VMPS to 20

 Chapter 11 New Skill

The student stood opposite Quinn was still holding his hands suspiciously behind his back. Even without the help of the system, Quinn could tell the student was obviously hiding his ability.

"Come on, what happened to your big balls?" the student said.

"I think you’re playing with them behind your back," Quinn replied.

That immediately angered the student which was what Quinn was going for.

"You weak piece of garbage!" the student came charging forward and slashed his hand out at Quinn.

Luckily Quinn’s reflexes were fast and he managed to lift his arm in time to block the attack and move back a little. However, the student’s hand managed to slice right through the skin of Quinn’s arm and caused blood to be drawn.

"Dam it!" Quinn said.

\u003cHP 8/10\u003e

Quinn looked at the student who now had his hands out in view. The student had a transformation ability that was limited to only his hands. They caused them to slightly resemble a tiger claw and hardened his fingernails.

Although Quinn was able to block the attack in time, the claw managed to still rip through his skin.

"Is the system saying if I take four more attacks like that, I’m dead?"

Suddenly everything became a little bit more serious for Quinn. The stinging pain he was feeling on his arm was real and this was a real fight. The game-like system had caused him to take things a little too easy. But he was quickly reminded that this wasn’t a game.

The student then immediately started to charge at Quinn once again with his claw-like hands. As the student swung his right-hand Quinn managed to duck and throw a punch of his own into the student’s stomach.

"What the hell, this guy hits hard!" The student thought.

The student didn’t quit there though and decided to strike at Quinn’s open back causing another claw mark to appear.

\u003cHP 6/10\u003e

"Shut up I know!" Quinn shouted as he lifted the student using both of his hands by the legs and threw up against the side of the wall.

"How did Quinn manage to pick him up like that?" Peter thought, "There roughly about the same size and he threw him with ease, does he really not have an ability?"

Quinn didn’t stop there though. It was important for him to teach people like them a lesson, otherwise, they would just come back for more. Quinn needed to show him to never mess with him again.

Quinn ran up to the student who was lying and the floor and kicked him in the stomach with full force. The kick was so hard that it caused the student to cough up a little bit of blood from his mouth.

\u003cCongratulations Quest has been completed\u003e

\u003c50 Exp Received\u003e

\u003c70/100 Experience points\u003e

"Is he dead?" Peter asked.

Then the student suddenly started coughing some more.

"No, but if he attacks us again, he’s going to wish he was."

Quinn was actually quite relieved. He didn’t know what the punishment was at the academy for killing another student, even if he explained that he hadn’t attacked first. He also didn’t want the burden of death on his shoulders at such a young age, so he was happy when the system had rewarded him the experience points, without having the need to kill the student.

Then suddenly another message had appeared.

\u003cAdditional Quest reward\u003e

\u003cSkill unlocked: inspect lv1\u003e

Excitement started to fill Quinn’s mind as he had finally received his first skill. Quinn was hoping maybe this would help him figure out what type of ability he had but the name of it didn’t sound too promising.

"Inspect? So maybe it can tell me the weaknesses of my opponents?" Quinn thought.

Quinn then decided to test his new ability out and looked at Peter who was standing next to him. Now was the next problem. Quinn had no idea how to use his skill but the moment he started thinking about the skill "Inspect." The skill had activated on its own and a screen had appeared right next to Peter.

\u003cName: Peter Chuck\u003e

\u003cRace: Human\u003e

\u003cAbility: None\u003e

\u003cHP 3/5\u003e

\u003cBlood type A+\u003e

????

???

Quinn looked at the information that had been given to him and it seemed like there were some sections blanked out. Quinn could only assume this was because the level of his skill was still only at level 1 but the information it did give him, was quite handy.

It told Quinn what type of ability they had which would be very useful in a fight, it also told Quinn how much health they had. However, there was one bit of information that Quinn found strange and that was the Blood type. It was weird for the system to give him information about such a specific thing and Quinn also wondered how on earth would this ever help him in the future.

Quinn then went up to the Student who was still laying on the ground in pain and used the inspect skill on him.

\u003cName: Kyle Main\u003e

\u003cRace: Human\u003e

\u003cAbility: Transformation\u003e

\u003cHP 1/8\u003e

\u003cBlood type B-\u003e

Checking the status of Kyle made Quinn learn a few new things. The information he was given about the ability, only gave him the type of ability. There were hundreds of different transformation abilities so it wasn’t able to pinpoint it.

The other thing was the HP, It looked like for his victory he only needed to bring down the students HP to 1 but Quinn still didn’t know if 0 meant death or not. It could also just mean the person had been knocked out.

Right after inspecting Kyle though, Quinn had received another notification.

\u003cOptional Quest has been granted\u003e.

\u003cDrink the blood of your victim to absorb a stat point\u003e

"What the, is this thing crazy!" Quinn thought.

Even if it gave him a stat point there was no way he was going to drink someone else’s blood. The very idea of it made Quinn feel sick.

For a brief moment though Quinn looked to the ground where Kyle had spat out some of his blood.

"Maybe a little bit wouldn’t hurt... Quinn, you’re going crazy stop it."

"Come on let’s go," Quinn said to peter.

The two of them continued to walk down the hallway but while doing so Peter noticed that Quinn kept turning his head to look at Kyle who was still on the floor.

"He must be worried about him, Quinn’s a nice guy after all." Peter thought as he smiled.

But what he didn’t realize was that Quinn wasn’t looking at Kyle at all, but was looking at Kyle’s blood that was on the ground.As the two continued to walk down the hallway. Quinn started to feel a strange surge through his body.

"Hey, shouldn’t you go to the doctor, I’m sure they have a healer who can patch that up?" Peter asked.

"Yeah thanks, I’ll head there now," Quinn replied, "You don’t have to come with me, it will be a busy day tomorrow so why don’t you head back to the dorm?"

Although Peter was worried about Quinn, Peter didn’t want to stick in the halls for much longer where other students were able to see him.

Quinn could see that Peter was hesitating about what to do.

"look don’t worry, Vorden just went to the bathroom he’ll be back any second so don’t worry about it."

With that Peter quickly rushed off and headed back to the dorms making sure to cover up his wristwatch most of the time as well. He didn’t want another incident to happen again.

Quinn on the other hand, immediately rushed to the nearest boy’s toilet just down the hall. When he entered the toilet he immediately started to look at his arm were Kyle had scratched it with his claws.

While looking in the mirror slowly Quinn could see that his arm was healing. Though it looked slow, in reality, it was incredibly fast. For someone to be able to actually witness his skin scabbing over and healing was an amazing sight.

Quinn had actually felt something strange happening to his body during this process and he noticed it when he was talking to Peter. It was why Quinn was trying to do everything in his power to get Peter to leave him alone.

