He was charging towards the opening he had found without any signs of stopping. Countless mages launched various attacks at him such as ice shoots, balls of flame and much more but none managed to hit him due to his sheer speed.
But none possessed a serious threat to him. Sure, they were certainly powerful but they will have to hit him to deal any real damage. Which was nearly impossible for these mage's to accomplish at his speed!
Not worrying about the projectiles in the least, Myles diverted his attention towards the opening.
What he saw him caused him to narrow his eyes.
"They are reinforcing the opening!" Myles judged as he looked in front of him.
All of a sudden, the gap where he saw only a few mages a few seconds prior now had a much greater number of mages!
It was clear that they were reinforcing the gap! A sense of urgency descended down upon him when he realized this!
"I need to hurry," Myles's thought to himself
If he didn't hurry then breaking through the formation would certainly become very difficult! Hence he threw all our thoughts out of his mind and continued to charge forward like his life depended on it.
Unfortunately, the journey up ahead was not too smooth. As he charged forward, dozens of roots like ropes spit out from the ground , wrapping his entire body in the process. It caused him to halt his charge!
It had immobilized him rendering him incapable of moving!
"Damn it" Myles cursed as he tried to break free.
He glanced at the roots, they looked like ropes but he appeared that it was not a root. Instead it was green, long and thin which was something that roots didn't have.
It didn't take long for him to guess what they were.
"They are the grass that I am standing on! Hell even they have mutated" Myles cursed.
The ropes are mutated tall grass. It meant that the woman had managed to gain control of them too!! This was really bad.
But what was even worse was that more mutated grass was charging towards him in hopes of strengthening the other roots.
But he had no intention of letting the roots do what they wanted. He was still capable of moving his hand so he used his sword to slice any tall grass that charged towards him!
He managed to destroy all the incoming tall grass. However, as for slicing the ropes wrapping around him? He didn't get the time since slicing all the incoming tall grass took all his time!
He glanced around him and saw that dozens of projectiles were charging towards him!!
"I need to move out of the way!" Myles exclaimed
If he didn't move out of the way he would certainly suffer from fatal wounds! But the tall grass wrapping around his body won't allow him unless he manages to destroy them!
He had only one choice available to him!
"I need to use brute force to jump upwards" Myles thought to himself.
With his sword being occupied he had no other way but to use brute force. As for jumping upward, the reason behind it was quite simple. With projectiles coming from all directions no place was safe except for the sky!!
Hence, without giving it a second thought, Myles used every ounce of strength in his body to jump upward.
It wasn't working at first but as time went by, the sheer brute force caused some of the tall grass to snap in half.
His eyes shone like stars in the sky at this development.
"It's working!" Myles shouted.
He kept as much strength as he could on the ground. Every second some tall grass wrapping around his body snapped into half and a crate formed below his feets.
The crate only grew larger and larger with each passing seconds! He looked around him and his face immediately turned grim.
"Damn it"
The projectiles were very close. He judged that after 20 seconds, all of them would collide with him.
Seeing that he only had a few seconds. He tried to hurry. Thankfully, just a few seconds later all the tall grass holding him snapped in half.
He soared nearly a hundred meters in the sky causing the ground below him to crack in the process. It also produced a loud sound and minor shockwave.
"I am safe," Myles exclaimed as he looked below him.
All the projectiles charging towards him collided with one another at the same time. At most, there was just a few seconds difference.
Due to them colliding with one another at the same time, a major shockwave was produced which swept around a radius of 300 meters.
Majority of them were mages, so they suffered from the aftermath of the collision.
"It's a good show" Myles grinned.
The mages had suffered from some serious loss while trying to kill him. While he had suffered from just some scratches which was a win-win situation for him.
"Let's look for a place to land," Myles thought to himself.
He began to look for a place to land but as he was looking for it. He saw something that caused him to frown.
Three roots which were as thick as the roots covering the woman were charging towards him!!
Although, he panicked a bit originally. He quickly calmed himself down, realizing that it would only worsen the situation.
He just had to believe in himself and his swordsmanship to win! He must never give up to succeed!
"I will slice everyone and everything who I deem as my enemy. My sword will be as lethal to my enemies as the strongest poison in the world.
But at the same time, my sword will be as potent as the strongest potion in the world to my allies in combat!!
Come you filthy roots, I will cut you all into millions of pieces!!" Myles shouted out his belief as he tightened the grip on his sword.
This was a belief that he sincerely believed in! In fact, this was the belief that formed the weird skill sword heart!
"Wait, doesn't my belief answer the second question?" Myles made a very important realization.
As he gave it a thought, his realization started to make even more sense. Something also seemed to be waking up from the depths of his heart. However, a voice interrupted him.
"Commander, look the roots are charging towards you!!!" Capital Zen shouted from the ground, his voice carrying seriousness.
The moment, Myles snapped out of his . He saw the three roots were just a second away from hitting him.
"Shit" Myles cursed.
He was just about to slice the incoming roots. But it was far too late. A root slammed him with all its might causing him to be sent flying towards this ground.
"Ahahah!!!* Myles let out a roar of pain after getting struck.
It wasn't done yet, the roots charged towards him at an incredible speed. Soon it wrapped around his entire body, only leaving his head uncovered. However, he was still holding onto his sword with his right hand.
Then the roots began to squeeze Myself with all its might causing him to scream.
"Ahahaha!!!!!!"