Chapter 49

"Come in" A male sound came from inside the room.

Jack opened the wooden door and headed inside the room, quietly closing the door behind him.

The room itself was quite small however it managed to have a wooden table in the middle and rows of books behind it.

In the middle, behind the wooden table sat a man who appeared to be in his fifties with grayed-out hair and wrinkles covering his face.

He wore square glasses to aid in his sight which seemed to have deteriorated from old age.

The man was clothed in a black suit though the quality seemed to be quite lacking, likely to have been made from cheap materials.

'I mean what can you expect when you have a wage as low as these guys have' Jack thought to himself as he glanced at the man from top to bottom.

He inspected the man in seconds and even used Observe to observe him.

[ Name: Henry Barlowe ]

[ Age: 52 ]

[ Race: Human ]

The rest of his stats were mostly fours with only his intelligence being at a six.

Overall the man was ordinary, nothing about him stood out at all.

"Hello, I'm Jack Sparrow, i was wondering if I could ask about the early graduation exam," Jack said as he came to stand closer to the wooden table.

Jack's question seemed to almost intrigue the old man as he raised one of his eyebrows.

After a few moments, the man finally spoke.

"Of course, you can even take the early graduation exam, it will take a few days to get ready however it's not that big of a deal. It consists of questions from all subjects and if you reach a high enough score in all of them then you'll be able to graduate" The man explained to Jack, his voice sounding gravelly clearly indicating a high use of either cigarettes or alcohol.

"All right, where can I sign up to have it done?" Jack said immediately after, he didn't want to waste much time talking to the old man.

He had more pressing matters to attend to, like leveling up and clearing dungeons.

Henry nodded his head and turned around, looking through a pile of documentation papers for a few minutes.

Until he finally turned around with a document file in his hand.

"You just need to fill this up and hand it to me, after which we can start the process of getting everything ready. After filling out the document, there is nothing else for you to do and I'll have the professors inform you when the test will be held or is ready." Henry said pushing the document toward Jack and sliding over a blue pen over.

"All right, thanks," Jack said, taking the pen and starting to read the document over quickly.

Finding that nothing was wrong with it, Jack quickly signed and filled up all the required information before sliding it back toward Henry.

Looking over the document in his hands, Henry nodded showing that everything was fine.

"All right if that's all then can I head back now?" Jack asked as he took a step back toward the door.

Seeing Henry nod his head, Jack turned around and headed outside of the door.

Walked down the halls and finally arrived outside of the school.

The entire process of applying for early graduation had only taken about twenty minutes and some students were even still in the parking lot of the school talking to their friends.

It was at this moment that Jack felt something as he stood at the front gates of the school.

A burning sensation in his neck that was slowly but surely increasing in intensity.

'I have to go hunting soon, i haven't fed in a while' Jack thought to himself, giving his neck a massage hoping to alleviate the pain however it had no effect.

'Tch' 

Jack turned sideways and started walking toward the front at the side of the school.

It was better to be in his best condition at all times and being hungry would surely lower his dungeon-clearing efficiency.

Once he was fully inside the forest, Jack broke out in a run and in mere seconds, he appeared over a hundred meters away.

Four squirrels were caught in his grasp.

Taking each one to his face, Jack bit into them, draining them of all their blood.

The process repeated over and over for a few minutes until Jack finally felt himself become satisfied.

He had hunted more than thirty small animals to stop feeling the burning sensation at the back of his throat.

'I don't have the urge to go and attack humans or animals for that matter but it's still quite an annoying pain' Jack thought to himself as he started heading to his apartment.

A while later after he had arrived, Jack threw his backpack at a corner of the room and laid down on his bed, starting his dungeon escapades once more.

It had started to become boring beyond belief, having to do the same thing over and over for hours on end however the amount of dopamine that he gained for each level hadn't decreased at all.

In fact, the closer Jack got to level fifty and evolved once more, the more enthusiastic he got about completing the dungeons.

Hours later, when a new day rose upon the world once more and the birds started chirping.

Jack finally stopped his dungeoning.

[ Name: Jack Sparrow ]

[ Race: Cold One ]

[ Age: 17 ]

[ Level: 43 ]

[ Status Points: 18 ]

Looking at the number of status points that lowered each day, Jack was both satisfied knowing that he was getting closer and closer to his level goal, but also dissatisfied.

It meant that the work efficiency had dropped, now he had to defeat twice the amount of zombies to achieve the same effect that he had before.

'Let's just hope that the next dungeon gives me the same type of experience gains as when I first entered the zombie dungeon' Jack thought before pouring his status points into Charisma once more.

[ Charisma: 37/100 ]

Heading to the bathroom, Jack looked at his visage and gave a smile.

'The difference is minor but it's true that the status points are doing their jobs.' Jack thought before returning to his room and grabbing his backpack.

Heading outside, Jack decided that he would head into the forest and use his super speed to arrive at the school faster and not have to waste time going there on foot.

As he arrived at the entrance of the forest and was about to start running, Jack's nose twitched.

'Human blood' Jack thought as his head snapped in the direction of the smell.

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