Wardogs

Chapter 62

Chapter 62

He knew that a lot of energy points would be spent when he saw the information of this skill for the first time which was why he never used it until now. This was because he didn’t have any other means of putting out the flames on the body of this worker so he had to make use of combination.

His Intense boost in speed had been the key factor in putting out the flames.

Gustav had a weird look on his face while staring at the man who had been burnt half to death. Although he had carried the man earlier he didn’t even feel pain from the flames because of his body defense but that didn’t mean he was unaware of the high temperature.

Although it unlikely that normal flames would affect him from now on, he could still imagine how the victim felt due to his first encounter with the solar worms.

While still on the mask, Gustav squatted and placed a healing medicine in the mouth of the man.

After doing that he turned back around to face the building before leaping back in.

Gustav started moving from place to place, bringing out the workers that he could find and in the next three minutes he had brought out every person he could find within the building.

Gustav leaped down once again. He could already sense the approach of vehicles and silhouettes coming from ahead.

Swoooshhh!

Gustav turned east and dashed off into the distance.

Chatter! Chatter! Chatter!

-"Who is that masked man?’

-"I wonder who he is also,"

-"He is so big and muscular, I bet he’s a powerful mixed-blood,"

-"We should just be glad that he saved so many of our colleague lives today,"

Even though the atmosphere was somber the chefs couldn’t help but talk about how heroic the masked man was.

In less than thirty seconds the fire department had arrived along with the three available teachers in the school.

The fire department activated a machine that flew above the kitchen and conjured an ice-like liquid that was the size of a lake before dropping it entirely on the building.

The chefs within the vicinity were asked to move away from the surroundings due to the volume of the liquid which spread to the vicinity.

The fire was quenched in an instant and the fire department began investigations to find out the cause of the incident.

When boss Danzo arrived back with the teachers the first thing he did was ask about Gustav.

"I didn’t see him, boss, I don’t know if he got out," One of the workers replied with the same statement as many others.

Boss Danzo was starting to get worried and even some of the workers looked around for him until he was found sitting underneath a shade three hundred meters from their current location.

The chefs were glad he wasn’t burned to death but they wondered when he got out. They didn’t suspect Gustav to be the masked man in any way because of the difference in size and strength. They had also heard rumors of Gustav in the past so they knew he couldn’t be as strong as the masked man that appeared earlier. Also, Gustav was currently shirtless while sitting under the shade of the tree with his blonde hair having dark burns in different places.

His face had soot on it and there were signs of burns on his upper body. The workers could never forget the mighty look and bearing of the masked man along with the red hoodie jacket he wore that somehow didn’t get burnt even when he was coursing through the flames repeatedly. Gustav’s figure paled in comparison to that of the masked man.

The workers felt he was probably saved by the masked man also, only Boss Danzo had a different opinion from the rest of them.

"Are you okay, Gustav?" This was boss Danzo’s first question when he arrived in front of him.

"Hnm, I’m fine..." Gustav said while nodding. His face shone tiredness and disbelief.

"Some of them didn’t make it," He added while staring at boss Danzo.

"I kn...ow... You did your best, thank you," Boss Danzo said with teary eyes.

"Could’ve done better," Gustav said with a sigh but he decided not to beat himself up over this even though he couldn’t describe his current emotions.

Gustav was able to bring everyone out of the building before the fire department and the teachers showed up but not everyone survived.

- Cause Revealed

- Cause Revealed

- Cause Revealed

The fire didn’t start slowly like most fires usually did, It exploded and spread across the vicinity in an instant.

But even with this, the explosion occurred from a particular point in the kitchen before spreading outwards and this particular point was where the force would be the highest.

When Gustav got to that place, in particular, he met about three people will missing body parts who had received the full force of the explosion.

One of the three people wasn’t dead yet because they happened to be a mixed-blood but the other two died instantly. Gustav still brought their body out regardless.

Apart from this, the last two he found had been burnt beyond recognition. Even when Gustav fed them the regeneration pill, they still died in a manner of seconds after he brought them out of the building.

