155 The race (1/2)
”Serena, Ariel, To beat them, I'll need your help. Can I count on you?” John asked
”You don't have to ask” Said Serena
”The role of a party is to help each other.” Ariel said confidently
”Then... Everyone hold on to me.”
Knowing that they had no time to waste, no one complained, and all moved in to hold to John. Serena wrapped her arms around john chest from the left side while Ariel did it from the right side.
The two were blushing but weren't opposed to the idea, it was probably embarrassing for them to do something like this in front of others or so john assumed.
[Where is master?]
Meanwhile, master had already started to shadow step from one path on to another, each path was a long jump away from each other, and she could 50 meters with every shadow step so she was skipping around 3 to 4 paths, she had started before anyone noticed and was already half way there.
John himself only realised this now.
”Alright, I want everyone to start gather air behind us, we're going to use it as a catapult to propel us all the way to the other side, naturally we'll be going fast, and I'll also use 'that' so we don't fall.”
By that, john meant Levite, and his party members were already aware without him telling them.
They began to gather air behind them, while fake chanting and avoiding the others around. Serena despite being better at using chant-less fire magic, she can use wind pretty good.
While Ariel is better at chant-less wind magic but she can use fire magic pretty good too.
The combinations in their spells are so complex that John wouldn't be able to do it himself if he wanted, for example, he'd need to have 2 minds to be able to merge them that perfectly.
Serena's ability to properly ignite all of the air particles formed by Ariel, and Ariel's ability to properly manage to air particles to be ignited by Serena. They make an unstoppable duo.
”John shouldn't we also use an explosion to propel ourselves forward? We'll cast a wind shield so we don't get hurt by the blast.”
”Hm that's a good idea, then, we'll go with that, gather as much hydrogen as you can and tell me when you're about to ignite it.
The distance from where they stood to the other side was around 800 meters, Azure's party was 400 meters in while Master was around 550, even if master makes it there first, it wouldn't count if they're not there with her.
”We're ready” The two simoutaneously said
”Then...”
The amount of air that was gathered behing them was incredible, if they were to unleash it now, everyone would be blasted away, people now started to notice what john and his two party members were planning and began to back away.
”Leave the compressing to me.”
Ariel had now stopped gathering air all that remained behind them was a insanely dense ball full of air, originally it wasn't a ball and was just air twirling around behind them, but john gave it the shape of a ball as he added a circular spherical sphere on it
”Compressing all of that air is going to be impossible...” Serena muttered
”But this is john we're talking about...” Ariel added
”Ah, that's right, I keep forgetting common sense started to apply to him but still doesn't click in.”