Wardogs

Chapter 53

Chapter 53

Zim’s rocky state was durable enough to withstand bullets and powerful collisions from cars so no one expected him to be easily beaten like that.

Even Echelon Academy participants had to result in using the force from the blasts of the landmine to throw him into the air before their captain, Andrew, kicked him out of the ring while in mid-air. They won due to strategy while not power but in this battle, he lost completely in terms of power.

There were still about three more participants in the battle ring who were in a good state.

They could still fight if they wanted to but they had been scared shitless when they saw the way Falco was beating Zim earlier.

They were afraid that he would transfer his aggression towards them since it was pretty obvious that Zim was receiving such brutal beatings because of what he did to Angy.

Gustav turned around to glare at the participants that were left. Immediately they saw the cold look they flinched back once again and ran out of the ring.

"Blackrock Schools Win!"

A loud announcement rang out after they all crossed the line.

Cheer! Cheer! Cheer!

Gustav walked out of the ring amidst the cheers of the crowd.

Most of the students weren’t pleased with Zim’s actions earlier when he brutalized Angy so they saw Falco’s action as a heroic deed especially students of Blackrock schools.

Gustav walked towards the Blackrock school’s seating area with elegance.

His eyes scanned the area where Angy was being treated. Elle, Arianna, and Lim were surrounding her. They had looks of relief on their face which made Gustav believe that Angy was going to be okay.

Gustav didn’t go to the seating area, he walked towards the path on the side that led out of the training field.

This path also led to the restroom. He didn’t bother answering the greetings of anyone including the call of the coach.

He didn’t want to risk anyone knowing that he wasn’t the original Falco so he quickly headed for the restroom.

"Looks like his alter ego is still in control," Blackrock coach felt that this was the case since Falco didn’t answer anyone’s call or react to the crowd cheers.

The normal Falco wouldn’t do that and this served as a perfect cover-up for Gustav.

"I will need principal Erhil’s help to bring Falco back," The coach started walking towards where the principals were seated.

When Gustav arrived in the restroom three notifications popped up in his line of sight.

[Hidden Quest Completed]

[Hidden Side Quest Completed]

[Emergency Quest Completed]

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Angy finally opened her eyes an hour after the match had ended.

She found herself lying on some kind of transparent stretcher around where Blackrock participants were seated.

"Gustav...?" This was the first word she mentioned upon waking up.

"Angy!!!!" The three girls beside her shouted out with joyful looks.

Elle grabbed he right hand, Arianna grabbed her left hand while Lim caressed her face.

Angy saw the faces of her friends and smiled. Her smile was so warm and beautiful that it made it look like she had forgotten about the incident that occurred with Zim.

"Are you okay?"

- Drilling Angy

- Drilling Angy

- Drilling Angy

"Do you still feel hurt anywhere?"

"Say the word and I’ll have that bastard killed!"

The three girls voiced out at the same time but Angy seemed to be looking around like she had lost something.

"Where’s Gustav?" She asked.

The three girls’ smile froze as they heard that.

Gustav had disappeared over thirty minutes ago and they hadn’t seen him since then.

"He le..." Elle was about to say when a voice was heard from the side.

"I’m here," A cool masculine voice was heard from behind.

The girls turned around and noticed Gustav walking towards them from the spectators’ area.

Gustav arrived before Angy and asked, "Are you okay?"

A sweeter and broader smile appeared on Angy’s face as she reached out to grab Gustav’s right hand.

The three girls remembered when Gustav told them to leave the situation to him before disappearing for over thirty minutes.

They had a feeling that he played an important role in what had happened with Zim and Falco.

’Maybe he helped in persuading Falco to join the battlefield,’ The girls had no idea that Falco was actually Gustav during that time so they linked his disappearance to that.

"Thank you," Angy said to Gustav with shimmering eyes.

"Hmm? Thanks for...?" Gustav asked with a confused expression.

"For taking me out of the battle ring..." Angy replied.

"Taking you out?" Gustav said in a confused manner.

Even the girls were also dumbfounded.

"Em, Angy that was the doing of Falco," Elle stated.