"Gustav, it’s not your fault... You really did good in there," Boss Danzo said while squatting in front of Gustav and rubbing his hair.

"Hnm," Gustav nodded again.

"Boss Danzo what’s go..." Before Gustav complete his sentence boss Danzo was called upon from behind.

Boss Danzo turned around to leave because it happened to be the three teachers who wanted an explanation on what had happened here as they waited for the fire department to finish their investigations.

Gustav sat underneath the tree with mixed feelings.

’I never knew I could still feel this way about something,’ Gustav was surprised because this incident happened to touch him in ways he never thought was possible.

When he thought about it carefully, he found the answer.

This kitchen had been like a to him. This was the first place that gave him the warmth his former household never had.

Even though he wasn’t very close with the other workers like he was close to boss Danzo, he never had bad feelings towards anyone of them because they always treated him well.

No one had spoken to him with looks of contempt neither had anyone ever mentioned his low-grade bloodline so he happened to be very comfortable with them.

Now that this was happening to a place that he subconsciously saw as a second he wasn’t happy with it.

He hoped that with his new strength he would be able to save everyone but reality proved him wrong. At least five lives were lost to the fire and now Gustav was having mixed feelings about this like he had lost family members.

He knew for a fact that if his mother or father had died in a fire, he wouldn’t feel this bad. He doubted he’d feel anything at all.

[Emergency Quest Completed]

[Side Quest failed]

Gustav stared at the notifications in front of him but didn’t bother checking their information at the moment.

In front of the kitchen, boss Danzo was being questioned by the three teachers.

Two of them happened to be normal teachers while one of them happened to be from the disciplinary committee. One female and two males. The disciplinary committee teacher happened to be a woman.

-"What is your excuse for this mess Danzo!"

"Nobody knows how it happened, like I told you all before, it was an explosion,"

-"Eh? Danzo how come you’re unscathed and have not a single burn on your outfit like the others?"

"I was saved by that masked man earlier, he got to me first so I wasn’t harmed,"

-"Eh? You make it sound like the masked man was here from the start... You know that’s impossible right?"

-"His statement sounds very fishy!"

-"Besides this masked man is not to be trusted since we don’t know if he started the fire,"

"What do you mean by started the fire? That man was busy saving lives while you three were cooped up in your offices!"

-"What? Are you actually defending him now? Danzo must be an accomplice then,"

"What are you insinuating? Just because you’re teachers doesn’t mean you have the right to insinuate nonsense!"

"Let’s all calm down here," The teacher from the disciplinary committee finally spoke after noticing that the conversation was getting heated.

"Danzo, you’re right, we shouldn’t be questioning you like this but at least tell us how it happened," She added.

"This is something no one knows... One minute we were cooking and the next the entire kitchen had gone up in flames," Boss Danzo replied.

"Hmm, let’s wait for the fire department to finish their investigation then," The teacher from the disciplinary committee said with a profound look.

The workers who had gotten burning injuries that were higher than what healing pills could handle were taken to the hospital for treatment.

Some of them were burnt to the extent that they couldn’t talk but only five died while Gustav managed to save about sixteen chefs in total.

Of course, everyone still wanted to know who the masked man was but when the cops arrived, the teachers told the cops that the masked man was a suspect.

The cops ignored them and also waited for the fire department to finish their investigation before making any moves.

It would turn out that the leader of the cops that arrived here was someone Gustav knew.

It took about thirty minutes for the fire department to finish their investigations. They came downstairs and gave a briefing of their findings to everyone.

Gustav also had to listen so he could understand how such a thing happened.

Surprisingly the cause was something they didn’t expect.

According to the fire department, the explosion happened due to one of the cooking equipment getting overloaded from the minerals used to fuel it.

They said a different mineral was used to fuel it instead of the mineral compatible with the equipment which caused the overloading and explosion.

When the mineral was mentioned everyone was surprised because that happened to be the mineral used to power a car.

Immediately this explanation was given out, boss Danzo was on the receiving end of the blame.

