Looking around I can count twelve armed men, eight with pistols and four with rifles. The girls start shaking in fear or anxiety looking at us for reassurance. Erik just smiles causing the little sister to blush and says.
"Don't worry dolls it's just a few fools thinking they are soldiers. More like clowns if you ask me."
Max just grins and turns the safety off his rifle. I take my pistol out and turn the safety off. Erik nods towards Max and opens the door.
"Hurry up you bastards we don't have all da."
Bang
Just as one of the fools started to enter the bus Erik blows his brains out with a clean shot between the eyes. The others who were laughing and joking about an easy haul go silent in a daze. Erik doesn't stop though, he jumps out of the door into a roll coming up with both his pistols. Max follows right behind him covering his back. I stay and watch as Erik quickly takes out two more with rifles before the others shout and curse, they try to fire but Max unleashes covering fire that sends them running for cover. The gunmen on the other side rush over to try and help only to have to take cover behind the bus.
I jump into the driver seat and put it into reverse. Two of the three taking cover didn't react in time, the bus ran over a few bumps. The guy who reacted in time but lost his cover was easy pickings for Erik and Max.
The whole fight barely took five minutes, the other side was already down to one man who had holes in both his knees. Erik steps on his chest while the man starts yelling.
"You fucked up bitch, boss won't let this go. You're gonna die, your friends are gonna die, your women will be taken, even your dogs will be put down. Hahhaha...Aaaaahhhhhhhh"
Erik broke his left hand with a stomp, then stomped his right hand.
"Graaaaaaahhhhhhhaaaa"
Soon after he passed out from the pain.
"Let's go, Max take care of those chains. If he survives he can serve as our warning to his boss."
After that he got back in the driver's seat, it took Max a short time to take down and store the chains. We also stripped the fools, no wait the clowns of their weapons and ammo. After that it was a nice and easy cruise back.
Once we got back the girls were handed over to Alex, the younger one made Erik go with them. Me, Max and the rest unloaded and stored our haul. The twins came over and asked about the bullet holes in the side of the bus, they then proceeded to check me from head to toe when they saw the blood on my clothes.
Thinking back to my first kill my blood started to boil, remembering the sensation and pleasure I picked the twins up and threw them over my shoulders. Bringing them back to my room, I got a few looks but most just ignored them and the twins protests.
I unsealed my pheromones and the girls quickly gained a blue tint in their eyes, this is quite a useful ability, must be careful though. It's one thing to use it on the twins they willingly became mine, it would be totally different to use it on random girls. Once I fully ravished the twins I laid their while we caught our breath.
I got another message from Frost saying naughty brother is bad. Laughing at the shy snake peeking from behind her tail on the dresser. I started to go over my trip with the girls, they asked me a few questions and I answered truthfully. They weren't to put off by my slightly psychopathic tendencies as long as it was towards our enemies. It caught me a little off guard but considering how most mercenaries have some problems I didn't dwell on it. We just laid their until dinner was ready, relaxing and once Frost saw that we were done she took her place on my chest, still giving a cute condescending look towards the girls, claiming my chest as her spot.
As we laid there I decided to look over my stats.
Name: Hunter Nespolon
Age: 17
Species: Human
Bloodline: Frozen Serpent
Current nanobots:
Tier 0: 6080 (+100)
Idle: 780
Tier 0 skeletal: 1080 (+160)
Idle: 180
Tier 1: 1550 (+250)
Idle : 1100
Companion nanobots: 100
Current energy: 37030
Current energy absorption: 5000/hour
Circulatory system: tier 0 50.03% (+20%)
Digestive system: tier 42.21%
Endocrine system: tier 1 00.00%
Integumentary system: tier 1 00.00%
[Mutation detected: poison]
Immune system: tier 0 35.35%
Muscular system: tier 0 42.33%
Nervous system: tier 0 31.08%
Renal system: tier 0 32.76%
Reproductive system: tier 0 30.03%
Respiratory system: tier 0 36.57%
Skeletal system: tier 1 00.00% (+47.36%)
Note: average human is tier 0 15%
Current time: 6:00 PM
Looking at my stats and I noticed that I went through another tier up without any serious side effects. On one hand I'm glad it didn't hurt on the other hand I'm disappointed I didn't get another useful mutation. Either way I finally completed the third and final world task. Looking under the task page I see the notification.