"No..." Angy said, "That wasn’t Falco..."

The girls stared at Angy with a look of confusion mixed in with bewilderment.

A part of them wanted to believe this when they remembered the way Gustav left the other time assuring them that it was going to be okay but when they remembered the rumors they heard about him being an F-grade, they felt performing such a feat would be impossible. The whole situation seemed suspicious since Falco’s alter ego wasn’t as powerful as what was displayed on the battlefield and also never took over without tattoos appearing all over his body.

Angy had also told them many times about how Gustav was strong enough to defeat mixed-breeds and surpass her in speed so right now they were confused about what to believe.

’Which abilities does Gustav bloodline grant him?’ This was a question no one knew the answer to, including Angy since Gustav had never used bloodline abilities in anyone’s presence.

They turned to look at Gustav to listen to what he was going to reply with.

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The event ended for the day later on. Blackrock school decided to sit out the finals even though they had the opportunity to battle Echelon Academy for the win.

Due to this Echelon Academy won first place while Blackrock school were second but they weren’t bothered about it.

Now that the event had ended, schools would be going back to their cities the next day.

News had already circulated about how Zim was unable to use his bloodline abilities since the fight ended.

Everyone laughed at him thinking he had been beaten to the extent that he didn’t remember how to activate his bloodline. They all felt it was a psychological situation and he would probably be able to use it after he got over his fears but they had no idea that he no longer has a bloodline.

The real Falco was found passed out in the restroom. When he woke up they asked him about the battle but he was unable to recall anything about what happened. He claimed he wasn’t responsible for the situation until video proofs were shown to him.

This made the coach of Blackrock believe that Falco was truly taken over by his alter ego which was why he couldn’t remember a thing but what bugged him was the absence of black tattoos all over his body and why the alter ego didn’t go on a rampage like it used to because the alter ego didn’t know friend from foe.

Even though there were suspicions, no one knew that Gustav was responsible for the whole situation. Even if they suspected him one would wonder how he would be able to defeat Falco who had a powerful alter ego that would awake when he was in danger.

Of course, when Angy and friends suspected Gustav, he denied having a hand in anything that happened earlier.

They had no way of confirming that he was involved neither was there any proof to justify Angy claims.

That night Angy spent a lot of time with Gustav in the arcade alone. She had already been given the best medical treatment so she was able to heal up before the day came to an end.

They had a short conversation about what happened today and Gustav warned Angy that if she carried on this way she would suffer a worse fate in the future.

He told her that if she was going to remain a nice person even on the battlefield, then becoming a fighter wasn’t for her.

This led to the conversation of what Angy truly wanted to do in the future. Her answer greatly surprised Gustav.

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"I want to join the MBO,"

"You what?"

"I want to join the MBO... Do you remember I mentioned wanting to save people? I can only do that by joining the MBO,"

"Angy, do you think this is a joke?"

"A joke? What do you mean?"

"You are too softhearted! Do you think you can kill enemies on the battlefield with kindness?"

"But... Being..."

"What happened today is just the start... If you ever joined MBO in the future with this same attitude and mindset, you won’t live long... You want to hit enemies’ kindness but do you think they’ll be merciful when returning your attack? Are you so naive as to believe the world out there will return the same kindness you’ve shown them? Do you really think enemies will get treat you any better because you showed them kindness? Get a clue... You can’t save anyone on the battlefield with kindness instead you’ll end up getting more people killed since you’re not ruthless enough,"

"So... What do I do?" Angy asked.

Gustav paused for a few seconds and stared into Angy’s eyes before answering.

"You need to learn the difference between friend and foe,"

"Hmm?"

"You need to learn how to not treat your foe like a friend,"

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It was supposed to be a date but Gustav used that night to drill these things into Angy.

Angy listened to everything Gustav said with a crestfallen expression. She knew everything Gustav said was correct but she couldn’t bring herself to truly cause harm to another person unless it was a beast but Gustav threatened her with something.

