Wardogs

Chapter 43

Chapter 43

A loud beep resounded in the hall after Atrihea city high school finished explaining the question they had just asked.

The principal of Atrihea city high school walked to the podium and announced a time-out.

"The first half of today’s exchange of knowledge has come to an end... There will be a one-hour break for students to go get a breath of fresh air," The principal had a smile on his face as he spoke.

"You’re free to move around the environs. There will be no form of restriction, enjoy your stay," The principal left the podium after concluding with this.

Chatter! Chatter! Chatter!

The students started leaving the hall in groups.

Talks about the first half of the event escaped their lips as they walked out.

Everyone was still astonished about how Atrihea city high school dominated the top spot on the ranking and it was mostly thanks to Holland.

Holland had answered questions so well that the screen above mostly glowed purple which signaled that his explanation was excellent.

The other competitors could also come up with questions that no one would be able to answer but they had to consider the difficulty level. If it was above the high school level, it will be automatically canceled.

Also if they decided to ask a question that would be extremely difficult to answer and everyone got it wrong, they would have to give and explain the answer to that question.

The thought of asking questions that they didn’t know the answer to died down because of that. No one was willing to embarrass themselves by asking a difficult question that no one would be able to answer and end up being unable to answer it also.

The students mostly talked about how Holland was amazing.

Echelon Academy students were cursing Gustav internally and externally. They wondered why he didn’t answer a single question throughout the first half.

Gustav didn’t even mind the stares of his classmates. He put his hands in his pockets and walked out of the hall.

It wasn’t like this was the first time he was receiving such stares. When he was hailed as trash with a low-grade bloodline he received such stares. Now that he was living up to their expectations of truly being trash, they still stared at him like that.

"Gustav!"

When he got out of the hall he heard a voice call out his name.

He immediately recognized it to be principal Erwin’s voice.

Gustav turned around to see principal Erwin and some of his school teachers also coming out of the hall.

The other students headed out gave Gustav a glance before continuing on their travels.

They remembered that he didn’t answer a single question while being up there and wondered why the school would pick such a useless person.

"Come with us please," Principal Erwin politely requested.

Gustav raised an eyebrow with a look of suspicion before walking towards them.

They headed towards a particular part of the hall and sat on some of the chairs there.

"Why didn’t you answer any questions, Gustav?" Principal Erwin asked immediately after they took their seats.

"Why should I?" Gustav answered with a question of his own while shrugging.

Principal; "..."

Vice-principal; "..."

Teachers; "..."

They were rendered speechless by his non-challant answer.

"Is something the matter?" Gustav asked with a look of confusion after seeing their looks.

"Gustav, you know this is an event and you’re participating, so you should know that you’re meant to support," Principal Erwin said with a look of frustration.

"You asked me to participate which I did... I don’t remember you mentioning anything about answering questions. Being on that stage already means I’m participating," Gustav replied.

"What?" The principal and the teachers voiced out in surprise.

"You... You must be joking... You should know that..." Before principal Erwin could complete his statement Gustav interrupted him.

"You already made the deal with her didn’t you?" He said while staring at the principal, "Did you mention the part where I had to answer questions?"

The principal’s eyes widened slightly in realization.

"You only mentioned that you needed me to participate and I am doing that... I don’t have to answer any questions for that," Gustav smiled with a mischievous look and stood up.

The principal’s face squeezed up as he stared at Gustav leaving. His face looked like it had aged a few more years.

The reputation of Echelon Academy school would take a huge dip if the exchange of knowledge ended this way which could result in him getting fired.

The school had always been lax when it came to the affairs of mixed-bloods in the school which was why falling grades of subjects like mathematics and English didn’t affect them.

This was practically why all of them didn’t bother studying these subjects enough.

The ones who did were Slarkovs and human students who he didn’t bring along for this exchange event.

It was impossible to ask for those students to be brought here right now which was why they could only ask from Gustav.

"Wait," Principal Erwin called out to Gustav again.

- Leave It To Me

- Leave It To Me

- Leave It To Me

Gustav paused in his tracks and turned around to stare at Principal Erwin.

"Why are you doing this? Echelon Academy is also your school... Do you wish for it to go under?" Principal Erwin asked with a conflicted stare.

"Haha, That’s the funniest question I’ve ever heard... Principal Erwin must be a comedian, do you really think I care about this school?" Gustav laughed lightly while asking.

’The school can be burned down for all I care,’

It shouldn’t be new to everyone that he hated the school after everything they had put him through yet Principal Erwin was asking like he wasn’t aware of any of that.

"Please Gustav you can’t let the reputation of the school sink," One of the teachers begged.

The other teachers also had a pleading look on their faces.

"The school will be grateful," the vice-principal added.

Gustav chuckled and turned around, "I don’t care if you all lose your jobs... After all, you never did a thing when I was being bullied by your beloved students,"

He started walking away once again.

[Hidden Quest Completed]

[A new random quest has been issued]

Gustav paused after walking several feet away after seeing the notifications.

’Hmm? Completing a hidden quest and receiving a random quest at the same time,’

Gustav checked out the information under both notifications and a grin appeared on his face.

’Had a feeling it would be something like this,’ Gustav turned around and started heading back towards the principal and the teachers.

Their moppy looks changed into hopeful ones after seeing Gustav approaching them.

"Principal Erwin remember making a deal with miss Aimee?" Gustav asked.

Principal Erwin nodded slightly with a knowing look.

"Good now, you’re gonna have a separate deal with me if you truly want me to participate," Gustav said and proceeded to sit while crossing his leg

The Principal had the rest of the staff had looks of confusion upon hearing that.

"Not just you but all the rest of the teacher too... All of you are involved," Gustav smiled while speaking.

-

Just like that one hour had gone by again and it was time for the exchange of knowledge to resume.

