Chapter 55
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Chapter 55
He knew his defense could probably put up with one of the worms if it emitted an unbearable temperature but what if a hundred or more Solar worms did that, would he be able to escape unscathed?
From what he heard, they had fire resistance so there was no way the severe increase in temperature would harm them.
The only thing that Gustav believed he had to his advantage was speed.
The solar worms happened to be very fast but dash made up for that.
Another problem was he couldn’t activate sprint. When he ran, he could only increase his speed to dash level.
His speed couldn’t get to sprint level and he supposed it was because of the system upgrade that was currently happening.
His speed using dash was now around three hundred feet per second which was also similar to the Solar worms speed but they were a little slower.
Gustav’s arms bulged and red furs grew out of them as his hands turned into paws.
His legs also transformed into that of the bloodwolf becoming slanted and showing four long and sharp-looking toenails.
Surprisingly, apart from these changes, the rest of Gustav’s body was still looking normal.
During the past few days, he had learned how to restrict bloodwolf transformation and make it only affect the parts of his body that he wanted it to.
With the system inaccessible, he had been doing everything manually and this made him come up with that idea.
His current partial transformation gave him more mobility. He didn’t have as much mass as the bloodwolf in his current state yet he could move as fast. If he coupled that with his original speed or dash it would put his speed above that of the solar worms.
Swoosh!
Gustav jumped down from the tree while swinging his claws downwards and landed directly on one of the solar worms.
Slash! Krryycchh!
His unexpected s***h, cut a fifty-nine inches deep gash into the body of the solar worm leaving it on the brink of death.
Gustav threw his claws forward again and divided the worm in half with his second attack.
Shhssshh!
Molten-like blood oozed out of the dead worm causing the ground to get roasted by its scorching heat.
Sqquueeee! Sqquueeee! Sqquueeee! Sqquueeee!
After performing that action, every Solar worm within the vicinity made some weird shrieks with loud voices before bolting crazily towards Gustav.
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The solar worms’ bodies suddenly started glowing a reddish-brown color.
Sshhhsss!
The temperature of the surroundings started increasing rapidly.
Gustav first thought was to engage the second solar worm that was closest to him but upon feeling the intense wave of heat that permeated the environment, he changed his mind.
He initially thought it would be nothing serious since there were only about twenty solar worms in the vicinity but now he realized just how wrong he was.
His upper black clothes were burned off in an instant revealing his small but well-toned muscular frame.
The environment became so hot and dry that Gustav felt, ten times the hotness of desert couldn’t be compared to it.
He immediately turned around to head towards the west side of the cave.
He felt stinging burn pains already across his body while escaping the AOE.
His skin had already turned beet red.
Sqquueeee! Sqquueeee! Sqquueeee! Sqquueeee!
The worms chased after him crazily from behind but were unable to catch up.
Some were slightly faster than others so Gustav wasn’t able to shake them off but the slower ones got left in the dust.
’What’s with this incomplete information I keep getting?’ Gustav had the urge to facepalm while running within the dense woods.
The information on the Solar worms that he sourced, stated a particular amount of temperature that each worm emits.
He calculated the rise of the temperature in the surroundings based on the combined temperature of the twenty-plus solar worms and concluded that he would still be okay if they were to activate the power of their bloodline but to his surprise, the temperature was way higher than that.
He wondered how it would have felt if they were more solar worms in the vicinity.
The trees and other things that could be found in the environment were unaffected because they had adapted to this habitat.
The current state of the solar worms served to further enrich them.
Also, some of the solar worms had speeds that were higher than dash, unlike the information he saw on the web.
There were a lot of skills he couldn’t use with the system unavailable and sprint was included.
Gustav reckoned that this wasn’t the first time such a thing was happening. He still wondered why the information given wasn’t up to standard and decided that next time, he would source for information on mixed-breeds from a more secure site.
Gustav got to a particular part of the forest and leaped upwards.
Thoom!
He grabbed onto a tree branch, which bent a little due to his weight before catapulting him further up.