Congratulations on completion of the second world task, please specify which tier 1 nanobots you would like to acquire.
Looking at it I decided to get the Nervous systems nanites called tier 1 brain nanites. At tier 1 they can upgrade the nervous system by .001 percent for half the cost, which reminds me how much does it cost to improve a tier 1 system using defaults? Looking through the tips I find my answer, it is shocking to find out it cost a hundred energy to upgrade by .001 percent with a default. That means even if I use the specialized ones it still costs fifty energy, dam it's expensive to get stronger. Either way it can upgrade my tier 0 system by .01 for a quarter of the cost, going from ten energy per .01 percent to only two point five energy.
They still reproduce at the same rate as the tier one default so I decide I should produce more now before using them. That means I'll use five hundred tier 1 defaults to improve my circulatory circulatory system. That will use up all my energy per hour, while I can just use 5000 tier 0 defaults that the tier 1 defaults were using to supply energy for the brain nanites to produce more. That means I'll stop producing tier 1 defaults for now but that's fine. As for my tier 0 skeletal nanites I'll just put them to the side for now.
Now then let's see if I got any of trade offers for my nanites. Going into the forums I first check if there is any important information regarding Windsor.
Skimming over the pages one stood out, it had to do with someone calling himself brutal reaper relaying a warning. Apparently he was the leader of some gang calling themselves Reaper's Weapons, someone took out eleven of his men and crippled another. He's posting that if he finds whoever is responsible he will kill them and their families, blah, blah, blah. More than likely he's the boss of the fools we killed earlier, I'm impressed at how fast he found out. Oh well he's probably a dog that's all bark and no bite.
Done with that I see I got a few trade requests, some offering food others offering weapons, there is even a few women willing to offer their bodies for the trade. Looking at the twins on my arms I laugh thinking about what more I could ask for then them. Two offers out of all that garbage caught my attention, one was offering a baby alligator and companion nanobots for the 200 tier 1 defaults and 1000 tier 0 defaults. The other offer was 50 tier 1 blood nanites specialized for the circulatory circulatory system in exchange for the 200 tier 1 defaults. Both were actually pretty good offers, the baby alligator guy is actually in south America right now, he's probably having issues with the wild life and needs to get stronger a little faster, otherwise it doesn't makes sense why he would offer such a good animal for a trade. The blood nanobots person is in England. He's probably an overlord and got the specialized nanobots at the beginning, now he has a few extra like me. I look down at the twins and in turn they looked at me.
"Should I get a pet alligator?"
A pairs of huhs followed my question. I explained the situation and they thought about it for a few minutes. Then at the same time they answered.
"Baby Alligator."
They just want a cute baby pet to spoil probably. But I think about it, I can buy specialized nanites in the store but you can't buy companions, that part you actually need to do for yourself.
Just like that I found myself accepting the alligator trade. He immediately sent them over with his thanks, and I replay with a request for large snake babies for further trade. He said he will let me know. It would be good if Frost had a playmate.
With a flash of light a small figure emerged, it was about a 30 centimeters long and a light green hide. The light vanished and I found the nanobots where in my inventory waiting to be used, so I grabbed the little guy. He tried to struggle but I was able to but my blood full of the companion nanobots in it's mouth. I checked it's gender and found out it was a boy, he looked at me with his bright yellow eyes with a disgruntled expression. I laughed and Frost jumped over, they were about the same length but Frost was a size bigger. I checked his age and found out he was only six weeks old.
Frost slithered around the little alligator while he looked at her cautiously. I grabbed Frost and put her on my shoulders while I picked up the gator.
"Hmmmm, what should be your name. How about emerald from your hide color?"
He started shaking his head in refusal. Guess he doesn't appreciate my naming sense.
"Fine how about Victor, so in the future you can be victorious in battle?"
He put on a thinking expression kinda like Frost, as his brows squished a little. He started nodding in acceptance of his new name.
"Good let's go get dinner, I'll show you off."
With that another new member joined our little team that day.