Chapter 42: Strategy To Run, Strategy To Fight (Part 1)

Kais: "Okay, that's what we need to do."

I explain to Sona and the girl as we run.

Sona: "That does seem plausible."

Girl: "Yup, we should try it."

They both nod and so we decided to go with my idea.

Sona: "Okay, come out."

The rabbit-like spirit appears out of nowhere. It's strange how she didn't need any chanting to call it out.

Sona: "Cut some trees in front of us. And make sure they are far enough that we can pick them up while we pass by there."

The rabbit-like spirit nods and runs ahead of us to do the job.

Kais: "I was kinda curious what the name of that spirit is. You never seem to call it by any name."

Sona: "It's a nameless spirit."

Kais: "What!?"

Sona: "Spirits are only given names after a contract is formed with a spirit-user. That spirit doesn't have a contract with anyone so there's no name."

Kais: "Hmm … why does it follow your orders if it's not a spirit you have a contract to?"

Sona: "I guess you can say we are friends and he is just willing to help out its friend."

Somehow I don't think that's the case. It just doesn't appear to me as if that spirit considers her a friend.

Kais: "Really?"

She sighs as if to say this conversation is unimportant.

Sona: "Anyway, I have a question too."

So I guess I agree to change the topic.

Kais: "What is it?"

Sona: "Instead of doing all this, why can't you just teleport us directly back to the tomb?"

I thought that question would come up from one of them at least.

Kais: "That would be very convenient but there's high risk involved."

Sona: "How?"

Girl: "Yeah, I want to know too."

The girl looks at me curiously.

Kais: "Fluctuations are happening in the time-axis. But it's not just limited to the time-axis. The way these two things are connected, when time-axis gets disturbed, some disturbance happens in spatial-axis too."

Sona: "I see. That's the problem, huh?"

Seems like Sona understands but,

Girl: "I don't get it."

Kais: "Look, teleportation is basically the ability to change one's location on the spatial-axis without disturbing the time-axis."

To be more precise, teleportation transfers one's aura over the spatial-axis.

Kais: "So when fluctuations like these are going on, it may not work like you'd want it to."

There's a very high chance that a fluctuation will change the targeted position of teleportation. While it may not seem dangerous at first thought, there're some pretty nasty possibilities present in that scenario. Teleporting right inside a solid object and losing some limbs or in fact dying depending on what part of the body is teleported in the object is very possible.

Girl: "I see. It's very dangerous."

Kais: "Yes, it is."

While I was explaining, I had picked up three trunks of trees that the rabbit-like spirit broke for us, though it would be more accurate to say I lifted them up with psychokinesis rather than actually picking them up.

Sona: "Okay, how many more do you need?"

Kais: "Just one more."

Sona: "Well, looks like that's ready."

I nod as I spot a broken trunk a distance away.

Sona: "Okay then, return."

She says in a slightly louder voice that the rabbit-like spirit still shouldn't be able to hear. But it somehow does and comes back.

Kais: "He sure has some sharp ears."

I say as I lift the fourth trunk with psychokinesis as well.

Girl: "Okay, now comes my part."

She says as she whistles. And as soon as she does that, animals of all kinds start heading towards us.

Girl: "I want you all to tell everyone to get away from the path from here to the tomb."

By everyone, she means all the animals. As soon as they hear her say that, they disperse.

Kais: "Well, it's only a matter of time now."

I expect them to take about 10 minutes to deliver that message. That would be two hours on the current time-axis. I guess we'll just have to lose that much time.

Girl: "Okay, now."

Kais: "Now what?"

Girl: "Come on, do it now."

Kais: "Wait, don't tell me …"

The girl looks at me as she smiles and points at the animals looking at us from a distance.

Girl: "They have already delivered the message."

That sure was way earlier than I expected it to be.

Kais: "So be it."

I try to bring as much force as I can into my hands as I throw the fours trunks in the air towards the tomb over other trees.

Sona: "Yeah, the fluctuations have stabilized."

She nods as she says so. I immediately react to it by putting a hand on the girl's shoulders and teleporting her and then doing the same to Sona.

Kais: "Okay, finally."

I do the same to myself.

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As I arrive on the targeted spot, I see Sona and the girl standing there ready to go. I nod to them as we start running again.

The only difference from before is that we are way closer to the tomb than we were before. In fact, now it's just a minute or so away.

Sona: "I can see the tomb from here. Looks like it worked."

That's a relief to hear. I was worried about some unforeseen circumstance causing the strategy to fail.

Teleporting was dangerous because of the fluctuations in time and space. So we had to stop those fluctuations. Of course I can't go around stopping it for good or the whole ordeal would be much easier to deal with. So I decided to throw solid objects of high volume as fast as I can through the air. If I succeeded in reaching a particular speed, I would be able to stop the fluctuations in the path of those trees (and somewhat around it) for a moment.

Sona told the rabbit-like spirit to cut trees with high volume trunks, so that was taken care of. The girl made sure the animals are out of our path so they don't get hurt and Sona confirmed that the fluctuations halted after I threw those trunks. So I was able to teleport us through that path to a place as near to the tomb as possible. Luckily, the trunks did fell really near to the tomb.

Sona: "If you still have some doubt about you being exceptionally powerful, then I think being able to throw them with half of light speed should be proof enough for you to stop thinking that."

That … is a good point. Still though, this was something that would have been too dangerous for me to pull off by myself. But I was not by myself. Maybe what Barry said really is plausible. Maybe the world can be saved if I'm not alone.

As we are about to reach the clearing in which the tomb is, I sense someone already present there.

Sona: "Something wrong?"

Seems she hasn't noticed it yet.

Kais: "Yeah. Thanks to our strategy, we saved a lot of time but it seems we are not alone here."

As I say that, Sona turns her head to the woman standing in the clearing. It's the Aural, Sneha Stone.

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