The worms beneath paused in their tracks and slightly raised the upper part of their body to stare upwards.
They could see Gustav ascending the tree at a rapid pace.
Sqquueeee!
The worms immediately darted towards the tree.
To Gustav’s surprise, they started climbing upwards with speed. This was another piece of information that wasn’t added and Gustav thought it would be impossible for them to climb a tree since most mixed-breeds can’t retain a lot of the properties that existed in the animals they originated from.
Just like the solar worms were originally worms and a worm would be able to climb up a tree while a mixed-breed that seemed to have originated from that wouldn’t have those basic properties.
At this moment only about seven solar worms had caught up with him while the rest were still far behind.
The temperature had reduced to a bearable amount now.
He kept jumping upwards heading from lower branches to higher branches.
This tree was about fifty-seven meters tall and each solar worm was around three meters in length so they weren’t too big to climb it.
Gustav got to a height of over fifty meters and stared at the worms climbing up with intensity.
When they were close to getting to the branch he was currently squatting on, he jumped down.
Swoosh!
His body traveled downwards with speed for about five seconds before he landed on the ground.
Bam!
Gustav landed and looked around him. Only about six worms were in the vicinity, five had climbed up the tree while around nine of them were still behind, trying to catch up.
Swoooshhh!
Gustav dashed forward with Intense speed and swung out his claws which were coated in a whitish glow.
Swhiii!
The side of the worm was cut open with hot blood spilling out.
Gustav dashed backward to dodge the hot blood that was jetted out.
Another worm had leaped towards Gustav when he attacked the first one so when he leaped backward, he was leaping towards the worm.
He extended both his arms in separate directions while in mid-air and slashed down in an ’X’ format. The solar worm was completely severed into four different parts.
Splush!
Blood blasted in all directions and some of them fell on Gustav’s chest.
Shhssh!
Some thumb-sized holes were burned through his flesh and penetrated deep into his body.
"Ugh!" Gustav landed on the ground and dashed towards the side while holding his chest.
The hole in his chest showed his blood vessels.
"Damn, I should be more careful," Gustav muttered with a look of pain.
Although the blood really hurt and did damage when it fell on his body, his regenerative ability kicked in so his chest was starting to close up at a fairly rapid pace.
Twoosh!
One of the worms on the left spat out a silver-colored liquid towards Gustav.
Swoooshhh!
Gustav dodged it by a hair length and dashed towards the creature while brandishing his claws.
Slash! s***h! s***h! s***h!
He hacked at the solar worm several times turning its body into shredded pieces of meat.
The liquid shot out earlier had eradicated some fallen trees in the surroundings.
It had a powerful corroding ability but it also released a kind of gas into the atmosphere that puts the human senses to sleep.
So even though Gustav was not hit, it was slowly starting to affect him.
Gustav knew about this but he still had to deal with the solar worms in the surroundings so there would only be a few left when the ones on the tree and behind caught up with him.
He moved from place to place slashing at the Solar worms.
- Trying Out Bloodline Acquisition Without The System
- Trying Out Bloodline Acquisition Without The System
- Trying Out Bloodline Acquisition Without The System
His speed was still faster than theirs so it looked as if a phantom was moving across the place.
His body was moving like the wind dashing from place to place as he hacked down the solar worms one at a time.
He was using atomic disintegration to coat his claws while slashing at them which made it easy for him to penetrate their bodies.
After dealing with the eleventh solar worm within the vicinity, Gustav dashed towards the east side.
He had inhaled a lot of that gas and now his body was starting to feel numb.
After distancing himself from the previous battle site his body started regaining feeling again.
The worms that climbed up the tree earlier along with the rest in the vicinity had started chasing after him once again however the temperature in the surroundings had decreased significantly after killing eleven of them earlier.
’Sigh! What a waste of good EXP,’ Gustav lamented internally.
The system upgrade was still ongoing so he couldn’t get any EXP from killing these mixed-breeds.
Twoosh!
Gustav stared behind him and noticed another stream of silver-like liquid headed towards him from behind.
Swoosh!
