Wardogs

Chapter 47

Chapter 47

When it came to direct battle, he knew he’d probably not be her match since he was still inexperienced when playing the game unlike her so he decided to lead her around.

She knew he was leading her around but she had no idea why or what reason he would have for shooting at different places in the open space like he didn’t know how to aim properly since none of the shots he fired made contact or came close to making contact with her spacecraft.

Also, he used the most powerful shots the spacecraft could offer which would consume power and fuel crazily.

Although she was experienced in playing the game, she didn’t really have knowledge about space but Gustav was very knowledgeable when it came to a lot of things, and space was included.

The cannons of spacecraft in this age had been built to be very powerful that it was possible for consecutive blasts to destroy an entire star.

There was another thing that those consecutive blasts could do, which was to cause space to collapse against itself and create a black hole.

Gustav studied the patterns of space and knew exactly where to fire to easily cause space around a particular part to collapse.

Spacecrafts of this age could escape wormholes and blackholes but when they appeared in multiples, they wouldn’t be able to escape in one piece or they might not be able to escape at all.

Generally, black holes were more powerful than wormholes so when fifty black holes appeared around Lim’s spacecraft she didn’t know how to proceed.

Her spacecraft was caught in between the blackholes while Gustav had navigated his spacecraft away from the AOC.

Her spacecraft was torn apart by the multiple blackholes and Gustav won.

"Your knowledge led to my defeat," Lim couldn’t really understand everything about the way Gustav won but she knew it was attributed to his intelligence and knowledge.

(Author’s note: Some readers will wonder how that has got to do with intelligence so I’ll explain in the author’s note below. I put this here because a lot of you don’t read the author’s note below and end up missing explanations sometimes)

"Let’s go again," Lim stated with a decisive look.

"Are you gonna offer something else if you lose again?" Gustav asked with a smirk.

Lim’s eyes widened in realization, "I lost to you just now which means... He gets to date me," She said voiced out.

Everyone’s eyes widened upon hearing this.

"Da-te?" Angy voiced out with a look of indignation.

"Lim... You..." Angy pointed at Lim with a look of speechlessness.

"Haha, calm down I don’t have plans of dating you or anyone else for that matter... I’ll just ask for something else instead," Gustav said to clear up the weird atmosphere.

Upon hearing that the tension in the atmosphere reduced just as Gustav expected but Lim couldn’t understand why she suddenly felt down when Gustav said he didn’t have plans of dating her.

’Such blatant rejection... When did I lose my charm?’ She sighed internally.

If anyone who knew Lim was to find out that Gustav had rejected her, they would think he was kicked in the head by a donkey.

Lim was well known to be the number one beauty who came from a family that owned a fashion company.

She only attended black rock school because it was owned by her great maternal grandmother.

Every guy wanted to date her and Gustav just threw that chance away.

"Let’s go again... If I win your previous win will be canceled," Lim said with a look of unwillingness.

"What happens if you lose?" Gustav asked.

"Well if I lose you can make a request and I will grant it," Lim stated with a fierce look however she still added, "but I won’t lose,"

"Alright then let’s have another round," Gustav chuckled softly after replying.

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-Three minutes later

"PLAYER GUSTAV WINS!"

This was displayed on the large screen above.

Lim grounded her teeth in frustration after removing the helmet, "Let’s go again!" She voiced out.

-Two minutes later

"PLAYER GUSTAV WINS!"

Once again Gustav won and Lim demanded a rematch.

This went on till after they had rematched more than ten times.

The girls noticed that whenever Gustav defeated her, he would spend a shorter time to defeat her the next time they had a rematch. The next time would always be shorter than the last and he defeated her within thirty seconds in their last rematch.

They had lost count of how many times they opened their mouths in disbelief.

Lim who couldn’t be defeated by any of their peers was getting trashed by Gustav quite easily.

After losing once again Lim finally lost any hope of defeating Gustav.

She noticed that with every round Gustav would get better and better.

It was as if he was using their battles to improve even further.

