《The Bloodline System 》Chapter 30: Gauging Strength
Advertisement
A patch of grasses and flowers could be seen planted in the environment.
The ceiling was constructed in such a way that a person would think they were outside the building.
The ceiling looked like the blue skies.
Small bungalow like buildings made of wood could be seen around
These bungalow houses had white sliding doors with black lines plastered on them, forming rows and columns.
This place was larger than ten stadiums joined together so it was able to house other structures. Nevertheless, it was surprising to see that structures like this could be built in a business building.
The environment gave off an ancient vibe to Gustav. When he first arrived here he was very shocked but he also found it to his liking.
Even though it looked ancient, there were still some technological types of equipment put in place.
There was a Bloodline grading device standing at a corner. There was also a power output device and some other pieces of equipment out in the open.
The sounds that they heard when they arrived here were coming from the small bungalow structures constructed with wood.
This place was Gami Dojo. A prestigious place for training mixed-bloods in the city. It was also very expensive.
Teachers usually rented one of the buildings to teach their students here extra time.
Teachers who did this also charged the parents of the kids but miss Aimee paid for everything herself.
Most of the kids that come here were also spoilt brats so Gustav had never associated with them since he started coming here.
The environment was conducive for teaching mixbloods and enabling them to learn faster.
Equipments, materials, and other different things were provided here to also help the students train well.
Master mixed-blood trainers existed within this building.
Miss Aimee and Gustav headed towards the stairs.
They always had their sessions on the last floor so that was where they were headed.
Anytime a person saw miss Aimee they would greet her by saying, "Good day young miss,"
This sounded like a casual greeting but they would also give a standing bow while greeting.
Advertisement
This made Gustav more suspicious of miss Aimee's background which she never revealed to him.
He figured she must have been coming here for a long time.
After climbing the stairs for a few minutes, they arrived at the top floor.
Unlike the second and third to the last floors, this floor wasn't crowded or packed with many of those bungalow buildings.
They were only about ten in number and the atmosphere gave off a soothing feeling.
The three floors were built using some energy crystals. The energy crystals helped mixedbloods in meditation especially to channel their bloodline faster. The higher the floor the better the service.
Miss Aimee and Gustav went towards the dojo on the east side.
The design was pretty luxurious and beautiful flowers could be seen surrounding it.
They slid the doors to the side and walked in.
The interior was just like how a dojo would look.
But it was mixed with both modern and ancient types of equipment.
It had a weapon rack at the side where katanas, sabers, and some combination of a sword and gun could be seen.
The floors looked wooden but the truth is, they are harder than titanium yet still soft to the feet.
Miss Aimee went into the changing room.
Gustav walked up to the front where some weights could be seen.
There were blue-colored steel weight lifting plates placed on both sides of the rods also some other steel weight lifting plates stacked upon each other by the side.
They were in different sizes but Gustav moved closer to one carrying about six weight plates on both sides.
"Hmm," Gustav held his chin as he thought of something.
"I haven't completed today's task," Gustav muttered and proceeded to squat.
He placed his right hand on the metallic rod holding the weight plates and lifted it.
Gustav lifted it with ease, carrying it above his head.
The last time he came here he couldn't lift this weight because it weighed more than one thousand kilograms.
He opened the system interface as he did this to check his progress
---------------------------------
[Quests]
Advertisement
»Daily
-Today's task (1/3):
.Travel 120km (Status: 116/120km)
.Climb to a height of 806 meters (Status: 806/806m✓)
.Carry a total of 2450 kilograms (Status: 1200/2450kg)
---------------------------------
Gustav purposely didn't lift anything today just so he could figure out how much this weighed so he could use it to calculate his current strength.
'Hmm, one thousand two hundred kilograms... I don't feel sore but also I can tell that if I add more plates to this it would only struggle to lift it after some time,'
Gustav lowered it.
"Let me see how fluid I can be with this,"
Instead of lifting it normally, Gustav held it like a baseball bat. The only difference was, he was still holding it with one hand.
Swing! Swing! Swing! Swing! Swing!
He swung the weight several times casually.
After doing it more than ten times, he stopped.
"Hmm, I can probably go fifty more times before my stamina runs out,"
Gustav's reason for doing this was to properly gauge his current level of strength.
[Daily task completed (2/3): Carry a total of 2450kg ✓]
As he was dropping the weight back to the ground, miss Aimee walked out of the changing room.
