Wardogs

Chapter 56

Chapter 56

Also, the energy points from the system were locked at the moment so he was using his original stamina which happened to be lower than the energy the system provided him with.

Gustav looked at the disaster around him.

Shredded red flesh in different areas. Some on the trees and others on the ground.

The ground was also scorched black in some areas.

Some trees even had small holes in them and some had black spots.

Gustav walked forward towards the shredded body of one of the solar worms.

’The best way to infiltrate that cave without having to fight them in huge numbers would be to look like them,’ Gustav analyzed internally as he arrived in front of the incomplete corpses.

He squatted and reached out his hand to touch the corpse, "Let’s see if I can make use of bloodline acquisition without the system,"

- Failure

- Failure

- Failure

He squatted and reached out his hand to touch the corpse, "Let’s see if I can make use of bloodline acquisition without the system,"

Gustav’s palm made contact with the body of the shredded body, directly pushing his hand into the b****y part.

Squelch!

It made some funny noises as Gustav’s palm dipped into it.

The blood from the corpse of the solar worm had been exposed to air for quite some time and had lost a lot of it’s corroding quality so Gustav hardly felt any pain after dipping his hand in it.

Gustav closed his eyes and tried recollecting the feeling of withdrawing a bloodline from a body.

His breathing became steady and his concentration increased to the max.

After a few seconds, he felt a weird kind of reaction and opened his eyes to stare at his arm.

His veins had bulged out of his skin and were extending forward towards his fingertips.

His fingertips were lodged deep into the corpse of the solar worm.

He remembered that this was the same phenomenon that occurred when he was sucking the bloodline from the body of others.

Gustav focused on the buldged out veins that traveled to his fingertips and tried drawing the bloodline of the solar worm out.

Moments turned to seconds and seconds turned to minutes, before Gustav knew it ten minutes had gone by and he was still unable to draw out the bloodline of the solar worm.

Gustav moved his hand to another body part and tried again.

He focused on drawing out the bloodline once again but he was met with the same situation, failure!

Gustav started moving from one corpse to another while trying to draw out their bloodline.

As time passed he had dipped his hand into the shredded corpse of more than seven solar worms and it was still the same result.

Gustav decided to stop.

Sigh!

"I guess without the system, bloodline acquisition is impossible," Gustav came to this conclusion after failing several times.

He thought he would be able to make it work since he was able to figure out how to trigger the veins that sucked out the bloodlines from the body of others but no matter how he tried he couldn’t draw out the bloodline of the solar worms.

It felt like something was blocking him from completing the process and he could tell that it was because of the absence of the system.

Gustav wondered about what he could do to get into the cave without being noticed.

Even after thinking for a long time, Gustav couldn’t come up with any good ideas.

The only ones he thought up, needed him to change his skin color to match that of the cave’s when he entered.

To do this, he’d have to be stark n***d but that wasn’t the problem now. The problem was the solar worms sensed their environment using temperature and the temperature of humans, Slarkovs, or mixed-bloods were a lot different from solar worms which meant that coming into contact with any one of them would expose him immediately.

The system upgrade was still at % so it would still take a few more days before it got to %.

While Gustav was thinking about the best possible plan he suddenly sensed movement from the southeast part of the forest.

"What why is there another one headed here?" Gustav muttered with a surprised expression.

He walked forward while thinking of how to kill the creature headed for him in the fastest way possible.

Gustav suddenly paused again.

"Not one... Not two... Not five..." Gustav’s face showed a wary expression as his perception spread across the place.

"A horde?" Just as Gustav mentioned this with a shocked look, the ground started to vibrate.

At first, it was a soft vibration but as time passed, it increased in intensity.

Gustav wasted no time in turning around and running as fast as his legs could carry him.

He took the form of the partial bloodwolf he used earlier and activated dash manually to boost his speed.

Swwoosshh!

Behind him was a horde of solar worms coming from the direction of the cave.

They all had their bloodline activated so their movement carried an Intense heatwave as they travelled.

Even the living things in the environment that had adapted to the heat couldn’t handle this.

A lot of trees in the vicinity were already getting smoked while some turned to ash.

Gustav had already sensed the Intense heatwave before it arrived so he had to run for his life.

More than a hundred of them coming to avenge the death of their kind.

Gustav never knew that they could sense if thier kind died. If he had known he would have left earlier but now he had to run as fast as he could to escape the heatwave.

With his distance from them being a bit longer it would take some time before they would catch up to him but the same couldn’t be said for the intense amount of heatwave they were bringing along with them.

The heatwave was literally like twenty feet behind Gustav as he bolted across the place madly.

If the first layer of the heatwave came into contact with him, he would turn into cooked meat.

Zwoosshhh!

Gustav swerved from left to right and right to left while running forward and dodging the trees.

Feeling like the ground was slower than the air due to the number of trees he had to dodge each time, Gustav leaped up.

Thooom! Grab!

He grabbed a branch and swung further forward before landing on another tree branch ahead.

Thoom! Thoom! Thoom! Thoom!

He kept jumping from tree to tree for a few minutes until the forest of tall trees started becoming sparse.

The trees within the area reduced as he further jumped ahead before he arrived at a wide opening.

Bam!

Gustav jumped down from the last tree within a hundred feet radius of him.

The border could already be seen in front.

Since he was faster than the solar worms he had already gone way ahead of them but remembering just how crazily they attacked because of the death of their kind made Gustav feel uneasy.

He didn’t waste anymore time before performing the same ritual he used to enter the border earlier.

This time it was done with a faster speed.

When the border opened up Gustav darted through it.

Swoooshhh!

It closed up when he arrived on the other side.

