Wardogs

Chapter 61

Chapter 61

"A lot?" Gustav right eyebrow was raised slightly as he heard that, "How much did you tell her? By any chance did you mention that I use her picture to do that?" Gustav asked with an intrigued look.

"Hahaha, you little rascal, why don’t you find out yourself?" Boss Danzo said while laughing lightly.

"Find out myself? How?" Gustav asked.

"We’re having a small celebration at my place, would you like to come?" Boss Danzo asked with a smile.

- Emergency Quest

- Emergency Quest

- Emergency Quest

"A celebration...? That’s..." Gustav’s eyes slightly widened in surprise.

"Yes, like a small party between family and close friends, would you like to come?" Boss Danzo asked again.

Gustav was short of words again. This was the first time he was being invited to a party.

Apart from the encounter he had with Charles and Gordon, he had never even been to a place where a celebration was going on.

’I just need to make sure I get back before night time,’ Gustav said internally before replying boss Danzo.

"Uhm, yes," Gustav answered with a smile.

"Good, Mara will be happy," Boss Danzo tapped Gustav’s shoulder while speaking with a wide smile on his face.

"Now let’s cook," Boss Danzo added before beckoning to one of the workers in the vicinity.

Gustav nodded in reply while staring at the staff walking towards them.

It was a dark-skinned man in chef uniform and hat.

"Hey Gustav," The dark-skinned chef greeted.

Gustav nodded at him in reply.

"Get the ingredients for the tradashi dish," Boss Danzo instructed the chef when he arrived in front of them.

"Alright boss," The man replied and turned around.

Gustav remembered that this guy happened to be a new worker here after an old worker resigned recently.

"Hmm, boss Danzo how is the new guy doing?" Gustav asked with a curious glance.

"Better than you were at the beginning," Boss Danzo replied while bursting into laughter afterward.

Gustav also laughed along with him but all of a sudden his face froze up as he turned around.

Boss Danzo noticed the strange look on Gustav’s face.

"What’s wro.."

"Boss..."

Before both of them could complete their sentences a loud blast resounded within the kitchen.

Booooom!

The entire kitchen erupted in mighty flames causing a cloud of black smoke to spread across the environment.

From outside the building, it could be seen that the kitchen had been set in ablaze and surprisingly the fire safety didn’t go off.

Normally when the temperature of flames goes beyond a particular degree, the AI installed would activate the fire safety. A large amount of fire suppressing liquid will be sprayed within the building which would quench the fire in a manner of seconds but this time nothing of that sort happened.

Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep!

Only the alarms went off.

Within the kitchen, the visibility had been reduced due to the intensity of the smoke from the fire.

Pieces of equipment had been blasted to different corners of the room and part of the ceiling had fallen to the floor.

On the east side, a silhouette could be seen holding onto another. A large part of the wall was currently tilting towards the side and resting on the back of one of the silhouettes who happened to be protecting the other.

The wall was ablaze and so was the back of the person who it was currently leaning on.

"Boss Danzo, are you okay?" Gustav voiced was heard within the smoke and fire.

It turned out the large broken part of the wall was actually on Gustav’s back and Boss Danzo happened to be on the floor beneath him.

"Hmm... I’m okay," Boss Danzo replied slowly.

He was shocked to see that Gustav was fast enough to push him to the ground while turning around to block him from the incoming blast with his body and also supporting the weight of the wall while it was set ablaze. ’How did he do that?’ Boss Danzo asked himself internally but when he looked around him he decided to throw that question to the back of his mind.

He stood up while coughing and looked around with a dreadful expression.

Gustav slowly pushed back the wall with his back until it straightened up and turned around.

Boss Danzo could see everywhere in flames and smoke. He couldn’t describe how he was feeling at the moment but it wasn’t in any way good.

"Is anyone alive?" Boss Danzo shouted out with a panicked expression.

Gustav turned around to face the wall and arched his arm back before throwing it out.

Bang!

The wall was blasted into smithereens, creating an opening to the outside.

This part of the kitchen happened to be one story up so the wind was blowing into the wide hole crazily.