The hall was crowded once again.

The participants from each school walked towards the stage again, Gustav included.

After his discussion with the teachers ended earlier, he walked around the school and visited a few places in the environment.

One of them was their library

He was fond of Atrihea’s high school library for a few reasons. One of them was there weren’t any restricted sessions in the libraries, unlike Echelon Academy.

One thing he noticed during that short period of observation was their library mostly had historical information about their city but when it came to historical information about the world as a whole, Echelon Academy had more detailed books.

Cheers! Cheers! Cheers!

The crowd was still cheering for Atrihea city high school participants.

They got to the stage and took their seats.

Gustav also took his seat in his initial sitting position.

The principal of Atrihea city high walked towards the stage once again and said a few words before giving them the go-ahead for the resumption of the event.

As expected the first school that would be asking a question again was Cheryl High.

"From now on, leave it to me!" Gustav said with a confident expression while staring at Maltida and Draco.

Both of them stared back at him with a confused expression.

They were about to ask what he meant when the female student from Cheryl starting voicing out her question.

"Cancer used to be a very dangerous disease to humans back in the old days, explain how they came into existence and how they were cured?" The female student stated and took her seat when she was done. She had a pretty confident look on her face.

It was obvious that she had used that one hour to prepare herself.

They waited for about three seconds before the screen above lit up with a green mark that symbolized the question wasn’t above high school level difficulty.

Beep!

Immediately the green light appeared a student had tapped the red light on the panel in front of them.

Everyone felt it must have been the genius Holland again since this was the fastest speed anyone used in tapping the red display button for answering questions.

To everyone’s surprise, the screen displayed Gustav’s appearance and his name.

-"Isn’t he the same guy that didn’t bother trying to answer a single question during the first half?"

-"I can tell that his answer is gonna be full of rubbish,"

The crowd of students didn’t believe that someone who didn’t answer a single question earlier would be able to answer any right now.

Only the students of Echelon Academy actually had looks of bewilderment.

’Is finally going to be serious?’ Matilda wondered while staring at Gustav who was now in a standing position.

Gustav walked to the middle of the stage and stared at the crowd with a non-challant expression before he started speaking.

"Cancer didn’t need to come into existence... It was already in humans since the day of their birth. The reason why it went I noticed was because it was always asleep... Practically dead until a force triggered it," Gustav paused for a while before continuing.

"Once it was triggered by this force that is when it awakens in the human body and became discoverable through Scientific experiments... Different kinds of things can trigger cancer it just varies from person to person... It may be an intense workout, frequent usage of dirty outfits, unknown consumption of chemicals and so many others," Gustav was practically like a teacher as he explained.

He moved to the front of Cheryl high students and placed his left arm in his pocket before continuing his explanation.

"The cancer cure wasn’t later needed since humans achieved partial evolution causing their internal body structure to slightly change... This caused cancer to totally disappear from the human race in the year ! No cure was created in the first place since humans didn’t have the capacity to pull that off, their salvation came from the partial evolution," Gustav concluded with this.

- Intimidating Contender

- Intimidating Contender

- Intimidating Contender

The students of Cheryl high had their eyes slightly widened.

’How does he know about this?’

They thought that no one would be able to answer this question since it had to do with both history and biology.

The only person that they felt wary about was Holland and they believed that even he wouldn’t be able to answer such a question related to biology dated back by that long.

Beep!

Another loud beeping reverberated across the hall.

-"He got it wrong!"

-"As expected of someone who didn’t answer a single question in the first half,"

The beeping sounded like Gustav got the question wrong but immediately they noticed that was on the screen their eyes widened.

-"Perfect graded explanation?"

On the screen, Gustav’s answer to the question was graded as perfect.

Chatter! Chatter! Chatter!

-"How is this possible?"

-"He explained the answer perfectly?"

The students were in shock except for the Echelon Academy students.

The students of Cheryl high school didn’t doubt the perfect graded answer since their explanation wasn’t as detailed as that. They knew that if everyone failed to get the right answer and they gave the answer themselves, it wouldn’t have been as explanatory as that.

Gustav had taken his seat at this point.

It was time for the next school to ask their question.

Gustav had already grabbed everyone’s attention so they all watched with looks of interest. They wanted to know if what he pulled off earlier was just dumb luck.

The next school which was eagle wings high took the stage.

One of their female participants with dark gold hair stood in the middle of the stage and voiced out her question.

"My question will be based on the anatomy of mixed-breeds," The female student said before proceeding to ask her question.

"Mixed-breeds also have bloodlines yet they’re in form of beasts, what differences are there between a mixed-breed bloodline and a mixed-blood bloodline,"

After asking the question the screen graded it to be okay for answering.

Beep!

Immediately after it was graded finished the answer display button had been tapped again.

According to the display screen up, two students’ fingers could be seen on the display panel in front of them.

They were Holland and Gustav. They tapped before any one of the students could.

They had tapped so fast that no one knew who tapped first.

Everyone stared intensely at the stage waiting for the screen to display who touched the answer button first.

-"Holland definitely tapped it first!"

-"Haha, there’s no way he tapped before Holland!"

Everyone believed Holland tapped before Gustav.

All of a sudden Gustav stood up and walked to the middle of the stage.

The students of Atrihea city high school were surprised to see Gustav stand up.

-"What’s he doing?

-"The person who tapped it first hasn’t been displayed, why is he walking up to the stage?"

-"What a cocky dumbass, I’m sure Holland will be displayed as the first person to... Eh..?"

Everyone stared at the screen in surprise which displayed that Gustav was the first to tap the answer button.

They were speechless at the current development.

"There are several differences between the bloodline of mixed-breeds and mixed-bloods," Gustav started explaining as he placed his left hand in his pocket and used his right hand to demonstrate.