40 Episode 39 Marathon and Gliding (1/2)

Thinking while running.

If we estimate 10 minutes per lap, 50 laps will take 500 minutes, or about 8 hours. That's about eight hours.

Of course I won't get tired after 8 hours of running, but I wonder if I should take an exam to test my endurance when I know I won't get tired after that.

In the end, though, I had to run. This time, I thought as I slowed down to avoid falling off the scaffolding and turned a corner.

Come to think of it, I've been told to run 50 laps, but I haven't been told to run 50 laps.

I think I was faster than my current speed when I flew purely in the air without using my legs.

...... Doesn't this mean that I'm being dragged down by my legs now?

Try floating in the air for a while and accelerating. I can feel my speed gradually increasing. That's what I thought.

Soon the next corner comes. I couldn't make the turn, but it doesn't matter, there's no need to fly along the wall.

In order to avoid personal injury, I increased my altitude, and at a certain point, my acceleration suddenly slowed down. It was about two and a half meters from the ground.

If I lower the altitude a little, the acceleration returns. I don't know why, but if you just want to move fast, this seems to be the best place.

Perhaps magic has something like the ground effect of an airplane.

But I don't think the magic is actually creating wind or lift.

I accelerate steadily, probably rounding the next corner in less than two minutes. The acceleration is still going on.

It seems that I am flying in a semicircle, with the outer wall inside the semicircle, rather than turning without killing my speed and turning the next corner.

If you were to check the trajectory with a car navigation system or something, it would probably look like a track in a track and field stadium.

Well, if the guild's expected route is a track, I'll probably run into the audience area and then come back to the original course.

But I can't help it, because I'm faster. I pass the starting point, gaining more speed on the straight. It probably took me less than five minutes.

I look at the card, and it clearly says ”2 laps”.

The acceleration seems to weaken as you get faster, but it's still there. I don't feel any air resistance, but the magic must be doing something with its magic power.

No, if the acceleration is constant, the kinetic energy per unit of time increases as the speed increases. If the decrease in acceleration is only due to that, then how much more can you accelerate?

I don't feel like doing ....... It would be nice if the acceleration stopped at a convenient transonic speed, but if the instantaneous output of the magic power fell below the output needed to cancel the shock wave as soon as it reached the speed of sound, and the explosion scattered, we would be blinded.

If there was a news report the next day, it would have said something like ”the whole body was hit hard”. If the body or head is safe, there is a possibility that it can be regenerated, but I don't want to even think about trying it.

Even if it goes up, it should be limited to the speed of a bullet train, about 300 km/h, or 25 laps per hour. I think I can get away with that. I'll deploy the magic armor, though. At higher speeds, even a flying pebble can become a weapon.

A stationary pebble hitting your head when you are flying at 300 km/h is equivalent to being hit in the head by a pebble flying at 300 km/h.

Not to mention if you hit a tree.

You should also avoid taking things out of the item box. I've never taken something out while speeding up, but if it comes out while stationary, it's suicidal.

On the other hand, if it comes out at my current speed, I can make a powerful weapon just by stuffing a rock in the item box, so I'll try that later.

I'm on to the next round. It's getting a little hard to fly along the long side of the city. The power cannot keep up with the accelerating turn.

I decided to fly in a slightly circular orbit. The shorter side is almost ignored. The path is also ignored. Just fly over the ocean.

The azure sea is not calm, but it is not rough either. It will not affect your flight.

Hopefully the laps will count. ......

Despite my fears, the card recorded my third lap. The time is probably faster than before. It should have taken less than four minutes.

From there, I continued to accelerate steadily, and by lap 6, I was probably under 3 minutes.

But I didn't slow down, and finally, on lap 20, I think I completed a lap in about two minutes.

I felt like I could still accelerate, but I didn't want to risk it.

Now that I finally have enough magic power, I'm ready to kill the demons.

But I can't use weapons. It's in the item box.

I'm not going to try to get it out at this speed, and slowing down is a waste of time.

So I'm going to use magic. That's what I was going to do in the first place.

At any rate, I aimed at the left edge of the tree in front of me and fired a rock spear at it.

When I turned around, I saw that the tree was partially gouged in the exact place where I aimed.

It seems that the speed of the rock spear is determined not by its relative speed from me, but by its relative speed from the air or something at the point of appearance.

There is no such thing as an absolute velocity from space. Unless the theory of celestial motion is correct in this world and the universe is not expanding.

I don't know the exact definition of ...... space.

Anyway, it is nice to know that if I aim at a target, it will fly there. I didn't have to calculate the speed at which I was flying and shoot magic.

But instead, by the time it lands, I'm flying far ahead of it. So I had to make sure I killed it with the first shot.

So I'm going to use the explosive shells I used at that time instead of the blue persimmon ...... that killed the crab. I don't care if the demon explodes and disperses peacefully, since I'm not going to collect the corpse anyway.

The monsters I saw here were obviously weaker than those crabs, but overkill is just fine. We have too much power anyway.

I circled the area with about ten cannonballs around my body, hitting every demon I saw.

When I had ten rounds left, the card said ”40 rounds, 1524 points.

I don't know what defeat points are, but when I looked at it after killing the black wolf, it had increased by two, so I guess I'll be exempted from the E rank battle test with about 100 points.

I don't know how much the D rank is, but let's just annihilate them without slowing down.

I kept going around, and the goal was in sight. On the last straight, I didn't slow down at all, but kept accelerating until the end, and then slowed down.

Then I started to decelerate, but this took a surprisingly long time.

Before I knew it, I had passed over the land and stopped, probably about two kilometers from the ocean. When we thought it had finally stopped, it was now being launched upward.