"If you don’t change, we will never be companions within the MBO camp... If you cannot learn how to be ruthless to your enemies, your companions will suffer the consequences,"

- Unlocking God Eyes

- Unlocking God Eyes

- Unlocking God Eyes

"Tell me, Angy, do you think anyone will want to be companions with a person that can cause their death?" Gustav asked.

"I... Well... I..." Angy stuttered repeatedly. There was no way anyone would want that and she knew.

"If you cannot change, people will die and you won’t be able to save anyone in the end,"

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Gustav went back to his room after his discussion with Angy.

Although their discussion made the atmosphere turn a bit sore Gustav didn’t regret telling Angy all that.

Right now he was interested in checking the rewards he received from completing three quests at a time.

Gustav sat on his bed and opened the notification bar in the system interface.

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[Hidden Quest Completed]

[Information: Defeat a participant]

»Rewards

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[Hidden Side Quest Completed]

[Information: Participate in the duel event]

»Rewards

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[Emergency Quest Completed]

[Information: Save Angy]

»Rewards

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Gustav stared at the three rewards that came from completing the quests.

He was satisfied with the rewards the system dished out.

"God eyes, hmm... looks interesting," The reward that really caught his eye was the new ability that was unlocked.

He decided to check out his skills and abilities in the system interface.

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{Skills and Abilities]

»Dash: Level

»Sprint: Level

»Regeneration: Level

»Shapeshifting: Level

»Joint movement: Level

»Toxin immunity: Level

»Recreation: Level

»Bloodline acquisition: Level

»Slash: Level

»Chop: Level

»Palm strike: Level

»God eyes: Level

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»God eyes: Level

(Abilities: Zoom eyesight, see clearly in dark places, and view a person life signs)

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Gustav was amazed seeing what the new ability could do.

He could zoom his eyesight now with this and also see in the dark. Although he could practically see in the dark without this ability when he was scanning everywhere with his perception, he still liked that this was a new ability.

The only ability of God eyes that he didn’t understand was the last one.

"Life signs? What are those? Signs of life?" Even though it sounded simple Gustav had a feeling that it wasn’t.

He had never heard anything about life signs before so he was clueless as to what it was supposed to be.

Gustav decided to try out the new ability since it did not require him to do anything absurd first.

[God eyes has been activated]

Gustav’s irises glowed a combination of scarlet and green upon activating God’s eyes.

’Woah,’ Gustav was amazed as an entirely new world appeared in his line of sight.

The room had turned into a world of different colors that depicted different things.

Inanimate objects around him were blue and they all had different number readings placed on them. Some glowed brighter than others and had more numbers while others were a bit dim compared to the rest with lesser numbers.

His eyes traveled towards the balcony where some flowers were planted and used to decorate the place.

In his line of sight, the plants were bright yellow in color. They could even be mistaken for gold. The plants also had numbers on them and also some weird micro symbols which Gustav couldn’t understand.

These micro symbols weren’t present on the walls and other inanimate things when he stared at them.

At this time there were more than two roommates here so Gustav decided to check them out with God’s eyes.

He was once again astonished when he saw that two of his roommates had different colors from that of the plants and the inanimate objects.

Their bodies were made of crimson, blue, and yellow glowing colors. Gustav could also see that these colors would occasionally brighten then get a little dimmer after that. Then he notices the micro symbols that were present on the plants were also present on them.

The difference was, it was only located on their foreheads. He still didn’t understand what they meant.

The one beside his bed had a ’°¶°’ on his forehead while the one on the other side had a, ’∆∆’. Gustav kept staring at these symbols trying to see if he could figure anything out about them.

[Mixedblood life sign °¶° has been successfully saved]

[Mixedblood life sign ∆∆ has been successfully saved]

Gustav stared at the system notifications with a look of confusion mixed with intrigue.

’So those are life signs,’ Gustav now understood a bit but this only brought him more questions, ’What are life signs and what are they used for?’ He wondered but no matter how much he tried to, he couldn’t come up with anything.

He also tried using it as a skill and called out to it repeatedly just to figure out its purpose but it was of no use.

After trying and failing to figure out anything, Gustav decided to try how far his sight could travel.

He stood up and walked over to the balcony.