Volume 41 - March of the Zombies

== Chapter 481 - Holding the Line ==
The guards stationed at the entrances to the castle were firing at the zombies, lasers piercing through their skulls, yet they continue to rush towards them, seemingly uncaring as their wounds regenerated!
"What are these things...?" One of the guards demands, taking out a grenade to throw at a group of zombies, which did its job of blasting them back and into pieces, yet the pieces began to grow into new zombies! "WHAT THE HELL ARE THESE THINGS?!"
== Chapter 482 - The Apocalypse Draws Near ==
Rosenstock watched from the window of his office, staring down in a mix of emotions at the onslaught of the undead. This truly was a threat he had never imagined they would face. A possibility he never even considered as one.
And yet...it was here.
They were now fighting an army of zombies, an army lead by one of his own men, defected much like Allen had once before. And to make it worse, he was working with the most feared and wanted man in the entire galaxy.
Rosenstock sighed, before turning towards his door.
"Come in." He says.
== Chapter 483 - Dour Status Report ==
The door opens, as a woman in military clothing walks in.
"What's our current situation?" Rosenstock asks.
"The East and North Gates are already compromised, Sir." The woman explains. "There are zombies inside the castle as we speak and only our patrol guards are holding them off right now."
"...I see." Rosenstock remarks, walking towards a wall that had a number of different swords mounted onto it. "...Please inform Reuben Hammond that I will most likely be dead, soon. Tell him to strengthen his defenses even further."
"...Sir..." The woman breathes.
"If I must die to save my people...to save this galaxy..." Rosenstock starts, sheathing a sword with a look of determination and pure, unbridled fury in his eye. "...then that is exactly what I shall do."
== Chapter 484 - Onslaught Continues ==
As the zombies continued to mow down the guards, Arthur and Karim watched, seeming to be proud of their work.
"We inch a step closer to true equality, each time someone is afflicted with my power." Arthur remarks.
"Yeah, yeah. Seems so." Karim replies, his gun at his side. "It feels a little surreal, to be invading this place, you know?"
"For you, perhaps." Arthur responds. "But for me, it's returning to a home that never wanted me to begin with."
"Huh." Karim says. "So Daddy Rosenstock never loved you?"
== Chapter 485 - Swathes Cut ==
Zombie body parts flew through the air, themselves being cut not even a moment later. Rosenstock slashed through hundreds by the second, and kept slashing until no biomass remained to regenerate, all while not a single drop of blood hit him anywhere.
The zombies attempted to fight back with guns and blades, but the King of the Human Star Realm merely dodged and deflected it all, cutting through both the zombies and their weaponry with ease.
The few guards still alive in that area looked on in awe, and silently cheered their King on.
== Chapter 486 - Nearing the Grail ==
Demetrius was putting a number of compounds together, separating others, and putting all through simulations and scanners. If anyone could find a cure to this disease, it was him. And he thought he was getting rather close, too, given the current success rate of the test cures was rising while the failure rate dropped.
"You really were brilliant at science, Arthur..." Demetrius remarks while pouring a substance from one beaker to another, and then putting that one in a scanner. "...shame you suck at politics, though."
== Chapter 487 - Fight Back the Living Dead ==
Dione kicked down a number of zombies, punching a few others back as she went for another kick, taking care to avoid their bites, scratches, and blood.
Kiyomasu was trapping the zombies in forcefields and burning them into ashes by shrinking said forcefields, while blocking attacks from other zombies with his cane.
Falqo, on the other hand, was slashing zombies back with his machete, and using said machete to deflect any blood spurts, though it was rather difficult for him to do so.
== Chapter 488 - Darkness Crawls Forward ==
"How many more do you think I can beat up than you?!" Dione shouts.
"We'll tally it all up once we're done!" Falqo replies in the same yelling voice.
"If we survive!" Kiyomasu interjects, firing a beam from his cane through multiple zombies to vaporize them, yet more and more came closer to them!
"This is gonna be a problem..." Falqo remarks, as the three of them rush to attack the new wave of zombies, Kiyomasu dispersing part of his cane into the air to keep the virus from hitting them.
== Chapter 589 - Blood that Kills ==
Kiyomasu created a net of energy to trap a group of zombies, as Dione punched another into pieces, and Falqo fought off zombies from another, trying his absolute best to not be scratched or bitten.
But that was almost impossible given the sheer amount of zombies present, as he narrowly avoided a slash from one that came at him with a sword!
He quickly slashes that one back and dodges gunfire from another.
"Why are they using weapons?!" He demands.
"They're being controlled!" Kiyomasu explains.
== Chapter 490 - Lead Meets Flesh ==
Grimwald was firing down multiple zombies in their tendons and joints, in such a way that the bullets would remain and prevent regeneration, as he dodges slashes and gunfire from others.
He used a rope to tie up other zombies, and threw said rope around a street light, before tossing a stick of Dynamite into another zombie and leaping behind a crate as the dynamite exploded, destroying a good number of them as their burning biomass was sprayed everywhere by the blast.
== Chapter 491 - The Greatest Gunslinger ==
More zombies attempted to rush the entrance and guards stationed at it, but Grimwald fired those down as well, leaving little left for the guards to fight immediately as he turns around to fire at yet more zombies.
"That guy seriously makes us look like chumps..." One guard remarks.
"Well...he is the man who took out Rosenstock's eye." The other guard replies.
Yet as they talked, they didn't notice Arthur and Karim behind them!
== Chapter 492 - Infiltration ==
Arthur cuts one in half, while Karim twists the other's neck one hundred and eighty degrees.
"You hold off Grimwald." Arthur says. "I'm going to stop Demetrius from completing whatever cure he's working on."
"Works with me." Karim replies. "Tell Demetrius I said hi."
Arthur runs into the castle, as Karim turns to see Grimwald finishing off the last of the zombies in the area with his antimatter pistol, before the gunslinger puts said pistol away, reloads both of his revolvers, and turns towards the terrorist.
"Hey." Karim says.