Her thought was correct. Gustav was using their battles to improve himself on aerial warfare.

Although the kind of spacecrafts they were using to battle in the VR was a smaller version of an original spacecraft and only needed a single person to pilot it, there were still a lot of similarities between both.

Learning how to pilot a spacecraft within this VR was very possible most especially because of the fact that it fully immersed the players into the game like they were in an original spacecraft.

"Lim, do you wanna go again?" Gustav asked after removing his helmet.

Lim stared at him for a few seconds before turning to look in another direction "What’s the point? You’ve broken my confidence..." She sighed with a look of defeat

- Duel Commencement

- Duel Commencement

- Duel Commencement

"I don’t mind being yours now since you’ve totally dominated me," Lim said with her face becoming red.

"Lim... you what are you saying?" Angy said while staring at Lim.

"He defeated me severally Angy, he has gained the right to not only go on a date with me but have me," Lim said with her face turning red.

"How can you just decide to let him have you like that?" Angy pointed at Lim with a wolf-like fierce face as she spoke.

"It was a challenge and he won... He deserves his reward," Lim said replied.

"No he definitely doesn’t want a reward," Angy said with an unwilling look.

Arianna and Elle watched from the side with a look of confusion wondering how things suddenly became heated.

"I do want a reward," Gustav finally spoke.

Every one of them turned to stare at Gustav after hearing that.

"A reward? Then you want her?" Angy asked with a crestfallen look.

"Don’t misunderstand... I mentioned earlier that I would ask for something else," Gustav said.

Angy sighed in relief after hearing that but she still wanted to know what Gustav wanted.

"You lost to me fifteen times so you will have to grant fifteen of my requests," Gustav announced.

"Fifteen?" The girls were surprised but what they heard next surprised them even more.

"I accept," Lim stated.

’She accepted just like that?’ They expected her to still show unwillingness or make sure Gustav reduced the number of requests but to their surprise, she accepted just like that.

"But don’t go overboard with your requests," Lim added.

Gustav stared at her for a brief while before replying, "Overboard eh? I guess we shall see,"

"By the way what would you like to request for?" She asked.

"Nothing comes to mind for now... I’ll ask when I think of something," Gustav replied.

With this, the tension in the atmosphere disappeared completely.

Angy was still staring at Lim with a suspicious expression while Lim was staring at Gustav with a contemplative expression.

"How are you so good?" Lim finally decided to ask Gustav what was on her mind.

-

It wasn’t till around ten in the night before everyone returned to their rooms.

The evening had been very interesting and Gustav played a few more games with the rest of the girls.

He got to know them better through this.

Angy kept dragging him from place to place and he noticed that she wouldn’t let him complete a conversation with Lim before interrupting.

Nevertheless, he was able to figure out the background of the girls.

Elle who was the most mature girl in terms of thought and looks was the daughter of a famous international movie director.

Arianna the playful one was from a well-off family of martial artists.

Lim as mentioned earlier was from a very prestigious family and she happened to be the fiercest out of the three.

Angy was the only one whose family background didn’t really fit into this group yet the four of them were best of friends.

They never cared about family background, they always cared for and protected one other.

Gustav now understood why Angy wasn’t tainted like he was. He now understood why she was able to remain innocent and caring.

It was all attributed to her group of friends who always watched her back.

It would be impossible for anyone to bully her and go scot-free since she had friends that she could count on.

He wondered if he would have also remained caring if he had friends that would stand up for him and have his back as they had hers.

On one hand, he was a little conflicted while on the other he was glad that he became like this because he felt Angy was just too naive.

There was no way such friends would be there to protect her every time.

Gustav worried that if she remained this way and ended up getting broken by the world she might end up being worse than he is right now.

He felt she’d probably turn completely dark and heartless because anyone who was extremely good, nice, and caring had the potential to be extremely evil, vicious, and inhumane.

Although it bothered him, Gustav felt this was unlikely to happen if Angy decided to live a casual life.

