Mex turned and waved for me to follow and started a very slow jog. I was about to make a joke as I jogged up to him, but he was panting and pouring sweat.
"What is up? Did Dao do something to you before I killed him? I knew I should have killed the bastard faster!" I said as I looked back at the advancing monsters, and I noticed Mex looked at me.
I turned back to him, and he had an incredulous look on his face. I looked back at the monsters that were clearly going to catch us and then back at Mex.
"Sorry, boss, but I am going to have to carry you; where are we going?" I said as I scooped a drenched and wheezing Mex.
Mex didn't fight, he just pointed up, and I took the hint but wasn't sure what to do about it. I was still fresh with these abilities, but I couldn't take all three of these things alone with Mex like this.
"Valley… Gravity… Magic… Extreme... cough, cough!" Mex wheezed out and then started to cough.
I ran forward down the canyon and thought about the words, and started to understand what was going on here. I also started to have a bad idea, but it was the best thing that I could come up with in the current climate.
"Hold on, you might have to fly if this doesn't work out," I said to Mex and started to gather more energy from around me.
I concentrated on the fire in my legs and feet, then I crouched and exploded into the air. Literally, I poured fire out from my legs like a rocket, but I started to spin immediately.
Suddenly Mex and I were corkscrewing into the air, but we were going up. With a spinning head, I waited until we were above the canyon a good way and then kicked sideways.
Like a burning star, I shot at the opposite side of the canyon that we had started on, but I didn't care. I crashed into a large bush and bounced off it, dropping Mex and then bouncing till I hit a tree with my back.
It was like hitting a steel pole, and my flames extinguished as I fell onto gritty… green sand? What was with this place?
I groaned as I rolled over and pushed myself up, feeling drained. I had used everything to make sure that we got up and to somewhere safe, or not down there.
Magic and gravity were significantly increased, but it either didn't affect me, or it was because of the Aspect converting my body to pure energy.
"It is your Aspect, but you shouldn't be able to fully convert your body yet. This is a microscopic world in comparison to the one we are in now," Mex explained, and I had almost forgotten about him being able to read my mind.
"So, now that we are safe and aren't being chased, can you tell me about this world? You were looking rough down there, and we can't fight those things if you are like that, right?" I asked Mex as he walked over slowly to me, but he was looking… stretched.
I looked down at my own hands, and they were looking stretched as well. Curious, I grabbed my finger and then pulled, letting go right away in shock and horror.
Mex laughed at me, then tried to start explaining this world, but like a child with a new toy, I reached down and grabbed my pecker and gave it a tug. I laughed as my flaccid cock stretched like putty, and Mex cleared his throat.
"As I was about to say before you discovered your limp noodle for the first time, this world is full of oddities and inconsistencies… Stop playing with it! The world has different environments, and some of them defy what the mind can even handle, so we need to be careful. Places like The Stomping Grounds down there are just one of the many oddities, and far from the worst," Mex explained.
I let go of myself and listened to Mex, and I was curious to know just what was worse than a place with crushing gravity? This place that stretched my body seemed pretty mind-bending, but I don't think this is what he meant.
"Okay, then how long do we have, or do we just stay here till we die, or they do? What about other creatures and things on this planet?" I asked, trying to get a lay of the land so I could start making plans on how to get out of here.
"We are stuck here until, and there will be creatures here. They will all be demonic perversions of what they were before, and some far worse because of certain places. As for how much breathing room we have? The entire planet, and time, move differently, and the images on the screen above the cube are repeated. It is to make it look like we are spending less time than we are inside of this place," Mex explained, and I nodded in thought.
Well, there was that, but while I could use my Totems and Pacts, I had no access to my menus. There was only one thing that we really could do in a situation like this.
We were going to have to start a quick crash training course to get Mex up to top shape. Since I couldn't even access my skills to pick a new class, I could focus on Mex getting more robust, and I would just gain for what I did.
"Okay, then I need to know how we level up. What I mean is, how does it work when we kill a monster? If you and I both hit it, but I kill it, do we both get experience? And if we do, does the person that kills it get more experience?" I asked, and Mex smiled.
"Those are some good questions," Mex said and then gestured for me to start walking with him.
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