My Vampire System - Chapter 187

Chapter 187: Chapter 187 Feeling Useless

Chapter 187 Feeling Useless

The morning sun had finally risen, a few people around the school had struggled to sleep through the night, and Layla was one of them . Throughout the whole night she had been pondering how to inform the others . She had already made up her mind that she needed to warn them, but couldn't figure out how .

She didn't want to imagine what would happen when Truedream found out that Peter had no ability that could be taken . She was aware of his intentions, from what the boys and Pure had told her, Layla had accurately deduced the specifics of Duke's plan .

Every term, Truedream would visit a different military base . However, it turned out that he visited a particular one more often than the others, and that was military base two . This was the reason why Layla had been sent to this place .

Something strange was going on with military base two, they hadn't been able to figure out what yet, because so far every agent they sent had disappeared . Thus, they decided to do things differently this time, so instead of sending a grownup, they decided to send an agent, who was at the age of the draft, in as a student .

The reason for Truedream's visit was to acquire different abilities from students . Every time that Truedream used his ability, it would also increase his ability level along with it . His skill bypassed almost all the information that they had about mutant cells .

After taking someone's ability away, he could then implant the ability into a new person . Their body would automatically get the same ability level as the one that was taken . Nevertheless, they would still need to take the time to get familiar with the ability and learn all the skills .

This was why they were offering Peter a lot of ability books, and it also explained why they were hurrying him to get his ability to level four . There were always certain criteria when it came to choosing which students to use for this . The first and most important criterion was, they should never hail from an original family .

Although Truedream's family was one of the big four, usually other originals were also part of the big four, or under the banner of one . So this criterion was added to avoid a war between the big four .

They needed students who wouldn't stand out, so that people wouldn't really notice, or care if they were to go missing . As such another one of the criterion was, the student had to come from a poor family, ones with no backing or support .

Quinn was still safe because the school believed that at present he had no ability, but both Layla and Peter's abilities were documented, and both of them fulfilled the criteria . It was different for them, there was a possibility that along with Peter, Layla was also a target .

Layla had entered the school using false documents, her family wasn't prominent, but she didn't mind if she was to lose her ability . She had only obtained it for the mission in the first place . The only thing that she didn't want was to end up like Peter, and be the military's lap dog . She needed an outside position, where she could observe everything that was happening without getting involved .

With all things said, she didn't have to warn them about what could happen, but Layla wanted to . The question left was, how should she go about explaining what she had discovered?

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The morning combat classes had started and Layla had wanted to team up with Quinn, hoping she would be able to get a hint on what they were planning with Peter .

Unfortunately, before she could even reach Quinn, he had already gone off to Fex . Although the two of them didn't talk much, she could see that Quinn was enjoying himself while practising with Fex . Perhaps, it was because they were both the same race or had something else in common .

She could tell a real friendship was beginning to develop . 'I hope I will have something like that, it all seems so real instead of this fakeness . ' Layla thought as she looked at her own disposition .

"What are you daydreaming about?!" Erin shouted . "I can't believe we have to continue practising these stupid leg techniques . This is the beast weapons class, not the martial arts class . And Leo said he wouldn't move on until he was satisfied with the performance of every single one of us," She complained, with a slight look of frustration on her face .

The two girls continued to train together using the leg techniques, but a slip in Layla's concentration caused her to drop her guard . She wasn't able to lift her knee in time, like how she usually would during practice, and instead, Layla took a full blown kick from Erin, to her side .

"Ouch!" Layla said, as she dropped on the floor while gripping her side .

"What's wrong? We have practised that kick so many times, I was sure you would be able to block something like that?" Erin said as she walked over, and offered her hand to her fallen comrade .

Layla lifted her hand to grab Erin's, but the pain on her side hurt even more . Furthermore, she noticed a stinging pain arise every time she breathed . "What the hell? I knew your sword skills were monstrous, but where did you get such strength in your kicks? I think you broke one of my ribs . "

"Would you stop complaining?" Erin said as she knelt down, and placed her hand on her friend's side . She then activated her ice ability, ever so slightly, causing the muscles around that area to become numb from the cold, and also taking the pain away .

"Can someone call the guard and take her to the doctor's office?" Leo said .

Erin then lifted Layla up from the ground, allowing her to use her shoulder for support . "Don't worry, I will take her . Besides, she needs to walk a little bit on her own . It will only make her stronger," Erin said .

The two girls then started to leave the room together . As they were walking, Layla couldn't help but feel useless and pathetic . Other than a blood bank for Quinn, what use did Layla really have? She hadn't even been helpful in the fight with the Dalki . If it wasn't for Erin, the two of them would have been dead back then .

And Vorden, although a bit messed up in the head, was very powerful . The only one who was even more worthless than her was Peter, and that wasn't much of an achievement .

"Would you please stop crying? I didn't mean to hit you that hard . You usually block something like that," Erin said, in an attempt to comfort Layla .

Layla didn't even notice, since her thoughts were so muddled that tears were now slowly descending from her eyes . She wiped them away, and simply put on a brave smile .

"Oh, it's not that . I was just thinking about how useless I am to the team whenever we're in a fight," Layla said .

"Well, you're not wrong about that," Erin replied, not realising how harsh she sounded .

Although Erin was right, it still hurt Layla to hear it straight from her mouth .

"But you help in other ways . You were the one who thought about that blood bowl, remember? I can't say much, but honestly, if you weren't there to hold me back sometimes, I would have already shoved a few spikes up the boy's backsides . "

Layla laughed . "Erin, this is kind of a strange question to ask but, are we friends?"

"Well, I don't carry everyone I hurt, out of the room . "

Although Erin didn't say it, Layla knew her well enough to know what she was like by now .

Back at the training hall, the lesson had just finished for the day . Quinn had managed to work up quite a sweat all the while going up against Fex . Truth to be told, Fex was the only person in the room who he could go against while merely using a fraction of his power, outside of Leo of course .

When practising with Layla and Erin, he would always have to hold back his power slightly, but with Fex, it was different .

Now that the lesson was over for the day, students were free to do what they wanted . That's the moment when Quinn noticed Fex, who was looking around the room oddly, and was kicking the floor about, until he eventually started to speak up .

"Hey, uh… I know this is kind of strange to ask after everything that happened between us, but what are you planning to do after this?" Fex asked .

Lately, whenever Fex would try to approach people, they would turn away as soon as they saw his watch . It was a strange reaction, but he had finally understood the matter when he saw the mistreatment going on around the school .

This caused him to be quite an outcast, yet that wasn't the only problem . He was also incredibly bored . With no one to really talk to, and nothing to explore, he started to look forward to the training sessions with Quinn .

"Me, umm, I was actually planning to go to the VR gaming room?" Quinn replied .

"VR gaming room, what's that?" Fex asked, with a little bit of excitement in his eyes .

"I can show you if you want . You want to come along?"

"Well, I mean, if you really want me to come that bad, sure," Fex replied, his anticipation clearly showing through his faux shy demeanour .

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