11 Rescued

[Few minutes before]

Greg was running, while his speed was accelerating more and more.

In the beginning, the scenery next to him firstly was going away slowly, but now everything around him was blurry.

"Amazing! However, I start to feel the pain again. I need to hurry."

With that, Greg clenched his teeth and continued to run.

A while later, he saw two figures flying above in the sky ad Joe was behind them, tied up with a strange black rope.

"Let's see how far I can j-. Hooooly sh*t!!!", shouted Greg with surprise, because just as he jumped from the ground, his speed accelerated even further, almost to its double as before.

*Ka-Boom!*

Because of the sudden speed change, a huge crater appeared from where he took off, showing just how much power was behind the speed.

Almost as fast as lightning, Greg was next to Joe. He summoned his dagger, slashed the rope just like tofu, and took Joe away.

The two were falling at an unbelievable speed towards the ground, which made Greg anxious, because no matter what, with this speed and height they will die if he doesn't think of a solution.

His body is only in the Awakened rank, so it can't bear a huge impact like this. And let's not talk about the speed, which he goes at the moment.

Greg started to think and with an idea he made Alice change into her blackbird form.

In an instant, Greg's stopped shining. Joe noticed the change and when he saw Greg, he was flabbergasted.

"Greg?! You are alive?", asked Joe in surprise.

"Yeah, at least now. It's a problem?", asked Greg with a wry smile.

"No, of course not! But how?"

"Stop the talk for later, we have bigger problems than that.", said Greg and looked below them as they were ready to hit the ground.

"Get ready.", said Greg anxiously.

"Ready for wh-", asked Joe, but before he could finish his sentence, saw something incredible.

Just before their bodies hit the ground, they disappeared into their very own shadow.

Joe looked around, but couldn't see anything. It was so dark, that he didn't see even his own hand.

However, this wasn't the case for Greg. He saw thin lines all around him, but that was all. He didn't know what they do.

But before he could think more, with strong suction, their bodies started to fly up and a while later they came out from the shadows.

Joe looked at Greg with a confused look and said, "So this is the power of the six elements. It's as powerful as a white Soul Stone's Guardian."

Greg just smiled and didn't say anything, instead he looked around.

They were in a huge forest with trees all around them. The trees were so huge, that one could get injured just from looking upwards.

Just as Greg wanted to say how cool it looked, suddenly two figures appeared before them not far away.

Seeing Joe and Greg, the two were surprised.

"Hey, rat! How did you survive?", asked the smaller figure with a sharp gaze.

Greg stood next to Joe and said, "I killed the monster of course, stupid!"

Hearing the answer, not only the two guys looked surprised, but Joe too.

"He seems to changed a bit.", thought Joe and looked at Greg's appearance.

"Don't joke around. I don't know what trick you did, but this is your end!"

With that said, the bigger guy raised his hand and two circular shadows appeared below him and Joe.

Joe instantly jumped to the side, however, Greg just looked at the guy with a glare.

"Shocked to the level you can't move? Then di-, Huh?!", said the guy, however just before he could drag Greg's body down to the shadow, Greg appeared before him and touched his chest.

With an expressionless face, Greg said coldly, "I don't think so. How about you die first?"

In an instant, the guy's body started to freeze at a rapid pace and after a few seconds, his body turned into an ice sculpture.

Of course, his sudden appearance was because of Alice's change into her snake form, but it takes a small time to do so. That's why Greg was standing still, but luckily his enemy didn't attack instantly, so he had time.

Seeing the frozen body, both Joe and the smaller guy was shocked.

"I-impossible! You were a weakling in the dimensional zone, so how??!!", shouted the smaller guy and looked at Greg with disbelief.

Greg wanted to say something, however, his body started to stiffen and a bigger pain than before hit him.

He fell to the ground and clenched his head in pain, struggling against the urge to shout.

Seeing this, the smaller guy laughed and pointed at Greg, "It seems you can't control your powers perfectly. Haha!! Perfect! This just makes it easier to kill you!"

As he said this, a purple light appeared on his fingertip ready to fire at Greg.

However, before he could do it a huge black cloud appeared above him.

"Huh?"

*BOOOM!!*

"AAAARRRRGHHH!!!"

With a huge bang, his figure got hit by a bolt of lightning.

It was naturally Joe who attacked him from the side.

"Before I was got caught by surprise, so I won't make the same mistake twice. Now you pay the price.", with that, Joe hit the guy with lightning one after another.

"AAARGHHH! STO-, AARRGH!!"

As time went by, the guy passed out, but his clothes got burnt on his skin and his color was almost black all around.

Joe after confirming that the guy was really passed out, took out a strange handcuff and put it on his arm.

After putting it on, he turned around and looked at Greg's figure.

He was lying on the ground and clenching his head in pain. Just as he wanted to help him, Greg's stiffened body relaxed, and sat up.

"Are you okay?", asked Joe from Greg.

After shaking his head here and there, Greg nodded and said, "Yeah... Much better."

Joe nodded and after a small silence, he talked.

"Thanks."

Greg just smiled and said, "Well, I said I will repay your kindness. You can say this is it."

Joe just nodded and looked at the guy, while saying, "I connected already with my family. They will be here in a moment, so we only need to rest and wait."

*Paff*

Joe looked at Greg, who was lying on his back in the grass while smiling.

"Ahhhh! Soo good! I thought I was dead for real."

Joe hearing this just smiled and sat next to him.

"So? What happened?", asked Joe curiously.

Greg stayed quiet for a while, but in the end, he told Joe what happened, except the part when the time froze.

He told him that he suddenly got to use his powers and that's how he could kill the monster and rescue him.

Just as Joe wanted to ask something after Greg finished his story, people started to appear one after another.

Greg put his guard up, but Joe said to him instantly, "Relax. They are from my family."

With that, they got rescued and was brought back to the city, together with the two who wanted to kidnap Joe, one frozen and one scorched...