Chapter 57: Concerningly easy
Nick turned out to be right in his assumption, all the other three remaining environment tests turned out to be even more of a breeze than the first two.
The stage following the canyon was that of a low lighting, low ceiling, narrow corridor cave.
In this level his sprint practically slowed to a jog, as if he had one misstep he’d scrape any part of his body on the tight, narrow space surrounding him.
This stage was rather boring, as that was the only unique facet of it. It didn’t have any falling obstacles like the canyon level did, or natural environmental obstacles like the jungle level did.
However the fourth test following on from the cave turned out to be a little bit more of a challenge. It was a river crossing and swamp stage, where as he walked through the door separating level 3 and 4, the simulation opened up to rushing shallows and muddy banks all around.
This proved to be the most time consuming level of all of them, as he couldn’t even utilise a jog anymore in this place. If he were to be compared to a normal person, he’d basically be moving at a speed walker’s pace through this stage.
Water submerged all the way up to his knees, and he ran while keeping his focus highly concentrated on what lay beneath the water, as if he stepped into one wrong muddy pocket, that was his test over.
Thankfully, his Sabertooth Wolf Beast Armament was still active and helping him through the test, as now that he’d absorbed far more Soul Seeds of both Awakened rank and Mutant rank since the first time he had to use it against the Whiteclaw Snake King, he had far more time and utility to use it.
His Awakened Soul Seeds alone net him 145 seconds of use, but compared to his Mutant Soul Seeds, which allowed him to use it for an additional 490 seconds of use, this was low!