The Bloodline System

Author's Note: Unedited Chapter

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The candidates that were initially getting thrown across the place, found stability as the suit glued them to the floor of the spacecraft.

With this, they began making their way forward in a bit to understand what exactly was happening.

Within the control room, Gustav sat in place with metallic straps connected to his body as he looked up ahead.

The pilots and the navigators had looks of horors as they tapped on multiple buttons while the lights in the entire control room kept flickering.

From the transparent glass walls up ahead, all that could be seen was strobing red lines of light. They were transverse a world of complete red and Gustav could tell that this gateway wouldn't lead to anywhere good.

His eyes formed slits as be peered forward with a suspicious but calm gaze.

'This was a set up,' He instantly came to this conclusion.

("We're gonna appear somewhere different in the next second,") The system suddenly informed him.

Tap! Tap! Tap!

Gustav tapped on his dimensional bracelet at very quick pace and activated it in less than a second.

<Unable To Access Dimensional Energy>

The bracelet displayed this information which caused Gustav's face to deepen with suspicions.

He intially wanted to try if the bracelet could transport the entire spacecraft away before they arrived at the other side of the gateway but unfortunately this was the result.

It didn't make sense to Gustav considering they were in a dimensional gateway at the moment which increased his suspicions.

"We are being drawn to the other side, we can't make a getaway," The pilot yelled with a disturbed look.

"Activate the drift beam!"

"It isn't functional!"

"The jumpback checkpoint beam?"

"Also currently unoperational!"

"We have to do something before..."

"It is too late,"

Zzzhiiiinnnnnn~

A golden light suddenly illuminated the entire area and sucked the spacecraft into it.

Thiiinnn~

They appeared within an unknown area in the next instant.

The functionality of the entire spacecraft came to a stop at this point as everything turned off. The engines, the lights, the navigation systems...

The spacecraft began slowly drifting in this unknown space without any direction.

"The sticky void..." One of the pilots voiced with a defeated tone as he looked up ahead after letting go of the control jockey.

"Whatever that means... I can tell it isn't anything nice," Gustav unstrapped himself as he stood to his feet.

He moved forward as well to scrutinize this unknown part of space where they had appeared in.

All that could be seen in the vicinity were glowing golden sands in different areas. Not a single star could be sighted in this part of space but one could see a cluster of floating rocks towards the south east.

It really didn't look like they had arrived anywhere special from what Gustav could see but he knew there was more to this unknown part of space than met the eyes.

[God Eyes Has Been Activated]

"Hmm?" Gustav let out an exclamation of confusion as he looked around with God Eyes Activated.

Everything would usually have a kind of reading and different look whenever he activated God Eyes but surprisingly Everything in this part of space remained its usual color.

There was no reading, there was no difference like they weren't really there.

"What is up with this?" Gustav wondered as he took another step forward.

Fhiinnnnzzhhh~

He suddenly felt a strange energy as his body let off slight afterimage before returning to normal.

This was something that shouldn't be happening unless he was making use of his speed so it made things even more confusing.

"We won't be able to leave here without help," The other pilot stated.

"What exactly is this place?" Gustav questioned.

"It is a part of space that is usually avoided by spacecraft pilots and captain..." Grand commander Shion suddenly appeared within the control room.

"Why?" Gustav questioned.

"Because everything that finds itself here gets trapped and eventually gets snuffed out of existence," Grand commander Shion replied.

"Usually there is a 0 percent chance of the pilots will make a mistake that would lead us here which means... we got here through unknown means," He added.

Gustav was still waiting for them to explain why this sticky void was as bad as they said it was.

"We believe the orion two gateway was sabotaged which led us to a different location than intended," The pilot voiced out.

"The question now is who or what is responsible for the sabotage and what their aim is," Grand Commander Shion's face displayed a calm but deep expression.

"How exactly do we perish here? Can't the engines be restarted?" Gustav questioned.

"The sticky void works by..." Just as Great commander Shion was about to explain, a bright glow of light drew everyone's attention.

A spacecraft surrounded by a weird milky buble suddenly appeared up ahead.

All of the IYSOP candidates and substitutes had gathered in the sitting area so they had all witnessed the appearance of this strange spacecraft amidst their confusion.

Their faces displayed an even more conflicted expression upon the appearance of this dark spacecraft.

"What is going on?" This was still the question running through the minds of everyone.

A male with a dark helmet suddenly appeared above the spacecraft a moment later. Dark tentacles could be seen protruding from his sides and he was well over ten feet tall as he stood proudly above the spacecraft.

Twwhii~ Thwwii~

Two others appearead and stood right beside him as they stared directly at the IYSOP spacecraft.

"I will make this very simple and short," The dark helmet male began speaking with a raspy tone.

Within the spacecraft they were all surprised that his voice happened to be very clear and rang in their eardrums like he was speaking right before them.

"We are here for the person named Gustav Crimson. If you wish to survive hand him over and we shall free you all from the sticky void," His loud voice rang in the ears of the IYSOP participants causing their faces to display looks of shock.

-"What? They are here for Gustav?"

-"Why in the world would they want him?"

Chatters could be heard in the vicinity after hearing the demand of this unknown man.

"Oh? So they are after young Gustav," Grand commander Shion didn't seem too surprised by this revelation.

His figure suddenly turned illusionary and he appeared right in front of the Spacecraft. Great commander Shion was not clad in any spacesuit or any protective outfit like the others so the instant he appeared the culprits suddenly felt a sense of dread.

"...Rick... this man... we didn't take into account that anyone like this would be present on board," The captain instantly communicated to Rick who was within the spacecraft.

"Since you lots the ones responsible for this, might I ask that you get us out of here?" Grand Commander Shion questioned with a calm but intimidating gaze.

"No sudden movements old man... When you hand the kid over, we can discuss that," The captain yelled out as the crew members activated weapons.

"Captain... we're in trouble..." Within the spacecraft Rick who stood in front of a holographic screen which displayed information on the middle aged looking man with silver colored suit.

"What?" The captain questioned through the comms.

"This man is a grand commander from the earth's most powerful superhuman force..." While Rick was revealing this Grand commander Shion turned his neck a bit twice which made cracking sounds before looking forward.

"I think I will just have to take what is required from your spacecraft," Grand Commander Shion stated while slowly raising his right arm which was turning into afterimages.

An outburst of illusuonary silver energy burst forth from his figure spreading forward with intensity.

"An MBO grand commander...? Activate the teleportation beam right now!" The captain instantly yelled out in terror as sweat broke out of his back.

"But we will have to sacrifice an engine for it to work here..."

"Do it now!"

Fwwhwiiiiiisshhhmmmm~

At the same instant Grand commander Shion moved, a blue beam shot forth from the spacecraft.

Grand commander Shion's body which had more than a hundred afterimages trailing across space, suddenly disappeared the instant the blue beam made contact with him.

"He's gone?"

"He's gone!"

The IYSOP participants who were watching had looks of terror and astonishment upon witnessing the scene that played out in front of them.

"It was a teleportation beam... they sent him elsewhere," One of them voiced out.

"Shit! Now we have to handle these maniacs ourselves," Another substitute stated.

-"They must be space pirates,"

-"Damn I never knew we would encounter one on our way to IYSOP,"

"Phew..." The captain of the other spacecraft let out a sigh of relief after they successfully sent Grand Commander Shion away.

"We are lucky this happened in the sticky void... if it was somewhere else in space, we would all be dead by now," Rick voiced through the comms, referencing how this unknown part of space had interfered with Grand commander Shion's original speed.