Huff!Huff!Huff! Kael panted, he had exhausted himself running and was now getting tired but he had to Keep running or else he would be caught. "Crap,crap!!crap!!!" Kael repeatedly ranted
***
" The smells is getting stronger Commander Harwick" Gilbert alerted Harwick
"Charge!!!" Harwick ordered as they increased their speed on the horses
"We must not that person get away" Harwick continued
"We are not going to let that happen" Plen replied as he started chanting silently and clapped him palms together. Soon a golden aura appeared on everybody including the horses. Plen was the only soldier in the group without an attack based tempest attribute. His tempest attribute was ' Heed' in which he commanded the tempest will to do his bidding but his flaw took his voice for up to 3 hours rendering him ineffective in combat.
All the soldiers stared at Plen, knowing that they wouldn't be able to converse with him for the next 3 hours. The aura outline which appeared on everyone instantly buffed them up, they felt stronger than usual and increased their pace.
***
After running through a swamp field which slowed his speed but was a strategic move as it would also slow down his pursuers, Kael came across the place which was dreaded by everyone who knew of its existence.
The Nimbra Ruins was a desolate area in which vegetation refused to grow in such an infertile looking land. It had crumbled structures in which no current structure built in the whole Eryndor resembled. It had very thick air, the tempest will in the air deemed to resonate with the crumbled structures as they gave off a silent hum but what irked Kael the most about this place was just one thing: the feeling of being watched. Ever since he approached the creepy boundary which separated the ruins from the swamp field, he had always felt a bunch of eyes glued to him but he couldn't see any animate thing in site. He thought of going around it but it was no use,his pursuers might catch up to him. He grabbed his backpack and enter the ruins but to his surprise he felt nothing wrong and kept on running.
***
"Neigh!" Harwick pulled his horse back before it stepped foot into the Nimbra Ruins.
"Gilbert!, any luck?" Harwick questioned
" I'm sorry sir, the person's scent has weakened and I'm confused. I can smell him in all directions. It's not just right " Gilbert replied, the look on his face was full of disappointment.
"Sir, I suggest we just go into the Nimbra Ruins, how bad can they be?" Corbin spoke out.
"Are you out of your mind? Everyone one knows whoever enters the Nimbra Ruins loses their perception of time and will go insane gradually. It takes strong resolve to stay in the ruins for more than 5 minutes" Guhm told Corbin
"Guhm is right, the perception of time is distorted and that would no go well in our case" Harwick agreed with Guhm
"Men, return back to the village for the was a wild goose chase" Harwick commanded, soon everyone was gone
***
Kael kept on running, he couldn't see an end even though he had been running for quite some time now. He stopped to catch his breath as sweat dripped from his forehead down to his chin. "Something is not right " he thought as he felt repetition in his movements he looked up to the sky wondering why it was scorching hot, in the sky was nothing present; no sun nor clouds, no moon nor star jus the sky and it's blue color. He looked around but could only see the crumbled structures in his line of vision which hummed silently to something Kael couldn't see nor hear.
"I might be crazy" Kael told himself. He then bent down and drew a 'X' sign into the parched soil. He then walked away trying to see whether he would come across it again justifying his feeling of repetition. He walked casually for 15minutes noticing that's no one was coming for him anymore . He walked more and more without ever looking back. He then turned back to see the distance he covered but realized he hadn't even walked away from the 'X' sign.
"What the hell is going on" Kael thought. He tried running even ditching the bag just to get away from the 'X' sign but he couldn't achieve a distance of 2 meters. Pwip! Swear beads fell off Kael's face onto the parched soil and instantly evaporating. It was extremely hot and he was dehydrating fast. He then checked his backpack and realized that he had only 2 bottles of water. He greedily gulped a whole bottle down quenching his thirst. He was seriously stuck in this cursed land.