Chapter 86: Wooden world(22)
It took Cades just about a quarter minute or sixteen seconds to arrive there, covering over two thousand feet while propulsing himself due to his subconscious use of mana while it was spread around all around him.
He was still stuck in a kind of equilibrium, a prison of his own thoughts as he began to analyse the subconscious utilization, but as he did the subconscious propulsion stopped once he was about halfway, resulting in the rest taking a bit longer till he stopped thinking about it once more and started to worry about Manug, something that was quite fresh to him, worrying about others.
As Cades quickly moved forward, passing the eerily peaceful and lush forest as if there was no danger in the world he began to think once more, this time about the fact that he had begun to call the archer as Manug, even in his own mind.
Perhaps it was just because this was a moment of clarity, one that was perhaps destined to happen quite often now that he could read the intentions of others with such great proficiency, but he felt as if he had never really called Manug as Manug in his mind as much as he had done in this entire debacle that the two were stuck in, perhaps, Cades thought, he was warming up to him, especially after Manug saved his life when he was stuck with that mage, after all, Manug could've probably just tried flying away.
Of course he couldn't, but to Cades that didn't really matter, from what he saw Manug could've just flown indefinitely back then, perhaps only being weighed down by Cades himself in the end, something he had felt quite responsible for.
And perhaps it was now time to fulfill that guilty promise that he had silently made to himself back when he was dangling in the air, only held up by the thin and seemingly weak arm of Manug, he would show his gratitude for that save, and in this case he would just have to pay him back in the perfect way.
Manug had saved him from that diagram obsessed mage and caused him to be able to figure out how to break the sickness, by the simple fact that he had been alive, then he would just have to fry his affected parts, something that would perhaps be quite... weird... and kill the mage while he was still recovering.
Hopefully Manug was still alive.
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