in pain and anger.

But he didn't even turn back to look at it; he was used to it by now.

The other humans, however, weren't the same.

'WHAT THE HELL!!'

Their bodies were frozen in horror, as they exclaimed inwardly.

Just looking at that abomination made their hair stand to the ends, much less looking at its large body descending toward the ground, ready to slam the whole barrier into the ground.

But there was a bit of relief in their minds as they saw the creature solely focused on Alex.

'Maybe it will go away after it's done with the boy...'

They thought and hoped for it to happen, as that was the only way they wouldn't have to face that nightmarish entity.

Alex, however, didn't seem to have any plans of getting caught. A moment before he reached the green dome-shaped barrier's exterior, he released the arrow he had been holding.

*Swoosh*

The arrow whistled through the air, moving at a woman who seemed to be gloating about the fact that she was among the top 100, and...

*Pierce*

With a sickening sound of meat and bone getting slashed, the arrow embedded itself into her head.

*Thud*

The woman fell to the ground with a thud, the light in her eyes gone, never to return, and exactly at that moment, Alex passed through the barrier, much to the spectators' stupefaction.

*Baam–Crack–Splatter*

The humans stood there with dumbfounded looks on their faces until they heard the sound of Alex's feet landing on the same woman he had killed, causing her bones to crack and blood to splatter everywhere.

"W-What…?"

A guy, who was standing right next to the woman, stumbled back in fear as he saw Alex's blood-stained dress along with the frosty look in his eyes.

Not just him; every single person who saw the look in Alex's eyes stepped away, but just then...

*BAAM*

A loud slamming sound was heard as the monstrous chimera was now standing on top of the barrier—which didn't even crack—staring at Alex with its multiple, large grotesque eyes burning with rage.

*Slide*

Before its body started to slide down on the barrier's surface, much to the humans—who were outside of the barrier—despair.

If that was not enough...

*Gaoaoaaoa...*

*Gaogagaga...*

*Gagagagaga...*

*Aouaouaou...*

….

…

.

From every opening in the maze, more and more of those chimers started to flood in...

'N-No way…'

'Are we going to die…?'

'I-I should just kill one just like that boy...'

'W-What should I do?'

Many such thoughts appeared in their minds before only one remained.

Their eyes turned cold as they turned toward the humans inside of the barrier, causing the ones being stared at to shrink back in fear.

There were more than 1000 people outside the barrier, and inside, only 100.

All that was left to see was who would die and who would survive, and if one died, would they be killed by a fellow human or be absorbed by the monsters of the maze?

*Boom*

The hybrid chimera, which had been sliding down the barrier with its eyes fixed on Alex, reached the ground with a heavy boom before its gaze peeled away from Alex, finally focusing on the humans it could feast on to let out its frustration.

The humans, on the other hand, focused on their targets, the humans inside the dome.