Chapter 274 - Going All Out (1/2)

Have you ever dreamed of flying? Ever think how that would feel? Kind of like floating in a swimming pool? But if you were to try to fly through the air like that, you would look amazingly stupid.

And that was what happened to Laz. Although the 'ground' in the sky was ok to walk on, Laz noticed that both Malene and Ruby had actually suspended themselves in the air as though they were floating. Not only that, but they could move around almost naturally. A little lean this way or a slight turn that way allowed them to float like fireflies in the night sky.

So seeing them being so natural about it, almost like that were dancing, Laz tried his best to do the same.

After several rounds of spinning in circles, ended up face first on the ground and even floating in place upside down, the girls who had been laughing the whole time, took pity on him.

After floating over to him, they grabbed Laz's hands and pulled him up.

”For height, think of it like walking on stairs,” Malene advised.

”Movement doesn't need to involve your whole body. It starts at your base and effects your entire self. Any large movements will cause you to become unsteady,” Ruby followed up with.

Over the course of the next thirty minutes, the girls took turns moving around with Laz, dancing with him in the air and giving him advice on how to move. Although it was anything but graceful, by the end, Laz had gotten a feel for it. Although his movements didn't look natural or graceful like the girls did, they were no longer entirely stiff and incontrollable.

”This is incredible,” Laz said with a face full of wonder.

”I'm surprised,” Ruby said, looking at Laz's expression.

”About what?” He asked back.

”We've never seen you so excited before,” Malene answered, looking at him as well.

In truth, out of the last four years of his life, the girls never really did spend much time with him. In fact, if it wasn't for the strange properties of his that seemed to link him with them, they might have just all ended up as sh.i.p.s passing in the night. Although that could no longer happen, it still meant that their were parts of each other that they still had left to uncover. The girls themselves might know each other pretty well, but to them, Laz was still a bit of a mystery.

Then again, when even Laz paused to think about it, he probably hadn't been this excited in years.

”Ha ha. Of course. This is flying. Who doesn't dream of soaring around like a bird, free from the constraints of the world.”

”Would you like to hear our theory?” Ruby asked him.

”Sure.”

”When we are strong enough, perhaps the power in our bodies will allow us to fly like this in the real world too.”

”Really?” Laz said, intrigued.

”Yeah. We've done quite a bit of study in this separate realm that was made. Things like gravity do exist, but because the world is so small and shielded, the effects that would normally apply here are greatly reduced. Gravity, the denseness of air and space, the refraction of light. All of the parts of nature we are used to are present, but in such a limited number that our own abilities allow us to escape it here. Therefore, we figure that once we have grown strong enough, we can escape the principles of our own world as well. As to how strong that is... who knows? Maybe you have to reach the level of a god to do that...” Malene commented, revealing their findings.

It was an interesting thought, one Laz never put much time into. What level were these gods at? What about A'ruya? Could they actually reach that level one day?

He didn't know.

”Alright. Well, now that you've got a feeling for it, what do you say? Want to take on these weak little girls by yourself? Or would you prefer a little one on one action?” The way Ruby said this, Laz felt a cold sweat on his back.

'Weak little girls? You're both at the late stage foundation realm while I'm at the middle stage. Doesn't that make me the weak one?' Laz though to himself, but he didn't say it. Perhaps it was pride or knowing that these were his women, but he felt like he couldn't show weakness.

”No. It's fine. Come on then. Both of you together?” Laz put on a show a bravado... but his voice at the end seemed a little weaker than he had intended.

Laughing, The girls couldn't help but eye him like pray.

”Now... Now... remember that I'm still a bit unused to the movements here...” Before Laz could even argue for mercy, Ruby swung her claw like hand at Laz, causing three streaks of red light to come charging at him. The light itself looked like rips in the air.

Using his feet like he was on solid ground, Laz quickly retreated, jumping to the side fast enough to allow for the light to pass by him. As it was, the streaks of light continued on until they hit the giant clock tower a little ways away, causing the top of the tower to be cut into slices like a hot knife through butter.

”GOD DAMN...” Laz said, looking at the falling structure behind him. What was even more amazing was that as he watched it crumbled, it suddenly froze like time had stopped. Then, before his flabbergasted eyes, the tower put itself back together like he was watching it rewind. In merely a moment, Big Ben looked completely unharmed.

Laz's head looked like it was on fire as he looked from the girls back to the tower and back again, almost like he didn't believe what he was seeing.