7 A Train and An Escape

All Light wanted to do was to escape from the train. Now he is stuck in there with some random girl who is loud as hell*. If he did manage to survive the onslaught, he would be at Setrouk City, one of the most heavily guarded cities in Wagi country**. Getting away from there would be impossible for an A-rank beginner. He had to get out of the train fast.

"IT'S ABOUT TO SPIT LAVA! " Ariane screamed before pushing him out of the Cerberus' way.

"Stop being so goddamn loud!" He said and wildly charged at it with his sword.

Bad move. Cerberus had three heads. One was focussing on Ariane and one was focussing on Light. By running towards it, he got the third head's attention and he had two dogs on him.

Suddenly Ariane screamed and plunged forward.

DIAMOND RUSH! She enchanted her hand to be made of diamond and charged at it.

"NO!! Don't attack it close!" Light quickly used his speed enhancement to get her away.

"Its lava has a magic negation power, get hit and you would have lost the magic in your hand."

"THEN HOW DO WE STOP IT? WE DON'T HAVE A LONG RANGE ATTACKER."

"I have an idea." Light said, coolly.

"WHAT IS IT?"

"We run till we find a good Long ranger!" Every man for himself!"

He quickly ran outside the compartment. Ariane ran in the opposite direction. Then he saw the most unwelcome surprise he could've asked for.

"What are you doing here? You ran in the opposite direction!" He screamed looking at Ariane who was somehow in front of him.

"WHY WOULD I KNOW?" She screamed and Light suddenly noticed the compartment changed into some sort of dungeon and they were trapped inside the dungeon.

"They must have used spatial disorientation magic. Damn they really want us dead" he said.

Just then he observed an arrow moving towards Ariane. His speed allowed him to perceive and think at high speed.

He quickly caught the arrow and broke it.

"The poison is really crude," he thought "Another magic creature?"

His doubts were confirmed when he heard a gallop getting closer. It was a person from the centaur tribe!

Though centaurs were half-human, they were considered monsters. Centaurs' ancestors were humans who couldn't evolve with magic and lost their minds. They were smarter than other monsters but were really crude compared to humans. Centaurs' meat sold at a high price.

Light already had a plan.

"Distract the Cerberus, I'll take of the Centaur. And whatever you do, don't kill that Cerberus."He told her

She trusted his words immediately. She tried punching the ground to hit the Cerberus from a safe distance. It worked. She punched the ground and make a shockwave to hit the Cerberus with the rubble. Instinctively in pain, All three of Cerberus' heads were attacking Ariane.

"HURRY UP! THIS LITTLE SHIT IS TOO STRONG FOR ONE PERSON!" Ariane screamed

Light was trying his best but the Centaur wasn't giving him a chance to attack even at close range.

"This horse even knows to fight! Stupid thing is using it's full power now to defend." Light was knocked back. The Centaur started shooting its arrows rapidly at Light. Light was now reduced to parrying the arrows. He remembered his training with Rando

" Anyone can attack mindlessly. But if you really wanna be strong, use your mind not your magic"

He used to say. The words were generic but had really good advice.

Carefully, Light noticed the time taken for the Centaur to shoot its arrows. It was about two arrows in one second. An arrow in half-second is terribly fast. But it was a bad matchup against speed magic. Light was fully aware of his advantage.

With a deep breath, he waited for the centaur to shoot his arrow and said

" MACH STYLE: DANCE OF A THOUSAND BLADES!" He started to run around at his highest speed and slashing every part of the Centaur.

He was slashing the centaur so fast no one else in the room could see. The only way to see his presence was the blood spilling where he slashed. Even the Cerberus couldn't follow his scent. Before they knew it, the Centaur was dead. But this inevitably diverted the Cerberus' attention.

"BE CAREFUL! THAT DOG DOESN'T WANT TO KILL ME ANYMORE." Ariane warned. Normally it would be a joke but fighting a Cerberus even with that speed is almost impossible.

The Cerberus started it's attack and spat lava in all directions.

Light called out and ran over to the wall of the compartment and provoked it.

" You three-headed bitch! I'm right here! Wanna kill me?" The Cerberus couldn't understand his words but his tone and the word 'kill' were enough to provoke him.

"WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK ARE YOU TRYING TO DO? " Ariane screamed, horrified.

The Cerberus was provoked and shot a huge ball of lava at Light. He dodged and the lava fell on the wall.

"YES! " Light screamed. The lava, thanks to its Magic negation properties, melted through the space disorientation and the magic barrier of the train.

"So long, Ariane!" he said and parted with his compartment partner.

He jumped off the train before the barrier could repair itself and fell off. The problem was that he jumped off a high-speed train which was almost 4000 meters above the ground.

"Well, this is going to hurt!" He said, smiling.

Light learned in his training that if he could slow his body down just before impact, he could increase the time of impact and decrease the damage on his body substantially. Though he could decrease the damage, he couldn't be invincible. The drop from 4000 meters still hurt as a drop from the third floor of a building. Light immediately passed out after reaching the ground and dislocated his shoulder

When he woke up, Light was covered in flames and a man asked him shockingly, "HOW ARE YOU STILL ALIVE?"

Light was being roasted alive.

Writer's notes: * Light's words, not mine!!!!

** More about the world's geography later :-)

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