Chapter 145: Safe Zone (2/2)

Right after that notification popped up in his mind, he began breathing quickly, breathing in the same way as a man about to bust a nut.

Suddenly, he stopped breathing.

Right at that very moment, a notification popped up in his mind.

<+10 stamina>

His way of breathing changed again.

Now, he was breathing like a one-minute man, a title for people who can't do it for more than a minute.

Each minute he breathed like that, his stamina restored by a unit.

It took a while, but he restored his stamina and decided to rest for the night and hunt first thing in the morning.

He laid down near a tree and used a few dry branches to start a fire to keep himself warm. It wasn't hard to do so. After all, he picked up basic survival skills in school. The thing was that the forest was warm merely hours ago, but now it has become cold.

He closed his eyes.

[Are you going to sleep?]

”Don't worry. I have no intention of dying while lost in my dreams.”

There was no way he was going to sleep in a place like this where death and danger are almost about everywhere.

He closed his eyes only to rest.

[Champion, you should look for a safe place after taking a rest. This lightning isn't something magicians below the grandmaster realm can survive]

”I was planning to do just that.”

”Boom!!”

Sometime later, a roar came out of the darkness high above, pressing on the heart of all manner of life below. Blue streaks flashed in the swirling dark clouds, lighting up the night.

Elliot's eyes snapped open when he heard that roar.

In two hours, the dark clouds would reach him. He needed to leave right away.

He raised his head to check out the other places with little to no storm clouds, and he saw that there four miles away from him. He didn't dare to fly as the winds were too strong, and he began walking towards the place with no clouds. To reach that place, however, he had to go through a low-level hazardous zone, one with a lightning strike every three minutes or so.

”Ah, another statue!” The safe zone that he reached also had a copper statue. It depicts a woman with a curvy body and the lower body of a snake. Furthermore, even her hair was like snakes. He realized that this was the statue of Medusa. He went up to it without a care because he knew that there was nothing wrong or special about it.

Its only function was to open a portal to the third trial for a person who has collected at least 100 spirit points.