Chapter 2: Wind Lord’s Tattoos

He tried not to panic and thought about what he could do. He had to find a good spot to hide, then he could later on think about escaping. But firstly, he had to find out more about the wind tattoos he had acquired. 

After a thorough examination of his body he found that he had 5 small tattoos in total. One on his chest, one on the back of his neck, one on his right hand's wrist, one on his left leg and one behind his ear. The tattoos weren't very big, they were about the size of Julius's nails. 

Julius was initially not very happy as he was not the type of person who liked getting tattoos. But he knew that the reward can't just be the tattoos, there must be something the tattoos could do. And he was right. 

When Julius touched the tattoo on his wrist the voice rang out in his mind again. 

[ The Wind Lord's tattoos give six of the Wind Lord's abilities to the user. The abilities are as follows. 

-Air steps : You can step on air and climb higher (maximum 3 steps) 

-Air change : You can manipulate air and change the direction in which objects are moving slightly by changing the speed and direction of the air. 

-Air shield : You can form a shield made of condensed air particles that will block the incoming attacks. (Stronger attacks may manage to pierce through the shield.) 

-Air control : You can control the temperature and scent of the air around you. (Affect will only be applicable within a 1m range from the user.) You can also change the temperature of any body part you want. (The change it temperature won't affect you). 

-Air blow : You can deliver a powerful blow on the enemy by flicking your hands in their direction. ]

Julius quickly read through all the abilities and was quite shocked. The abilities gave him powers that were almost superhuman. He wondered who the 'Wind Lord' was, but that was something he'll worry about later. He then tried to test out one of the abilities. 'Shield wall' He spoke in his mind. He just instinctively seemed to know what to do. 

And then out of nowhere a massive circular shield appeared in front of him. The shield was transparent and when Julius tried to touch it his hand went straight through it. Julius was quite skeptical of its ability to block incoming attacks after seeing that his hand went right through it but decided not to think too much about it. 

Now, he needed to find a good hiding spot. But he also needed to make sure that the Cyrone could not enter the camera room otherwise it would be able to see where he was going and what he was doing. 

He checked the Cyrone's current location and it seemed to be on the northern side of the factory, so Julius decided to go find a good hiding spot in the southern side. 

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Before going, he made sure to block the camera room with a cupboard he found outside, he wasn't sure if the cupboard was enough to stop the Cyrone from entering and all he could do was hope the Cyrone won't move the cupboard.

As he cautiously explored the southern side of the factory and found a few good hiding spots here and there but nothing good enough. But when he entered one of the rooms with old equipment laying around he knew he hit the jackpot. 

Not because of the equipment, after all he couldn't just bury himself under the equipment and try to hide. This wasn't a hide and seek game. His life depended on it. What was actually his reason for thinking that he had hit the jackpot was the vent entrance on the upper right corner of the room. 

He had noticed the vent attached to the roof of all the rooms a while ago. The vent was big enough for him to slide into, if he moved around inside the vent he could travel across all the rooms of the factory undetected. 

As for getting up to the vent's level Julius already knew what to do. 'Air steps' he thought and took long strides to cover maximum distance and managed to get to the level the vent was on. Then carefully slid into the vent. This was his first time using Air steps but it felt like he had used it hundreds of times before. It just felt… natural. 

Julius couldn't help but wonder how difficult the phase of the tutorial would have been if not for the wind steps ability. Maybe each tutorial phase's reward is somewhat connected to the next phase. If that was the case then getting a good reward from each phase was even more important. 

Julius crawled around in the vent and explored the rooms, luckily for him the vent had ducts through which he could see the rooms and even jump out of the vent if he wanted to. After about an hour of searching he finally found the exit gate. 

After checking to see that the Cyrone wasn't nearby, he jumped out of the vent and ran towards the exit. To his dismay, the door was locked. He tried breaking the door open by force by slamming himself against the door but the door did not budge. Then he tried breaking the door with his Air blow ability but the door still did not budge. 

The door had a keyhole, which could only mean that he had to find the key. He had been exhausted after crawling around in the vent for an hour but he still used Air steps to enter the vent again. 

He searched all the rooms in the factory. It took him more than 5 hours but he couldn't find the key. At this point he was wondering if it was even possible to escape. 

'Maybe I can somehow bait the Cyrone into breaking the door' Julius thought. 

And with this incredibly risky and stupid plan in mind he went looking for the Cyrone. It didn't take him long to find the Cyrone, but when he saw the Cyrone through the ducts in the vent he found out that there was a key hanging by the Cyrone's neck as if it were a pendant. 

'What the hell? They expect me to snatch that key from the Cyrone's chest?' Julius thought 'This is madness'. 

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