Chapter 524 – Taking a Bit of Blood
Another month passed, and the new blood donation system had already been in effect for an entire month.
Due to the physical weakness of the people of the Dregs, they would be the last ones to donate their blood.
The Inner City would be the first ones to donate, and they donated their blood during this month.
The next month, the Extractors would donate their blood.
And in the last month, the Outer City, including the Dregs, would donate their blood.
After that, it would cycle from the beginning again.
Naturally, the people of the Inner City and also the Extractors were not happy about having to donate blood at all, but there wasn't anything they could do about it.
The government was in full control, and the citizens could only comply.
However, Kugelblitz was the angriest about all of this.
Naturally, they also used the blood of their Extractors to feed the Crimson Fungus.
Yet, with the new system, they had to give their Extractors a pause so that they could donate their blood, lowering their profits.
The Specialists of Kugelblitz mostly didn't care.
They had to donate blood almost daily to the Crimson Fungus.
This wasn't anything new to them.
But the two Heroes from Kugelblitz were not happy at all.
They felt suppressed by the city, which was a new thing for them.
As soon as the new blood donation system took effect, four Experts from the city guards were sent to stand guard over the entrance to the Crimson Fungus' Containment Unit.
Kugelblitz hated that!
Guards were stationed inside their building!
This was their building!
Naturally, due to the high risk of having to stand guard in front of the Crimson Fungus, the four Experts were appropriately reimbursed, and they also received offers to guarantee their survival and that of their families if Kugelblitz ever tried anything.
And one month later, when the blood of the Extractors was collected and delivered, all of this paid off.
Jornis tried to subtly intimidate the guards so that he could stand near the Crimson Fungus while the first batch of blood was being poured in.
Naturally, the Experts were scared, and they allowed him to go inside and do just that.
However, as soon as their shifts ended, one of them filed a report with the city about what had happened.
Aria immediately ordered a protective order on the four guards and their families.
They wouldn't allow loyal guards to suffer under the hands of Kugelblitz.
"It was 30 liters," Aria told Nick. "Apparently, there was a small... mistake... in the numbers for the collected blood, and these 30 liters wouldn't have been noticed without the reports from the Experts. Without the guards, Jornis would have gotten away."
Nick furrowed his brows. "They want to test the boundaries. If they can get away with this bit of blood, they will become more and more daring."
"We can't allow them to do that," Nick said as he stood up from his chair. "I'm going to deal with this."
"No," Aria said.
Nick looked at Aria with furrowed brows.
"I'm going to deal with this," Aria added with narrowed eyes.
Nick raised an eyebrow.
"I know that you are very powerful," Aria said. "You even managed to overwhelm the gate guardian."
"However, I also know that you most likely can't directly fight someone like that. You probably have to use many things to your advantage."
"But as long as you are inside Kugelblitz, you don't have access to these advantages."
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