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to shake and move their branches. One by one, the trees became alive as Nick approached them.
    Thousands of branches came hurling at Nick. The road disappeared; all Nick could see was a wall of branches all furiously coming towards him.
    He dropped his sword.
    He sent fire and ice in every direction as fast as he possibly could. It worked better than his sword but it was still no use. The branches he hit immediately retracted but there was not enough power in his attack to stop them all. Many branches got through his defense once again and he ended up on the ground battered and bruised.
    All the branches retracted back as Nick lay on the ground.
    He got up with a determined look on his face.
    He looked down the road and started to run once again.
    The trees rustled and moved with every step he took. Once one was about to attack Nick let out a yell and summoned an attack that felt as if it came directly from his heart. It was as if a burning sensation ripped open his rib cage and flowed through his veins that lead to his hands, although it was not painful.
    Black waves with electrifying sparks came from Nick’s hands and hit the tree that was about to attack. The tree was gone within a second. All that was left of it was a pile of dust with smoke rising from it.
    Nick looked down at his hands, then continued to run.
    With each tree that rustled and jumped as he ran past them, Nick sent out his newfound attack and decimated the threat.
    He sent out the attack in every direction every second as he ran further down the road.
    The road curved and as Nick ran around it the trees stood in silence and a large boulder was now in front of him. The road stopped and the boulder extended to the right into the forest as well as into the left side of the forest.
    There was no more road to run down.
    I can climb over this or go into the dark forest looking for a way around this rocky wall. This looks to only be about thirty or so feet high. Climbing over it is the best way to stay on the right path.
    He put one hand on a fit edge and then found another for his other hand. He hoisted himself up as he put his foot on a ledge.
    He executed each move meticulously and knew where to put each hand and foot so that he could move up the boulder.
    One move after the other, he successfully made his way up the boulder. He felt as though he was making good progress. But after a while he breathed heavier and started to sweat horribly; he looked up and he felt as if he was going nowhere. The height of the boulder looked the same as when he first started the climb.
    He looked down beneath him and he realized he was hanging hundreds of feet up in the air.
    This boulder is growing with every move I make up it. How can this be?
    There was no stopping at this point; he knew there was only one-way to continue the road. He had to continue to work his way up the mysterious growing mountain. Move by move he made steady progress.
    Nick heard a loud crack above him.
    Rocks started to plummet towards Nick. As they grew closer the rocks that fell changed shapes into balls with sharp blades.
    Nick released his right hand from the rocky edge he was holding himself up with to unleash the fury of his newfound attack. As the rocks grew closer and closer Nick sent out the dark waves and destroyed as many rocks as he could.
    The rocks stopped falling and he put his right hand back on the rocky edge. As soon as he was ready to make more progress he heard an even louder crack from up above.
    Nick quickly scurried to the left in order to try and dodge the incoming hail of deadly rocks. The rocks fell from every direction overhead like a rainstorm; there was no escape.
    He tried once again to use the black wave attack to protect himself but this time there were too many rocks. It was not as easy as destroying a tree; there were thousands upon thousands of sharp edged rocks plummeting down towards him with no end in sight.
    It got to the point where he knew he had to protect his