Wardogs

Chapter 57

Chapter 57

Gustav streaked through the forest dodging lot of trees along the way.

In a few minutes, he had arrived in front of the cave again.

He stood on a tree branch and observed the space in front of the cave for some time.

The solar worms moving around the vicinity were up to thirty this time.

Since they were fairly intelligent, they had increased defense in front of their abode but even with that Gustav was feeling more confident now that the system was accessible again.

Now his defense stats were operational.

The last time he was fighting with his normal body but now that he had defense he believed he might be able to hold on for longer, still, he decided not to jump in like he did the other time.

’I have to lure one of them away,’ Gustav said internally.

’Energy is still stored in my gravitational field but I cannot risk detonating it and drawing more mixed-breeds to this place,’ Gustav canceled every thought he had of using gravitational energy container because he had no idea how many mixed-breeds within the forest would be attracted to this place if he decided to detonate it.

He couldn’t guarantee that a more powerful mixed-breed than he could handle wouldn’t show up, so he decided to make this operation as quiet as possible.

"Sqeeuuuee!"

The solar worms in the environment heard the sound of their kind coming from the east side of the cave entrance deep within the forest.

They stared at one another for a while.

"Sqeeuuuuee!"

They heard the sound again.

One of them in the environment made a sound similar to that in reply before heading in the direction of the sound.

The others continued patrolling the environment. They weren’t bothered since that was the sound of their kind.

The solar worm traveled through the forest towards the sound of the voice.

"Sqeeuuuee!"

It heard the sound again and followed it.

Whenever it felt it was closing in on the sound, the next one would sound farther than the last.

The solar worm kept moving forward and tracing the sound even though that happened three more times.

It squirmed across the ground till it got to the front of a small bush.

The bush wasn’t that big but it wasn’t small either however it was very thick.

This was where it traced the last sound.

At the moment it had traveled more than seven thousand meters away from the cave entrance.

The solar worm raised its upper body and looked around for the other solar worm making that sound.

Just as it raised its body to around three meters high a silhouette suddenly dashed out of the small thick bush in front.

Slash! s***h! s***h! s***h!

The solar worm didn’t even get the chance to check out the silhouette before it was hacked to several pieces with blood and flesh flying in separate directions.

The silhouette was obviously Gustav in his incomplete bloodwolf form.

He had taken the solar worm by surprise. He perfectly mimicked the sound of a solar worm earlier and kept drawing it into the forest to make sure that he was able to kill it without raising an alarm.

He had already calculated the amount of time it took the solar worms to aware of the death of their kind so he knew they won’t be aware any time soon which gives him enough time to test out bloodline acquisition.

Gustav squatted and placed his hand on the shredded body of the solar worm.

[Mixedbreed Corpse Found: Solar Worm]

[Host has met the requirements to absorb Bloodline]

[Does host wish to collect this Bloodline]

[Yes/No]

Gustav stared at the notifications with a look of relief.

He finally saw the notifications he had been missing for the past three days.

’Yes,’ Gustav answered immediately.

[Extraction Process Shall Now Begin]

Gustav waited for about one minute before it was done.

[Extraction Successful]

He was pleasantly surprised. It was never this fast in the past. The least amount of time it took was three minutes but this time it only took a third of that.

This made Gustav wonder, ’When the system gets another upgrade, would the time spent on bloodline acquisition shorten even more?’

He felt that a time might come when he would be able to steal a bloodline instantly.

Gustav decided not to think about it too much, he had a task at hand and that took priority at the moment.

Gustav activated his storage device and kept the body part of the solar worm within it.

’Solar worm transformation,’ Gustav said inwardly.

His body suddenly bloated and his skin began to turn red with yellow spots appearing at different parts.

Gustav’s body length Increased also while his body bloated. His arms retracted into his body and In a few seconds, he had transformed completely to look like the same solar worm he had just killed.

His vision had changed along with his sense of smell.

His sight was able to cover a range of ° in this form.

Gustav squirmed across the ground towards the location of the cave.