He swerved towards the right dodging it but that wasn’t the end.
Twoosh! Twoosh! Twoosh!
Several more solar worms fired those streams at him and he had to dodge repeatedly.
Swoooshhh~ Swoooshhh~ Swoooshhh~
Gustav was able to dodge them by moving sideways occasionally until about nine worms fired the stream from their mouths at the same time.
Twoosh! Twoosh! Twoosh! Twoosh! Twoosh!
Gustav sensed it coming from behind him and discovered that it had covered a large amount of space so it would be impossible for him to dodge sideways this time. He wasn’t quick enough to pull that off.
As the streams of liquids closed in on him Gustav suddenly squatted slightly while running. His leg muscles bulged intensely before leaping upwards with as much strength as he could muster.
Thoom!
A small cloud of dust scattered across the surroundings from the point where he leapt upwards.
His body ascended to twelve meters in the air as his arms reverted to their normal state and he grabbed onto a thick branch of a tree with his palms.
He used the force generated from leaping upwards to spin backward while holding onto the branch with both his hands before swinging his entire body in the opposite direction.
Wooshh!
His body traveled across the air, towards the solar worms.
The silver liquids had missed him by traveling forward underneath his body that was flying across the air and since the solar worms just spat it out one moment ago they couldn’t use it at the moment.
In mid-air, he transformed his body into the mutated bull.
Bang!
His feet which were coated in white light landed directly on the upper body of a solar worm that was about two hundred feet away from the tree he just swung out from.
Puchi!
The upper body of the solar worm was pierced through by Gustav’s entire lower body.
He found himself inside the body of the worm after this had happened.
The internals of the solar worm stuck to his body like a piece of clothing.
He placed both hands on the body of the worm and pulled himself out of the hole he created with its body.
The body of the creature fell limply to the ground creating another massive pool of molten-like blood.
Thoom!
Gustav immediately jumped towards the side dodging another stream of liquid that slammed into the corpse of the solar worm he just killed.
The liquid pushed the solar worm’s body backward slamming it into a nearby tree.
Bang!
Gustav had already dashed out again after dodging this attack.
He didn’t transform his body back into that of the bloodwolf’s, he was still in mutated bull transformation mode.
He threw his fist towards the face area of the worm.
Bang!
The worm was sent flying and crashed into several other worms behind but no severe damage was done to them.
Gustav did this on purpose to throw more than one worm off balance so he wouldn’t be attacked by so many at a time.
He quickly transformed back to the initial form blood wolf form he took at the start of the battle and charged towards them again.
If he decided to keep using the mutated bull, it would take a while for him to deal with them since its only attribute was strength but strength wasn’t what was needed to deal with the worms since the thickness of their outer covering was high. This is why he had been using the bloodwolf’s form all this time.
Coupling it with atomic disintegration was the easiest way to penetrate their thick skin.
Swoooshhh! s***h!
Gustav arrived in front of one again and slashed out several times.
His claws tore the solar worm’s body into several pieces of meat causing weird shredding sounds to ring out in the air.
Gustav didn’t pause for a second, once he was done with hacking one into several pieces he would move to the next one and do the same.
Swoooshhh! s***h! s***h! Swoooshhh! s***h! s***h!
In a few minutes, only two solar worms were left in the surroundings.
Gustav’s body was covered with dry blood. He had gotten some of their blood on his body when killing them.
The hot blood tore open his body at that time but he was able to endure the pain and keep fighting them without backing down for even a second.
’Physical pain is nothing compared to what I faced for years,’ Gustav said internally as he darted towards the remaining two.
Even the solar worms hadn’t expected to encounter someone so crazy in their entire existence since other mixed-breeds were scared of messing with them due to the corrosion of their blood.
In a few seconds, Gustav shredded them to pieces.
"Huff! Huff! Huff! Huff!" Gustav breathed in and out profusely while transforming back into human form.
His bare chest expanded and reduced occasionally.
This was the first time he was in a fight against multiple mixed-breeds.
It really drained his energy to keep it up since he had only been facing one at a time in the past.
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