If Peter was to see something like this, there was no doubt that Peter would think he had an ability.

Quinn waited a few minutes and opened up his status screen. It was as he thought, his HP slowly regained as well.

\u003cHP 8/10\u003e

Eventually, the wound on his arm and back had completely healed up and only the rips in his shirt could be seen.

\u003cHP 10/10\u003e

\u003cYour HP had been healed\u003e

\u003cYour hunger has grown\u003e

Just when Quinn received the two messages Quinn suddenly started to feel hungry.

"Does this mean the system uses food to heal my wounds? It makes sense, the energy has to come from somewhere." Quinn thought.

The pain in Quinn’s belly was very little. It was as if he had just missed breakfast or something. When Quinn had the chance, he would get a quick bite to eat.

Before Quinn headed back to the dorms there was one more thing he wanted to do and that was to head to the training room that they had been shown while touring the school.

It was getting late and the students had an early start in the morning, so most of the students had already returned to their dorms. This meant it was the perfect chance for Quinn to head to the training room without anyone seeing him.

Quinn had finally reached the training room in the academy. It was a large oval dome-like building with a huge empty space in the middle. At the edges of the room were rows and rows of technological equipment.

There were giant mech robots, shooting targets, and things Quinn had no idea what they even did but what Quinn wanted to see most of all, was the power level testing equipment. Inside the training centre, Quinn had also spotted the same machinery that was used at the testing field.

When Quinn entered the room was completely empty of people as he thought.

Quinn walked over to testing equipment while walking past all the other sorts of machinery and finale he stopped just in front of the drum-like machine. This machine was the same machine that tested the user’s strength.

Layla had also come to the training room late at night and before Quinn had entered, she had been testing out her bow and arrow skills, practicing. She always practiced at night when she was nervous and she couldn’t help but worry about tomorrow.

That was when she suddenly heard the doors open to the training room, being her shy usual self, she immediately hid behind one of the giant robots. Suddenly she saw the student walk over to her direction then she noticed something.

"Isn’t that the boy that I took the test with? If I remember correctly, he had no ability." Layla thought.

Layla continued to watch Quinn as he approached the large drum.

"Here it goes!" Quinn said as he prepared his fist,

He swung his fist back and prepared to hit the drum as hard as possible. A number appeared on the drum and the number slowly started to rise until it eventually stopped at 10.

"Seems like I was on the mark," Quinn said.

Quinn had a theory after hearing his test scores that his status screen stats also matched the equipment the school used. Although this was only a theory, Quinn wanted to test it out for himself.

Layla who had been watching from behind one of the robots also noticed Quinn’s new score.

"Ten, didn’t he get five last time? Was he hiding his ability? That score’s higher than my score."

Layla was suddenly interested in the mysterious student and continued to watch him.

Quinn next went to the hologram spike machine. Last time Quinn managed to last ten seconds against the machine before it got too fast for him to dodge the attacks. If his theory was right, he should at least be able to last twenty seconds now that his stats were no longer halved.

Quinn started the test and when the test eventually ended, he got exactly twenty seconds.

"It looks like I was right."

With Quinn having confirmed his results, there was nothing left for him to do but head back to the dorm and wait for the next day to start.

Meanwhile, Layla who had been watching this whole time had seen everything. She couldn’t understand why a student would hide his strength in the school. A low power level meant you were a target for others.

Layla only had one thought while she looked at Quinn. "Interesting."

She decided from now on she would keep a close eye on Quinn.

The next day at 8:00 AM the students were woken up by the sound of an alarm in the dorm rooms. It was the signal for everyone to wake up and get dressed. Once everyone was ready, they were to head down to the canteen together for breakfast.

When Quinn woke up, he was greeted with a nice surprise from the system.

\u003cYou have completed your daily Quest\u003e

\u003c Avoid direct sunlight for 8 hours\u003e

\u003c Reward 5 exp\u003e

\u003c75/100\u003e

The daily quest had reset at midnight and Quinn had slept for 8 hours rewarding him with his exp. Quinn was pleased as this meant he would easily be able to gain 5 exp without having to go out of his way.

Then a rumbling sound came from his belly.

"I’m hungrier than I usually am for some reason, maybe my body really did use up a lot of energy in that fight." Quinn thought as he headed down to the canteen.

The canteen was a large hall but it was quite plain. In fact, while walking around the school Quinn noticed most of the school was plain. Single white walls, no picture frames, or anything, just windows now and again.

It was the sleek modern clean look that the world had taken. The canteen was then filled with large tables that we’re able to seat three people on each side of the table. As soon as Quinn entered though he noticed something straight away.

There were no set seats in the canteen meaning students were free to sit where they liked. This straightaway led to a divide in the school. The low levels sat next to the low levels and the high levels sat with the high levels.

When Quinn was waiting in line with Peter and Vorden they noticed a student come late into the queue. He walked past most of the students and eventually cut into the line ahead of the others. Not one person said a word and the simple reason was he was a higher power level than them.

Quinn hated these types of actions but right now there was nothing he could do. Once the three of them got their food they started looking for a place to eat.

"Why don’t we go over there?" Voden pointed at an empty spot.

"Are you sure Vorden?" Peter asked, "That’s a level one area, you don’t have to sit with us if you don’t want to, right Quinn?"

"Yeah don’t force yourself," Quinn replied.

"Quit talking nonsense you two, we’re friends, I don’t care about this stupid power level hierarchy going on."

The three of them then went to sit down with the other lower levels on a table. The area slowly started to fill up but not one other person had decided to sit on their table. There was a simple reason for this, they were scared of Vorden.

They could see his high-power level and the other low levels wanted to stay away.

As soon as the food was put on the table Quinn started to dig in straight away eating everything that was given to him, even the bits he usually didn’t like.

"Hey if you’re not going to finish that do you mind if I take it," Quinn asked.

"Sure, go ahead," Peter said.

Quinn not only ate all of his food but also everything the other two had left behind as well. Not only that but Quinn had grabbed 8 bottles of water as he wanted to finish his quest as soon as possible.

He noticed last time when he was in the sun, he sweated more than usual and thanks to the water he drank beforehand, he didn’t feel as dehydrated. If they were to go outside again then this would be a big help to Quinn.

"For a skinny guy, you sure did pack down all that food," Vorden said.

Although Quinn had clearly eaten a lot, for some reason he still had a little bit of hunger that wouldn’t quite go away. Luckily it was bearable and didn’t distract him too much.

\u003cA daily quest has been complete: Drink two liters of water.\u003e

\u003c Reward 5 exp \u003e

\u003c80/100\u003e

Quinn was now only 20 points away from levelling up and he would soon see what benefits that brought him. Then Quinn suddenly remembered that he had learned the inspect skill yesterday and decided to use it on Vorden.

