"The time element!" thought James suddenly, in that split second of space, if he could use the time element, he could find a way to escape from where he was.
James waited cautiously, perhaps the pressure and pain in his body was at a high level, but eventually, he would escape.
"SCREEEEECCCHH!!!"
"SQUAWKKK!!!"
"SCREEEEECCCHH!!!"
"SQUAWKKK!!!"
"SCREEEEECCCHH!!!"
"SQUAWKKK!!!"
One after another, the screams and impacts from the sound waves started again, and then silence descended on the area.
James took advantage of that moment.
He suddenly used his time element and simultaneously used his dark step ability to move forward. He quickly passed the vines in front of him, the thorny plants around him and everything in front of him, and moved forward without even looking back.
The gap ahead was visible, James could get out of it.
The one-second gap was over, the one-second from the time element was gone, the birds started screaming again when they realised James had disappeared, and they quickly followed him:
"SCREEEEECCCHH!!!"
"SQUAWKKK!!!"
James was running, not even looking back, when he suddenly remembered how to avoid danger altogether.
He had already used this item against the gorilla before, he couldn''t believe he had been so stupid as to forget that he had three per day.
"Void Ring!" he thought furiously as the parrots behind him stopped calling and when they looked around to see where James had disappeared to, they didn''t realise that he was already out of the jungle.
James suddenly let himself drop to the ground, releasing the mana puddle he had been holding in his head and the aura that had enveloped his body.
He was breathing heavily, his whole body drenched in sweat.
[It was incredible, you''ve come a long way in using the time element, James, well done.]
James smiled as he looked at the message Chronos had suddenly sent him, "Thank you my master." he said as he breathed in and out deeply.
After a few minutes of rest, he remembered that he only had two exams left and then stood up. He took out a piece of bread from his inventory and after eating it, he started on his way.
"To tell you the truth, I want to get Star Magic back to its best as soon as possible, the hunger, thirst and sleep have to go, it''ll make me less human but I don''t care, look at me." James suddenly said, and he was right, none of them could remember James being this messed up since he entered the tower, except for the part where he almost died in the arena.
With that, he tensed his body and took one last deep breath before entering the forest again.
"Puff...Let''s go."
After uttering these words, he stepped into the forest.
As soon as he started moving through the forest, he came across an owl, the owl was staring at him and James was trying to understand what this test was.
"Welcome," the owl with white feathers suddenly said.
James shook his head when he heard this and then said in surprise, ''Well, thank you.''
He couldn''t understand what was going on, but he still had to pass the exam somehow.
"I am here to represent the intelligence test, as you can see, you have passed the first tests and you must pass the test I will give you before you reach my master." said the owl, and James said, "Well... I apologise for killing your friends."
The owl stood still for a few seconds after these words and looked into James'' eyes, then said, "You are truly sorry...Hmph, interesting.".
Then the owl, which had flapped its wings, spoke again.
"I, Mr Owl, the representative of intelligence, will present you with three riddles, if you give the wrong answer to the riddle you will die, you will get one answer per riddle."
James was trapped in a transparent barrier before he could respond, he could have tried to escape but it would not have been a wise thing to try.
"All right, ask right away," James said the fact that he considered himself intelligent made everything easier.
"Cough-cough. So here''s the first riddle. I am not alive, yet I grow. I do not have lungs, yet I need air. I have no mouth, yet I can drown. What am I?"
James shook his head as he heard the question, the riddle was incredibly easy.
"Fire. It was quite easy, are we going from easy to hard? You know, I am good with riddles, my mum would make me go crazy with them all the time." James said, the owl waited where it was as if surprised when it heard these words and then coughed and moved on to the next question.
"Cough...Well that was pretty easy, I DID IT ON PURPOSE!" he said and continued:
"The person who makes it sells it. The person who buys it never uses it. The person who uses it, never knows they''re using it. What is it?"
James sat down on the floor when he heard the question, it seemed that he had encountered a riddle that was not easy.
"Hmm...He makes it and sells it, the one who buys it never uses it and the one who uses it never knows they''re using it?" James suddenly said he was thinking deeply.
Seeing that James was deep in thought, the owl puffed out its chest and then tried to say, "I told you I was asking you an easy riddle as a joke, and I---" but his words were interrupted by James:
"A coffin. It is a coffin."
When James asked the owl this answer, the owl''s nerves seemed to jump, as if it wanted to kill James.
"OK, this time I''m going to ask one so difficult that you won''t be able to answer it even if you think about it for a hundred years." the owl said and then asked the question:
"You can see me in water, but I never get wet. I can follow you everywhere, but I''m not alive. I vanish when light leaves, but I always return. What am I?"
James started to laugh when the owl asked this question. Those watching him from Olympus, those watching him from Asgard, and even Nemesis herself could not understand why he began to laugh, and at that very moment James'' voice was heard:
"It''s funny that you''re asking me one of the riddles my mum used to ask me!" James said and then answered:
"A reflection. Are you sure you are the [riddler] or intelligence?"
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