Chapter 56: Exitra’s Perfect Clear

“Oh, isn’t that incredible power?”

Every enemy in a straight line was obliterated.

It was nothing short of overwhelming destructive force.

— [Wow, what is that??]

— [A railgun?? Like the one I know??]

— [That’s insane!! Totally insane!!]

— [Look at that power, even the Giant Zombie was insta-killed!!!]

— [That’s totally broken! If he could rapid-fire that, the game would be over, right??]

“Rapid-fire, huh? That would be nice, but once you use this, you have to wait five minutes before you can fire again.”

The railgun had a five-minute cooldown after each use.

With great power always came restrictions.

Rapid-fire was impossible.

“Whew.”

Clatter—clank!

His right arm shifted back to its original form.

“Alright then.”

Exitra released the mental link and returned to the command room.

Twenty minutes.

He had to stop it.

“Let’s block them.”

The zombies were swarming in.

<Kiiieeek!!!!>

“The boss isn’t moving yet, right?”

— [OO]

— [From what I know, the boss starts moving after about 15 minutes.]

The boss only began moving when the last five minutes remained.

Until then, it stayed in place.

For now, the real threat was the hordes of other zombies.

“Alright! Let’s block them! First, Team 1…”

Exitra issued commands to the Cyborgs.

There was so much to handle.

The zombies weren’t just targeting the crystal—they were also after the communication devices.

That made things much more complicated.

“Team 2, fall back. Heroes, push forward and hold off the Giant Zombies. Special units, make sure the Aggro Zombies and Tongue Zombies can’t target the heroes. The remaining teams, focus on the regular zombies…”

He gave his orders quickly and precisely.

The speed at which he flipped through the maps was incredible.

He was processing huge amounts of information at once.

If anything unusual popped up, he immediately verified it through mental sharing.

‘The Giant Zombie is a brute, but if I tie it down with a hero, that should be manageable.’

‘Where’s the Assassin Zombie?’

‘Even a hero can’t fight if they get caught by a Tongue Zombie, so the special units must mark them tightly.’

‘Regular zombies are weak, but there are far too many. We’ll have to clear them steadily.’

‘The communication devices also need protection…’

All the information he gathered was processed instantly through multitasking.

— [Oh wow, what am I even watching right now??]

— [Ex-hyung is so damn sexy…]

— [Is he rapping?? Look at the speed he’s giving orders! Is he even human?]

— [Insane;; look at his eyes moving, like a Sharingan or something, spinning like crazy!]

— [And the accuracy of his commands… it’s chilling how perfect they are.]

His orders were clear and precise.

Sometimes he made small mistakes, but nothing significant.

“Now, Team 4, lure that Giant Zombie over to the hero…”

Exitra used the Cyborgs to drag a rampaging Giant Zombie toward the hero, then eliminated it cleanly with the railgun.

— [Whoa, that’s how he handles it??]

— [I usually lose to Giant Zombies in the final stage, but he cleared that so cleanly;;;]

— [Total brainpower monster!!!]

— [His brain-sexy vibes are off the charts!!]

The Giant Zombie’s reckless nature usually created endless variables, but Exitra refused to allow them.

Every time the railgun’s cooldown ended, he used it to wipe them out efficiently.

At this point, the viewers began to wonder—

— [Wait a minute, if this keeps going… is he about to get a perfect clear?]

— [Holy crap, you’re right! The crystal hasn’t even been touched yet!]

— [No way, no way, no freaking way!!!!]

— [Is that even possible!?]

Right now, Exitra’s crystal still had its full durability of 100,000.

If things continued this way, the stream might witness the first perfect game in Zombie Survival history.

— [Legendary! This is insane!!!]

— [Oppa! You’re amazing! Waaah! Please marry me!!!]

— [Damn boss, you’re incredible!!]

The chat went wild, but Exitra never took his eyes off the map.

He wasn’t going to allow even the slightest distraction.

‘Stay focused. The time is…’

Fifteen minutes had passed.

***

That meant it would start moving.

<Kiiieeeek!!!>

Rumble rumble rumble!!!

The ground shook violently.

The Boss Zombie had finally begun to move.

— [Finally, the boss, huh?]

— [After this war ends, I swear I’ll confess to her.]

— [I promised I’d take my son to the amusement park…]

— [You idiots! Stop raising death flags!!]

— [Lmao these guys setting death flags is legendary.]

The Boss Zombie dragged its massive body toward the camp.

Nothing could stop it from advancing.

<Kiiiek!>

It destroyed everything in front of it.

This monster was far more terrifying than a Giant Zombie.

<Kiiieeeek!!>

The Boss Zombie smashed through the fortress walls without hesitation.

It was sheer brute force.

The other zombies struggled to break through, but this thing forced its way inside.

“What a brainless monster…”

— [The fortress was reinforced to level 30, and it just broke through??]

— [Hey! That’s supposed to be bulletproof—aaaagh! Guess not!!]

— [If this thing ignores fortifications, doesn’t that make wall upgrades a total waste of money??]

“Waste of money? Hardly. The only reason we lasted this long is because the wall was reinforced.”

In Exitra’s dictionary, there was no such thing as wasted money.

The upgrades had bought time.

If he hadn’t invested in them, the walls would have crumbled long ago, leaving them useless.

— [Can they really hold out?]

— [Time left: 4 minutes, 44 seconds!!]

— [Oh damn, that number is creepy lol.]

“Four minutes, forty-four seconds.”

That was the time they had to endure.

But Exitra had no intention of merely enduring.

‘There’s no need to just hold out.’

Up until now, the only known strategy against the boss was to stall until the crystal charged up its energy.

