We quickly left the road it smelled too much blood and some beasts could appear at any time,

Sarah healed me, and Alex, so we were able to walk pretty quickly but we could have enough time to rest once we found a safe building and hunt before night.

All the buildings near here were glass buildings, so we should be in the business district, so we continued to advance and in our way we saw some group from afar so we took another path, we were healed but our body needed to adapt.

The city center was louder compared to the suburbs with a group of evolved beasts fighting and searching for weak prey in the street making it harder for us to escape them, making our wound just healed to reopen, most those group was small groups often with only two or three-level three we could handle them but surrounding beasts chased after us.

" What's wrong with those beasts why are they so persistent to chase us do they think we are easy to bully or what "

Fred while running with the group said, it was true that we just finished a group of bird all at level 2, those things when we were running in the street, we saw them in the sky attacking another group of evolved beasts but after saying us they changed their target for us and like if it wasn't enough they were shouting non stop attracting more of the smaller near the area which led to our current situation, after killing all of them a group of oversized chicken was pursuing us.

But even if we hide well they could still find us, and that should be because of the blood on us.

After some time running not wanting to attract more beasts we killed half of them before they stop chasing us and we found a small store in a reclused place in this part of the city now we were a little far from the business district and we could see the high buildings.

" stop talking do you want to attract more of the beasts near this area, instead catch your breath look there this store should let us catch our breath and eat something "

Alex next to him said to him she had a hard time to breath just like me, now my body was as if it will fall apart at any time, and the fighting to get here wasn't helping at all, after all those fights I started to feel hungry too.

When we were in front of the store door we looked around to see for some beasts and it seemed that the place was safe, and it wasn't locked at all, so we entered the inside was like any store with found before with food can left on the floor.

We looked at the back of the store and it was still filled with a stock of can foods, drinks, and perishable meat, some people took some of the food here but with the cars not working anymore they had to left all those foods here.

after looking inside, making sure the place was really safe to stay in for a while we went to the entrance room close to the door placed a steel bar to block it, and went back to eat.

" So how do we share the energy core "

Edward was the first to talk we were now resting after finishing eating the last food we had in our bag.

" What do you mean how to share the one who killed it can keep it for him but since we are a team depending for who it is the most useful and that help all the group then we will give to him and in exchange, you can get more energy point in the next hunting if you fight with that person. "

I looked at him and said I can also understand what he means even if he is greedy who isn't risking our life for finally gave the benefit for free think no one can accept that.

" and besides can you use them, you need to reach level 10 don't you remember "

John asked him he know by Chris that they can absorb those energy core to upgrade their bloodline, and he was eager to get a part of it.

- " I will not know if I don't try to use it"

The others looked at them too tired to talk but still paying attention to the conversation claire eyes were shining she know too their us.

" fine there is twenty-one energy core so each of us can have one and the remaining will go at us we need it for our bloodline so once we are enough strong we will help you guys level up faster it's a win-win "

" I am with that but what about the one you gained when we were fighting the horde of rats with the militaries "

he nodded but remembering that Chris gained some energy core after the fight with the rats' horde he asked wanting to gain more.

" don't think about it I risked my life for those ones so it's a no, you already got one energy core to test if it can strengthen you like us then I will think about it but your not the only one I can give it to"

I somehow already guessed he would ask for it so I refused directly, with the eleven energy core I have now, I can at least reach the high stage of my bloodline.

after sharing the energy core I took mine and went in the back of the store to absorb them now with eleven energy core

" are you sure you want to absorb them now "

Lisa came to me and said, I know she thought it was better to wait for the night in a safer place than in this store that any level three can destroy easily at least those of the size and power like those pigs from earlier.

" It should be fast and anyway we need to rest too, so better use this time to strengthen ourselves "

- " ok then I will also start to upgrade my bloodline too "

she gave me a quick kiss, then left to the opposite of the room not far from me while moving her hips in a tempting way and smiling at me all that, without anyone noticing or just do as if they didn't see something.

My mind still lost in the beautiful view of her ass and curves, I took a gulp of saliva, and shook my head to focus myself, I sat down and took two energy core in my hands.

And using my bloodline that was now almost completely fused with the energy in my blood, I slowly started to absorb it with my bloodline which at the same time continued to try to reach every part of my body by using the energy of the beast core.

But before it could finish I felt a sense of loss like if I know that once I could finish this process I could easily control my bloodline and its capacities, but before I know about it my eyes were closed to help feel the change in my body, it was like if I could feel the path my bloodline wanted to show me the process and what was important, and I somehow know that once all my bloodline will fill my body I will have to use my mind to connect it completely with me for making it mine completely.

But the energy that was entering my body stopped and my hand was hurting with the energy being really hot but after some time it was completely absorbed the burning calmed down and I took a breathed heavily compared to the last time it really hurt, so I opened my eyes and took two other energy core but before I could do so I felt my heart beating faster and the new energy of the core starting to fuse with my own.

