“Tom, where did you get something like this?! Are you sure it’s alright to give this to me?” Gary had to ask, because he still couldn’t believe that the System had such a reaction to this thing.“It's pretty cool, right?” Tom smirked. “You better accept it, because it wasn’t easy getting it out. I pretty much swiped it from work. Don't worry, I wasn’t stupid enough to do it in one go and it’s also nothing too precious, at least for NIRV’s standard. In fact, they won’t even miss it. It was one of those things they found when digging for fossils, but after a few rounds of experiments there was no link to any ancient beasts.“Well, it has a wolf on it, so according to the notes, the researcher assumed that it was just a piece of art depicting what could have been a beast. Since it was gathering dust in the archives I thought it might be better off with you rather than getting auctioned off to some museum at some point. Anyway, I thought it would be a nice gift for you, to remember me, yo
There was a fine line between nervous and excited and, as Gary stood there in the white room, he didn’t know how he felt. A way to grow stronger, what type of beast would come out this time. Yet at the same time, he knew how dangerous this was, these creatures were trying to outright kill them, and there was the warning from Tom. Before the assessment was to start, Gary looked up where the glass screen was being seen. Now he knew the type of people that were keeping an eye on him. “Hey Gary.” Wu said, as he was already punching the air warming up. “You know we have to impress the people as well to stay in the lessons, you heard them right. So give me and Snow a chance.”“Give us a chance, what are you talking about?” Snow angrily complained.Wu never acted like this before, even after the last assessment. Yes, he knew Gary was good, but the way they were talking to him made it sound like he was on another level. Of course, this was Wu’s evaluation after seeing him take on the debut
The large centipede-like beast continued to move, and unlike with the last beast, Wu wasn’t pulling any of his punches. He was using the full strength of his current Altered form as he was stopping all of the power in the pincers from crushing him. It was a struggle that was going on for a while, but eventually they had reached the end of the wall, and the centipede, with no fear of hurting its own body, crashed into the wall, pushing Wu right up against it. The body weight, speed, and strength of the beast made it a powerful blow, but if there was one thing that Wu was proud of, other than his strength, it was his body. Having not passed out, Wu was still fighting against the pincers crushing in on him, and he was noticing that his hands were starting to bleed as well. ‘With the strength and size of these things, one snap of these, and I’ll be dead, not just me but any Altered. Isn’t this too much of a step up from the last beast that we fought?’ Wu thought. In the air he could s
The newly acquired Lethal Pounce was quite strong for a few reasons Gary realised. For one, it was the fact that the skill boosted his speed and it seemed to scale with his actual Dexterity. As long as that stat continued to increase then so would the skill as well, since it gave him a 50% boost. The only sad part was that the boost was purely limited to the execution of the skill itself. Nonetheless it was impressive. A speed increase, coupled with his strength caused, resulted in a devastating attack as the others had just witnessedSo far, the Werewolf had been focusing on his Endurance, Energy and Health, making sure that he would become more and more of unkillable monster. However, his fight against Jayden had taught him an important lesson that stats alone wouldn’t help him against certain kinds of opponents. Skills were needed to make up the difference, and Lethal Pounce was a great start. If there was one downside the skill, it would be the relatively large Energy consumptio
A few days had passed since Harry Cardenez had visited Notsburg in the hopes of striking a deal. Just like he had said in the meeting, there was more than one Tier-2 city that they could do business with, and so he had spent these last few days in an attempt to set up another meeting. Just as he was sifting through the reports of the Tier-2 gangs in those areas to avoid another such situation, frenetic knocks came from behind his doors. Bursting into his office was one of Harry’s newest assistants, a promising young man whose clothes were drenched. “Sir, we’ve just been informed that one of our factories is under attack! It looks like it's coming from one of the gangs.” Harry didn’t even look up, rather he huffed out a loud air as if it was bothersome. “This does happen once in a while. The gangs in the city forget who exactly took over this place just because we don’t push and shove our name everywhere. Just notify the Freaks to deal with them, and tell them to leave behind some m
The next day had arrived and it was now morning. However, Numba didn’t get much sleep, after the call ended with his father he sent him multiple messages updating him on the situation, after that Numba had one more call in the morning. For the first time since he had been adopted by the family, he had heard his strong and unmovable father break down and started to cry over the phone. Hearing this, it tore Numba’s own heart. Why wasn’t he born a few years earlier, maybe then he would be part of the business already, helping them sort out this mess. In fact, it was then that Numba even offered to come back. He was a lot stronger than before, and being part of the AFA already meant that he was a lot better than other Altereds out there.“No!” Harry shouted back. “I… haven't given up yet, but you being here will make no difference. In fact, I’m more worried that you might get involved in all of this because I was the one that brought you in. You have always been a great son, and it’s on
Following behind the teacher, Gary had no clue what this was about, and it didn’t look like Eddie was going to say anything to him either. Without turning around, he was walking along routes, passing by areas of the academy the teenager had never seen before while whistling along with a giant grin on his face.Eventually, after they had past some fields, the duo headed for a large rectangle building. Once the teacher was the inside, Gary started to have an idea of what this place was. There was high tech training equipment inside, similar to what they used in the academy, but for it to be tucked away, as well as all the equipment being the latest models inside, he had an inkling as to what this was. Besides the fact that there was one person in the room still, pretty much gave it away. “Shingi, how many times have we been over this?” Eddie asked in an annoyed tone. “Resting is an equally important part of your training period!” The adult could only let out a frustrated sigh, since
Shingi and Eddie waved Xin and Gary off, giving the two ‘lovebirds’ the rest of the afternoon to do whatever they wanted. The only problem was that neither one of them really knew what they were supposed to do due to the lack of their dating experience and neither one having been told about this date beforehand. It didn’t help that the AFA students had to apply for leave beforehand, so they were unable to do anything exciting outside the academy.As the two of them were thinking about what they should do together, each one was just following the other in silence, resulting in the two of them heading straight towards the large field. It was more or less a track field that had multiple pieces of equipment for the debut students to train outside. It wasn’t utilised a lot because most of the students in the AFA were aiming for the AFC, making them prefer practising indoors, specifically in the cages where real fights would occur. “I’m sorry.” Xin eventually broke the silence that was sta