Jace wakes up once again to the sunrise however he hears a drum coming from outside. Jace peeks out of the safe house to see that rain was pouring down all nonstop.
Jace sits in the middle of the safe house and debates his choices of what he wants to do. 'I have rain gear and everything, however I don't know if I want to go out in this weather. My visibility will be less as well as I will have worse hearing due to the sound of the rain. This could mean I could be attacked very easily'.
Jace decides to stay inside for the day and heads over to the throwing knives. 'First thing to train is the mana tethers for Way of 1,000 Blades'. Jace sits in the middle of the room and starts to make a mana tether on one knife which he completes.
Jace then moves onto the second knife which he also completed easily. 'Now comes the hard part, trying to control them'. Jace throws the 2 knives and uses the mana tethers to bounce them back to him. This he is successful at, however when he throws them again it goes poorly.
Jace this time tries to have each one go a different direction. This works until he needs to start splitting his vision and control each one separately. Jace fails and spends the next few hours practicing.
Jace after a few hours of practicing is able to control each one perfectly most of the time which is enough for him to try the new technique from the book. Jace setting his sights on the tree trunk above him opens the method to check. 'Yep, as I remembered it. I kept on forgetting to do this as the creations and base was occupying my mind'.
Jace throws the 2 knives and lands them right above him. Jace then takes the mana tethers from the tips of a finger on each hand. He extends the tethers around his hands and his arms. After he completes this he pulls on them and shoots himself into the top of the tree. Jace is quick however and uses his hands to stop him from hitting his head. Jace then falls landing on his legs in a squat position and with no injuries.
'That pull up was stronger than I thought. The tethers were like rubber bands shooting me towards the knives. I should have used these to swing from trees instead of Explosive Propulsion. But it's fine now I can use this to get to far trees and my Explosive Propulsion for shorter branches'.
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Jace recovers his throwing knives and gets in position to try the technique again. This time Jace doesn't pull as hard on the tethers leading to a much more controllable motion to the knives. Jace then spends the rest of the rainy day practicing and mastering this technique.
In the demon base the mood is gloomy. It had been a few days since the new schedule and the demons were feeling the effects. All the demons were tired and their bodies were breaking from working almost non stop. In the Leader's tent the aid walks in and gives a report.
"Leader, we are on schedule to complete the base in time, however I think we need to change back the schedule" the aid says. "Why is that?" the Leader asks, looking up from his desk. The aid responds "Everyone is becoming tired and the infected are getting worse everyday, Leader. I believe that all the infected will die very soon if they continue their current schedule."
The Leader thinks for a moment and says "They will be fine, tell them to suck it up and get to work." The aid looks down and responds "Yes, Leader" and heads out of the tent.
In the DSC school everyone is once again on edge as there is movement from the demon camp. The Captain and Charlie however are on the roof of the school with a missile beside him.
The Captain turns to Charlie and says "I didn't know if I wanted to use this yet since it took so long to make, but it will be worth it. Do you know if we found any more children with crafting powers Charlie?"
Charlie responds while checking the missile "No sir, I don't remember getting any reports of another being found." The Captain then asks "Charlie, how are communications coming?" Charlie responds while looking at his clipboard "They are still trying to get something to work, sir."
"I see, well continue trying" the Captain says before him and Charlie go to the control panel for the missile. The Captain then aimed the missile right at the demon camp and set it off. Everyone watched as the missile flew from the top of the base towards the camp.
As it arrived at the camp it hit the ground and a loud boom was heard as well as a shock wave was seen. After the boom everyone sees that the camp was set ablaze and that most of the tents had disappeared.
They also saw many figures start to run away from the wreckage of their camp. When the Captain looked through the binoculars at the wreckage there was one thing that gave him the shivers. There was a demon with 2 horns staring right at him while on fire.
After a few seconds the demon turned and retreated in the same direction as the other demons. The Captain turns to Charlie and says "See how fast another one can be made. I have a feeling that we will need many more of these."
Charlie responds "Yes, right away, sir" he then runs down to the lower levels. The Captain is left standing there while looking at where he saw the demon. The Captain then says "This isn't over yet, I will get you one day" to which he then went down to his office.