In the Arcanum Jungle, five figures darted away from the hill, streaked across the thick trees like lightning.
Jack was leading their path to the Eldrich academy. No one asked him to be the leading man in the team. Yet, as the eldest in the team, Jack chose to run in front.
The others were following Jack. All of them summoned their clouds. If there were some wild animals attacking them, they could protect themselves.
Jack looked at the watch hanging on his neck and slightly narrowed his eyes.
"Left 3 hours 36 minutes." Jack mumbled to himself. While watching the time, he swung his big sword onto the bushing, clearing a path for everyone.
Following the swing of his sword, a fire slash was formed on the grass. Instantly, the grass burned into dust.
Alvin had been seeing Jack using this spell a few times. This was Jack's first cloud spell, rank 1 fire slash. It was a cloud spell Jack got from the figle, a fire element eagle. It was a slash that came with a fire element on it.
And from the way Jack used it, Alvin knew that Jack was a knight.
There was some sweat dripping down from their forehead. They were breathing heavily After all they had been running non-stop for quite some time.
Suddenly, Alvin heard the Szyi's sound from behind.
"First cloud spell, Recovery" Szyi exclaimed.A wood element symbol shone. Five rings were formed in the air, shimmering in green colour. The next few seconds, the five rings were attached to all of them.
Instantly, Alvin felt that his cloud energy and stamina was recovering at a higher speed. Normally, even when he was running, he would still absorb some cloud energy from the environment.
Now, with the cloud spell from Szyi, Alvin felt that his cloud energy and stamina was recovering faster.
"I am a support class and this is my first cloud spell, rank 1, recovery. It could help in recovering cloud energy and stamina by 10%." Szyi explained.
Hearing that, Alvin nodded. He felt surprised with the strong cloud spell. Support was a very valuable asset to a group. Even though it was just a first cloud spell, it had such a good effect on the team.
"Nice" Jack tilted his head and gave Szyi a thumbs up.
They had been running for 30 minutes. Alvin didn't see any problem or challenge in this test. Yet, he still glanced around a lot, being careful.
Just as they crossed a river, the landscape around them changed entirely. Initially, they were running on a plain field. Suddenly, the plain field suddenly rises, giving them a moment of imbalance.
"Be careful" Jack shouted
*roar
Then, Jack saw a tiger darted towards him, coming from a bushing.
Not only that, there was a huge eagle stretched across the sky, flying toward them, roaring.
The river behind them suddenly disappeared. It became a big dens, where a group of wolves lived. The wolves were howling.
"Knight in front, mage in middle, support at the center" Without any hesitation, Jack shouted as he raised his sword to block the tiger.
Hearing Jack's instruction, they all got into a formation. Jack was confronting the tiger at the front side. Elaine was dealing with the wolves. Alvin and Charles were standing in the middle. Szyi was in the center.
The next moment, they all started their fight with the beast.
"Second cloud spell, rank 2, damage increase" Szyi exclaimed. She formed a red colour ring on everyone.
"Third cloud spell, rank 3 fire wall" When Jack received the damage increase from Szyi, he cast his third cloud spell. He flipped his sword and pierced it into the ground. A flame wall was formed in front of him. Then, the wall moved forward and pushed the tiger away, at the same time burning the tiger.
While Jack was handling the tiger, Elaine and Alvin were fighting with the group of wolves.
"Second cloud spell, water clone sword" Elaine exclaimed, She threw her sword into the air, then the sword split into three, shooting to the wolves.
Alvin was fast in his action.
"Second cloud spell, gale of venomous blade" Alvin exclaimed. Following the lit up of his wind symbol, a large area of venomous blades were shot toward the wolves.
Instantly, under the attack of Elaine and Alvin, the group of wolves were defeated. The wolves were howling, running away.
Seeing the wolves was defeated, Alvin didn't relax. He turned around and looked at others.
As he turned around, he saw Charles was handling the eagle.
"Second cloud spell, rank 2, thunder bolt"
* phewwww
An arrow stretched across the sky, shimmering with lightning.
The arrow was so fast that the eagle didn't even have time to react. As the arrow hit the eagle, Charles activated the thunder bolt, causing lightning in the sky.
Of course, Jack had defeated the tiger easily with his level 39 cloud energy and his third cloud spell. After all, this was a normal beast, not cloud monster.
All of them were looking at each other, heart pumping fast. The sudden change of landscape put them in a very dangerous place.
"We leave here first" Seeing everyone was ok, he said.
Alvin nodded
Then, Jack led their way out. On their way out, all of them had their clouds on their hands, being cautious with the surroundings. They were concerned that the landscape would change again.
After running for 5 minutes, they reached a relatively high ground.
Szyi took out some water from her bag and passed it to others. She knew that they needed some rest before departing again.
After drinking some water, Alvin glanced around.
"Something is wrong with the jungle. We are further away from the Eldrich." Alvin frowned. Looking from the high ground, he noticed that they were still far away from the Eldrich Academy.
After running towards Eldrich for 40 minutes, they were supposed to be nearer to the Eldrich academy. Yet, he found out that they were actually further away from the Eldrich.
This probably had something to do with the landscape changing.
As expected, this wasn't an easy test. Indeed, there were some challenges for them.