Each time my heartbeat the energy raced in my body strengthening me, and the pain was still bearable after all the fight I went through I could support this level of pain, and after twenty-minute, my heart calmed down and I could feel my body being lighter and stronger.

Congratulations on reaching medium stage with your bloodline and visualizing the diagram energy Diagram energy: an act of the bloodline to guide the wielder on the right path.

a prompt appeared in front of me telling me that I reached the medium stage for my bloodline and the draw in my mind was, in fact, the bloodline communicating with me, I wasn't surprised about it since the start my bloodline always tried to change me but I was able to resist it and now I was sure that I just needed to upgrade it and see what happen to gain.

I dismissed it and continued to absorb six other energy core before my bloodline once started to upgrade, the pain still the same it hurt like needles piercing me but I endured and in the end, I was sweating as if I just come out of a bath.

and another prompt appeared telling I reached the high stage of my bloodline, and in my mind, the simple diagram turned into veins and with my heart at the center it was more clear and the thin energy that was surrounding my skin became stronger but still enough that no one can see it clearly unless they can sense the energy like me.

the three energy core left, I decided to keep them for urgency, with me needing energy for heal I could use it to heal faster, Sarah can't be here all the time to heal us so having it can help.

So I get up and looked around me I saw that the three of them seemed to have finished upgrading their bloodline but they were frowning so I came next to them and asked.

" Why are you frowning something bad happened when upgrading your bloodline "

John looked at me and say

" no it's just that it seems to reach Low stage it pretty simple with just one level three energy core but to reach the high stage wouldn't take long but think of it, we needed at least nine energy core of an evolved beasts one level above us to strengthen this fast if it was one at the same level it would need more energy core but do you think with the level four we faced before he was already so strong how much the higher level can be "

shooking his head not sure what to think about their situation and the fact that they would have to fight higher beasts to keep pace with the human but more with the evolved beasts too.

I lower my head thinking about it, it's true that if we use only the energy core of evolved beasts at the same level as us it will require the double amount of energy core but at the same time; we with bloodline can get stronger by leveling up and our bloodline so if we can even more get a talent it wouldn't be that crazy to hunt higher evolved beasts.

" don't worry about it I can assure you that once you get your talent fighting a higher level evolved beast wouldn't be impossible since my talent for now is in its low stage I could already kill a level four even if faint after but with the team it's safe so just think on leveling for not stay behind the other first "

claire told him, and after thinking about it, he agrees with it too.

Lisa just listened to them and looked at me from time to time, then continued to look in front of her.

" ok then, let's go the others should be waiting for us I am not sure how much time we really took "

I told them for now with the power-up of our bloodline the group can fight a level four and maybe a level five but not sure.

They nodded and followed behind me, the others were either resting on the floor or looking outside to make sure there were not beasts attacking by surprise.

" Ok guys we finished and by now we can be safer so first were you able to use the energy core"

I asked them making them all turned their head looking at me and Philip was the first to talk

" Yeah we can use them but it's frustrating since you guys left, we wanted to absorb the energy core like you but instead we could only absorb the energy but not the core itself and besides it takes a long time to absorb, we needed 30 minutes to absorb all the energy inside after that we felt our body filled with energy and a prompt appeared saying we gain in strength, aside from that the system said that we can exchange energy core or any others object with energy to gain system coin "

- " it's normal since we need to use our bloodline to absorb the core so it will harder for you may be impossible to absorb the core too, and we don't know if you absorb the core it wouldn't harm you at the same time, and for the system coin if we can I will try later when we have energy core "

hearing my answers they could only sigh and prepared their bag, Outside was still loud with howls of different types of animals, and in our street, from time to time some lone beasts could be seen searching for prey while paying attention to their surrounding for any predator too.

we were now in the street, the air was hot making it hard to breathe but with our new body and strength, we weren't affected by the change in the environment so we were ok, the buildings here being next to each other like a lego make it difficult to repair where we are and the street being able to let enter only the small cars didn't help either, so for the last hours before night we needed to hunt and find a good building easy to defend for the night.

We then heard a scream followed by someone asking for help, and the area the scream was coming was just at the end of the street and it was where we saw some beasts passing

" No please someone help!!!! "

Everyone looked at each other and we run toward the noise the street shouldn't have strong beasts in this area so dealing with whatever was there shouldn't be hard, besides our powerup it was time to test and adapt our body to the strong energy in our body.

What we saw after reaching the small alley was a man on the floor, blood slowly flowing in the street with two beasts that seemed to be human but them having long legs and arms that should be longer than a regular human with grey fur covering their body stained by the blood of the man on the floor didn't at all help us to understand that they were eating him alive tearing the flesh of the man making him scream and ask for help while looking at us with eyes filled with despair.

tears falling from his eyes, which were slowly losing focus, and his hand that was now extended toward us falling on the floor just after he saw us entering the alley.