And so ca the second month.
The second month changed a lot. Elinoire began getting more and more depressed, her mind was unable to take all the experints and she got regular ntal breakdowns. Villin also began learning transfiguration properly.
Whenever Villin used transfiguration, he made sure the ground he transfigured couldn't be seen by any of the statues to avoid getting into trouble.
Transfiguration was a combination of a few spells, the two most necessary ones would be used to shape the objects around you according to your magical power. He found his splendid control of his magical power was of great assistance to him.
Villin's enchantnts on the wall were nearly finished as well, thanks to this the experints didn't have much of an effect on him at this point in ti. He felt determined to escape and knew it wasn't far away at this point.
At the end of the month, he could tell he was only a week away from completion at most, he made sure not to rush it and knew he probably only had once chance,
He also managed to minimize the risk of not being discovered, he managed to tell Ruby he would send out a signal in a week's ti and even managed to give her a general frequency to look for. The Academy would be looking for the signal all over the continent, it was unlikely they wouldn't be able to catch it.
And then, the worst thing possible happened.
Since it was the end of the month and Villin once more survived, he could once more let loose on spells and practice his offensive magic a bit. He didn't think about it too much and welcod the chance to get familiar with these spells a bit more again.
This ti the scientist hadn't co to get him for the practice, so guards ca to get Villin and Elinoire instead. Both of them were sent a different way to a different training ground.
This let Villin know that there were ten guards at the very least but fifteen to twenty was a more realistic estimate. It was likely there was so other facility connected to this, perhaps other types of cells, it was most likely there would be magical beasts around that were also of high research value.
Still, Villin was excited. If everything went well, he would be out of here in a week's ti.
One hour later, he was returned to the cell. But this ti, there were people inside they didn't expect. In the back of the room stood Candil, talking to two n that seed to be looking at the wall. When Villin was escorted to Candil, the scientist let out a long sigh.
"Oh my, I have to admit I really didn't expect the guards to find sothing so severe when searching your cell. To think you were planning to contact The Academy!" the scientist sighed once more before looking slightly eager again.
"Now that the gig is up, why don't you tell how long it would've been until your enchantnt was finished?"
Villin inwardly cursed, but he knew he couldn't do anything about it. Dispirited he replied "One week. One week and I would've escaped this place."
Hearing this, the scientist seed impressed "I have to say, I can admire a good escape attempt. I truly didn't have the slightest idea you would try sothing like this, creating enchantnts without an enchanting pen is hard stuff I heard!"
The scientist looked jovial, Villin didn't say a word, right now he could only hope Candil would let him live despite the escape attempt.
After waiting for a bit, Candil continued, "Look boy, I won't kill you, alright? The research value of your blood and bone marrow is much higher than we initially expected. And well, at this point I've already spent a whole bunch of effort on you, it would be a sha if large parts of my recent research went to waste."
Villin let out a breath of relief.
"But, punishnt is naturally in order. Since you wish for an enchantnt in your cell, I shall give you one. You ss with it and the experints will get much, much worse. This is the only warning you'll get."
After saying his words, the scientist and guards left the cell, soon after Elinoire was brought back to the cell as well.
It wasn't surprising they knew it was him. After all, him being a young runemaster was probably the reason he was put in this cell.
When Elinoire got back, it beca ti to tell her what happened. He showed her the enchantnt that now got ruined by the two n that ca with the scientist and explained the situation.
He also told her Candil's words, that the cell would be getting so sort of enchantnt.
The following day, the two n Villin saw in the cell the previous day entered once more. Under the protection of the guards, they seed to be working on a magic array encompassing the entirety of the cell. Villin didn't know the key runes of the magic array and so he had no idea what sort of magic array it was.
The following couple of days, things went mostly as normal. Villin and Elinoire continued going to the experints. The only exception was that the two people ca for about four hours a day, working on the magic array.
After two full weeks, the magic array was finally finished. The two n left the cell alongside the guards, a few minutes later, the magic array seed to be getting powered and activated.
Villin and Elinoire, who were looking at the magic array with so worry, imdiately felt a heavy weight pulling them down. Both of them hadn't expected this and imdiately fell to their knees.
The magic array created a gravity field. Any movent either Villin or Elinoire tried to make beca much much harder as their bodies were continuously being pulled down.
At first, Villin thought that maybe they would activate the array a few hours every day as the punishnt, but after turning on, it never turned off again.
In the beginning, the gravity field was a sowhat painful restriction, but the pain soon beca worse and worse.
Neither of them could sleep, it felt as if the back of their head was being drilled into the ground. As for sleeping while sitting, they were afraid it would cause their necks to break if they moved it the wrong way in their sleep.
The gravitational pull managed to suck most of the energy out of the two prisoners. If they could walk for an hour in a day they would've had a very productive day.
Their only release was when they headed to the experints. Villin felt so light then, it truly felt great, and then the experints would begin.
As always, the experints were horrible, it was even worse now that Villin no longer had a potential escape to look out for.
As for Ruby, due to how much duress he was going under due to the gravitational field, communicating beca a lot harder. Villin would only be able to receive a few words from Ruby every couple of days.
Another week later, while Villin was thinking back to his ti in The Academy, he suddenly perked up. He stood up with vigor he didn't have monts before.
Villin looked at the statues that were standing against the walls of the cell. Then, he looked at the space within the cell as a whole.
"Elinoire," he said, causing the currently crying girl to look up at him.
"I think, I might have an escape plan."
After this day, Villin beca more active again. He forced his body to endure training even under the current circumstances and learned from Elinoire with more vigor.
When Candil saw Villin was starting to look a bit better, they searched the cell again, this ti with the two inhabitants still inside.
Looking at the two people search the room, Villin felt that his plan might just have a shot of working. For the five hours, the cell got searched, the duo also got so much-needed respite from the gravity field since it had been temporarily turned off.
During what Villin considered the nights, he got up and focused on the air before him, drawing in the air with his finger. It didn't do anything, but that was only to be expected. He would do this for hours and hours. The gravity would constantly try to pull his arm down but he persevered, he had to keep doing this.
As for Elinoire, even though the fact that they had a bit of a plan helped her a little bit, she still looked at the future with a grim sight. She didn't believe they would survive for long enough.
In response to this, Villin forced Elinoire to train her body a bit. If there was one thing they weren't lacking here, it was nutrients. Before every experint, they would each get a pill that would keep them fed. Generally, the pill worked for a week but since their bodies were under so much duress, they got one every three days.
Listening to Villin, Elinoire also began getting up a bit more, doing so exercises that were supposed to be easy but beca extraordinarily hard in the current climate.
Reviews
All reviews (0)