Swoooshhh!

He was still extremely fast in this form.

In about a minute he arrived in front of the cave. The cave entrance was still being patrolled by the same amount of solar worms earlier.

Gustav made those sounds the solar worms used in communicating with one another before entering the cave.

On entering the cave what appeared in Gustav’s line of sight were glowing blue rocks protruding from the ceiling of the cave.

Blue liquid dripped from the tip of some of them and fell to the ground before turning into small blue stones.

Gustav noticed that these small blue stones were practically everywhere in the cave.

Another thing that Gustav noticed was the pure energy flowing within this cave due to the stones.

As expected he could see a massive number of solar worms moving about within the cave.

Some remained stationary at different parts.

Some were moving on the walls of the cave and some coiled around the pointy rocks on the cave ceiling.

- Salitre Pure Crystal

- Salitre Pure Crystal

- Salitre Pure Crystal

The path Gustav was on right now within the cave was very wide and kept extending forward into the distance.

Gustav really couldn’t see anything out of the ordinary as he kept moving forward but his plan right now was to check out every part of the cave.

After he was done checking it out whether there was anything suspicious about the cave he would push forward his next plans to farm EXP.

Gustav kept moving forward and there were times he would see some worms mating.

The manner in which they did it disgusted him and he secretly thanked the stars that he wasn’t a solar worm for real.

One of the female solar worms around was even sending signals to him but Gustav speedily distanced himself from her.

In some minutes he had crossed several hundred meters.

’God eyes,’ Gustav activated God eyes while he was still in the form of the solar worm.

[God eyes has been activated]

The cave turned into a myriad of colors from his point of view.

Every single solar worm that he came across had readings above their heads. Some had similar numbers while others didn’t. Gustav stared at the stones up and they happened to be bright green with different energy readings too.

’Two thousand, three thousand two hundred... These numbers are too small for the next upgrade,’ Gustav analyzed.

During the day, he had checked out the System interface and noticed that the system now had a bar where the amount of energy needed for the next upgrade was placed.

It happened to be a very massive number. More than twice of what was needed earlier.

Gustav had decided to absorb the energy within these rocks even though they were a far cry from what was needed in total.

Gustav was already closing in on the ending of the cave after moving through it for about five minutes.

His sight zoomed in on the ending of the cave where three different large holes could be seen on the walls.

These holes were more like rooms because Gustav could see several solar worms inside and he could also sense an immense amount of energy coming from all three of them.

Sqeeuuuee! Sqeeuuuee!

Some of the worms outside the hole saw Gustav and shrieked at him.

If Gustav didn’t understand their manner of speech, he would have thought they had figured out that he was an imposter but due to his current form he knew what they were saying.

"Sqeeuuuee! Sqeeuuuee! Sqeeuuuee!"

Gustav replied as he squirmed towards the middle hole.

Sqeeuuuee! sqeeuuuuee!

The two worms on the outside made those sounds at Gustav again while rotating their body.

Gustav replied again with something similar before both worms moved out of the way for him to enter the hole in the middle.

Gustav crawled towards it’s and got in.

The space within the hole was big enough to fit a thousand people but only about twelve solar worms were inside.

The flow of energy inside this hole was intense and Gustav could tell that this one was way higher than the others he saw on the cave ceiling when he was on his way here.

The hole would have been extremely dark but there was a bright source of shiny blue light stationed in the middle.

The blue light was actually a long crystal-like rock that protruded out of the ground.

The crystal happened to be over three hundred feet tall, glowing with refreshing light.

The twelve worms within coiled themselves around a very large crystal-like rock.

’This is on another level compared to the others,’ Gustav said internally with a surprised look.

’Six hundred and thirty-four thousand?’ Gustav now understood why the solar worms had guards positioned on the outside of these holes.

Earlier when he spoke to them he realized that this place was only accessible to a solar worm once in every two months and once that solar worm stayed within any one of the three holes for a single day, their strength, along with their internal constitution would undergo a fundamental improvement.

