Chapter 90: Sky Wind
How can a single step decide the flow of everything?
The moment the duo decided their next course of action, they moved forward to face the towering silhouettes lurking in the distance.
Then, at that decisive movement, like a runner preparing for a long metre sprint, Adrian lowered his centre of gravity by crouching low, inhaled deeply, and with a sound reminiscent of a church bell, lunged forward!
’Shit! He’s fast!’
Klaus thought so in dumbfounded silence as he followed suit, keeping to the shadows of the black labyrinth while trying to keep up. However, the distance between them only kept increasing.
This wasn’t just Adrian’s running speed. He was manipulating the wind vectors around his body to improve his acceleration, reducing drag and allowing him to slip through the air unnaturally. Of course, several factors such as air friction and inertia were still at play, but Adrian had mastered the delicate balance between resistance and propulsion.
Was this the difference between Vestiges and normal Striders?
Swallowing his jealousy, Klaus gritted his teeth and continued to push his body forward. He was no amateur. After all, he was the strongest and fastest among the group physically, but against Adrian, it felt like chasing a phantom. Such a scene reminded him of the painful times when he had tried to reach for a long distant memory that continuously faded from his Memory Sea.
It didn’t take long before the Nightmare Carapaces ahead noticed their approach and turned toward them.
With a murderous glint flashing in their bioluminescent slits and viscous saliva dripping from their mandibles, the monsters screeched and lunged. But Adrian didn’t slow down. Instead, he suddenly picked up speed, as if planning to ram them head-on with nothing but his body.
Surely, he wasn’t actually thinking of doing that? Klaus thought worriedly.