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After about another two hours, we take a break and I sit and lay by the tree, drinking my water. Aw man, what I would do just to taste some nice cold, fizzy cola again, I've been away from it for so long it must be cheating on me by now, don't worry my love, I shall return to you soon! I wave my fist in the air and people who are already facing my direction give me a weird look so I put my hand down and drink my disgusting lukewarm water.
"Bleh-" Another day, another icky tasting water.
As I drink this filth, a young lady approaches me. She has red eyes and black hair, tied up in a ponytail. She is wearing a dark blue guard outfit, with long sleeves that are rolled up at the end and the same with the trousers. She is pretty much the opposite of me, she's very well tanned, has a good amount of muscle and is quite tall. All I am is a very blonde, short, blue-eyed, kid; and she's a full-grown adult!
See, we trained together back when Sarah was a trainee, about two years ago, and since then she got promoted twice! First, she was a guard trainee, then guard, now guard general. It surprises me how far Sarah's gotten, even if she was a kidnapped child. She persevered and worked hard to get to that title. I feel like a proud father watching my child grow up to be a powerful weapon; it brings a tear to my eye!
"Hey Oliver, did your training go well?" She says teasingly.
"Haha, very funny. And yes, it did thanks." I reply.
"Ah, so you trained hard and swung that stick with a burning passion?"
I looked at her with a blank and unamused face.
"Haha," she laughs, "I'm only kidding! I know you train as hard as you can, even if it's not long before you get tired"
"Yeah well everyone's built differently, some people have lots of energy"
"Are you sure that's not an excuse for you being lazy?"
"It's definitely an excuse for me being lazy..." I say as I slump down more as I hear Bob say "That's it break over! Get back to training!" I look over at Sarah "Hide me"
She just laughs and slowly walks backwards and then shouts over to him "Hey Oliver Isn't trai-!"
I quickly say "Okokok jeezzz no need to tattle on me!" I get up and pick up my stick as fast as possible.
Bob looks over at us and gives me an irritated stare.
I energetically wave back at him and cheerful smile.
He sighs and walks away.
I turn to look at Sarah "Really... why'd you have to-"
She's already walking away and waving goodbye at me like the total meanie she is. "Bye Ollie good luck with being lazy!"
Damn it. Why'd I have to get put in here? Its the worst. All I wanna do is sleep in my nice comfy bed again. Curse you world!
And here I goooo, back to this nightmare for another twelve hours 'Sigh'.
As you may have just read, yes in this world there are more hours in the day. Probably about 48 or so, it keeps changing more and more as mana keeps getting denser in the air. And our sun is larger and our rotation is longer. The only reason we can actually stand and can stay awake for so long is that we are absorbing the mana and the body is converting it into energy.
The thing is, we can't use it for spells or anything as pure mana is very toxic to our body and if we cast spells would kill us; we normally use mana canisters and wands or staffs that have a special elemental crystal on the top that they can cast spells with.
Imagine that our body is a plant and that the mana is the sun, were absorbing the energy, not the actual pure mana itself. Hm that still seems a bit confusing, basically, mana particles come with two parts of it, the blue magic stuff and the very small green energy part which we humans can absorb, now mana particles are so small that we can just breathe them in, they're smaller than oxygen itself, but there is so much in the air right now!
We can also imbue mana into weapons that we can use and will give us a powerful advantage in a fight.
The mana in this world also affects our lifespan, so those four years were painfully long and tiring.
I do hope my mother is ok; the last thing I heard from her was when I was leaving she yelled through the window "Make sure you get the skimmed milk for your sister!". I bet she's worried sick about me. Wait do they think I'm dead‽
I open my mouth agape and my eyes widen in shock.
I instantly shut it as people started to stare.
My parents probably just think I'm lost or something. Aw man I cant wait to get out of here and see my sister's lovely smile and get my dad's great big bear hugs.
So no more wasting time thinking about home and time plan my great escape!
