The boy woke up to the sound of slithering soft and slowly, unaware of any threat the boy yawned drowsily, but soon began feeling a constriction on his breathing.
The boy slowly opened his eye-lids at first, then they flew open when he saw…
A little furry animal sitting on his lap, sleeping, and a long thing wrapping around him, two animals in total.
Immediately he crushed the snake with his bare hands and threw it on the ground, lifting the furry creature gently off his lap and onto the floor.
Some may have thought they won, but the boy had an uneasy feeling, so he got ready for battle, and sure enough, somehow, the snake immediately regenerated itself from near death. After a few second stand off with the boy, the snake threw itself at the boy at an insane speed.
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Sand fell into the void
The boy’s head was blown of in a sonic boom.
The boy dodged to the left, crashing into a tree branch, also was killed with a sonic boom.
The boy jumped up and his legs were blown off, guaranteeing death.
The boy rolls right and dodges the snake narrowly.
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The snake landed and realized it had exhausted 80 percent of it’s physical stamina in one attack, and now that it's one shot move had been dodged, it hesitated for a moment, but ultimately concluded had no choice but to use what was forbidden.
Frost gathered into the snake, causing snow to gently fall in a ten meter radius, but it outside the ten meter radius, in a hundred meter radius all plants had died, and the ground cracked.
According to newtons third law there must be an opposite reaction for every action.
The product of this death was absolute power
A thousand ice spikes dropped down like a deathly rain that spelled certain doom for the target.
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Ssss
More sand spilled from the hourglass
The boy tries to punch the spikes out of the air, but they go straight through and he meets a miserable end.
The boy tries to dodge but there are too many and he bleeds to death.
The boy tries to dodge again, better but still no luck.
He tries to hit the spikes at an angle but they froze his hands to and he could not move, only accept his fate, he can.
"Aha!"
The sand flies into the hourglass and the hourglass repairs the crack. The line is broken.
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The boy ducks, grabs onto the snake, a snake which is going the speed of sound and gently redirects his course into the ground, causing a very deep hole.
The boy rushes over to the hole and starts dropping sharp rock after sharp rock, then massive rocks into the hole.
This practice continued for an entire hour of dedication until he finally stops and walks away from his victim.
Tha furry creature just kept on sleepin.
He had no idea how he had experienced death multiple times, perhaps something related to the desert around him, The boy had no idea, which made him concerned for if he had to fight the snake again, but after an hour he was pretty sure it had died.
The boy instantly dropped to the floor, dead tired and mentally done for and fell into a deep sleep.
He drifted in a sea of nothing, no gravity, no air resistance, do distance, no time, no rules.
It was a place of imagination and reality.
It was an infinity.
An hourglass orbited him loyally, and the furry creature jumped around too, but it was much bigger than in other reality.
All of his foes also appeared, the blue substance, the random things he stuffed in his mouth, the stick like things, and the snake.
Weirdly, they all seemed scared and would not come within 10 meters of him.
Another weird thing is that he could not see the colorful thing, almost as if it only existed in the other reality.
Weirdly, the hourglass was glowing, and drifting even closer, growing ever brighter.
Curious, he reached for the hourglass and suddenly-
Lick
Lick
Lick
The boy awoke to the feel of the blue substance on his face, and a pleasant yet unpleasant sound.
He opened his eyelids to realize the furry creature was standing right above him causing both the sound and the feeling.
“MMPH!”
The boy immediately stood up, fell down, and wiped his face.
Tha creature wisely realized he wanted some space and backed off to avoid being the object of frustration.
After he fell down, he felt his cheeks getting hot, an unfamiliar feeling that provoked his urge to find out how to actually stand like that furry black creature did.
So
The training began
First attempt he was leaning too much back so he tried leaning forward, but when he reached 7 degrees forward he would immediately start falling inescapably downwards.
Next he tried not leaning at all, but it was impossible, he just kept going forward or backward.
He tried to push back whenever he went forward or backward, but it was not sustainable, and most importantly it didn’t look cool.
After 2 whole hours of practicing, his legs could't handle it anymore, but he didn't want to quit, so he subconsciously bent his knees.
He immediately realized he wasn’t falling or leaning anymore and also realized the reason were his bent knees.
Curios, he wondered how much the knees could be bent to walk, and realized that as long as they weren’t fully locked then he could have the most minimal bending or just do what is comfortable.
So, the boy learned to walk with help from the black furred creature and now had a fast, efficient, and comfortable way of movement.
This awarded him the respect of the ginger creature and a sense of accomplishment (his emotions, not necessarily the truth)
And off he went to conquer the deep dark middle of the forest.
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In that exact same deep dark middle of the forest
“Master, did you feel that, nature was drawn upon, a mage broke the rules.”
“No, the magic never happened, but we feel the magic, interesting.”
“Huh?”