\u003cHP 10/10\u003e

\u003cRace: Human\u003e

\u003cAbility: None\u003e

\u003cBlood type: O- \u003e

Quinn paused for a second as he read over what he was seeing. For some reason, the system was stating that Vorden had no ability.

"Hey, Vorden can you still use Erin’s ice powers at the moment?"

"Wow, I didn’t know you were so interested in me," Vorden said as he rubbed the back of his head. "Actually, my ability resets every day and I haven’t touched anyone today. Besides you two of course but you two are duds for my ability."

With breakfast over, it was time for them to head to class. On the way there in the middle of the hallway Peter and Quinn managed to spot Kyle. Kyle looked like he was in top condition and had completely healed.

As he walked past though he made sure to avoid eye contact.

"Do you think he’ll tell the teacher what happened?" Peter whispered.

"No I doubt it, it’s embarrassing for him to admit he was defeated by someone weaker then him, plus it will only make him a target if people find out."

It was time for the first class of the day and they needed to head to their tutor rooms together. Their teacher for the day was Del who was the same person who had shown them around the school.

The students took their seats and just like in the canteen people chose to sit next to those with the same power levels, all but Vorden of course. Vorden decided to sit at the back of the class with the level ones and twos and also chose to sit in between peter and Quinn.

Immediately the other students started to talk.

"What does he think he’s doing sitting with those bottom feeders."

"I saw he sat with them in the canteen as well."

"Won’t this cause a problem for the hierarchy at school, won’t the second-year students start to do something?"

"Yeah if he keeps breaking the rules, then they will defiantly step in."

The difference in treatment wasn’t just a school thing, it was a society thing as well. The higher power level you had the better job and more pay you could earn. The more support you would get from the government while the rest were forgotten about.

The ones at the top didn’t have a problem with this of course. The lower power levels would do anything they asked just to obtain a new skill from them hoping one day they could increase their power level and anyone who tried to upset this, where quickly silenced.

It was the whole reason why the Pure group existed in the first place. To fight against this system and it was also why they were treated like terrorists.

Del started his lecture which was about the introduction fo the school and the great war.

"When we were losing the great war against the Dalki race that was when they had come forward. We call them the Originals. This was the first time the whole world had been introduced to abilities. Unknown to all of us they had kept these abilities for themselves for hundreds of years only passing it down to their family members.

Thanks to them they shared their abilities with others of the human race but not all of them of course. When we talk about an Original we are either talking about the founders of the ability or a group that decided to not share its abilities to the rest of the world."

Del then suddenly had a serious look on his face.

"Although we are currently in a time of piece who knows when the war will start again and that is why you are here."

Once the class had finished it was time for the students to take a break. Vorden, Quinn, and Peter headed outside to grab a snack. As soon as Quinn stepped outside though the usual message had appeared.

\u003cAll stats have been halved.\u003e

The three of them sat by a nearby bench and Quinn once again felt weak.

"Hey are you alright, you look sick again?" Vorden asked, "And your sweating like crazy."

"Yeah, I just get hot easily," Quinn replied.

The three of them continued to talk about useless things and the experiences they had at school, until suddenly a group of six male students appeared in front of them. Each of them wearing a black arm badge indicating that they were second-year students.

"Looks like the rumours were true." One of the second-year students said.

"We have some business to discuss with you three, do you mind coming with us?"Quinn, Peter, and Vorden were being escorted by the second-year students to a separate part of the school. The school was split into different sections and the second-year building was separate from the first years. This meant the second-year students didn’t really interact with the first-year students.

"Shouldn’t we just run?" Whispered Peter.

"It might just make the situation worse, if they were going to do something to us they would have waited until we were on our own." Quinn replied, "It seems like they did this in public intentionally, as if to make a statement to all the other low levels."

After walking for a while longer they had eventually arrived at their destination. It was down one of the sides of the second-year buildings, there were a few second-year students who were walking past but the place was relatively quiet.

Sitting down just outside of the building on the staircase, was a tall man with brown hair wrapped in a ponytail.

"We brought them here as you have asked Mono." One of the second-year students said.

"You guys can leave," Mono replied as he stood up from the staircase.

The second-year students did as they were told and quickly left them to be on their own.

"It seems there have been rumours going around of a high tier student hanging around with a bunch of low tier students."

Quinn then noticed Mono’s wristwatch which had the number 6 written on it.

"Is it against the rules?" Vorden asked.

Mono started to laugh.

"Not quite but there are some unwritten rules of the academy." Mono then walked over to Quinn. "You see the moment you start treating this trash like they are useful to society, they start to get a big head."

Now that Mono was close enough to Quinn, Quinn was able to use his Inspect skill but when he tired casting it the status screen that appeared was blurry, it looked like the status screen itself was melting and all the information was unreadable.

"Is it because I’m out in the sun?" Quinn thought.

"Look at this scum." Mono said, "I’m only a few feet away from him and there isn’t even an ounce of fear in his eyes. You know I’m happy that the war started because it got rid of people like you and only the strong survived."

Quinn’s blood started to boil, he hated the war and how it had taken everything away from him including his parents. He no longer cared if he was going to take a beating or not, all he wanted to do was punch Mono in the face right there and then.

At this distance even if Quinn’s punch was slow it should still hit. Quinn couldn’t hold in his anger any longer and threw out a punch but before Quinn’s punch was even thrown out fully, Mono had already taken a step back causing Quinn’s fist to hit the air.

Vorden then took this chance to grab onto Mono. However, once again Mono had moved before Quinn had even started his action, causing Vorden to grab nothing.

"You think I’m going to let someone touch me who’s ability I don’t even know," Mono said. "I didn’t come here to fight you guys, today was just a warning, there are some people in this school that not even the military can touch and if you continue acting this way, they will get involved."

With that, Mono headed back up the stairs and into the second-year building.

"Do you think he’s serious?" Peter asked, "I know at school they didn’t like this type of stuff but it seems even worse now that we’re in a military school, why don’t the teachers do something to stop it."

"Because it works in their favour." Quinn replied, "The strong bullying the weak causes the weak to go on the path to find more power, but if you were weak to begin with and don’t have the family backing to help you, where would you go to get this power?"

"The military," Vorden answered.

"Exactly, the teachers and the school don’t do anything because it benefits them. After experiencing hell for two years your mind will have been broken down. You would do anything to seek power and protection and the military can offer that for you." Quinn said.

Quinn then looked at Vorden.

"it might be best if we comply with their wishes and go our separate ways for now."

"Why should I listen to them!" Vorden snapped back.

The outburst surprised Quinn as Vorden was strangely against his suggestion.

"Look, I understand Vorden that you might think you are helping me and Peter but maybe you don’t understand because you’ve never been powerless like us. When we break their rules they won’t go for you, it will be me and Peter they will go for."

