Jace arrives back to his safe house with some ideas for how he could try to move across the branches of the trees better. As Jace walks into the safe house he sees the throwing knife he put the hex on sitting in its spot.
Jace picks up the throwing knife seeing that there was no more hex on the other side. 'It looks like my experiment didn't work but I am going to try again tonight. There was the variable that I went into Curse Creation insight'.
Jace sets the knife down and begins to draw the branches of a tree on the ground with a 5 feet gap between them. He wants to try out the first thing he thought of to move across the branches without the risk of being injured.
'My goal with this is to land right on the middle of the thickest part of the branch while using Explosive Propulsion. Also, I need to control my momentum'. Jace stands on the branch he drew for himself and prepares to use Explosive Propulsion.
Jace explodes out and up completely overshooting his target. Jace lands and turns around to see that he was very close to the target he was aiming for. Close enough, cut it this time, but if he was in the trees he would have slammed right into the trunk of the tree. Jace standing there starts to analyze the problems with the jump.
'I added too much forward momentum this time. I also forgot to think if I could snap the branches so I need to be careful with what branches I choose. Overall, I think that this has potential to work very well'.
Jace turns and walks a few steps forward onto the drawn branch and prepares to jump. Jace tries again and this time puts too little forward momentum. To which he falls right in between the two branches meaning he would be injured once again if he was on real branches.
Jace continues this training throughout the rest of the day till sundown. As the sun was setting Jace tried once again this time landing perfectly on target and with no left over momentum. This makes Jace ecstatic as after half of a day of work he accomplished what he wanted.
'I finally did it! Now I know that it can work. It isn't good enough to use while on trees but it is a step in the right direction'. Jace then calls it for the day as the sun was almost down and he didn't want to be out at night.
The next day went without any complication for Jace and was spent as a day of training. Jace also found out that the knife lost its hex over the night. During the training that day Jace decided to increase the distance between the branches by a half foot every time he completed a successful jump.
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At the end of the day Jace went back to his original drawn branches. Jace then proceeded to make four out of the five jumps he attempted on the branches.
'Lets go, the increase of difficulty really pays off. After another day I might try the real thing'. Jace once again satisfied with his progress and growth goes to bed.
This day was not as peaceful for the people at the DSC school turned into base. The half day after their successful retreat to the school was uneventful. That night passed with some gun fire but it always turned out to be a false alarm.
The start of the second day however started with Charlie running into the Captain's office. "SIr! Sir!" the Captain looks up from his desk to see Charlie standing in front of him out of breath. "What is it Charlie?" the Captain asks, waiting for Charlie to catch his breath.
"Demons were spotted a few miles out, sir. It appears that they are building a camp. What are your orders, sir?" Charlie replies. The Captain gets up and heads out the front of the school to see this demon base.
As the Captain walks out Charlie hands him a pair of binoculars. The Captain looks out into the horizon and sees a group of tent-like objects and demons going in and out of them. The Captain finishes his inspection and turns to Charlie handing him the binoculars.
"Tell everyone to be on alert and ready to respond to the threat." "Yes, sir" Charlie responds as the Captain walks back into the school building. After around midday the lookouts see movement at the demon camp.
Around 1,000 demons started marching towards the school. Everyone at the school gets into position to face the new threat coming towards them. After an hour the demons arrive 500 feet from the base to which the battle starts.
Guns are firing, grenades and shells are exploding all over the demons but they continue walking forward unfazed. At this point everyone realized that these demons were very different from the ones they were fighting at the hole. The ones at the hole after many bullets and shells couldn't be killed by the military weapons however they were still affected.
They really saw that they were fighting something different when the supernatural children couldn't kill them in one attack. This started what felt like the longest 2 minutes for everyone at the school. The soldiers and children used everything they had but in the end the demons arrived at the front gate of the barbed wire fence with half of the demons alive.
Everyone thought that everything was over when they hear a sound from the demon camp and the demons start running back. After this event everything was peaceful for the rest of the day, but everyone at the base knew that this wasn't the end.
In the Captain's office he was talking to Charlie. "They are testing us. They know that we are weaker than them, but they know nothing of this base. It was all just an experiment" the Captain said while looking down at his desk.
Charlie then response nervously "Sir, what if we use that?" The Captain sits up, leans back and starts to think. After a pause he says with a simile "It might just work."