She was dressed in a butter color and red yukata. Butter color for the top and red for the bottom reaching her feet.
Her aloof expression added a certain kind of charm to her current look, also her cleavage was partly exposed proving that miss Aimee wasn't small in any way.
She stared at Gustav dropping the weight.
"Oh, you can lift that now? Did you already channel your bloodline through the fourth point?" Miss Aimee figured it out immediately.
Gustav nodded in affirmation.
"That's quite a big leap in strength," Miss Aimee stated with a contemplative gaze.
"I doubt there's a Zulu-ranked mixed-blood that could easily lift that without having a kind of strength-related bloodline," Miss Aimee added.
"I'll take that as a compliment miss Aimee," Gustav smiled as he replied.
"Strength isn't everything though, always remember a well-skilled mixed-blood can easily deal with a mixed-blood who doesn't know how to use their strength properly," Miss Aimee stated before turning around.
"Do not fear the man who has practiced a thousand techniques only once... fear the man who has practiced one technique a thousand times,"
"Miss Aimee's method of complementing me is really weird," Gustav sighed after hearing miss Aimee's speech even though he knew it was right.
"I have been training you on your areas of weakness... highly predictable attacks and movements, leaving too many openings after completing an attack! If you want my compliment, let me see the fruits of your training today! Go get dressed," Miss Aimee said as she walked towards the door.
Gustav nodded and walked to the dressing room.
In about two minutes he came out wearing the same clothes as miss Aimee.
The both of them walked towards the west side of the floor where a large stage that was half the size of a basketball pitch could be seen.
Some people stood around the stage area, mostly young people who seemed to be around Gustav's age.
Two buff men wearing green yukatas also stood at the right.
A man and a young female stood on the stage.
He and the female were dressed in a yellow and red striped yukata.
The female was sporting green back-length hair. She was a 5'3 beauty but her gaze was laced with pride.
The man started smiling once he saw miss Aimee approaching. This was the same man that they met at the first elevator, John Brown.
The female was his student, Aurora Bright.
-"Is that him?"
-"He looks pretty weak to me,"
-"I heard he's F-grade so this will duel will be finish in no time,"
The voices of other students within the vicinity drifted into the ears of Gustav as he walked towards the stage with Miss Aimee.
His look was indifferent, almost like he didn't hear them speak.
They arrived before the stage and walked up.
"Oh good thing you didn't run but you can still accept that date proposal before Aurora puts him in the hospital," John Brown smiled sheepishly as he spoke.
Advertisement
- In Serial140 Chapters
Lost Magic
With magic all but lost, mage guilds are few and far between. The Sleeping Dragon guild, a lingering relic of the past, continues to operate any way it can. So long as the price is right, the talented individuals of this guild can handle any mission thrown their way, legal or otherwise. As a courier for the Sleeping Dragon Guild, Cross prefers things simple. He keeps to a tight (albeit rather lazy) schedule and does his best not to deviate from it. But things do not always go according to plan. When he crosses path with a young girl claiming to be a Spirit Goddess, he and his fellow guildmates are pulled into a dark scheme over a century in the making.