Quinn hated to saying this to Vorden, after all, Vorden was the first person who has a high-power level who didn’t discriminate between people and so far Vorden’s presence had helped. Whenever Quinn and Peter walked around the higher levels did nothing to them because of Vorden.

But this had only attracted bigger fish, something that Vorden and Quinn couldn’t handle, at least, not yet anyway.

"Fine, have it your way!" Vorden said with anger as he stormed off back to the dorm building.

"Maybe we should have explained it to him better," Peter said.

"No, it’s fine it’s better this way," Quinn replied.

Although it looked like Vorden had stormed off in anger due to Quinn’s words, that wasn’t true at all. Vorden was angry at the whole situation at the school. Even here it seemed like people were telling him how he should live his life, who he could, and who he could not hang out with.

Vorden also didn’t want Quinn to get hurt so he knew it was the right choice, but Vorden wasn’t going to just let these people get away with trying to control his life. Vorden was going to go after them all.Layla had been tracking Quinn and the others for a while now, she was even there when Quinn was busy dealing with Mono. Although she didn’t plan to help out or anything, she was just amazed that Quinn was able to attract so much attention in one day.

The only thing that Layla was confused about was why did Quinn’s punch seem so weak and slow. From the looks of things, it seemed like Quinn really did want to punch Mono but that defiantly wasn’t his best from what she had seen at the training centre.

After Vorden had stormed off, Peter and Quinn decided that it would be best that they head back to class for their next lesson. They walked for a while but just before they got back to the first-year building, a group of first-year students were standing in front of the staircase.

There were three of them in total and on their wrist watch they had a power level between 2 and 2.5.

"What are we going to do, Dan asked for 50 credits by the end of this week." One of the boys said.

"I know, why did they have to pick on us, just cause we’re weaker than him." Another boy replied.

Credits were the School’s and city’s currency system. Even though they were at military school, the rest of the city functioned as normal. There were still restaurants and shops and even fun activities and games to play all around the city. If you wanted to do these things you would have to pay with credits.

Students received free food while at the school but they also received a daily amount of ten credits that would be sent to their wristwatch. The students were able to get more credits by performing well on missions, school activities, and rewards.

Peter and Quinn continued to walk past the boys to head the class, that’s when one of the boys called out to them.

"Wait, stop right there you two!" the boy shouted.

Peter stopped immediately while Quinn carried on walking.

"Hey, are you listening I said stop." The boy said, then another boy immediately got in front of Quinn and pushed him back to where Peter was standing.

Quinn was hoping another incident wouldn’t occur at least while out in the sun. If he got inside the building just in time then he thought he would have had a fighting chance.

"I think I might have just solved our credits problem; you must be the only level ones in this whole school." The boy said. "Hand over 10 credits each and you can go inside."

"But that’s all the credits we have," Peter complained.

"look I don’t want to do this but if I don’t, then my arse gets beat. Hand over the credits now."

Peter looked at Quinn with hope in his eyes, perhaps thinking that Quinn might have been able to do something like last time but after trying to hit Mono, he knew he would have no chance. Besides, these were level twos even at full strength he might not be able to beat them.

Quinn decided that it would be better off to just hand over the credits anyway. It was better than losing a fight and forcing the credits over.

Just then Quinn received another system message.

\u003c A New quest has been given \u003e

\u003c A Power level difference of 2 has been detected\u003e

\u003c Additional exp will be awarded\u003e

\u003cDefeat the student known as Rylee\u003e

Suddenly, Quinn wanted to test out his chances. The idea of gaining additional exp and levelling up even further became really attractive to him but Quinn wouldn’t let his greed win him over. Right now there were three level 2 power users but the system had only asked him to defeat one of them.

The first thing Quinn needed to do was get inside so he could use his inspect skill and find out which one was named Rylee. Right now if Quinn used it outside it would only appear as a blur.

In the end, Quinn decided to hand over the ten credits, He placed his watch on the other boys and the credits were transferred over. Peter ended up doing the same and the two of them were allowed to enter the building.

"Hey that was a great idea man!" one of the boys said, "Should we just stay out here until we find someone weaker again."

"What!" Quinn said in his head, he was hoping that once they had paid them, the boys would enter the building but it looked like they were going to hang outside for a while. Quinn suddenly stopped and waited.

"What are you two doing, scram unless you want an ass-kicking!" A boy said.

Then Quinn clenched his fist and shouted.

"Rylee!"

All three boys turned their heads at the same time but not one of them replied. Quinn bad luck continued but he had one more plan to find out which one of them was Rylee.

"If you pull this sort of thing again on me Rylee, your dead!" Quinn said.

Suddenly the boy stood in the centre of the three with red hair got up and shouted.

"What the hell did you say to me you little punk?"

"Run!" run Quinn shouted.

Like a bolt of lightning, Peter and Quinn ran as fast as they could to their next class.

"What did you do that for?" Peter asked.

"I just wanted to annoy them a little."

Peter couldn’t help but think Quinn was a little mad but he liked the fact that Quinn didn’t seem to take crap from people stronger than him and kind of looked up to him a little.

Once they were just outside their class Quinn opened up his status screen to check if the Quest was still active.

"Good." Even though Quinn was now away from Rylee, it seemed like the quest was still active and Quinn would get the exp as long as he completed it at any time.

And Now he knew which one was Rylee and who his first target would be.

"You’re going to help me level up."

Classes for the day had finally finished, since it was the first day most of the classes were just introductions and about what they would learn during their time at the school.

Peter and Quinn did their best to avoid most of the other students for the day and it seemed like after everything they had been through, they weren’t going to get into any more trouble.

Once classes had finished it was time to go for dinner. Quinn still had this hunger in his stomach so he was looking forward to dinner more than usual. This time, Quinn and Peter both sat on their own at a table in the low-level area. Then Peter started to look around the room as if he was trying to spot someone.

"I don’t see Vorden anywhere, do you think he’s okay?" Peter asked.

Quinn then scouted around the room and he too couldn’t see Vorden at the canteen.

"I wouldn’t worry about it too much, trust me when I say this but he is a lot safer than us at this school."

The two continued to eat and once they had finished dinner decided to head back to their dorm room. To their surprise, Vorden was already in the dorm room on his own lying on his bed.

When the two of them closed the door behind them, Vorden lifted his head and immediately smiled at Peter and Quinn.

"Hey, I’ve been waiting for you two for a while now," Vorden said as he got off the bed. "I wanted to say sorry about earlier, I wasn’t angry at you guys but just at this whole situation."

When Vorden got up from the bed, Quinn noticed a slight mark on the side of Vorden’s face. It was a little red and a little swollen.

"What happened to your face?" Peter asked.

