"And that was when one of my crew fall of the cliff, its was hilarious." chuckled the Old Man.
"What a funny twist of events" Vas Allen said as he chuckled at the old man story's.
"For a old man, you sure have a different kind of funny story to tell."
"But do you have any idea to counter the illusion?"
The Old Man think for a while and said,
"Hmmm there may be some way to counter it."
"And what's that?"
"Well my illusion magic is at such a high level, where even if you casted out powerful spells, it won't break."
Vas Allen nodding along what the old man is telling him.
"But what if there a way to mess up the flow of the illusion even for a second?"
"Huh what does that mean." Kim overhearing their conversation asked in confusing.
"Oh I think I get it!" Vas Allen says with a spark.
"Huh what?" Kim still confused.
"What the old man mean is that, instead of trying to escape the illusion, we have it surpass its own potential and disturb it flow."
"So making the illusion stronger? I don't see how that will help us in any way."
"No just wait and see, stay here for a bit."
Vas Allen then proceed to go to outside.
"Uhhh…. Hey old man."
"Hmmm?"
"How do I learn these so called spells or magics?"
The old man was thinking of something say, "…. I'll be honest with you, I don't like to speak about such thing but I'll tell you the basic." The old man said in a reluctant voice.
"Magics come from the origin of the Gods…. where they put their realm in this world and rule over it…."
"Gods?" Kim said in a shocking voice.
"For you to use magic, you would need to talk to the gods, there they would judge you if you can use magic or not, which from the looks of it, you can't"
"What?"
"Once they judge you to able to use magic, they would strike a deal with you and let me give you a tip of advice, don't ever accept any deal with them Gods…"
"Why shouldn't I make deal with them? And why can't I use any magic?"
"..You'll get both of those questions answer one day…"
A loud explosion can be heard near the old man house.
"What was that?" Kim scared from the noise.
Vas Allen came back inside the house coughing
"*cough* *cough*"
"Well did you succeed?" The Old Man asked.
"I manage to disturb the flow of the illusion for atleast 0.4 second but sadly fail…."
"That impressive for a boy of his age, most high sorcery can't even disturb the flow even for 0.2 second, especially toward illusions magic." thought the old man.
"What would you do now?"
"I-I have one more sleeve up my head but it may not be safe…." Vas Allen said as he look toward Kim direction .
Kim already knowing what Vas Allen was thinking of, "No, no no! I may not know what's going on but I know that looks of yours!"
"Yeah, that's what I thought." Vas Allen sighed while looking down at the ground.
Kim look at Old Man then at Vas Allen, he asked Vas Allen,
"Before we do your plan, is there not another plan you thought up of?"
"We can leave it to lucks, just keep on going till we are out of the forest…."
"That don't sound too ba-"
"it will take a couple of years…."
Silent fill in the room.
Kim sighed, in a scare tone "How dangerous are we talking?"
"Well it depend on your reflex speed and how long you can run for."
"How long I can run for?"
"Yeah, can you run for 12 whole minutes?"
"Like the jogging kind of running?"
"Full sprint, max speed, and no stopping even for 0.01 second…"
"That's oddly specific, I don't think I can…"
I never been good at running, or at any physical sport… but I am somewhat a good reader so…not sure how it will help here.
"That's why I will cast multiple spell on you" Vas Allen said
"Spell that will enhance your speed and stamina but can be dangerous if you don't pace yourself carefully"
Kim sighed, he look up at the ceiling not saying a word, he stares at it for while as he begin to think about Vas Allen plan, "I got to do it, right?" Thought Kim "If I don't, we would be stuck here for a couple of years…"
"Ugh…. fine…. I'll do it" Kim said in a reluctant voice, Vas Allen could hear Kim words hesitating but he just smiled at Kim reassuring him that he would be fine.
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"Are you ready?" Vas Allen asked while looking at Kim.
"No… but I have to say yes." Kim said in a scare tone.
"Alright, let me cast a bunch of spells on you to enhances your body."
"But remember, pace yourself carefully, don't trip onto anything, don't even think about stopping or it could cost you your life…."
Kim sighed, "A main character would never go along with this plan… but sadly I'm not one of them" he thought.
"Okay, cast your spells on me."
Vas Allen prepare to cast multiple spells on Kim, while this was happening, Kim breathe in and out, repeating this exercise for a while until Vas Allen signal Kim that he was done
"Why in my 95 years of living have I never seen or heard of such a thing."
"This plan is actually crazy…." The Old Man thought.
The three of them went silent, Vas Allen continued to cast a bunch of spell, Kim practiced his breathing exercise while the Old Man stand there, impressed by their will.
"KIM NOW!!!" Vas Allen yelled out.
Kim held in his breath and started running to the east, there he continued to run and run and run and run.
east, west, east, west, east, west…. and repeat!!!
While Kim was running, Vas Allen casted out multiple high level spells, spells so high level even a prodigy's would have trouble casting.
Multiple of spell mixes, explosions were everywhere, fire bursting around the surrounding area, smokes form due to the causes multiples spells, little rubbles of debris spat out.
-If anyone else were to see this, they would mistaken this for a fireworks show, but 67x more extreme than the normal one.-
"This kid…. is what most high level sorcerers will never reach!."
"Give them 100 years, 200 year, 500 year, 1000 years or even 10000 years, they will never be able to reach the level of this kid…. even if I have a million years of training, I will never be able to reach the fraction of what this kid possesses…." Thought the Old man.
1 minutes have pass….
"how long has it been?" Thought Kim.
"I'm pretty sure I have been running for a while now…."
"My body hurt, my side part is tangling with pain with every second I been running for…"
"How much more?" Kim thought to himself, he could feel himself vomiting but he swallow it back in
.
2 minutes have pass….
"Argh, please don't get hit my my spells, Kim!"
Vas Allen thought.
"For how long time have passing, I have to estimate somewhere around 2-3 minutes have passed."
"Just 10 or 9 more minutes, Kim!" Assuring Kim in his own mind.
.
3 minutes have passed.
"These boys…. they are strong and so is their will… 3 minutes have passed but they are keeping up a good paced."
"if only I had known them at the same age as them, then I must've have a good time but nevertheless I still have many good experiences…." The Old Man thought.
.
4 minutes have passed.
"How much longer? I can't run anymore, I can't run anymore, I can't run anymore, I can't run anymore, I can't run anymore, I can't run anymore, I can't run anymore…"
"I can't run anymore…."
.
5 whole minutes have passed….