Chapter 80:: Time test 4!!!
Lancelot Jr frowned when he heard what the woman said. "First of all, I did you all a favor by finding your son, then your husband sold me out when you encountered the serpentine beast, now he is in trouble after I killed the beast and you want me to come and help him. Aren't you a bit too much?"
Lancelot Jr sneered, he didn't hide his disgust, just then, he remembered the objective of the test. He stood up and looked at the woman completely changing his angry demeanor, "let us go"
"Young Master, you decided to save my husband?! I'm grateful, Thank you! I'm sorry I and my husband treated you that way, please forgive us'
"Hmmm" Lancelot Jr mouthed, but kept following the woman as she lead him to where her husband was being beaten to a pulp.
Five men stood around him with their fists raised and slammed down on his body heavily, especially his face.
"Kpa! Kpa! Kpa" their fist pounded his head. He was disoriented and couldnt even respond to their words.
His face was bloodied, some of the blood was dried. The son was seated on the floor at a near distance, crying. "Daddy! Daddy" he kept shouting.
When Lancelot Jr arrived at the scene, he knew that if he didn't make a move right then, these men would kill the woman's husband.
Lancelot Jr conjured his flame sword, it came out all dazzling. The power emitted by the sword had increased since he leveled up in his water and air element controls to level 3.
He charged at the men without warning.
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!.
Five heads were separated from their bodies and were floating in the air, they dropped a second later and splattered on the floor like it was raining heads.
The wife moved close to the husband to help him up, while the headless bodies that were in a fighting stance dropped one after the other till they were all lying on the floor.
A few hours later, the man was bandaged up by the wife and the child was also looking better. They sat around the center table of their little house to eat. Lancelot Jr was invited but he didn't refuse. For some reason, he didn't hold grudges against them, neither was he all too trusting.
The injured man moved his hand with so much effort and reached into his pocket to bring out a small round clock, the size of a compass. He looked at Lancelot Jr with an apologetic gaze.
"l know I've not done well to you, I've also exposed you to the serpent beast, in the end, you still came to my rescue. I owe you my life. I know I cant pay you back, so I want to offer you this token.
'It may not mean much but it is a time compass
Time suddenly stopped and everything was frozen. James Night appeared with his usual smiley face.
'Lancelot Jr, you have passed the second test.
Take the time compass" Lancelot Jr took the time compass without hesitating and the scene immediately cleared, they returned to the normal environment of the dazzling stage. The time compass disappeared from Lancelot Jr's hand the same way the time stone did.
He wasn't surprised but he looked at James Night who had an unusually focused gaze before he started smiling again. "Now it is time for your third test, do you want to take it immediately or opt for rest?"
"l will take it immediately"
Outside the stage, the two floating bodies were both surprised.
"He passed the second test Zuco, what were you saying again about him being average"
"Merely a fluke, he has the time stone and the time compass but it's all useless without the last treasure, he will fail the third one for sure"
"You really have something against this boy, is it that you don't want to give him the powers you vowed to give? Or is it that you're feeling insecure that a kid proved you wrong?" "This...." Sir Zuco was rendered speechless as he stared at the stage for the third test.
James Night spoke to Lancelor Jr while maintaining his smiling face. "The third time test, test of the body. I wish you all the best in this test" James Night Vanished from the stage and the lights dimmed.
He appeared in another world, a bull stood a few distances away from him, facing him directly. He checked his hands instinctively and as expected, there was a paper there. Some words were written on it, "obtain the heart of the bull. The time heart"
Lancelot Jr looked at the size of the bull, it looked monstrous, there was a constant ticking sound that could be heard when one was close to the bull, on the surface of the skin of the bull were the long and short hands of a clock circling an illusory wall clock.
The bull sensed Lancelot jr's gaze on it and it became immediately aggressive. It lowered its horn and raised it sharply, signifying a possible attacking stance, it then pounded its hooves on the ground raising dirt and stones, while it flared its huge nostrils.
Lancelot Jr was calm and composed, he could see the huge pink beating heart throbbing within the bull, like an illusory heart. The bull pounced straight at Lancelot Jr, raising its horn and slamming it at him.
"Mind as the calm seas, motion like a fluid'
Lancelot Jr chanted, moving with the wind like a feather, sweeping past the horns and dodging it easily. The bull was enraged. Its eye became bloodshot, it had only one motive, "kill"
"HmMuuuuuuuuuuu" it mooed and pounced straight for Lancelot Jr again. Lancelot Jr didn't hold back this time, he started to draw all the fluid from out of the bull, accumulating every single fluid, except those around the heart.
Cracks started to appear on the surface of the bull, from one tiny crack it spread to bigger and wider cracks until it covered the entire bull.
The bull came in contact with a punch from Lancelot Jr, and it shattered like a lump of ice slammed on the ground aggressively. The cracks spread all over, tiny bits of the bull-like tiny stones littered the ground. The heart of the bull was intact. It had an illusory ticking clock that gave transparent imagery of the moving clock, while it also gave the ticking sound. Lancelot Jr moved and picked up the heart and the whole scene froze again and shattered.
He was returned to the stage and the smiling face of James Night could be seen. "You passed the third test, now you are the master of time" a flowing light appeared on the center stage after James Night stopped speaking.
"To claim your reward, just sit under the light and wait" Lancelot Jr obeyed and sat under the light. The Time stone appeared again, followed by the time compass, and then the Time heart joined. The three merged together and entered the flowing light as they flowed into Lancelot
Jr's body.