The blast that happened earlier was strong enough to destroy parts of the wall but it wasn’t strong enough to cause the floor to collapse. The floor was still in good condition in the meantime but it obviously wouldn’t be like that for long since the fire was still spreading.

"Hey... is any...one still ali..ve?" Boss Danzo started moving forward as he shouted out with his voice turning hoarse.

[Emergency Quest: Save ten people from the fire]

A notification suddenly popped up in Gustav’s line of sight.

In this situation, the system didn’t even need to ask him because there was no way he wouldn’t try saving the chefs.

Gustav turned around and quickly grabbed onto boss Danzo’s arm.

"Boss Danzo, it’s dangerous for you," Gustav said while pulling him back.

"No... Some of them must be alive, I need to help them!" Boss Danzo shouted out while being drawn back.

"You’ll die," Gustav lifted boss Danzo and placed him on his shoulder before turning around with speed and jumping out of the opening.

Fwooom!

Their bodies traveled across the air, dropping with speed. Boss Danzo had an unwilling look as he stared at the blazing kitchen getting farther and farther away from him.

Thoom!

Gustav landed on the ground and dropped boss Danzo.

"Boss Danzo, you can inform the fire company or any one of the teachers present at the moment... I’m going back in to get the others," Gustav voiced out with speed before turning around and leaping towards the opening.

Thoom!

Boss Danzo wasn’t able to reply Gustav leaped back in. He could only watch as Gustav’s body flew up into the air and entered the hole they had just come out from.

Boss Danzo looked around and noticed that the fire was slowly spreading towards the lower floor.

"How did this happen?" Boss Danzo ran towards the lower floor was voicing out subconsciously.

Several chefs could be seen running out of the building but they were coming from the lower floor not the one above that was currently ablaze.

"Are you okay?" Boss Danzo asked one of them when he got to their front.

"The others... Xiaomi is up there," The worker happened to be coughing along with the others that were also coming out.

"Ca..ll the fire depart..ment," One of them voiced out.

The problem now was, it was still early in the morning around six am so hardly any teacher had arrived yet.

- Masked Man

- Masked Man

- Masked Man

All of the teachers in Echelon Academy were mixed-bloods so they would have been able to assist and save the workers faster than Gustav could but only about three of them were present right now.

The staffs’ room a*s also happened to be far from the kitchen area so unless they were outside the building, they wouldn’t be able to see the flame.

School activities normally start by eight am so no student could be found within the vicinity.

After calling the fire department, boss Danzo was told that they would arrive in five to ten minutes but he knew that ten minutes was long enough for a person to be turned into ashes so he hurried towards the staff block to inform any available teacher.

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Immediately after Gustav got back in, he looked around. All that could be seen were flames and burning debris positioned in different parts of the burning Kitchen.

Most of these burning debris and fallen parts of the ceiling blocked Gustav’s path.

The temperature of the room was very high but it was nothing compared to what Gustav faced with the solar worms so he wasn’t even affected.

[Size manipulation has been activated]

Gustav’s body grew in size becoming around six foot seven tall with broad shoulders and back.

He tapped the button on his left sleeve and a mask appeared in his hand.

This was the same fox-like mask that Gustav bought in the ancient market.

’Only boss Danzo knows of my strength... Let’s keep it that way,’ Gustav said internally while putting on the mask.

He also tore apart his upper wears becoming half nude once again.

Part of his clothes had been set ablaze earlier so he decided to discard them.

[God eyes has been activated]

The two openings on the upper right and left sides of the mask suddenly lit up with scarlet and green color making Gustav look quite menacing.

The view of the room from Gustav’s sight turned into different colors. The fire became white and was unable to block his vision anymore.

The other inanimate things in the environment turned blue and white also and now Gustav could see red-colored silhouettes ahead, holed up in different parts of the room.

Some had passed out from the fire but were still alive while in other areas, burning parts of the ceilings had collapsed on some of the workers.

[Sprint has been activated]

Gustav activated sprint without a moment of delay and dashed out.

Swoooshhh!

His intense speed even caused the flames to part ways.

Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam!

His body smashed into several pieces of rods that fell from the ceiling as he raced forward.

He didn’t even react to the rods colliding with his body. Some of the rods were thrown towards the side when contact was made while others broke into two halves.

