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Chapter 10 - Death Race

"That eagle looks intimaditing. The trial seems as if it's death race. Either i win or i die, so cruel."

*commencing trial in 00:00:09*

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*commencing trial in 00:00:01*

As soon as the timer hit zero Prajwal sprinted towards the area with most buildings. There were rubbles everywhere which reduced his speed. But he still choosed this route so he could dodge the attack from the eagle. He was sure that it will catch up to him within half minutes or even less. He sprinted crazily to take as much lead he could. "If it catches up, then i will hide in these premises." Though the structures seemed destroyed, there were some which were standing still as if even time couldn't make any difference to it. Prajwal choose the path where many structures had there roof intact. Due to the presence of many buildings, the overall structure looked like a big maze which made it perfect place to outrun someone with more agility.

As Prajwal crossed the desolated area and reached the area with the structures, 20 second had already passed. He only had 10 second to hide into this maze from the eyes of eagle. He looked in front of him and saw a colossal temple which stood the tide of time. He prayed for a second and ran to the path beside the temple. As he ran, he saw many ancient temples depticted to different hindu gods and goddesses. These building were cultural wonders. Being a Hindu, Prajwal had visited to many temples but he hadn't seen a single on these structures on the earth. He wondered "where are these structures from? None of them are present on current earth. Looking at them they don't seem to be weak to be eroded by time. Is there other civilizations who pray to the same gods and the structure they built are of same style? It can't be coincidence that it appeared on earth during evolution. I get the feeling that earth natives were regressed back in time and we lost the ancient civillizations. They were removed from the history but there legacy remained or something like that. These structure might belong to the destroyed civillizations."

Suddenly an angry screech resounded, which brought Prajwal out of his thoughts. "My lead time seems to be over." The eagle started the chase. It flew up in the air and ran straight toward the way Prajwal had taken. It was blocked on the way by the colossal temple of 1000 ft. Then the eagle began gaining altitute till it reached 5000 ft and again flew towards the direction Prajwal ran. But as it flew keeping it's eye on the ground, it couldn't find it's prey. It searched everywhere but couldn't find him. It gave an angry screech and started flapping it's wings towards the ground and lowering it's altitude. Wind force began gathering and as it was reaching the ground, the rubbles were blown out by the wind. It felt as if tornado has been passing through.

Meanwhile few moments ago when Prajwal heard the screech, he looked behind and saw the eagle having insane speed. It was one and half times his speed but having height advantace it was covering the distance the same distance as him in half the time. "As i guessed, it's twice as fast as me. I will be caught soon if it goes on." He ran to the area with the structures with roof and kept runninng through the buildings without coming out in the open sky. Suddenly, he felt the strong wind current as he was about to jump onto the next building from one of the roman temple present in the area which had a roof and pillars all around. He hid behind the pillar and observed the surrounding. "Oh my god. Is that some skill ?" He was dazed when he looked outside. The eagle was flapping it's wings crazily just about 50 ft above the ground. All the rubbles on the route were flung away and there was a samll tornado on the route which stopped anyone from using it. Sweat tickled down his cheeck.

"There's a way from within the structure. If i had just ran on the path, i would have been turned into meat paste. But this can't continue. I can't just hide here, that eagle will see me if it comes to the ground and i can't just run from inside the structures as it can see me when i change the building. " Prajwal ran along the pillars to the other end of the temple and waited for the wind to pass on. "I should get some rest" He looked at his stats

*Health : 7/11 (10)

Stamina: 5/9 (10)*

"There seems to be no change in the health. So, we can't recover during the trial. And my stamina which had recovered completely seems to decreased. Anyways, how much time is remaining for the trial to end."

*Trial ends in 00:02:59 *

"About 2 minutes have passed. Things already looks grim and trial still has more than half the time remaining." Prajwal sighed. Slowly the speed of wind was decreasing and after few second it stopped completely. Prajwal turned back to look at the eagel but was scared stiff as eagle was staring straight into his eyes. Eagle looked a bit tired but it's eyes were showing ferociousness. It flew straight into the temple. It couldn't fly properly due to presence of pillars at equal interval on all sides. But it still flew crashing into the pillars and chasing after Prajwal.

"What did I do to make it this angry? This eagle is like a child showing tantrum for not finding it's toy. Does it takes me as it's toy and is angry cause i hid instead of playing chasing game with it? It is more intelligent than the babbons but still lacks proper intelligence." Prajwal shouted as he jumped from the temple to the ruins next to it. The course lacked rubbles for him to hide. "I have to change the route. Time to switch to next course."

He made an abrupt turn towards the sandy area where there were pyramids. It wasn't that far so he reached the area before the eagle came out of the temple. Then he stated running towards the pyramid surrounded by hundreds of large scluptures. He was having hard time running on the sand. But there was a reason why he choosed this open path with nowhere to hide instead of path filled obstacles. As the obstacles didn't stop the eagle from closing the gap and just helped him when eagle attacked. There was a drawback, It decreased his speed but didn't affect the eagle's speed.

As eagle came out of the temple it gave a loud screech and looked around. When it found the irritating puny creature in the open area not much far from it. It was gloating that it could finally kill that slippery bug. It rose on the air and gave a chase. As it was nearing the sandy area it couldn't see it's prey clearly. It's vision was affected due to hot temperature and the sand particles present in the air. It lowered it's altitude for clear vision but as it got near the ground more sand were updrafted by the wind created by it's flapping. It again flew up and was happy to chase it's prey even if it couldn't see it clearly as it could determine the position of it's prey even through sands.

"Yes, seems like this eagle is immature. For clear vision it lowered it's altitude in this sandy area. Hahahaha, this bird seems a bit stupid." Prajwal was gloating when he saw that the eagle immediately raised it's altitude. "I should be happy that i could get some time. No need to feel conflicted." He assured himself to think positively. He was nearing the area with scluptures.

The eagle was about to reach right above his head when suddenly eagle suddenly attacked him. Prajwal was scared stiff and jumped ahead entering the area with statues. As eagle missed it's shot, it crashed into the sand. Using that to advantage, Prajwal hid among the statue hoping that the eagle won't find him. He looked at the system panel

*Trial ends in 00:01:59 *

"About 2 minutes remaining. I just have to avoid it for 2 minutes and i am safe." Prajwal looked outside and saw that eagle was standing up and rising in the air. It didn't go above 50 feet as all the statued were just 20 feet tall. It looked around in search of it's prey. As prajwal was looking at it, he noticed it's eye shining in Smaragdine colour as emerald. "I am getting a bad feeling."