"Oh, this?" Vorden said as he touched the marking. "I got into a little scuffle of my own but don’t worry I didn’t lose. You don’t have to worry about me I’m strong."

Then suddenly, a loud growling noise was heard in the room. Peter and Vorden immediately looked at Quinn whose face had gone bright red.

"Sorry, I guess I’m still hungry after dinner," Quinn said laughing nervously.

"Why don’t you grab something from the convenience store, it’s not too far away?" Vorden said.

Quinn looked at his watch and realized even if he did go to the convenience store to grab something, he wouldn’t be able to buy anything in the first place since he had no credits but before he could even say anything, Vorden had come over and tapped his watch against Quinn’s.

"Transfer of ten credits successful" The notification sounded.

"Don’t even say anything and go grab something," Vorden said with a smile.

"Thanks."

With that Quinn left Peter and Vorden on their own while Quinn rushed off to the convenience store. The convenience store wasn’t too far away from military school. If you walked out, it would take you around 20 minutes.

At the front of the school was a huge gate that had two guards stood at the entrance at all times, only students, teachers, and certain military personal were allowed on the school grounds. So when you exited students were required to show their wristwatch to the guard and same upon entering again.

Once past the gates, Quinn decided to test out how much ten stamina points really was. He started to jog at a relatively fast pace to the convenience store. After running for about 5 minutes he realized that he wasn’t out of breath or anything like he usually would be.

He decided to run even faster eventually making it to the convenience store in 7 minutes.

"I think I was doing about a kilometre in under five minutes, and I’m not even out of breath." Quinn thought.

The stats given to him were that of an athlete’s body, it wasn’t the same weak body he had before but at the same time, it wasn’t a supernatural body that surpassed human limits.

Another thing he noticed while running at night, he could see everything super clear. Even when there were no street lights, it was as if the moon had lightened everything up. A type of night vision of sorts.

\u003c Your hunger grows slightly \u003e

"I know, I don’t need the system to tell me when I’m hungry."

When Quinn entered the convenience store he went and grabbed a few of his favourite snacks. Some late-night ice cream and potato chips. That’s when he suddenly spotted Rylee and his friends in the same store down another aisle.

Quinn ducked down quietly and waited for them to finish shopping before doing anything else.

"What luck, I thought I would have to track him down but it seems like he’s come right to me."

While Quinn was hiding, he noticed he was in the middle of the masks section. There was one particular mask that stood out to him. It was a fully black mask that covered the top half of the face so the mouth could be seen. Across the mask was blood splatter on it.

"Kinda spooky looking."

Once Rylee and the others had left the store, Quinn decided to grab the mask and snacks and placed them on the counter.

Layla who was also in the store noticed the mask that Quinn had bought.

"What the, it’s not Halloween yet, what is he doing buying a mask like that?" she thought.

Layla decided to continue to follow Quinn while Quinn was busy following Rylee and his friends.

"Hey, we’re going to shoot some hoops in the park, you want to join?" One of the boys asked.

"Nah, you know my ability useless for playing games like that." Rylee replied, "I think ill just head back and wait by the school gate, see if there are any more suckers I can leach some credits from."

The other two boys looked at each other, they knew what they were doing was wrong but were only doing it because they themselves didn’t want to get beaten up by a higher power level. Where it seemed like Rylee was starting to get a little pleasure from bullying those weaker than him.

Rylee started to head back to school and eventually reached a small park on the way back. An area that was completely void of people and had very little lights. There were also plenty of trees for Quinn to hide himself.

"It’s showtime," Quinn said as he put the mask on his face.Quinn continued to follow Rylee into the forest until he had eventually reached the park. It was mostly dark outside and the only visible light in the area was coming from either the moon or the single street lamp.

After checking if there were any people nearby, Quinn decided it was time to act and put on his mask.

"Even if he spots me now, he won’t know who to come back to for revenge."

Rylee was currently going through the information on his watch, the glowing light displayed he had a total of 80 credits.

"I’m a genius, I don’t know why I didn’t do this sooner." Rylee said, "I have more than enough to pay Dan and keep some for myself, as long as I stay on Dan’s good side, no one will try to attack me."

As soon as Rylee finished his thought, he felt a large impact on his right side.

Just then Quinn had come out from the trees and threw out a kick causing Rylee to stumble to the ground. When Rylee looked up all he could see was a student wearing a horrifying mask, with a blood splat on the front.

"What the heck, who are you?" Rylee shouted.

Of course, Quinn wasn’t going to answer and wanted to finish the fight fast. He ran up to Rylee and threw another kick, this time though Rylee was prepared and lifted his hands manging to block the kick.

When Quinn’s legs hit Rylee’s hands though, it felt like he was kicking against solid rock.

"OUCH!" Quinn said as he quickly leapt backward to check on his leg.

He lifted his trousers and saw his leg was badly hurt, it looked like his bones had even bent in slightly.

"What?" Rylee thought as he saw his attacker fall back. Then Rylee spotted his attacker’s wristwatch, which lit up brightly in the dark and displayed the number one.

Rylee started to laugh.

"I see now, you’re probably one of the students I took the credits from earlier, And I’m guessing you thought you could get some revenge."

Quinn then quickly used his inspect skill on his opponent.

\u003cHP 8/10\u003e

\u003cRace: Human\u003e

\u003cAbilty: Hardening\u003e

\u003cBlood type: B+\u003e

"Damn it, no wonder my leg felt like it hit a rock."

Although Quinn’s surprise attack didn’t work, he still felt like he could win this fight.

Quinn charged in once again this time throwing a fist. The attack was faster than Rylee had expected and he didn’t have time to use his hardening skill and he took the blow right in the face.

"I think he cracked my tooth, how hard does this kid hit?" Rylee thought.

Quinn threw another punch with his other hand but Rylee had predicted this and hardened his face in time. When Quinn’s fist hit Rylee’s face, once again it felt like he was hitting a rock.

\u003c Your fist is broken \u003e

\u003c 7/10 HP \u003e

Quinn then stepped back causing distance between the two.

"Again, what am I meant to do if he keeps hardening his body?"

Then a thought came into Quinn’s mind. If Rylee was able to harden his body then why didn’t he just keep it hardened all the time? If he did then Quinn’s first attack wouldn’t have gone through.

Did this mean that Rylee was only able to Harden a single part of his body at a time? It was just a theory but Quinn had nothing to lose and this gave him a plan.

Quinn Ran forward at Rylee one more time shouting.

"I’m going to punch that ugly face of yours if it’s the last thing I do!"

Rylee then hardened his face again and was ready this time but at the last second Quinn changed his punch to a kick in the stomach, causing Rylee to bend over.

"It worked."