But before his regression, one streamer discovered another method—an actual way to kill the Boss Zombie.

“Alright then.”

Exitra gathered the Cyborgs.

As the Boss Zombie advanced, the other zombies retreated.

Now, the only thing left to block was the monster itself.

— [Cyborg, how are you supposed to stop that??]

— [That’s a bulldozer! It’s just pushing straight through everything.]

— [Ta… Tank!!!!]

— [Ex-hyung! We believe in you! Let’s go perfect clear!!!111]

“Normally, the standard strategy would be to attack its legs to slow down its movement speed as much as possible, right?”

— [Yeah, that’s right.]

— [Honestly, there’s no other way, right??]

— [It’s tough to hold out, but if you smash the legs properly, you can somehow make it work.]

That was the standard method for taking down a boss zombie.

Destroy its legs so it couldn’t walk and buy time.

That was the proper strategy.

But Exitra had no intention of doing it that way.

‘Right now, there’s only one known strategy, but before my regression, there were seven.’

Each class had its own method to take down a boss zombie.

Exitra planned to use the cyborg strategy this time.

“But waiting until then is too boring. I’ll try something different instead.”

— [Eh??]

— [Ex-hyung, what do you mean? Different method??]

— [What are you planning;; this feels dangerous;;]

“This is what I mean.”

Exitra smirked.

Then he ordered all the cyborgs to latch onto the boss zombie’s body.

<Kieeeeehhhhh!!!>

The boss zombie shrieked, trying to tear the cyborgs off.

The grotesque, human-like faces on its body twisted hideously as it bit down on the clinging cyborgs.

— [Aaagh! It’s biting them! It’s biting!]

— [Damn! Easy with those teeth!]

— [Ugh, that’s disgusting;]

“Special Unit Squad, commence infiltration.”

Exitra sent the Special Units directly into the screaming boss zombie’s mouth.

The monster tried to clamp its jaws shut, but the Special Units forced them open and slipped inside.

Viewers were horrified by the scene.

— [Ex-hyung! What the hell are you doing!?]

— [Holy…;;]

— [Wait, what did you just make the Special Units do??]

— [??? : Wow, this is tasty. Crunch crunch…]

<Kieeeeehh??>

Gulp!

The boss zombie accidentally swallowed the Special Units that had entered its mouth.

— [??? : Yo, your units are insane, bro??]

— [Why the hell did you feed your Special Units to the boss zombie!? Are you crazy!?]

The viewers couldn’t make sense of Exitra’s reckless actions.

At that moment, Exitra smirked.

“Crazy? No, I just felt like doing this.”

Exitra had already linked minds with the Special Units and appeared on the comms channel.

The viewers immediately guessed what he was planning.

— [Wait a sec!?]

— [No way, no way!?]

— [Are you seriously doing that??]

— [If this fails, you can’t stop it! That thing regenerates!!]

“I know.”

Exitra smashed the communicator.

[Enter the communicator’s range within 10 seconds.]

[Due to destruction of the communicator, all units will self-destruct to preserve classified information.]

[Self-destruct initiated.]

[Self-destruct initiated.]

[Self-destruct initiated.]

Over a hundred cyborgs latched onto the boss zombie’s body began detonating.

And the five Special Units inside its body also exploded.

KWA-BOOOOM!!!

The blast was enormous.

Even a single Special Unit’s self-detonation was terrifying, but five at once?

The destructive power was beyond imagination.

<Kiiiiiieeeeeeegghhh!!!>

The boss zombie’s body was torn apart, reduced to a ragged mess.

Any other zombie would have been annihilated outright.

But the boss zombie was different.

<Kieeehhh……>

Its regeneration was monstrous.

Even after such a massive explosion, its body began healing rapidly.

Within a minute, it would be fully restored and moving again.

It was a hopeless situation.

— [Ah! See!? It didn’t die!]

— [We’re screwed! It’s over now!!]

— [Why didn’t you just follow the standard method!?]

— [So close to the goal, and blocked by the damn goalkeeper!!]

“Hahaha~”

— [What the—? You’re laughing right now!?]

“Don’t worry. Everything is going exactly as I planned.”

Exitra linked with his hero’s body.

The hero was already standing on top of a tall building.

He had positioned him there beforehand.

“Nice breeze, great view, perfect position, and the cooldown’s over.”

Exitra looked down at the shredded boss zombie.

More precisely, he was staring at the weak point that had finally been exposed.

“You see that black gem?”

— [Huh? What’s that?]

— [Eh? A gem??]

— [A jewel??]

“Yeah, that one. When I was watching zombie survival collab streams, I noticed something strange.

Every time the crystal killed a boss zombie, no matter where it was, it always targeted the same spot.”

‘So I suspected… and it looks like I was right.’

— [No way…]

— [Don’t tell me that’s its weak point??]

The viewers hesitated in disbelief.

Exitra began readying his weapon.

Clank! Clank!

His right arm transformed again, shifting into a railgun turret.

“Exactly. The crystal was aiming at that black gem every time. Destroy it, and the giant boss dies.”

Wooooooong!

Energy charged within the turret.

The boss zombie was regenerating fast, but Exitra’s preparations were faster.

“That’s its weakness.”

Railgun.

Pewwwwwww!!

KABOOOOOM!

The projectile pierced the black gem cleanly.

The regenerating boss zombie froze in place.

And then—

[The colossal shadow has finally disappeared from this world.]

[You have survived.]

[You have saved humanity.]

[YOU SURVIVED.]

The words “You have survived” appeared on the screen.

The game was over.

Dogry’s collab stream had ended successfully.

Leaving behind only one casualty.