[High energy crystal has been detected]

[Name: Salitre Pure Crystal]

[If host wishes for the system to absorb the energy within this crystal, proximity range must not be father than two meters]

These notifications appeared in Gustav’s line of sight as he closed in on the crystal.

The twelve solar worms did not notice him since they were basking in the glow of the crystal.

When he got to the required range another notification appeared in his line of sight.

[Does host wish to absorb energy into the system]

[YES/NO]

Gustav stared at the notification with a contemplative look.

He could also absorb this energy into his gravitational space and keep it for emergencies but the system seemed to be compatible with it.

’Gravitational energy container can absorb all kinds of energy but the system can’t... I should let the system have this,’ Gustav came to a decision and called out within his mind, ’Yes,’

He wasn’t bothered about the twelve solar worms laying around the crystal since he got to the end of the cave, it was time to farm EXP. He already decided that he was going to kill every one of them there.

The crystal just happened to be an additional bonus.

A blue stream of energy as thick as a human body extended out of the crystal towards Gustav.

...

...

As the system absorbed the energy, the crystal was slowly getting dimmer.

...

...

[Energy has been successfully absorbed]

The crystal dimmed completely as this notification appeared in Gustav’s line of sight.

The entire hole darkened due to that and the solar worms within it opened their eyes and looked around in confusion.

Inside the dark hole, the only visible thing was a pair of scarlet and green eyes that glowed ominously.

Immediately after the hole dimmed earlier Gustav had taken the form of the half bloodwolf.

God eyes were still activated so he could see clearly in the dark.

Swoooshhh!

He dashed forward, hiding under the cover of darkness.

Before the solar worms could understand what was going on sounds of meat being shredded reverberated across the space.

- The First Hole

- The First Hole

- The First Hole

Sqeeuuuee! Sqeeuuuee! Sqeeuuuee!

The panicked cries of the solar worms were heard outside, alarming the two solar worms at the entrance of the hole.

Swweeii! Swweeii!

The two solar worms at the entrance squirmed towards the hole with speed.

On entering into the hole, darkness along with the sounds of flesh being ripped to shreds and the smell of heated blood, greeted them.

The worms didn’t understand what was happening and they could only sense that there was some unknown being here but the said being was moving too fast for them to discern pinpoint their location

[Atomic disintegration coat has been activated]

[- EP]

Gustav claws were covered in a whitish glow once again as he dashed out and hacked at the upper body part of a solar worm positioned on the left of the crystal

[s***h has been activated × ]

Swhiii! Swhii! Swhii!

Gustav’s claws slashed out thrice dividing it into three pieces.

At this moment Gustav had already killed five of the solar worms within the hole.

Even though the temperature of the hole had increased by a lot due to their numbers initially being twelve, Gustav was able to endure the increase.

Not only was the temperature way lower than when he had to handle the twenty at the entrance the other day, but he also had defense now so he was hardly disturbed by the increase in temperature.

Swoooshhh! s***h! Swoooshhh! s***h!

Gustav dashed across the place while swinging out his arms repeatedly and ripping their bodies to shredded pieces of meat.

The two solar worms that entered earlier started shooting out corroding silver liquids from their mouths.

Thwii! Thwii! Thwii! Thwii!

They couldn’t really pinpoint Gustav’s location but they could sense him from time to time due to his temperature but their attacks only hit thin air because Gustav could see them clearly and dodge unlike them who had their visibility reduced.

After a few more seconds Gustav had killed the twelve solar worms he met here when he first arrived.

He darted towards the two worms that were standing guard on the outside earlier.

Both of them already sensed that he was headed towards them.

Thwii! Thwii!

They shot out the steam of silver liquid towards Gustav’s direction. Both attacks accurately headed for Gustav.

Thoom!

[Size manipulation has been activated]

Gustav’s body lessened in width becoming about five inches wide and he positioned himself right in between both attacks while dashed forward.

Both attacks passed by his right and left side missing him by a hairbreadth.

[- HP]