The teachers accused him of not being able to supervise his workers well since such a rookie mistake was committed.

Even Boss Danzo was shocked at such a thing happening.

This mineral was never among the cooking materials purchased monthly so he couldn’t understand how it got there.

- Sabotage?

- Sabotage?

- Sabotage?

Boss Danzo tried to explain that the mineral wasn’t included among the weekly purchases made to get the materials needed for the kitchen but no matter how hard he tried the three teachers debunked his claim and called him incompetent.

Even the other chefs tried defending boss Danzo but it still didn’t change anything.

"Wait for the board’s jurisdiction after they hear of this blunder," One of the teachers said as he left.

The other two teachers later took their leave after getting a detailed report from the fire department.

It turns out that the fire safety was faulty so it failed to activate when the temperature of the fire went above the threshold.

For some reason, the blast within the kitchen happened to be below the degree that would cause the fire safety to activate.

Gustav felt the whole situation was kinda fishy. Why would a mineral that wasn’t purchased be among the minerals within the kitchen?

Some of the chefs felt that the person in charge of purchases must have made some kind of error and ended up getting the wrong minerals but even if that was so, whoever was using the equipment should have known that the mineral wasn’t compatible with it. Which means it shouldn’t have been made use of even if it was purchased.

"Boss Danzo let’s check out the equipment," Gustav walked up to where boss Danzo was discussing with the cops and suggested.

"Hey Gustav," One of the cops called out to him.

"Officer Betty, good to see you again," Gustav nodded at the female officer sporting red hair and some white strands.

"Hmm, you too," Officer Betty replied, "Isn’t it a bit too early for you to be in school by now?" Officer Betty asked with a look of confusion.

"He works with me," Boss Danzo chipped in.

"Oh," Officer Betty was a bit surprised to hear that but she nodded in understanding.

Officer Betty happened to be the same officer that arrived with her squad after the incident with the bloodwolf. She was also the one who helped deal with the mixed-breed that attacked the neighborhood while he was away.

Gustav was surprised to actually see her here and started wondering why her team would be dealing with situations here since it was pretty far from his neighborhood. It seemed as if the cops didn’t have divisions or anything like that and this surprised Gustav greatly.

’Hmm, might the masked man be him? It looks like he’s the only one powerful enough to pull something like that off among the workers but the description is way off,’ Officer Betty wondered while staring at Gustav.

"Thanks for the last time," Gustav said with a grateful look.

"It’s nothing," Officer Betty replied with a dismissive expression.

Boss Danzo and the workers around wondered what they were referring to but since Gustav and officer Betty didn’t say more than that they decided to suck it up.

"We need to check out the equipment so we know who was making use of it," Gustav proposed with a look of suspicion.

"Hmm?" Officer Betty immediately sensed where Gustav was headed for with his suggestion.

"I don’t know but if you guys are going to conduct an investigation, at the very least we need to know this," Gustav replied with a bold look.

"I agree with him," Boss Danzo chimed in. He was also finding the whole situation weird with the minerals stuff.

"Alright then, let’s go in but you have to be careful because the floors are weak at the moment and could cave in when were walking on them," Officer Betty stated before turning around to start moving towards the kitchen with two cops beside her.

Gustav nodded at her and told Boss Danzo to stay beside him at all times.

They walked into the kitchen though the stairs had almost been burnt down completely.

Gustav activated God eyes as they walked on the kitchen floors.

He was able to know which part of the floors was weak and which parts were strong enough to hold both their weights.

The cops didn’t need this since they had their helmets on which scanned the environment automatically and showed them the weak spots of the floor.

The entire view within the kitchen was that of destruction.

Scorched floors, fallen ceiling parts, cracked and broken down walls, burnt cooking pieces of equipment, a large hole in the roof, e.t.c.

The entire place reeked.

The floors didn’t have as many openings as expected due to being strong but some parts were already weakened from the fire and only a little pressure would cause it to give way.

Gustav and boss Danzo moved forward for some seconds before turning towards the right to avoid a huge fallen debris from the ceiling.