Chapter 72: Despair. (2/2)

Stamina: 25

Sense: 17

Points available to distribute: 0]

So instead, he ran. He ran like his life depended on it. With every second going by he felt a throb in his heart.

Even as he ran across the unstable wooden bridges, all he could think about was making it in time.

[Time remaining: 00:22]

Gray ran and ran. The space was large. Both bridges covering 100 meters in distance along with the Arena covering almost double that size.

He didn't know how fast he was running, he almost tripped up on the second bridge after crossing the arena, but with the help of his pause, he quickly got back up before continuing his sprint.

His mind only had one thought in his head, to make it in time.

[Time remaining: 00:05]

He crossed through the large gates and a bright light flashed displaying the room ahead of him.

Before him was a giant hall with two arenas and four bridges connecting them. There were many monsters waiting in the first arena, munching on the corpses of horned ones. On the second arena rested a much larger monster who had not moved a muscle.

But Gray's eyes saw none of that. Instead, they were glued to the top right corner, where a long black haired beauty could be seen falling. Her green and yellow coloured eyes were just barely visible, dim of their light.

He made it. That was his only thought as a smile began to form on his face.

The smile instantly sunk however, as a reptilian monster could be seen heading towards her. The claws on the creature's body were thrust towards the girl as it had leapt.

[Time remaining: 00:04]

Gray's eyes widened as he noticed the timer continue to go down. He wanted to pause step and deploy the field, but at most the range he would reach was 30 meters. They were over two hundred meters away.

There was no way for him to reach her. Even so, he tried. He pause stepped, as close towards her as he could, while stretching out his arm in an attempt to reach her. Unfortunately, she was too far.

'Again...? Am I going to lose her again?'

[Time remaining: 00:002]

Time seemed to slow down for Gray once he realised this. His eyes bulged out, his face contorted into a look of despair as his agonizing scream resounded through the room.

”STOOOOOOOOPPPPPP!!!!!”

[Time remaining: 00:01]

*Pierce*

*Throb*

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