Wardogs

Chapter 44

Chapter 44

"One of them is the fact that mixed-bloods mostly have bloodlines that enables them to retain their human form and also at times give abilities that don’t require transformation while mixed-breeds have bloodlines that tend relate with their forms and grants abilities that are generally different from most mixed-bloods," Gustav paused for a second and walked to the front of Eagle wings, high school participants.

He stared into the eyes of the female who asked the question before he continued speaking.

The girl couldn’t understand why she couldn’t take her eyes off Gustav.

Practically every girl in the hall was staring at Gustav with a gaze filled with interest.

The way he walked around while giving explanations with his cool expression and good-looking face mixed with graceful movements made them feel a certain kind of subconscious attraction to him.

"Reasons for this is based on how mixed-bloods have unsaturated bloodlines within their bodies and have to channel their bloodlines for increment. The mixed-breeds have a saturated amount of bloodline within their bodies from the moment of their birth..."

Gustav kept explaining for another five minutes before concluding.

He had made extensive research on mixed-breeds since he started killing them which was why he was able to give so much information at the moment.

One of the things that bugged him when researching this was, ’If mixed-bloods managed to increase the concentration of the bloodlines in their bodies to the point where every vessel, vein, and artery had their bloodline flowing through it, would transformation take place like the mixed-breeds? Would mixed-bloods transform to become beasts and be unable to go back to their initial state?’

The reason why this bugged him so much was, mixed-breeds didn’t have normal blood flowing through their body, unlike mixed-bloods who had, human and Slarkovs blood flowing through them, simultaneously.

After Gustav finished his explanation the entire hall became silent again.

The screen displayed a perfect explanation and another five marks were added to Echelon Academy.

The shocked looks on the faces of other students and the principals of other schools made Principal Erwin’s face light up.

’If he was this knowledgeable in the first place why didn’t he say a thing in the first half?’ Everyone had similar thoughts. They were in awe due to his performance.

’Like Holland wasn’t enough now we have to compete with another monster,’ The other participants stared at Gustav with looks of intimidation.

Holland kept staring at Gustav but Gustav didn’t even spare him a glance almost like he was saying, ’You’re not on my level,’

The event continued after that and the next school came up to present their question.

Beep!

Just like before, Gustav had tapped the button before anyone else again and walked to the stage to answer.

The crowd was once again left with shocked faces as Gustav gave another perfect explanation while answering this question.

Echelon Academy was the fourth in line to ask a question which meant it was their turn now.

Draco wanted to stand up but Gustav held on to his left shoulder from the side.

"I said leave it to me," Gustav muttered and proceeded to stand up before Draco could reply.

"I will be asking a question based on historical records of the Slarkovs descent," Gustav said while walking to the middle of the stage.

- Intelligence Is A Tool?

- Intelligence Is A Tool?

- Intelligence Is A Tool?

The participants stared at him with a nervous expression.

This was a very vast topic and information about it was mostly kept under the wraps. They had no idea if the question would be based on general knowledge or not but everything still depended on the grading of the difficulty of the question.

"What tool was presented to earth by the Slarkovs to show that they were a peaceful race?" Gustav asked and walked back to his seat.

Chatter! Chatter! Chatter!

The hall became noisy again after Gustav asked his question.

This was truly something that wasn’t known to the general public because history books relating to the Slarkovs descent were extremely scarce. It was almost like information about that was being covered up.

The screen started calculating the difficulty.

In a few seconds, it displayed the difficulty which happened to be a high school level difficulty.

Chatter! Chatter! Chatter!

The hall became noisier. At first, the students believed it would be above high school level but now that it had been displayed that it wasn’t, the participants would have no choice but to answer.

Small whispers could be heard on the stage as teammates discussed among themselves how they would answer.

Even after two minutes had passed, not a single participant stood up to answer.

’It’s just as I thought, he is well versed in science than other topics...’ Gustav stared at Atrihea city’s high school participants with a look of contemplation.

He had studied the three students representing them earlier.

Holland, Ezekiel, and Vivy. The three were versed in different aspects that complemented one another but Holland was the only person Gustav felt was more knowledgeable in the aspect he was versed in which was science.

If he were to come up with a scientific question he was sure that Holland had an % chance of answering. Since Holland was the only person he was wary of he decided to bring up a subject that wasn’t related to science.

The girl in their group, Vivy was the only one who was really knowledgeable when it came to history but Gustav doubted that even she knew the answer to this.

Beep!

Finally, a school tapped on the button.

A female student from Black rock school came forward to answer.

"The item wasn’t mentioned in the historical records, how are we supposed to know it?" She said with a squeezed-up face.

Everyone thought she came up to answer, no one expected that she actually came up to complain about the question.

"The tool was very well mentioned," Gustav replied to her bluntly.

"Do you even know the answer to the question you asked?" She pointed at Gustav with a dark look.

"We will find out when you all fail to answer," Gustav replied with an unbothered look.

"Aurora Gantz, that stage isn’t for arguments, it’s for questions and answers... If you know nothing about the answer to the question please take your seat or you will get disqualified!" A loud voice came from the other stage.

It was the vice principal of Atrihea city high school. He had to give her a warning since she was using the stage for the wrong purpose.

Aurora walked back to her seat with a look of embarrassment.

Now everyone went back to waiting for another student to walk up the stage and answer.

Ten seconds went by in silence.

Another thirty seconds went by again and yet no one stood up to answer.

After a minute went by the female student from Atrihea city high school tapped the answer display panel and stood up.

She walked to the middle of the stage and started speaking.

