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“Huff… I-I’m dying here!”
“Faster! Run faster! Run like a lightning bolt!”
Eun-Ho had been in second grade when it all started, in the very beginning of his track days. His coach always yelled the same thing.
Run like lightning.
That man said it so often, it might as well have been his own name. Whenever Eun-Ho failed to post a good time, he’d smack the back of his calves, or thump him between the shoulder blades with a grimace.
Once, Eun-Ho had even tried to argue with his coach. He even memorized the speed of lightning beforehand, childishly thinking it’d help.
“H-how can a person run like a lightning bolt? A lightning bolt travels like 100,000 kilometers per sec—”
“Big mouth for such a shrimp! Get over here!”
Still, he ended up getting beat even worse afterward. Funny how that first act of rebellion at just nine years old turned out to be useful now.
“Whoa! An airplane shaped cloud just went by! And then—”
“Acceleration.”
“...nnn”
Eun-Ho used his two points to stretch his Acceleration skill from one to thirty seconds.
“Summon. Activate.”
He even activated the Beginner Swordsmanship Class audit pass. Then, he cracked open the cave door, keeping his eyes fixed on the sky outside.
Thirty seconds in Acceleration translated to only one minute in reality. In other words, he’d created his own little pocket of time, stretched as far as it would go.
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