Then Quinn went to knee Rylee in the stomach again but at the last second stopped and punched Rylee on the back of the head. Now Rylee laid on the ground defenceless. Ray gave one fast swift attack to the back of his head and Rylee was knocked out.

"Did you really think I would call where I was going to attack?" Quinn said.

\u003cQuest has been completed\u003e

\u003c50 exp will be rewarded\u003e

\u003cPower level difference of 1\u003e

\u003c20 additional exp will be awarded\u003e

\u003c100/100\u003e

\u003cYou have reached the maximum amount of exp\u003e

\u003cWould you like to level up?\u003e

"Would I like to level up? Why even bother asking." Quinn thought.

\u003cYes\u003e

\u003cOnce you have levelled up any changes will be irreversible?\u003e

"Who cares, Yes"

\u003cCongratulations! You are now level 2\u003e

\u003cEvolution process has started\u003e

"Evolution?"

Suddenly, Quinn felt a large stabbing pain in his heart, it started to beat faster then it had ever done before. The blood started to rush through his veins all over his body. The pain was so much that Quinn had fallen to his knees but he did his best to keep in any screams, fearing he would alarm anyone.

The pain continued throughout his body, his broken hand started to heal along with his legs, and then a sharp stabbing pain could be felt in his teeth. The pain continued to last for a further five minutes until it had eventually stopped.

\u003cCongratulations, you have successfully evolved\u003e

\u003cYou are now a Half-Ling\u003e

Quinn starred at the words the system gave him but it didn’t make sense to him, he had never heard of the term halfling before. Then even more messages started to appear.

\u003cYour stats have increased\u003e

\u003cA new skill has been unlocked\u003e

\u003cLv1 Blood swipe\u003e

Blood swipe: A skill that has a range of 5 meters. It will fire out a red line of energy form the user’s hands. To use the skill the user must use their own blood causing -1HP per Blood swipe.

Before Quinn had time to check out the changes to his stats, another message had appeared which was the most shocking of them yet.

\u003cYour hunger grows\u003e

\u003cYou can no longer suppress your need for blood\u003e

\u003cYour HP will decrease by -1HP every hour until you have consumed Human blood\u003eQuinn staggered where he stood, unable to take everything in. He couldn't believe what he was reading right now. After seeing that last message there was only one thing that came into his head.

"Have I become a vampire?" he mumbled to himself.

On the ground, Kylee stirred.

No matter how hard he tried to ignore it, this message made it clear. The truth had been staring him in the face long enough. All the signs had been there. The book about vampires granting him Exp, growing weaker when hit by sunlight, the constant hunger, the clear night vision, and the way the blood of his first victim had been enticing him to consume it.

Quinn was not sure he could do what the system was demanding of him. There was this moral binding, his last shred of humanity that held him back from completely turning into a beast.

He stood there looking down at Rylee who had passed out on the ground. It was the perfect opportunity for him to do as the system demanded.

He gulped his saliva down as spit was starting to fill his mouth. Something was drawing him to Rylee's body. He could smell his victim's blood, he could hear the beating heart. Without realizing it, he bent towards Rylee and could see his pulse beating through his neck. The blood flowing through his veins. The smell of blood from the chipped off tooth was strong and intoxicating.

[You have received an Optional quest]

[Drink the blood of your victim to absorb a stat point]

There were many questions on Quinn's mind, questions he was unsure about and had no answers. 'How much blood was he supposed to consume? Would Riley die if he did this? Would he perhaps turn and become another vampire like him?'

Layla had continued to watch Quinn ever since he had left the convenience store. When she had seen him follow after Rylee and donning the mask, she had understood what he was about to do. She had kept a safe distance while staying in between the trees to avoid detection.

It had worked perfectly, allowing her to watch the whole thing unfold. Although Quinn's ambush had failed, he had nevertheless managed to win over his opponent by tricking him. However, everything after that had been completely strange. Out of nowhere Quinn had first grabbed his chest, then his stomach, before going down to his knees. The expression on his face showing the great pain he was suddenly under.

Layle had debated whether to run and help him but had been unable to reach a decision. Eventually, the five minutes were over and Quinn had looked to have regained his composure.

The next second she saw Quinn lift Rylee's body slightly off the floor while kneeling beside the unconscious boy. Yet, the gaze he was looking at him was very strange. It wasn't the

gloating type of look of a winner over a loser.

'What the...' Layla wondered, 'He can't be planning to...to... kiss him?! What is wrong with this guy?!'

The next moment, Quinn placed the unconscious body back down. Unable to come to a decision, his mind continued to go back and forth.

"Damn it, in the movies it looked so easy. Just the idea of sticking my teeth into someone... I just can't do it! Wait, maybe I don't have to! I could just make a small cut on his arm and lick it, perhaps that will do it," he was mumbling to himself like a mad man.

Trying to confirm if what she was seeing was real. Layla started to slowly creep about closer through the bushes and trees, then suddenly, her foot had landed on a small twig and a snapping sound was heard.

"What was that?" Quinn thought as he turned and looked around, but could see no one. However, in a panic that someone was coming his way and would find him, he left the body where it was and headed back to school.

Layla was unaware of the small twig she had stepped on and snapped. She hadn't even heard the sound herself, in her eyes, she just saw Quinn suddenly leave.

'I wonder what that was all about? In the end, he didn't do anything, Layla was curious what the point of him at the end had been.

Quinn hurried head back to school and placed the mask into his shopping bag. He noticed that the ice cream he had bought had already melted, but for some reason when he looked at it, it no longer looked so appetizing.

There was a hunger in his stomach that he felt couldn't be satisfied with food and he wondered just how long he would be able to hold it in.

When Quinn had finally arrived back at school, he decided to stop by the toilet first. He was taking a good look in the mirror to see if there were any noticeable changes but his outward appearance looked the same as before. He even lifted up his lips, so he could get a better view of his teeth, but they too were just the same.

'Phew, at least it looks like no one will be able to tell. But why did I feel that pain in my teeth at the time then?'

Quinn then decided to open his status screen to see if his stats had changed after evolving. [Name: Quinn Talen]

[Race: Halfling]

[HP 15/15]

[Exp 50/200]

[Strength 10]

[Agility 10]

[Stamina 10]

[Status points available (1)]

From what he could see, merely his HP had increased by 50% while everything else had remained the same. To be honest, Quinn was pretty bummed out about that, expecting more from something called an 'evolution'.

Still, at least his level up appeared to have granted him a single status point. When Quinn pressed on the system it allowed him to increase either his Strength, Agility, or Stamina by one point. Quinn thought about it for a while and decided to add a point to his Agility.

[Agility 11]

Quinn had considered increasing his Strength in case he met more people like Rylee, but he had concluded that he could overcome that problem with a good beast weapon. It would therefore be wasting his stat point.

