In the past when things like a tough decision came up, Gary would have confined in Tom for advice. Since he was on his own, the teenager was wondering what his best choice would. Although there was no description on the skills, the skill names themselves gave him some information. Lethal Pounce had to be a type of movement skill. In the fight with Jayden, it might have allowed him to cover the distance between the two of them. It had been tricky getting through the wind attack, but in the end the Werewolf had managed to do it without the need for a skill. Of course, the skill could have some other effects, but there was no way to know that without choosing it.Then there was the Berserker Mode, which promised a lot more synergy with his current stats. From what Gary knew Berserkers were usually type that focused on their rage, gaining pure power in favor of defense. The more wounds they took, the more power they could exhibit, so in his case, the Werewolf assumed that less Health wou
The normal days at the academy were going quite slow for Gary. There wasn't much to do, and since he had already been offered to debut, the lessons felt somewhat pointless now. Sure it was interesting, but none of it was as interesting as what was happening in his life at the moment. After speaking to Jayden last night, Gary couldn't stop thinking about what the problems could be, and there was one thing he knew, what he had to do before, and always did, was to get stronger. GaryGrade: BishopClass: WarriorLevel 23[Health 250][Energy 300][Exp 8788/11564][Strength 36][Dexterity 26][Endurance 34](There was a mistake the last time his stats were shown)Which was why he couldn’t wait for Friday to come. Still, Gary got to enjoy his time with the others and Numba had done as he said he would, getting a private instructor to teach him, just like the debut students. Which meant that Numba was away from the others a lot more than he usually would have been. As time went on, the da
Tom had been working for NIRV just as long as Gary had been at the AFA. When the two of them had split up that day and left school, Tom had resumed his prior work as a special case. His grades were more than good enough and although he was younger than what they usually got, as the son of two of their prominent researchers, NIRV had agreed to make an exception and sign him up for their program that was aimed at students who had just graduated, offering him a nice career. Of course, as soon as Tom had heard that there were some NIRV employees that worked at AFA he did his best to be a part of it. He couldn't imagine the look on Gary’s face as he would appear in a white lab robe, and he was quite with the result today. In a way, their meeting showed that although they were both taking different paths there could still be chances for them to be involved in each other’s lives, they just needed to get out of the current rut they were in. ‘It's nice to see you again, and from what I learn
“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
Xin had already expended a lot of energy in her Altered form, and holding her breath during her combat had worn her out quite a bit. Her single wing sticking out from her back was still there, but the lightning power that sparked from it was dwindling.“Big guy, be careful; this one’s tough,” Xin commented.Austin stood strong, looking at Gil getting up on his feet. As he did, Gil’s body muscles were flexing in and out. The smoke that was lingering from his body was starting to grow as well.“I know. I hit him with a pretty big shot, and I know I’m not weak,” Austin replied.After just getting back out from the hospital and recovering, the first thing Austin didn’t expect was that he was going to have to get into a fight, but from a single look, he could tell this person was strong.Not wasting any time, he had jumped out of the window and knew what he needed to do.“You're a bigger hitter than me, so I’m going to have to support you!” Xin said.As soon as she finished her sentence, G
With Xin being who she was, she had faced many different types of Altered, but going up against Gil was the most unique one yet. For one, he was a rare Mythical type. These had great power and a chance of great elemental ability as well.Not only that, but she had seen something somewhat unique to an Altered which she hadn’t seen before. The fact that Gil was able to transform his body, and in doing so, it affected his powers.Being large in size, he was strong and durable, while being smaller in size he had incredible speed. It was because of these transformations that Xin had felt like she had already seen it all.They had been fighting for a while now, so he had to have used either his partial or full transformation. There was nothing left for him to show, with no surprises, it was time for her to finish off the fight herself.The one wing that extended out from her back, the same size as a hand, was covered in yellow sparks that continually went off. They were condensed in size, g
Sparks from Xin’s Altered form couldn't stop flying off from her body. The strange hardened feathers constantly were shooting off small bolts of energy from one to the other. Even just standing still, her elemental power was activating.“You think things are going to change just because your appearance is now a little different!” Gil shouted as he lifted both of his hands up, locking them together. He was in his large form, having shifted from the smaller one.Doing so allowed him to pick up more strength than he usually would. The attack was going to be a big one. Gil’s hands smashed against the ground, and the whole building started to shake again.The people from above fell from their seats. Shelves tumbled down from the vibration, and it looked like the building was warping from within itself. However, the shaking had eventually stopped.With it stopping, the people on the second floor could see that they were now okay, and it was the same for Amy and White, who were close to the