8 158 - In Serial20 Chapters
The Accidental Archmage - BOOK 9 (THE DRAGON HOUSES)
The Accidental Archmage Series (BETA CHAPTERS) NOTE: DRAFTS OF EARLIER BOOKS (BOOKS 1 to 8) HAVE BEEN POSTED BEFORE ON RRL. THEY ARE NOW ON AMAZON AND HAD ATTAINED BESTSELLER STATUS IN THE FANTASY-MYTHOLOGY GENRE. ACTUALLY, MANY RRL STORIES PUBLISHED ON AMAZON HAVE GONE ON TO BECOME BESTSELLERS AT ONE TIME OR ANOTHER. HOWEVER, AMAZON KDP RULES REQUIRE THAT MOST OF THE DIGITAL CONTENT AVAILABLE ELSEWHERE BE REMOVED. GENRE: CLASSICAL EPIC FANTASY An epic mythological fantasy in another world. Immerse yourself in a grand and dangerous adventure. In a world both familiar and strange. A world where magic and gods still exist. Meet deities, beings, and exiles from Earth’s pantheons. Encounter warriors, huskarls, satyrs, hoplites, dark and evil mages, and strange beings from myths of pre-history up to the age of iron.Match wits with the likes of Loki, Zeus, Athena, Odin, Amun-Ra, Coniraya, Viracocha, and even Dionysus. Escape plots and schemes played by powerful gods of life and death.Find the truth behind the dark and otherworldly beings from the Lovecraft mythos.Play with dire wolves, drakontes, lamias, keres, amphisbaenae, a sphinx, ice giants, creatures of nightmares, empusas, gigas, minotaurs, vrykolakas, jotnar, dokkalfr, to name a few.Survive being in the middle of wars between civilizations and races. Suffer the arrogance and stupidity of gods and men alike. Cross paths with beings who don’t like you. Thor, Ares, and the Incan death god Supay, to name three.Be burdened with a quest to save yourself and your humanity in the brutal and primordial world of Adar.A world where scientific pursuit will get you a lightning bolt or two. Probably five. All at the same time. Book Nine - THE DRAGON HOUSES His beloved Eira rescued, the rogue Titans have been defeated, and Tartarus sealed. Yet as the rising Archmage tries to escape the Forbidden Isle, events have been set in motion that would embroil him once again in the tides of war engulfing Adar. Escaped Titans, a rising power in the South, vengeful adherents of the Elder Gods, and more have him in mind. Least of all, a far from defeated Loki. New players have come to the fore, each with their own purpose in mind. The lustful drive for power, the search for a release of one's soul, and the companions' storied pasts all come to drive the world deeper and further into chaos. Add a powerful demon determined to open a portal to its own dimension. It's enough to drive a mortal man mad. (Cover image used under license) Book Eight - WHERE TITANS WALK Now in the land of the damned below the underworld domain of Hades, Eira awaits the company and battle portends. But first, they have to find the fortress of the Titans. Above them, Loki's war is going well as the internecine war among the pantheons continues. An old foe rises in the south, more powerful than ever. Astrid finds herself the subject of a wife's rage and the murky past of the companions now comes back to haunt them. Yet amidst it all, a dying Elder won't wait as plots and new players bedevil Havard Ulriksson, formerly Tyler West of Earth, now the Archmage of his adopted world. Cover Image used under license from shutterstock.com. Alterations by the writer. Book Seven - DRAGONS AND DEMONS https://www.royalroad.com/amazon/B08122Y739 An urgent rescue and the path to vengeance are not easy in a magical, myth-filled world. Nasty roadblocks and unexpected complications have a way of rearing their wicked heads along Tyler's route across the dwarven lands and into the infernal realm of Tartarus. More myths and legends cross the First Mage's path as Loki's war and Asag's emergence stir up mortal lands and magical domains. Cover Image used under license from shutterstock.com. Alterations by the writer. Book Six - TARTARUS BECKONS Gifts, curses, and problems. The unfolding of Loki's mad and complicated scheme results in a war between and among pantheons, empires, and kingdoms. From Ymir's Domain down to the far south, conflict engulfs Tyler's world and the magical gate to Tartarus is starting to break open, threatening to add mad Titans and other powerful beings to the chaotic mix. And on the forbidden isle of Banna, a dying enemy awaits. (Note: NOW PUBLISHED ON AMAZON) Book Five - LOKI'S GAMBIT With the promise of the First Mage not to act against him, Loki now accelerates his plans. A plot millennia in the making, spanning the length and breadth of Adar. Like a spider spinning its web, the trickster god now puts the finishing touches on an audacious scheme. A revolution to change the balance of godly and mortal power in the world. Book Four - VOID LANDS The Void Lands. A place where gods fear to tread. Where strange creatures and hostile beings emerge. A nexus of dimensions, the origins of which are lost in the mists of time. To stop the Aztecha Empire’s march to power and domination of the eastern lands, Tyler West, now a High Mage, must confront and defeat the empire’s mysterious patrons. Beings of incredible might and magical knowledge. An imperative path which leads him right to the Void Lands. Though a few detours are required, each dangerous yet crucial. The only problem is that the Void Lands are on the other side of the continent. And to get there, he may have to ask a favor from the Trickster God himself, the Norse deity known as Loki. Book