Is it Wrong to Copy Abilities in Apocalypse?

"ARGHHHHHHHHH!!"

"NOOOO—!"

"W-What are these creatures?!"

"My hand! I-It's getting absorbed! AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!"

"Get out of there!"

"Ahkh—!"

"No, please!"

At a final point within the forgotten maze in Dehradun, many screams were heard.

There were hundreds of creatures from the maze rushing toward this zone, and then there was a large abomination that looked worse than the other nightmarish-looking beasts.

All of them were doing nothing but one thing: killing the humans who were outside of the zone.

The creatures were slow, so humans had a chance at running away from them, but with the number increasing, the space where humans could run was getting lower and lower.

Soon, there was nothing but deaths happening as the beasts got their hands on humans, who, even after several tries, couldn't pry themselves away from those strong, grotesque creatures.

"Please, let me—ARGHHHHHHHH!!"

Some humans tried to plead, beg, and cry in front of the beast, hoping to get their sympathy, only to have their bodies slowly devoured, and it was really painful.

It was as if their flesh was being torn apart inch by inch; every nerve and vein in their bodies felt like lava flowing within, and the beasts didn't make it easy for them either.

The beasts would slowly devour the humans as if enjoying their suffering; after all, they were things spawned by the system.

But the beasts weren't the only ones humans had to fear, as the thousands of humans, now cornered by the beasts, were no less than those beasts for the humans inside the final point.

*Woosh*

*Swoosh*

*Throw*

*Slash*

Humans on the outside kept throwing their weapons at the humans inside the green zone, intending to kill them.

But the only ones getting killed were the ones who were at the periphery of the green zone/final points.

Their bodies kept piling up on one another, and more humans entered the zone, only to get killed by someone else who had been eyeing them.

The humans at the center, like Alex, were safe from all of these problems.

Alex just stared at the scene with cold eyes as the chaos ensued.

Humans tried to get into the green zone, only to get dragged away by the beasts, entering a phase of long-suffering before they could even hope to die.

"I-I got inside—!"

Alex even saw a guy who, while rejoicing at the fact that he could enter the final point, was killed as a sharp wooden stake penetrated his chest from behind.

Right now, everyone on the outside and even the ones on the inside were prey in the eyes of others.

"U-Um..."

But as Alex kept scanning the surroundings, he heard a hesitant voice from his right, causing him to turn his gaze at the owner of the voice.

It was a boy who looked around the same age as him, and every time a scream—the yells of pain that were reverberating throughout the area—or the squelching of flesh was heard, the body of the guy would jerk in fright.

He was a thin boy with little to no flesh over his skin. Black eyes and black hair.

He was wearing a uniform, probably of a university, indicating that he was studying or on his way home by the time the world was hit by the apocalypse.

Right now, he just gazed at Alex with his quivering black eyes filled with hesitation and uncertainty.

"W-Why were those c-creatures, um, following you..?"

His body shivered under Alex's cold glance, but he still shuttered out those words, his gaze darting around nervously, unable to look into Alex's eyes.

'What?'

Alex, however, frowned as soon as he heard that question, his eyes scanning the expressions of other humans in the surroundings, and all of them were glancing at him with the same look as this guy, causing his frown to deepen.

"A-Ah, did he not get my words…?"

The boy, who got no response from Alex, mumbled as he bit the nail of his right hand, causing Alex to squint his eyes.

[[Name: Rajveer Thakur.

Race: Human.

Title: The Nerd (Common).

Coins: 20.

Stats:

Strength – Level 2 (Tier 1)

§ Defense – Level 2 (Tier 1)

§ Agility – Level 3 (Tier 1)

§ Stamina – Level 2 (Tier 1)

§ Mana – Level 2 (Tier 1)

Skill:

–> Inspect (Heroic) (Level 1 - Tier 1) - You have always been an expert observer, with your eyes always taking in every piece of information you could, granting you the ability to identify things faster.

– Scan - Let the user scan items, living beings—beings that are no more than 5 levels above the user—and surroundings to know more about them.

– Inspection shield - Protects the user from the prying eyes of others who have an inspection ability.

– Deep scan - Unlike scan, which takes no mana, this ability requires mana, and it can give detailed information about the stats and abilities of the being the user is scanning (only applicable for beings who are no more than 10 levels higher than the user).

–> Dagger arts (Common) (Level 1 - Tier 1): You have learned a lot about daggers, but all you had was theoretical knowledge, lacking in the physical department, thus providing this skill.

–> Taekwondo (Common) (Level 1 - Tier 1): You have learned a lot about Taekwondo, but all you had was theoretical knowledge, which was lacking in the physical department, thus providing this skill.

–> Boxing (Common) (Level 1 - Tier 1): You have learned a lot about boxing, but all you had was theoretical knowledge, lacking in the physical department, thus providing this skill.

]]

Alex's eyes sharpened as he saw the first skill with inspection ability, but as he read through it and judged it to be harmless for him, he ignored it.

This boy, Rajveer, was weak for the apocalypse, but if he was given time to upgrade his skills to the max, then maybe he could become a powerhouse as well.

Rajveer, on the other hand, was fidgeting in his spot.

'Was there still someone who didn't know Hindi in India?'

In India at this time, there were a lot of foreigners, all of them settled here permanently, and they learned Hindi, up to level C or higher proficiency as well.

These days, you could see children with pale skin and natural multicolored hairs, in India, as this was what it had become.

Rajveer, who had tried inspecting Alex, only to fail, thought that Alex was one of those kids whose father or mother were foreigners, but how could he not know Hindi?

"Um, can you u-undertstand me now?"

The guy then tried to speak in English, and he was better at it than it seemed, but Alex's frown only deepened.

"What do you want?"

Alex growled as he really didn't want to be bothered right now, especially with the chimeric abomination glaring at him with the eyes on its back.

"A-Ah, y-you know Hindi?"

Rajveer, on the other hand, had a light of relief in his eyes as he asked, but the next second, as he saw Alex's gaze hardening, he trembled.

*Shiver*

'W-What the hell is wrong with those eyes!'

He shrieked inwardly, jumping a step away from Alex as he raised his trembling hands in surrender.

"I-I just wanted to know... w-why those creatures were following you."