Gustav arrived at a particular part of the kitchen and came to a halt.

He only dashed out for a second but he had already covered more than three hundred feet.

In front of him was a cluster of debris packed together. They had fallen and stacked upon one another till they reached the height of one meter.

Gustav bent and dipped both hands underneath the debris before lifting it with force.

Crumble! Crumble!

Some blazing parts of it fell to the floor.

Gustav turned around and dropped the entire thing like it weighed nothing.

He turned back around and an unconscious lady could be seen lying on the ground with a partly burnt chef outfit.

Two slightly bent rods in a diagonal position were few inches above her body, with their tips lodged into the wall. These rods were what prevented the debris from squashing her. Had the debris continued to stack up, the rods would have been unable to hold on and end up collapsing.

Gustav squatted and grabbed onto her body before lifting her and turning around.

Fwoosh!

His body blurred as he dashed across the sea of fire and leapt out of the hole on the other side of the kitchen.

Thoom!

Gustav landed on the ground where some chefs had already gathered and dropped the lady before turning around and leaping upwards again.

The chefs in the surroundings quickly dashed towards the unconscious lady.

-"Yerma!"

-"Who is that masked man?"

-"Who cares? Let’s help Yerma!"

-"Ah, alright,"

-

Gustav arrived back inside the burning kitchen and darted towards another corner of the room.

Swoooshhh!

He arrived in another part of the room and moved some debris to the side revealing two trapped staff that happened to be boxed in by fallen walls.

They were seated on the ground and were already coughing hard.

Their faces had turned black and parts of their outfit were also burnt.

Gustav grabbed onto the male and female chefs and put them on his shoulder quickly.

Both of them had teary eyes due to the smoke so they couldn’t even see Gustav. They only felt they were being carried away and due to their current predicament, they didn’t try to resist.

Gustav dashed out of the kitchen again and dropped both staff on the outside before heading back in again.

He was moving faster than he ever had.

Only about one minute had gone by and he had already saved three people but he felt he wasn’t fast enough as he could already sense with his perception that some workers had been set ablaze.

Due to the crackling of the fire, their screaming voices could hardly be heard.

Gustav moved quickly towards another part of the room. He had to punch an entire wall that blocked his path this time. About four staff were holed up within this time and he had to place two on his back and carry one in his left hand and the other in his right.

Even with the load, Gustav’s speed was only hindered slightly.

He still managed to bring four of them out safely. They only suffered slight burn injuries.

Gustav went back in after leaving them with the staff below.

He didn’t waste a second before leaping back into the building.

This time he dashed towards the Southwest corner of the kitchen and removed the obstacles on his path.

He got to a part where a small hole had already been burnt through the floor making the room below visible.

Gustav leaped forward a bit and landed on the other side before arriving in front of a small blockage of debris once again.

"KIAARRHH!"

The scream coming from beyond the blockage drifted into his ears.

- Using Combination

- Using Combination

- Using Combination

"KIAARRHH!"

The scream coming from beyond the blockage drifted into his ears.

Gustav stared forward with his eyes squinted. He already sensed this but seeing it with his two eyes still gave him some kind of chill.

In front of him was a person who had been set completely ablaze.

From the sound of the screams, it was obviously a male. He kept thrashing around in pain and hitting the walls surrounding him which was also on fire.

Gustav quickly reached out to him and grabbed his shoulders before lifting him.

’I need to go faster... It’s time I made use of this skill,’ Gustav said internally as he turned around with speed.

[Combination has been activated]

[Dash + Sprint has been activated]

[- EP]

Twooosshhhhhh!

Gustav only moved once and arrived outside the hole in an instant.

The movement of his body created afterimages due to the intense boost in speed causing the flames within the room to create a path.

Bang!

Gustav landed on the outside and a cloud of dust was formed.

He slowly dropped the person from his shoulder whose clothes had been completely burnt off with visible darkened skin and blisters on several parts.

Due to his intense speed earlier, the fire on the body of this victim had been put out but he was still screaming in pain as the wind entered his wounds causing them to sting even more.

[Combination has been deactivated]

Gustav’s speed went back to normal after this but he had already used more than five hundred energy points due to this skill.