The message sent out by Kai was heard loud and clear by everyone in the Howlers, and some of them took it to heart. Instead of trying to win their fights, they now were trying to last as long as possible.Raven had transformed his body; large heads had appeared and were in the air. Numba had been picked up by one of the Hydra Altered’s heads, its teeth biting down on his stomach and flinging him to the side until he hit a wall.“This Altered’s strength is crazy; does he have the same strength in each head?” Numba thought as he tried to get back up.Charging in were both Marie and Olivia at the same time. They struck from two sides, trying to hit the heads, but weren’t fully committing. They were carefully waiting for a strike and moved from side to side.Marie had avoided attacks from one of the Hydra’s long winding heads, while Olivia, as she jumped back, swung her hands and used her whip. It was effective in hitting the Hydra, but she didn’t dare try to wrap it around its head due t
There were a lot of decisions to make with the new stats and pawn points that Gary had managed to achieve, and it was best if he used them now because at any moment, he felt like something was coming.The fight against Ice was far tougher than the fight against the North and the South leader, but all of this was for more to come.‘First, I will allocate the stat points,’ Gary thought as he tapped his system, giving himself a few points in two areas.The first was his endurance.[Endurance 88 >>> 90]‘The strength difference at every ten is increased, but as the numbers get higher, the difference isn’t felt as much. Either way, as I’m fighting tougher enemies like that of Ice, Endurance seems to be a big factor in getting hurt less.’[Dexterity 82 >>> 85]‘With that, rather than being able to hit harder, I need to be able to hit more and get my attacks in, so I’ll increase my dexterity.’As for the pawn points, Gary then went ahead and used two of them on his health. Each pawn point at
---The final plan that Carter had, to try and turn those who had allied up against each other, had failed. Carter already knew about Ice’s past; there wasn’t much he could do with that.He was one of the few prisoners who knew what they had done. Through the extent of his own powers in a clash, he had killed those around him that had no involvement. He wanted to stay in the prison, but he suddenly had a change of heart.Then, there was Blackjack, the first man Carter was unable to get any information about, so he only had Gary, and now even that hadn’t worked.“What were you going to do?” Gary asked as he moved forward. “I bet if I was in here, and the Phoenix Gang wasn’t already targeting me, you would threaten my friends, my family, that are on the outside.”“You are a cruel person in this place; those that are already trapped, you force them to do your bidding by trapping them even more in this place. I can safely say that you are a person that I don’t mind getting rid of.”Gary n
---In the center of the prison, many had backed away from Ice standing in the middle. He felt like an unstoppable giant. No matter what attacks landed on him, they barely left a mark; if they did, it was almost as if it didn't affect him at all.His giant club was hitting the physical-type Altereds and overpowering them with his strength. Even those that were fast and could get closer were affected by his strong ice powers.He could block attacks with his ice, freeze those who came close to him, and create a number of unique attacks of his own. When a group of prisoners approached him, he slammed his foot on the ground. Ice grew from the floor in several sharp spikes, piercing those who took a step too far."What are we meant to do, Stinger? This guy is too strong!" one of the prisoners exclaimed.They looked around, waiting for an answer, but the prisoners themselves were struggling to even see Stinger. That was because he had hidden himself among the crowd of prisoners, waiting for
Blackjack was on the move to the North side. He was quickly going past the Altereds that were trying to attack him, ducking and weaving through them all at a fast speed. At one point, he leaned back, and one of the prisoners accidentally attacked another.‘It’s a good lucky day today, I knew it would all go well today.’ Blackjack smiled as he progressed further and deeper inside. As he finally got near the end, he threw out the last of his cards.They came out sharp, hitting four of his opponents on the head, causing them to fall to the floor, and that’s when he could see Calvin sitting on the floor, healing one of the prisoners.“Calvin, it has been a while, right?” Blackjack asked. “I’m surprised to see that you teamed up with the South Group. After going against them for so long, it resorted to this.” “I had invited you several times to join my side,” Calvin stated. “I had even healed your body after the fight with the Warden, and yet you still refused. So what else was I supposed
The fight continued with all three of them continuing to fight against the Altereds coming their way. Although most of them were relatively easy to deal with, there were a few tough ones.Those that knew how to fight either waited for the right time to strike and got a good hit in or were harder than just a single hit or two to take out. When this was the case, Gary would use one of his skills.He would use his Lethal Pounce, Claw Drain, and even once in a while, he even used his Claw Strike to attack them from surprise. When this was used, it seemed like next to no one could stop it.Blackjack had been keeping an eye on things that were happening around him, and when this happened, he would focus on just avoiding blows that he was able to do with ease.‘Is he conserving his strength?’ Blackjack thought. ‘That’s surprising. I don’t see many Werewolves fight like that. Is it because he’s worried about when he has to go up against the Warden? No, that can’t be it.’With a keener eye, Bl