- System Upgrade Complete

- System Upgrade Complete

- System Upgrade Complete

Within the border, the solar worms came to a stop after they arrived in front of the sparse forest area.

They looked around for the assailant that dealt with their kin but Gustav was nowhere to be found.

Gustav had spent close to two hours in there and almost forgot that he still had to patrol the neighborhood in case of mixed-breeds that might appear although he had doubts about them appearing today.

’Looks like I’ll have to wait till the system finishes its upgrade before heading there,’ Gustav sighed in defeat once again after remembering what just happened some minutes ago.

He knew the solar worms were aggressive due to the information he sourced for but he never knew they were as aggressive and unforgiving as this.

Other species would definitely leave him after he traveled a particular distance but these ones kept following him.

Also, he doubted he would survive for long due to the scorching heat so infiltrating their cave right now would be a death task.

Gustav went ahead to patrol the neighborhood for the night.

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-Two days later

Gustav woke up in the morning and the first thing he saw was,

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[System Upgrade Complete]

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Gustav sighed in relief after seeing this.

He could finally put his plans into motion.

Now he noticed how reliant he had been on the system but he was also glad that he was able to train himself when the system was unavailable.

This way if anything like this ever happened again, he would be able to handle the situation better.

The last two days were spent training himself and he had progressed a lot.

He created a new skill using atomic disintegration without the help of the system.

He wanted to see if the skills he had learned in the past three days would be added to the system.

Also, he wanted to know what changed about the system.

He wanted to open the system interface but before he could, notifications started to pop up in his line of sight.

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The list of notifications still went on and on but Gustav paused at the part where it said, ’Host can now gain EXP from killing Humans/Slarkovs/Mixedbloods,’

He had a look of contemplation while staring at that particular notification for a while.

"Is the system pushing me to kill people now?" Gustav muttered while walking around his room.

"After the attack that happened on our way back from Atrihea city, I can say for sure that lots of criminals still exist on the face of the Earth even though the MBO happens to be very active... If I’m gonna gain EXP from killing people it will have to be such rotten people," Gustav added.

"Or maybe I should just become a mercenary instead," Gustav chuckled as he voiced out this thought.

"I am not powerful enough to handle such criminals for the time being so farming EXP can only come from dealing with mixed-breeds for now... And maybe some idiots who will decide to choose death on their own," Gustav walked towards the bathroom as he came to this conclusion.

He decided to check the system interface while taking his bath.

When Gustav was done with his bath he prepared for school and walked out of his apartment after a few minutes.

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School today was pretty much uneventful again except for rumors flying around about where the MBO entrance test would be holding.

Originally this information was never revealed until a few days to the MBO entrance test but when Gustav remembered what Maltida said about big families getting access to such information earlier, he felt that there might be an iota of truth within the rumors flying around.

Different locations were mentioned so it was impossible to know which one was correct without guessing.

Some said a volcanic mountain range while others mentioned an extreme ice region located in another continent. There were still some other locations mentioned but the majority of them believed that the first two were more likely.

Gustav decided to ask Miss Aimee for clarification on these rumors during their training session.

"You mean none of the rumors are correct?" Gustav voiced out with a surprised expression.

"Hnm," Miss Aimee nodded slightly in affirmation, "The real information never spread like this, those that have the original information spread these rumors to keep the truth hidden so they’d be the only ones who will benefit from it. Think about it, why would they want to share such information with the public instead of keeping it under the wraps? If they keep it under the wraps more people get to fail because they relied on the wrong information to prepare themselves for the test. If more people fail it means their candidates get a higher chance of passing by indirectly eliminating a bunch of Mixedbloods and no one knows just how many potential mixed-bloods will fail due to this. Only about two hundred slots are available for mixed-bloods trying to get enlisted in to the MBO camp... Decrease in competition is what they want," Miss Aimee explained.

Gustav had a look of understanding now after hearing that.

It was just like receiving information about topics that the test of a subject would be set from and proceeding to read only those particular topics only to reach the examination hall and see a different set of questions that are unrelated to the topics you read.

’I need to be careful of the information I believe... If not for miss Aimee I would have been fooled also,’ Gustav said internally.

"Even though those test sites flying around in the rumors may be wrong, one thing I can assure you is, the site is going to be very dangerous," Miss Aimee stated.

Gustav’s face shown a contemplative expression after hearing that. He was originally lying on the floor while miss Aimee was seated beside him but when he heard that he sat up.

"Hmm, miss Aimee can’t you just tell me the location?" Gustav asked while turning to the side with a sneaky smile on his face.

"You shameless little prick," Miss Aimee replied with a smile while slapping the back of Gustav’s head.

Gustav rubbed the back of his head with a playful and pained expression on his face.

"You don’t need to know the location," Miss Aimee said afterward.

"Hmm?" Gustav exclaimed with a look of confusion.

"I’m saying you won’t need to know it... If you cannot pass the test without knowing the location beforehand that means I wasted time training you," Miss Aimee stated.

"Hmm," This made Gustav feel even more intrigued but he decided not to push it. What’s the point of a test in the first place if you already knew the questions that will be asked.

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At nighttime Gustav left his apartment for the border once again.

Now that the system was accessible he could increase his level and farm EXP from killing mixed-breeds.

Tonight he also needed to infiltrate the cave of the solar worms while also farming lots of EXPs because he really needed it.

Gustav arrived in front of the border and activated the skill he used to infiltrate it the last time.

Swoooshhh!

He dashed in with a look of determination on his face, "I need to gather more than a million EXP or I’ll never be able to purchase any item from the shop," Gustav muttered as he phased through the forest.