Three - BLOOD WARS Continuing our lost mage's epic journey through the magical and extremely dangerous world of Adar. Escaping the convoluted schemes of the Greek pantheon, Tyler finds himself with an old acquaintance, the Incan deity Viracocha. His son, the sun god Inti, is dead. With the Aztecah Empire and its powerful pantheon of deities on the bloody road to more conquests, the deity asks for his help. A request he could easily refuse. Except Viracocha is not alone is asking for his aid. Two other pantheons have made their presence known to the young mage. And the Egyptian deities are watching how he will decide the matter. To add to his burdened conscience, the rise and dominance of the Aztecah pantheon would mean a million or more new human sacrifices. Resulting in extremely overpowered bloodthirsty deities. What's a newly minted Elder apprentice mage to do? Involve himself in a blood war? Book Two - GIFTS OF THE GREEKS Tyler's journey continues. New land, misadventures, friends, foes, skills, and knowledge. Confused encounters of the female kind. More deities become aware of Tyler as he continues his quest to survive, reach his potential, and carry out his burden. Amid convoluted plans designed by divine acquaintances of old and newly met gods, what's an ordinary guy from Earth to do?The god of wine wants to be his friend. Ares and his sons are coming to say hello. Book One - RAGNAROK RISING What if you fell through a crack in reality? Like those people disappearing in plain sight you've read about. What if you find yourself in a strangely familiar world? A world full of Earth’s mythological beings, lost civilizations, and people from its primitive and brutal past? Where magical energy still exists. Where gods play games among themselves, with the fate of mortal men as pawns. A land where a sword is deadlier than a five-inch thick contract drawn by a hotshot lawyer. Would you survive? That's Tyler West. Alone, lost and bewildered, the three moons in the sky made it clear he wasn’t on Earth anymore. It’s not a game. It’s real. And there's no coffee, pizza, fries, or his favorite show on HBO. *** All Rights Reserved. 2017/2018/2019/2020. Cover Images are used under license.
8 148 - In Serial19 Chapters
Sod's Law (Dropped)
This fiction has been dropped, you're more than welcome to read it anyway (there is sort of an ending). But you have been warned... Sod's law is a more extreme version of Murphy's law. While Murphy's law says that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong (eventually), Sod's law requires that it always goes wrong with the worst possible outcome. For example, concepts such as "bad fortune will be tailored to the individual" and "good fortune will occur in spite of the individual's actions" are sometimes given as examples of Sod's law in action. This would broaden Sod's law to a general sense of being "mocked by fate". In these aspects it is similar to some definitions of irony, particularly the irony of fate. - Definitions of Sod's Law on Wikipedia. The protagonist, as many before them, and many who followed, thought they were just entering a VRMMORPG (Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing-Game). Unbeknownst to them however, was a short paragraph in the Terms & Conditions, that, upon agreement, would actually transport them to a fantasy world, loosely based on the game they thought they were entering. - Something anyone could be forgiven for, no-one reads them after all. In this new world, they discover that people are born with “Traits”, a System recognised, ability, skill, or talent, that they are born with. Sod's Law was not a trait they, or anyone else for that matter, would want. Pure madness follows. Yup, this is about a character transferred to a fantasy game-world with the worst luck imaginable. This is my first fiction so I apologise for any grammar and spelling mistakes that may be made. Hopefully it is readable, and if so please tell me! But if it's not, also tell me, but in a constructive way if at all possible? Due to the nature of the “Trait” the story will be dark in places, with plenty of gore and profanity, hence the tags. There may also be scenes of a sexual nature, but nothing full on – sorry guys but you'll have to go elsewhere for that.
8 127 - In Serial7 Chapters
Blood Knight
Death by violence is an unfortunate but not unexpected hazard in the life of a bodyguard. Waking in bed the next morning, however...
8 113 - In Serial8 Chapters
Blended (Beastars Cafe AU)
It was a pretty slow day at Legosi's small cafe. The light chatters of the animals inside were a calming white noise to Legosi's ears. And with the aroma of coffee drifting through the air, it made for quite a relaxing atmosphere in the cafe.Everything was like usual. At least, until a certain red deer came, that is.~~~~~The cover art is by Nekokat. Check them out! I love their drawing :pI posted this story first on AO3, but since I have an account here I might as well share it here. So here you go! Happy reading~!(Heads up, Chapter 7 & 8 are more like side stories featuring Durguno and Gosha/Yahya)
8 60 - In Serial21 Chapters
Kaleidoscope Book 3: Blood has Fallen
This was why she shouldn't do favors for anyone. Adrian's favor started out simple. Now she needs to learn how to dance, catch a killer, keep a thief out of her business... and keep her past from ruining the future.
8 200

