Chapter 963: Different Meteors (1/2)

Sam and Gran started running with their normal forms. Just like a normal runners using physical runners and after they warmed up a bit, Gran activated her partial shadow elemental fusion for which Sam did the same.

Gran was a surprised a bit. She knew little about Sam. Other than the fact that he is good at formations and good at liquor and wine with some extra high intelligent beasts that could do all kinds of work for him, she doesn't know much about him.

Now seeing shadow element, she was even more surprised.

Both of them started using shadow element and moved like two black snakes in the ground jumping from one place to another with a relative ease.

Sia looked at both of their receding backs and wished that they both would be safe.

Soon as both racers ran for a few hundred meters the meteors started striking. They boulders are almost falling down like raining water.

Gran who seemed to be experienced in this started dodging them easily, she is using the shadow of the meteors that are about to strike to move from one spot to another and swiftly moved forward creating a lead.

Sam wanted to overcome that lead, but he is not as swift as Gran at the start, but soon he managed to catch up a bit.

But as soon as he neared Gran, she made a somersault in the air and kicked two small meteors that are coming down towards him.

Sam dodged one that is sure to hit him and ignored the other that was a bit off trajectory, but the next second he dodged the first one, he understood the second one didn't miss. Because it was not aimed at him in the first place.

Its target is another large meteor to begin with. This boulder crashed into a larger one that is near Sam and the debris started falling off on him.

Sam shifted to earth elemental fusion and defended against the debris, before chaging the fusion back to normal and moving forward.

This time, he didn't try to catch up or overtake immediately.  Instead he maintained a steady distance as he observed the meteors that are crashing down with energy vision. The main disadvantage of Sam over Gran is that she knew about this and familiar with this scenario.

He has to make himself familiar and knowledgeable if he has any chance of beating her and soon he drew up some observations.

First one is that the nine moons which have different elemental properties and presences are throwing out different elemental meteors. Even the rock that crashed into him burning with fire elemental one.

Even the gravity and the extreme force these meteors are hitting the earth is not changing these elemental properties and second is that the meteors are of different sizes.

There are small baseball sized to large mammoth sized. But they are not gigantic. If they are that big, then the planet might not even be able to survive. Sam doesn't know how the gravity of this planet holding itself against nine moons, but that is not his problem so he shook those thoughts away and started thinking of ways to help himself out of the situation.

He came up with a small plan to pick up the lead. He shifted his elemental fusion to earth elemental one and caught hold of a meteor without destroying it. It is a good soccer ball sized and he used gravitational manipulaton to catch a hold of it.

Then he shifted to fire elemental fusion and started creating a rock-lava egg. After that he turned back to the shadow elemental fusion and started picking up the speed again.

Gran noticed that the distance between them is decreasing once again and started kicking the boulders. This time Sam is careful and he used this exact moment to throw the Rock-Lava Egg at Gran. She dodged it to the side.

But the egg crashed into a nearest large rock and the lava splashed all over Gran. Even though it is not exactly damaging and all it could cause might not even be considered pain, the first instinct of the body when an unknown hot liquid suddenly splashed on them, particularly when they are not expecting it is to flinch and cover.

Sam used this swift second to jump and kick a large ice elemental boulder that was about to fall towards it and it crashed right into Gran which made her stop for a second and Sam took this chance to not only eliminate the distance between them and picked up the lead.

But instead of leaving a large gap between themselves, he maintained a steady distance so that he could be aware of her tricks.

For some time, he managed to dodge or even completely avoid her attacks from the rear because of this constant awareness, but he also managed to maintain the lead perfectly while throwing a few of his own attacks.