"According to the history of the Slarkovs descent, the humans thought they were hostile and acted unreasonably by sending out artilleries in an act to protect themselves from doom... The historical records also connote that an item was given to the earth as a gift to show that they were a peaceful race but this item wasn’t mentioned," She paused for a bit before continuing.

"From our observation of Earth’s history down the line, the earth seemed to be protected by something relating to a prediction machine... The reason for this thought is because of the time a meteor shower was said to rain on the earth, the places that were affected had been evacuated of human life beforehand," She said with a look of certainty.

"I believe the item is a technological doom prediction device..." She concluded with this.

Chatter! Chatter! Chatter!

Voices conversing could be heard from the crowd.

They talked about the possibility of Vivy’s answer being correct while waiting for the result.

Even the audience themselves were not very knowledgeable when it came to history so they couldn’t tell if the answer was correct.

Beep!

The screen finally displayed the status of her answer after a few seconds.

To everyone’s surprise, she was wrong.

’Here I was thinking she could actually answer correctly with the way she started... What a disappointment,’ Gustav said internally.

The chatters from the crowd increased again.

-"Since even Vivy got it wrong, I doubt any of the students can get it correctly,"

-"I doubt that this Gustav who asked the question can answer it,"

The crowd, especially Atrihea city high school students had already seen Vivy as a goddess of history due to the way she had been answering questions related to them previously. Now that she failed to answer, they believed that no one else could.

The participants that had similar answers to Vivy’s answer remained in position with a dumbfounded look.

They couldn’t think of anything else that would be the right answer to this question.

Beep!

Another beep resounded in the hall.

This signified that the timer for answering the question had finished counting down.

Now the person who posed the question would have to answer it since the other participants failed to do so.

Gustav knowing he was up walked to the stage.

"I asked that what tool was presented to humanity by the Slarkovs... It’s a very simple question," Gustav started speaking.

"In the past when the Slarkovs descended, there was chaos but the Slarkovs gave two things to humanity to prove that they weren’t a hostile race, instead they were peaceful," Gustav paused for a bit before continuing.

"One is well known to everyone while the other is hidden..."

"Intelligence!" Gustav stated with a profound look.

Chatter! Chatter! Chatter!

-"How could intelligence be the answer?"

-"Is he messing around right now or he doesn’t know the answer?"

-"Is he referring to intelligence as the tool received?"

The crowd refused to believe that Gustav was right.

Gustav didn’t mind their words and kept speaking.

- Blatant Accusation

- Blatant Accusation

- Blatant Accusation

"In the historical records of the Slarkovs descent, it was well noted that the Slarkovs had given a tool to the humans as a gift to show that they weren’t hostile but this tool wasn’t revealed... But was that the only tool that the Slarkovs presented the humans with? Of course not... The humans also demanded that the Slarkovs share their knowledge and intelligence on technology with them... If they had decided not to share, the Slarkovs would have been seen as a hostile race so the Slarkovs also shared their intelligence with the humans... This means, two tools were given, one is unknown and the other is intelligence," Gustav stopped moving and stood in the middle of the stage.

"Since I asked what tool was given and there happened to be two tools, you only needed to mention a single one," Gustav added with a slight smile.

Beep!

The screen lit up, displaying that Gustav had answered the question correctly.

Silence!

The crowd was once again rendered speechless.

Gustav had practically played with their minds.

It was public knowledge that technological advancement today was due to the Slarkovs but when a question like this was asked, the first thing that came to mind would be the item that was presented as a gift to the humans. No one would think of the intelligence that was shared.

Even the principals were surprised when they heard this. They hadn’t expected such a reply since they knew the information about that item was very well guarded.

They thought Gustav was also going to miss the question including Principal Erwin.

’This kid, I thought he asked this question so everyone could fail and the five points would be lost... Who knew he would pull such a mind twist on everyone,’ Principal Erwin had a look of surprise.

His thought was similar to the rest of the principals they had not expected Gustav to have an idea about that item. Even if he knew about it he wouldn’t be able to mention it since it was a crime to reveal the item in public.

It was a very well guarded secret among the higher-ups. Gustav would be taken into custody if he knew about it and decided to reveal it here.

Gustav walked back to his seat after causing the crowd feel awed.

Angy cheered for Gustav from her seat area. From the start of the event, she had been the only one cheering for him. Her classmates would stare at her with a weird look wondering which side she rooting for and why she would even be cheering for someone who didn’t answer a single question the whole time but she wasn’t concerned about their stares.

Only her close friends in school had heard her speak about Gustav but they weren’t impressed when he didn’t answer a single question in the first half. Now they were starting to understand why Angy was so infatuated with him.

Gustav walked back to his seat amidst the awe-stricken faces of the crowd.

’We were fooled,’ The participants could only blame themselves for not deciphering the question properly.

The event commenced and a participant from the next school came on the stage.

When the question was asked again and graded on the screen the beeping sound was heard immediately.

This time a lot of the students tapped on the answer button at the same time.

At least that was how the audience saw it but the screen showed Gustav as the first person to tap the answer display button once again.

Gustav answered the question correctly adding extra five points to Echelon Academy.

As the event continued the participants and audience faces turned from shock to awe and from awe to disbelief.

Gustav would always be displayed as the first to tap the answer button.

The participants were starting to think that it was rigged since they also tapped the button immediately after the question had been graded.

Atrihea city high school participants would purposely stretch out their finger towards the panel before the question was graded so they could quickly tap on it but even with that they Gustav would still be displayed as the first to tap.

Due to this Gustav kept bagging points for Echelon Academy causing them to rise on the rankings.

Gustav kept answering one question after the other correctly.

After answering the seventeenth question Vivy couldn’t take it anymore.

She stood up with an incensed look and accused Echelon Academy of cheating.