Chapter 31: Ch 31 - Trial of Agility (3)
As Kai completely threw himself to his left side in hopes of not dying, he was suddenly struck with a realization that what he had done just now instinctively had already marked an end to his life.
It was true that he had gotten away from the trajectory of the incoming blurred creature—most probably the griffin, in this case—he had jumped from a height of 10 meters, which was enough to break several of his bones and render him immovable, if not straight up death.
His eyes quickly darted right, locking onto the griffin gliding past him at an astonishing speed while he barely dodged the extended span of its wings.
Realizing that the first death had been dodged, he extended his hands and legs downwards, straightening them up as much as he could at a slanting angle.
At that point, Kai had only one thing on his mind.
’Better to lose my hands than my spine’ he thought as he adjusted his arms to form a down-sliding angle.
As reckless as it sounded, it was the most sane decision he could’ve made in such a situation.
With the momentum and angle he had jumped from, it was only a matter of seconds before his head kissed the ground, and the only way to stop it would be to use his limbs to intercept, avoiding the risk of instant death.
The 10-meter-long fall felt like an instant as he fell to the ground in a mere fraction of a second.
And just like he had planned, Kai landed on his Hands. For a moment, he felt as though his arms had disappeared completely, but the very next second, as if his numbed senses had begun to return, he felt a sharp pain surging from the very tips of his fingers like a turbulent waterfall ascending backwards.