Gustav decided not to sweat it and went to sleep after arriving in his room.

-

The next morning, everyone had woken up at the appropriate time and done all their necessary morning routines.

Today was the third day of the exchange event.

The students were taken to Atrihea city high school again for the duel.

When they arrived there, as expected, they were taken to the third training ground in the school.

The training ground was like a stadium with spectators seats and the battleground was in the middle.

The difference between the training ground and a stadium was, it was at least seven times bigger.

It was constructed this big so residual attacks from mixed-bloods won’t make contact with the audience by mistake.

The students participating were called out to the battleground a few minutes after everyone arrived.

The duel would be in teams. A team consisting of seven students representing each school.

There were some rectangular glowing outlines on the battleground.

The rectangular glowing outlines on the battleground were spaced several hundred feet away from one another and there were up to six of them.

According to the rules, two schools would battle with their teams inside one of the rectangular outlines each

Seven students from a school against seven others inside the rectangular outline.

A person would be disqualified if they were thrown out of the rectangle.

The students were laced in tight bodysuits of different colors.

The seven students of Echelon Academy were laced in red bodysuits which depicted which team they belonged to.

Every school participant had theirs.

The principal started announcing the schools that would be going against one another.

Every school would be dueling with another at the same time.

That was the reason for having several rectangular rings so every school would have their match at the same time.

"Atrihea city high school vs Cheryl high school! Both their participants should head to ring C, your duel will be taking place there," Principal Durk announced.

"Black Rock schools vs Rose High, head for ring D!" Principal Durk kept announcing.

"Echelon Academy vs Redemption high!"

- Captain Vs Captain

- Captain Vs Captain

- Captain Vs Captain

"Echelon Academy vs Redemption high!" Principal Durk announced, "All participants should please move to Ring-A,"

When Principal Durk mentioned Echelon Academy the entire training ground became noisier.

Everyone remembered the way Gustav dominated the exchange of knowledge yesterday and hoped there wouldn’t be someone who would dominate the dueling session like that.

They weren’t really bothered since the exchange of knowledge was way different from using their bloodlines to exchange blows and wasn’t based on knowledge instead was based on strength however they were still on the lookout for the way Echelon Academy was going to perform today.

This was all due to Gustav placing a lot of value on Echelon’s academy’s head due to yesterday’s win.

"Ascension academy vs eagle wings High! Participants should please move to Ring-F," Principal Durk announced once again.

It took around one more minute before he finished announcing the rest of the schools and their opponents.

At this moment all the battle rings were filled by the participants.

Ring-A was at the southwest corner of the training ground.

This was where Echelon Academy and Redemption high were facing off.

The seven participants stood opposite one another. Red bodysuits on the left and yellow bodysuits on the right.

Principal Durk started announcing the rules and according to them, injuries were allowed.

Participants could be disqualified by being sent out of the ring or passing out from an injury.

There were teachers in charge of healing severe injuries on standby.

Also if a teacher deemed an attack too powerful and felt it could cause irrevocable harm or instant death, they could step in to stop the attack from making contact with the participant.

If they did that, the participant who the attack was meant for, would be disqualified but they would only step in if they were certain that the participant couldn’t block or survive the attack.

Of course, attacking a participant in a bid to kill or cause more injuries after the said participant had passed out, would bring about disqualification.

All participants had gotten to the Zulu rank so no one could really predict how the duel would turn out since no mixed-blood was lower than that in rank.

After announcing the rules completely the principal left the moderation of the battle to the defense teachers in the school.

The participants had taken a battle stance after using the battle formation they were trained with to position themselves properly for effective batling.

Once the go-ahead was given for the battle to start, the participants dashed out with vigor towards their opponents.

Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam!

Sounds of collisions rang out in the air as the participants clashed with one another.

Different kinds of attacks were sent out making the entire training ground chaotic.

Cheers! Cheers! Cheers! Cheers!

-"Go Tom defeat that urchin!"

-"Goddess Asiiri!"

-"Yes Uraraka give him the whip!"