8 Forest (Part 1)
After a month of rotating that was like a normal thing for them, they were already used to don't eat one of the meals at some point in time and due to that they achieved a new level of brotherhood, they were prepared to sacrifice themselves for another brother or sister. While analyzing the results Dr. Catherine Halsey was speaking to the Instructor.
Dr. Catherine Halsey: I can't believe this, they are actually behaving like a family and rotating the last place!!! This will be a great addition to our ranks, just imagine the future!!! And for what we know they didn't even talked to each other and all of them had the same idea!!! If we have this teams with this kind of coordination and team work their success rate will be higher than everything we've already seen!!!
Instructor: That is indeed true, but we also need to keep in mind that from the looks of it Alex and John team were the starters of the movement, this only adds up to our thought that both Alex and John will be great leaders and that putting them together in the same team was correct. John is very brave and has the abilities of a leader, Alex has them too but he is more calculative about what to do, they complement each other and are able to identify the best course of action.
Dr. Catherine Halsey: I agree, it was a good decision, now we need to let them be for a while until they are ready for the next fase.
Instructor: Understood, I will train them well!
After this all stayed the same for 1 year and 8 months, they trained, studied and grew stronger like anyone had yet to see. It was also in this time that Alex discovered that his Party System could develop a function o Squads, this function was basically the same as the Party function but it allowed them to have a chat just between their squad members, a kind of mini-map that only showed regions and places explored by squad members after the upgrade and an extra feature of video chat, so that they could communicate while fighting, but this upgrade was very expensive:
[Party System Ramification "Squads"] (Price: 100 000 SPC)
Alex and all the Spartans had been working hard and he now had 99 890 SPC more 110 SPC and they could buy the upgrade, but today they received the information that they would be going to undergo another test and this test consists in everyone being dropped separately inside a frozen forest somewhere in the planet, luckily they had one mission that could help them.
[Party Mission]
- [Kill Wolfs!!]
> Kill at least 10 wolves before you return to base. 0/10
[Reward 200 exp and 200 SPC]
This mission was their salvation, meanwhile Alex also grew stronger.
>>Halo System<<
Name: Alex Blackwood
Age: 8 years old
Level: 20 570/2000
Race: Dragonkin
Bloodline: Abyssal Dragon
Title: Reincarnated (*2 exp), Leader (give comrades an higher moral)
ATTRIBUTES:
HP:300
MP: 100 (new!)
STR:50
DEF:50
AGI:40
STM:50
DEX:45
Skills:
> Passive: [Night Vision], [Calm mind], [Abyssal Eyes],[ Intermediary Marksmanship],
[Intermediary Hand-Hand Combat], [Stealth],
[Fast Reactions], [Sharp Eyes]
>Active : [Destructive Fist] (50 mp)
Equipment: [Combate Suit(common)], 1/74 part of a map
New Skills description:
[Fast Reactions]
- Allows Host to react faster
[Sharp Eyes]
- Allows Host to see clearly and in longer distances
[Destructive Fist] (costs 50 mp)
(Author: it was won using a lottery ticket from some chapters ago)
- Allows Host use MP to cover his hand resulting in a destructive punch.
All of them felt ready and excited to test their combat abilities against the wolves, right now they were all flying to the first drop place and John told us:
John: *whispering* Guys pass the word for everyone to meet at the end of the river.
Alex looked through the window and saw a gigante river, after that he said the same thing to the people next to him and they did the same and so on. Not long after that the first person was told to get out, but the Instructor made sure to say that the last person would have to walk to home, after 1 hour everyone was already on the ground and starting to move down the river, although they could tell the location their comrades were they did not know how to get there, so first they needed to find the river and then follow it, that was because the location was shared using coordinates and not some kind of map.
Alex POV###########################
Ok I'm currently walking in search of the river, I guess my luck is ending, I received the only piece of map that doesn't pick the river....Great!!!
???*5:*rrrr*....*rrrr*
WTF is this sound *I turn around*!!! Oh Sh*t... *I immediately start running*...Those are wolves and 5 of them, it look like they are hunting,*huf*, they must have been following my trail,*huf*,
I need to get to a zone clear of trees that way I can fight them.
End of Alex POV#####################
As Alex was running we could see in a distance of about 30 meters a good place to fight the wolves, but they were decreasing distance between them and Alex, this was because of the terrain, Alex wasn't used to run while trying to not hit any tree, just as Alex was reaching the place he felt danger on his back, he instinctively turned and used [Destructive Fist] this hit the head of one of the wolves and immediately kill him, Alex was happy to know this but he could only use this power once more before running out of MP and he knew the other wolves would be more careful now.
Just after Alex reached the center of the clearing the other 4 wolves divided themselves 1 on each side, back and front of Alex, Alex knew this would happen but inside the forest he could not see where they would atack from and now he can see them and think about a strategy against them, just after doing that the wolves started to move, they jumped all together to Alex, but he punched the ground using his [Destructive Fist] this made him go higher than the wolves, after that he landed on top of them and quickly hit a specific point behind their heads, with that he destroyed the blood vessels that were connected to the brain making them die instantly, he felt tiered not because of the exercise but because of the MP, he had 0/100 now, if he had to fight humans it would be easy, but fighting something like wolves, they would gang up on one prey and if one isn't strong enough one would certainly die, another thing that contributed to make him use that technique was the fact that this was their territory, they were used to this place and so be more efficient. After a while Alex received a notification.
*Ding*
[Killed 5*wolves level 10]
[Rewards: 500 exp, [Terrain Adaptation Skill], and 1*[Assassin Dagger(Uncommon)] ]
Description New Skill:
-[Terrain Adaptation Skill(Passive)]:
> Uses Host senses to adapt quickly to a new type of terrain. (with[Gene Modification Vaccine] Host is able to adapt to a new environment under 2 minutes)
Alex was happy but he needed to try to go to a new environment soon to see the true capabilities of this new skill, he was also surprised when he received rewards for killing the wolves it's a shame that he could not help finishing the Party Missions or at least half of it would be already done, after thinking this he checked the development of the mission.
[Party Mission]
- [Kill Wolves!!]
> Kill at least 10 wolves before you return to base. 3/10
[Rewards 200 exp and 200 SPC]
He was not surprised to see that some wolves had already been killed, he also thought that it was important to everyone have this experience of killing something, because in the original story a lot of Spartans died since day one and for that reason they were used to dead since the very beginning, but now that he had changed their fate he had to make them kill something so that in the future they don't hesitate to kill someone or something.
After having this thoughts he continued walking...