Probably the best time to escape has gotta be during the night when it's dark and people can't see me and everyone's asleep; the problem is that there is at least twice the number of guards than there are in the day. The higher-ups and the big boss man are definitely worried that someone might escape.
So far there has only been one escape and one escape attempt; the one who escaped did it at night and used an earth element stick to dig under the wire and the had sheets tied up together and climbed the concrete wall and ran, it sounded so badass. The other guy very stupidly did it at day and got two fire element sticks and tried to fly over, using the sticks as thrusters, unfortunately, he got shot down with a tranquillizer dart in mid-air at taken to the lower levels of the base; I wonder how he is, he's probably just some brainwashed soldier now, poor guy.
Anyway, I'm gonna have to do something completely different to these guys because since then the higher-ups of the organisation have made the wire go deep down into the ground and also made it taller, they now also keep tight security on the sheets so they cant just get taken. And they also have guards observing the people who take the long sticks and watch them on the walls, paths, shadows and don't even get me started on the cameras; there god damn everywhere!
There are so many metal towers scattering the training field with each having at least four cameras on, it's insane!
So going to have to think of some way to get around all that stuff, maybe find an area where there are lots of trees and start digging with my hands and then cover it up with camo or a big rock or something; I'm gonna have to find wood or something else sturdy and durable to hold up the earth so I'm not crushed to death.
The problem with this plan though is time and also when I get deep enough, it's going to get hard to dig with my hands and one last problem: where am I going to put all that dirt and rocks.
So it's either up, down orrrrr, hehehe are you ready for this, straight through the exit! No one ever expects someone to just up and leave through the gates!
There are these three gates that are all connected, and head to the outside that allowed these huge trucks carrying who knows what inside; could be metal, could be mana sticks, could be more brainwashed children or it could be boxes upon boxes of armour and weapons and mana batteries; where the hell are these guys getting so much cash!
Now I don't know if they put the boxes back into the trucks and are sent back to where they came from, all I know is that there are huge boxes of stuff.
So the three gates, the first is connected to the actual building, the second is connected to the electric wire and opens by a station with one person in on each side of the fence, which inside there's a button which both have to be pressing for the gate to open, the third and final gate is in the concrete wall which is heavily guarded by lots of men with rifles, magic staffs and wands; wearing solid metal armour that can provide protection from the strongest of bullets. Then the guards would search the back of the truck quickly and then they can leave.
It just about seems like the perfect escape plan, the only hard part is getting into the trucks in the first place because the truck storage room, which is connected to the first gate, to get there you need to go through two god damn keycard locked doors which are both different level of power; for the first door I'm gonna need a facility cleaner keycard, then the door to the truck room I'm gonna need a security keycard or higher.
Now I bet you're asking 'But wait Oliver, how do you know this stuff?' And I'm gonna get to that righttttt-
A very loud ring sounds out in the training field and Bob shouts "Ok lunch break, make sure you come back on time please!" He stares at me "I'm mainly talking to you Oliver! Get back here. On. Time!"
All I do is smile and drop the stick on the ground then wave at him and pretend I didn't hear him. I then head into the giant building and walk through the corridor which is full of people talking, laughing and joking around, it's like a school without the bullying, teachers and subjects.
I enter the gargantuan lunch hall full of people at the tables and right at the doorway there's a couple of guards chatting loudly "So yeah, there's probably about eleven more trucks coming in in a few days"
The other guard says "Aw man, all those creates we're gonna have to move, what are we gonna do with them after we unpacked them all!"
"Ah yeah we're going to have to put them back into the trucks and send them back, its going to be a hard job"
-Nowwwww see this is what I'm talking about! There just chatting away about all this stuff, I guess it might be of the effects of the brainwashing. They all seem to just talk about all their jobs, I mean it's fair there's nothing else to talk about, the higher-ups should've repaired this glitch ages ago! But they didn't! And now so much information has been leaked into my ears, Muhahah I'm a very good opportunist.
-To Be Continued-
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