As such, what he wanted right now was to become fast and agile like an assassin! Quinn wondered if there was a reason why the system had only given him one point, but then he recalled the optional quests it had offered him. So far Quinn would have been able to gain an additional two stat points, whereas leveling up only granted a single one. If he wanted to get stronger fast then that would be the quickest way.

However, Quinn was unsure of whether or not he would be able to go through with it. At first, he would like to do more research into the system and see if there was anything he could find out about it.

He had a direction now and knew his system was similar to that of a vampire. Perhaps if he learned more about them he would be able to figure out if there was a way around drinking

the blood as well.

With that in mind, Quinn decided to head to his room where he could hear Vorden and

Peter practising together. Peter was trying his best to learn the ability book the military had given him, while Vorden was tutoring him.

"What took you so long?" Vorden greeted him with a question. "We were starting to get

worried, you might have gotten lost."

"No, I just went exploring the city a little," Quinn told a white lie., "I'm a bit tired, so I think

I'm going to bed early today."

"Maybe we should call it a day for now as well," Peter suggested, visibly exhausted. Not wanting to push him, Vorden agreed and with that, the group turned off the lights and went

to sleep.

Although Quinn had been the one to suggest going to sleep, he was unable to. His stomach was in a tremendous amount of pain and he had too much on his mind.

If what the message had claimed would be true, Quinn only had a limited amount of time to solve his problem. However, there was nothing he could do. The school's curfew began at 10 PM and if you were caught outside after that major punishments awaited.

With no other choice, he closed his eyes, hoping to deal with his problems in the morning. Eventually, he managed to drift off to sleep.

When he woke up the next day, the pain was worse than before. His head was pounding and

the first thing Quinn did was open up his system.

[10 hours have passed]

[You hunger grows]

[You have lost -10 HP]

[HP 5/15]

[Your HP will continue to decrease every hour]Even though Quinn had lost 2/3 of his HP, it didn’t feel like he was hurt or dying. It wasn’t like when he was out in the sun when he felt week, instead, it felt like all his senses were on high alert.

"Hey Quinn, are you alright man?" Vorden asked seeing Quinn’s face in shock.

"Yeah, I just, got to go somewhere," Quinn said as he rushed out of the room, heading down to the canteen.

Everything that happened so far was a miscalculation on Quinn’s part. Although the system had told him he would lose 1 hp every hour, he didn’t expect his body to react like this. Originally, he only planned to sleep for five hours as he was too worn out after the fight yesterday.

That way he would still have at least ten hours and a few hours in the morning before classes started. Quinn started to calculate how much time he had left. Breakfast was a requirement which lasted from 8 till 9, then classes went on till 12 midday for lunch.

That meant there were four more hours where he was required to be somewhere in the school. Of course, there was always the option of skipping, but this wasn’t like regular school. The army would severely punish you and hunt you down if you did. But what did that matter if he was going to die anyway?

Quinn was currently in the canteen queue to be served some food. He was breathing in deep breaths and in and out slowly, it was helping him get the hang of his heightened senses. He could hear the conversation from the other side of the room.

Pots and pans clanging in the kitchen as if they were next to him. Slowly Quinn was figuring out how to ignore all these and it was making his mind think clearer.

Just then though, Rylee had entered the canteen. He had no markings on his body from the fight yesterday as he had managed to make a full recovery at the medical centre but he was in a terrible mood after what had happened yesterday.

As soon as he saw Quinn, he had found a target to take out all his pent-up frustration on. Rylee walked past all the level ones that were in the queue until he eventually reached the spot were Quinn was standing.

"Hey Pipsqueak, you got a problem if I cut Infront of you?" Rylee asked.

But Quinn was too busy trying to focus the sounds out from his mind.

"Are you ignoring me? Today is not the day to ignore me." Rylee looked at Quinn’s wristwatch seeing the number 1 shine bright on it. Immediately bad memories of yesterdays fight had come into his head and how all he wanted to do was kill the person but that would have to wait for now and Quinn would have to do.

"I said don’t ignore me?" Rylee said as he grabbed Quinn by the collar.

But in that instant, Rylee’s face was incredibly close to Quinn’s. Quinn could hear Rylee’s heartbeat. He could feel the blood flowing through his arm and muscles lifting his shirt.

Something had taken over Quinn’s body and he immediately hit Rylee’s arm away and pounced on him causing the two of them to fall to the ground.

Quinn was now on top of Rylee and had both his hands pinned down.

"Get off me you crazy animal!" Rylee said but when Rylee tried to overpower Quinn and lift his hands, it was impossible. Even his Ability was useless in this situation. His ability only hardened his skin, it didn’t make him any more powerful.

Then Quinn started to feel something growing in his mouth. Quinn placed his head just a few inches away from Rylee’s neck and was ready. Just as Quinn opened his mouth though, he felt someone pull him by the back of his collar and chucked him off Rylee towards the people in the queue.

"Don’t touch one of my boys," Dan said.

Dan was a large man for his age with a muscular build. He didn’t look like a teenage boy but more like a bald adult.

"Dan, thank you so much," Rylee said as he stood up from the ground sweating. "You’re dead now boy."

As soon as Dan took one step forward though, Vorden stepped Infront of Quinn with Peter.

"Do you really want to cause a problem," Vorden said lifting his arm to show the power level on his wristwatch.

The truth was, Vorden was only bluffing. Vorden’s power very much depended on what ability he copied and right now all he had was Peter’s level 1 earth ability. If they were to get into a fight here, there was no contest on who would win.

But Vorden’s plan seemed to work as Dan decided to back down and take Rylee with him but before Rylee walked off, he signalled to Quinn imitating someone cutting his head off.

"Oh, thank you, thank you, I can’t believe that worked," Peter said knowing Vorden’s secret.

After the canteen incident was over, something became clear to Quinn. That teaches wouldn’t step in no matter what happened. In the canteen there were many guards standing in each corner of the room but not once did they step in to help.

After the group finished eating it was time for them to go to their morning classes but Quinn was unable to concentrate on anything, all he could do was try to calm himself down while in the middle of class and watch his HP slowly tick away.

It was driving him insane seeing the number go down hour by hour and now wished he had just bitten into Rylee’s neck yesterday.

Then when it came to lunchtime, Quinn once again rushed off without Vorden and Peter this time to the library.

\u003c1/15 HP\u003e

"What the hell is happening to me?" Quinn said as his hands wouldn’t stop shaking.

Each time Quinn’s HP would go down, it was getting harder and harder to control his own body and sooner or later he would go crazy. During class, he had multiple visions of tearing the place apart and ripping out the blood from their necks.

Without realising where he was walking to, Quinn eventually ended up in the library. In the quiet corner of the library down one of the isles was the fiction section.

"Please have something I can use," Quinn said as he took out fantasy book after fantasy book about Vampires.

