"Make sure to save some of your MP for the event that a Boss Mob shows up... as the one for these zombies pretty much killed me when I fought it as my HP did indeed go below 0, but I managed to survive somehow and kill it before it could kill me... I guess that's what the Deadly Status is... it probably means one more hit and we are dead." With that warning Ren broke their current ID and made a Zombie ID, around 11 zombies appearing. 

The Zombies were pretty tough on the offensive, but on the defensive they were absolutely horrible, allowing them to be vanquished more quickly. Lucian managed to defend from most hits with his staff, the shield around him absorbing one blow from a zombie's powerful bite. 

Mike would actually do really good on offense, scoring a Critical Strike even at one point, which actually increased the rank of his Senshin no Ken Talent by 1 and gave a level in Katana Mastery. On defense, not so much. He took a couple of bites, didn't parry anything, and even managed to feel sick for a moment after one of them, very sick, as if he had been infected by some awful disease. Somehow though, perhaps it was the teachings of the Senshin no Ken teaching about unity of body and spirit or just through pure hardiness, he managed to forcibly power through it and brush it off [i](Critical result in OOC terms)[/i], a window first appearing stating the following. 

[hider=Window]
By managing to power through and brush off the affects of a dangerous disease with sheer force of stamina and bodily toughness your body has grown a bit tougher. +1 HP. 
[/hider]

Two familiar looking windows appeared for him after that. 

[hider=Window]
A Skill has been created through a Special Action. The ability to better resist ailments, Hardiness, has been created. 
[/hider]

[hider=Hardiness]
Hardiness (Level 1: 0/100) (Passive): You are more resistant against bodily ailments. You have an increased 1% chance to resist any physical ailments. To Level Up: Resist an ailment. Have an ailment but overcome it through pure resistance alone. [/hider]

Luckily during the middle of the fight, for Mike, his HP and MP fully healed, but not the fatigue of battle as that did not heal with leveling up, as he leveled up to level seven. 

Lucian did pretty well on both fronts. He managed to hit with the few Chained Mana Surges he got off, increasing the level of that Skill. He did pretty well in blocking attacks, but one did manage to get past his guard. Luckily his Mana Whirlwind Shield that he would have put up before the start of the fight to grind it blocked the entirety of the blow, granting a level in it since he got a small bit of EXP for it after activating it. He also got a little more EXP for Mana Flow, which was probably from training a Skill that took advantage of its full potential. 

Ren seemed to do well on the offensive front, using Eldritch Flame and the Charge Skill to empower his Spinning Mana Blades, which looked like buzz saws made out of mana, but also were covered in the dark green flame of Eldritch Flame. Those seemed to tear apart zombies in nearly one hit, although were a bit of a mouthful since Ren first had to use Eldritch Flame, which required saying said words as all Skills did, then say 'Charged Spinning Mana Blades'. He got bit a couple of times as well, but the bite's damage one time was completely nullified by his MP Armor and own Resilience combined and another time the bite did connect. He even managed to get off Force Siphon a couple of times

All in all, the first session of grinding went pretty well, no Mob Boss appearing this time. Ren broke the barrier after the fight. "Well, that was fun... and easy, I think we can go one more time before resting a bit and trying again." After that he recreated another Zombie ID to let the grinding continue. Even if their HP and MP could regenerate, resting off fatigue was something that also needed to be done and continuous fighting could easily make one tired, but with how quick that fight was, as it only took about a minute or so since they fought back somewhat well but did awful in defense, but still fighting could get tiring even after a minute or so, give or take, of it. 

These zombies were... alot more different than the last ones. More aggressive and they did alot better than the party did, alot better. Lucian's shield was quickly broken through pretty quickly into the fight and the rest of the party got a few bites on them as well as even though the zombies were normally slow they also could lunge forward pretty quickly to bite them, and that's what they were doing. 

Of course, with the power difference they had over the zombies they managed to fight back somewhat with Ren sort of taking charge here for the most part. It took a bit longer though since these things did not want to die so easily. All in all, it was quite an exhausting experience. Ren even had to take some medicine, which was disgusting medicine, during the fight for some reason, being cured of the Disease status he got at one point, only to be bitten when he tried to put it away, but he managed to brush it off that time thanks to the Hardiness skill he obtained earlier as well during the previous fight. 

Some EXP for Skills was gained as was some levels in Skills, but the most important thing were the level ups. Lucian finally hit Level 10, a window for him appearing when he did as well as restoring his HP and MP. In fact it was thanks to the restoration of MP and HP from level ups for both Mike and Lucian that they were even able to stay in the fight instead of being forced to retreat. The window read as such. 

[hider=Window]
You have experienced many battles and have grown much stronger thanks to them. For reaching Level 10 you get +1 to all Stats. 
[/hider]

Not only that, but after this fight was over, Ren began to meditate using the Meditation Skill to recover MP while he waited for the others to apply their new level ups and regenerate their own MP and HP as well. Of course, recovering from fatigue was also important as well, so that would take a while as did recovering MP and HP, even with the Meditation Skill to help recover MP.