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I could only hope I would survive the fall. I needed to find my opening or I was going to die. It didn't matter how much my physical body had improve I would still die if I fell from this extreme height. I saw a glimmer of green light, and pushed off the air towards that spot. Slamming into a root, and being impaled in the process. 

I bled from the massive wound in my gut, but then I was thrown. The forest was alive with fire. So many trees were thrashing around everywhere. My body flew through the air like a ragdoll. I still had a small amount of mana I could use. Not enough to use my high jump skill. 

I was going to hit the ground hard. I wanted to scream into the void, but there was no point. There was no one here to hear my cries. It felt like there was an eternity between the different loops, and then I hit the ground. I felt bones break on impact. 

I cried out. I was lucky. All that churning the trees had done to the soil had softened it considerably. Instead of landing on solid ground I hit soft soil. The problem was that that softened soil was nothing more than a small relief. 

I stood up slowly. My arm was broken as well as several of my ribs. My leg didn't feel right either, but between the burns, and everything else I was a map of bodily pain. I couldn't tell the difference from one pain to the next. I could tell I was bleeding from somewhere as well. 

I started walking away from the danger around me. I couldn't run with how bad of shape I was in. The only thing I felt like doing was vomiting, and I probably would have already if there was anything in my stomach to vomit. I started chuckling to myself. What hell had I jumped into? 

What fun I was having. It hurt to exist right now. Yet this was the most fun I'd had in years. I could really feel the way my personality, and mind was changing right now. It was both exhilarating, and terrifying at the same time. 

I wasn't landing right on my right foot, but I couldn't quite tell what was wrong with my leg. I tripped over my bad foot, and landed on the ground knees first. A fresh wave of pain ran up my knees to the rest of my body. I almost passed out. My hand shot out. 

Stopping myself from plowing face first into the ground. I dry heaved a few times as the pain overwhelmed me for a few moments. I tried so hard to see the danger around me, but my body had given out. It refused to move anymore. It didn't matter how desperate I was to move. 

I simply couldn't. That only made me laugh even more. If this was the field I was meant to die in then so be it. I dropped to the ground slowly, and rolled onto my back. If I couldn't escape then I might as well watch this world burn. 

I'd set fire to this forest. I could take a small amount of joy from that. I could see the experience pouring in. It seemed I got credit for damage caused by the domino effect as well. That was a good thing. 

My muscles relaxed as I watched the world burn with the same interest, and joy as I used to feel when watching movies. It was interesting, and somewhat funny to watch the trees all freak out as they burned. The biggest one was burning particularly hot. I could feel the waves of heat even from where I had landed. It looked like a massive bonfire. 

A pillar of angrily moving flames. It's eyes were burning by now so it didn't see me. Not that it would have known me even if it tried to look. Killing from within was beginning to become a pattern for me. I wasn't strong enough to fight fair at the moment. 

Fighting dirty was my only way to win right now. My eyes wanted to drift closed. I knew it was because of the blood loss. I couldn't really do anything about it right now. I didn't want to drift off. 

If I fell asleep I wouldn't be able to watch the show anymore. I was enjoying the show. I didn't want to miss anymore of it then I had to. I hadn't gotten to watch a show in a long while. I'd watched movies daily before. 

It was what I filled my time with instead of speaking to people or going out to hang out. I couldn't afford to go party when I was planning to save money, and buy a house. Arlington wasn't exactly a cheap place to rent or buy. Granted I could probably just have any house I could defend now. That put a tired smile on my face. 

I wanted to go join in the fun. I couldn't. I still couldn't move. I tried to lean up. I literally couldn't move in the slightest. 

All I could do was wait so that's what I did. I was never the most patient person. I watched as each three caught fire, and thrashed around violently as they burned. Eventually all of the trees were engulfed in flames. I kept my eyes open. 

I was exhausted from blood loss. I couldn't move, and it was getting very hard for me to stay awake. I forced myself to stay awake. Trying to count the limbs of the trees as they thrashed. It was the only way I could stay alert enough to tell what was happening around me. 

My body was in horrible shape. I knew that better then I cared to. I wanted to sleep, but sleep was the last thing I should do. Fuck it all. I didn't like this idle boredom.