In some of the books, Vampires were able to live off animal blood, But Quinn’s system clearly stated he needed human blood. Not just that but it would be hard for him to find an animal in time. In other stories, there were talks of going to the hospital and raiding their supply but the hospital in the city was heavily guarded and he didn’t have time for that.

Finally, for the first time, Quinn could feel himself getting weaker. He sat on the floor and read one last book and found nothing of use. When he closed the book, he could see Layla standing there opposite him.

"Are you okay?" Layla asked concerned for Quinn as he was starting to look very pale.

Layla then bent down so she was at eye level with Quinn and placed her hand on his forehead to check his temperature.

"You’re so cold? Do you want me to take you to the nurse’s office?" Layla asked.

Quinn replied with one word.

"Sorry..."

He said as he pulled Layla’s arm bringing her close to him and bit into Layla’s neck.As Quinn opened his mouth wide, he could feel the ends of his teeth start to grow, he didn’t know what had come over him and it was as if his body had just taken control, his mind wasn’t all there.

His teeth quickly sunk into Layla’s skin and at the same time, a gush of blood entered Quinn’s mouth. However, Layla didn’t feel any pain from this but instead, it felt like pleasure. A tingling sensation ran through her body as she felt the blood rush up through and out of her neck.

Even if she wanted to resist, she couldn’t, the bite seemed to have a paralysis effect.

Finally, Quinn’s hunger was going away.

\u003cYour hunger has decreased \u003e

\u003cYour hunger has decreased \u003e

\u003cYou will no longer lose HP\u003e

Even though the messages had appeared, Quinn continued to suck Layla’s blood away.

\u003cHP regenerating\u003e

\u003cHP regenerating\u003e

\u003c15/15 HP\u003e

Then when the last message had appeared, Quinn’s mind had finally come back to him. He let got of Layla, causing her body to fall to the ground.

"What the?" Quinn said as he looked around himself, only then noticing Layla on the ground.

"Did I do that?"

Then images of what he had just done popped into his head, although at the time he felt like he had no control, in the end, his whole body still working causing him to remember everything he had done.

\u003cA+ blood type has been absorbed\u003e

\u003c You have gained 1+ strength\u003e

Although Quinn wanted to check what the message had said and what it had it meant, he needed to get Layla out of the library fast. Even though they were in a quiet part of the library, there was no telling when somebody would come back.

Thankfully Quinn could see Layla breathing so he at least knew she wasn’t dead but there were two clear bite marks on her neck that needed to be dealt with. Quinn then lifted Layla up with his two hands, finding her surprisingly lighter than he thought.

As Quinn headed to the Doctor’s office, he couldn’t stop thinking about what had just happened. A part of him thought that the system might have just been playing tricks on him. Even though he could see his HP going down, he never felt like he was going to die at any point.

And Quinn didn’t even know if going to 0 HP meant death but after what had happened today, he didn’t want to find out.

There were a few things Quinn needed to do. He needed to find out how frequent his body required blood. To do this meant he would have to once again starve his body of blood.

But this time he would get blood beforehand, so he would be better prepared. But before even all that, he had another serious problem in his hands. Layla, would she remember anything when she got up, or would Quinn have to convince her to keep it a secret?

If others were to find out of his rare ability it would start a bidding war between the private companies and military. They would do anything to get their hand on a new type of ability.

Before anyone could find out about Quinn, he needed to be strong enough to protect himself.

While Quinn walked down the hallway, he got quite a few looks from the other students, it wasn’t strange to see someone carry an injured person in the school but it was strange for a boy to carry a girl unless they were an item.

Finally, Quinn had reached the infirmary, where there was a single female doctor named Hayley, who looked to be in her early thirties. She wore round glasses and had her hair up in a ponytail. Quinn never got the chance to mess around with girls while he was at school but looking at the doctor, he couldn’t help but appreciate her natural beauty.

"Another one?" Hayley said. "There’s a bed free at the back, take her over there."

Quinn did as he was told and placed Layla gently on one of the single beds in the back. The infirmary was quite large, Quinn had never seen a school have one so big. There was a total of 30 beds but Hayley was the only one working there.

At the moment about half the beds were filled up with students and Quinn couldn’t help but notice most of them were low levels. There were the odd high levels as well. Even they got into their own fights and disagreements.

Hayley came over to where Quinn and Layla were and started to examine Layla. She placed her hand around her Wrist and did a few other checks. That’s when she noticed the two small hole marks on her neck.

"What happened? Hayley asked.

"I’m not sure, I was in the library when I saw her on the ground like that," Quinn replied.

"I don’t know how long she was passed out for but the wound on her neck looks like it’s already healing on its own." Hayley said, "Still I can’t be sure if it will heal and it would be a shame if a pretty girl like her got a scar."

Hayley then placed her hand on Layla’s neck where the bite marks were. She closed her eyes and after a few seconds, lifted her hands and the bite marks had vanished.

"Is it okay if I wait here for her?" Quinn asked.

"Oh, young kids these days," Hayley said laughing. "I didn’t realise you two were like that."

"No, No, no," Quinn said waving his arms. "Were just friends that’s all."

After Hayley had gone away to look after other students, Quinn decided to open up his system.

\u003c Strength 11\u003e

\u003c Agility 11\u003e

\u003cStamina 10\u003e

"It really did give me an extra stat point after all?"

After sucking Layla’s blood, it seemed like he had gained a stat point. Quinn remembered after defeating opponents the system would give him an additional quest to suck his victim’s blood. The reward was a stat point but it seemed like there was no need for him to get a quest.

Was Quinn able to drink anyone’s blood and gain stat points, what happened if Quinn was to drink Layla’s blood again, would he gain another stat? there were so many questions Quinn wanted answers for.

He looked at Layla lying there peacefully. Right now, he was in complete control of his body and there was no urge for him to suck on Layla’s neck again. After checking his teeth, he realised that they had gone back to normal.

That’s when Quinn decided to look around the room, until he finally found what he was looking for, a syringe with a needle. Quinn looked around the room and saw that Hayley was busy dealing with another student. He carefully took the syringe and hid it behind his back and then quickly scooted over to where Layla was once more.

"I’m really sorry about this Layla." Quinn said, "But you’re going to have to be my guinea pig."

Quinn took out the syringe and carefully looked at where Layla’s veins were. Luckily Layla was quite pale making her veins more visible.

Quinn searched carefully for the right spot and was ready but just as Quinn was about to extract some blood, he heard someone crash into the room.

"Is Quinn here." A boy’s voice said.

"Isn’t that Peter?" Quinn immediately put the syringe in one of his trouser pockets and went to see what was happening.

"Quinn you’re here, come quick, I’ve been looking everywhere for you. It’s Vorden, he’s in trouble!"