Chapter 392: Oh, Damien. You Are Truly A Pioneer!
While Jacob and Jackie received their innate talents in their SSS-rank version, Zayne had already upgraded their innate talents to X-rank World Radar and X-rank Divine Lumberjack.
The effects of these innate talents were quite self-explanatory. In Zayne's case, X-rank World Radar was somewhat redundant but still useful. On the other hand, X-rank Divine Lumberjack was completely useless to him.
After all, Zayne had countless innate talent crystals he had plundered from those Terran Train Conductors. Yet, even he hadn't absorbed all of them since they were too redundant and didn't provide him any significant boost.
In this case, he only acquired the X-rank World Radar innate talent and kept the X-rank Divine Lumberjack innate talent in his system storage if he ever needed it.
As for the original version, Zayne sacrificed them to the system, allowing him to have his simulation cooldown reduced. However, those two innate talents weren't enough to reduce it to the point that he'd gain a simulation chance, so the cooldown timer was at most just reduced.
After upgrading Jacob and Jackie's innate talent, Zayne talked with Henry and the others for a while before parting ways with them.
He had already informed them that he planned to look for Damien. In this case, Henry and Alan decided to build their military fortress first so that they'd have a base of operations.
According to Henry and Alan, if Damien was interested in teaming up with them, he was free to join them.
Henry and Alan had decided to build their base of operations in the adjacent city. It was for the sake of not taking up space within this city since they believed that this city was Zayne's territory.
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After leaving Henry and Alan, Zayne used his Absolute Compass to locate Damien and teleported there.
However, when he arrived and discovered Damien's situation, he couldn't help but be speechless.
"Oh, Damien. You are truly a pioneer! You dare play even wilder than I do."
It was not that Zayne was spying on Damien intentionally. If he could meet Damien on the streets or in a public place as he did with Henry and Alan, that would be for the best.
However, he was currently in front of a high-end villa, located in the rich people's district within the city, which was filled with villas or high-end apartments. The land here was undoubtedly expensive, assuming it was still before the zombie apocalypse.
But now, in the zombie apocalypse, everything was free. The premise was that one would have the power to take it for free.
As for this high-end villa in front of him, Zayne estimated that it would be the most expensive one in this district.
Interestingly, he discovered that Damien was not only inside this villa, but he was even confined within the basement of this villa.
Yes, Damien was locked up inside a basement!
"I have to admit, even I didn't expect this. After all, Damien was a well-known playboy. A night before the zombie apocalypse had started, he even informed Henry, Alan, and me that he'd be out to play with a girl at the hotel."
"To think that someone like him had finally met his match, it's truly a sight to behold."
Leisurely complaining about Damien's situation, Zayne wasn't in a hurry to save him. Or rather, it wasn't something that Damien needed to be saved from.
Although he was confined within the villa's basement, Damien's life wasn't in any danger.
"The world truly doesn't lack talent. To think I've encountered not just one but two SSS-rank innate talent holders."
The first SSS-rank innate talent holder was none other than Damien. As for the second SSS-rank innate talent holder, it was the "person" that confined Damien within the villa's basement.
As for why Zayne was speechless at how Damien was playing wildly and had even met his match, it was due to the identity of the person who confined him.
She was none other than Haley Goldmore, one of the four school belles in their college and also Damien's secret admirer.
Like Jade Willows, Haley was also one of the school belles within their college. But unlike Jade, who was usually aloof and never showed any interest in the opposite sex (which was due to already having an interest in Zayne), Haley was the direct opposite and would pester Damien when possible.
Haley's family had several gold mines abroad and were even richer than Damien's family, yet she was solely devoted to Damien and had been pestering him to stop sleeping with other women.
It was only now that the Zombie Apocalypse had started that Haley no longer had the law restraining her, fully unleashing her "yandere" attribute on Damien and forcefully keeping him all to herself.
As for why Zayne wasn't in a hurry, it was due to Haley having no intention to harm Damien.
If Damien was truly raped by her, Haley would have long died under the effects of the Nine Rules of Order, thereby saving Damien.
But since she's still alive, it meant that Damien not only resisted, but was even enjoying it.
It was one of the reasons why Zayne was speechless. As for the other reason, it was due to Haley no longer being a human.
Haley had become an Elite Zombie!
On the first day of the Zombie Apocalypse, when Elite Zombies could be counted on one's hand, Haley was one of the few Elite Zombies to exist in the entire world!
"Damien is truly wild. Not only are they playing this hardcore, but it's even between a man and a zombie."
"Well, for a rich playboy to encounter a yandere zombie girl, Damien has truly met his counter!"
Zayne was quite open-minded. He didn't find anything wrong with Damien and Haley's pairing.
In his case, let alone a zombie girl, even if it was an indescribable eldritch horror abomination, as long as that eldritch horror could transform into a beautiful girl, it wasn't out of the question!
He, Zayne Voss, was just that open-minded!